HDFS Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring HDFS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 125 146
Rank change year-on-year +9 +21 +54
Contract jobs citing HDFS 1 1 5
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.060% 0.047% 0.17%
As % of the System Software category 0.65% 0.39% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £283 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £285 - -
75th Percentile £288 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £285 - -

All System Software Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 153 256 333
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.12% 12.14% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 162 231
10th Percentile £294 £323 £263
25th Percentile £463 £425 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £553 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.58% +5.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £666 £663 £688
90th Percentile £688 £730 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - £84.40 £23.88
25th Percentile £26.75 £94.75 £27.81
Median hourly rate £28.50 £112.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -74.55% +208.97% +76.83%
75th Percentile £30.25 - £45.31
90th Percentile - - £49.63
Central London median hourly rate £26.99 £112.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year -75.91% +208.97% +79.01%

HDFS
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

HDFS job vacancy trend in the City of London

HDFS
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing HDFS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing HDFS

HDFS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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