Hadoop developer among the most paid professionals

It turns out that Hadoop developers are among the top paid professionals across the world. Below is the list of most paid professions where Hadoop skills occupy most of them.

MapReduce is worth $127,315

MapReduce has been called “the heart of Hadoop.” MapReduce is the method that allows Hadoop to store all kinds of data across many low-cost computer servers. To get meaningful data of Hadoop, a programmer writes software programs (often in the popular language, Java) for MapReduce.

Pay for MapReduce-associated jobs has climbed 11 percent over last year, Dice says. It has over 500 job listings for it.

Cloudera is worth $126,816

Cloudera is a company that makes a commercial version of Hadoop. Although Hadoop is a free and open-source-project for storing large amounts of data on inexpensive computer servers, the free version of Hadoop is not easy to use. Several companies have created friendlier versions of Hadoop, and Cloudera is arguably the most popular one.

Pay for Cloudera-associated jobs has climbed 20 percent over last year, Dice says. It has over 200 job listings for it.

HBase is worth $126,369

HBase is yet another project based on the popular Hadoop technology. Hadoop is a way to store all kinds of data across many low-cost computer servers. Once that data is stored using the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), Hbase can sort through that data and group bits of data together, somewhat similar to how a traditional database organizes data.

Pay for HBase-associated jobs has climbed 20 percent over last year, Dice says. It has over 660 job listings for it.

Pig is worth $124,563

Pig is another hot skill thanks to the “big data” craze and the popularity of a tech called Hadoop. As we’ve mentioned, Hadoop is a way to store all kinds of data across many low-cost computer servers. Pig is a programming language that lets you extract information from Hadoop find answers to questions or otherwise use the data.

Pay for Pig-associated jobs has climbed 13 percent over last year, Dice says. It has over 570 job listings for it.

Flume is worth $123,186

Flume is yet another skill spawned from the “big data” craze and the popularity of Hadoop. Hadoop is a way to store all kinds of data across many low-cost computer servers. Flume is a method to move massive amounts of data from the place it was created into a Hadoop system.

Dice has over 150 job listings for Flume-related jobs.

Hadoop is worth $121,313

Hadoop is a super important technology at the center of the whole “big data” craze. Hadoop is open source software used to gather and store vast amounts of data and analyze it on low-cost commodity hardware. For instance, banks may use Hadoop for fraud detection, and online shopping services could use it to analyze customers’ buying patterns.

Pay for Hadoop-associated jobs has climbed 11.6 percent over last year, Dice says, and there are currently over 2,220 job listings on Dice for it.