Hadoop Contracts in the West Midlands

Apache Hadoop
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Hadoop skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Hadoop over the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 108 108
Rank change year-on-year +6 0 +29
Contract jobs citing Hadoop 4 5 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.25% 0.25% 0.81%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.46% 1.68% 4.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 15
10th Percentile £365 - £505
25th Percentile £371 £550 £529
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £387 £581 £540
Median % change year-on-year -33.40% +7.59% +0.93%
75th Percentile £397 £612 -
90th Percentile £400 - £552
England median daily rate £550 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +5.77% -5.45% -8.33%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
West Midlands

Hadoop 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 274 298 362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.93% 15.14% 16.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 212 241
10th Percentile £275 £310 £324
25th Percentile £400 £358 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -12.20% +3.54%
75th Percentile £575 £603 £606
90th Percentile £632 £723 £700
England median daily rate £520 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -1.89% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile £16.67 £34.59 £24.13
25th Percentile £18.74 £35.57 £24.31
Median hourly rate £29.33 £37.22 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year -21.19% +47.39% -
75th Percentile £33.88 £38.86 £30.48
90th Percentile £34.54 £39.84 £33.24
England median hourly rate £34.65 £40.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -13.38% -27.27% +29.41%

Hadoop
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Hadoop as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Hadoop in the West Midlands

Hadoop
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Hadoop in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Hadoop in the West Midlands

Hadoop
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Hadoop in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Hadoop in the West Midlands

Hadoop
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 Hadoop within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 July 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
Birmingham +7 3 £387 - 3
Warwickshire - 1 - -
Hadoop
England

Hadoop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 4 (100.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (25.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Composer
3 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) SSH
1 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) Internet
2 1 (25.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Big Data
2 3 (75.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (50.00%) Delta Lake
3 2 (50.00%) Parquet
3 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (25.00%) BigQuery
4 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (25.00%) Power BI
4 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (25.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (50.00%) MLflow
1 2 (50.00%) SonarQube
1 2 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) Poetry
2 1 (25.00%) PyCharm
2 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Big Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (25.00%) GCP Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Avro
1 2 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (50.00%) Flask
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
1 2 (50.00%) NumPy
1 2 (50.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Fabric
1 1 (25.00%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) ETL
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (50.00%) Data Science
2 2 (50.00%) Data Security
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (50.00%) Secrets Management
3 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Data Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Dependency Management
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) Python
3 2 (50.00%) Bash
3 2 (50.00%) Groovy
4 1 (25.00%) Java
4 1 (25.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Argo
1 2 (50.00%) Istio
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cloudera
2 1 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat