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 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 113 129
Rank change year-on-year +6 +16 +35
Contract jobs citing Hadoop 13 15 18
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.76% 0.72% 0.65%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.57% 3.42% 3.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 11 11
10th Percentile £272 £375 £513
25th Percentile £304 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £614 £550
Median % change year-on-year -34.85% +11.64% -20.29%
75th Percentile - £675 £656
90th Percentile £619 £825 £738
Central London median daily rate £400 £614 £550
% change year-on-year -34.85% +11.64% -16.03%

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 364 438 553
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 21.32% 20.92% 19.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 307 365
10th Percentile £381 £413 £400
25th Percentile £434 £488 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +2.35%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £706
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
Central London median daily rate £565 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -5.83% - +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile £22.70 - £38.95
25th Percentile £32.00 £36.75 £40.38
Median hourly rate £34.00 £38.50 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% -12.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £40.25 £48.88
90th Percentile - - £51.05
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £40.00 £44.00
% change year-on-year -15.00% -9.09% -20.00%

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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 4 November 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 6 (46.15%) Apache Spark
2 2 (15.38%) Apache
3 1 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (7.69%) Confluence
3 1 (7.69%) Luigi
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) AWS
1 6 (46.15%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (7.69%) GitHub
3 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
3 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) Apache Hive
1 5 (38.46%) MongoDB
2 4 (30.77%) DB2
2 4 (30.77%) NoSQL
3 3 (23.08%) Big Data
3 3 (23.08%) MemSQL
3 3 (23.08%) Sybase IQ
4 2 (15.38%) Data Lake
4 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (15.38%) Spark SQL
5 1 (7.69%) BigQuery
5 1 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (7.69%) Impala
5 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database
5 1 (7.69%) Pentaho
5 1 (7.69%) Power BI
5 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
5 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 2 (15.38%) Bitbucket
3 1 (7.69%) GitLab
3 1 (7.69%) JIRA
3 1 (7.69%) SonarQube
3 1 (7.69%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (53.85%) Finance
2 6 (46.15%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Banking
4 2 (15.38%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Data Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Java Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Architect
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Big Data Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Big Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Gen AI Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Hadoop Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Scala Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Big Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) PySpark
2 2 (15.38%) CSS
2 2 (15.38%) HTML
2 2 (15.38%) Kafka
3 1 (7.69%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (7.69%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Algorithms
2 3 (23.08%) Data Structures
2 3 (23.08%) Distributed Computing
2 3 (23.08%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (15.38%) Credit Risk
3 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
3 2 (15.38%) Virtual Team
4 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (7.69%) Market Risk
4 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Unix
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
1 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Agile
1 5 (38.46%) Data Modelling
1 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (30.77%) Analytics
2 4 (30.77%) Data Analytics
2 4 (30.77%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
3 3 (23.08%) Data Engineering
3 3 (23.08%) Data Science
3 3 (23.08%) ETL
3 3 (23.08%) Performance Analysis
3 3 (23.08%) Performance Engineering
3 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
4 2 (15.38%) Customer Requirements
4 2 (15.38%) Data Management
4 2 (15.38%) Mathematics
4 2 (15.38%) Scrum
4 2 (15.38%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) Python
2 7 (53.85%) SQL
3 6 (46.15%) Java
4 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
4 2 (15.38%) Scala
5 1 (7.69%) CodeQL
5 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
5 1 (7.69%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Degree
2 2 (15.38%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
3 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
3 1 (7.69%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
1 1 (7.69%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Ambari
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) Kibana
2 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
2 1 (7.69%) Puppet
2 1 (7.69%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Foundry
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle
1 2 (15.38%) Palantir
2 1 (7.69%) Confluent
2 1 (7.69%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) IBM
2 1 (7.69%) Informatica
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) StreamSets