Hadoop Contracts in the UK excluding London

Apache Hadoop
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Hadoop skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Hadoop over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 259 358 371
Rank change year-on-year +99 +13 -61
Contract jobs citing Hadoop 77 41 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.60% 0.20% 0.38%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.81% 1.58% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 28 64
10th Percentile £371 £372 £405
25th Percentile £447 £411 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £619 £478 £540
Median % change year-on-year +29.58% -11.57% -
75th Percentile £675 £550 £602
90th Percentile £713 £592 £706
UK median daily rate £600 £510 £575
% change year-on-year +17.65% -11.30% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - £74.25
25th Percentile - £66.25 -
Median hourly rate £78.70 £67.50 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.59% -13.46% -
75th Percentile - £68.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £45.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +27.78% -42.31% +29.46%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,019 2,594 3,714
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.82% 12.49% 15.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,400 1,827 2,673
10th Percentile £315 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% -4.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £594
90th Percentile £660 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 96 114
10th Percentile £18.74 £13.50 £21.96
25th Percentile £22.98 £18.03 £32.32
Median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -31.09% +65.84%
75th Percentile £65.62 £58.61 £66.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £75.35
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

Hadoop
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Hadoop as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Hadoop in the UK excluding London

Hadoop
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Hadoop in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Hadoop in the UK excluding London

Hadoop
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hadoop in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Hadoop in the UK excluding London

Hadoop
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Hadoop in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Hadoop in the UK excluding London

Hadoop
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Hadoop within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North of England +31 23 £625 +25.00% 26
North West +26 18 £650 +21.50% 12
East of England +41 16 £650 +85.71% 16
Midlands +24 13 £400 -11.11% 27
East Midlands +14 12 £400 -5.88% 12
South East +49 10 £454 -4.42% 39
South West +52 8 £650 +20.09% 18
Scotland +15 6 £506 -16.67% 8
Yorkshire +11 5 £600 +41.18% 11
Northern Ireland -7 2 £505 +18.82% 3
West Midlands +12 1 - - 13
Hadoop
UK

