HDFS Contract Job Trends in Central London

Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring HDFS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 128 143
Rank change year-on-year 0 +15 -
Contract jobs citing HDFS 1 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.050% 0.13% 0.14%
As % of the System Software category 0.51% 1.10% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £283 £719 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £285 £738 -
Median % change year-on-year -61.36% - -
75th Percentile £288 £756 -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £450 £756 £825
% change year-on-year -40.50% -8.33% +17.86%

All System Software Skills
Central London

HDFS falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 198 272 319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 9.98% 11.62% 11.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 174 241
10th Percentile £281 £271 £260
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £558 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% +11.50% -13.04%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £638
90th Percentile £704 £730 £788
London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile - £84.40 -
25th Percentile - £94.75 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.47 £112.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -77.26% +397.78% +9.76%
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £24.00 £23.80 £43.84
% change year-on-year +0.84% -45.71% +51.16%

HDFS
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing HDFS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

HDFS job vacancy trend in Central London

HDFS
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing HDFS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing HDFS

HDFS
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HDFS within the Central London region over the 6 months to 15 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +5 1 £285 -61.36%
HDFS
London

HDFS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) Impala
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (100.00%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft