Hadoop Job Trends

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 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 548 597 408
Rank change year-on-year +49 -189 -55
Permanent jobs citing Hadoop 87 112 328
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.20% 0.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.32% 1.15% 3.03%
Number of salaries quoted 27 62 137
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £53,696
25th Percentile £66,250 £59,043 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.59% -1.56% -
75th Percentile £111,875 £90,938 £105,000
90th Percentile £141,000 £116,750 £132,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,750 £70,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year -16.07% -0.82% +8.58%

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 6,610 9,779 10,833
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.16% 17.80% 20.93%
Number of salaries quoted 4,197 5,511 8,376
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -

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 2 January 2026.

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 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
England +45 84 £80,000 +3.23% 19
London +55 57 £100,000 +12.68% 12
UK excluding London +27 25 £58,750 -16.07% 6
Work from Home +42 13 £85,000 +6.25% 10
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
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 67 (77.01%) Apache Spark
2 6 (6.90%) IIS
3 5 (5.75%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (3.45%) Apache
4 3 (3.45%) SAS
5 2 (2.30%) Luigi
6 1 (1.15%) Confluence
6 1 (1.15%) Jupyter
6 1 (1.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (10.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.15%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 67 (77.01%) AWS
2 49 (56.32%) Azure
3 35 (40.23%) GCP
4 14 (16.09%) Serverless
5 12 (13.79%) Amazon EMR
5 12 (13.79%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (12.64%) Amazon Kinesis
6 11 (12.64%) Snowflake
7 9 (10.34%) AWS Step Functions
7 9 (10.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 8 (9.20%) OpenShift
9 6 (6.90%) Power Platform
10 3 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (2.30%) Amazon S3
12 1 (1.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (1.15%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.60%) Kerberos
2 3 (3.45%) AMQP
3 1 (1.15%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (85.06%) Big Data
2 37 (42.53%) NoSQL
3 36 (41.38%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (22.99%) Amazon Redshift
5 19 (21.84%) MongoDB
5 19 (21.84%) SQL Server
6 17 (19.54%) Neo4j
7 16 (18.39%) Apache Hive
7 16 (18.39%) PostgreSQL
8 13 (14.94%) Apache Cassandra
8 13 (14.94%) Tableau
9 12 (13.79%) DynamoDB
9 12 (13.79%) Relational Database
10 11 (12.64%) DataStage
10 11 (12.64%) MySQL
10 11 (12.64%) Pentaho
10 11 (12.64%) RDBMS
11 10 (11.49%) Metadata
12 9 (10.34%) Amazon RDS
13 8 (9.20%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 4 (4.60%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.30%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.15%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.15%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.15%) JIRA
3 1 (1.15%) JMeter
3 1 (1.15%) JUnit
3 1 (1.15%) Selenium
3 1 (1.15%) WebDriver
General
1 38 (43.68%) Analytical Skills
2 32 (36.78%) Social Skills
3 29 (33.33%) Finance
4 25 (28.74%) Law
5 10 (11.49%) Financial Institution
6 8 (9.20%) Marketing
7 5 (5.75%) Banking
7 5 (5.75%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (4.60%) Aerospace
8 4 (4.60%) Public Sector
8 4 (4.60%) Retail
9 3 (3.45%) Front Office
10 2 (2.30%) Investment Banking
11 1 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (35.63%) Data Engineer
2 24 (27.59%) Senior
3 13 (14.94%) Senior Data Engineer
4 11 (12.64%) Lead
4 11 (12.64%) Principal Engineer
