Hadoop Contract Job Trends in the South East

Apache Hadoop
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Hadoop skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 176 178
Rank change year-on-year +19 +2 +51
Contract jobs citing Hadoop 5 6 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.14% 0.13% 0.56%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.10% 0.97% 4.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 19
10th Percentile £397 £406 £400
25th Percentile £422 £414 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £455 £463
Median % change year-on-year +2.64% -1.62% -7.50%
75th Percentile £510 £485 £550
90th Percentile £534 £487 £863
England median daily rate £507 £600 £610
% change year-on-year -15.46% -1.68% +3.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £72.00
England median hourly rate £85.00 £50.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +70.00% -35.90% -22.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 453 619 737
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.99% 13.39% 13.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 326 411 520
10th Percentile £205 £263 £320
25th Percentile £325 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £625
90th Percentile £638 £660 £688
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 20 44
10th Percentile £13.25 £22.24 £21.05
25th Percentile £15.81 £30.00 £31.91
Median hourly rate £28.03 £51.59 £54.75
Median % change year-on-year -45.68% -5.77% +146.07%
75th Percentile £32.05 £61.60 £70.47
90th Percentile £42.90 £61.91 £75.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £37.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +20.00% -31.82% +22.22%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Hadoop as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Hadoop in the South East

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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Hadoop.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Hadoop

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hadoop in the South East over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Hadoop in the South East

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Hadoop.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Hadoop

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Hadoop within the South East region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Thames Valley +15 4 £550 +25.71% 6
Buckinghamshire +4 2 £550 +25.71%
Berkshire - 2 - - 6
Hampshire +11 1 £384 -15.60%
Hadoop
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (80.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (20.00%) Apache
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) SSH
1 1 (20.00%) SSL
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Big Data
2 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (20.00%) Delta Lake
3 1 (20.00%) IBM InfoSphere
3 1 (20.00%) Impala
3 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (20.00%) OLAP
3 1 (20.00%) Parquet
3 1 (20.00%) Power BI
3 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (20.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) MLflow
2 1 (20.00%) Poetry
2 1 (20.00%) PyCharm
2 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Modeller
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Finance Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) NumPy
1 2 (40.00%) Pandas
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Avro
2 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (20.00%) Flask
2 1 (20.00%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (40.00%) Data Science
2 2 (40.00%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (40.00%) ETL
2 2 (40.00%) LLM
2 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (40.00%) Predictive Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Statistical Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Statistics
2 2 (40.00%) Time Series Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Use Case
2 2 (40.00%) Visualisation
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Feature Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (20.00%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Argo
1 1 (20.00%) Istio
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Cloudera
1 1 (20.00%) Google
1 1 (20.00%) IBM
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat