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 8 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 108 114
Rank change year-on-year -17 +6 +55
Contract jobs citing Hadoop 6 10 13
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.30% 0.55% 0.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.65% 2.62% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 12
10th Percentile £348 £425 -
25th Percentile £400 £491 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £730 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year +35.81% -0.46% -4.00%
75th Percentile £813 £651 £719
90th Percentile - £710 £760
Central London median daily rate £730 £538 £540
% change year-on-year +35.81% -0.46% -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 364 381 494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.93% 20.88% 20.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 250 336
10th Percentile £338 £405 £406
25th Percentile £413 £465 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £595
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -3.36% -0.83%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £713
90th Percentile £744 £752 £813
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% -2.08%
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 8 March 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 (66.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (16.67%) Apache
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 1 (16.67%) dbt
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Big Data
2 3 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (50.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (33.33%) Data Lake
3 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (33.33%) DB2
3 2 (33.33%) Metadata
4 1 (16.67%) Apache Hive
4 1 (16.67%) MemSQL
4 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (16.67%) Power BI
4 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
4 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
4 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
4 1 (16.67%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Big Data Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Hadoop Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
1 2 (33.33%) Senior Big Data Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Senior Hadoop Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Data Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) JSON
2 1 (16.67%) PySpark
2 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
1 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Analytics
1 3 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (33.33%) ETL
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Validation
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Agile Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Data Extraction
3 1 (16.67%) Data Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Data Security
3 1 (16.67%) Data Validation
3 1 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Resource Management
3 1 (16.67%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) C++
3 1 (16.67%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Informatica
2 1 (16.67%) Confluent
2 1 (16.67%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) IBM
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) StreamSets