HBase Contracts

Apache HBase
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring HBase skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited HBase over the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 542 550 643
Rank change year-on-year +8 +93 +67
Contract jobs citing HBase 11 18 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.033% 0.046% 0.040%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.18% 0.26% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 7
10th Percentile £393 £516 £595
25th Percentile £406 £524 £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year -27.83% -11.54% +20.37%
75th Percentile £450 £694 £792
90th Percentile £488 £743 £900
UK excluding London median daily rate £410 £520 £659
% change year-on-year -21.15% -21.06% +24.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £66.25 -
Median hourly rate - £67.50 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - -13.46% -
75th Percentile - £68.75 £90.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £67.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year - -13.46% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

HBase 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 5,961 7,031 9,037
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.07% 18.05% 17.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,022 4,961 6,307
10th Percentile £344 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £651 £650
90th Percentile £750 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 102 169
10th Percentile £20.87 £15.10 £20.98
25th Percentile £25.99 £20.00 £31.69
Median hourly rate £34.99 £34.47 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.52% -34.35% +28.90%
75th Percentile £59.75 £56.88 £73.75
90th Percentile £78.58 £71.50 £78.84
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.64 £30.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year +5.47% -38.77% +39.99%

HBase
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for HBase in the UK

HBase
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for HBase in the UK

HBase
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HBase over the 6 months to 13 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HBase in the UK

HBase
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for HBase in the UK

HBase
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HBase within the UK over the 6 months to 13 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +13 9 £410 -21.15% 3
England 0 9 £435 -24.35% 8
East Midlands - 7 £415 - 1
Midlands - 7 £415 - 2
Work from Home +25 6 £420 - 4
London +10 2 £450 -32.08% 6
Northern Ireland - 2 £410 - 1

HBase
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 11 (100.00%) Apache Spark
2 5 (45.45%) Apache
3 2 (18.18%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (18.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (100.00%) Apache Hive
2 10 (90.91%) Big Data
3 9 (81.82%) Impala
4 8 (72.73%) Hadoop
5 4 (36.36%) NoSQL
6 2 (18.18%) Metadata
7 1 (9.09%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Git
General
1 7 (63.64%) Finance
2 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Financial Institution
3 2 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (18.18%) Law
3 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Automotive
4 1 (9.09%) Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Developer
2 5 (45.45%) Scala Developer
3 4 (36.36%) Apache Spark Developer
4 3 (27.27%) Data Engineer
5 2 (18.18%) Big Data Engineer
5 2 (18.18%) Hadoop Developer
5 2 (18.18%) Java Developer
5 2 (18.18%) Scala Engineer
5 2 (18.18%) SQL Developer
6 1 (9.09%) Hadoop Engineer
6 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) Kafka
2 2 (18.18%) Apache Avro
2 2 (18.18%) JSON
2 2 (18.18%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (18.18%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (9.09%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) ETL
1 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
3 3 (27.27%) Data Engineering
3 3 (27.27%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (27.27%) Data Transformation
3 3 (27.27%) Multithreading
3 3 (27.27%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
4 2 (18.18%) Data Science
4 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
4 2 (18.18%) Low Latency
4 2 (18.18%) MapReduce
4 2 (18.18%) Metadata Management
4 2 (18.18%) SOA
4 2 (18.18%) Storyboarding
4 2 (18.18%) Unit Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Use Case
5 1 (9.09%) Data Modelling
5 1 (9.09%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Scala
2 6 (54.55%) Java
3 5 (45.45%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Hadoop YARN
1 2 (18.18%) Oozie
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Hitachi