Hadoop Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Apache Hadoop
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Hadoop skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 98 128
Rank change year-on-year -2 +30 +20
Contract jobs citing Hadoop 7 11 7
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.47% 0.69% 0.31%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.36% 3.41% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 6
10th Percentile £321 £325 -
25th Percentile £375 £352 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £380 £500
Median % change year-on-year +31.75% -24.10% -13.04%
75th Percentile £525 £397 £606
90th Percentile - £399 £685
UK median daily rate £475 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -20.83% +14.29% -8.70%

All Database & BI 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 296 323 397
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 20.05% 20.16% 17.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 204 280
10th Percentile £321 £356 £381
25th Percentile £402 £412 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.33% -6.00% +2.25%
75th Percentile £540 £535 £575
90th Percentile £625 £635 £663
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 2
10th Percentile £15.13 - £18.59
25th Percentile £20.94 £19.59 £19.10
Median hourly rate £30.75 £23.05 £20.57
Median % change year-on-year +33.43% +12.03% -2.05%
75th Percentile £40.44 £27.91 £21.42
90th Percentile £46.18 £28.19 £21.55
UK median hourly rate £44.25 £30.40 £42.50
% change year-on-year +45.56% -28.47% -25.26%

Hadoop
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Hadoop job vacancy trend in Scotland

Hadoop
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Hadoop.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Hadoop

Hadoop
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hadoop in Scotland over the 6 months to 22 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram 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 22 January 2026. 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
Glasgow +6 6 £500 +31.75% 2
Hadoop
UK

Hadoop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 7 (100.00%) Apache Spark
2 6 (85.71%) Apache
2 6 (85.71%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Power Platform
1 6 (85.71%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) Big Data
1 6 (85.71%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (85.71%) Power BI
2 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
2 1 (14.29%) HBase
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Git
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Data Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Python Data Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Python Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) REST
2 3 (42.86%) RESTful
3 1 (14.29%) Kafka
3 1 (14.29%) NumPy
3 1 (14.29%) Pandas
3 1 (14.29%) PySpark
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Agile
1 6 (85.71%) Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) Data Integration
1 6 (85.71%) Data Modelling
1 6 (85.71%) ETL
1 6 (85.71%) Performance Tuning
1 6 (85.71%) Visualisation
2 5 (71.43%) Sprint Planning
3 4 (57.14%) API Integration
3 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (42.86%) Clean Code
4 3 (42.86%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (42.86%) Data Flow Diagram
4 3 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (42.86%) Data Visualisation
4 3 (42.86%) Performance Monitoring
4 3 (42.86%) Sprint Retrospective
4 3 (42.86%) Sprint Review
5 2 (28.57%) Data Cleansing
5 2 (28.57%) Data Extraction
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
1 1 (14.29%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Databricks
2 4 (57.14%) ServiceNow