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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 580 453 330
Rank change year-on-year -127 -123 +30
Permanent jobs citing Hadoop 104 508 1,084
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.52% 1.04%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.40% 2.80% 4.84%
Number of salaries quoted 48 144 426
10th Percentile £47,987 £42,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £57,938 £52,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £75,277
Median % change year-on-year - +2.95% +3.83%
75th Percentile £110,000 £91,563 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £106,750 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £70,576 £68,823
% change year-on-year -22.07% +2.55% +11.45%

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 7,436 18,137 22,401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.26% 18.44% 21.54%
Number of salaries quoted 5,214 12,594 13,904
10th Percentile £37,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,725 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £76,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £95,000 £103,750
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 30 April 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 30 April 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 +37 84 £77,500 - 165
London +16 47 £89,115 +11.39% 121
UK excluding London -88 41 £55,000 -22.07% 48
Work from Home +140 39 £77,500 -3.13% 87
South East +106 19 £71,250 +58.33% 7
North of England +69 7 £55,000 -12.00% 10
Midlands +67 7 £60,500 -16.55% 11
West Midlands +57 7 £60,500 -16.55% 6
North West +20 7 £55,000 -12.00% 5
Northern Ireland - 5 - - 3
Scotland -51 2 - - 5
South West +68 1 £44,460 -44.43% 9

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 81 (77.88%) Apache Spark
2 27 (25.96%) Apache
3 17 (16.35%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (5.77%) SAS
5 1 (0.96%) Confluence
5 1 (0.96%) Luigi
5 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.96%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.96%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (4.81%) Microsoft Project
1 5 (4.81%) SPSS
2 3 (2.88%) Maya
2 3 (2.88%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 58 (55.77%) AWS
2 55 (52.88%) Azure
3 41 (39.42%) GCP
4 23 (22.12%) Snowflake
5 22 (21.15%) Power Platform
6 12 (11.54%) Amazon S3
6 12 (11.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 12 (11.54%) OpenShift
7 8 (7.69%) Amazon Kinesis
8 6 (5.77%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (5.77%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (5.77%) Serverless
9 4 (3.85%) Amazon EMR
9 4 (3.85%) AWS Step Functions
9 4 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (3.85%) SaaS
10 3 (2.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 3 (2.88%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.92%) H2O.ai
11 2 (1.92%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.81%) Internet
2 1 (0.96%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (52.88%) Big Data
2 47 (45.19%) Data Warehouse
3 34 (32.69%) NoSQL
4 32 (30.77%) Data Lake
5 29 (27.88%) Apache Hive
6 27 (25.96%) Amazon Redshift
7 22 (21.15%) Power BI
8 19 (18.27%) BigQuery
9 18 (17.31%) Tableau
10 16 (15.38%) Relational Database
11 15 (14.42%) Metadata
12 11 (10.58%) MySQL
13 10 (9.62%) Apache Iceberg
13 10 (9.62%) Delta Lake
13 10 (9.62%) SQL Server
14 9 (8.65%) Apache Hudi
15 8 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
16 7 (6.73%) Elasticsearch
17 6 (5.77%) HBase
18 5 (4.81%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 9 (8.65%) Bitbucket
2 7 (6.73%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.77%) JIRA
4 5 (4.81%) CircleCI
4 5 (4.81%) Git
5 3 (2.88%) ERwin
6 2 (1.92%) ER Studio
6 2 (1.92%) MLflow
6 2 (1.92%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (1.92%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.96%) GitLab
7 1 (0.96%) JMeter
7 1 (0.96%) JUnit
7 1 (0.96%) Selenium
7 1 (0.96%) Subversion
7 1 (0.96%) WebDriver
General
1 33 (31.73%) Analytical Skills
2 29 (27.88%) Finance
3 27 (25.96%) Law
3 27 (25.96%) Social Skills
4 21 (20.19%) Banking
5 12 (11.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (8.65%) Advertising
7 5 (4.81%) Telecoms
8 4 (3.85%) Financial Institution
8 4 (3.85%) Marketing
8 4 (3.85%) Retail Banking
9 3 (2.88%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.92%) Automotive
10 2 (1.92%) Legal
10 2 (1.92%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.92%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.96%) Back Office
