PolyBase Contracts

Microsoft PolyBase
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for PolyBase skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PolyBase over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 577 695 854
Rank change year-on-year +118 +159 -192
Contract jobs citing PolyBase 2 5 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% 0.008% 0.007%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.027% 0.046% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - - £590
25th Percentile - - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £450 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -30.77% +8.33%
75th Percentile - £588 £673
90th Percentile - £670 £686
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £665

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

PolyBase is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,306 10,806 17,919
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.77% 18.02% 20.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,191 7,697 12,774
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £542
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -0.41% +8.45%
75th Percentile £650 £660 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -3.50% +2.56% +10.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 184 186
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £35.00 £22.40
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +41.18% +57.64%
75th Percentile £57.61 £71.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.19 £69.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -30.43% +64.29% +45.83%

PolyBase
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing PolyBase as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for PolyBase in the UK

PolyBase
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for PolyBase in the UK

PolyBase
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PolyBase within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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 +111 2 - -
London +108 2 - -

PolyBase
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Cognito
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EMR
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 2 (100.00%) Big Data
1 2 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 2 (100.00%) Bigtable
1 2 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 2 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (100.00%) HBase
1 2 (100.00%) IBM BigInsights
1 2 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Parquet
1 2 (100.00%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Liquibase
General
1 2 (100.00%) Legal
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Data Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Security Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Security Solutions Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Avro
1 2 (100.00%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Encryption
1 2 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 2 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) Data Security
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) U-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ambari
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Oozie
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks
1 2 (100.00%) Google