Hadoop Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Apache Hadoop
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Hadoop skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 194 157 182
Rank change year-on-year -37 +25 +15
Contract jobs citing Hadoop 17 5 4
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.36% 0.14% 0.086%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.24% 0.99% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 1
10th Percentile £263 £407 -
25th Percentile £269 £414 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £450 £625
Median % change year-on-year -20.44% -28.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £488 £594 £638
90th Percentile £498 £665 -
England median daily rate £450 £613 £540
% change year-on-year -26.53% +13.43% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
England median hourly rate £85.00 £52.50 £68.50
% change year-on-year +61.90% -23.36% -31.50%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 758 507 653
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 16.04% 14.11% 14.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 542 316 471
10th Percentile £316 £325 £305
25th Percentile £375 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.63% -1.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £539 £576 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £663
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 12 17
10th Percentile £48.43 £22.72 £17.79
25th Percentile £58.25 £23.87 £21.31
Median hourly rate £69.38 £26.47 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +162.16% -42.69% -18.98%
75th Percentile £82.38 £41.56 £53.75
90th Percentile £85.30 £65.00 £59.00
England median hourly rate £46.50 £36.25 £46.18
% change year-on-year +28.28% -21.50% -10.76%

Hadoop
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Hadoop job vacancy trend in the North of England

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Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Hadoop.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Hadoop

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hadoop in the North of England over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Hadoop in the North of England

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Hadoop.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Hadoop

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Hadoop within the North of England region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Yorkshire -33 11 £475 +5.56% 1
North West -22 6 £269 -50.16% 9
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 (35.29%) Apache Spark
2 5 (29.41%) Apache
2 5 (29.41%) Apache Pig
3 3 (17.65%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) Power Platform
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon Kinesis
2 1 (5.88%) AWS
2 1 (5.88%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (5.88%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (52.94%) Apache Hive
2 5 (29.41%) Data Mining
2 5 (29.41%) Power BI
3 3 (17.65%) Big Data
3 3 (17.65%) HBase
3 3 (17.65%) Impala
4 2 (11.76%) MySQL
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (5.88%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (5.88%) Data Lake
5 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (5.88%) DataStage
5 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
5 1 (5.88%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 4 (23.53%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Analyst
1 5 (29.41%) Data Engineer
1 5 (29.41%) Data Scientist
2 3 (17.65%) Data Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) Hadoop Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Solutions Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) SQL Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) SQL Data Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Ab Initio Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Data Storage Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Java Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Lead
4 1 (5.88%) Lead Data Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) Spark Streaming
2 1 (5.88%) PySpark
2 1 (5.88%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Algorithms
2 3 (17.65%) Data Centre
2 3 (17.65%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (11.76%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Analytics
2 7 (41.18%) Data Analytics
3 5 (29.41%) Data Collection
3 5 (29.41%) Data Munging
3 5 (29.41%) Data Science
3 5 (29.41%) Data Visualisation
3 5 (29.41%) Decision-Making
3 5 (29.41%) Linear Algebra
3 5 (29.41%) Machine Learning
3 5 (29.41%) Naive Bayes
3 5 (29.41%) Statistics
3 5 (29.41%) Support Vector Machines
3 5 (29.41%) Visualisation
4 4 (23.53%) Data Engineering
5 3 (17.65%) Business Strategy
5 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
5 3 (17.65%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (17.65%) Decision Tree
5 3 (17.65%) Logistic Regression
5 3 (17.65%) Performance Analysis
Programming Languages
1 13 (76.47%) Python
2 9 (52.94%) SQL
3 7 (41.18%) Java
4 5 (29.41%) Scala
5 4 (23.53%) Shell Script
6 3 (17.65%) R
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Ansible
1 3 (17.65%) Hadoop YARN
1 3 (17.65%) Puppet
2 1 (5.88%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Splunk
2 1 (5.88%) Ab Initio
2 1 (5.88%) Cloudera
2 1 (5.88%) Databricks
2 1 (5.88%) Informatica