Hadoop Contracts in England

Apache Hadoop
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Hadoop skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Hadoop over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 316 422 395
Rank change year-on-year +106 -27 -32
Contract jobs citing Hadoop 159 119 263
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.66% 0.32% 0.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.50% 1.90% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 91 185
10th Percentile £386 £350 £463
25th Percentile £491 £388 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £507 £575
Median % change year-on-year +18.34% -11.83% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £630 £688
90th Percentile £725 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £600 £507 £575
% change year-on-year +18.34% -11.83% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 12
10th Percentile £58.50 - -
25th Percentile £61.86 £41.25 £78.00
Median hourly rate £68.10 £45.00 £84.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.33% -46.43% +39.42%
75th Percentile £73.71 £48.75 £90.00
90th Percentile £76.71 £60.75 -
UK median hourly rate £68.10 £45.00 £84.00
% change year-on-year +51.33% -46.43% +39.42%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 4,544 6,267 8,433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.98% 17.07% 17.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,156 4,535 6,056
10th Percentile £363 £350 £375
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £546
% change year-on-year -0.95% -3.85% -0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 138 155
10th Percentile £19.20 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £22.99 £20.77 £32.00
Median hourly rate £31.85 £40.00 £58.59
Median % change year-on-year -20.39% -31.73% +33.31%
75th Percentile £61.19 £56.88 £73.75
90th Percentile £70.63 £73.25 £84.20
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £58.59
% change year-on-year -17.60% -31.73% +30.20%

Hadoop
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Hadoop as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Hadoop in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Hadoop in England.

Daily rate trend for Hadoop in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hadoop in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Hadoop in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Hadoop in England.

