Cloudera Contract Job Trends

Cloudera
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Cloudera products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloudera over the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Cloudera, Inc.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 658 517 509
Rank change year-on-year -141 -8 +103
Contract jobs citing Cloudera 27 41 53
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.050% 0.12% 0.14%
As % of the Vendors category 0.12% 0.26% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 32 25
10th Percentile £432 £313 £316
25th Percentile £492 £375 £329
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £370
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +48.65% -43.08%
75th Percentile £554 £613 £569
90th Percentile £569 £694 £690
UK excluding London median daily rate £545 £372 £356
% change year-on-year +46.42% +4.46% -

All Vendors
UK

Cloudera falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 22,721 15,802 16,899
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.69% 47.64% 44.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,733 9,722 9,953
10th Percentile £310 £275 £288
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £620 £613 £625
90th Percentile £710 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £486 £500
% change year-on-year +2.83% -2.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,391 808 602
10th Percentile £13.84 £14.75 £14.86
25th Percentile £16.10 £17.74 £16.00
Median hourly rate £24.19 £25.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.24% -23.08% -24.86%
75th Percentile £57.25 £38.80 £64.88
90th Percentile £77.50 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.18 £21.10 £30.00
% change year-on-year +9.86% -29.67% -29.41%

Cloudera
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Cloudera job vacancy trend in the UK

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Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Cloudera

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloudera over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cloudera in the UK

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Cloudera

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Top 10 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloudera within the UK over the 6 months to 9 October 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
England -121 26 £500 -9.09% 13
London -100 17 £500 -13.04% 6
Work from Home -64 9 £535 -11.75% 8
UK excluding London -100 9 £545 +46.42% 6
Midlands -38 6 £545 +40.72% 1
West Midlands -40 6 £545 +40.72% 1
North of England -69 2 £513 +53.67% 4
Yorkshire -34 1 £600 -
North East - 1 £425 - 2
South West - 1 - -

Cloudera
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 18 (66.67%) Apache Spark
2 10 (37.04%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (22.22%) Apache
4 3 (11.11%) SAS
5 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 10 (37.04%) AWS
1 10 (37.04%) Azure
2 8 (29.63%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (22.22%) PaaS
4 5 (18.52%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (18.52%) Power Platform
5 4 (14.81%) Azure AKS
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon MSK
6 1 (3.70%) Apigee
6 1 (3.70%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Databricks
6 1 (3.70%) Datadog
6 1 (3.70%) GCP
6 1 (3.70%) GitHub
6 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (59.26%) Big Data
2 14 (51.85%) Apache Hive
3 8 (29.63%) Data Lake
4 7 (25.93%) Hadoop
5 6 (22.22%) Pentaho
6 5 (18.52%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (18.52%) Power BI
7 3 (11.11%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (11.11%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (11.11%) Cloudera CDH
7 3 (11.11%) HBase
7 3 (11.11%) Metadata
7 3 (11.11%) MongoDB
7 3 (11.11%) MySQL
8 2 (7.41%) Impala
8 2 (7.41%) NoSQL
8 2 (7.41%) Tableau
9 1 (3.70%) BigQuery
9 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (3.70%) Flink
Development Applications
1 15 (55.56%) GitLab
2 8 (29.63%) Jenkins
3 2 (7.41%) Git
3 2 (7.41%) TeamCity
4 1 (3.70%) JIRA
4 1 (3.70%) JUnit
4 1 (3.70%) Robot Framework
4 1 (3.70%) Selenium
General
1 6 (22.22%) Finance
2 4 (14.81%) Banking
2 4 (14.81%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Marketing
4 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (25.93%) Data Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Architect
4 4 (14.81%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Big Data Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Data Architect
5 3 (11.11%) Java Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Senior
6 2 (7.41%) Senior Architect
6 2 (7.41%) Senior Data Architect
7 1 (3.70%) AWS Data Architect
7 1 (3.70%) Consultant
7 1 (3.70%) Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Architect
7 1 (3.70%) Gen AI Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Java Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Platform Architect
7 1 (3.70%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (29.63%) Terraform
2 6 (22.22%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (11.11%) Kafka
3 3 (11.11%) PySpark
3 3 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (7.41%) Spring
4 2 (7.41%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.70%) pytest
5 1 (3.70%) REST
5 1 (3.70%) Spark Streaming
5 1 (3.70%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 3 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (7.41%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.70%) Clustering
4 1 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (22.22%) Linux
2 2 (7.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (59.26%) Data Pipeline
2 15 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 15 (55.56%) Data Engineering
3 13 (48.15%) DevOps
4 11 (40.74%) Data Governance
5 10 (37.04%) Agile
5 10 (37.04%) Data Integration
5 10 (37.04%) ETL
6 8 (29.63%) Data Modelling
6 8 (29.63%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (25.93%) Containerisation
8 6 (22.22%) Community of Practice
8 6 (22.22%) High Availability
9 5 (18.52%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (18.52%) Data Science
9 5 (18.52%) Data Transformation
9 5 (18.52%) Master Data Management
9 5 (18.52%) Mentoring
10 4 (14.81%) Personalization
Programming Languages
1 12 (44.44%) Python
2 9 (33.33%) Java
2 9 (33.33%) SQL
3 8 (29.63%) Bash
3 8 (29.63%) PowerShell
4 3 (11.11%) C#
4 3 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 2 (7.41%) Scala
5 2 (7.41%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (3.70%) Korn
Qualifications
1 6 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 6 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) Degree
2 1 (3.70%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.41%) QA
2 2 (7.41%) SLA
3 1 (3.70%) IFRS
3 1 (3.70%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 6 (22.22%) Docker
2 5 (18.52%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 11 (40.74%) Kubernetes
2 4 (14.81%) Ansible
2 4 (14.81%) Puppet
3 3 (11.11%) Grafana
3 3 (11.11%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.70%) Control-M
Vendors
1 7 (25.93%) Oracle
2 5 (18.52%) Databricks
2 5 (18.52%) Informatica
3 3 (11.11%) SAP
3 3 (11.11%) Talend
4 1 (3.70%) Adobe
4 1 (3.70%) Hortonworks
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.70%) Pega
4 1 (3.70%) Teradata