Hadoop Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Apache Hadoop
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Hadoop skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 107 120
Rank change year-on-year -11 +13 +45
Contract jobs citing Hadoop 8 12 16
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.44% 0.58% 0.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.28% 2.80% 3.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 10
10th Percentile £295 £371 £504
25th Percentile £308 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £614 £550
Median % change year-on-year -47.07% +11.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £400 £675 £638
90th Percentile - £770 £679
Central London median daily rate £325 £614 £550
% change year-on-year -47.07% +11.64% +0.69%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
City of London

Hadoop 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 requiring database or business intelligence skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 351 428 510
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 19.24% 20.72% 20.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 278 348
10th Percentile £340 £407 £375
25th Percentile £418 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £586 £594
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% -1.30% -0.17%
75th Percentile £675 £699 £695
90th Percentile £749 £825 £800
Central London median daily rate £525 £585 £595
% change year-on-year -10.26% -1.68% +2.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £32.10 - -
25th Percentile £32.25 £36.75 -
Median hourly rate £34.00 £38.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% +1.32% -34.48%
75th Percentile £49.88 £40.25 -
90th Percentile £58.20 - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £40.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -34.48%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Hadoop relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Hadoop job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Hadoop.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Hadoop

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hadoop in the City of London over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Hadoop in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Hadoop.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Hadoop

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (12.50%) Apache
2 1 (12.50%) Confluence
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
2 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) DB2
1 4 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (37.50%) MemSQL
2 3 (37.50%) NoSQL
2 3 (37.50%) Sybase IQ
3 2 (25.00%) Apache Hive
3 2 (25.00%) Big Data
4 1 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (12.50%) Impala
4 1 (12.50%) Metadata
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database
4 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (12.50%) Power BI
4 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (12.50%) GitLab
3 1 (12.50%) JIRA
3 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
3 1 (12.50%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
1 3 (37.50%) Java Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Hadoop Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (12.50%) JSON
1 1 (12.50%) Kafka
1 1 (12.50%) PySpark
1 1 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Algorithms
1 3 (37.50%) Data Structures
1 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Performance Analysis
2 3 (37.50%) Performance Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Data Extraction
4 1 (12.50%) Data Governance
4 1 (12.50%) Data Security
4 1 (12.50%) Data Validation
4 1 (12.50%) ETL
4 1 (12.50%) Open Source
4 1 (12.50%) Predictive Modelling
4 1 (12.50%) SOA
4 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Validation
4 1 (12.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) C++
3 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
1 1 (12.50%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Ambari
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Kibana
2 1 (12.50%) Progress Chef
2 1 (12.50%) Puppet
2 1 (12.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Confluent
2 1 (12.50%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) IBM
2 1 (12.50%) Informatica
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) StreamSets