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 6 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 159 180
Rank change year-on-year -63 +21 +14
Contract jobs citing Hadoop 4 10 10
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.060% 0.29% 0.20%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.51% 2.10% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 5
10th Percentile - £366 £411
25th Percentile £525 £380 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £413 £475
Median % change year-on-year +43.03% -13.16% -5.00%
75th Percentile £630 £500 £488
90th Percentile - £530 £492
England median daily rate £600 £525 £542
% change year-on-year +14.29% -3.13% -1.46%

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 791 476 613
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.84% 13.60% 12.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 531 331 395
10th Percentile £313 £222 £290
25th Percentile £413 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.99% -7.40% -6.54%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £614
90th Percentile £650 £638 £660
England median daily rate £500 £515 £538
% change year-on-year -2.91% -4.19% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 11 22
10th Percentile £13.86 £13.25 £20.92
25th Percentile £27.75 £22.18 £30.00
Median hourly rate £37.69 £24.00 £51.59
Median % change year-on-year +57.02% -53.48% -6.20%
75th Percentile £55.00 £32.05 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £36.25 £62.83
England median hourly rate £38.38 £34.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +11.23% -8.00% -31.82%

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

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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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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 6 August 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 -53 4 £590 +18.00% 1
Berkshire -33 2 £630 +38.08%
Oxfordshire - 2 £550 - 1
Hadoop
England

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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 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Big Data
2 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (50.00%) Power BI
2 2 (50.00%) Tableau
General
1 2 (50.00%) Aerospace
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Data Scientist
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (50.00%) Matplotlib
1 2 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (50.00%) Seaborn
1 2 (50.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (100.00%) Data Science
1 4 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) A/B Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
2 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (50.00%) Deep Learning
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Predictive Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Statistics
2 2 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Master's Degree
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform