HDInsight Contracts

Microsoft Azure HDInsight
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for HDInsight skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited HDInsight over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 581 709 793
Rank change year-on-year +128 +84 -153
Contract jobs citing HDInsight 5 13 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.011% 0.022% 0.043%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.068% 0.12% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 13 22
10th Percentile - £547 £425
25th Percentile £475 £725 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £775 £550
Median % change year-on-year -35.48% +40.91% -12.00%
75th Percentile £525 £830 £653
90th Percentile - £835 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate - £750 £636
% change year-on-year - +17.92% -2.15%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

HDInsight is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,301 10,856 17,913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.73% 18.08% 20.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,192 7,727 12,773
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +0.93% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £661 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £485
% change year-on-year -4.00% +3.09% +10.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 184 189
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £35.00 £22.40
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +41.18% +57.64%
75th Percentile £57.61 £71.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.19 £69.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £58.05 £35.00
% change year-on-year -31.09% +65.84% +45.83%

HDInsight
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing HDInsight as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for HDInsight in the UK

HDInsight
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing HDInsight.

Daily rate trend for HDInsight in the UK

HDInsight
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HDInsight within the UK over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +114 5 £500 -35.48% 3
London +103 5 £500 -38.27% 3

HDInsight
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (40.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 3 (60.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon EMR
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon Kinesis
3 2 (40.00%) GCP
3 2 (40.00%) Power Automate
3 2 (40.00%) PowerApps
3 2 (40.00%) Snowflake
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Data Lake
2 3 (60.00%) Big Data
2 3 (60.00%) Power BI
3 2 (40.00%) Spark SQL
4 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Electronics
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (20.00%) Marketing
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (40.00%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (40.00%) ETL
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Data Privacy
4 1 (20.00%) Data Security
4 1 (20.00%) Data Transformation
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Product Requirements
4 1 (20.00%) Programme Management
4 1 (20.00%) Revenue Recognition
4 1 (20.00%) SIAM
4 1 (20.00%) Storage Management
4 1 (20.00%) Test Planning
4 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Scala
3 1 (20.00%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Databricks
2 2 (40.00%) Google
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) SAP
3 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (20.00%) Snow