Hadoop Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Apache Hadoop
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Hadoop skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 623 510 467
Rank change year-on-year -113 -43 +24
Permanent jobs citing Hadoop 10 46 281
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.014% 0.14% 0.40%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.18% 1.02% 2.74%
Number of salaries quoted 3 15 98
10th Percentile - £41,750 -
25th Percentile £56,250 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -21.12%
75th Percentile £58,750 £68,750 £80,000
90th Percentile - £98,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +20.00% -17.28%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,491 4,506 10,262
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.64% 13.34% 14.51%
Number of salaries quoted 3,756 2,853 6,927
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,500 £41,250 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,875 £59,000
% change year-on-year -1.44% +3.18% -5.60%

Hadoop
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Hadoop relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Hadoop job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Hadoop
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Hadoop.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Hadoop

Hadoop
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Hadoop within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 July 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South West - 5 - - 5
North of England -53 4 £57,500 +21.05% 1
North West -2 2 - - 1
North East -54 2 £57,500 +21.05%
South East -40 1 £57,500 -42.50% 5
Hadoop
UK

Hadoop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (80.00%) Apache Spark
2 6 (60.00%) Apache
3 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) Azure
3 4 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (40.00%) GCP
3 4 (40.00%) OpenShift
3 4 (40.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) Big Data
2 4 (40.00%) Cloudera CDH
3 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
General
1 4 (40.00%) Aerospace
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (20.00%) Legal
3 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (10.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Software Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Software Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) AngularJS
1 4 (40.00%) gRPC
1 4 (40.00%) Material-UI
1 4 (40.00%) Node.js
1 4 (40.00%) OpenAPI
1 4 (40.00%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (40.00%) React
1 4 (40.00%) REST
1 4 (40.00%) Spring
1 4 (40.00%) Spring Boot
1 4 (40.00%) Swagger
2 1 (10.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 7 (70.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) CentOS
1 4 (40.00%) Debian
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
1 4 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (40.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Agile
2 7 (70.00%) Software Engineering
3 6 (60.00%) Data Engineering
3 6 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
4 5 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (40.00%) API Development
5 4 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (40.00%) Configuration Management
5 4 (40.00%) Kanban
5 4 (40.00%) Microservices
5 4 (40.00%) Open Source
5 4 (40.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 4 (40.00%) Scrum
6 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
6 3 (30.00%) ETL
7 2 (20.00%) Coaching
7 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
7 2 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
7 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Python
2 7 (70.00%) Java
3 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (40.00%) SQL
4 3 (30.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (40.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (40.00%) Ansible
2 4 (40.00%) Puppet
2 4 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Google
1 4 (40.00%) Red Hat
1 4 (40.00%) SaltStack
2 1 (10.00%) Databricks