While still a small fraction1 of data management job postings, the number of job posts that mention “hadoop” continue to grow steadily. Year-over-year, there were 300% more such job posts2 in the first seven months of 2010 compared to the same period in 2009:
The fraction of “hadoop” jobs posted by California companies remain high, but is definitely lower than what it was last year:
(1) Over the last three months, job posts that mention “hadoop” were inching towards 8-10% of the number of job posts that mention “mysql”.
(2) Data for this post is for U.S. online job postings through 7/31/2010 and is maintained in partnership with SimplyHired.com. We use algorithms to dedup job posts: a single job posting can contain multiple jobs and appear on multiple job sites.