Hadoop Contracts

Apache Hadoop
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Hadoop skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Hadoop over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 336 476 411
Rank change year-on-year +140 -65 -97
Contract jobs citing Hadoop 189 124 324
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.65% 0.28% 0.54%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.41% 1.70% 3.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 86 234
10th Percentile £400 £303 £471
25th Percentile £500 £391 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £505 £575
Median % change year-on-year +18.81% -12.17% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £642 £688
90th Percentile £733 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £475 £540
% change year-on-year +31.58% -12.04% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 6
10th Percentile £52.25 - £74.25
25th Percentile £53.75 £41.25 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £45.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -42.31% +29.46%
75th Percentile £68.73 £52.50 -
90th Percentile £74.71 £62.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £78.70 £67.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year +16.59% -13.46% -

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 5,544 7,303 10,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.96% 16.75% 18.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,832 5,193 7,664
10th Percentile £356 £350 £375
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.78%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £660
90th Percentile £763 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +1.88% -4.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 144 183
10th Percentile £20.09 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £24.25 £20.98 £35.00
Median hourly rate £33.11 £40.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.23% -33.33% +41.18%
75th Percentile £65.00 £58.55 £70.88
90th Percentile £74.75 £72.50 £79.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £58.05
% change year-on-year -25.00% -31.09% +65.84%

Hadoop
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Hadoop in the UK

Hadoop
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Hadoop in the UK

Hadoop
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hadoop over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Hadoop in the UK

Hadoop
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Hadoop.

Hourly rate trend for Hadoop in the UK

Hadoop
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Hadoop over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Hadoop in the UK

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Top 15 Contract 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 30 April 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
England +120 165 £600 +20.00% 165
London +59 84 £578 +5.09% 121
UK excluding London +87 76 £625 +31.58% 48
Work from Home +67 56 £575 +12.75% 87
North of England +40 23 £625 +25.00% 10
North West +20 18 £650 +21.50% 5
East of England +42 15 £650 +100.00% 4
Midlands +25 13 £400 -8.57% 11
East Midlands +14 12 £400 -5.88% 4
South East +46 10 £454 -4.42% 7
South West +51 8 £650 +20.09% 9
Scotland +11 6 £506 -16.67% 5
Yorkshire +18 5 £600 +41.18% 4
Northern Ireland -7 2 £505 +18.82% 3
West Midlands +13 1 - - 6

