Hybrid/Remote HDInsight Contract Job Trends

Microsoft Azure HDInsight
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring HDInsight skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 307 - 413
Rank change year-on-year - - +191
Contract jobs citing HDInsight 1 0 4
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.010% - 0.020%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.051% - 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £586
25th Percentile - - £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - -26.32%
75th Percentile - - £641
90th Percentile - - £646
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -20.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,943 2,575 3,682
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 19.79% 20.24% 18.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,339 1,818 2,646
10th Percentile £355 £345 £369
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £642 £675 £650
90th Percentile £825 £850 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £533 £543
% change year-on-year -6.19% -1.84% -1.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 25 63
10th Percentile £21.02 £18.82 £20.58
25th Percentile £33.53 £19.59 £33.02
Median hourly rate £65.00 £32.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -38.10% +1.45%
75th Percentile £75.00 £41.75 £67.38
90th Percentile £87.50 £62.02 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +24.29% -36.36% +22.66%

HDInsight
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing HDInsight as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

HDInsight trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

HDInsight
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing HDInsight.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing HDInsight

HDInsight
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Fabric
1 1 (100.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) API Management
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lineage
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) DataOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Product Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft