HiveQL Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

HiveQL
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring HiveQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 410 344 -
Rank change year-on-year -66 - -
Contract jobs citing HiveQL 1 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.005% 0.030% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.020% 0.11% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £477 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% - -
UK median daily rate £450 £490 -
% change year-on-year -8.16% - -

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

HiveQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,070 3,781 5,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.83% 28.70% 24.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,317 2,318 3,403
10th Percentile £327 £325 £313
25th Percentile £404 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £660 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -5.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 395 174 405
10th Percentile £44.92 £21.08 £37.50
25th Percentile £55.00 £45.00 £46.39
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.97% +1.99% -3.85%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.16%

HiveQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing HiveQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

HiveQL job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

HiveQL
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing HiveQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing HiveQL

HiveQL
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 HiveQL within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 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
West Midlands -58 1 £450 -5.66% 1
Midlands -60 1 £450 -5.66% 1
HiveQL
UK

HiveQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (100.00%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) Impala
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Pentaho
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Denodo
1 1 (100.00%) Informatica
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Talend