Apache Hadoop
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Hadoop skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Hadoop over the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 631 551 426
Rank change year-on-year -80 -125 -59
Permanent jobs citing Hadoop 106 370 585
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.37% 0.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.33% 2.22% 3.27%
Number of salaries quoted 35 138 418
10th Percentile £46,250 - £55,000
25th Percentile £55,125 £42,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £62,500 £75,277
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -16.97% +0.37%
75th Percentile £110,000 £86,875 £97,030
90th Percentile £118,000 £93,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -21.43% +9.80%

All Database and 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 7,973 16,647 17,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.25% 16.58% 21.09%
Number of salaries quoted 4,965 11,160 12,345
10th Percentile £35,250 £36,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -6.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

Hadoop
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Hadoop in the UK

Hadoop
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Hadoop.

Salary trend for Hadoop in the UK

Hadoop
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Hadoop over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Hadoop in the UK

Hadoop
Top 12 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 17 July 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
England +11 83 £75,000 +28.21% 140
London +82 51 £98,000 +22.50% 101
UK excluding London -87 47 £55,000 - 48
Work from Home +64 25 £77,500 +19.23% 50
South East +13 19 £100,000 +122.22% 12
Scotland -44 10 - - 3
North of England +45 8 £47,500 -24.00% 10
Midlands +75 6 £61,500 -15.17% 10
West Midlands +59 6 £61,500 -15.17% 3
North West -4 5 £55,000 -12.00% 7
Northern Ireland - 5 - - 3
North East - 3 £47,500 -

