Hadoop Contracts in London

Apache Hadoop
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 266 328 302
Rank change year-on-year +62 -26 +16
Contract jobs citing Hadoop 75 68 180
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.62% 0.39% 0.71%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.82% 1.75% 3.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 50 126
10th Percentile £425 £300 £484
25th Percentile £513 £383 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -2.17% -9.80%
75th Percentile £700 £734 £688
90th Percentile £763 £777 £750
England median daily rate £600 £507 £575
% change year-on-year +18.34% -11.83% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.25 £41.25 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £43.75 £90.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.43% -51.39% +48.76%
75th Percentile £58.75 £47.81 -
90th Percentile - £48.38 -
England 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
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,664 3,891 5,217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 21.98% 22.27% 20.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,863 2,899 3,820
10th Percentile £385 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -2.61% -0.86%
75th Percentile £713 £700 £700
90th Percentile £825 £838 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 34 53
10th Percentile £22.27 £20.98 £21.24
25th Percentile £25.34 £25.31 £22.90
Median hourly rate £34.83 £49.25 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.29% -6.19% -
75th Percentile £53.75 £54.78 £82.50
90th Percentile £68.50 £70.85 £90.00
England median hourly rate £31.85 £40.00 £58.59
% change year-on-year -20.39% -31.73% +33.31%

Hadoop
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Hadoop in London

Hadoop
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Hadoop in London

Hadoop
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Hadoop in London

Hadoop
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Hadoop in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Hadoop within the London 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
Central London +14 18 £564 -14.87% 2
West London +13 2 £750 - 6
Hadoop
England

