MapReduce Contracts

MapReduce
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for MapReduce skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited MapReduce over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 567 689 817
Rank change year-on-year +122 +128 -204
Contract jobs citing MapReduce 15 23 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.034% 0.038% 0.043%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.040% 0.043% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 15 22
10th Percentile £440 £478 £480
25th Percentile - £503 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +13.04% -4.64%
75th Percentile £553 £700 £650
90th Percentile £649 £718 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 - £375
% change year-on-year - - -40.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile - - £52.05
25th Percentile £49.25 - £54.75
Median hourly rate £51.50 - £60.50
75th Percentile £59.75 - £63.76
90th Percentile £67.13 - £64.97
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

MapReduce is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,651 54,096 80,844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.29% 89.91% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,333 37,469 56,726
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,430 1,787 1,945
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.66 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.34 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.65 £37.30 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.42% +86.50% -8.09%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for MapReduce in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for MapReduce in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MapReduce over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MapReduce in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MapReduce.

Hourly rate trend for MapReduce in the UK

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing MapReduce over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for MapReduce in the UK

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Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MapReduce within the UK over the 6 months to 24 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 +116 14 £500 -24.53% 4
London +96 12 £500 -24.53% 3
UK excluding London +56 2 £493 - 1
Work from Home +113 1 £675 +12.50% 1
South East +12 1 £535 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £450 -
Midlands - 1 £450 -

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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 8 (53.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) Azure
1 2 (13.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 2 (13.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (6.67%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (66.67%) Big Data
2 9 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (53.33%) Hadoop
4 7 (46.67%) Apache Hive
5 5 (33.33%) HBase
6 2 (13.33%) Apache Zeppelin
6 2 (13.33%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (13.33%) Data Lake
6 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Git
1 5 (33.33%) JIRA
1 5 (33.33%) Maven
1 5 (33.33%) Subversion
1 5 (33.33%) TeamCity
General
1 14 (93.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Data Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Architect
3 2 (13.33%) ETL Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Programmer
4 1 (6.67%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Hadoop Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Scala Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (46.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Algorithms
2 2 (13.33%) Social Media
3 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) ETL
2 7 (46.67%) Agile
2 7 (46.67%) Computer Science
2 7 (46.67%) Data Extraction
2 7 (46.67%) Data Modelling
2 7 (46.67%) Machine Learning
2 7 (46.67%) Mathematics
3 6 (40.00%) User Experience
4 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 5 (33.33%) Design Patterns
4 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (33.33%) Unit Testing
5 4 (26.67%) Analytics
6 2 (13.33%) Data Analysis
6 2 (13.33%) Data Analytics
6 2 (13.33%) Data Migration
6 2 (13.33%) High Availability
6 2 (13.33%) Kanban
6 2 (13.33%) Open Source
6 2 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 13 (86.67%) Java
2 9 (60.00%) SQL
3 8 (53.33%) Python
4 7 (46.67%) Scala
5 5 (33.33%) Shell Script
6 2 (13.33%) R
6 2 (13.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (46.67%) Data Quality
1 7 (46.67%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Databricks