HDInsight Contract Job Trends

Microsoft Azure HDInsight
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring HDInsight skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 618 525 602
Rank change year-on-year -93 +77 +129
Contract jobs citing HDInsight 1 1 5
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.002% 0.003% 0.011%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.015% 0.018% 0.069%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -34.43%
75th Percentile - - £525
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Database & BI 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 6,825 5,626 7,293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.04% 19.09% 16.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,695 3,869 5,146
10th Percentile £347 £350 £340
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 96 178
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.59 £14.36
25th Percentile £28.04 £24.06 £20.78
Median hourly rate £50.00 £30.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -25.93% -29.57%
75th Percentile £74.68 £64.56 £62.31
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.38 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £27.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +81.82% -31.25% -29.08%

HDInsight
Job Vacancy Trend

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

HDInsight job vacancy trend in the UK

HDInsight
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HDInsight.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HDInsight

HDInsight
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HDInsight.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HDInsight

HDInsight
Top 2 Contract Job 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 11 March 2026. 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 -94 1 - -
London - 1 - -

HDInsight
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Storage
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Collibra
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Data Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Logical Data Model
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Physical Data Model
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) ANSI SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks