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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 652 739 691
Rank change year-on-year +87 -48 +361
Permanent jobs citing MapReduce 4 16 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.007% 0.025% 0.024%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.009% 0.029% 0.026%
Number of salaries quoted 3 15 10
10th Percentile £50,500 £45,100 £62,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £63,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -12.50% +42.22%
75th Percentile £80,000 - £83,750
90th Percentile £81,500 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 -
% change year-on-year +7.14% - -

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 46,039 54,754 46,743
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.81% 86.35% 93.74%
Number of salaries quoted 28,176 28,458 35,978
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,793 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.31% +4.37% -1.41%

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 December 2025.

Salary histogram for MapReduce in the UK

MapReduce
Top 6 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 December 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 +101 4 £75,000 +7.14% 1
UK excluding London +100 3 £75,000 +7.14% 1
Work from Home +78 2 £75,000 +7.14%
South West +10 2 £60,000 -14.29%
London - 1 - -
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 2 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (25.00%) Data Mining
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (25.00%) DB2
1 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (25.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (25.00%) MariaDB
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (25.00%) Gradle
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Analytics Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Applications Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Applications Support
1 1 (25.00%) Applications Support Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Data Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Drools
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (25.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) AI
2 1 (25.00%) BDD
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (25.00%) Dimensional Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (25.00%) Feature Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Naive Bayes
2 1 (25.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 1 (25.00%) Neural Network
2 1 (25.00%) Operations Research
2 1 (25.00%) Physics
2 1 (25.00%) Statistics
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) Java
3 2 (50.00%) R
4 1 (25.00%) Julia
4 1 (25.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) PhD
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle