Hadoop Contract Job Trends

Apache Hadoop
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Hadoop skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 453 348 423
Rank change year-on-year -105 +75 -81
Contract jobs citing Hadoop 133 170 163
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.54% 0.38%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.14% 2.97% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 117 96
10th Percentile £301 £380 £388
25th Percentile £402 £506 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £676 £656
90th Percentile £770 £700 £794
UK excluding London median daily rate £449 £650 £500
% change year-on-year -31.00% +30.00% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 13
10th Percentile £66.63 - £42.50
25th Percentile £70.94 £51.25 £43.03
Median hourly rate £82.00 £52.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.19% -19.23% -35.00%
75th Percentile £87.50 £53.75 £72.00
90th Percentile £88.75 - £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.00 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - -25.00%

All Database & BI Skills
UK

Hadoop falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,229 5,725 7,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.71% 18.30% 16.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,298 3,767 5,044
10th Percentile £333 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 79 162
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.78 £16.01
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.25 £21.64
Median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.29% -22.22% -20.86%
75th Percentile £74.37 £64.61 £63.56
90th Percentile £84.10 £67.55 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £49.36 £28.65 £42.50
% change year-on-year +72.29% -32.59% -22.73%

Hadoop
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Hadoop job vacancy trend in the UK

Hadoop
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Hadoop
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hadoop over the 6 months to 20 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Hadoop in the UK

Hadoop
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Hadoop
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Hadoop over the 6 months to 20 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Hadoop in the UK

Hadoop
Top 14 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Hadoop within the UK over the 6 months to 20 January 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 -83 117 £475 -22.61% 37
London -39 72 £513 -13.18% 19
UK excluding London -63 51 £449 -31.00% 22
Work from Home -29 30 £420 -25.00% 29
Midlands -36 20 £430 -12.07% 2
North of England -46 18 £417 -38.30% 2
West Midlands -29 12 £488 -0.41% 1
Yorkshire -39 12 £475 +5.56%
East Midlands -25 8 £420 +43.34% 1
Scotland +4 7 £500 +31.75% 3
North West -27 6 £269 -60.15% 2
South East -23 4 £475 -17.68% 12
South West -17 3 £500 -25.09% 1
Northern Ireland -1 1 £513 -14.58%

