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 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 111 116
Rank change year-on-year -10 +5 +55
Contract jobs citing Hadoop 4 10 12
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.20% 0.54% 0.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.16% 2.66% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 8
10th Percentile £330 £397 £486
25th Percentile £356 £425 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 £595
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% -7.56% +5.78%
75th Percentile £573 £664 £719
90th Percentile £676 £717 £745
Central London median daily rate £400 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -27.27% +1.85% -10.00%

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 344 376 499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.62% 20.46% 20.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 245 341
10th Percentile £341 £406 £413
25th Percentile £413 £465 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £638 £688 £713
90th Percentile £738 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55.81 £36.75 £46.75
Median hourly rate £57.77 £38.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.04% -20.62% -42.32%
75th Percentile £59.72 £40.25 £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £57.77 £38.50 £48.50
% change year-on-year +50.04% -20.62% -42.32%

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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 22 February 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 2 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Big Data
1 2 (50.00%) DB2
1 2 (50.00%) Metadata
1 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Hive
2 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) MemSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) PySpark
1 1 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Agile Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Change Data Capture
2 1 (25.00%) Coaching
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (25.00%) Metadata Management
2 1 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Predictive Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) C++
3 1 (25.00%) R
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
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Confluent
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks
1 1 (25.00%) IBM
1 1 (25.00%) Informatica
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) StreamSets