Hadoop Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Apache Hadoop
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Hadoop skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 72 73
Rank change year-on-year +6 +1 +7
Contract jobs citing Hadoop 6 8 5
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.90% 1.09% 0.58%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.61% 5.71% 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 4
10th Percentile £321 £325 -
25th Percentile £375 £352 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £380 £500
Median % change year-on-year +31.75% -24.10% +14.29%
75th Percentile £525 £397 £513
90th Percentile - £399 -
Scotland median daily rate £500 £380 £500
% change year-on-year +31.75% -24.10% -13.04%

All Database & BI Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 166 140 164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 25.00% 19.10% 19.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 92 119
10th Percentile £313 £338 £323
25th Percentile £380 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £431 £465
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -7.26% -8.60%
75th Percentile £525 £491 £581
90th Percentile £575 £580 £675
Scotland median daily rate £464 £470 £500
% change year-on-year -1.33% -6.00% +2.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 £19.59 -
Median % change year-on-year +155.23% - -
Scotland median hourly rate £30.75 £23.05 £20.57
% change year-on-year +33.43% +12.03% -2.05%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Hadoop job vacancy trend in Glasgow

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Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Hadoop.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Hadoop

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Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hadoop in Glasgow over the 6 months to 22 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Hadoop in Glasgow

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 6 (100.00%) Apache Spark
2 5 (83.33%) Apache
2 5 (83.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Power Platform
1 5 (83.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Big Data
1 5 (83.33%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (83.33%) Power BI
2 1 (16.67%) HBase
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Git
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Data Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Python Data Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Python Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) REST
2 3 (50.00%) RESTful
3 1 (16.67%) Kafka
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
1 5 (83.33%) Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Data Integration
1 5 (83.33%) Data Modelling
1 5 (83.33%) ETL
1 5 (83.33%) Performance Tuning
1 5 (83.33%) Visualisation
2 4 (66.67%) API Integration
2 4 (66.67%) Sprint Planning
3 3 (50.00%) Clean Code
3 3 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (50.00%) Sprint Review
4 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (33.33%) Data Flow Diagram
4 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
5 1 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (16.67%) Prompt Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
1 1 (16.67%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Databricks
2 4 (66.67%) ServiceNow