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 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 101 104
Rank change year-on-year -32 +3 +42
Contract jobs citing Hadoop 4 26 17
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.17% 1.39% 0.82%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.00% 6.02% 3.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 15 16
10th Percentile £722 £342 -
25th Percentile £732 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £525 £650
Median % change year-on-year +47.62% -19.23% -10.34%
75th Percentile £853 £680 £763
90th Percentile £926 £763 £800
Central London median daily rate £775 £525 £650
% change year-on-year +47.62% -19.23% -10.34%

All Database & BI 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 400 432 468
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 16.73% 23.13% 22.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 287 325
10th Percentile £354 £404 £400
25th Percentile £463 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.13% -2.50% -1.48%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £725
90th Percentile £763 £780 £795
Central London median daily rate £560 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -2.61% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 0
10th Percentile £21.61 £24.25 -
25th Percentile £25.14 £32.66 -
Median hourly rate £32.07 £48.58 -
Median % change year-on-year -33.99% - -
75th Percentile £46.41 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £54.40 £81.88 -
Central London median hourly rate £32.07 £34.65 -
% change year-on-year -7.46% - -

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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 28 July 2026.

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 4 (100.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (25.00%) Apache
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) dbt
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Big Data
1 3 (75.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (25.00%) Metadata
3 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Big Data Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Hadoop Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Big Data Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Hadoop Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Data Science Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) PySpark
1 1 (25.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (25.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (25.00%) TensorFlow
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Analytics
1 3 (75.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Predictive Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Resource Management
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Statistical Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Informatica