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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 574 563 617
Rank change year-on-year -11 +54 +175
Contract jobs citing Apache Pig 9 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.027% 0.005% 0.011%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.24% 0.050% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £505 £351 -
25th Percentile £506 £355 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £370 £675
Median % change year-on-year +37.97% -45.19% -2.17%
75th Percentile £513 £385 £688
90th Percentile £514 £390 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £511 £370 -
% change year-on-year +37.97% - -

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 3,680 4,018 4,893
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.85% 10.98% 10.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,445 2,502 3,255
10th Percentile £285 £263 £250
25th Percentile £390 £400 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.47% +3.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £810 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £453 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +0.67% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 73 148
10th Percentile £16.64 £18.33 £15.94
25th Percentile £20.50 £23.80 £19.22
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +28.70% +43.75%
75th Percentile £65.25 £70.00 £65.25
90th Percentile £73.95 £74.00 £76.23
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -36.36% +103.70% +52.37%

Apache Pig
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Apache Pig relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Apache Pig job vacancy trend 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 28 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
England - 9 £511 -
UK excluding London -21 7 £511 +37.97% 1
North of England - 5 £514 -
Yorkshire - 5 £514 -
Midlands - 3 £511 -
West Midlands - 3 £511 -
London - 2 - -

Apache Pig
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 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%) Dashboard Development
4 1 (11.11%) Data Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Data Ingestion
4 1 (11.11%) Decision Tree
4 1 (11.11%) Feature Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) MapReduce
4 1 (11.11%) Model Validation
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Metrics
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