Hybrid/Remote Databricks Job Trends

Databricks
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring knowledge or experience of Databricks products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Databricks over the 6 months leading up to 18 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Databricks.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 184 285
Rank change year-on-year +19 +101 +85
Permanent jobs citing Databricks 233 305 228
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.52% 1.86% 1.00%
As % of the Vendors category 3.82% 4.81% 2.41%
Number of salaries quoted 180 199 163
10th Percentile £53,750 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -3.13% +14.29%
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £105,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -

All Vendors
Work from Home

Databricks falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a remote or hybrid options requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,104 6,339 9,452
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.86% 38.57% 41.32%
Number of salaries quoted 3,231 3,657 7,741
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £91,934
UK median annual salary £51,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.30% +4.55% -4.35%

Databricks
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Databricks and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Databricks job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Databricks
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Databricks.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Databricks

Databricks
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Databricks over the 6 months to 18 January 2026.

Databricks salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Databricks
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 20 (8.58%) Apache Spark
2 11 (4.72%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (4.29%) SAS
4 7 (3.00%) Apache
5 3 (1.29%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.43%) CMS
6 1 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.43%) Strapi
Applications
1 2 (0.86%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 161 (69.10%) Azure
2 69 (29.61%) Azure Data Factory
3 60 (25.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 60 (25.75%) Power Platform
4 35 (15.02%) SaaS
5 34 (14.59%) AWS
6 31 (13.30%) Snowflake
7 29 (12.45%) GCP
8 28 (12.02%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (9.44%) GitHub
10 17 (7.30%) Azure Machine Learning
11 13 (5.58%) dbt
12 10 (4.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 8 (3.43%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (3.43%) Microsoft Purview
14 7 (3.00%) GitHub Copilot
15 6 (2.58%) Amazon SageMaker
15 6 (2.58%) Azure AI
15 6 (2.58%) Dagster
15 6 (2.58%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.43%) DAB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (36.48%) Data Lake
2 77 (33.05%) Data Warehouse
3 60 (25.75%) Power BI
4 33 (14.16%) Azure SQL Database
5 22 (9.44%) Delta Lake
6 21 (9.01%) Metadata
7 18 (7.73%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 15 (6.44%) SQL Server
8 15 (6.44%) Tableau
9 14 (6.01%) BigQuery
10 11 (4.72%) Big Data
11 10 (4.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 9 (3.86%) Data Mining
13 8 (3.43%) Data Vault
14 7 (3.00%) Amazon Redshift
14 7 (3.00%) Apache Iceberg
14 7 (3.00%) Looker
14 7 (3.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 6 (2.58%) Pinecone
15 6 (2.58%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 19 (8.15%) Git
2 16 (6.87%) MLflow
3 6 (2.58%) ERwin
4 4 (1.72%) ER Studio
4 4 (1.72%) PowerDesigner
5 3 (1.29%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.86%) GitLab
7 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
General
1 87 (37.34%) Finance
2 51 (21.89%) Social Skills
3 23 (9.87%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (9.01%) Retail
5 15 (6.44%) Banking
6 10 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (3.00%) Law
8 6 (2.58%) Automotive
8 6 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.58%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.58%) Marketing
9 4 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.72%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.29%) General Ledger
11 2 (0.86%) Legal
12 1 (0.43%) Advertising
12 1 (0.43%) Front Office
12 1 (0.43%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 99 (42.49%) Data Engineer
2 73 (31.33%) Senior
3 49 (21.03%) Senior Data Engineer
4 34 (14.59%) Lead
5 30 (12.88%) Architect
6 27 (11.59%) Data Architect
7 16 (6.87%) Azure Architect
7 16 (6.87%) Data Manager
8 15 (6.44%) Azure Engineer
9 14 (6.01%) Azure Data Architect
9 14 (6.01%) Azure Data Engineer
9 14 (6.01%) Consultant
10 13 (5.58%) Lead Data Engineer
11 10 (4.29%) Data Consultant
11 10 (4.29%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (4.29%) Senior Architect
12 9 (3.86%) Solutions Architect
13 8 (3.43%) Analyst
13 8 (3.43%) Senior Consultant
13 8 (3.43%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (16.31%) PySpark
2 15 (6.44%) Kafka
3 9 (3.86%) PyTorch
3 9 (3.86%) TensorFlow
4 6 (2.58%) Faiss
4 6 (2.58%) LangChain
4 6 (2.58%) vLLM
5 5 (2.15%) Pandas
6 4 (1.72%) .NET
7 3 (1.29%) .NET Core
7 3 (1.29%) Middleware
8 2 (0.86%) XML
9 1 (0.43%) ARM Templates
9 1 (0.43%) Celery
9 1 (0.43%) FastAPI
9 1 (0.43%) gRPC
9 1 (0.43%) NumPy
9 1 (0.43%) React
9 1 (0.43%) REST
9 1 (0.43%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.73%) Cloud Native
2 10 (4.29%) Reinsurance
3 9 (3.86%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.58%) AI Agents
4 6 (2.58%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (1.72%) Reference Data
5 4 (1.72%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.29%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.29%) Taxonomies
7 2 (0.86%) Credit Risk
7 2 (0.86%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.86%) Derivative
7 2 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.86%) Market Risk
8 1 (0.43%) CUDA
8 1 (0.43%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (50.64%) Data Engineering
2 102 (43.78%) Data Modelling
3 90 (38.63%) Analytics
4 84 (36.05%) ETL
5 82 (35.19%) CI/CD
6 80 (34.33%) Agile
7 78 (33.48%) Data Pipeline
8 76 (32.62%) Data Science
9 74 (31.76%) Business Intelligence
10 70 (30.04%) Data Governance
11 57 (24.46%) DevOps
12 55 (23.61%) AI
13 49 (21.03%) Decision-Making
14 40 (17.17%) Clean Code
14 40 (17.17%) Coaching
14 40 (17.17%) Mentoring
14 40 (17.17%) Problem-Solving
15 39 (16.74%) Data Architecture
15 39 (16.74%) Machine Learning
16 36 (15.45%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 158 (67.81%) SQL
2 117 (50.21%) Python
3 30 (12.88%) Scala
4 15 (6.44%) Java
5 12 (5.15%) R
6 11 (4.72%) T-SQL
7 6 (2.58%) Bash
7 6 (2.58%) Go
8 5 (2.15%) C#
9 4 (1.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (1.72%) MATLAB
10 3 (1.29%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.86%) Bicep
12 1 (0.43%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (8.58%) Degree
2 16 (6.87%) Azure Certification
3 9 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (3.43%) Security Cleared
5 7 (3.00%) SC Cleared
6 6 (2.58%) DBS Check
6 6 (2.58%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.43%) ISACA
8 1 (0.43%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (25.75%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.00%) GDPR
3 6 (2.58%) SLA
4 3 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.86%) Accessibility
System Software
1 19 (8.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (9.01%) Terraform
2 10 (4.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 45 (19.31%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.00%) Palantir
3 6 (2.58%) Google
4 5 (2.15%) Informatica
4 5 (2.15%) OpenAI
5 4 (1.72%) IBM
5 4 (1.72%) Talend
6 3 (1.29%) Oracle
7 2 (0.86%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.43%) Adobe
8 1 (0.43%) Confluent
8 1 (0.43%) Dataiku
8 1 (0.43%) Dell
8 1 (0.43%) Foundry
8 1 (0.43%) mParticle
8 1 (0.43%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.43%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.43%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.43%) Tealium
8 1 (0.43%) WSO2