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 March 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 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 189 265
Rank change year-on-year +13 +76 +81
Permanent jobs citing Databricks 247 250 329
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.46% 1.85% 1.10%
As % of the Vendors category 4.12% 4.60% 2.68%
Number of salaries quoted 189 156 242
10th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £46,375
25th Percentile £66,250 £61,250 £57,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.45% -3.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,750 £107,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £83,500 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +7.74% - +3.33%

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 6,001 5,429 12,257
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.59% 40.24% 40.81%
Number of salaries quoted 3,357 3,668 10,032
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.89% +14.00% -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 18 March 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 23 (9.31%) Apache Airflow
1 23 (9.31%) Apache Spark
2 8 (3.24%) Apache
2 8 (3.24%) SAS
3 3 (1.21%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.40%) CMS
4 1 (0.40%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.40%) Strapi
Applications
1 2 (0.81%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.40%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 186 (75.30%) Azure
2 83 (33.60%) Azure Data Factory
3 72 (29.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 65 (26.32%) Power Platform
5 33 (13.36%) AWS
5 33 (13.36%) Snowflake
6 29 (11.74%) GCP
7 26 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
8 24 (9.72%) SaaS
9 23 (9.31%) Azure Machine Learning
9 23 (9.31%) GitHub
10 12 (4.86%) dbt
11 10 (4.05%) Azure Monitor
11 10 (4.05%) Dagster
12 9 (3.64%) Amazon SageMaker
12 9 (3.64%) Vertex AI
13 8 (3.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 8 (3.24%) Microsoft Purview
14 7 (2.83%) GitHub Copilot
15 6 (2.43%) Azure AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (30.36%) Data Warehouse
2 71 (28.74%) Data Lake
3 65 (26.32%) Power BI
4 36 (14.57%) Azure SQL Database
5 27 (10.93%) Big Data
6 26 (10.53%) Metadata
7 25 (10.12%) Delta Lake
8 23 (9.31%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 19 (7.69%) Tableau
10 17 (6.88%) SQL Server
11 15 (6.07%) BigQuery
12 12 (4.86%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (4.05%) Apache Iceberg
14 9 (3.64%) Elasticsearch
14 9 (3.64%) Looker
14 9 (3.64%) Pinecone
14 9 (3.64%) Weaviate
15 7 (2.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 6 (2.43%) Data Mining
16 6 (2.43%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 19 (7.69%) Git
2 17 (6.88%) MLflow
3 6 (2.43%) ERwin
4 4 (1.62%) ER Studio
4 4 (1.62%) PowerDesigner
5 3 (1.21%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.40%) GitLab
6 1 (0.40%) SonarQube
General
1 86 (34.82%) Finance
2 46 (18.62%) Social Skills
3 21 (8.50%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (7.69%) Retail
5 15 (6.07%) Banking
6 10 (4.05%) Law
7 9 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.43%) Automotive
9 6 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.62%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.62%) Retail Banking
11 3 (1.21%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.21%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.81%) Legal
12 2 (0.81%) Marketing
12 2 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.40%) Front Office
13 1 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 113 (45.75%) Data Engineer
2 76 (30.77%) Senior
3 61 (24.70%) Lead
4 52 (21.05%) Senior Data Engineer
5 27 (10.93%) Lead Data Engineer
6 25 (10.12%) Architect
7 22 (8.91%) Data Architect
8 21 (8.50%) Big Data Engineer
8 21 (8.50%) DataOps Engineer
8 21 (8.50%) DataOps Leader
8 21 (8.50%) Lead Big Data Engineer
9 19 (7.69%) Consultant
9 19 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
10 14 (5.67%) Azure Architect
11 13 (5.26%) Data Consultant
12 12 (4.86%) Azure Data Architect
12 12 (4.86%) Azure Engineer
13 11 (4.45%) Azure Data Engineer
13 11 (4.45%) Developer
13 11 (4.45%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (16.60%) PySpark
2 16 (6.48%) PyTorch
2 16 (6.48%) TensorFlow
3 13 (5.26%) Kafka
4 9 (3.64%) Faiss
4 9 (3.64%) vLLM
5 7 (2.83%) LangChain
6 5 (2.02%) NumPy
6 5 (2.02%) Pandas
7 4 (1.62%) Google JAX
7 4 (1.62%) GraphQL
7 4 (1.62%) JAX
7 4 (1.62%) JSON
7 4 (1.62%) OpenCV
7 4 (1.62%) SciPy
7 4 (1.62%) XML
8 3 (1.21%) .NET
8 3 (1.21%) Middleware
9 2 (0.81%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.81%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 10 (4.05%) Greenfield Project
2 10 (4.05%) Product Ownership
3 8 (3.24%) AI Agents
4 6 (2.43%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.62%) Algorithms
5 4 (1.62%) Reference Data
5 4 (1.62%) Reinsurance
6 3 (1.21%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (1.21%) Taxonomies
7 2 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.81%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.40%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.40%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.40%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.40%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.40%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.62%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (47.77%) Data Engineering
2 105 (42.51%) Data Modelling
3 96 (38.87%) Analytics
3 96 (38.87%) CI/CD
4 88 (35.63%) Data Pipeline
5 85 (34.41%) Business Intelligence
6 67 (27.13%) AI
6 67 (27.13%) ETL
7 66 (26.72%) Agile
8 63 (25.51%) Data Governance
9 59 (23.89%) Data Science
10 53 (21.46%) Decision-Making
11 47 (19.03%) DevOps
12 37 (14.98%) Data Architecture
12 37 (14.98%) Machine Learning
13 36 (14.57%) Clean Code
14 34 (13.77%) Coaching
15 31 (12.55%) Data Integration
15 31 (12.55%) Observability
16 30 (12.15%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 153 (61.94%) SQL
2 111 (44.94%) Python
3 26 (10.53%) Scala
4 14 (5.67%) Java
5 12 (4.86%) T-SQL
6 9 (3.64%) Bash
6 9 (3.64%) Go
7 4 (1.62%) C#
7 4 (1.62%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.21%) Bicep
8 3 (1.21%) R
9 2 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.40%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 29 (11.74%) Degree
2 15 (6.07%) Azure Certification
3 11 (4.45%) Security Cleared
4 10 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.43%) DBS Check
5 6 (2.43%) Master's Degree
5 6 (2.43%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.81%) ISACA
6 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.40%) SAP Certification
7 1 (0.40%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (25.51%) Data Quality
2 21 (8.50%) SLA
3 6 (2.43%) GDPR
4 3 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.21%) QA
System Software
1 22 (8.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (9.72%) Terraform
2 8 (3.24%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.40%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 51 (20.65%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.64%) Palantir
3 7 (2.83%) Google
4 6 (2.43%) Informatica
4 6 (2.43%) OpenAI
5 4 (1.62%) IBM
5 4 (1.62%) Oracle
5 4 (1.62%) Talend
6 2 (0.81%) Alteryx
6 2 (0.81%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.40%) Adobe
7 1 (0.40%) Confluent
7 1 (0.40%) Dell
7 1 (0.40%) Foundry
7 1 (0.40%) mParticle
7 1 (0.40%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.40%) SAP
7 1 (0.40%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.40%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.40%) WSO2