Hadoop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 58 (77.33%) Apache Spark
2 23 (30.67%) Apache
3 8 (10.67%) Confluence
4 6 (8.00%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (5.33%) nginx
6 1 (1.33%) Luigi
6 1 (1.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 27 (36.00%) AWS
2 19 (25.33%) Azure
3 12 (16.00%) GCP
4 10 (13.33%) Amazon S3
4 10 (13.33%) Power Platform
4 10 (13.33%) Serverless
5 6 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (5.33%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (5.33%) Snowflake
7 3 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (4.00%) Amazon Neptune
7 3 (4.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
8 2 (2.67%) Azure AKS
8 2 (2.67%) Azure API Management
8 2 (2.67%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.67%) Azure Functions
8 2 (2.67%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (2.67%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.67%) TCP/IP
2 3 (4.00%) Firewall
2 3 (4.00%) HTTP
2 3 (4.00%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (2.67%) DHCP
3 2 (2.67%) DNS
3 2 (2.67%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (2.67%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (56.00%) Big Data
2 14 (18.67%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (17.33%) Apache Hive
4 11 (14.67%) Tableau
5 10 (13.33%) Power BI
6 9 (12.00%) NoSQL
6 9 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (12.00%) Relational Database
7 8 (10.67%) Data Lake
7 8 (10.67%) MongoDB
8 7 (9.33%) SQL Server
9 6 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (8.00%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (8.00%) DB2
9 6 (8.00%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (5.33%) BigQuery
10 4 (5.33%) MySQL
10 4 (5.33%) Parquet
11 3 (4.00%) DynamoDB
11 3 (4.00%) Presto
Development Applications
1 12 (16.00%) Git
2 10 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 10 (13.33%) JIRA
3 3 (4.00%) ERwin
3 3 (4.00%) GitLab
3 3 (4.00%) Poetry
4 1 (1.33%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.33%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (1.33%) JUnit
4 1 (1.33%) MLflow
4 1 (1.33%) ScalaTest
4 1 (1.33%) WebDriver
General
1 38 (50.67%) Finance
2 22 (29.33%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (21.33%) Banking
4 15 (20.00%) Social Skills
5 7 (9.33%) Financial Institution
6 3 (4.00%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.67%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (22.67%) Developer
2 14 (18.67%) Data Engineer
3 12 (16.00%) Java Developer
4 9 (12.00%) Architect
5 8 (10.67%) Apache Spark Developer
5 8 (10.67%) Lead
5 8 (10.67%) Senior
6 7 (9.33%) Data Scientist
7 4 (5.33%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) Gen AI Specialist
7 4 (5.33%) Hadoop Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) Senior Data Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) AWS DevOps
8 3 (4.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Data Science Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Python Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (16.00%) Kafka
2 10 (13.33%) React
2 10 (13.33%) TensorFlow
3 9 (12.00%) Spark Streaming
4 7 (9.33%) PySpark
5 6 (8.00%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (6.67%) scikit-learn
6 5 (6.67%) Spring
6 5 (6.67%) Web Services
7 4 (5.33%) AngularJS
7 4 (5.33%) Apache NiFi
7 4 (5.33%) PyTorch
7 4 (5.33%) RESTful
8 3 (4.00%) Dask
8 3 (4.00%) LAPP Stack
9 2 (2.67%) .NET Framework
9 2 (2.67%) ARM Templates
9 2 (2.67%) JSON
9 2 (2.67%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (2.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 14 (18.67%) Distributed Computing
2 9 (12.00%) Market Risk
3 8 (10.67%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (9.33%) Algorithms
5 5 (6.67%) Credit Risk
6 4 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (4.00%) Derivative
8 2 (2.67%) Equities
8 2 (2.67%) Fixed Income
8 2 (2.67%) PKI
8 2 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.33%) Cloud Native
9 1 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.33%) Data Structures
9 1 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.33%) IoT
9 1 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.33%) Public Cloud
9 1 (1.33%) Reference Data
9 1 (1.33%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 14 (18.67%) Linux
2 5 (6.67%) Unix
3 4 (5.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.67%) Windows
4 2 (2.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (37.33%) Data Science
2 25 (33.33%) Analytics
3 22 (29.33%) Agile
3 22 (29.33%) CI/CD
3 22 (29.33%) Data Pipeline
4 19 (25.33%) DevOps
4 19 (25.33%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (24.00%) Mathematics
6 17 (22.67%) ETL
6 17 (22.67%) Machine Learning
7 15 (20.00%) Risk Management
8 13 (17.33%) Data Modelling
9 12 (16.00%) Computer Science
9 12 (16.00%) Data Architecture
10 11 (14.67%) Artificial Intelligence
10 11 (14.67%) Business Intelligence
10 11 (14.67%) Data Governance
10 11 (14.67%) Visualisation
11 10 (13.33%) Migration
11 10 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 56 (74.67%) Python
2 38 (50.67%) SQL
3 19 (25.33%) Java
4 14 (18.67%) Scala
5 10 (13.33%) TypeScript
6 9 (12.00%) JavaScript
7 7 (9.33%) R
8 5 (6.67%) C#
9 4 (5.33%) Perl
9 4 (5.33%) Shell Script
10 3 (4.00%) Bash
11 2 (2.67%) Bicep
11 2 (2.67%) VB
12 1 (1.33%) C
12 1 (1.33%) C++
12 1 (1.33%) MATLAB
12 1 (1.33%) Rust
12 1 (1.33%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 14 (18.67%) Degree
2 9 (12.00%) PhD
3 8 (10.67%) Master's Degree
4 7 (9.33%) SC Cleared
4 7 (9.33%) Security Cleared
5 6 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (5.33%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.33%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.33%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.00%) QA
3 2 (2.67%) Government Security Classifications
3 2 (2.67%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.33%) GDPR
4 1 (1.33%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (12.00%) Docker
2 2 (2.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.33%) HDFS
3 1 (1.33%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 15 (20.00%) Terraform
2 13 (17.33%) Kubernetes
3 6 (8.00%) Ansible
4 3 (4.00%) Argo
4 3 (4.00%) Grafana
5 2 (2.67%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (1.33%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (1.33%) Kubeflow
6 1 (1.33%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.33%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 7 (9.33%) Cloudera
1 7 (9.33%) Microsoft
1 7 (9.33%) Oracle
2 6 (8.00%) Databricks
3 4 (5.33%) Foundry
3 4 (5.33%) Informatica
3 4 (5.33%) Palantir
3 4 (5.33%) Sybase
4 2 (2.67%) Cisco
4 2 (2.67%) Google
4 2 (2.67%) VMware
5 1 (1.33%) IBM
5 1 (1.33%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.33%) Teradata