Hadoop Engineer Contracts

Hadoop Engineer
UK

The median Hadoop Engineer daily rate in the UK is £553 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 582 686 805
Rank change year-on-year +104 +119 -130
Contract jobs requiring a Hadoop Engineer 3 7 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.012% 0.050%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.008% 0.013% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 33
10th Percentile £413 £394 £515
25th Percentile £463 £400 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £450 £628
Median % change year-on-year +22.78% -28.29% +19.52%
75th Percentile £648 £538 £738
90th Percentile £702 £541 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £380 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -27.62% -4.55% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £57.50
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 39,719 54,978 83,963
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,839 38,395 59,001
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,655 1,545 2,052
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.74 £76.40 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%

Hadoop Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Hadoop Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Hadoop Engineer in the UK

Hadoop Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Hadoop Engineer in the UK

Hadoop Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hadoop Engineer over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Hadoop Engineer in the UK

Hadoop Engineer
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Hadoop Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 7 May 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 +99 3 £553 +22.78%
UK excluding London +67 2 £380 -27.62%
Work from Home +124 1 £380 -18.93%
London +87 1 £725 +70.59%
North of England +23 1 - -
North West +22 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 £380 -
Midlands - 1 £380 -

Hadoop Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Hadoop Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Hadoop Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Hadoop
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Big Data
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Banking
2 2 (66.67%) Apache Spark
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Data Acquisition
3 1 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) DAMA
3 1 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (33.33%) Physical Data Model
3 1 (33.33%) Spark SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
3 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Scala
3 1 (33.33%) Kafka
3 1 (33.33%) Business Transformation
3 1 (33.33%) Sqoop
3 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (33.33%) HDFS
3 1 (33.33%) Impala
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) ETL

Hadoop Engineer Skill Set
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 (66.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (33.33%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Hadoop
2 2 (66.67%) Big Data
3 1 (33.33%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (33.33%) Apache Hive
3 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (33.33%) HBase
3 1 (33.33%) Impala
3 1 (33.33%) MySQL
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (33.33%) Spark SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Sqoop
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Business Transformation
2 1 (33.33%) DAMA
2 1 (33.33%) Data Acquisition
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Physical Data Model
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Scala
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) HDFS
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle