HDInsight Contracts

Microsoft Azure HDInsight
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 529 579 674
Rank change year-on-year +50 +95 +188
Contract jobs citing HDInsight 1 8 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% 0.018% 0.022%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.018% 0.11% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 12
10th Percentile - - £469
25th Percentile - £475 £543
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £500 £700
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -28.57% -
75th Percentile - £538 £830
90th Percentile - £545 £835
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 - £550
% change year-on-year - - -13.52%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,676 7,581 9,606
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.30% 17.47% 17.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,845 5,413 6,755
10th Percentile £356 £350 £371
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £758 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 150 170
10th Percentile £19.59 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £25.75 £20.82 £32.32
Median hourly rate £35.00 £40.00 £56.95
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -29.76% +45.04%
75th Percentile £63.75 £53.29 £73.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £72.50 £82.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.64 £33.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -4.12% -40.00% +57.14%

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 4 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 2 July 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
England +52 1 £350 -30.00% 3
UK excluding London +45 1 £350 - 1
Midlands - 1 £350 -
West Midlands - 1 £350 -

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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Inmon Methodology
1 1 (100.00%) Kimball Methodology
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks