Hybrid/Remote PolyBase Contract Job Trends

Microsoft PolyBase
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring PolyBase skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing PolyBase 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.010% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.053% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
UK median daily rate £450 - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

PolyBase 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 1,891 2,439 3,484
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 19.45% 19.71% 18.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,285 1,697 2,522
10th Percentile £356 £344 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £823 £850 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £538
% change year-on-year -5.66% -1.40% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 27 56
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.98 £18.13
25th Percentile £21.02 £20.17 £23.06
Median hourly rate £62.50 £28.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +123.21% -44.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £68.13 £41.00 £70.47
90th Percentile £87.50 £60.51 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £31.55 £50.78
% change year-on-year +26.80% -37.88% +1.56%

PolyBase
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PolyBase and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

PolyBase job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

PolyBase
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing PolyBase.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing PolyBase

PolyBase
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (100.00%) Data Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Star Schema
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) SAP