MapReduce Job Trends

MapReduce
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring MapReduce skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 648 727 704
Rank change year-on-year +79 -23 +378
Permanent jobs citing MapReduce 5 20 17
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.010% 0.030% 0.032%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.011% 0.036% 0.034%
Number of salaries quoted 5 18 17
10th Percentile £55,000 £47,750 -
25th Percentile - £66,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% +23.81%
75th Percentile £77,500 - £82,500
90th Percentile £80,500 £71,500 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

MapReduce falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 43,858 55,843 50,051
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 87.24% 82.56% 93.90%
Number of salaries quoted 26,007 29,332 38,488
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,750 £45,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,285 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.53% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,750 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.43% +2.86% -

MapReduce
Job Vacancy Trend

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

MapReduce job vacancy trend in the UK

MapReduce
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MapReduce.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MapReduce

MapReduce
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing MapReduce over the 6 months to 4 November 2025.

Salary histogram for MapReduce in the UK

MapReduce
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MapReduce within the UK over the 6 months to 4 November 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 +86 5 £70,000 - 2
UK excluding London +59 5 £70,000 - 1
South West +23 4 £70,000 -
Work from Home +54 3 £70,000 - 14
South East - 1 £80,000 - 1

MapReduce
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 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Data Lake
1 3 (60.00%) Power BI
2 2 (40.00%) Qlik Sense
2 2 (40.00%) Tableau
3 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (20.00%) DB2
3 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (20.00%) MariaDB
3 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
1 2 (40.00%) Subversion
2 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (20.00%) Gradle
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analytics Manager
1 3 (60.00%) Data Analytics Manager
1 3 (60.00%) Data Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Support
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Support Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Drools
1 1 (20.00%) RESTful
1 1 (20.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (40.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (60.00%) Analytics
2 3 (60.00%) Data Analytics
2 3 (60.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) Data Science
2 3 (60.00%) Dimensional Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) Workflow Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Coaching
3 2 (40.00%) Critical Thinking
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) BDD
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Data Transformation
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Microservices
4 1 (20.00%) Migration
4 1 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
3 3 (60.00%) Julia
3 3 (60.00%) R
4 2 (40.00%) VBA
5 1 (20.00%) Java
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle