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 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 648 690 743
Rank change year-on-year +42 +53 +247
Permanent jobs citing MapReduce 2 5 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.003% 0.009% 0.013%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.004% 0.010% 0.015%
Number of salaries quoted 1 5 3
10th Percentile - £45,100 £68,500
25th Percentile - £49,000 £71,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile - - £85,000
90th Percentile - - £86,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £70,000 -
% change year-on-year -35.71% - -

All Process & 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 49,245 48,425 53,180
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.71% 90.86% 89.54%
Number of salaries quoted 28,981 23,503 40,689
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +3.45% -7.20%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

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
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 18 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 +61 2 £45,000 -35.71% 3
Work from Home +77 1 - - 2
UK excluding London +52 1 £45,000 -35.71% 1
South West +5 1 £45,000 -35.71%
London - 1 - - 2

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 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Data Mining
1 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Deep Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Dimensional Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Feature Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Naive Bayes
2 1 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 1 (50.00%) Neural Network
2 1 (50.00%) Operations Research
2 1 (50.00%) Physics
2 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (50.00%) Statistics
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) R
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Julia
2 1 (50.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) PhD
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft