Global Big Data & Hadoop Developer Salaries Review

“I already have a job, so I don’t need to learn a new programming language.”

If you are thinking this, then it is a very foolish stance to take where your career is concerned. According to the most recent Open Source Jobs Report from Dice, 74% of the hiring managers are looking to hire open source developers making them the most sought after IT professionals. Having highlighted the demand for open source developers, one cannot ignore what’s trending in the open source technology domain. As open source technologies gain popularity at a rapid pace, professionals who can upgrade their skillset by learning fresh technologies like Hadoop, Spark, NoSQL, etc. will be most sought after in the IT industry than those who work on legacy code.

A quick search for the term “learn hadoop”  showed up 856,000 results on Google with thousands of blogs, tutorials, big data application demos, online MOOC offering hadoop training and best hadoop books for anyone willing to learn hadoop. From this, it is evident that the global hadoop job market is on an exponential rise with many professionals eager to tap their learning skills on Hadoop technology.

Assume that you are a Java Developer and suddenly your company hops to join the big data bandwagon and requires professionals with Java+Hadoop experience. If you have not sharpened your big data skills then you will likely get the boot, as your company will start looking for developers with Hadoop experience. Companies are looking for open source developers who are not just familiar with the trending technologies like Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, NoSQL, but who are experts in writing code and finding valuable insights through data analytics by making use of these big data technologies.

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These big data skills not only help you move up your ranks in the current position, but they will make you more marketable with big paychecks. With increasing demand for analytic professionals, the average big data salaries and retention bonuses continue to rise high as increasing number of companies across various domains join the “Game of Big Data Throne”. The corporate appetite for big data and related technologies like Hadoop & Spark is translating into increasing Hadoop developer salaries for IT professionals across the globe as there are not enough skilled professionals to work on it. Big data and Hadoop jobs have exploded globally in multiple business domains like Healthcare, Retail, Finance, Manufacturing, Media & Entertainment, etc., in both big and small organizations-whilst the number of hadoop professionals are still scarce and of course, Hadoop developers are pricey. What follows is a brief highpoint on the growing opportunities in big data and hadoop across various countries like UK, Singapore, Europe, China, and Japan.

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Tooling in the big data domain evolves quickly, and picking the right tools for a big data job-not to mention a career- can often be conflict-ridden. Which big data tools and technologies should you try to master? Which big data tool provides a perfect balance between difficulty, relevance and market potential? Apache Hadoop, of course, is among the king of the big data throne in the analytics space and definitely deserves a place on the top of your to-learn list of big data skills.

The search term for “Hadoop Jobs” on top job portals like Glassdoor, Dice, Indeed.com, etc. would show up search results that callout for -data engineers, hadoop developers, data testers, hadoop architects, hadoop administrators, data scientists and other related big data job roles from top finance, healthcare, IT, retail and even online dating sites with hadoop as an essential skill to make sense of the big data, that these companies collect and store.

The search term for “Hadoop” keyword on the popular job portal Indeed.com shows 15,286 open hadoop jobs across the globe from big data startups and well-established multinational companies.

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Big Data and Hadoop Job Market in UK

An analysis of 56,000 programmers on Stackoverflow found that the number of tech jobs in London increased by 30% from 2010-2015 with many IT companies making healthy investments on big data and data science technologies.

Higher Education Funding Council for England (Hefce) is granting £1.7 million to develop a range of engineering and computer science conversion courses in field of big data and data science involving 32 universities and colleges. People interested to work in the field of big data and data science need not have a first degree in the subject i.e. anybody without a previous data science experience or computer science experience at an Undergraduate level can now take up Master’s degree in the emerging fields of big data and data science.

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Big data and hadoop job related roles might be rare in UK but are rewarding unlike other IT careers. According to a survey report by Tech Cities Job Watch, only 9% of the IT jobs in UK were related to big data, however the salaries for big data and hadoop jobs were highest across all the other IT jobs in various disciplines. According to itjobswatch.co.uk, the median Hadoop developer salary in London as of June 21, 2016 is £82,500 and in the entire England it is £77,500. 90% of the hadoop developers in UK earn more than £57,500 whilst the remaining 10% of the Hadoop developers enjoy salary pay checks of more than £100,000.

With UK becoming the hotbed for big data startups like QuBit, Datasift, Tumra, EDITD, Push Technology, etc. - Hadoop job opportunities are on the rise, as hiring managers are not able to find skilled talent. The search term for “Hadoop” on Glassdoor showed 1532 open big data jobs in UK alone-

List of companies hiring for big data and hadoop jobs in UK as of June 22, 2016

On demand from ProjectPro blog readers, we have done a thorough research to find the details of companies hiring for big data and hadoop jobs in UK along with the big salaries offered by these companies.

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Big Data and Hadoop Job Market in Singapore

According to IDA, there were 2000+ data analysts working in Singapore in 2014 and it is anticipated to grow by a third in the next 3 years.

A research report by Harvard Business Review, identifies big data analytics as a major growth sector in Singapore, anticipated to add S$1billion value to the Singapore economy.

As the global shortage of analytics talent prevails, Singapore is coming up with novel strategies to develop the analytics talent pool. National University of Singapore (NUS) has announced a new data science and analytics program to be offered starting August 2016 as a part of its Smart Nation research cluster. However, it will begin with an intake of only 50 students.

With a plan to nurture 2500+ multidisciplinary big data analytics professionals in the next 5 years- this is the best time for Singaporeans to develop their big data and data science skillset. Learning big data technologies will help Singaporeans fulfil the demand vs. supply shortage for analytics skills like Hadoop, Spark, Machine Learning, Cassandra, NoSQL, etc. and land them a top gig in their career.

Kiren Kumar, executive director of Infocomms and Media, Singapore Economic Development Board said -“The establishment of Twitter’s analytics team is an exciting development as it provides Singaporeans with good job opportunities and allows them to partake in the creation of new products and services from Singapore.  We believe that such frontier digital jobs will provide Singaporeans with the growth opportunities they need to compete on a global stage.”

With Twitter setting up its data science team in Singapore, I2R’s collaboration with Rolls Royce and VISA for pattern recognition and fraud detection on VISA cards and Microsoft hoping to inspire the next generation of big data and data science professionals from Singapore, through its collaboration with NUS (National University of Singapore) - there will be scores of hadoop and data science job opportunities for IT professionals. As Singapore’s data ecosystem is growing considerably, many well-established companies like Pivotal, MapR, SAS, TripAdvisor, Oracle, PayPal, Palantir, Microsoft, Nielsen, AirBnB, Facebook, Google, IBM are hiring big data professionals.

It’s not just the established companies that are looking to scale up their analytics teams but also startups like Property Guru, Honestbee, Grab, DataRobot, and Zalora have established data teams and are looking to hire more people in the big data domain.

List of companies hiring for big data and hadoop jobs in Singapore as of June 22, 2016 

The average salary for a Hadoop Developer in Singapore is 7500 SGD.

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Big Data and Hadoop Job Market in Europe

According to a report by Forfas and the Expert Group on Future Skills Needs, 21.000 analytic jobs could be created by 2020. 17,470 of the analytic job positions would be for big data job roles and the remaining 3630 positions would be for deep analytical talent. The Dublin City of University is all set to establish the AIB chain in big data analytics for research and academic development.

Economy Minister Simon Hamilton said – “The field of data analytics is one which is growing globally and becoming increasingly important for companies today. Northern Ireland possesses the high quality graduates and post-graduates much sought after by market-leading indigenous companies and large-scale professional services Centres of Excellence. I would encourage any unemployed graduate to consider a career in this vibrant and growing technology sector.”

With Facebook’s confirmation to build a data centre and Hortonworks opening up a big data centre in Ireland, there is likely to be a significant uptake in the number of big data and hadoop job opportunities across Ireland and other parts of Europe.

List of companies hiring for big data and hadoop jobs in Ireland as of June 22, 2016 

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2016 is the Best Time to make a Career Move into Big Data Analytics

If you are a gamer, you might already know the value of collecting badges to bolster your credibility in that subculture. Relate to big data and data science skills as a portable, mini-certifications (similar to badges) that one can earn by completing a certified MOOC, finishing hands-on projects on the relevant big data tools and contributing to GitHub repositories. These mini-certifications are like a digital wallet that you can add to your LinkedIn profile to bolster your trending skills credibility.

Big data trend is going to stretch across the entire globe as far as predictions are concerned, and picking up skills with open source tools like Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Flink can line you up promising big data jobs in 2016. This is the best time to start honing your trench for big data career through project based Hadoop Developer Training or Hadoop Administration Training. You never know, learning hadoop might be the big career move you have been waiting for to pursue a lucrative job in the IT industry.

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