Hadoop
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 77 (57.89%) Apache Spark
2 36 (27.07%) Apache
3 25 (18.80%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (8.27%) Confluence
5 9 (6.77%) Apache Pig
6 3 (2.26%) SAS
7 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.75%) IIS
8 1 (0.75%) Luigi
8 1 (0.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (3.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 50 (37.59%) AWS
2 26 (19.55%) Azure
2 26 (19.55%) Power Platform
3 23 (17.29%) GCP
4 14 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
5 12 (9.02%) Amazon Kinesis
6 11 (8.27%) AWS Step Functions
6 11 (8.27%) Serverless
7 9 (6.77%) Snowflake
8 6 (4.51%) Amazon S3
9 5 (3.76%) GitHub
10 4 (3.01%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (3.01%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (2.26%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (2.26%) Amazon EMR
11 3 (2.26%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (2.26%) AWS Direct Connect
11 3 (2.26%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (2.26%) Route 53
11 3 (2.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.01%) Kerberos
2 3 (2.26%) VPN
3 2 (1.50%) SSH
4 1 (0.75%) HTTP
4 1 (0.75%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (63.16%) Big Data
2 42 (31.58%) Apache Hive
3 26 (19.55%) Power BI
4 21 (15.79%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (15.04%) HBase
6 19 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
7 17 (12.78%) Impala
7 17 (12.78%) NoSQL
8 15 (11.28%) MySQL
9 14 (10.53%) Data Mining
10 12 (9.02%) Data Lake
10 12 (9.02%) PostgreSQL
11 11 (8.27%) Amazon RDS
11 11 (8.27%) Apache Cassandra
12 9 (6.77%) Metadata
13 7 (5.26%) MongoDB
13 7 (5.26%) SQL Server
13 7 (5.26%) Tableau
14 6 (4.51%) Relational Database
15 3 (2.26%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 18 (13.53%) Git
2 12 (9.02%) JIRA
3 9 (6.77%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.51%) GitLab
5 2 (1.50%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.50%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.50%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.50%) Subversion
5 2 (1.50%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.75%) ERwin
General
1 44 (33.08%) Finance
2 33 (24.81%) Social Skills
3 22 (16.54%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (13.53%) Banking
5 5 (3.76%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.26%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.50%) Marketing
8 1 (0.75%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.75%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 43 (32.33%) Data Engineer
2 19 (14.29%) Developer
3 14 (10.53%) Data Scientist
4 11 (8.27%) Analyst
4 11 (8.27%) Senior
5 9 (6.77%) Data Analyst
5 9 (6.77%) Hadoop Engineer
5 9 (6.77%) Java Engineer
5 9 (6.77%) Lead
6 8 (6.02%) Scala Developer
7 7 (5.26%) Python Engineer
7 7 (5.26%) Software Engineer
8 6 (4.51%) Java Software Engineer
8 6 (4.51%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (4.51%) Senior Data Engineer
9 5 (3.76%) Apache Spark Developer
9 5 (3.76%) Architect
9 5 (3.76%) Data Architect
9 5 (3.76%) Hadoop Developer
9 5 (3.76%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (23.31%) Kafka
2 16 (12.03%) PySpark
3 15 (11.28%) Spark Streaming
4 13 (9.77%) Apache NiFi
5 9 (6.77%) REST
6 8 (6.02%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (4.51%) JSON
7 6 (4.51%) Pandas
7 6 (4.51%) scikit-learn
8 5 (3.76%) NumPy
9 4 (3.01%) RESTful
10 3 (2.26%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (2.26%) XML
10 3 (2.26%) YAML
11 2 (1.50%) .NET
11 2 (1.50%) .NET Core
11 2 (1.50%) HTML
11 2 (1.50%) Keras
11 2 (1.50%) SOAP
11 2 (1.50%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.53%) Algorithms
2 11 (8.27%) Distributed Computing
2 11 (8.27%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.02%) Cloud Native
3 8 (6.02%) Onboarding
4 7 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (4.51%) Virtual Team
6 5 (3.76%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.26%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.26%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.50%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.50%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.75%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.75%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 27 (20.30%) Linux
2 6 (4.51%) Unix
3 2 (1.50%) Windows
3 2 (1.50%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.75%) CentOS
4 1 (0.75%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (35.34%) Analytics
2 38 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
3 37 (27.82%) Agile
4 35 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (25.56%) ETL
6 33 (24.81%) Visualisation
7 32 (24.06%) Data Engineering
7 32 (24.06%) Data Modelling
8 29 (21.80%) CI/CD
9 26 (19.55%) Data Governance
10 25 (18.80%) Business Intelligence
11 24 (18.05%) Decision-Making
11 24 (18.05%) Software Engineering
12 22 (16.54%) Data Science
12 22 (16.54%) Machine Learning
13 21 (15.79%) Microservices
14 20 (15.04%) Data Analytics
14 20 (15.04%) DevOps
14 20 (15.04%) Performance Tuning
15 16 (12.03%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 83 (62.41%) Python
2 57 (42.86%) SQL
3 46 (34.59%) Java
4 24 (18.05%) Scala
5 15 (11.28%) R
6 11 (8.27%) Shell Script
7 9 (6.77%) Bash
8 4 (3.01%) C#
8 4 (3.01%) C++
9 2 (1.50%) Ada
9 2 (1.50%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.50%) Perl
9 2 (1.50%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.75%) Go
10 1 (0.75%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (16.54%) Security Cleared
2 16 (12.03%) SC Cleared
3 14 (10.53%) DV Cleared
4 9 (6.77%) Degree
5 6 (4.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.26%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.50%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.50%) MCP
8 1 (0.75%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.50%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.50%) GDPR
2 2 (1.50%) QA
3 1 (0.75%) HIPAA
System Software
1 27 (20.30%) HDFS
2 19 (14.29%) Docker
3 2 (1.50%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.75%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 19 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 14 (10.53%) Ansible
3 11 (8.27%) Hadoop YARN
4 10 (7.52%) Grafana
5 7 (5.26%) Puppet
5 7 (5.26%) Terraform
6 6 (4.51%) Prometheus
7 5 (3.76%) Argo
8 3 (2.26%) Kibana
8 3 (2.26%) Nagios
8 3 (2.26%) Oozie
8 3 (2.26%) Rancher
9 2 (1.50%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.75%) Ambari
10 1 (0.75%) Apache Ranger
10 1 (0.75%) logstash
10 1 (0.75%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.75%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (11.28%) Cloudera
2 14 (10.53%) Databricks
3 11 (8.27%) Splunk
4 10 (7.52%) Foundry
4 10 (7.52%) Palantir
5 8 (6.02%) Google
6 6 (4.51%) Informatica
6 6 (4.51%) Microsoft
6 6 (4.51%) Oracle
7 5 (3.76%) Ab Initio
8 4 (3.01%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.50%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.75%) Confluent
10 1 (0.75%) IBM
10 1 (0.75%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.75%) SnapLogic
10 1 (0.75%) StreamSets
10 1 (0.75%) Teradata
10 1 (0.75%) Zoomdata