MapReduce Contracts

MapReduce
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring MapReduce skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MapReduce over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 518 569 696
Rank change year-on-year +51 +127 +121
Contract jobs citing MapReduce 2 13 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.030% 0.037%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.008% 0.035% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 14
10th Percentile - £420 £474
25th Percentile - £450 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £500 £663
Median % change year-on-year - -24.53% +15.22%
75th Percentile - - £700
90th Percentile - - £721
UK excluding London median daily rate - £450 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41.25 £49.25 -
Median hourly rate £42.50 £51.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -17.48% - -
75th Percentile £43.75 £59.75 -
90th Percentile - £67.13 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

MapReduce falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for MapReduce in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for MapReduce in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for MapReduce in the UK

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Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MapReduce within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +46 2 - - 28
UK excluding London +63 1 - - 9
London +27 1 - - 16
South East - 1 - - 3

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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 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon ELB
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Storage
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Hive
2 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (50.00%) Big Data
2 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (50.00%) HBase
2 1 (50.00%) HDInsight
2 1 (50.00%) Impala
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata
2 1 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) IoT
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Auto-Scaling
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Extraction
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Time Management
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Flume
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) StreamSets