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 September 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 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 75 172
Rank change year-on-year -99 +97 +102
Permanent jobs citing Databricks 338 740 495
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.45% 4.50% 2.04%
As % of the Vendors category 4.59% 9.27% 5.26%
Number of salaries quoted 307 133 243
10th Percentile £55,000 £47,600 £50,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £57,500 £58,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +3.45% -9.38%
75th Percentile £118,750 £90,000 £93,250
90th Percentile £143,750 £108,750 £110,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £75,000 £74,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% +1.35% -4.82%

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 7,360 7,983 9,418
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 31.55% 48.55% 38.76%
Number of salaries quoted 5,253 3,978 5,756
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,250 £37,500 £41,999
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 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £91,991
UK median annual salary £57,500 £51,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.75% -7.27% -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 September 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 (7.10%) Apache Spark
2 11 (3.25%) Apache
3 10 (2.96%) 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
Cloud Services
1 243 (71.89%) Azure
2 121 (35.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 117 (34.62%) Snowflake
4 74 (21.89%) Power Platform
5 66 (19.53%) Azure Machine Learning
6 64 (18.93%) AWS
7 63 (18.64%) Azure Data Factory
8 62 (18.34%) Azure AI
9 45 (13.31%) Azure Databricks
10 34 (10.06%) Amazon Bedrock
11 30 (8.88%) Microsoft Purview
12 28 (8.28%) Anthropic Claude
13 21 (6.21%) Azure DevOps
14 20 (5.92%) GCP
15 16 (4.73%) GitHub
16 15 (4.44%) SaaS
17 9 (2.66%) Serverless
18 8 (2.37%) GitHub Actions
19 7 (2.07%) Amazon SageMaker
19 7 (2.07%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.18%) Broadband
2 1 (0.30%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (27.51%) SQL Server
2 69 (20.41%) Power BI
3 67 (19.82%) Data Warehouse
4 56 (16.57%) Data Lake
5 41 (12.13%) Delta Lake
6 39 (11.54%) Metadata
7 30 (8.88%) Azure SQL Database
8 26 (7.69%) Big Data
9 20 (5.92%) Data Vault
10 16 (4.73%) Relational Database
11 15 (4.44%) Tableau
12 14 (4.14%) PostgreSQL
13 13 (3.85%) Spark SQL
13 13 (3.85%) Star Schema
14 5 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
14 5 (1.48%) NoSQL
15 4 (1.18%) BigQuery
15 4 (1.18%) Geospatial Data
15 4 (1.18%) MySQL
15 4 (1.18%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 31 (9.17%) Git
2 27 (7.99%) Claude Code
3 12 (3.55%) 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
1 135 (39.94%) Finance
2 51 (15.09%) Social Skills
3 43 (12.72%) Banking
4 22 (6.51%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (4.14%) Retail
6 13 (3.85%) Public Sector
7 8 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (1.48%) Legal
8 5 (1.48%) Telecoms
9 3 (0.89%) Billing
9 3 (0.89%) Front Office
9 3 (0.89%) Law
9 3 (0.89%) Marketing
9 3 (0.89%) Wearables
10 2 (0.59%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (0.59%) Local Government
10 2 (0.59%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.30%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.30%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 92 (27.22%) Data Engineer
2 89 (26.33%) Architect
3 60 (17.75%) Finance Manager
4 59 (17.46%) Data Architect
5 52 (15.38%) Data Manager
6 47 (13.91%) Lead
6 47 (13.91%) Senior
7 37 (10.95%) Engineering Manager
8 27 (7.99%) Enterprise Architect
9 24 (7.10%) Senior Data Engineer
10 17 (5.03%) Databricks Engineer
10 17 (5.03%) Lead Data Engineer
11 15 (4.44%) Developer
12 14 (4.14%) Consultant
13 13 (3.85%) Azure Data Architect
13 13 (3.85%) Big Data Engineer
13 13 (3.85%) Data Scientist
13 13 (3.85%) DataOps Engineer
13 13 (3.85%) DataOps Leader
13 13 (3.85%) Lead Big Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (21.01%) PySpark
2 30 (8.88%) Terraform
3 25 (7.40%) LangChain
4 24 (7.10%) LangGraph
5 16 (4.73%) Pandas
6 15 (4.44%) .NET
7 9 (2.66%) NumPy
7 9 (2.66%) SciPy
8 8 (2.37%) Kafka
9 7 (2.07%) PyTorch
9 7 (2.07%) React
9 7 (2.07%) XML
10 6 (1.78%) FastAPI
10 6 (1.78%) TensorFlow
11 5 (1.48%) Google JAX
11 5 (1.48%) JAX
11 5 (1.48%) Node.js
11 5 (1.48%) OpenCV
12 4 (1.18%) JSON
12 4 (1.18%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 34 (10.06%) AI Agents
2 29 (8.58%) Cloud Native
3 28 (8.28%) Hedge funds
4 13 (3.85%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.37%) Algorithms
7 6 (1.78%) Data Fabric
7 6 (1.78%) Reinsurance
8 5 (1.48%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.48%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (1.48%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.18%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.89%) Client/Server
10 3 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.89%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.59%) Clustering
11 2 (0.59%) NHS
11 2 (0.59%) PMI
11 2 (0.59%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.66%) Linux
2 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (53.85%) AI
2 148 (43.79%) Analytics
2 148 (43.79%) Machine Learning
3 141 (41.72%) Data Engineering
4 135 (39.94%) Data Architecture
5 117 (34.62%) Roadmaps
6 108 (31.95%) CI/CD
7 107 (31.66%) Business Intelligence
8 105 (31.07%) Agile
9 99 (29.29%) Data Pipeline
10 97 (28.70%) Data Modelling
10 97 (28.70%) Data Science
11 91 (26.92%) Data Governance
12 69 (20.41%) Migration
13 68 (20.12%) Lakehouse
14 61 (18.05%) Line Management
15 57 (16.86%) Regulatory Compliance
16 55 (16.27%) Data Development
17 51 (15.09%) ETL
18 49 (14.50%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 199 (58.88%) SQL
2 141 (41.72%) Python
3 22 (6.51%) Scala
4 19 (5.62%) 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%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (1.18%) R
9 2 (0.59%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.59%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.30%) Java
Qualifications
1 25 (7.40%) Azure Certification
2 23 (6.80%) Degree
3 20 (5.92%) Security Cleared
4 17 (5.03%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (4.73%) SnowPro
6 15 (4.44%) SC Cleared
7 3 (0.89%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.89%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.59%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.30%) ICAEW
9 1 (0.30%) IIBA
9 1 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (17.16%) Data Quality
2 21 (6.21%) SLA
3 12 (3.55%) GDPR
4 5 (1.48%) Solvency II
5 4 (1.18%) IFRS
5 4 (1.18%) IFRS 17
6 3 (0.89%) QA
7 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 55 (16.27%) Virtual Machines
2 15 (4.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (2.66%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.30%) Ansible
2 1 (0.30%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 157 (46.45%) Microsoft
2 7 (2.07%) SAP
3 6 (1.78%) Foundry
3 6 (1.78%) Informatica
3 6 (1.78%) Salesforce
4 4 (1.18%) Google
5 2 (0.59%) Concur
5 2 (0.59%) Sage
6 1 (0.30%) Amplitude
6 1 (0.30%) Braze
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle
6 1 (0.30%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.30%) Talend