Apache Pig Contract Job Trends

Apache Pig
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Apache Pig skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 559 - 644
Rank change year-on-year - - +162
Contract jobs citing Apache Pig 9 0 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% - 0.014%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.25% - 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £505 - £593
25th Percentile £506 - £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 - £675
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.76%
75th Percentile £513 - £713
90th Percentile £514 - £728
UK excluding London median daily rate £511 - -

All Application Platform Skills
UK

Apache Pig falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,557 4,145 5,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.80% 10.76% 10.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,307 2,728 3,455
10th Percentile £275 £263 £256
25th Percentile £385 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £525 £501
Median % change year-on-year -8.10% +4.90% -4.67%
75th Percentile £595 £649 £643
90th Percentile £701 £825 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £463 £475
% change year-on-year -2.70% -2.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 86 159
10th Percentile £17.40 £17.08 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.25 £23.80 £21.00
Median hourly rate £36.50 £38.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.95% -27.62% +138.64%
75th Percentile £65.06 £70.00 £66.13
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.03 £48.56 £47.04
% change year-on-year -21.68% +3.24% +143.03%

Apache Pig
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Apache Pig in the UK

Apache Pig
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Apache Pig.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Apache Pig

Apache Pig
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Apache Pig.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Apache Pig

Apache Pig
Top 7 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Apache Pig within the UK over the 6 months to 18 September 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 - 9 £511 - 5
UK excluding London - 7 £511 - 3
North of England - 5 £514 -
Yorkshire - 5 £514 -
Midlands - 3 £511 -
West Midlands - 3 £511 -
London - 2 - - 4

Apache Pig
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 2 (22.22%) Apache
1 2 (22.22%) Apache Spark
2 1 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) Power Platform
2 1 (11.11%) Google Ads
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 9 (100.00%) Hadoop
2 8 (88.89%) Power BI
3 7 (77.78%) Data Mining
4 2 (22.22%) Big Data
5 1 (11.11%) HBase
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Data Scientist
2 6 (66.67%) Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Hadoop Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Kafka
1 1 (11.11%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 8 (88.89%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Data Munging
1 8 (88.89%) Data Science
1 8 (88.89%) Data Visualisation
1 8 (88.89%) Decision-Making
1 8 (88.89%) Linear Algebra
1 8 (88.89%) Machine Learning
1 8 (88.89%) Naive Bayes
1 8 (88.89%) Statistics
1 8 (88.89%) Support Vector Machines
1 8 (88.89%) Visualisation
2 7 (77.78%) Data Collection
3 2 (22.22%) Data Architecture
4 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (11.11%) Data Cleansing
4 1 (11.11%) Data Modelling
4 1 (11.11%) ETL
4 1 (11.11%) Mathematics
4 1 (11.11%) Statistical Analysis
4 1 (11.11%) Validation
4 1 (11.11%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Python
2 8 (88.89%) SQL
3 7 (77.78%) Java
3 7 (77.78%) Scala
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Splunk
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft