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 16 August 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
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 78 172
Rank change year-on-year -106 +94 +100
Permanent jobs citing Databricks 338 745 475
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.48% 4.49% 1.92%
As % of the Vendors category 4.65% 9.30% 4.98%
Number of salaries quoted 305 127 234
10th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £57,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £75,000 £72,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £118,750 £90,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £103,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £85,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% - -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 7,268 8,010 9,542
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 31.83% 48.29% 38.66%
Number of salaries quoted 5,177 4,016 6,244
10th Percentile £31,500 £28,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £41,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £91,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £51,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year +11.65% -4.63% -6.09%

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 16 August 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 (7.69%) Apache Spark
2 13 (3.85%) Apache
3 12 (3.55%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.18%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.59%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.30%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.48%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.89%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 252 (74.56%) Azure
2 123 (36.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 107 (31.66%) Snowflake
4 75 (22.19%) Power Platform
5 67 (19.82%) Azure Machine Learning
6 65 (19.23%) Azure Data Factory
7 62 (18.34%) Azure AI
8 56 (16.57%) AWS
9 26 (7.69%) Microsoft Purview
10 25 (7.40%) Amazon Bedrock
11 22 (6.51%) GCP
12 20 (5.92%) Azure DevOps
13 19 (5.62%) Anthropic Claude
14 15 (4.44%) GitHub
14 15 (4.44%) SaaS
15 8 (2.37%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (2.37%) Prefect
15 8 (2.37%) Serverless
16 7 (2.07%) Amazon SageMaker
17 6 (1.78%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.18%) Broadband
2 1 (0.30%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (27.51%) SQL Server
2 70 (20.71%) Power BI
3 67 (19.82%) Data Warehouse
4 55 (16.27%) Data Lake
5 39 (11.54%) Delta Lake
6 37 (10.95%) Metadata
7 32 (9.47%) Azure SQL Database
8 30 (8.88%) Big Data
9 18 (5.33%) Data Vault
10 16 (4.73%) Relational Database
11 15 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
12 14 (4.14%) Spark SQL
12 14 (4.14%) Tableau
13 12 (3.55%) Star Schema
14 5 (1.48%) NoSQL
14 5 (1.48%) SAP HANA
15 4 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
15 4 (1.18%) BigQuery
15 4 (1.18%) MySQL
15 4 (1.18%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 32 (9.47%) Git
2 18 (5.33%) Claude Code
3 11 (3.25%) MLflow
4 5 (1.48%) JIRA
5 4 (1.18%) GitLab
6 3 (0.89%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.59%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio
General
1 129 (38.17%) Finance
2 49 (14.50%) Social Skills
3 31 (9.17%) Banking
4 23 (6.80%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (4.14%) Public Sector
5 14 (4.14%) Retail
6 8 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (1.48%) Law
8 5 (1.48%) Legal
8 5 (1.48%) Telecoms
9 3 (0.89%) Billing
9 3 (0.89%) Marketing
9 3 (0.89%) Wearables
10 2 (0.59%) Front Office
10 2 (0.59%) Local Government
11 1 (0.30%) Advertising
11 1 (0.30%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.30%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 99 (29.29%) Data Engineer
2 77 (22.78%) Architect
3 57 (16.86%) Lead
4 56 (16.57%) Data Architect
5 53 (15.68%) Data Manager
6 51 (15.09%) Finance Manager
7 46 (13.61%) Senior
8 37 (10.95%) Engineering Manager
9 25 (7.40%) Senior Data Engineer
10 23 (6.80%) Lead Data Engineer
11 18 (5.33%) Enterprise Architect
12 17 (5.03%) Big Data Engineer
12 17 (5.03%) DataOps Engineer
12 17 (5.03%) DataOps Leader
12 17 (5.03%) Developer
12 17 (5.03%) Lead Big Data Engineer
13 14 (4.14%) Azure Architect
13 14 (4.14%) Azure Data Architect
13 14 (4.14%) Azure Engineer
14 12 (3.55%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (20.12%) PySpark
2 19 (5.62%) LangChain
3 18 (5.33%) LangGraph
4 16 (4.73%) Pandas
5 15 (4.44%) .NET
6 9 (2.66%) Kafka
6 9 (2.66%) NumPy
6 9 (2.66%) SciPy
6 9 (2.66%) XML
7 7 (2.07%) PyTorch
7 7 (2.07%) React
8 6 (1.78%) FastAPI
8 6 (1.78%) JSON
8 6 (1.78%) TensorFlow
9 5 (1.48%) Google JAX
9 5 (1.48%) JAX
9 5 (1.48%) Node.js
9 5 (1.48%) OpenCV
10 4 (1.18%) ASP.NET
10 4 (1.18%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 28 (8.28%) Cloud Native
2 25 (7.40%) AI Agents
3 19 (5.62%) Hedge funds
4 14 (4.14%) Product Ownership
5 10 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.37%) Algorithms
7 7 (2.07%) Data Fabric
8 6 (1.78%) Reinsurance
9 5 (1.48%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.48%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.48%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.18%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.89%) Client/Server
11 3 (0.89%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.59%) Clustering
12 2 (0.59%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.59%) Reference Data
12 2 (0.59%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.66%) Linux
2 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (51.18%) AI
2 149 (44.08%) Data Engineering
3 147 (43.49%) Analytics
4 139 (41.12%) Machine Learning
5 132 (39.05%) Data Architecture
6 112 (33.14%) CI/CD
7 106 (31.36%) Business Intelligence
8 105 (31.07%) Roadmaps
9 104 (30.77%) Agile
10 102 (30.18%) Data Pipeline
11 100 (29.59%) Data Modelling
12 90 (26.63%) Data Governance
13 88 (26.04%) Data Science
14 69 (20.41%) Migration
15 62 (18.34%) Line Management
16 55 (16.27%) Data Development
16 55 (16.27%) Regulatory Compliance
17 53 (15.68%) Decision-Making
18 50 (14.79%) ETL
19 43 (12.72%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 200 (59.17%) SQL
2 143 (42.31%) Python
3 21 (6.21%) Scala
4 18 (5.33%) Bicep
5 9 (2.66%) JavaScript
6 8 (2.37%) C#
6 8 (2.37%) TypeScript
7 5 (1.48%) VBA
8 4 (1.18%) R
9 2 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.59%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.59%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.30%) ABAP
10 1 (0.30%) Java
Qualifications
1 24 (7.10%) Azure Certification
1 24 (7.10%) Degree
2 21 (6.21%) Security Cleared
3 16 (4.73%) SC Cleared
4 15 (4.44%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (4.14%) SnowPro
6 3 (0.89%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.59%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.30%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.30%) ICAEW
8 1 (0.30%) IIBA
8 1 (0.30%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (18.64%) Data Quality
2 25 (7.40%) SLA
3 12 (3.55%) GDPR
4 5 (1.48%) Solvency II
5 4 (1.18%) IFRS
5 4 (1.18%) IFRS 17
5 4 (1.18%) QA
6 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 55 (16.27%) Virtual Machines
2 15 (4.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (8.58%) Terraform
2 9 (2.66%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.30%) Ansible
3 1 (0.30%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 154 (45.56%) Microsoft
2 8 (2.37%) SAP
3 7 (2.07%) Foundry
4 6 (1.78%) Salesforce
5 5 (1.48%) Google
6 4 (1.18%) Informatica
7 2 (0.59%) Concur
7 2 (0.59%) Sage
8 1 (0.30%) Amplitude
8 1 (0.30%) Braze
8 1 (0.30%) Oracle
8 1 (0.30%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.30%) Talend