Hadoop Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Apache Hadoop
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Hadoop skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 85 93
Rank change year-on-year -49 +8 +22
Contract jobs citing Hadoop 13 4 10
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.49% 0.37% 0.60%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.53% 1.84% 3.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 10
10th Percentile £429 £605 £445
25th Percentile £457 £613 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £625 £507
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% +23.27% -
75th Percentile £585 £638 £517
90th Percentile £615 £645 £541
England median daily rate £550 £600 £507
% change year-on-year -8.33% +18.34% -10.31%

All Database & BI Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 368 217 256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 13.81% 19.98% 15.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 146 193
10th Percentile £318 £331 £375
25th Percentile £408 £400 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £572 £573 £594
90th Percentile £675 £600 £644
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 7
10th Percentile £18.00 £31.50 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £31.54 -
Median hourly rate £24.50 £32.96 £11.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.67% +199.64% -
75th Percentile £35.00 £34.38 £13.50
90th Percentile £74.00 £34.43 -
England median hourly rate £39.75 £31.85 £40.00
% change year-on-year +24.82% -20.39% -33.33%

Hadoop
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Hadoop relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Hadoop job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Hadoop
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Hadoop.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Hadoop

Hadoop
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hadoop in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Hadoop in Yorkshire

Hadoop
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Hadoop within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
South Yorkshire -45 13 £488 -22.00% 1
Hadoop
England

Hadoop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 11 (84.62%) Apache Spark
2 1 (7.69%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
2 1 (7.69%) Parquet
General
1 7 (53.85%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (76.92%) Data Engineer
2 8 (61.54%) Lead
3 5 (38.46%) Lead Data Engineer
4 3 (23.08%) Consultant
4 3 (23.08%) Data Consultant
4 3 (23.08%) Hadoop Engineer
4 3 (23.08%) Lead Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) Kafka Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Python Data Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Python Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) PySpark
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Avro
2 1 (7.69%) JSON
2 1 (7.69%) JSON Schema
2 1 (7.69%) Kafka
2 1 (7.69%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Data Pipeline
2 9 (69.23%) Data Engineering
2 9 (69.23%) OO
3 8 (61.54%) Analytics
3 8 (61.54%) CI/CD
3 8 (61.54%) ETL
4 7 (53.85%) Agile
4 7 (53.85%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (53.85%) Code Quality
4 7 (53.85%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (53.85%) Kanban
4 7 (53.85%) Pair Programming
4 7 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (53.85%) Scrum
4 7 (53.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 7 (53.85%) Test Automation
5 4 (30.77%) Active Listening
5 4 (30.77%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (30.77%) Data Privacy
6 3 (23.08%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Python
2 8 (61.54%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.69%) SLA
Vendors
1 12 (92.31%) Splunk
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft