Hadoop Contracts in Scotland

Apache Hadoop
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 125 159
Rank change year-on-year +15 +34 -22
Contract jobs citing Hadoop 6 4 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.37% 0.18% 0.14%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.68% 1.01% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £463 £475 £533
25th Percentile £473 £512 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £608 £553
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.95% +16.32%
75th Percentile £548 £687 £573
90th Percentile £564 £714 £582
UK median daily rate £600 £510 £575
% change year-on-year +17.65% -11.30% -4.17%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 358 398 610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 22.03% 17.95% 21.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 295 486
10th Percentile £300 £325 £400
25th Percentile £408 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £538 £558 £550
90th Percentile £589 £663 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 7
10th Percentile £20.72 £24.60 £19.83
25th Percentile £22.42 £29.04 £27.94
Median hourly rate £26.50 £37.07 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.51% +5.91% +34.62%
75th Percentile £28.07 £45.72 £67.66
90th Percentile £28.25 £50.54 £69.25
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

Hadoop
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Hadoop in Scotland

Hadoop
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Hadoop in Scotland

Hadoop
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Hadoop within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 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
Edinburgh +7 5 £506 -16.67% 5
Glasgow +3 1 - - 2
Hadoop
UK

Hadoop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (16.67%) Apache
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 2 (33.33%) GCP
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 1 (16.67%) Serverless
4 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Apache Hive
2 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (16.67%) Big Data
3 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
3 1 (16.67%) DB2
3 1 (16.67%) Delta Lake
3 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (16.67%) Power BI
3 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
3 1 (16.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) GitLab
2 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
3 1 (16.67%) Git
3 1 (16.67%) JIRA
3 1 (16.67%) JMeter
3 1 (16.67%) Selenium
3 1 (16.67%) Zephyr
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Python Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Test Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Environment Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Insight Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Open Source Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Python Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Automation Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Kafka
1 2 (33.33%) PySpark
2 1 (16.67%) Great Expectations
2 1 (16.67%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) Change Data Capture
3 2 (33.33%) ETL
3 2 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 1 (16.67%) Agile Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Business Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (16.67%) Customer Insight
4 1 (16.67%) Data Extraction
4 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 1 (16.67%) Data Validation
4 1 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (16.67%) High Availability
4 1 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) C++
3 1 (16.67%) Groovy
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) R
3 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Grafana
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) IBM
1 3 (50.00%) Informatica
1 3 (50.00%) StreamSets
2 2 (33.33%) Confluent
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle