Hadoop Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Apache Hadoop
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Hadoop skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 49 -
Rank change year-on-year -27 - -
Contract jobs citing Hadoop 6 7 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.64% 1.25% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.77% 7.53% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 0
10th Percentile £404 £286 -
25th Percentile £408 £290 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £304 -
Median % change year-on-year +38.98% - -
75th Percentile £436 £336 -
90th Percentile £437 £375 -
England median daily rate £475 £613 £540
% change year-on-year -22.45% +13.43% -4.85%

All Database & BI Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 104 93 104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 11.02% 16.55% 13.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 55 70
10th Percentile £330 £319 £321
25th Percentile £388 £356 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -15.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £465 £538 £550
90th Percentile £553 £595 £703
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 10
10th Percentile - - £10.74
25th Percentile £12.95 £21.25 £12.37
Median hourly rate £13.54 £22.50 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.82% +60.71% -67.62%
75th Percentile £24.56 £23.75 -
90th Percentile £43.37 - £24.68
England median hourly rate £44.25 £36.56 £42.50
% change year-on-year +21.05% -13.99% -25.26%

Hadoop
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Hadoop job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Hadoop
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Hadoop.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Hadoop

Hadoop
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Hadoop within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Northamptonshire -26 4 £423 +38.98%
Leicestershire - 2 - - 1
Hadoop
England

Hadoop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Big Data
2 3 (50.00%) Apache Hive
2 3 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (33.33%) Data Mining
3 2 (33.33%) Metadata
3 2 (33.33%) Power BI
4 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
4 1 (16.67%) HBase
4 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
4 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
4 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
4 1 (16.67%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 5 (83.33%) Banking
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Ab Initio Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Data Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Hadoop Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Scala Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Data Modelling
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 3 (50.00%) ETL
2 3 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (33.33%) Complex ETL
3 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Data Transformation
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Exploratory Data Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (33.33%) Validation
3 2 (33.33%) Visualisation
4 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) R
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) Scala
3 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Hadoop YARN
1 1 (16.67%) Oozie
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Ab Initio
2 1 (16.67%) Informatica
2 1 (16.67%) Teradata