Hadoop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 90 (84.91%) Apache Spark
2 18 (16.98%) Apache
3 16 (15.09%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (5.66%) SAS
5 1 (0.94%) Luigi
5 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.94%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.77%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (2.83%) SPSS
3 2 (1.89%) Maya
3 2 (1.89%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (5.66%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 73 (68.87%) AWS
2 71 (66.98%) Azure
3 46 (43.40%) GCP
4 25 (23.58%) Power Platform
5 21 (19.81%) Snowflake
6 16 (15.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 9 (8.49%) Amazon S3
8 8 (7.55%) Serverless
9 6 (5.66%) Amazon Kinesis
9 6 (5.66%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (5.66%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (5.66%) GitHub
10 5 (4.72%) Azure Functions
10 5 (4.72%) OpenShift
11 4 (3.77%) SaaS
12 3 (2.83%) Amazon EMR
12 3 (2.83%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (2.83%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (2.83%) Dagster
12 3 (2.83%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.83%) Internet
1 3 (2.83%) PuTTY
2 1 (0.94%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (65.09%) Big Data
2 49 (46.23%) Data Warehouse
2 49 (46.23%) NoSQL
3 33 (31.13%) Apache Hive
4 31 (29.25%) Amazon Redshift
4 31 (29.25%) Data Lake
5 25 (23.58%) Power BI
6 24 (22.64%) Metadata
7 20 (18.87%) BigQuery
8 16 (15.09%) SQL Server
8 16 (15.09%) Tableau
9 12 (11.32%) HBase
9 12 (11.32%) MySQL
10 10 (9.43%) Delta Lake
11 9 (8.49%) Amazon Athena
11 9 (8.49%) Relational Database
12 6 (5.66%) Impala
12 6 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
13 5 (4.72%) MongoDB
13 5 (4.72%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 9 (8.49%) Git
1 9 (8.49%) Jenkins
2 5 (4.72%) CircleCI
2 5 (4.72%) Gradle
2 5 (4.72%) Maven
3 4 (3.77%) Bitbucket
3 4 (3.77%) JIRA
4 3 (2.83%) ERwin
5 2 (1.89%) ER Studio
5 2 (1.89%) JMeter
5 2 (1.89%) JUnit
5 2 (1.89%) MLflow
5 2 (1.89%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (1.89%) Selenium
5 2 (1.89%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.94%) GitLab
6 1 (0.94%) Subversion
General
1 47 (44.34%) Law
2 40 (37.74%) Analytical Skills
3 38 (35.85%) Social Skills
4 30 (28.30%) Finance
5 21 (19.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (13.21%) Banking
7 10 (9.43%) Marketing
8 8 (7.55%) Advertising
9 5 (4.72%) Manufacturing
10 4 (3.77%) Financial Institution
10 4 (3.77%) Public Sector
10 4 (3.77%) Retail Banking
11 3 (2.83%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.89%) Automotive
12 2 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.94%) Czech Language
13 1 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (28.30%) Data Engineer
2 22 (20.75%) Senior
3 21 (19.81%) Lead
4 13 (12.26%) Senior Data Engineer
5 10 (9.43%) Architect
5 10 (9.43%) Developer
5 10 (9.43%) Java Developer
6 9 (8.49%) Data Analytics Director
7 8 (7.55%) Data Architect
7 8 (7.55%) Data Scientist
7 8 (7.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 8 (7.55%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 8 (7.55%) Software Engineer
8 6 (5.66%) Data Manager
8 6 (5.66%) Product Lead
9 5 (4.72%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (4.72%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 5 (4.72%) Java Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) Java Software Developer
9 5 (4.72%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (52.83%) Kafka
2 19 (17.92%) PySpark
3 12 (11.32%) TensorFlow
4 9 (8.49%) Spring
5 8 (7.55%) PyTorch
6 7 (6.60%) REST
6 7 (6.60%) scikit-learn
7 6 (5.66%) NumPy
7 6 (5.66%) React
8 5 (4.72%) Apache NiFi
8 5 (4.72%) Django
8 5 (4.72%) JPA
8 5 (4.72%) OAuth
8 5 (4.72%) Spark Streaming
9 4 (3.77%) Hibernate
9 4 (3.77%) J2EE
9 4 (3.77%) Java EE
9 4 (3.77%) PyArrow
9 4 (3.77%) SciPy
9 4 (3.77%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 17 (16.04%) Product Ownership
2 14 (13.21%) Cloud Native
2 14 (13.21%) Management Information System
3 12 (11.32%) FMCG
4 11 (10.38%) Data Structures
5 7 (6.60%) Algorithms
5 7 (6.60%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (4.72%) Distributed Applications
6 5 (4.72%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.83%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (2.83%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.89%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.89%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.89%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.94%) Data Fabric
10 1 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.94%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (11.32%) Unix
2 7 (6.60%) Linux
3 2 (1.89%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (61.32%) CI/CD
2 62 (58.49%) ETL
3 55 (51.89%) Analytics
4 53 (50.00%) Data Engineering
5 52 (49.06%) Machine Learning
6 50 (47.17%) Data Modelling
7 47 (44.34%) Data Governance
8 46 (43.40%) Agile
8 46 (43.40%) Data Science
9 42 (39.62%) DevOps
10 41 (38.68%) Data Pipeline
11 40 (37.74%) Problem-Solving
12 37 (34.91%) Decision-Making
13 36 (33.96%) Artificial Intelligence
14 34 (32.08%) Business Intelligence
15 33 (31.13%) Data Analytics
16 32 (30.19%) Data Architecture
16 32 (30.19%) Visualisation
17 28 (26.42%) Computer Science
18 26 (24.53%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 82 (77.36%) SQL
2 55 (51.89%) Python
3 38 (35.85%) Java
4 12 (11.32%) Scala
5 10 (9.43%) R
6 9 (8.49%) PL/SQL
7 4 (3.77%) C++
8 3 (2.83%) Bash
8 3 (2.83%) C
8 3 (2.83%) C#
8 3 (2.83%) MATLAB
8 3 (2.83%) PROC SQL
8 3 (2.83%) Ruby
9 2 (1.89%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.94%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.94%) Perl
10 1 (0.94%) PHP
10 1 (0.94%) VBA
Qualifications
1 40 (37.74%) Degree
2 31 (29.25%) Master's Degree
3 21 (19.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (14.15%) AWS Certification
4 15 (14.15%) Azure Certification
5 9 (8.49%) PhD
6 4 (3.77%) PMI Certification
6 4 (3.77%) PMP
6 4 (3.77%) SAP Certification
7 2 (1.89%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.89%) Security Cleared
8 1 (0.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.94%) CCSP
8 1 (0.94%) CISA
8 1 (0.94%) CISM
8 1 (0.94%) CISSP
8 1 (0.94%) CRISC
8 1 (0.94%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.94%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (32.08%) Data Quality
2 11 (10.38%) GDPR
3 9 (8.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 9 (8.49%) QA
4 7 (6.60%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.83%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.94%) COBIT
6 1 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.94%) NIST
System Software
1 22 (20.75%) HDFS
2 8 (7.55%) Apache Flume
3 5 (4.72%) Docker
4 2 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (9.43%) Kubernetes
2 9 (8.49%) Terraform
3 8 (7.55%) Oozie
4 3 (2.83%) Kibana
4 3 (2.83%) logstash
5 2 (1.89%) Hadoop YARN
5 2 (1.89%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.94%) Bugsnag
6 1 (0.94%) Grafana
6 1 (0.94%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 47 (44.34%) Databricks
2 33 (31.13%) Google
3 24 (22.64%) Microsoft
4 17 (16.04%) SAP
5 16 (15.09%) Cloudera
6 13 (12.26%) Oracle
7 8 (7.55%) Teradata
8 7 (6.60%) Informatica
9 5 (4.72%) Sybase
9 5 (4.72%) Talend
10 4 (3.77%) Red Hat
11 3 (2.83%) MicroStrategy
11 3 (2.83%) Vertica
12 2 (1.89%) Dataiku
12 2 (1.89%) MapR
13 1 (0.94%) CyberArk
13 1 (0.94%) IBM
13 1 (0.94%) Imperva
13 1 (0.94%) Splunk