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 21 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
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 65 196
Rank change year-on-year -87 +131 +114
Permanent jobs citing Databricks 304 775 526
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.62% 5.17% 1.62%
As % of the Vendors category 5.31% 11.07% 3.97%
Number of salaries quoted 251 127 272
10th Percentile £56,000 £48,450 £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 £110,625 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £107,250 £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 5,730 7,003 13,237
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 30.52% 46.72% 40.68%
Number of salaries quoted 3,756 3,854 9,817
10th Percentile £32,250 £30,825 £31,530
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% -7.60%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,258 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% +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 21 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 25 (8.22%) Apache Spark
2 22 (7.24%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.63%) Apache
4 4 (1.32%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.33%) CMS
5 1 (0.33%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.33%) Strapi
Applications
1 5 (1.64%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.66%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.66%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.33%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 248 (81.58%) Azure
2 129 (42.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 80 (26.32%) Snowflake
4 76 (25.00%) Azure Machine Learning
5 74 (24.34%) Azure Data Factory
6 66 (21.71%) Power Platform
7 61 (20.07%) Azure AI
8 33 (10.86%) AWS
9 26 (8.55%) GCP
10 23 (7.57%) Azure DevOps
11 16 (5.26%) GitHub
12 11 (3.62%) SaaS
13 10 (3.29%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (3.29%) Dagster
13 10 (3.29%) Serverless
14 9 (2.96%) Amazon SageMaker
14 9 (2.96%) Vertex AI
15 8 (2.63%) Microsoft Purview
16 7 (2.30%) dbt
17 6 (1.97%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (24.01%) SQL Server
2 61 (20.07%) Power BI
3 55 (18.09%) Data Warehouse
4 43 (14.14%) Data Lake
5 40 (13.16%) Big Data
6 34 (11.18%) Azure SQL Database
7 29 (9.54%) Delta Lake
8 24 (7.89%) Metadata
9 14 (4.61%) Tableau
10 12 (3.95%) Amazon Redshift
10 12 (3.95%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 12 (3.95%) BigQuery
11 11 (3.62%) Relational Database
11 11 (3.62%) Spark SQL
12 10 (3.29%) Apache Iceberg
13 9 (2.96%) Elasticsearch
13 9 (2.96%) Looker
13 9 (2.96%) Pinecone
13 9 (2.96%) Weaviate
14 7 (2.30%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 23 (7.57%) Git
2 19 (6.25%) MLflow
3 2 (0.66%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 124 (40.79%) Finance
2 37 (12.17%) Social Skills
3 15 (4.93%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (3.29%) Banking
4 10 (3.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (3.29%) Retail
5 9 (2.96%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (1.97%) Law
6 6 (1.97%) Public Sector
7 4 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (0.99%) Automotive
9 2 (0.66%) Front Office
9 2 (0.66%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.66%) Marketing
9 2 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.33%) Legal
10 1 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 114 (37.50%) Data Engineer
2 74 (24.34%) Lead
3 58 (19.08%) Senior
4 43 (14.14%) Data Manager
5 39 (12.83%) Senior Data Engineer
6 37 (12.17%) Architect
6 37 (12.17%) Engineering Manager
7 33 (10.86%) Data Architect
7 33 (10.86%) Finance Manager
7 33 (10.86%) Lead Data Engineer
8 30 (9.87%) Big Data Engineer
8 30 (9.87%) DataOps Engineer
8 30 (9.87%) DataOps Leader
8 30 (9.87%) Lead Big Data Engineer
9 22 (7.24%) Platform Engineer
10 20 (6.58%) Consultant
11 18 (5.92%) Azure Architect
12 17 (5.59%) Azure Data Architect
13 13 (4.28%) Data Consultant
13 13 (4.28%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (17.76%) PySpark
2 17 (5.59%) PyTorch
2 17 (5.59%) TensorFlow
3 11 (3.62%) Pandas
4 10 (3.29%) Kafka
5 9 (2.96%) Faiss
5 9 (2.96%) vLLM
6 8 (2.63%) XML
7 7 (2.30%) LangChain
8 6 (1.97%) .NET
8 6 (1.97%) NumPy
9 5 (1.64%) Google JAX
9 5 (1.64%) JAX
9 5 (1.64%) OpenCV
9 5 (1.64%) SciPy
10 4 (1.32%) GraphQL
10 4 (1.32%) JSON
11 3 (0.99%) ARM Templates
12 2 (0.66%) ADO
12 2 (0.66%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.92%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.26%) Product Ownership
3 9 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (2.63%) AI Agents
5 7 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (1.97%) Algorithms
7 5 (1.64%) Data Fabric
7 5 (1.64%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.66%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.66%) Reference Data
8 2 (0.66%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.33%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.33%) Clustering
9 1 (0.33%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.33%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.33%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.33%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.33%) Replication
9 1 (0.33%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.64%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (56.25%) Data Engineering
2 122 (40.13%) AI
3 114 (37.50%) Analytics
4 109 (35.86%) Data Modelling
5 107 (35.20%) CI/CD
6 106 (34.87%) Data Governance
7 105 (34.54%) Data Pipeline
8 102 (33.55%) Agile
9 99 (32.57%) Data Architecture
10 98 (32.24%) Machine Learning
11 90 (29.61%) Business Intelligence
12 73 (24.01%) Roadmaps
13 69 (22.70%) Migration
14 61 (20.07%) ETL
15 60 (19.74%) Line Management
16 56 (18.42%) Regulatory Compliance
17 55 (18.09%) Data Development
17 55 (18.09%) Data Science
18 44 (14.47%) DevOps
19 42 (13.82%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 187 (61.51%) SQL
2 118 (38.82%) Python
3 26 (8.55%) Scala
4 13 (4.28%) Java
5 9 (2.96%) Bash
5 9 (2.96%) Go
5 9 (2.96%) T-SQL
6 4 (1.32%) Bicep
6 4 (1.32%) C#
6 4 (1.32%) PowerShell
6 4 (1.32%) R
7 3 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (0.99%) VBA
8 2 (0.66%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.33%) ABAP
9 1 (0.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 33 (10.86%) Degree
2 15 (4.93%) Azure Certification
3 14 (4.61%) Security Cleared
4 8 (2.63%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.64%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.33%) IIBA
7 1 (0.33%) ISACA
7 1 (0.33%) SAP Certification
7 1 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (18.09%) Data Quality
2 30 (9.87%) SLA
3 9 (2.96%) GDPR
4 4 (1.32%) Solvency II
5 3 (0.99%) IFRS
5 3 (0.99%) IFRS 17
5 3 (0.99%) QA
6 2 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 55 (18.09%) Virtual Machines
2 21 (6.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (6.25%) Terraform
2 7 (2.30%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.33%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 119 (39.14%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.96%) Palantir
3 8 (2.63%) SAP
4 6 (1.97%) OpenAI
5 5 (1.64%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.99%) Google
7 2 (0.66%) Informatica
7 2 (0.66%) Oracle
8 1 (0.33%) Adobe
8 1 (0.33%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.33%) Braze
8 1 (0.33%) Dell
8 1 (0.33%) Foundry
8 1 (0.33%) mParticle
8 1 (0.33%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.33%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.33%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.33%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.33%) Tealium
8 1 (0.33%) WSO2