Hadoop Job Trends in Scotland

Apache Hadoop
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Hadoop skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 142 163
Rank change year-on-year +7 +21 +43
Permanent jobs citing Hadoop 10 63 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.40% 1.44% 0.30%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.87% 7.49% 1.37%
Number of salaries quoted 0 8 6
10th Percentile - £65,000 £61,250
25th Percentile - £76,250 £69,016
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £80,000 £75,554
Median % change year-on-year - +5.89% +25.92%
75th Percentile - - £77,542
90th Percentile - - £83,771
UK median annual salary £75,000 £59,250 £75,554
% change year-on-year +26.58% -21.58% -5.56%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Scotland

Hadoop falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 349 841 582
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 13.79% 19.25% 21.65%
Number of salaries quoted 105 260 483
10th Percentile £32,800 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -13.04% +6.48%
75th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £72,466
90th Percentile £82,751 £73,886 £82,548
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.80% +4.17%

Hadoop
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Hadoop as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Hadoop in Scotland

Hadoop
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Hadoop.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Hadoop

Hadoop
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Hadoop within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 17 September 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +28 8 - -
Edinburgh +11 2 - -
Hadoop
UK

Hadoop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 10 (100.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (30.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) Dagster
2 3 (30.00%) GitHub
2 3 (30.00%) GitHub Copilot
2 3 (30.00%) Prefect
3 2 (20.00%) Azure
3 2 (20.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) Big Data
2 5 (50.00%) Apache Hive
2 5 (50.00%) HBase
3 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Gradle
1 5 (50.00%) Maven
2 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 10 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 10 (100.00%) Marketing
2 8 (80.00%) Finance
2 8 (80.00%) Law
3 5 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 8 (80.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
1 8 (80.00%) Software Engineer
2 5 (50.00%) Developer
2 5 (50.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
2 5 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 5 (50.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 5 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 5 (50.00%) Java Engineer
2 5 (50.00%) Java Software Developer
2 5 (50.00%) Java Software Engineer
2 5 (50.00%) Software Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) JPA
1 5 (50.00%) REST
1 5 (50.00%) Spring
2 3 (30.00%) Kafka
3 1 (10.00%) PySpark
3 1 (10.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Agile
1 10 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (80.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 8 (80.00%) Operational Stability
2 8 (80.00%) SDLC
2 8 (80.00%) Software Engineering
3 7 (70.00%) Machine Learning
4 5 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 5 (50.00%) Decision-Making
4 5 (50.00%) Open Source
4 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (50.00%) TDD
4 5 (50.00%) Test Automation
5 3 (30.00%) Architectural Design
5 3 (30.00%) Code Optimisation
5 3 (30.00%) Community of Practice
5 3 (30.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (30.00%) Information Architecture
5 3 (30.00%) Refactoring
6 2 (20.00%) Client Onboarding
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) SQL
2 5 (50.00%) Java
2 5 (50.00%) PL/SQL
2 5 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) C#
3 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) HDFS
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Cloudera
1 5 (50.00%) Databricks