MapReduce Contracts in England

MapReduce
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring MapReduce skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MapReduce over the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 499 525 612
Rank change year-on-year +26 +87 +143
Contract jobs citing MapReduce 4 9 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.014% 0.027% 0.026%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.016% 0.031% 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 5
10th Percentile £406 £433 £448
25th Percentile £406 £481 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -30.83% +20.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £426 £706 £539
90th Percentile £429 £748 £646
UK median daily rate £415 £600 £526
% change year-on-year -30.83% +14.07% -15.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £43.15 - -
25th Percentile £44.50 £49.25 -
Median hourly rate £48.00 £50.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% - -
75th Percentile £51.50 £51.75 -
90th Percentile £52.85 - -
UK median hourly rate £48.00 £50.50 -
% change year-on-year -4.95% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

MapReduce falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 25,047 28,779 40,735
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.70% 85.90% 89.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,036 18,796 28,423
10th Percentile £300 £313 £325
25th Percentile £405 £420 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £650 £666
90th Percentile £738 £758 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,394 1,684 1,404
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.05 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £18.15 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% - +63.46%
75th Percentile £50.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.11 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.41 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.77% -4.91% +61.02%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for MapReduce in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for MapReduce in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for MapReduce 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 MapReduce within the England region over the 6 months to 5 August 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 -4 2 - - 6
East Midlands -6 2 £415 -7.78%
Midlands -8 2 £415 -7.78%
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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 2 (50.00%) Apache
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Hive
1 2 (50.00%) Big Data
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (50.00%) HBase
1 2 (50.00%) Metadata
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Hadoop Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Data Extraction
1 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (50.00%) Data Science
1 2 (50.00%) ETL
1 2 (50.00%) Mathematics
1 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (50.00%) Metadata Management
1 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
1 2 (50.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) Scala
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Hadoop YARN
1 2 (50.00%) Oozie