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 24 April 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
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 195 245
Rank change year-on-year +38 +50 +82
Permanent jobs citing Databricks 308 228 425
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.72% 1.71% 1.31%
As % of the Vendors category 5.57% 3.98% 3.16%
Number of salaries quoted 253 133 271
10th Percentile £59,000 £48,000 £47,500
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 £115,000 £97,500 £95,625
90th Percentile £134,000 £102,700 £110,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% - +6.67%

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 5,529 5,730 13,444
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 30.81% 42.94% 41.38%
Number of salaries quoted 3,536 3,869 10,113
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £42,750 £41,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -7.60%
75th Percentile £77,424 £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 24 April 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 24 (7.79%) Apache Spark
2 23 (7.47%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.92%) Apache
4 3 (0.97%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.32%) CMS
5 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.32%) Strapi
Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.32%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 247 (80.19%) Azure
2 133 (43.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 82 (26.62%) Snowflake
4 80 (25.97%) Azure Data Factory
5 78 (25.32%) Azure Machine Learning
6 67 (21.75%) Power Platform
7 61 (19.81%) Azure AI
8 30 (9.74%) AWS
9 25 (8.12%) Azure DevOps
10 24 (7.79%) GCP
11 19 (6.17%) GitHub
12 16 (5.19%) SaaS
13 10 (3.25%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (3.25%) Dagster
13 10 (3.25%) Microsoft Purview
13 10 (3.25%) Serverless
14 9 (2.92%) Amazon SageMaker
14 9 (2.92%) dbt
14 9 (2.92%) Vertex AI
15 6 (1.95%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (22.40%) SQL Server
2 65 (21.10%) Power BI
3 62 (20.13%) Data Warehouse
4 55 (17.86%) Data Lake
5 40 (12.99%) Azure SQL Database
6 38 (12.34%) Big Data
7 26 (8.44%) Delta Lake
8 24 (7.79%) Metadata
9 17 (5.52%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 15 (4.87%) Tableau
11 12 (3.90%) Amazon Redshift
11 12 (3.90%) BigQuery
12 11 (3.57%) Relational Database
13 10 (3.25%) Apache Iceberg
14 9 (2.92%) Elasticsearch
14 9 (2.92%) Looker
14 9 (2.92%) Pinecone
14 9 (2.92%) Weaviate
15 8 (2.60%) Spark SQL
16 5 (1.62%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (6.82%) Git
2 18 (5.84%) MLflow
3 3 (0.97%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.32%) SonarQube
General
1 135 (43.83%) Finance
2 37 (12.01%) Social Skills
3 19 (6.17%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (5.19%) Banking
5 10 (3.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (2.60%) Law
7 5 (1.62%) Automotive
7 5 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.30%) Retail
9 3 (0.97%) General Ledger
9 3 (0.97%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.65%) Front Office
10 2 (0.65%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.65%) Marketing
10 2 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.32%) Legal
11 1 (0.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 120 (38.96%) Data Engineer
2 76 (24.68%) Lead
3 65 (21.10%) Senior
4 46 (14.94%) Senior Data Engineer
5 41 (13.31%) Data Manager
6 35 (11.36%) Engineering Manager
7 34 (11.04%) Lead Data Engineer
8 33 (10.71%) Finance Manager
9 30 (9.74%) Big Data Engineer
9 30 (9.74%) DataOps Engineer
9 30 (9.74%) DataOps Leader
9 30 (9.74%) Lead Big Data Engineer
10 29 (9.42%) Architect
11 24 (7.79%) Data Architect
12 21 (6.82%) Platform Engineer
13 19 (6.17%) Azure Architect
13 19 (6.17%) Consultant
14 17 (5.52%) Azure Data Architect
15 14 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
16 13 (4.22%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (16.88%) PySpark
2 17 (5.52%) PyTorch
2 17 (5.52%) TensorFlow
3 13 (4.22%) Kafka
4 11 (3.57%) Pandas
5 9 (2.92%) Faiss
5 9 (2.92%) vLLM
6 7 (2.27%) LangChain
7 6 (1.95%) NumPy
7 6 (1.95%) XML
8 5 (1.62%) Google JAX
8 5 (1.62%) JAX
8 5 (1.62%) OpenCV
8 5 (1.62%) SciPy
9 4 (1.30%) GraphQL
9 4 (1.30%) JSON
10 2 (0.65%) .NET
10 2 (0.65%) ARM Templates
10 2 (0.65%) REST
10 2 (0.65%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.82%) Cloud Native
2 13 (4.22%) Product Ownership
3 10 (3.25%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (2.60%) AI Agents
5 5 (1.62%) Algorithms
5 5 (1.62%) Reference Data
6 4 (1.30%) Taxonomies
7 3 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (0.97%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (0.97%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (0.65%) Data Fabric
8 2 (0.65%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.65%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.32%) Clustering
9 1 (0.32%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.32%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.32%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.32%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.32%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.62%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (57.14%) Data Engineering
2 122 (39.61%) AI
3 118 (38.31%) Agile
4 112 (36.36%) Data Governance
5 105 (34.09%) CI/CD
5 105 (34.09%) Data Modelling
6 102 (33.12%) Analytics
6 102 (33.12%) Data Pipeline
7 97 (31.49%) Business Intelligence
8 96 (31.17%) Machine Learning
9 92 (29.87%) Data Architecture
10 74 (24.03%) Roadmaps
11 67 (21.75%) ETL
12 64 (20.78%) Migration
13 58 (18.83%) Regulatory Compliance
14 57 (18.51%) Line Management
15 55 (17.86%) Data Development
15 55 (17.86%) Data Science
16 50 (16.23%) DevOps
17 45 (14.61%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 202 (65.58%) SQL
2 119 (38.64%) Python
3 27 (8.77%) Scala
4 14 (4.55%) Java
5 11 (3.57%) T-SQL
6 9 (2.92%) Bash
6 9 (2.92%) Go
7 4 (1.30%) Bicep
7 4 (1.30%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.30%) R
8 3 (0.97%) C#
9 2 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.32%) ABAP
10 1 (0.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 30 (9.74%) Degree
2 15 (4.87%) Azure Certification
3 13 (4.22%) Security Cleared
4 8 (2.60%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.62%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.65%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.65%) ISACA
7 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.32%) IIBA
8 1 (0.32%) SAP Certification
8 1 (0.32%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (18.18%) Data Quality
2 30 (9.74%) SLA
3 8 (2.60%) GDPR
4 3 (0.97%) QA
4 3 (0.97%) Solvency II
5 2 (0.65%) IFRS
5 2 (0.65%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 55 (17.86%) Virtual Machines
2 22 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (6.82%) Terraform
2 8 (2.60%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.32%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 115 (37.34%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.92%) Palantir
3 6 (1.95%) OpenAI
4 4 (1.30%) Oracle
5 3 (0.97%) Google
5 3 (0.97%) Informatica
6 2 (0.65%) Alteryx
6 2 (0.65%) MuleSoft
6 2 (0.65%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.65%) SAP
7 1 (0.32%) Adobe
7 1 (0.32%) Confluent
7 1 (0.32%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.32%) Dell
7 1 (0.32%) Foundry
7 1 (0.32%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.32%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.32%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.32%) Talend
7 1 (0.32%) Tealium