Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

hadoop

187 live US technical postings name hadoop in October 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 187 postings naming hadoop that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer34.8%
  2. 2Data Engineer22.5%
  3. 3DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer16.6%
  4. 4Data Scientist13.9%
  5. 5Machine Learning Engineer7%
  6. 6Full-Stack Engineer2.7%
  7. 7AI Engineer1.1%
  8. 8Data Analyst1.1%

What postings asking for it pay

Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.

Disclosed pay where hadoop is named
n = 102
10th
$133k
25th
$150k
Median
$200k
75th
$213k
90th
$240k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Silicon Valley, CA10.2%
  2. 2Washington, DC7%
  3. 3San Francisco, CA6.4%
  4. 4Remote3.7%
  5. 5Chicago, IL3.2%
  6. 6Seattle, WA2.7%
  7. 7Austin, TX2.1%
  8. 8New York, NY2.1%

How we counted

967,730 live US postings read directly from 82,954 employers’ own careers pages in October 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.