MapReduce Contracts

MapReduce
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for MapReduce skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited MapReduce over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 572 671 810
Rank change year-on-year +99 +139 -180
Contract jobs citing MapReduce 13 22 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% 0.038% 0.044%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.035% 0.042% 0.049%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 14 23
10th Percentile £420 £474 £485
25th Percentile £450 £509 £535
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £663 £575
Median % change year-on-year -24.53% +15.22% -4.17%
75th Percentile - £700 £694
90th Percentile - £721 £770
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 - £375
% change year-on-year - - -40.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile - - £52.05
25th Percentile £49.25 - £54.75
Median hourly rate £51.50 - £60.50
75th Percentile £59.75 - £63.76
90th Percentile £67.13 - £64.97
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

MapReduce is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,956 52,182 79,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.29% 89.83% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,793 36,175 55,967
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,727 1,890
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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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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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing MapReduce over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for MapReduce in the UK

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Top 5 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 7 May 2024. 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 +95 13 £500 -25.93% 3
London +82 12 £500 -25.93% 3
UK excluding London +68 1 £450 -
East Midlands - 1 £450 -
Midlands - 1 £450 -

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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 6 (46.15%) Apache Spark
Communications & Networking
1 6 (46.15%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) Big Data
2 7 (53.85%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (46.15%) Hadoop
4 5 (38.46%) Apache Hive
4 5 (38.46%) HBase
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Git
1 5 (38.46%) JIRA
1 5 (38.46%) Maven
1 5 (38.46%) Subversion
1 5 (38.46%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Data Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Programmer
3 1 (7.69%) Data Analytics Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Hadoop Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Scala Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Algorithms
2 2 (15.38%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Computer Science
1 7 (53.85%) Data Extraction
1 7 (53.85%) Data Modelling
1 7 (53.85%) ETL
1 7 (53.85%) Mathematics
2 6 (46.15%) User Experience
3 5 (38.46%) Agile
3 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
3 5 (38.46%) Design Patterns
3 5 (38.46%) Machine Learning
3 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (38.46%) Unit Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Analytics
5 1 (7.69%) Code Quality
5 1 (7.69%) Data Analysis
5 1 (7.69%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (7.69%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Java
2 8 (61.54%) Python
3 7 (53.85%) SQL
4 5 (38.46%) Scala
4 5 (38.46%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (53.85%) Data Quality
1 7 (53.85%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) Hadoop YARN