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 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
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 67 203
Rank change year-on-year -82 +136 +108
Permanent jobs citing Databricks 312 775 520
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.67% 5.12% 1.60%
As % of the Vendors category 5.50% 11.04% 3.92%
Number of salaries quoted 256 128 273
10th Percentile £56,000 £48,525 £48,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £55,000 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £112,188 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £109,125 £110,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% - -

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 5,677 7,020 13,251
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 30.41% 46.36% 40.70%
Number of salaries quoted 3,730 3,889 9,849
10th Percentile £31,635 £31,000 £31,549
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -6.78%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,258 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,250 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.45% +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 18 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 (8.33%) Apache Spark
2 23 (7.37%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.56%) Apache
4 3 (0.96%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.32%) CMS
5 1 (0.32%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.32%) Strapi
Applications
1 4 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.28%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.64%) Chatbot
3 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
1 254 (81.41%) Azure
2 133 (42.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 80 (25.64%) Snowflake
4 77 (24.68%) Azure Data Factory
5 76 (24.36%) Azure Machine Learning
6 68 (21.79%) Power Platform
7 61 (19.55%) Azure AI
8 33 (10.58%) AWS
9 26 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
9 26 (8.33%) GCP
10 16 (5.13%) GitHub
11 11 (3.53%) SaaS
12 10 (3.21%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (3.21%) Dagster
12 10 (3.21%) Serverless
13 9 (2.88%) Amazon SageMaker
13 9 (2.88%) Vertex AI
14 8 (2.56%) dbt
14 8 (2.56%) Microsoft Purview
15 6 (1.92%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (24.36%) SQL Server
2 64 (20.51%) Power BI
3 55 (17.63%) Data Warehouse
4 45 (14.42%) Data Lake
5 40 (12.82%) Big Data
6 34 (10.90%) Azure SQL Database
7 28 (8.97%) Delta Lake
8 24 (7.69%) Metadata
9 14 (4.49%) Tableau
10 12 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
10 12 (3.85%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 12 (3.85%) BigQuery
11 11 (3.53%) Relational Database
12 10 (3.21%) Apache Iceberg
12 10 (3.21%) Spark SQL
13 9 (2.88%) Elasticsearch
13 9 (2.88%) Looker
13 9 (2.88%) Pinecone
13 9 (2.88%) Weaviate
14 7 (2.24%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 24 (7.69%) Git
2 19 (6.09%) MLflow
3 2 (0.64%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 129 (41.35%) Finance
2 39 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 17 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (3.85%) Banking
5 10 (3.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (3.21%) Retail
6 9 (2.88%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (2.24%) Law
8 6 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.92%) Public Sector
9 5 (1.60%) Automotive
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%) Legal
11 1 (0.32%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.32%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 119 (38.14%) Data Engineer
2 75 (24.04%) Lead
3 62 (19.87%) Senior
4 43 (13.78%) Data Manager
4 43 (13.78%) Senior Data Engineer
5 37 (11.86%) Architect
5 37 (11.86%) Engineering Manager
6 33 (10.58%) Data Architect
6 33 (10.58%) Finance Manager
6 33 (10.58%) Lead Data Engineer
7 30 (9.62%) Big Data Engineer
7 30 (9.62%) DataOps Engineer
7 30 (9.62%) DataOps Leader
7 30 (9.62%) Lead Big Data Engineer
8 22 (7.05%) Platform Engineer
9 19 (6.09%) Consultant
10 18 (5.77%) Azure Architect
11 17 (5.45%) Azure Data Architect
12 13 (4.17%) Developer
13 12 (3.85%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (17.63%) PySpark
2 17 (5.45%) PyTorch
2 17 (5.45%) TensorFlow
3 13 (4.17%) Kafka
4 11 (3.53%) Pandas
5 9 (2.88%) Faiss
5 9 (2.88%) vLLM
6 8 (2.56%) XML
7 7 (2.24%) LangChain
8 6 (1.92%) .NET
8 6 (1.92%) NumPy
9 5 (1.60%) Google JAX
9 5 (1.60%) JAX
9 5 (1.60%) OpenCV
9 5 (1.60%) SciPy
10 4 (1.28%) GraphQL
10 4 (1.28%) JSON
11 3 (0.96%) ARM Templates
12 2 (0.64%) ADO
12 2 (0.64%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.77%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.13%) Product Ownership
3 8 (2.56%) AI Agents
3 8 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.24%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (1.92%) Algorithms
6 5 (1.60%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (1.28%) Data Fabric
8 3 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.64%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.64%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.64%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.64%) Reference Data
9 2 (0.64%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.32%) Clustering
10 1 (0.32%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.32%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.32%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.32%) Replication
10 1 (0.32%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.60%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (56.73%) Data Engineering
2 121 (38.78%) AI
3 115 (36.86%) Analytics
4 111 (35.58%) Data Modelling
5 110 (35.26%) CI/CD
6 107 (34.29%) Data Governance
6 107 (34.29%) Data Pipeline
7 106 (33.97%) Agile
8 100 (32.05%) Data Architecture
9 97 (31.09%) Machine Learning
10 93 (29.81%) Business Intelligence
11 73 (23.40%) Roadmaps
12 70 (22.44%) Migration
13 66 (21.15%) ETL
14 60 (19.23%) Line Management
15 56 (17.95%) Data Science
15 56 (17.95%) Regulatory Compliance
16 55 (17.63%) Data Development
17 47 (15.06%) DevOps
18 46 (14.74%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 193 (61.86%) SQL
2 122 (39.10%) Python
3 26 (8.33%) Scala
4 14 (4.49%) Java
5 9 (2.88%) Bash
5 9 (2.88%) Go
5 9 (2.88%) T-SQL
6 5 (1.60%) Bicep
7 4 (1.28%) C#
7 4 (1.28%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.28%) 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 34 (10.90%) Degree
2 15 (4.81%) Azure Certification
3 14 (4.49%) Security Cleared
4 8 (2.56%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.60%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.32%) IIBA
7 1 (0.32%) ISACA
7 1 (0.32%) SAP Certification
7 1 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (17.95%) Data Quality
2 30 (9.62%) SLA
3 9 (2.88%) GDPR
4 4 (1.28%) 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 (17.63%) Virtual Machines
2 21 (6.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (6.41%) Terraform
2 7 (2.24%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.32%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 120 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.88%) Palantir
3 7 (2.24%) SAP
4 6 (1.92%) OpenAI
5 5 (1.60%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.96%) Google
7 2 (0.64%) Informatica
7 2 (0.64%) MuleSoft
7 2 (0.64%) Oracle
8 1 (0.32%) Adobe
8 1 (0.32%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.32%) Braze
8 1 (0.32%) Confluent
8 1 (0.32%) Dataiku
8 1 (0.32%) Dell
8 1 (0.32%) mParticle
8 1 (0.32%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.32%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.32%) Tealium
8 1 (0.32%) WSO2