Apache Hive Contracts

Apache Hive
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Apache Hive skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Apache Hive over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 501 540 630
Rank change year-on-year +39 +90 +6
Contract jobs citing Apache Hive 50 55 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.13% 0.089%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.86% 0.72% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 34 28
10th Percentile £410 £354 £397
25th Percentile £457 £379 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £561 £463 £494
Median % change year-on-year +21.35% -6.33% -10.23%
75th Percentile £695 £523 £538
90th Percentile £763 £625 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £444 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +4.41% +6.25% -23.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £21.73 £22.16
Median % change year-on-year +141.60% -1.94% -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £21.73 £22.16
% change year-on-year - -1.94% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Apache Hive 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,786 7,603 9,669
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.31% 17.50% 17.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,920 5,424 6,797
10th Percentile £356 £350 £374
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.30% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £751 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 150 172
10th Percentile £19.71 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £25.20 £20.76 £32.30
Median hourly rate £34.99 £39.25 £55.70
Median % change year-on-year -10.85% -29.53% +47.35%
75th Percentile £63.31 £51.87 £73.75
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £82.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.64 £31.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +0.44% -42.73% +57.14%

Apache Hive
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Apache Hive as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Apache Hive in the UK

Apache Hive
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Apache Hive.

Daily rate trend for Apache Hive in the UK

Apache Hive
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache Hive over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apache Hive in the UK

Apache Hive
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Apache Hive.

Hourly rate trend for Apache Hive in the UK

Apache Hive
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Apache Hive within the UK over the 6 months to 4 July 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
England +63 43 £573 +22.13% 106
London +39 32 £632 +36.70% 77
UK excluding London +29 18 £444 +4.41% 40
Work from Home +44 11 £475 -5.94% 47
Midlands +10 5 £443 -19.55% 4
East Midlands +8 5 £443 -
Northern Ireland -5 5 £410 -3.53% 6
South East +36 2 £413 -5.71% 5
North of England +3 2 £675 +58.82% 10
Scotland -4 2 - - 8
East of England - 2 - - 5
North West +5 1 £700 +100.00% 6
Yorkshire -1 1 £650 +44.44% 3

