MapReduce Contract Job Trends

MapReduce
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring MapReduce skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 561 548 610
Rank change year-on-year -13 +62 +186
Contract jobs citing MapReduce 10 5 18
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.030% 0.014% 0.038%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.033% 0.016% 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 15
10th Percentile £408 £435 £482
25th Percentile £410 £483 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £577 £540
Median % change year-on-year -25.42% +6.90% -15.29%
75th Percentile £479 £683 £605
90th Percentile £563 £738 £670
UK excluding London median daily rate £420 £405 £695
% change year-on-year +3.83% -41.80% -0.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile - - £59.48
25th Percentile £42.25 £49.25 £59.81
Median hourly rate £43.50 £50.50 £61.75
Median % change year-on-year -13.86% -18.22% +3.78%
75th Percentile £49.25 £51.75 £63.81
90th Percentile £51.95 - £64.23
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 30,417 31,751 42,257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.41% 86.14% 88.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,927 19,078 28,622
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,950 1,157 1,592
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.12 £18.71
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £42.75
Median % change year-on-year -32.95% -12.28% +22.14%
75th Percentile £42.69 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.27 £37.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -39.82% -12.94% +53.26%

MapReduce
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing MapReduce relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

MapReduce job vacancy trend in the UK

MapReduce
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MapReduce.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MapReduce

MapReduce
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MapReduce over the 6 months to 26 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MapReduce in the UK

MapReduce
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MapReduce.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MapReduce

MapReduce
Top 6 Contract Job 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 26 October 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 +6 10 £431 -25.42% 1
London +6 7 £475 -36.67% 1
UK excluding London -18 3 £420 +3.83%
East Midlands - 3 £420 -
Midlands - 3 £420 -
Work from Home - 2 £420 - 2

MapReduce
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 5 (50.00%) Apache
1 5 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 4 (40.00%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (10.00%) Apache Pig
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon EMR
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (20.00%) Azure AKS
2 2 (20.00%) Serverless
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (10.00%) Collibra
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) Google Ads
3 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (40.00%) Apache Hive
2 4 (40.00%) Big Data
2 4 (40.00%) Hadoop
2 4 (40.00%) HBase
3 3 (30.00%) Metadata
3 3 (30.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (20.00%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (20.00%) Tableau
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (10.00%) BigQuery
5 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
5 1 (10.00%) Mixpanel
5 1 (10.00%) OLAP
5 1 (10.00%) OLTP
5 1 (10.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
2 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (30.00%) Banking
3 3 (30.00%) Finance
4 2 (20.00%) Private Banking
5 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Hadoop Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Scala Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Architect
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Architect
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Solution Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Hadoop Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Principal Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Principal Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) Kafka
2 2 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (20.00%) Node.js
3 1 (10.00%) Great Expectations
3 1 (10.00%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) ETL
2 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 5 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (30.00%) Computer Science
4 3 (30.00%) Data Extraction
4 3 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (30.00%) Data Science
4 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (30.00%) Mathematics
4 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (30.00%) Metadata Management
4 3 (30.00%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (30.00%) Unit Testing
4 3 (30.00%) User Experience
5 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
5 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (20.00%) DevOps
5 2 (20.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Python
2 4 (40.00%) SQL
3 3 (30.00%) Java
3 3 (30.00%) Scala
4 2 (20.00%) Bash
5 1 (10.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (70.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (30.00%) SLA
3 1 (10.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) HDFS
2 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Hadoop YARN
2 3 (30.00%) Oozie
2 3 (30.00%) Terraform
3 2 (20.00%) Ansible
3 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Avaloq
2 1 (10.00%) Databricks
2 1 (10.00%) Google