HDInsight Contracts in England

Microsoft Azure HDInsight
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring HDInsight skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited HDInsight over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 484 537 645
Rank change year-on-year +53 +108 +114
Contract jobs citing HDInsight 1 5 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.004% 0.013% 0.016%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.022% 0.080% 0.088%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 8
10th Percentile - - £520
25th Percentile - £475 £703
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £500 £810
Median % change year-on-year - -38.27% +20.00%
75th Percentile - £525 £832
90th Percentile - - £855
UK median daily rate - £500 £788
% change year-on-year - -36.51% +43.18%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

HDInsight falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 4,625 6,230 9,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.99% 16.75% 17.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,253 4,477 6,506
10th Percentile £360 £352 £375
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £659 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 130 166
10th Percentile £19.25 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £23.50 £20.98 £33.05
Median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%
75th Percentile £65.00 £57.61 £70.19
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

HDInsight
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for HDInsight in England

HDInsight
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for HDInsight in England

HDInsight
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HDInsight within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
South East - 1 - -
HDInsight
UK

HDInsight
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ELB
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Storage
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) HBase
1 1 (100.00%) Impala
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) IoT
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) MapReduce
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Flume
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) StreamSets