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 1 October 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
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 76 153
Rank change year-on-year -133 +77 +125
Permanent jobs citing Databricks 308 736 475
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.23% 4.37% 2.12%
As % of the Vendors category 3.96% 8.50% 5.48%
Number of salaries quoted 271 136 242
10th Percentile £55,000 £48,125 £47,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £60,938 £57,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £81,250 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.77% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £117,500 £97,500 £93,625
90th Percentile £143,750 £110,250 £110,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £75,000 £71,250
% change year-on-year +10.00% +5.26% -5.00%

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 7,772 8,661 8,666
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 31.15% 51.48% 38.63%
Number of salaries quoted 5,479 3,728 4,726
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,700
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -6.30% -2.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -4.35%

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 1 October 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 29 (9.42%) Apache Spark
2 11 (3.57%) Apache
3 6 (1.95%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.97%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.65%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.32%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.62%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.97%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.32%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
2 1 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 200 (64.94%) Azure
2 95 (30.84%) Snowflake
3 79 (25.65%) AWS
3 79 (25.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 70 (22.73%) Power Platform
5 57 (18.51%) Azure Data Factory
6 47 (15.26%) Azure Databricks
7 43 (13.96%) Amazon Bedrock
8 38 (12.34%) Anthropic Claude
9 33 (10.71%) Azure Machine Learning
10 31 (10.06%) Microsoft Purview
11 28 (9.09%) Azure AI
12 24 (7.79%) Azure DevOps
13 21 (6.82%) GCP
13 21 (6.82%) SaaS
14 20 (6.49%) GitHub
15 9 (2.92%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (2.92%) Serverless
16 8 (2.60%) Amazon SageMaker
17 7 (2.27%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.30%) Broadband
2 1 (0.32%) ATM
2 1 (0.32%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (23.38%) Data Warehouse
2 65 (21.10%) Power BI
3 61 (19.81%) SQL Server
4 56 (18.18%) Data Lake
5 43 (13.96%) Delta Lake
6 38 (12.34%) Metadata
7 25 (8.12%) Azure SQL Database
8 21 (6.82%) Data Vault
9 20 (6.49%) Big Data
10 19 (6.17%) Tableau
11 15 (4.87%) PostgreSQL
11 15 (4.87%) Relational Database
11 15 (4.87%) Star Schema
12 9 (2.92%) Spark SQL
13 8 (2.60%) Amazon Redshift
14 7 (2.27%) NoSQL
15 6 (1.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 5 (1.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 4 (1.30%) Hadoop
17 4 (1.30%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 37 (12.01%) Claude Code
1 37 (12.01%) Git
2 15 (4.87%) MLflow
3 7 (2.27%) JIRA
4 4 (1.30%) GitLab
4 4 (1.30%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.97%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.32%) ERwin
6 1 (0.32%) RStudio
6 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio
General
1 110 (35.71%) Finance
2 57 (18.51%) Social Skills
3 48 (15.58%) Banking
4 30 (9.74%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (4.87%) Retail
6 14 (4.55%) Public Sector
7 9 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.95%) Legal
9 5 (1.62%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.30%) Marketing
11 3 (0.97%) Billing
11 3 (0.97%) Front Office
11 3 (0.97%) Wearables
12 2 (0.65%) Advertising
12 2 (0.65%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.65%) Local Government
12 2 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.65%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.32%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 89 (28.90%) Architect
1 89 (28.90%) Data Engineer
