Hadoop Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 248 307 328
Rank change year-on-year +59 +21 -37
Contract jobs citing Hadoop 56 38 150
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.57% 0.25% 0.58%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.67% 1.31% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 26 110
10th Percentile £402 £300 £474
25th Percentile £500 £388 £526
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £510 £575
Median % change year-on-year +12.75% -11.30% -4.37%
75th Percentile £623 £694 £688
90th Percentile £650 £741 £753
UK median daily rate £600 £510 £575
% change year-on-year +17.65% -11.30% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £67.50 -
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £45.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +27.78% -42.31% +29.46%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,098 2,911 4,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 21.18% 18.97% 19.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,488 2,137 3,601
10th Percentile £363 £356 £386
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £675 £650 £650
90th Percentile £838 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 37 79
10th Percentile £22.50 £20.06 £22.16
25th Percentile £30.00 £22.61 £43.57
Median hourly rate £63.00 £40.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.50% -39.39% +46.67%
75th Percentile £66.00 £61.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £70.25 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Hadoop as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Hadoop trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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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.

Hadoop daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Hadoop over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hadoop daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Hadoop hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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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 39 (69.64%) Apache Spark
2 8 (14.29%) Apache
3 4 (7.14%) nginx
4 3 (5.36%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.79%) Confluence
5 1 (1.79%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (7.14%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (7.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 27 (48.21%) AWS
2 26 (46.43%) Azure
3 16 (28.57%) GCP
4 9 (16.07%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 9 (16.07%) Power Platform
4 9 (16.07%) Snowflake
5 5 (8.93%) Amazon S3
5 5 (8.93%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (7.14%) Entra ID
6 4 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (3.57%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (1.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.79%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (1.79%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.79%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.79%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.29%) Firewall
1 8 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 4 (7.14%) DNS
2 4 (7.14%) HTTP
2 4 (7.14%) Reverse Proxy
2 4 (7.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (60.71%) Big Data
2 13 (23.21%) Apache Hive
2 13 (23.21%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (23.21%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (21.43%) Data Lake
4 9 (16.07%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (10.71%) Parquet
6 5 (8.93%) Power BI
7 4 (7.14%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (7.14%) Apache Iceberg
7 4 (7.14%) Impala
7 4 (7.14%) MySQL
7 4 (7.14%) Presto
7 4 (7.14%) SQL Server
8 3 (5.36%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (5.36%) BigQuery
8 3 (5.36%) HBase
8 3 (5.36%) NoSQL
8 3 (5.36%) Relational Database
8 3 (5.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (10.71%) Git
1 6 (10.71%) GitLab
1 6 (10.71%) Jenkins
2 4 (7.14%) Poetry
3 2 (3.57%) JIRA
3 2 (3.57%) MLflow
4 1 (1.79%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.79%) JMeter
General
1 17 (30.36%) Social Skills
2 12 (21.43%) Finance
3 11 (19.64%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (17.86%) Banking
5 4 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.36%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.79%) Advertising
7 1 (1.79%) Automotive
7 1 (1.79%) French Language
7 1 (1.79%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.79%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.79%) Marketing
7 1 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (25.00%) Architect
2 12 (21.43%) Data Architect
3 9 (16.07%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 7 (12.50%) Developer
5 6 (10.71%) Data Engineer
5 6 (10.71%) Data Scientist
5 6 (10.71%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) Platform Architect
6 4 (7.14%) Senior
7 3 (5.36%) Lead
8 2 (3.57%) Big Data Developer
8 2 (3.57%) Data Science Developer
8 2 (3.57%) Hadoop Engineer
8 2 (3.57%) Lead Data Scientist
8 2 (3.57%) Senior Data Engineer
8 2 (3.57%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (17.86%) Kafka
2 9 (16.07%) OpenTelemetry
3 5 (8.93%) PySpark
3 5 (8.93%) scikit-learn
3 5 (8.93%) TensorFlow
4 4 (7.14%) Dask
4 4 (7.14%) LAPP Stack
4 4 (7.14%) PyTorch
4 4 (7.14%) React
5 2 (3.57%) NumPy
5 2 (3.57%) Pandas
6 1 (1.79%) Apache Avro
6 1 (1.79%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (1.79%) JSON
6 1 (1.79%) Matplotlib
6 1 (1.79%) Protocol Buffers
6 1 (1.79%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.93%) Algorithms
2 4 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (5.36%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.57%) Equities
4 2 (3.57%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.79%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.79%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 17 (30.36%) Linux
2 11 (19.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 22 (39.29%) Analytics
3 17 (30.36%) Data Science
3 17 (30.36%) DevOps
4 16 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
5 14 (25.00%) Data Architecture
6 13 (23.21%) Agile
6 13 (23.21%) ETL
6 13 (23.21%) Migration
7 11 (19.64%) Containerisation
7 11 (19.64%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (19.64%) Machine Learning
7 11 (19.64%) Observability
7 11 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (16.07%) Batch Processing
8 9 (16.07%) Infrastructure Automation
8 9 (16.07%) Microservices
8 9 (16.07%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (16.07%) Test Automation
9 8 (14.29%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 23 (41.07%) Python
2 20 (35.71%) SQL
3 6 (10.71%) R
4 5 (8.93%) TypeScript
5 4 (7.14%) Java
5 4 (7.14%) Scala
6 1 (1.79%) C#
6 1 (1.79%) C++
6 1 (1.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.79%) Groovy
6 1 (1.79%) HiveQL
6 1 (1.79%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.79%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (12.50%) Degree
2 6 (10.71%) SC Cleared
2 6 (10.71%) Security Cleared
3 4 (7.14%) Master's Degree
4 3 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (5.36%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.71%) Data Quality
2 5 (8.93%) GDPR
3 2 (3.57%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 12 (21.43%) Docker
2 2 (3.57%) HDFS
2 2 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (41.07%) Kubernetes
2 21 (37.50%) Terraform
3 12 (21.43%) Ansible
4 11 (19.64%) Grafana
5 9 (16.07%) Argo
6 2 (3.57%) Kubeflow
7 1 (1.79%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (1.79%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (16.07%) Databricks
2 6 (10.71%) Informatica
3 4 (7.14%) BiZZdesign
3 4 (7.14%) Sparx
4 3 (5.36%) Google
5 2 (3.57%) Cloudera
5 2 (3.57%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.79%) Apple
6 1 (1.79%) Confluent
6 1 (1.79%) Criteo
6 1 (1.79%) Denodo
6 1 (1.79%) Hitachi
6 1 (1.79%) IBM
6 1 (1.79%) Oracle
6 1 (1.79%) SAP
6 1 (1.79%) StreamSets
6 1 (1.79%) Talend
6 1 (1.79%) Teradata