Hadoop Developer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Hadoop Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Hadoop Developer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £420, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 316 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Hadoop Developer 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.029% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.031% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £410 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 - -
75th Percentile £430 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £420 £438 -
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,619 12,658 21,783
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.84% 93.64% 94.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,421 8,550 15,364
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -0.94% -0.84%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 292 418 526
10th Percentile £13.05 £16.30 £16.98
25th Percentile £16.38 £26.91 £24.50
Median hourly rate £33.94 £45.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.59% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.40 £75.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £42.03 £43.00
% change year-on-year -40.16% -2.26% +67.45%

Hadoop Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Hadoop Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Hadoop Developer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Hadoop Developer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Hadoop Developer.

Hadoop Developer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Hadoop Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 27 July 2025, Hadoop Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with a WFH option featuring Hadoop Developer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 3 (100.00%) Big Data
1 3 (100.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) Scala
2 2 (66.67%) Kafka
2 2 (66.67%) Apache Hive
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) .NET
3 1 (33.33%) MySQL
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (33.33%) Apache
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (33.33%) QlikView
3 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 1 (33.33%) Git
3 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (33.33%) MapReduce
3 1 (33.33%) Tableau
3 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (33.33%) HBase
3 1 (33.33%) Metadata Management
3 1 (33.33%) Oozie

Hadoop Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (100.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (33.33%) Apache
2 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Big Data
1 3 (100.00%) Hadoop
2 2 (66.67%) Apache Hive
3 1 (33.33%) HBase
3 1 (33.33%) Metadata
3 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (33.33%) MySQL
3 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (33.33%) QlikView
3 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (33.33%) Spark SQL
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (33.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Data Collection
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Privacy
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) MapReduce
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Metadata Management
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Storage Management
2 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
2 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Scala
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Hadoop YARN
1 1 (33.33%) Oozie