Hadoop Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Apache Hadoop
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 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 90 40 -
Rank change year-on-year -50 - -
Contract jobs citing Hadoop 14 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 1.45% 1.04% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.21% 5.36% -
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 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £525 -
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -

All Database & BI Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 152 56 40
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 15.73% 19.38% 9.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 41 23
10th Percentile £344 £135 £375
25th Percentile £413 £414 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £518 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.21% +8.95% -13.64%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £644
90th Percentile £683 £650 £754
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £518 £475
% change year-on-year -3.38% +8.95% -13.64%

Hadoop
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Hadoop job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Hadoop
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Hadoop

Hadoop
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Hadoop in South Yorkshire

Hadoop
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 28 February 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
Sheffield -48 14 £500 -16.67% 8
Hadoop
Yorkshire

Hadoop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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