Hadoop YARN Contracts

Apache Hadoop YARN (MapReduce 2.0)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Hadoop YARN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Hadoop YARN over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 518 572 713
Rank change year-on-year +54 +141 +111
Contract jobs citing Hadoop YARN 2 10 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.023% 0.008%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.044% 0.19% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - £430 -
25th Percentile - £475 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -2.44% -10.87%
75th Percentile - £559 £544
90th Percentile - £666 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £450 -
% change year-on-year +33.33% - -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Hadoop YARN falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,597 5,137 9,615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.70% 11.79% 16.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,150 3,667 6,945
10th Percentile £313 £258 £356
25th Percentile £419 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £563
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £675
90th Percentile £725 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 127 209
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.00 £16.48
25th Percentile £19.51 £17.77 £22.75
Median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%
75th Percentile £50.75 £54.38 £71.50
90th Percentile £69.88 £70.50 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.34 £38.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -34.18% -12.00% +118.75%

Hadoop YARN
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Hadoop YARN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Hadoop YARN in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Hadoop YARN.

Daily rate trend for Hadoop YARN in the UK

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Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Hadoop YARN within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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
UK excluding London +61 1 £600 +33.33%
England +49 1 - -
Work from Home +41 1 £600 - 1
London +32 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 £600 -

Hadoop YARN
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 (100.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 2 (100.00%) Big Data
1 2 (100.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (50.00%) HBase
2 1 (50.00%) Impala
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Big Data Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Client Onboarding
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) Data Security
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Electronic Trading
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Scala
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Ranger
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cloudera