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 15 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
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 182 284
Rank change year-on-year +18 +102 +87
Permanent jobs citing Databricks 233 307 207
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.53% 1.86% 0.96%
As % of the Vendors category 3.82% 4.84% 2.32%
Number of salaries quoted 182 201 149
10th Percentile £53,750 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £55,000
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 £95,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £119,875 £102,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -

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 6,097 6,342 8,934
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.08% 38.51% 41.50%
Number of salaries quoted 3,230 3,658 7,268
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,750 £33,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £92,500
UK median annual salary £50,860 £57,471 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.50% +4.49% -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 15 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 19 (8.15%) Apache Spark
2 10 (4.29%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (4.29%) SAS
3 7 (3.00%) Apache
4 3 (1.29%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.43%) CMS
5 1 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
5 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 68 (29.18%) Azure Data Factory
3 62 (26.61%) Power Platform
4 60 (25.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 34 (14.59%) SaaS
6 33 (14.16%) AWS
7 31 (13.30%) Snowflake
8 28 (12.02%) Azure DevOps
8 28 (12.02%) GCP
9 23 (9.87%) GitHub
10 16 (6.87%) 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%) Azure AI
16 5 (2.15%) Amazon SageMaker
16 5 (2.15%) Dagster
16 5 (2.15%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.43%) DAB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (36.91%) Data Lake
2 75 (32.19%) Data Warehouse
3 62 (26.61%) Power BI
4 34 (14.59%) Azure SQL Database
5 21 (9.01%) Delta Lake
6 20 (8.58%) Metadata
7 18 (7.73%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 15 (6.44%) SQL Server
9 14 (6.01%) Tableau
10 13 (5.58%) BigQuery
11 11 (4.72%) Big Data
12 10 (4.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 9 (3.86%) Data Mining
14 8 (3.43%) Data Vault
15 7 (3.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 6 (2.58%) Amazon Redshift
16 6 (2.58%) Apache Iceberg
16 6 (2.58%) Looker
17 5 (2.15%) Pinecone
17 5 (2.15%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 19 (8.15%) Git
2 15 (6.44%) 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 89 (38.20%) Finance
2 54 (23.18%) Social Skills
3 24 (10.30%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (9.44%) Retail
5 15 (6.44%) Banking
6 10 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (3.00%) Law
7 7 (3.00%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.58%) Automotive
8 6 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.58%) Marketing
9 4 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.72%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.29%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.43%) Advertising
11 1 (0.43%) Front Office
11 1 (0.43%) Legal
11 1 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.43%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 97 (41.63%) Data Engineer
2 71 (30.47%) Senior
3 48 (20.60%) Senior Data Engineer
4 36 (15.45%) Lead
5 30 (12.88%) Architect
6 27 (11.59%) Data Architect
7 17 (7.30%) Azure Architect
8 16 (6.87%) Data Manager
9 15 (6.44%) Azure Data Architect
10 14 (6.01%) Azure Engineer
11 13 (5.58%) Azure Data Engineer
11 13 (5.58%) Consultant
11 13 (5.58%) Lead Data Engineer
12 10 (4.29%) Platform Engineer
12 10 (4.29%) Senior Architect
13 9 (3.86%) Data Consultant
13 9 (3.86%) Solutions Architect
14 8 (3.43%) Analyst
14 8 (3.43%) Senior Data Architect
15 7 (3.00%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (16.31%) PySpark
2 15 (6.44%) Kafka
3 8 (3.43%) PyTorch
3 8 (3.43%) TensorFlow
4 6 (2.58%) LangChain
5 5 (2.15%) Faiss
5 5 (2.15%) Pandas
5 5 (2.15%) vLLM
6 4 (1.72%) .NET
6 4 (1.72%) Middleware
7 3 (1.29%) .NET Core
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 11 (4.72%) Reinsurance
3 9 (3.86%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.58%) AI Agents
5 5 (2.15%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.72%) Reference Data
6 4 (1.72%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.29%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.29%) Taxonomies
8 2 (0.86%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.86%) CUDA
8 2 (0.86%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.86%) Derivative
8 2 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.86%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.43%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (49.79%) Data Engineering
2 100 (42.92%) Data Modelling
3 92 (39.48%) Analytics
4 82 (35.19%) ETL
5 81 (34.76%) Agile
5 81 (34.76%) CI/CD
6 77 (33.05%) Data Pipeline
7 75 (32.19%) Data Science
8 74 (31.76%) Business Intelligence
9 68 (29.18%) Data Governance
10 58 (24.89%) DevOps
11 54 (23.18%) AI
12 48 (20.60%) Decision-Making
13 41 (17.60%) Problem-Solving
14 40 (17.17%) Machine Learning
15 39 (16.74%) Mentoring
16 38 (16.31%) Clean Code
16 38 (16.31%) Coaching
16 38 (16.31%) Data Architecture
17 36 (15.45%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 157 (67.38%) SQL
2 118 (50.64%) Python
3 29 (12.45%) Scala
4 14 (6.01%) Java
5 12 (5.15%) R
6 10 (4.29%) T-SQL
7 5 (2.15%) Bash
7 5 (2.15%) C#
7 5 (2.15%) Go
8 4 (1.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (1.72%) MATLAB
9 3 (1.29%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.86%) Bicep
11 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 5 (2.15%) 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 18 (7.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (9.01%) Terraform
2 10 (4.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 45 (19.31%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.58%) Google
2 6 (2.58%) Palantir
3 5 (2.15%) Informatica
3 5 (2.15%) OpenAI
4 4 (1.72%) IBM
4 4 (1.72%) Talend
5 3 (1.29%) Oracle
6 2 (0.86%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.43%) Adobe
7 1 (0.43%) Confluent
7 1 (0.43%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.43%) Dell
7 1 (0.43%) Foundry
7 1 (0.43%) mParticle
7 1 (0.43%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.43%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.43%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.43%) Tealium
7 1 (0.43%) WSO2