Hadoop Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Apache Hadoop
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Hadoop skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 36 -
Rank change year-on-year -48 - -
Contract jobs citing Hadoop 14 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 1.56% 1.21% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.40% 6.52% -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 0
10th Percentile £429 - -
25th Percentile £460 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - -
75th Percentile £613 - -
90th Percentile £615 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £600 -
% change year-on-year -16.67% - -

All Database & BI Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 149 46 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 16.59% 18.62% 9.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 33 21
10th Percentile £342 £402 £375
25th Percentile £412 £480 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £534 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.05% +12.42% -21.42%
75th Percentile £538 £613 £650
90th Percentile £685 £650 £760
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £518 £475
% change year-on-year -8.21% +8.95% -13.64%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Hadoop job vacancy trend in Sheffield

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Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Hadoop

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Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hadoop in Sheffield over the 6 months to 28 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Hadoop in Sheffield

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 9 (64.29%) Apache Spark
2 3 (21.43%) Apache Pig
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (21.43%) Apache Hive
2 3 (21.43%) Data Mining
2 3 (21.43%) Power BI
3 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
General
1 8 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) Data Engineer
2 7 (50.00%) Lead
3 4 (28.57%) Lead Data Engineer
4 3 (21.43%) Consultant
4 3 (21.43%) Data Consultant
4 3 (21.43%) Data Scientist
4 3 (21.43%) Lead Consultant
5 2 (14.29%) Hadoop Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) Python Data Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Python Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Solutions Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Algorithms
1 3 (21.43%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Data Engineering
1 8 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
1 8 (57.14%) ETL
1 8 (57.14%) OO
2 7 (50.00%) Agile
2 7 (50.00%) Analytics
2 7 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 7 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 7 (50.00%) Kanban
2 7 (50.00%) Pair Programming
2 7 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (50.00%) Scrum
2 7 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 7 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 4 (28.57%) Active Listening
3 4 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (28.57%) Data Privacy
4 3 (21.43%) Data Munging
Programming Languages
1 13 (92.86%) Python
2 11 (78.57%) SQL
3 3 (21.43%) Java
3 3 (21.43%) Scala
Vendors
1 13 (92.86%) Splunk
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft