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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 544 554 657
Rank change year-on-year +10 +103 +184
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Hadoop YARN 10 5 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.031% 0.013% 0.022%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.19% 0.096% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 4
10th Percentile £408 - £543
25th Percentile £410 £400 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £450 £638
Median % change year-on-year -0.56% -29.41% +15.91%
75th Percentile £488 £500 £750
90th Percentile £499 - £885
UK excluding London median daily rate £448 £450 £625
% change year-on-year -0.56% -28.00% +21.95%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,133 5,199 7,694
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.67% 13.41% 15.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,372 3,619 5,383
10th Percentile £300 £308 £330
25th Percentile £410 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £622 £675
90th Percentile £688 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -2.00% -3.85% +1.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 71 176
10th Percentile £13.75 £20.00 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £25.75
Median hourly rate £31.39 £34.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -39.56% +150.00%
75th Percentile £63.49 £58.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £78.34 £74.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.23 £39.25 £46.18
% change year-on-year +22.87% -15.01% +130.90%

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

Hadoop YARN
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Hadoop YARN

Hadoop YARN
Top 9 DemandTrendContract 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 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +21 10 £448 -0.56% 1
UK excluding London +19 9 £448 -0.56% 1
Midlands -4 7 £420 -6.67% 1
Work from Home +30 5 £420 - 2
West Midlands - 4 £507 - 1
East Midlands -1 3 £420 -6.67%
Yorkshire - 3 £475 -
North of England - 3 £475 -
London +21 1 - -

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 10 (100.00%) Apache
1 10 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 10 (100.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Pig
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Google Ads
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 10 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 10 (100.00%) HBase
2 4 (40.00%) Big Data
3 3 (30.00%) Metadata
3 3 (30.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
General
1 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Hadoop Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Hadoop Developer
3 3 (30.00%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (70.00%) Spark Streaming
2 4 (40.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (30.00%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Data Engineering
2 9 (90.00%) Data Pipeline
3 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
4 7 (70.00%) Analytics
4 7 (70.00%) Data Analytics
5 5 (50.00%) Configuration Management
5 5 (50.00%) Data Security
6 4 (40.00%) Data Governance
6 4 (40.00%) MapReduce
6 4 (40.00%) Use Case
7 3 (30.00%) Data Science
7 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
7 3 (30.00%) Metadata Management
7 3 (30.00%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (30.00%) Unit Testing
8 1 (10.00%) Data Architecture
8 1 (10.00%) Data Ingestion
8 1 (10.00%) Data Modelling
8 1 (10.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Python
2 6 (60.00%) Shell Script
3 3 (30.00%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Ansible
1 5 (50.00%) Puppet
2 3 (30.00%) Oozie
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft