PolyBase Contract Job Trends in England

Microsoft PolyBase
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring PolyBase skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 - 593
Rank change year-on-year - - +174
Contract jobs citing PolyBase 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.004% - 0.002%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.020% - 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
UK median daily rate £450 - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

PolyBase 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 5,116 5,756 6,843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.11% 18.03% 16.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,513 3,899 4,869
10th Percentile £338 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -
75th Percentile £633 £663 £662
90th Percentile £750 £811 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £538
% change year-on-year -5.66% -1.40% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 83 147
10th Percentile £20.67 £17.50 £19.40
25th Percentile £29.00 £22.20 £26.52
Median hourly rate £42.00 £35.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.99% -33.33% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.78 £73.73
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.15 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £31.55 £50.78
% change year-on-year +26.80% -37.88% +1.56%

PolyBase
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PolyBase relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

PolyBase job vacancy trend in England

PolyBase
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing PolyBase.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing PolyBase

PolyBase
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 PolyBase within the England region over the 6 months to 18 October 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
London - 1 £450 -
PolyBase
UK

PolyBase
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (100.00%) Data Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Star Schema
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) SAP