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 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 638 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Apache Pig 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.002% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.024% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £304 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £304 - -

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 4,208 3,203 4,194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.66% 11.12% 9.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,836 2,138 2,933
10th Percentile £313 £289 £258
25th Percentile £404 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.85%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £675 £713 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £468 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +3.89% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 54 159
10th Percentile £15.96 £16.05 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.03 £27.85 £15.48
Median hourly rate £32.50 £52.50 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year -38.10% +74.07% -36.51%
75th Percentile £62.25 £65.19 £51.91
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.74 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £27.51
% change year-on-year -36.36% +99.95% +0.03%

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 5 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 24 May 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
East Midlands - 1 £304 -
Midlands - 1 £304 -
England - 1 £304 -
Work from Home - 1 £304 -
UK excluding London - 1 £304 -

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 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) HBase
1 1 (100.00%) Sqoop
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) MapReduce
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Flume
1 1 (100.00%) HDFS