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 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 581 561 609
Rank change year-on-year -20 +48 +223
Contract jobs citing HDInsight 2 4 13
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.006% 0.011% 0.027%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.032% 0.062% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 13
10th Percentile £390 - £473
25th Percentile £450 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -20.00%
75th Percentile £650 - £638
90th Percentile £710 - £648
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 - £588
% change year-on-year - - -21.67%

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 6,198 6,459 7,929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.27% 17.65% 16.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,184 4,334 5,530
10th Percentile £337 £342 £355
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £618 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £782 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £484 £500
% change year-on-year -1.76% -3.30% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 86 160
10th Percentile £20.71 £17.50 £16.96
25th Percentile £29.00 £21.25 £25.13
Median hourly rate £43.50 £30.11 £48.45
Median % change year-on-year +44.49% -37.86% -3.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £53.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.95 £67.39 £78.08
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £30.00 £46.84
% change year-on-year +33.33% -35.95% +15.00%

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
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HDInsight over the 6 months to 28 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HDInsight in the UK

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 6 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 28 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
England -10 2 £550 -
London +19 1 £750 +36.36%
UK excluding London -27 1 £350 -
Midlands - 1 £350 -
West Midlands - 1 £350 -
Work from Home - 1 £750 -

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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
2 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) IoT
2 1 (50.00%) Data Fabric
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) API Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lineage
2 1 (50.00%) DataOps
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Inmon Methodology
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Kimball Methodology
2 1 (50.00%) Low Latency
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Product Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft