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 10 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
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 115 206
Rank change year-on-year -38 +91 +116
Permanent jobs citing Databricks 314 430 499
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.70% 2.97% 1.53%
As % of the Vendors category 5.53% 6.83% 3.74%
Number of salaries quoted 258 127 274
10th Percentile £55,700 £47,800 £48,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £88,750 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.33% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £114,063 £96,875 £95,000
90th Percentile £131,500 £109,250 £110,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% - +2.56%

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 5,675 6,293 13,343
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 30.80% 43.51% 41.04%
Number of salaries quoted 3,710 3,913 9,949
10th Percentile £31,475 £31,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +6.36% -6.78%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £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 10 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 28 (8.92%) Apache Spark
2 23 (7.32%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (3.18%) Apache
4 3 (0.96%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.32%) CMS
5 1 (0.32%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.32%) Strapi
Applications
1 4 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.96%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.64%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.64%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.32%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 255 (81.21%) Azure
2 135 (42.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 80 (25.48%) Azure Data Factory
3 80 (25.48%) Snowflake
4 78 (24.84%) Azure Machine Learning
5 71 (22.61%) Power Platform
6 61 (19.43%) Azure AI
7 31 (9.87%) AWS
8 26 (8.28%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (8.28%) GCP
9 17 (5.41%) GitHub
10 12 (3.82%) SaaS
11 10 (3.18%) Azure Monitor
11 10 (3.18%) Dagster
11 10 (3.18%) Serverless
12 9 (2.87%) Amazon SageMaker
12 9 (2.87%) dbt
12 9 (2.87%) Microsoft Purview
12 9 (2.87%) Vertex AI
13 6 (1.91%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (23.57%) SQL Server
2 67 (21.34%) Power BI
3 61 (19.43%) Data Warehouse
4 51 (16.24%) Data Lake
5 40 (12.74%) Big Data
6 37 (11.78%) Azure SQL Database
7 28 (8.92%) Delta Lake
8 24 (7.64%) Metadata
9 16 (5.10%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 15 (4.78%) Tableau
11 12 (3.82%) Amazon Redshift
11 12 (3.82%) BigQuery
12 11 (3.50%) Relational Database
13 10 (3.18%) Apache Iceberg
14 9 (2.87%) Elasticsearch
14 9 (2.87%) Looker
14 9 (2.87%) Pinecone
14 9 (2.87%) Spark SQL
14 9 (2.87%) Weaviate
15 6 (1.91%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 25 (7.96%) Git
2 19 (6.05%) MLflow
3 3 (0.96%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 130 (41.40%) Finance
2 40 (12.74%) Social Skills
3 19 (6.05%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (4.14%) Banking
5 12 (3.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (2.87%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (2.55%) Retail
8 6 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.91%) Law
9 5 (1.59%) Automotive
9 5 (1.59%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.64%) Front Office
10 2 (0.64%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.64%) Marketing
10 2 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.32%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.32%) Legal
11 1 (0.32%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.32%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 117 (37.26%) Data Engineer
2 75 (23.89%) Lead
3 61 (19.43%) Senior
4 43 (13.69%) Data Manager
5 42 (13.38%) Senior Data Engineer
6 37 (11.78%) Engineering Manager
7 34 (10.83%) Architect
8 33 (10.51%) Finance Manager
8 33 (10.51%) Lead Data Engineer
9 30 (9.55%) Big Data Engineer
9 30 (9.55%) Data Architect
9 30 (9.55%) DataOps Engineer
9 30 (9.55%) DataOps Leader
9 30 (9.55%) Lead Big Data Engineer
10 22 (7.01%) Consultant
11 21 (6.69%) Platform Engineer
12 18 (5.73%) Azure Architect
13 17 (5.41%) Azure Data Architect
14 15 (4.78%) Data Consultant
15 13 (4.14%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (17.52%) PySpark
2 17 (5.41%) PyTorch
2 17 (5.41%) TensorFlow
3 13 (4.14%) Kafka
4 11 (3.50%) Pandas
5 9 (2.87%) Faiss
5 9 (2.87%) vLLM
6 8 (2.55%) XML
7 7 (2.23%) LangChain
8 6 (1.91%) NumPy
9 5 (1.59%) .NET
9 5 (1.59%) Google JAX
9 5 (1.59%) JAX
9 5 (1.59%) OpenCV
9 5 (1.59%) SciPy
10 4 (1.27%) GraphQL
10 4 (1.27%) JSON
11 2 (0.64%) ADO
11 2 (0.64%) REST
11 2 (0.64%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.05%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.78%) Product Ownership
3 8 (2.55%) AI Agents
3 8 (2.55%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (1.91%) Algorithms
4 6 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (1.59%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (1.27%) Data Fabric
7 3 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (0.96%) Reference Data
8 2 (0.64%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.64%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.64%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (0.64%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.64%) Reinsurance
8 2 (0.64%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.32%) Clustering
9 1 (0.32%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.32%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.32%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.59%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (56.69%) Data Engineering
2 124 (39.49%) AI
3 113 (35.99%) Analytics
4 111 (35.35%) Agile
4 111 (35.35%) Data Modelling
5 108 (34.39%) CI/CD
5 108 (34.39%) Data Governance
6 106 (33.76%) Data Pipeline
7 99 (31.53%) Machine Learning
8 97 (30.89%) Business Intelligence
8 97 (30.89%) Data Architecture
9 74 (23.57%) Roadmaps
10 68 (21.66%) ETL
10 68 (21.66%) Migration
11 59 (18.79%) Line Management
12 58 (18.47%) Data Science
13 57 (18.15%) Regulatory Compliance
14 55 (17.52%) Data Development
15 48 (15.29%) DevOps
16 46 (14.65%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 198 (63.06%) SQL
2 123 (39.17%) Python
3 27 (8.60%) Scala
4 14 (4.46%) Java
5 9 (2.87%) Bash
5 9 (2.87%) Go
5 9 (2.87%) T-SQL
6 5 (1.59%) Bicep
7 4 (1.27%) C#
7 4 (1.27%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.27%) R
8 3 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (0.96%) VBA
9 2 (0.64%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.32%) ABAP
10 1 (0.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 33 (10.51%) Degree
2 15 (4.78%) Azure Certification
2 15 (4.78%) Security Cleared
3 9 (2.87%) SC Cleared
4 6 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.59%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.64%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.32%) IIBA
7 1 (0.32%) ISACA
7 1 (0.32%) SAP Certification
7 1 (0.32%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (18.15%) Data Quality
2 30 (9.55%) SLA
3 9 (2.87%) GDPR
4 4 (1.27%) 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 (17.52%) Virtual Machines
2 22 (7.01%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (6.05%) Terraform
2 8 (2.55%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.32%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 124 (39.49%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.87%) Palantir
3 6 (1.91%) OpenAI
3 6 (1.91%) SAP
4 4 (1.27%) Salesforce
5 3 (0.96%) Oracle
6 2 (0.64%) Google
6 2 (0.64%) Informatica
6 2 (0.64%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.32%) Adobe
7 1 (0.32%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.32%) Braze
7 1 (0.32%) Confluent
7 1 (0.32%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.32%) Dell
7 1 (0.32%) mParticle
7 1 (0.32%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.32%) Talend
7 1 (0.32%) Tealium
7 1 (0.32%) WSO2