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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 443 382 433
Rank change year-on-year -61 +51 -109
Contract jobs citing Hadoop 145 170 175
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.49% 0.40%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.28% 2.75% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 114 101
10th Percentile £304 £376 £369
25th Percentile £400 £493 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £676 £675
90th Percentile £613 £700 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 £612 £500
% change year-on-year -29.74% +22.40% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 14
10th Percentile £72.55 £40.75 £42.66
25th Percentile £79.00 £47.50 £48.26
Median hourly rate £85.00 £52.50 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +61.90% -27.08% -28.00%
75th Percentile £87.50 £53.75 £78.00
90th Percentile - - £78.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.00 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - -25.00%

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 6,364 6,193 7,399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.30% 18.00% 16.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,383 4,096 5,203
10th Percentile £328 £340 £350
25th Percentile £410 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £527 £535
Median % change year-on-year -5.08% -1.54% -2.73%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £701 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 85 140
10th Percentile £20.71 £18.20 £16.11
25th Percentile £29.00 £22.48 £21.56
Median hourly rate £43.50 £30.59 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +42.20% -33.76% -7.69%
75th Percentile £68.19 £60.75 £64.65
90th Percentile £85.00 £65.85 £77.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £27.35 £46.18
% change year-on-year +82.82% -40.78% +2.62%

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 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Hadoop in the UK

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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 17 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Hadoop in the UK

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Top 15 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 17 December 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 -54 130 £450 -26.53% 13
London -24 72 £450 -25.37% 6
UK excluding London -49 61 £430 -29.74% 9
Work from Home -12 38 £420 -20.30% 34
Midlands -21 25 £425 -13.27%
North of England -34 17 £358 -16.21% 3
West Midlands -30 14 £450 -15.49%
East Midlands -17 11 £420 +43.34%
Yorkshire -35 11 £475 +5.56%
Scotland +1 7 £500 +30.80%
South East -11 7 £475 -17.68% 3
North West -23 6 £269 -33.50% 3
South West -11 4 £435 -34.83%
East of England -15 2 £505 -22.31% 4
Northern Ireland - 1 £513 -