11 1 (0.96%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.96%) Police
11 1 (0.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 44 (42.31%) Data Engineer
2 29 (27.88%) Senior
3 17 (16.35%) Lead
4 16 (15.38%) Senior Data Engineer
5 10 (9.62%) Architect
6 9 (8.65%) Data Scientist
6 9 (8.65%) Python Engineer
7 8 (7.69%) Lead Data Engineer
7 8 (7.69%) Python Data Engineer
8 7 (6.73%) Data Architect
8 7 (6.73%) Data Manager
9 5 (4.81%) Analyst
9 5 (4.81%) Developer
9 5 (4.81%) Java Developer
9 5 (4.81%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (4.81%) Project Manager
10 4 (3.85%) Apache Spark Developer
10 4 (3.85%) AWS Data Engineer
10 4 (3.85%) Cloud Architect
10 4 (3.85%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (46.15%) Kafka
2 18 (17.31%) PySpark
3 10 (9.62%) TensorFlow
4 9 (8.65%) PyArrow
5 8 (7.69%) NumPy
6 6 (5.77%) PyTorch
6 6 (5.77%) SciPy
7 5 (4.81%) OAuth
7 5 (4.81%) scikit-learn
7 5 (4.81%) Spark Streaming
8 4 (3.85%) Hibernate
8 4 (3.85%) J2EE
8 4 (3.85%) Java EE
8 4 (3.85%) Keras
8 4 (3.85%) Pandas
8 4 (3.85%) SpaCy
8 4 (3.85%) Spring
8 4 (3.85%) Spring Boot
9 3 (2.88%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (1.92%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.46%) Data Structures
2 10 (9.62%) Management Information System
2 10 (9.62%) Product Ownership
3 7 (6.73%) Algorithms
4 6 (5.77%) Cloud Native
4 6 (5.77%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (5.77%) FMCG
5 5 (4.81%) Distributed Applications
5 5 (4.81%) Distributed Computing
5 5 (4.81%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.92%) Data Fabric
7 2 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.92%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.92%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.96%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.96%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (10.58%) Linux
1 11 (10.58%) Unix
2 2 (1.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (53.85%) ETL
2 49 (47.12%) Analytics
3 46 (44.23%) CI/CD
4 45 (43.27%) Data Engineering
5 44 (42.31%) Data Science
6 40 (38.46%) Data Governance
7 37 (35.58%) Visualisation
8 35 (33.65%) Machine Learning
8 35 (33.65%) Problem-Solving
9 34 (32.69%) Data Modelling
9 34 (32.69%) Data Pipeline
10 28 (26.92%) Data Visualisation
11 27 (25.96%) DevOps
12 26 (25.00%) Agile
12 26 (25.00%) Data Analytics
13 24 (23.08%) Computer Science
14 23 (22.12%) Artificial Intelligence
14 23 (22.12%) Data Architecture
15 21 (20.19%) Business Intelligence
15 21 (20.19%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 70 (67.31%) SQL
2 68 (65.38%) Python
3 39 (37.50%) Java
4 18 (17.31%) Scala
5 13 (12.50%) R
6 6 (5.77%) C++
7 5 (4.81%) MATLAB
7 5 (4.81%) PL/SQL
8 3 (2.88%) C#
8 3 (2.88%) Ruby
9 2 (1.92%) C
9 2 (1.92%) Go
9 2 (1.92%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.96%) Bash
10 1 (0.96%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.96%) Perl
10 1 (0.96%) PHP
10 1 (0.96%) VBA
Qualifications
1 39 (37.50%) Degree
2 23 (22.12%) Master's Degree
3 15 (14.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (6.73%) AWS Certification
4 7 (6.73%) PhD
5 6 (5.77%) Azure Certification
5 6 (5.77%) SC Cleared
5 6 (5.77%) Security Cleared
6 5 (4.81%) PMI Certification
6 5 (4.81%) PMP
7 4 (3.85%) SAP Certification
8 3 (2.88%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.96%) CCSP
10 1 (0.96%) CISA
10 1 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.96%) CISM
10 1 (0.96%) CISSP
10 1 (0.96%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (29.81%) Data Quality
2 13 (12.50%) Accessibility
3 7 (6.73%) GDPR
4 3 (2.88%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.92%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.96%) COBIT
6 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.96%) NIST
System Software
1 19 (18.27%) HDFS
2 7 (6.73%) Docker
3 5 (4.81%) Apache Flume
4 2 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (18.27%) Kubernetes
2 9 (8.65%) Terraform
3 5 (4.81%) Oozie
4 2 (1.92%) Hadoop YARN
4 2 (1.92%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.96%) Bugsnag
5 1 (0.96%) Grafana
5 1 (0.96%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 31 (29.81%) Databricks
2 30 (28.85%) Google
3 23 (22.12%) Microsoft
4 17 (16.35%) Oracle
5 14 (13.46%) Cloudera
6 12 (11.54%) SAP
6 12 (11.54%) Teradata
7 10 (9.62%) Red Hat
8 5 (4.81%) Informatica
8 5 (4.81%) Sybase
8 5 (4.81%) Vertica
9 4 (3.85%) Talend
10 2 (1.92%) Dataiku
10 2 (1.92%) MapR
11 1 (0.96%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.96%) CyberArk
11 1 (0.96%) Dell
11 1 (0.96%) IBM
11 1 (0.96%) Imperva
11 1 (0.96%) Splunk