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 24 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 172 172 176
Rank change year-on-year 0 +4 +36
Contract jobs citing Hadoop 7 5 30
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.17% 0.12% 0.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.36% 0.84% 4.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 21
10th Percentile £396 £406 £400
25th Percentile £421 £414 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £455 £463
Median % change year-on-year +4.40% -1.62% -6.57%
75th Percentile £488 £485 £538
90th Percentile - £487 £863
England median daily rate £450 £612 £535
% change year-on-year -26.47% +14.39% -5.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £52.67
25th Percentile - - £55.90
Median hourly rate - - £61.53
75th Percentile - - £66.90
90th Percentile - - £69.96
England median hourly rate £85.00 £52.50 £77.50
% change year-on-year +61.90% -32.26% -22.50%

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 513 598 732
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.66% 14.51% 13.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 392 528
10th Percentile £205 £258 £304
25th Percentile £335 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £628
90th Percentile £638 £663 £677
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 38
10th Percentile £26.80 £21.25 £21.00
25th Percentile £31.75 £30.00 £27.37
Median hourly rate £40.00 £45.34 £50.53
Median % change year-on-year -11.78% -10.27% +129.67%
75th Percentile £65.05 £61.19 £69.69
90th Percentile £80.07 £64.73 £76.53
England median hourly rate £45.00 £35.00 £47.70
% change year-on-year +28.57% -26.62% -4.50%

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 24 November 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 -2 6 £475 +8.57%
Berkshire - 4 - -
Buckinghamshire -2 2 £475 +8.57%
Hampshire -10 1 £384 -15.60%
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 5 (71.43%) Apache Spark
2 3 (42.86%) Apache
3 1 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) GCP
3 4 (57.14%) Azure
4 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
5 1 (14.29%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) SSH
1 1 (14.29%) SSL
1 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) Big Data
2 3 (42.86%) Relational Database
3 2 (28.57%) Data Mining
3 2 (28.57%) Power BI
4 1 (14.29%) Delta Lake
4 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
4 1 (14.29%) Parquet
4 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) MLflow
2 1 (14.29%) Poetry
2 1 (14.29%) PyCharm
2 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
2 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Data Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Data Scientist
2 2 (28.57%) Data Analytics Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) NumPy
1 4 (57.14%) Pandas
2 3 (42.86%) scikit-learn
3 1 (14.29%) Apache Avro
3 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (14.29%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Algorithms
2 3 (42.86%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Visualisation
2 5 (71.43%) Data Engineering
3 4 (57.14%) Agile
3 4 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (57.14%) Data Science
3 4 (57.14%) Data Visualisation
3 4 (57.14%) LLM
3 4 (57.14%) Machine Learning
3 4 (57.14%) Predictive Modelling
3 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (57.14%) Statistical Modelling
3 4 (57.14%) Statistics
3 4 (57.14%) Time Series Analysis
3 4 (57.14%) Use Case
4 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
4 3 (42.86%) Data Cleansing
4 3 (42.86%) Decision-Making
4 3 (42.86%) Feature Engineering
4 3 (42.86%) Model Validation
4 3 (42.86%) Predictive Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) R
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Degree
2 3 (42.86%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Argo
1 1 (14.29%) Istio
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Cloudera
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat