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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 45 56
Rank change year-on-year -42 +11 +19
Contract jobs citing Hadoop 1 13 13
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.089% 2.26% 1.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.61% 16.05% 10.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 11
10th Percentile - £305 £356
25th Percentile - £355 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £304 £405 £380
Median % change year-on-year -24.94% +6.58% -5.00%
75th Percentile - £473 £456
90th Percentile - £559 £500
England median daily rate £544 £600 £507
% change year-on-year -9.38% +18.34% -11.83%

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 164 81 122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 14.67% 14.06% 15.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 57 86
10th Percentile £357 £312 £288
25th Percentile £393 £358 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £429 £400
Median % change year-on-year +7.81% +7.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £539 £500 £473
90th Percentile £600 £537 £544
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 4 10
10th Percentile £12.95 £18.29 £13.26
25th Percentile £13.51 £18.43 -
Median hourly rate £23.71 £21.00 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.89% +50.00% -40.17%
75th Percentile £74.00 £26.99 £21.30
90th Percentile £78.53 £34.17 £35.12
England median hourly rate £42.50 £32.05 £40.00
% change year-on-year +32.61% -19.88% -31.09%

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 May 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 -20 1 £304 -24.00%
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 1 (100.00%) Apache Pig
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) HBase
1 1 (100.00%) Sqoop
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) MapReduce
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Flume
1 1 (100.00%) HDFS