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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 146 193
Rank change year-on-year -46 +47 +2
Contract jobs citing Hadoop 6 8 10
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.12% 0.26% 0.18%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.98% 1.77% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 7
10th Percentile - £377 £410
25th Percentile £463 £406 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £454 £495
Median % change year-on-year +4.63% -8.28% -13.91%
75th Percentile £509 £500 £531
90th Percentile £549 £650 £544
England median daily rate £500 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £50.53
Median hourly rate - - £51.06
75th Percentile - - £51.58
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £45.53
% change year-on-year +27.27% +20.81% -54.47%

All Database & BI 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 614 451 675
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.02% 14.91% 11.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 304 430
10th Percentile £297 £321 £290
25th Percentile £400 £400 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% - -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £623
90th Percentile £653 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 9 42
10th Percentile £12.29 £22.97 £18.20
25th Percentile £27.88 £23.50 £21.02
Median hourly rate £37.00 £42.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.94% -29.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £52.58 £64.73 £76.53
90th Percentile £82.85 £65.62 £80.00
England median hourly rate £50.00 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year +42.86% -13.58% -32.50%

Hadoop
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Hadoop job vacancy trend in the South East

Hadoop
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

Hadoop
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

Hadoop
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 9 March 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
Thames Valley -37 5 £475 -0.42% 2
Berkshire -30 2 - - 1
Buckinghamshire - 2 £475 -
Middlesex - 1 £475 -
Oxfordshire - 1 £550 - 1
Hadoop
England

Hadoop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (66.67%) Apache Spark
2 2 (33.33%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) GCP
2 3 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Big Data
2 3 (50.00%) Power BI
3 2 (33.33%) Data Mining
3 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
4 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
4 1 (16.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Data Scientist
2 2 (33.33%) Data Analytics Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) NumPy
1 3 (50.00%) Pandas
1 3 (50.00%) scikit-learn
2 2 (33.33%) PyTorch
2 2 (33.33%) TensorFlow
3 1 (16.67%) Keras
3 1 (16.67%) Matplotlib
3 1 (16.67%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Algorithms
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (33.33%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Visualisation
2 4 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (66.67%) Data Science
2 4 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 4 (66.67%) Predictive Modelling
2 4 (66.67%) Statistics
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Analytics
3 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (50.00%) Data Analysis
3 3 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
3 3 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
3 3 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 3 (50.00%) Exploratory Data Analysis
3 3 (50.00%) Feature Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Predictive Analysis
4 2 (33.33%) Data Analytics
4 2 (33.33%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
1 3 (50.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Google