Hadoop Engineer Contracts in Sheffield

Hadoop Engineer
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Hadoop Engineer daily rate in Sheffield is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Hadoop Engineer 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 0.52% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 - -

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
Sheffield

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Sheffield. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Sheffield with a recognized job title 530 358 387
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.38% 87.53% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 355 200 252
10th Percentile £287 £381 £388
25th Percentile £369 £449 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £593
Median % change year-on-year -11.81% -11.47% +14.04%
75th Percentile £537 £591 £688
90th Percentile £608 £638 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £520 £551
% change year-on-year -13.46% -5.57% +10.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 6
10th Percentile £15.55 £15.88 £11.64
25th Percentile £18.10 £20.13 £13.77
Median hourly rate £18.21 £21.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.31% +7.69% +2.63%
75th Percentile £18.50 £21.88 £22.06
90th Percentile £18.51 £22.00 £27.00
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £21.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -13.31% +5.00% +11.89%

Hadoop Engineer Skill Set
Top 24 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield

For the 6 months to 29 August 2025, Hadoop Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Sheffield region featuring Hadoop Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Apache
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 3 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (100.00%) Data Security
1 3 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 3 (100.00%) Puppet
1 3 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 3 (100.00%) HBase
1 3 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) HDFS
1 3 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 3 (100.00%) Hadoop YARN
1 3 (100.00%) Spark Streaming
1 3 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Use Case

Hadoop Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (100.00%) Apache
1 3 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 3 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 3 (100.00%) HBase
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (100.00%) Data Security
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Hadoop YARN
1 3 (100.00%) Puppet