Hadoop Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Apache Hadoop
South East > Thames Valley

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

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 120 121
Rank change year-on-year +10 +1 +46
Contract jobs citing Hadoop 6 5 27
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.35% 0.23% 1.00%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.06% 1.38% 7.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 19
10th Percentile £471 £406 £400
25th Percentile £484 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £438 £463
Median % change year-on-year +17.14% -5.41% -15.91%
75th Percentile £534 £466 £556
90th Percentile £544 £479 £863
South East median daily rate £475 £455 £463
% change year-on-year +4.40% -1.62% -7.50%
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
South East median hourly rate - - £61.53
% change year-on-year - - -38.47%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 291 363 373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 16.74% 16.76% 13.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 226 270
10th Percentile £325 £363 £312
25th Percentile £413 £425 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +12.82%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £650
90th Percentile £650 £663 £700
South East median daily rate £450 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 15 10
10th Percentile - £28.95 £32.30
25th Percentile £13.25 £44.72 £32.32
Median hourly rate £13.50 £61.60 £55.53
Median % change year-on-year -78.08% +10.94% +177.64%
75th Percentile £19.13 - £70.13
90th Percentile £22.35 £64.73 £80.82
South East median hourly rate £13.50 £48.18 £49.50
% change year-on-year -71.98% -2.67% +139.71%

Hadoop
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hadoop job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Hadoop.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Hadoop

Hadoop
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Hadoop.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Hadoop

Hadoop
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Hadoop within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 18 October 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
Berkshire - 4 - - 5
Buckinghamshire +3 2 £513 +17.14% 2
Hadoop
South East

Hadoop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (83.33%) Apache Spark
2 3 (50.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (83.33%) Azure
3 4 (66.67%) GCP
4 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Big Data
2 3 (50.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (16.67%) Data Mining
3 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (16.67%) IBM InfoSphere
3 1 (16.67%) OLAP
3 1 (16.67%) Power BI
3 1 (16.67%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Git
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (16.67%) Data Analytics Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Modeller
2 1 (16.67%) Finance Modeller
2 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
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Algorithms
2 3 (50.00%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Visualisation
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (66.67%) Data Science
2 4 (66.67%) Data Visualisation
2 4 (66.67%) LLM
2 4 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 4 (66.67%) Predictive Modelling
2 4 (66.67%) Statistical Modelling
2 4 (66.67%) Statistics
2 4 (66.67%) Time Series Analysis
2 4 (66.67%) Use Case
3 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
3 3 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 3 (50.00%) Feature Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Model Validation
3 3 (50.00%) Predictive Analysis
3 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 5 (83.33%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
2 3 (50.00%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) IBM