Hadoop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 45 (58.44%) Apache Spark
2 16 (20.78%) Apache
3 5 (6.49%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (6.49%) SAS
4 3 (3.90%) nginx
5 2 (2.60%) CICS
5 2 (2.60%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 39 (50.65%) AWS
2 28 (36.36%) Azure
3 14 (18.18%) GCP
4 4 (5.19%) OpenShift
4 4 (5.19%) Power Platform
5 3 (3.90%) Snowflake
6 2 (2.60%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.60%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.60%) dbt
6 2 (2.60%) Serverless
7 1 (1.30%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.30%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.30%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.30%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.30%) Azure Storage
7 1 (1.30%) Cloud Composer
7 1 (1.30%) GitHub
7 1 (1.30%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (71.43%) Big Data
2 19 (24.68%) Tableau
3 17 (22.08%) Apache Hive
4 9 (11.69%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (9.09%) Data Lake
5 7 (9.09%) HBase
5 7 (9.09%) Impala
6 6 (7.79%) MongoDB
6 6 (7.79%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (7.79%) Relational Database
7 5 (6.49%) Delta Lake
7 5 (6.49%) MySQL
8 4 (5.19%) DB2
8 4 (5.19%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (5.19%) Power BI
9 3 (3.90%) NoSQL
9 3 (3.90%) Parquet
9 3 (3.90%) Spark SQL
10 2 (2.60%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (2.60%) Flink
Development Applications
1 8 (10.39%) Jenkins
2 7 (9.09%) Git
3 3 (3.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 3 (3.90%) GitLab
3 3 (3.90%) Selenium
4 2 (2.60%) SOAtest
5 1 (1.30%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.30%) ERwin
5 1 (1.30%) JIRA
5 1 (1.30%) JMeter
5 1 (1.30%) Zephyr
General
1 21 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (23.38%) Social Skills
3 13 (16.88%) Finance
4 10 (12.99%) Banking
5 3 (3.90%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.60%) General Ledger
6 2 (2.60%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.60%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.60%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.30%) Advertising
7 1 (1.30%) Automotive
7 1 (1.30%) Front Office
7 1 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.30%) International Banking
7 1 (1.30%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.30%) Marketing
7 1 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.30%) Retail
7 1 (1.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (33.77%) Developer
2 18 (23.38%) Senior
3 14 (18.18%) Data Engineer
4 12 (15.58%) Data Science Developer
5 11 (14.29%) Senior Developer
6 9 (11.69%) Architect
7 6 (7.79%) Data Scientist
8 4 (5.19%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
8 4 (5.19%) Data Architect
8 4 (5.19%) Senior Data Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) Big Data Developer
9 3 (3.90%) Big Data Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) Lead
9 3 (3.90%) Scala Developer
10 2 (2.60%) Analyst
10 2 (2.60%) Hadoop Developer
10 2 (2.60%) Information Scientist
10 2 (2.60%) Programme Manager
10 2 (2.60%) Test Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (24.68%) Kafka
2 17 (22.08%) Pandas
3 16 (20.78%) NumPy
3 16 (20.78%) scikit-learn
4 15 (19.48%) TensorFlow
5 14 (18.18%) Matplotlib
5 14 (18.18%) PySpark
5 14 (18.18%) PyTorch
5 14 (18.18%) Seaborn
6 5 (6.49%) Apache NiFi
6 5 (6.49%) JSON
7 4 (5.19%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (3.90%) YAML
9 2 (2.60%) Apache Avro
9 2 (2.60%) J2EE
9 2 (2.60%) Web Services
9 2 (2.60%) XML
10 1 (1.30%) LAPP Stack
10 1 (1.30%) Prophet
10 1 (1.30%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 22 (28.57%) Algorithms
2 6 (7.79%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.90%) Life Science
3 3 (3.90%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.90%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.60%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.60%) Mobile Payment
4 2 (2.60%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.60%) VSAM
5 1 (1.30%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.30%) IoT
5 1 (1.30%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.30%) Replication
5 1 (1.30%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.30%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.69%) Linux
2 5 (6.49%) Unix
3 2 (2.60%) Windows
4 1 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (37.66%) ETL
2 26 (33.77%) Data Science
2 26 (33.77%) Machine Learning
3 24 (31.17%) Visualisation
4 23 (29.87%) Analytics
5 21 (27.27%) Data Analysis
6 19 (24.68%) Decision-Making
7 18 (23.38%) Artificial Intelligence
8 16 (20.78%) LLM
9 15 (19.48%) Computer Science
9 15 (19.48%) Data Engineering
9 15 (19.48%) Data Pipeline
9 15 (19.48%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (18.18%) Data Munging
10 14 (18.18%) Generative AI
10 14 (18.18%) Reinforcement Learning
10 14 (18.18%) Statistical Modelling
11 13 (16.88%) CI/CD
11 13 (16.88%) Data Analytics
11 13 (16.88%) Feature Engineering
Programming Languages
1 41 (53.25%) Python
2 26 (33.77%) SQL
3 17 (22.08%) R
4 15 (19.48%) Java
5 7 (9.09%) Scala
6 2 (2.60%) C#
6 2 (2.60%) COBOL
6 2 (2.60%) JCL
6 2 (2.60%) MATLAB
6 2 (2.60%) REXX
7 1 (1.30%) Bash
7 1 (1.30%) C++
7 1 (1.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.30%) Groovy
7 1 (1.30%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.30%) Perl
7 1 (1.30%) Ruby
7 1 (1.30%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.30%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (23.38%) Degree
2 14 (18.18%) PhD
3 13 (16.88%) Master's Degree
3 13 (16.88%) Security Cleared
4 11 (14.29%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.90%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.30%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (31.17%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.19%) QA
3 2 (2.60%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.60%) GDPR
4 1 (1.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 9 (11.69%) Docker
2 2 (2.60%) HDFS
3 1 (1.30%) Apache Flume
3 1 (1.30%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 7 (9.09%) Terraform
3 5 (6.49%) Ansible
3 5 (6.49%) Grafana
4 4 (5.19%) Kibana
4 4 (5.19%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.90%) HAProxy
6 2 (2.60%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.30%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (1.30%) logstash
7 1 (1.30%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (12.99%) Cloudera
2 7 (9.09%) Google
3 6 (7.79%) Databricks
3 6 (7.79%) Informatica
3 6 (7.79%) Oracle
4 4 (5.19%) IBM
4 4 (5.19%) Splunk
4 4 (5.19%) StreamSets
5 2 (2.60%) Ab Initio
5 2 (2.60%) Confluent
5 2 (2.60%) Parasoft
5 2 (2.60%) SAP
6 1 (1.30%) Apple
6 1 (1.30%) Criteo
6 1 (1.30%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.30%) Hitachi
6 1 (1.30%) Imperva
6 1 (1.30%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.30%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.30%) Red Hat