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 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 494 521 407
Rank change year-on-year +27 -114 +16
Permanent jobs citing Hadoop 25 49 145
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.060% 0.13% 0.47%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.65% 0.84% 2.28%
Number of salaries quoted 8 28 39
10th Percentile £48,375 £42,500 £51,517
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £70,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -16.07% -0.82% +8.58%
75th Percentile £77,500 £84,063 £80,000
90th Percentile £80,500 £85,000 £97,231
UK median annual salary £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
% change year-on-year +1.59% -1.56% -

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 3,830 5,803 6,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.12% 15.65% 20.50%
Number of salaries quoted 2,417 3,043 4,805
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,238 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £83,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%

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
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Hadoop in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Hadoop in the UK excluding London

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 2 January 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
North of England +23 11 £75,000 +42.86% 3
North West +36 9 £68,750 +25.00% 2
South East +16 7 £65,000 +18.18% 1
East of England +31 5 £52,500 -12.50% 2
Yorkshire -4 2 £75,000 +76.47% 1
West Midlands +23 1 - -
Midlands +17 1 - -
South West +3 1 £50,000 -37.50% 1
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 13 (52.00%) Apache Spark
2 5 (20.00%) IIS
3 3 (12.00%) Apache
4 1 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (4.00%) Jupyter
4 1 (4.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 16 (64.00%) AWS
2 12 (48.00%) Azure
3 11 (44.00%) GCP
4 5 (20.00%) Serverless
4 5 (20.00%) Snowflake
5 3 (12.00%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (12.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (12.00%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (12.00%) OpenShift
6 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) AMQP
2 1 (4.00%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (92.00%) Big Data
2 13 (52.00%) NoSQL
3 8 (32.00%) Tableau
4 6 (24.00%) Data Mining
4 6 (24.00%) MongoDB
4 6 (24.00%) Neo4j
4 6 (24.00%) SQL Server
5 3 (12.00%) Cloudera CDH
6 1 (4.00%) Power BI
6 1 (4.00%) Power Query
General
1 11 (44.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Law
2 5 (20.00%) Marketing
2 5 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 4 (16.00%) Aerospace
3 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (12.00%) Finance
5 1 (4.00%) Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) Data Engineer
2 7 (28.00%) Senior
3 5 (20.00%) Data Science Manager
3 5 (20.00%) Senior Manager
3 5 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Gen AI Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Data Science Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Developer
5 3 (12.00%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Architect
7 1 (4.00%) Applications Architect
7 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Lead
7 1 (4.00%) Senior Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.00%) Play Framework
2 4 (16.00%) AngularJS
2 4 (16.00%) Pandas
2 4 (16.00%) React
2 4 (16.00%) REST
3 3 (12.00%) gRPC
3 3 (12.00%) Material-UI
3 3 (12.00%) Matplotlib
3 3 (12.00%) Node.js
3 3 (12.00%) NumPy
3 3 (12.00%) OpenAPI
3 3 (12.00%) PyTorch
3 3 (12.00%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (12.00%) scikit-learn
3 3 (12.00%) Seaborn
3 3 (12.00%) Spring
3 3 (12.00%) Spring Boot
3 3 (12.00%) Swagger
3 3 (12.00%) TensorFlow
4 2 (8.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 8 (32.00%) Algorithms
2 6 (24.00%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (16.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (8.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (4.00%) Credit Risk
5 1 (4.00%) Data Structures
5 1 (4.00%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (4.00%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (4.00%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (4.00%) Mainframe
5 1 (4.00%) Market Risk
5 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
5 1 (4.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.00%) Linux
2 3 (12.00%) CentOS
2 3 (12.00%) Debian
2 3 (12.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (12.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (68.00%) AI
2 11 (44.00%) Agile
2 11 (44.00%) Computer Science
2 11 (44.00%) Data Pipeline
2 11 (44.00%) Generative AI
2 11 (44.00%) Roadmaps
3 10 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 10 (40.00%) Data Engineering
3 10 (40.00%) Machine Learning
3 10 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (36.00%) Analytics
4 9 (36.00%) Data Science
4 9 (36.00%) LLM
5 8 (32.00%) Decision-Making
5 8 (32.00%) Visualisation
6 7 (28.00%) ETL
6 7 (28.00%) Microservices
7 6 (24.00%) DevOps
7 6 (24.00%) Mathematics
7 6 (24.00%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 25 (100.00%) Python
2 18 (72.00%) SQL
3 13 (52.00%) Java
4 9 (36.00%) R
5 8 (32.00%) Scala
6 6 (24.00%) JavaScript
7 3 (12.00%) C#
8 2 (8.00%) TypeScript
9 1 (4.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (4.00%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 11 (44.00%) Degree
2 8 (32.00%) SC Cleared
2 8 (32.00%) Security Cleared
3 7 (28.00%) Master's Degree
4 6 (24.00%) MBA
5 5 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (12.00%) DV Cleared
7 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (4.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (12.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (32.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (12.00%) Ansible
2 3 (12.00%) Puppet
2 3 (12.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) BT
1 5 (20.00%) Databricks
1 5 (20.00%) Google
1 5 (20.00%) Oracle
2 3 (12.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (12.00%) SaltStack
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.00%) IBM