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 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 37 56
Rank change year-on-year -43 +19 +27
Contract jobs citing Hadoop 4 14 6
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.38% 2.70% 0.78%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.37% 19.72% 5.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 6
10th Percentile £333 £282 £390
25th Percentile £378 £293 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £414 £368 £438
Median % change year-on-year +12.36% -15.89% +9.38%
75th Percentile £436 £415 £497
90th Percentile £437 £535 £538
England median daily rate £500 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -8.70%

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 169 71 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 16.08% 13.68% 13.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 45 72
10th Percentile £340 £287 £290
25th Percentile £389 £356 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £410 £425
Median % change year-on-year +9.76% -3.53% -
75th Percentile £525 £500 £526
90th Percentile £588 £545 £730
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 11
10th Percentile £12.95 £18.26 -
25th Percentile £16.89 £18.35 -
Median hourly rate £67.00 £19.00 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +252.63% +35.71% -47.13%
75th Percentile £74.00 £21.25 £22.73
90th Percentile £79.88 £22.30 £33.25
England median hourly rate £50.50 £32.96 £40.00
% change year-on-year +53.22% -17.60% -32.54%

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 23 April 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 -29 4 £414 +12.36%
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 (100.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Pig
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Apache Hive
1 3 (75.00%) Big Data
1 3 (75.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (50.00%) Sqoop
3 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (25.00%) HBase
3 1 (25.00%) Metadata
3 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
General
1 3 (75.00%) Banking
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Ab Initio Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Data Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Hadoop Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Scala Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) ETL
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Data Governance
2 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Complex ETL
3 2 (50.00%) Data Transformation
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (50.00%) Validation
4 1 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
4 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (25.00%) Data Validation
4 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
4 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Project Planning
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) Scala
3 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Flume
1 1 (25.00%) HDFS
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Ab Initio
2 1 (25.00%) Informatica
2 1 (25.00%) Teradata