Hadoop Contracts in the Midlands

Apache Hadoop
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 21 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 113 136
Rank change year-on-year -11 +23 +25
Contract jobs citing Hadoop 18 21 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.75% 0.74% 0.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.68% 4.88% 3.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 18 17
10th Percentile £315 £355 £400
25th Percentile £364 £358 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £406 £540
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -24.77% +1.89%
75th Percentile £457 £538 -
90th Percentile £488 £586 £552
England median daily rate £550 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +5.77% -5.45% -8.33%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 385 430 516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 16.05% 15.24% 16.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 307 349
10th Percentile £292 £309 £300
25th Percentile £380 £356 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% -15.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £531 £550 £575
90th Percentile £613 £650 £689
England median daily rate £520 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -1.89% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 4
10th Percentile £17.62 - £20.54
25th Percentile £18.50 £14.00 £22.77
Median hourly rate £23.00 £20.87 £24.63
Median % change year-on-year +10.23% -15.27% -29.64%
75th Percentile £33.88 £35.57 £28.18
90th Percentile £35.78 £43.92 £32.32
England median hourly rate £34.65 £40.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -13.38% -27.27% +29.41%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Hadoop in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Hadoop in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hadoop in the Midlands over the 6 months to 21 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Hadoop in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Hadoop in the Midlands

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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 Hadoop within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 July 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
East Midlands -2 14 £420 +11.26% 12
West Midlands +6 4 £387 -33.40% 12
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 16 (88.89%) Apache Spark
2 4 (22.22%) Apache
3 2 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) AWS
2 5 (27.78%) GCP
3 3 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon S3
4 2 (11.11%) Azure
4 2 (11.11%) GitHub
4 2 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) SSH
1 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.56%) DNS
2 1 (5.56%) Internet
2 1 (5.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (83.33%) Big Data
2 5 (27.78%) Impala
2 5 (27.78%) NoSQL
3 4 (22.22%) Apache Hive
3 4 (22.22%) Delta Lake
3 4 (22.22%) HBase
3 4 (22.22%) Parquet
3 4 (22.22%) Tableau
4 3 (16.67%) Data Lake
4 3 (16.67%) Power BI
4 3 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (11.11%) Apache Hudi
5 2 (11.11%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (11.11%) Flink
5 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (11.11%) QlikView
5 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
6 1 (5.56%) BigQuery
6 1 (5.56%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 2 (11.11%) MLflow
1 2 (11.11%) SonarQube
1 2 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) Poetry
2 1 (5.56%) PyCharm
2 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 8 (44.44%) Finance
2 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Banking
4 2 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.56%) Automotive
5 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Data Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Big Data Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Scala Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Hadoop Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Scala Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) SQL Developer
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Business Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Data Architect
5 1 (5.56%) GCP Data Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Hadoop Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Lead
5 1 (5.56%) Lead Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) Kafka
2 4 (22.22%) Apache Avro
3 2 (11.11%) .NET
3 2 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (11.11%) Flask
3 2 (11.11%) JSON
3 2 (11.11%) NumPy
3 2 (11.11%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.56%) Data Fabric
3 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) IoT
3 1 (5.56%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) ETL
2 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (27.78%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
3 5 (27.78%) Data Engineering
3 5 (27.78%) Data Modelling
4 4 (22.22%) Data Governance
4 4 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (16.67%) Open Source
5 3 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (11.11%) Data Integration
6 2 (11.11%) Data Management
6 2 (11.11%) Data Science
6 2 (11.11%) Data Security
6 2 (11.11%) Data Transformation
6 2 (11.11%) DevOps
6 2 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 2 (11.11%) Machine Learning
6 2 (11.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 12 (66.67%) SQL
2 9 (50.00%) Java
3 8 (44.44%) Scala
4 6 (33.33%) Python
5 2 (11.11%) Bash
5 2 (11.11%) Groovy
5 2 (11.11%) R
6 1 (5.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (5.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.56%) Degree
1 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
1 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 3 (16.67%) Terraform
3 2 (11.11%) Argo
3 2 (11.11%) Istio
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Cloudera
1 2 (11.11%) Databricks
1 2 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (5.56%) Hitachi
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Red Hat