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 87 (60.00%) Apache Spark
2 38 (26.21%) Apache
3 28 (19.31%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (11.03%) Confluence
5 9 (6.21%) Apache Pig
6 3 (2.07%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (2.07%) SAS
7 2 (1.38%) Luigi
8 1 (0.69%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.07%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 53 (36.55%) AWS
2 31 (21.38%) Azure
3 28 (19.31%) GCP
3 28 (19.31%) Power Platform
4 13 (8.97%) Serverless
5 11 (7.59%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (7.59%) Amazon S3
6 9 (6.21%) Snowflake
7 8 (5.52%) AWS Step Functions
7 8 (5.52%) GitHub
8 7 (4.83%) Amazon Kinesis
9 6 (4.14%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (2.76%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (2.07%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (2.07%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (2.07%) AWS Direct Connect
11 3 (2.07%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (2.07%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 3 (2.07%) Route 53
11 3 (2.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.45%) SSH
2 4 (2.76%) Kerberos
3 3 (2.07%) TCP/IP
3 3 (2.07%) VPN
4 2 (1.38%) DNS
4 2 (1.38%) SSL
5 1 (0.69%) HTTP
5 1 (0.69%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (66.21%) Big Data
2 43 (29.66%) Apache Hive
3 28 (19.31%) Power BI
4 24 (16.55%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (15.17%) Elasticsearch
6 21 (14.48%) NoSQL
7 20 (13.79%) HBase
8 19 (13.10%) PostgreSQL
9 17 (11.72%) Impala
10 13 (8.97%) Data Mining
10 13 (8.97%) MySQL
10 13 (8.97%) Tableau
11 12 (8.28%) Data Lake
12 9 (6.21%) Amazon RDS
12 9 (6.21%) Apache Cassandra
12 9 (6.21%) Metadata
12 9 (6.21%) SQL Server
13 8 (5.52%) MongoDB
14 5 (3.45%) DB2
14 5 (3.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (15.17%) Git
2 17 (11.72%) JIRA
3 14 (9.66%) Jenkins
4 7 (4.83%) GitLab
5 5 (3.45%) SonarQube
6 4 (2.76%) Bitbucket
7 3 (2.07%) MLflow
8 2 (1.38%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.38%) Poetry
8 2 (1.38%) PyCharm
8 2 (1.38%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.38%) Subversion
8 2 (1.38%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.38%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.69%) ERwin
General
1 44 (30.34%) Finance
2 36 (24.83%) Social Skills
3 29 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (11.72%) Banking
5 5 (3.45%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.07%) Financial Institution
6 3 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.38%) Marketing
7 2 (1.38%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.69%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.69%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 50 (34.48%) Data Engineer
2 26 (17.93%) Developer
3 16 (11.03%) Data Scientist
4 9 (6.21%) Analyst
4 9 (6.21%) Hadoop Engineer
4 9 (6.21%) Python Engineer
4 9 (6.21%) Senior
5 8 (5.52%) Java Engineer
5 8 (5.52%) Scala Developer
6 7 (4.83%) Data Analyst
6 7 (4.83%) Hadoop Developer
6 7 (4.83%) Java Developer
6 7 (4.83%) Software Engineer
7 6 (4.14%) Java Software Engineer
7 6 (4.14%) Lead
7 6 (4.14%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (3.45%) Apache Spark Developer
8 5 (3.45%) Architect
8 5 (3.45%) Data Architect
8 5 (3.45%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (23.45%) Kafka
2 17 (11.72%) Apache NiFi
3 15 (10.34%) Spark Streaming
4 13 (8.97%) PySpark
5 10 (6.90%) Pandas
5 10 (6.90%) RabbitMQ
6 9 (6.21%) NumPy
6 9 (6.21%) REST
6 9 (6.21%) scikit-learn
7 7 (4.83%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (4.14%) JSON
9 5 (3.45%) RESTful
10 4 (2.76%) .NET
10 4 (2.76%) OpenTelemetry
10 4 (2.76%) PyTorch
10 4 (2.76%) TensorFlow
11 3 (2.07%) ActiveMQ
11 3 (2.07%) Apache Avro
11 3 (2.07%) Seaborn
11 3 (2.07%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (15.17%) Algorithms
2 13 (8.97%) Distributed Computing
3 9 (6.21%) Cloud Native
3 9 (6.21%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.83%) Onboarding
5 6 (4.14%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (3.45%) Data Centre
6 5 (3.45%) Data Structures
6 5 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (3.45%) Virtual Team
7 3 (2.07%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.38%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.69%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 32 (22.07%) Linux
2 8 (5.52%) Unix
3 2 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.38%) Windows
3 2 (1.38%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.69%) CentOS
4 1 (0.69%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (30.34%) Agile
1 44 (30.34%) Analytics
2 41 (28.28%) Data Pipeline
2 41 (28.28%) Problem-Solving
3 39 (26.90%) ETL
4 36 (24.83%) Data Engineering
4 36 (24.83%) Visualisation
5 32 (22.07%) Data Modelling
6 31 (21.38%) Business Intelligence
6 31 (21.38%) CI/CD
7 29 (20.00%) Data Science
7 29 (20.00%) Software Engineering
8 28 (19.31%) Decision-Making
9 27 (18.62%) Machine Learning
10 25 (17.24%) Data Governance
11 23 (15.86%) Data Analytics
11 23 (15.86%) DevOps
11 23 (15.86%) Microservices
12 22 (15.17%) Containerisation
13 19 (13.10%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 93 (64.14%) Python
2 64 (44.14%) SQL
3 46 (31.72%) Java
4 24 (16.55%) Scala
5 16 (11.03%) R
6 13 (8.97%) Bash
7 11 (7.59%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.07%) Groovy
9 2 (1.38%) C#
9 2 (1.38%) C++
9 2 (1.38%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.38%) Perl
9 2 (1.38%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.69%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 22 (15.17%) SC Cleared
3 18 (12.41%) DV Cleared
4 12 (8.28%) Degree
5 6 (4.14%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.07%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.07%) PhD
8 1 (0.69%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (15.86%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.38%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.38%) GDPR
2 2 (1.38%) QA
3 1 (0.69%) HIPAA
System Software
1 25 (17.24%) HDFS
2 18 (12.41%) Docker
3 2 (1.38%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.69%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 22 (15.17%) Kubernetes
2 18 (12.41%) Ansible
3 13 (8.97%) Grafana
4 11 (7.59%) Hadoop YARN
5 10 (6.90%) Argo
5 10 (6.90%) Terraform
6 9 (6.21%) Puppet
7 7 (4.83%) Prometheus
8 4 (2.76%) Kibana
9 3 (2.07%) Ambari
9 3 (2.07%) Istio
9 3 (2.07%) Nagios
9 3 (2.07%) Oozie
9 3 (2.07%) Rancher
9 3 (2.07%) ZABBIX
10 2 (1.38%) logstash
10 2 (1.38%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.69%) Apache Ranger
11 1 (0.69%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 21 (14.48%) Cloudera
2 13 (8.97%) Foundry
2 13 (8.97%) Palantir
3 12 (8.28%) Databricks
4 10 (6.90%) Google
5 9 (6.21%) Splunk
6 8 (5.52%) Microsoft
6 8 (5.52%) Oracle
7 5 (3.45%) Ab Initio
7 5 (3.45%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.76%) Informatica
9 3 (2.07%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.69%) Confluent
10 1 (0.69%) IBM
10 1 (0.69%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.69%) SnapLogic
10 1 (0.69%) StreamSets
10 1 (0.69%) Teradata
10 1 (0.69%) Zoomdata