Apache Hive Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Apache Hive
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Apache Hive skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 130 141
Rank change year-on-year -18 +11 +53
Contract jobs citing Apache Hive 13 6 1
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.45% 0.23% 0.036%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.41% 1.41% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 1
10th Percentile £409 - -
25th Percentile £410 £477 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £484 £425
Median % change year-on-year -11.07% +13.76% -19.81%
75th Percentile £511 £514 £438
90th Percentile £511 £558 -
England median daily rate £450 £500 £518
% change year-on-year -10.00% -3.38% -4.17%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Midlands

Apache Hive 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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 539 427 413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 18.52% 16.11% 15.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 378 274 288
10th Percentile £350 £325 £311
25th Percentile £410 £377 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £476 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.04% +0.21% -5.00%
75th Percentile £560 £586 £575
90th Percentile £639 £675 £688
England median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 4
10th Percentile £31.15 £23.79 £11.39
25th Percentile £33.88 £27.59 £11.67
Median hourly rate £34.98 £33.93 £17.05
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% +98.97% -33.13%
75th Percentile £36.00 £34.47 £25.56
90th Percentile £37.78 £34.79 £28.85
England median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £47.70
% change year-on-year +24.29% -26.62% -4.61%

Apache Hive
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Apache Hive relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Apache Hive job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Apache Hive
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Apache Hive.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Apache Hive

Apache Hive
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Apache Hive.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Apache Hive

Apache Hive
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Apache Hive within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 November 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
West Midlands -20 8 £507 +4.86%
East Midlands -9 5 £420 - 2
Apache Hive
England

Apache Hive
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the 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 9 (69.23%) Apache Spark
2 7 (53.85%) Apache
2 7 (53.85%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (23.08%) Apache Pig
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) Power Platform
2 2 (15.38%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) Azure
3 1 (7.69%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (100.00%) Hadoop
2 7 (53.85%) HBase
3 5 (38.46%) Big Data
4 4 (30.77%) Data Mining
4 4 (30.77%) Metadata
4 4 (30.77%) Power BI
5 3 (23.08%) NoSQL
6 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Git
General
1 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Banking
2 3 (23.08%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Data Scientist
2 4 (30.77%) Hadoop Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Hadoop Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Scala Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Ab Initio Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) Spark Streaming
2 3 (23.08%) Kafka
3 1 (7.69%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Algorithms
2 3 (23.08%) Data Centre
2 3 (23.08%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) CI/CD
2 7 (53.85%) Data Engineering
2 7 (53.85%) Data Pipeline
2 7 (53.85%) Data Science
3 6 (46.15%) Data Governance
4 5 (38.46%) Analytics
4 5 (38.46%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (30.77%) Data Analytics
5 4 (30.77%) Data Collection
5 4 (30.77%) Data Munging
5 4 (30.77%) Linear Algebra
5 4 (30.77%) Machine Learning
5 4 (30.77%) Mentoring
5 4 (30.77%) Naive Bayes
5 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (30.77%) Statistics
5 4 (30.77%) Support Vector Machines
5 4 (30.77%) Use Case
5 4 (30.77%) Visualisation
6 3 (23.08%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) Python
2 7 (53.85%) Scala
3 6 (46.15%) SQL
4 5 (38.46%) Shell Script
5 4 (30.77%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 7 (53.85%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 7 (53.85%) Hadoop YARN
2 3 (23.08%) Ansible
2 3 (23.08%) Oozie
2 3 (23.08%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Splunk
2 2 (15.38%) Ab Initio
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft