Apache Hadoop
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Hadoop skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 704 575 548
Rank change year-on-year -129 -27 -141
Permanent jobs citing Hadoop 44 106 376
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.045% 0.22% 0.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.51% 1.39% 2.27%
Number of salaries quoted 19 36 145
10th Percentile £56,250 £46,250 -
25th Percentile £64,375 £56,438 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £76,250 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.92% +22.00% -17.28%
75th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £87,500
90th Percentile - £117,500 £98,084
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -21.43%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 8,672 7,622 16,582
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.82% 15.55% 16.35%
Number of salaries quoted 5,759 4,910 11,670
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £35,392
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,182 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.93% +6.40% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%

Hadoop
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Hadoop job vacancy trend in the UK

Hadoop
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Hadoop.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Hadoop

Hadoop
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Hadoop over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Hadoop in the UK

Hadoop
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Hadoop within the UK over the 6 months to 11 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
England -110 44 £80,000 +4.92% 22
London -41 34 £80,000 -18.78% 14
UK excluding London -93 10 £57,500 +4.55% 12
North of England -36 5 £57,500 +21.05% 2
Work from Home -38 5 £57,500 -25.81% 4
South West - 4 - - 4
North West -8 3 - - 1
North East -50 2 £57,500 +21.05%
South East -48 1 £57,500 -42.50% 5

Hadoop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 40 (90.91%) Apache Spark
2 19 (43.18%) Apache
3 4 (9.09%) Apache Pig
4 3 (6.82%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (2.27%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 32 (72.73%) AWS
2 16 (36.36%) Serverless
3 14 (31.82%) Amazon Kinesis
4 13 (29.55%) Azure
5 12 (27.27%) GCP
6 8 (18.18%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (15.91%) Amazon EMR
7 7 (15.91%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (15.91%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (15.91%) OpenShift
8 6 (13.64%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (6.82%) Amazon Bedrock
9 3 (6.82%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 2 (4.55%) Snowflake
11 1 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (2.27%) Amazon MSK
11 1 (2.27%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 1 (2.27%) AWS Step Functions
11 1 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (2.27%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.64%) AMQP
2 5 (11.36%) BGP
2 5 (11.36%) DNS
2 5 (11.36%) Internet
2 5 (11.36%) IPsec
2 5 (11.36%) VPN
3 1 (2.27%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (68.18%) Big Data
2 15 (34.09%) Elasticsearch
3 14 (31.82%) NoSQL
4 11 (25.00%) Apache Hive
5 6 (13.64%) Cloudera CDH
6 5 (11.36%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (11.36%) HBase
7 3 (6.82%) Data Lake
7 3 (6.82%) MongoDB
7 3 (6.82%) Tableau
8 2 (4.55%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (4.55%) MySQL
9 1 (2.27%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (2.27%) DataStage
9 1 (2.27%) GIS
9 1 (2.27%) Pentaho
9 1 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (2.27%) RDBMS
9 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (6.82%) Git
2 2 (4.55%) JIRA
3 1 (2.27%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.27%) JUnit
General
1 20 (45.45%) Finance
2 19 (43.18%) Social Skills
3 8 (18.18%) Military
4 5 (11.36%) Aerospace
4 5 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (11.36%) Marketing
4 5 (11.36%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (11.36%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.82%) Legal
6 2 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.55%) Law
Job Titles
1 20 (45.45%) Senior
2 10 (22.73%) Consultant
3 9 (20.45%) Data Engineer
4 7 (15.91%) AWS Consultant
4 7 (15.91%) Lead
4 7 (15.91%) Senior Manager
4 7 (15.91%) Software Engineer
5 6 (13.64%) Senior Technical Manager
5 6 (13.64%) Technical Leader
5 6 (13.64%) Technical Manager
6 5 (11.36%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 5 (11.36%) Senior Consultant
6 5 (11.36%) Senior Data Engineer
7 4 (9.09%) Professional Services Consultant
8 3 (6.82%) Developer
8 3 (6.82%) Gen AI Consultant
8 3 (6.82%) Security Consultant
8 3 (6.82%) Senior Security Consultant
9 2 (4.55%) Architect
9 2 (4.55%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (45.45%) Kafka
2 11 (25.00%) Node.js
3 7 (15.91%) Spring
3 7 (15.91%) Spring Boot
4 6 (13.64%) AngularJS
4 6 (13.64%) gRPC
4 6 (13.64%) Material-UI
4 6 (13.64%) OpenAPI
4 6 (13.64%) RabbitMQ
4 6 (13.64%) React
4 6 (13.64%) REST
4 6 (13.64%) Swagger
5 3 (6.82%) PySpark
6 2 (4.55%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (2.27%) AWS CDK
7 1 (2.27%) LangChain
7 1 (2.27%) LangGraph
7 1 (2.27%) OAuth2
7 1 (2.27%) PyTorch
7 1 (2.27%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 13 (29.55%) Onboarding
2 9 (20.45%) Cloud Native
3 8 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (9.09%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (6.82%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.27%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.27%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.27%) IoT
6 1 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.27%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (31.82%) Linux
2 8 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (13.64%) CentOS
3 6 (13.64%) Debian
3 6 (13.64%) Ubuntu
4 3 (6.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (45.45%) Data Engineering
2 19 (43.18%) Data Modelling
3 18 (40.91%) Analytics
4 17 (38.64%) AI
5 16 (36.36%) Agile
5 16 (36.36%) Machine Learning
6 15 (34.09%) Computer Science
6 15 (34.09%) Use Case
7 14 (31.82%) Data Science
7 14 (31.82%) Generative AI
8 13 (29.55%) CI/CD
9 12 (27.27%) Project Management
9 12 (27.27%) Software Engineering
10 11 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
10 11 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (22.73%) Mentoring
12 9 (20.45%) Anti-Money Laundering
12 9 (20.45%) KYC
12 9 (20.45%) Performance Tuning
12 9 (20.45%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 26 (59.09%) Python
2 23 (52.27%) SQL
3 19 (43.18%) Java
4 13 (29.55%) Scala
5 8 (18.18%) JavaScript
6 5 (11.36%) C
6 5 (11.36%) C#
6 5 (11.36%) PHP
6 5 (11.36%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 16 (36.36%) Degree
2 12 (27.27%) Security Cleared
3 10 (22.73%) AWS Certification
3 10 (22.73%) SC Cleared
4 7 (15.91%) DV Cleared
5 5 (11.36%) PhD
6 2 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.27%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.09%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (6.82%) Docker
2 1 (2.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 9 (20.45%) Ansible
3 8 (18.18%) Terraform
4 6 (13.64%) Puppet
5 5 (11.36%) Hadoop YARN
6 2 (4.55%) Grafana
6 2 (4.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (15.91%) Google
1 7 (15.91%) Oracle
1 7 (15.91%) Red Hat
2 6 (13.64%) IBM
2 6 (13.64%) SaltStack
3 5 (11.36%) HP
3 5 (11.36%) Microsoft
3 5 (11.36%) SAP
4 4 (9.09%) Databricks
5 2 (4.55%) CheckPoint
5 2 (4.55%) OpenText
5 2 (4.55%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.55%) Splunk
6 1 (2.27%) Dell
6 1 (2.27%) Informatica
6 1 (2.27%) Mapbox
6 1 (2.27%) Netezza
6 1 (2.27%) Talend
6 1 (2.27%) Teradata