Hadoop
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
1 130 (68.78%) Apache Spark
2 46 (24.34%) Apache
3 13 (6.88%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (4.76%) nginx
5 7 (3.70%) Confluence
6 5 (2.65%) SAS
7 2 (1.06%) CICS
7 2 (1.06%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.53%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.53%) Luigi
8 1 (0.53%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (2.12%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 84 (44.44%) AWS
2 61 (32.28%) Azure
3 36 (19.05%) GCP
4 21 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 18 (9.52%) Amazon S3
6 14 (7.41%) Snowflake
7 12 (6.35%) Serverless
8 10 (5.29%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (4.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 6 (3.17%) Entra ID
10 6 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (2.65%) Amazon EMR
12 4 (2.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (2.12%) dbt
12 4 (2.12%) OpenShift
13 3 (1.59%) Amazon Neptune
13 3 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (1.59%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.35%) TCP/IP
2 10 (5.29%) Firewall
3 7 (3.70%) DNS
4 6 (3.17%) VPN
5 5 (2.65%) HTTP
5 5 (2.65%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (1.06%) DHCP
6 2 (1.06%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (1.06%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.53%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (63.49%) Big Data
2 39 (20.63%) Apache Hive
3 34 (17.99%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (17.46%) Tableau
5 25 (13.23%) Data Lake
5 25 (13.23%) PostgreSQL
6 22 (11.64%) Elasticsearch
7 17 (8.99%) Power BI
8 16 (8.47%) Relational Database
9 15 (7.94%) Impala
10 14 (7.41%) MongoDB
11 13 (6.88%) Amazon Redshift
11 13 (6.88%) NoSQL
12 12 (6.35%) SQL Server
13 11 (5.82%) Amazon RDS
14 10 (5.29%) DB2
14 10 (5.29%) MySQL
15 9 (4.76%) Parquet
16 7 (3.70%) BigQuery
16 7 (3.70%) HBase
Development Applications
1 24 (12.70%) Jenkins
2 23 (12.17%) Git
3 10 (5.29%) JIRA
4 9 (4.76%) GitLab
5 5 (2.65%) Poetry
6 4 (2.12%) ERwin
7 3 (1.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (1.59%) Selenium
8 2 (1.06%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.06%) MLflow
8 2 (1.06%) SOAtest
9 1 (0.53%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.53%) IBM UrbanCode
9 1 (0.53%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.53%) JMeter
9 1 (0.53%) JUnit
9 1 (0.53%) ScalaTest
9 1 (0.53%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.53%) Zephyr
General
1 60 (31.75%) Finance
2 55 (29.10%) Analytical Skills
3 43 (22.75%) Social Skills
4 37 (19.58%) Banking
5 7 (3.70%) Financial Institution
5 7 (3.70%) Investment Banking
5 7 (3.70%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.06%) General Ledger
8 2 (1.06%) Retail
8 2 (1.06%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.53%) Automotive
9 1 (0.53%) French Language
9 1 (0.53%) Front Office
9 1 (0.53%) International Banking
9 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.53%) Marketing
9 1 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 45 (23.81%) Developer
2 31 (16.40%) Architect
2 31 (16.40%) Data Engineer
3 28 (14.81%) Senior
4 18 (9.52%) Data Architect
5 16 (8.47%) Data Scientist
6 14 (7.41%) Java Developer
6 14 (7.41%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 14 (7.41%) Senior Developer
7 13 (6.88%) Data Science Developer
7 13 (6.88%) Lead
8 12 (6.35%) DevOps Engineer
9 10 (5.29%) Senior Data Engineer
10 9 (4.76%) Apache Spark Developer
11 7 (3.70%) Analyst
12 6 (3.17%) Python Engineer
13 5 (2.65%) AWS DevOps
13 5 (2.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 5 (2.65%) AWS Engineer
13 5 (2.65%) Big Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (19.05%) Kafka
2 27 (14.29%) TensorFlow
3 25 (13.23%) PySpark
4 23 (12.17%) scikit-learn
5 20 (10.58%) PyTorch
6 19 (10.05%) Pandas
7 17 (8.99%) NumPy
8 16 (8.47%) OpenTelemetry
9 14 (7.41%) Matplotlib
9 14 (7.41%) Seaborn
10 12 (6.35%) React
11 9 (4.76%) Spark Streaming
12 8 (4.23%) Apache NiFi
13 7 (3.70%) JSON
13 7 (3.70%) Web Services
14 6 (3.17%) Elastic Stack
14 6 (3.17%) LAPP Stack
15 5 (2.65%) Dask
15 5 (2.65%) RabbitMQ
15 5 (2.65%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 31 (16.40%) Algorithms
2 21 (11.11%) Distributed Computing
3 10 (5.29%) Market Risk
4 8 (4.23%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.17%) Credit Risk
5 6 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.12%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.59%) Derivative
7 3 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.59%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.06%) Equities
8 2 (1.06%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.06%) Life Science
8 2 (1.06%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.06%) Mobile Payment
8 2 (1.06%) PKI
8 2 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.06%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 39 (20.63%) Linux
2 18 (9.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (5.82%) Unix
4 4 (2.12%) Windows
5 2 (1.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (34.39%) Analytics
2 58 (30.69%) CI/CD
2 58 (30.69%) Data Science
3 55 (29.10%) ETL
4 48 (25.40%) Data Pipeline
5 47 (24.87%) Machine Learning
6 40 (21.16%) Agile
6 40 (21.16%) DevOps
7 37 (19.58%) Problem-Solving
7 37 (19.58%) Visualisation
8 33 (17.46%) Data Analysis
9 31 (16.40%) Artificial Intelligence
9 31 (16.40%) Migration
10 30 (15.87%) Computer Science
11 27 (14.29%) Data Engineering
12 26 (13.76%) Data Architecture
12 26 (13.76%) Data Modelling
13 25 (13.23%) Decision-Making
14 23 (12.17%) Containerisation
14 23 (12.17%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 113 (59.79%) Python
2 79 (41.80%) SQL
3 39 (20.63%) Java
4 27 (14.29%) R
5 26 (13.76%) Scala
6 13 (6.88%) TypeScript
7 10 (5.29%) JavaScript
8 6 (3.17%) C#
9 5 (2.65%) Bash
9 5 (2.65%) Perl
9 5 (2.65%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.06%) Bicep
10 2 (1.06%) C++
10 2 (1.06%) COBOL
10 2 (1.06%) JCL
10 2 (1.06%) MATLAB
10 2 (1.06%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.06%) REXX
10 2 (1.06%) VB
11 1 (0.53%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (17.99%) Degree
2 22 (11.64%) PhD
2 22 (11.64%) Security Cleared
3 21 (11.11%) Master's Degree
4 13 (6.88%) DV Cleared
5 12 (6.35%) SC Cleared
6 10 (5.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.06%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.53%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.53%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.53%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (17.99%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.23%) GDPR
2 8 (4.23%) QA
3 2 (1.06%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.06%) Government Security Classifications
3 2 (1.06%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.53%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.53%) PMO
System Software
1 29 (15.34%) Docker
2 6 (3.17%) HDFS
3 3 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.06%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.53%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.53%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.53%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 46 (24.34%) Kubernetes
2 44 (23.28%) Terraform
3 26 (13.76%) Ansible
4 25 (13.23%) Grafana
5 16 (8.47%) Argo
6 8 (4.23%) Prometheus
7 4 (2.12%) Kibana
8 3 (1.59%) HAProxy
9 2 (1.06%) Apache Ranger
9 2 (1.06%) Hadoop YARN
9 2 (1.06%) Kubeflow
9 2 (1.06%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.53%) Istio
10 1 (0.53%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.53%) linkerd
10 1 (0.53%) logstash
10 1 (0.53%) Puppet
10 1 (0.53%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.53%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 18 (9.52%) Informatica
2 17 (8.99%) Cloudera
2 17 (8.99%) Databricks
3 15 (7.94%) Oracle
4 9 (4.76%) Google
4 9 (4.76%) Microsoft
5 6 (3.17%) StreamSets
6 5 (2.65%) IBM
6 5 (2.65%) Splunk
7 4 (2.12%) BiZZdesign
7 4 (2.12%) Sparx
7 4 (2.12%) Sybase
8 3 (1.59%) Talend
9 2 (1.06%) Ab Initio
9 2 (1.06%) Cisco
9 2 (1.06%) Foundry
9 2 (1.06%) Palantir
9 2 (1.06%) Parasoft
9 2 (1.06%) SAP
9 2 (1.06%) VMware