Hybrid/Remote Hadoop Engineer Contract Job Trends

Hadoop Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Hadoop Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £325, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 September 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
2 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 337 429
Rank change year-on-year +27 +92 +166
Contract jobs requiring a Hadoop Engineer 4 2 1
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.041% 0.016% 0.005%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.017% 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £374 -
25th Percentile £313 £375 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £377 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.68% - -
75th Percentile £338 £378 -
90th Percentile - £379 -
UK median daily rate £475 £380 -
% change year-on-year +25.00% - -

All DemandTrendContract 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 9,137 11,986 19,771
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.85% 93.54% 94.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,031 7,871 13,964
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £415 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -0.94% -2.75%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 293 325 472
10th Percentile £13.05 £17.90 £16.98
25th Percentile £19.07 £30.12 £24.70
Median hourly rate £37.28 £45.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.16% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.61 £66.94
90th Percentile £68.70 £75.00 £78.98
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +63.46%

Hadoop Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Hadoop Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote Hadoop Engineer job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote Hadoop Engineer job vacancies

Hadoop Engineer Skill Set
Top 27 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 2 September 2025, Hadoop Engineer 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 hybrid or remote work options featuring Hadoop Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Apache
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 4 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 4 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Hadoop YARN
2 3 (75.00%) Spark Streaming
2 3 (75.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (75.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (75.00%) Puppet
2 3 (75.00%) Apache Hive
2 3 (75.00%) Data Governance
2 3 (75.00%) HBase
2 3 (75.00%) Data Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Ansible
2 3 (75.00%) HDFS
2 3 (75.00%) Shell Script
2 3 (75.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (75.00%) Data Security
2 3 (75.00%) Use Case
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) Big Data

Hadoop Engineer 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 4 (100.00%) Apache
1 4 (100.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (75.00%) Apache Airflow
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Hadoop
2 3 (75.00%) Apache Hive
2 3 (75.00%) HBase
3 1 (25.00%) Big Data
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (75.00%) Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (75.00%) Data Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Data Governance
2 3 (75.00%) Data Security
2 3 (75.00%) Use Case
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) Hadoop YARN
1 3 (75.00%) Puppet