Apache Hive
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 41 (82.00%) Apache Spark
2 14 (28.00%) Apache
3 4 (8.00%) Jupyter
4 2 (4.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (2.00%) nginx
5 1 (2.00%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 16 (32.00%) Azure
2 13 (26.00%) AWS
3 10 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 6 (12.00%) GCP
5 4 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (8.00%) PaaS
6 3 (6.00%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (6.00%) Amazon S3
6 3 (6.00%) Azure AKS
6 3 (6.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (4.00%) OCI
7 2 (4.00%) Serverless
8 1 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.00%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.00%) SSH
2 1 (2.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (54.00%) Hadoop
2 23 (46.00%) Big Data
3 12 (24.00%) Impala
4 10 (20.00%) Power BI
5 9 (18.00%) Data Lake
5 9 (18.00%) HBase
6 8 (16.00%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (14.00%) SQL Server
8 6 (12.00%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (12.00%) Delta Lake
8 6 (12.00%) MySQL
8 6 (12.00%) Spark SQL
9 5 (10.00%) NoSQL
9 5 (10.00%) Relational Database
10 4 (8.00%) MongoDB
10 4 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (8.00%) Tableau
11 3 (6.00%) Flink
11 3 (6.00%) Parquet
11 3 (6.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 9 (18.00%) JIRA
2 6 (12.00%) Git
2 6 (12.00%) GitLab
3 4 (8.00%) Jenkins
3 4 (8.00%) RStudio
4 3 (6.00%) TeamCity
5 1 (2.00%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.00%) ERwin
5 1 (2.00%) JUnit
5 1 (2.00%) Mockito
5 1 (2.00%) Selenium
5 1 (2.00%) Subversion
5 1 (2.00%) Zephyr
General
1 22 (44.00%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (42.00%) Finance
3 12 (24.00%) Banking
4 11 (22.00%) Social Skills
5 6 (12.00%) Financial Institution
6 3 (6.00%) Public Sector
7 2 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (4.00%) Investment Banking
7 2 (4.00%) Law
7 2 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.00%) Automotive
8 1 (2.00%) Front Office
8 1 (2.00%) International Banking
8 1 (2.00%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (32.00%) Data Engineer
2 11 (22.00%) Developer
3 5 (10.00%) Big Data Developer
3 5 (10.00%) Gen AI Specialist
4 4 (8.00%) Java Developer
5 3 (6.00%) Apache Spark Developer
5 3 (6.00%) Architect
5 3 (6.00%) Python Developer
6 2 (4.00%) Administrator
6 2 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
6 2 (4.00%) Big Data Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (4.00%) Consultant
6 2 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) GCP Data Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) GCP Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Hadoop Developer
6 2 (4.00%) Informatica Administrator
6 2 (4.00%) Scala Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (38.00%) PySpark
2 10 (20.00%) Kafka
3 8 (16.00%) JSON
4 7 (14.00%) TensorFlow
5 6 (12.00%) pydantic
5 6 (12.00%) YAML
6 5 (10.00%) Apache Avro
7 3 (6.00%) Apache Beam
7 3 (6.00%) CSS
7 3 (6.00%) HTML
8 1 (2.00%) REST
8 1 (2.00%) Spring
8 1 (2.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.00%) Distributed Computing
2 7 (14.00%) Credit Risk
3 6 (12.00%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (10.00%) Algorithms
4 5 (10.00%) Data Structures
4 5 (10.00%) Reference Data
5 4 (8.00%) Product Ownership
6 3 (6.00%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (6.00%) Public Cloud
6 3 (6.00%) Virtual Team
7 2 (4.00%) Cloud Native
7 2 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (2.00%) Life Science
8 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
8 1 (2.00%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.00%) Linux
2 5 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
2 16 (32.00%) ETL
2 16 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (30.00%) Agile
4 14 (28.00%) Data Modelling
5 12 (24.00%) Computer Science
6 11 (22.00%) Data Science
7 10 (20.00%) DevOps
8 9 (18.00%) Analytics
8 9 (18.00%) CI/CD
9 8 (16.00%) Artificial Intelligence
9 8 (16.00%) Data Management
9 8 (16.00%) Data Security
9 8 (16.00%) Risk Management
10 7 (14.00%) Data Analytics
10 7 (14.00%) Data Ingestion
10 7 (14.00%) Generative AI
10 7 (14.00%) Machine Learning
10 7 (14.00%) Mathematics
10 7 (14.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 33 (66.00%) SQL
2 27 (54.00%) Python
3 17 (34.00%) Scala
4 16 (32.00%) Java
5 7 (14.00%) Bash
5 7 (14.00%) JavaScript
6 4 (8.00%) C#
6 4 (8.00%) PowerShell
7 3 (6.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (2.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (24.00%) Degree
2 8 (16.00%) Master's Degree
2 8 (16.00%) Security Cleared
3 7 (14.00%) PhD
4 5 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (10.00%) SC Cleared
5 2 (4.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.00%) GDPR
2 2 (4.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (10.00%) HDFS
2 1 (2.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (18.00%) Terraform
2 5 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.00%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (2.00%) Ansible
4 1 (2.00%) Apache Ranger
4 1 (2.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 10 (20.00%) Databricks
2 8 (16.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (14.00%) Cloudera
3 7 (14.00%) Oracle
4 5 (10.00%) Informatica
5 3 (6.00%) Foundry
5 3 (6.00%) Palantir
6 2 (4.00%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (4.00%) IBM
6 2 (4.00%) Sparx
6 2 (4.00%) StreamSets
7 1 (2.00%) Cognos
7 1 (2.00%) Confluent
7 1 (2.00%) Google
7 1 (2.00%) Hitachi