5 9 (10.34%) AWS Data Engineer
5 9 (10.34%) AWS Engineer
5 9 (10.34%) Product Lead
6 8 (9.20%) Architect
7 7 (8.05%) Developer
8 6 (6.90%) Data Architect
9 5 (5.75%) Data Science Manager
9 5 (5.75%) Senior Manager
9 5 (5.75%) Software Engineer
10 4 (4.60%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
10 4 (4.60%) Data Science Developer
10 4 (4.60%) Gen AI Engineer
10 4 (4.60%) Senior Developer
11 3 (3.45%) Java Developer
11 3 (3.45%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (34.48%) Kafka
2 10 (11.49%) Spark Streaming
3 8 (9.20%) boto
4 7 (8.05%) PyTorch
4 7 (8.05%) TensorFlow
5 5 (5.75%) LDAP
5 5 (5.75%) OAuth
5 5 (5.75%) OAuth2
5 5 (5.75%) Pandas
5 5 (5.75%) Play Framework
5 5 (5.75%) PySpark
5 5 (5.75%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (5.75%) REST
6 4 (4.60%) AngularJS
6 4 (4.60%) Matplotlib
6 4 (4.60%) NumPy
6 4 (4.60%) React
6 4 (4.60%) scikit-learn
6 4 (4.60%) Seaborn
7 3 (3.45%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 38 (43.68%) Distributed Systems
2 20 (22.99%) Product Ownership
3 14 (16.09%) Algorithms
4 11 (12.64%) Cloud Native
4 11 (12.64%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (12.64%) Management Information System
5 10 (11.49%) e-Learning
6 9 (10.34%) FMCG
6 9 (10.34%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (4.60%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (3.45%) Data Structures
8 3 (3.45%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (3.45%) Equities
8 3 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (2.30%) Clustering
10 1 (1.15%) Mainframe
10 1 (1.15%) Public Cloud
10 1 (1.15%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.34%) Linux
2 8 (9.20%) Unix
3 3 (3.45%) CentOS
3 3 (3.45%) Debian
3 3 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (3.45%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (58.62%) Data Pipeline
2 48 (55.17%) Analytics
3 45 (51.72%) Data Engineering
4 39 (44.83%) Data Governance
4 39 (44.83%) Data Modelling
4 39 (44.83%) ETL
5 38 (43.68%) CI/CD
5 38 (43.68%) Machine Learning
6 34 (39.08%) AI
7 31 (35.63%) Data Science
8 26 (29.89%) Business Intelligence
8 26 (29.89%) DevOps
9 25 (28.74%) Agile
10 23 (26.44%) Roadmaps
11 21 (24.14%) Computer Science
11 21 (24.14%) Decision-Making
12 20 (22.99%) Generative AI
13 19 (21.84%) Data Analytics
13 19 (21.84%) Problem-Solving
13 19 (21.84%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 72 (82.76%) Python
2 53 (60.92%) SQL
3 52 (59.77%) Java
4 24 (27.59%) Scala
5 15 (17.24%) R
6 7 (8.05%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.45%) C#
8 2 (2.30%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.15%) C++
9 1 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.15%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 23 (26.44%) Degree
2 11 (12.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (11.49%) Master's Degree
3 10 (11.49%) SC Cleared
3 10 (11.49%) Security Cleared
4 6 (6.90%) MBA
5 5 (5.75%) PhD
6 3 (3.45%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.30%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (1.15%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (17.24%) Data Quality
2 12 (13.79%) QA
3 8 (9.20%) GDPR
4 5 (5.75%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.15%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (11.49%) HDFS
2 8 (9.20%) Docker
3 5 (5.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (13.79%) Kubernetes
2 10 (11.49%) Ansible
3 6 (6.90%) Puppet
4 3 (3.45%) Terraform
5 2 (2.30%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.15%) Ambari
6 1 (1.15%) Grafana
6 1 (1.15%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 28 (32.18%) Databricks
2 19 (21.84%) Oracle
3 11 (12.64%) Informatica
3 11 (12.64%) Talend
4 9 (10.34%) SAP
5 8 (9.20%) Google
6 7 (8.05%) Dell
7 5 (5.75%) BT
8 4 (4.60%) Microsoft
9 3 (3.45%) IBM
9 3 (3.45%) Red Hat
9 3 (3.45%) SaltStack
10 1 (1.15%) Cloudera