Hourly rate trend for Hadoop in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Hadoop in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Hadoop in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Hadoop within the England region over the 6 months to 29 May 2025. 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
London +62 75 £600 +6.67% 55
North of England +14 24 £600 +18.34% 54
North West +15 19 £625 +16.82% 25
East of England +48 18 £650 +85.71% 36
Midlands +11 15 £405 -1.82% 50
East Midlands +7 13 £405 +6.58% 18
South East +45 9 £454 -4.42% 99
South West +46 6 £650 +3.17% 33
Yorkshire +5 5 £600 +18.34% 23
West Midlands +14 2 - - 29
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 111 (69.81%) Apache Spark
2 36 (22.64%) Apache
3 8 (5.03%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (5.03%) Confluence
4 6 (3.77%) nginx
5 5 (3.14%) SAS
6 2 (1.26%) CICS
6 2 (1.26%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.63%) Luigi
7 1 (0.63%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.26%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 68 (42.77%) AWS
2 45 (28.30%) Azure
3 28 (17.61%) GCP
4 13 (8.18%) Power Platform
5 12 (7.55%) Amazon S3
6 10 (6.29%) Serverless
7 8 (5.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 7 (4.40%) Snowflake
9 6 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (2.52%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.89%) Amazon Neptune
11 3 (1.89%) AWS Data Pipeline
11 3 (1.89%) dbt
11 3 (1.89%) OpenShift
12 2 (1.26%) Azure AKS
12 2 (1.26%) Azure API Management
12 2 (1.26%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (1.26%) GitHub
12 2 (1.26%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.77%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.52%) Firewall
3 3 (1.89%) DNS
3 3 (1.89%) HTTP
3 3 (1.89%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (1.26%) DHCP
4 2 (1.26%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (1.26%) Kerberos
4 2 (1.26%) VPN
5 1 (0.63%) Internet
5 1 (0.63%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (62.89%) Big Data
2 29 (18.24%) Data Warehouse
2 29 (18.24%) Tableau
3 26 (16.35%) Apache Hive
4 22 (13.84%) Elasticsearch
4 22 (13.84%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (12.58%) Data Lake
6 14 (8.81%) Relational Database
7 13 (8.18%) Power BI
8 12 (7.55%) MongoDB
8 12 (7.55%) NoSQL
9 9 (5.66%) DB2
9 9 (5.66%) Impala
9 9 (5.66%) MySQL
9 9 (5.66%) SQL Server
10 7 (4.40%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (4.40%) Parquet
11 6 (3.77%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (3.77%) BigQuery
12 5 (3.14%) HBase
Development Applications
1 19 (11.95%) Git
2 16 (10.06%) Jenkins
3 10 (6.29%) JIRA
4 4 (2.52%) ERwin
5 3 (1.89%) GitLab
5 3 (1.89%) Poetry
6 2 (1.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.26%) Selenium
6 2 (1.26%) SOAtest
7 1 (0.63%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.63%) IBM UrbanCode
7 1 (0.63%) JUnit
7 1 (0.63%) MLflow
7 1 (0.63%) ScalaTest
7 1 (0.63%) WebDriver
General
1 51 (32.08%) Finance
2 49 (30.82%) Analytical Skills
3 38 (23.90%) Social Skills
4 32 (20.13%) Banking
5 7 (4.40%) Financial Institution
6 6 (3.77%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.14%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.26%) General Ledger
9 2 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.26%) Retail
9 2 (1.26%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.63%) Advertising
10 1 (0.63%) Automotive
10 1 (0.63%) Front Office
10 1 (0.63%) International Banking
10 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.63%) Marketing
10 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (25.79%) Developer
2 27 (16.98%) Data Engineer
3 22 (13.84%) Senior
4 19 (11.95%) Architect
5 13 (8.18%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 12 (7.55%) Data Science Developer
6 12 (7.55%) Data Scientist
6 12 (7.55%) Java Developer
7 11 (6.92%) Lead
7 11 (6.92%) Senior Developer
8 9 (5.66%) Data Architect
9 8 (5.03%) Apache Spark Developer
10 7 (4.40%) DevOps Engineer
10 7 (4.40%) Senior Data Engineer
11 5 (3.14%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
11 5 (3.14%) Big Data Engineer
11 5 (3.14%) Hadoop Engineer
11 5 (3.14%) Scala Developer
12 4 (2.52%) Big Data Developer
12 4 (2.52%) Gen AI Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (16.98%) Kafka
2 24 (15.09%) TensorFlow
3 20 (12.58%) scikit-learn
4 18 (11.32%) PySpark
5 17 (10.69%) PyTorch
6 16 (10.06%) Pandas
7 15 (9.43%) NumPy
8 14 (8.81%) OpenTelemetry
9 13 (8.18%) Matplotlib
9 13 (8.18%) Seaborn
10 10 (6.29%) React
11 9 (5.66%) Apache NiFi
11 9 (5.66%) Spark Streaming
12 7 (4.40%) JSON
12 7 (4.40%) Web Services
13 6 (3.77%) RabbitMQ
14 5 (3.14%) Spring
15 4 (2.52%) AngularJS
15 4 (2.52%) Elastic Stack
15 4 (2.52%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 27 (16.98%) Algorithms
2 20 (12.58%) Distributed Computing
3 10 (6.29%) Market Risk
4 8 (5.03%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (3.77%) Credit Risk
5 6 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.89%) Derivative
6 3 (1.89%) Life Science
7 2 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.26%) Equities
7 2 (1.26%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.26%) IoT
7 2 (1.26%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.26%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.26%) Mobile Payment
7 2 (1.26%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.26%) PKI
7 2 (1.26%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.26%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 32 (20.13%) Linux
2 17 (10.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (5.66%) Unix
4 3 (1.89%) Windows
5 2 (1.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (33.96%) Analytics
2 53 (33.33%) Data Science
3 46 (28.93%) ETL
4 43 (27.04%) CI/CD
5 42 (26.42%) Machine Learning
6 39 (24.53%) Data Pipeline
7 36 (22.64%) Agile
8 34 (21.38%) Visualisation
9 33 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
10 28 (17.61%) Migration
11 27 (16.98%) Artificial Intelligence
12 26 (16.35%) Computer Science
13 25 (15.72%) Data Analysis
14 24 (15.09%) Data Engineering
14 24 (15.09%) Data Modelling
14 24 (15.09%) DevOps
15 22 (13.84%) LLM
16 21 (13.21%) Decision-Making
17 19 (11.95%) Containerisation
17 19 (11.95%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 91 (57.23%) Python
2 62 (38.99%) SQL
3 31 (19.50%) Java
4 22 (13.84%) R
5 20 (12.58%) Scala
6 10 (6.29%) TypeScript
7 9 (5.66%) JavaScript
8 5 (3.14%) C#
8 5 (3.14%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.52%) Bash
9 4 (2.52%) Perl
10 3 (1.89%) MATLAB
11 2 (1.26%) Bicep
11 2 (1.26%) COBOL
11 2 (1.26%) JCL
11 2 (1.26%) REXX
11 2 (1.26%) VB
12 1 (0.63%) C
12 1 (0.63%) C++
12 1 (0.63%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (19.50%) Degree
2 22 (13.84%) PhD
3 20 (12.58%) Master's Degree
3 20 (12.58%) Security Cleared
4 13 (8.18%) DV Cleared
5 11 (6.92%) SC Cleared
6 9 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.63%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.63%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (18.24%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.66%) QA
3 3 (1.89%) GDPR
4 2 (1.26%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.26%) Government Security Classifications
4 2 (1.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.63%) PMO
System Software
1 17 (10.69%) Docker
2 3 (1.89%) HDFS
3 2 (1.26%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.63%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.63%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 35 (22.01%) Kubernetes
2 34 (21.38%) Terraform
3 22 (13.84%) Ansible
4 18 (11.32%) Grafana
5 15 (9.43%) Argo
6 4 (2.52%) Kibana
6 4 (2.52%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.26%) Apache Ranger
7 2 (1.26%) HAProxy
7 2 (1.26%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.63%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.63%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.63%) logstash
8 1 (0.63%) Puppet
8 1 (0.63%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 16 (10.06%) Cloudera
2 12 (7.55%) Databricks
3 11 (6.92%) Oracle
4 10 (6.29%) Informatica
5 8 (5.03%) Google
6 7 (4.40%) Microsoft
7 4 (2.52%) Foundry
7 4 (2.52%) Palantir
7 4 (2.52%) Splunk
7 4 (2.52%) Sybase
8 3 (1.89%) IBM
9 2 (1.26%) Ab Initio
9 2 (1.26%) Cisco
9 2 (1.26%) Parasoft
9 2 (1.26%) SAP
9 2 (1.26%) VMware
10 1 (0.63%) Hitachi
10 1 (0.63%) Imperva
10 1 (0.63%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.63%) Teradata