Apache Hive Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Apache Hive
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Apache Hive skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 92 108
Rank change year-on-year -44 +16 +38
Contract jobs citing Apache Hive 9 5 2
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.35% 0.35% 0.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.83% 2.11% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 2
10th Percentile £465 - £426
25th Percentile £488 £477 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £484 £488
Median % change year-on-year +4.86% -0.82% -9.72%
75th Percentile £511 £514 £522
90th Percentile £513 £558 £539
England median daily rate £450 £523 £475
% change year-on-year -13.96% +10.11% -9.52%

All Database & BI Skills
West Midlands

Apache Hive 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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 493 237 280
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 19.03% 16.47% 14.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 367 150 211
10th Percentile £364 £362 £300
25th Percentile £450 £425 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £597 £636
90th Percentile £650 £676 £700
England median daily rate £500 £538 £538
% change year-on-year -6.98% - -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £18.00 -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £41.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +21.95% -3.53% -25.26%

Apache Hive
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Apache Hive relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Apache Hive job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Apache Hive
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Apache Hive.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Apache Hive

Apache Hive
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Apache Hive.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Apache Hive

Apache Hive
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Apache Hive within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 February 2026. 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
Birmingham - 8 £507 -
Warwickshire -13 1 £450 -21.74%
Apache Hive
England

Apache Hive
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 4 (44.44%) Apache
1 4 (44.44%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (44.44%) Apache Spark
2 3 (33.33%) Apache Pig
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Power Platform
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) GCP
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (11.11%) Route 53
2 1 (11.11%) Serverless
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Kerberos
1 1 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) Hadoop
2 4 (44.44%) Data Mining
2 4 (44.44%) HBase
2 4 (44.44%) Power BI
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (11.11%) Big Data
3 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
3 1 (11.11%) Impala
3 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Data Scientist
2 3 (33.33%) Hadoop Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Hadoop Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) Spark Streaming
2 1 (11.11%) JSON
2 1 (11.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Algorithms
2 3 (33.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Analytics
1 5 (55.56%) Data Engineering
1 5 (55.56%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 4 (44.44%) Data Analytics
2 4 (44.44%) Data Collection
2 4 (44.44%) Data Governance
2 4 (44.44%) Data Munging
2 4 (44.44%) Data Science
2 4 (44.44%) Linear Algebra
2 4 (44.44%) Machine Learning
2 4 (44.44%) Naive Bayes
2 4 (44.44%) Statistics
2 4 (44.44%) Support Vector Machines
2 4 (44.44%) Use Case
2 4 (44.44%) Visualisation
3 3 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 3 (33.33%) Data Security
3 3 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
3 3 (33.33%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (44.44%) Java
2 4 (44.44%) Scala
2 4 (44.44%) Shell Script
2 4 (44.44%) SQL
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) HDFS
2 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Hadoop YARN
2 3 (33.33%) Ansible
2 3 (33.33%) Puppet
3 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Splunk
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Cloudera