2 51 (16.56%) Data Architect
3 50 (16.23%) Senior
4 47 (15.26%) Finance Manager
5 36 (11.69%) Enterprise Architect
5 36 (11.69%) Lead
6 30 (9.74%) Data Manager
7 24 (7.79%) Senior Data Engineer
8 19 (6.17%) Databricks Engineer
9 15 (4.87%) Consultant
9 15 (4.87%) Engineering Manager
10 13 (4.22%) Azure Engineer
10 13 (4.22%) Data Scientist
10 13 (4.22%) Developer
11 11 (3.57%) Azure Data Engineer
11 11 (3.57%) Lead Data Engineer
11 11 (3.57%) Python Engineer
12 10 (3.25%) Databricks Data Engineer
12 10 (3.25%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (22.40%) PySpark
2 33 (10.71%) Terraform
3 25 (8.12%) LangChain
4 24 (7.79%) LangGraph
5 15 (4.87%) .NET
6 13 (4.22%) Pandas
7 9 (2.92%) FastAPI
7 9 (2.92%) Kafka
8 7 (2.27%) React
9 6 (1.95%) XML
10 5 (1.62%) Node.js
10 5 (1.62%) NumPy
10 5 (1.62%) SciPy
11 4 (1.30%) ASP.NET
11 4 (1.30%) Django
11 4 (1.30%) Flask
11 4 (1.30%) JSON
11 4 (1.30%) RESTful
12 3 (0.97%) ADO
12 3 (0.97%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 44 (14.29%) AI Agents
2 37 (12.01%) Hedge funds
3 29 (9.42%) Cloud Native
4 12 (3.90%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.27%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.62%) Algorithms
7 5 (1.62%) Data Fabric
7 5 (1.62%) Reinsurance
7 5 (1.62%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.30%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.30%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.97%) Client/Server
9 3 (0.97%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.65%) Blog
10 2 (0.65%) Credit Risk
10 2 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.65%) NHS
10 2 (0.65%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.62%) Linux
2 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (52.27%) AI
2 149 (48.38%) Analytics
3 126 (40.91%) Machine Learning
4 108 (35.06%) Data Science
5 106 (34.42%) CI/CD
6 105 (34.09%) Data Engineering
7 101 (32.79%) Data Modelling
8 99 (32.14%) Business Intelligence
8 99 (32.14%) Data Architecture
9 96 (31.17%) Data Pipeline
10 92 (29.87%) Roadmaps
11 77 (25.00%) Agile
12 64 (20.78%) Lakehouse
13 59 (19.16%) Data Governance
14 58 (18.83%) ETL
15 52 (16.88%) Decision-Making
16 48 (15.58%) DevOps
17 42 (13.64%) Asset Management
17 42 (13.64%) Data Strategy
18 40 (12.99%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 168 (54.55%) SQL
2 148 (48.05%) Python
3 23 (7.47%) Scala
4 19 (6.17%) Bicep
5 10 (3.25%) C#
5 10 (3.25%) JavaScript
6 8 (2.60%) TypeScript
7 6 (1.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (1.95%) R
8 5 (1.62%) VBA
9 2 (0.65%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.65%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.32%) Java
10 1 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 24 (7.79%) Azure Certification
1 24 (7.79%) Security Cleared
2 20 (6.49%) SC Cleared
3 19 (6.17%) Degree
4 18 (5.84%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (5.19%) SnowPro
6 4 (1.30%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.97%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.65%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.32%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.32%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.32%) ICAEW
9 1 (0.32%) IIBA
9 1 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (21.10%) Data Quality
2 14 (4.55%) GDPR
3 13 (4.22%) SLA
4 4 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.97%) IFRS
5 3 (0.97%) IFRS 17
5 3 (0.97%) QA
5 3 (0.97%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.65%) NIST
7 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.32%) IASME
7 1 (0.32%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 21 (6.82%) Virtual Machines
2 12 (3.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (3.90%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.65%) Ansible
2 2 (0.65%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 119 (38.64%) Microsoft
2 8 (2.60%) Informatica
3 6 (1.95%) Foundry
3 6 (1.95%) Salesforce
3 6 (1.95%) SAP
4 4 (1.30%) Google
5 2 (0.65%) Concur
5 2 (0.65%) RedGate
5 2 (0.65%) Sage
5 2 (0.65%) Talend
6 1 (0.32%) Amplitude
6 1 (0.32%) Braze
6 1 (0.32%) ESRI
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle
6 1 (0.32%) YouTube