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 3 May 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
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 206 226
Rank change year-on-year +54 +20 +102
Permanent jobs citing Databricks 311 224 453
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.71% 1.65% 1.39%
As % of the Vendors category 5.62% 3.80% 3.38%
Number of salaries quoted 257 132 272
10th Percentile £59,500 £48,000 £47,600
25th Percentile £70,000 £55,000 £58,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £115,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £132,000 £109,875 £110,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% - +3.23%

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 5,534 5,892 13,417
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 30.40% 43.31% 41.26%
Number of salaries quoted 3,545 3,884 10,049
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -7.60%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -13.04%

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 3 May 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 26 (8.36%) Apache Spark
2 23 (7.40%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (3.22%) Apache
4 3 (0.96%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.64%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.32%) CMS
6 1 (0.32%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.32%) Strapi
Applications
1 2 (0.64%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.32%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 251 (80.71%) Azure
2 134 (43.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 81 (26.05%) Azure Data Factory
3 81 (26.05%) Snowflake
4 78 (25.08%) Azure Machine Learning
5 68 (21.86%) Power Platform
6 61 (19.61%) Azure AI
7 31 (9.97%) AWS
8 26 (8.36%) Azure DevOps
9 25 (8.04%) GCP
10 18 (5.79%) GitHub
11 14 (4.50%) SaaS
12 10 (3.22%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (3.22%) Dagster
12 10 (3.22%) Microsoft Purview
12 10 (3.22%) Serverless
13 9 (2.89%) Amazon SageMaker
13 9 (2.89%) dbt
13 9 (2.89%) Vertex AI
14 6 (1.93%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (22.83%) SQL Server
2 64 (20.58%) Power BI
3 62 (19.94%) Data Warehouse
4 53 (17.04%) Data Lake
5 39 (12.54%) Azure SQL Database
5 39 (12.54%) Big Data
6 28 (9.00%) Delta Lake
7 23 (7.40%) Metadata
8 17 (5.47%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 15 (4.82%) Tableau
10 12 (3.86%) Amazon Redshift
10 12 (3.86%) BigQuery
11 11 (3.54%) Relational Database
12 10 (3.22%) Apache Iceberg
13 9 (2.89%) Elasticsearch
13 9 (2.89%) Looker
13 9 (2.89%) Pinecone
13 9 (2.89%) Spark SQL
13 9 (2.89%) Weaviate
14 5 (1.61%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 22 (7.07%) Git
2 19 (6.11%) MLflow
3 3 (0.96%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.32%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 134 (43.09%) Finance
2 38 (12.22%) Social Skills
3 19 (6.11%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (4.82%) Banking
5 11 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (2.89%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (2.57%) Law
8 5 (1.61%) Automotive
8 5 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.29%) Retail
10 3 (0.96%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.64%) Front Office
11 2 (0.64%) General Ledger
11 2 (0.64%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.64%) Marketing
11 2 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.32%) Legal
12 1 (0.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 117 (37.62%) Data Engineer
2 76 (24.44%) Lead
3 64 (20.58%) Senior
4 45 (14.47%) Senior Data Engineer
5 43 (13.83%) Data Manager
6 37 (11.90%) Engineering Manager
7 33 (10.61%) Architect
7 33 (10.61%) Finance Manager
7 33 (10.61%) Lead Data Engineer
8 30 (9.65%) Big Data Engineer
8 30 (9.65%) DataOps Engineer
8 30 (9.65%) DataOps Leader
8 30 (9.65%) Lead Big Data Engineer
9 28 (9.00%) Data Architect
10 21 (6.75%) Platform Engineer
11 20 (6.43%) Consultant
12 19 (6.11%) Azure Architect
13 17 (5.47%) Azure Data Architect
14 14 (4.50%) Data Consultant
15 13 (4.18%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (17.36%) PySpark
2 17 (5.47%) PyTorch
2 17 (5.47%) TensorFlow
3 13 (4.18%) Kafka
4 11 (3.54%) Pandas
5 9 (2.89%) Faiss
5 9 (2.89%) vLLM
6 7 (2.25%) LangChain
7 6 (1.93%) NumPy
7 6 (1.93%) XML
8 5 (1.61%) Google JAX
8 5 (1.61%) JAX
8 5 (1.61%) OpenCV
8 5 (1.61%) SciPy
9 4 (1.29%) GraphQL
9 4 (1.29%) JSON
10 2 (0.64%) .NET
10 2 (0.64%) ARM Templates
10 2 (0.64%) REST
10 2 (0.64%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.11%) Cloud Native
2 13 (4.18%) Product Ownership
3 9 (2.89%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (2.57%) AI Agents
5 6 (1.93%) Algorithms
6 5 (1.61%) Distributed Computing
6 5 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.29%) Reference Data
8 3 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (0.96%) Data Fabric
8 3 (0.96%) Taxonomies
9 2 (0.64%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.64%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.64%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.64%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.32%) Clustering
10 1 (0.32%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.32%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.32%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.32%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.61%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (56.59%) Data Engineering
2 121 (38.91%) AI
3 115 (36.98%) Agile
4 110 (35.37%) Data Governance
5 107 (34.41%) Analytics
6 106 (34.08%) Data Pipeline
7 105 (33.76%) CI/CD
8 104 (33.44%) Data Modelling
9 97 (31.19%) Machine Learning
10 96 (30.87%) Business Intelligence
11 94 (30.23%) Data Architecture
12 73 (23.47%) Roadmaps
13 66 (21.22%) ETL
14 65 (20.90%) Migration
15 57 (18.33%) Line Management
15 57 (18.33%) Regulatory Compliance
16 55 (17.68%) Data Development
16 55 (17.68%) Data Science
17 49 (15.76%) DevOps
18 44 (14.15%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 199 (63.99%) SQL
2 120 (38.59%) Python
3 27 (8.68%) Scala
4 14 (4.50%) Java
5 10 (3.22%) T-SQL
6 9 (2.89%) Bash
6 9 (2.89%) Go
7 5 (1.61%) Bicep
8 4 (1.29%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.29%) R
9 3 (0.96%) C#
10 2 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.32%) ABAP
11 1 (0.32%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 30 (9.65%) Degree
2 15 (4.82%) Azure Certification
3 14 (4.50%) Security Cleared
4 9 (2.89%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.61%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.64%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.64%) ISACA
7 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.32%) IIBA
8 1 (0.32%) SAP Certification
8 1 (0.32%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (18.01%) Data Quality
2 30 (9.65%) SLA
3 9 (2.89%) GDPR
4 4 (1.29%) Solvency II
5 3 (0.96%) IFRS
5 3 (0.96%) IFRS 17
5 3 (0.96%) QA
6 2 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 55 (17.68%) Virtual Machines
2 22 (7.07%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (7.07%) Terraform
2 8 (2.57%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.32%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 119 (38.26%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.89%) Palantir
3 6 (1.93%) OpenAI
4 3 (0.96%) Google
4 3 (0.96%) Informatica
4 3 (0.96%) Oracle
4 3 (0.96%) SAP
5 2 (0.64%) Alteryx
5 2 (0.64%) MuleSoft
5 2 (0.64%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.32%) Braze
6 1 (0.32%) Confluent
6 1 (0.32%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.32%) mParticle
6 1 (0.32%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.32%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.32%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.32%) Talend
6 1 (0.32%) Tealium
6 1 (0.32%) WSO2