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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 - 149
Rank change year-on-year - - +46
Contract jobs citing HDFS 1 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.057% - 0.17%
As % of the System Software category 0.69% - 1.31%
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 144 250 381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 8.21% 11.88% 12.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 173 252
10th Percentile £275 £350 £278
25th Percentile £425 £425 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £572
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -2.10% +3.86%
75th Percentile £668 £688 £738
90th Percentile £688 £736 £825
Central London median daily rate £536 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.55% - +0.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £22.48 - £23.88
25th Percentile £23.19 £77.50 £27.81
Median hourly rate £25.25 £85.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -70.29% +134.48% +76.83%
75th Percentile £28.19 £92.50 £45.31
90th Percentile £29.43 - £49.63
Central London median hourly rate £26.45 £85.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year -68.88% +134.48% +76.83%

HDFS
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing HDFS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for HDFS 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 and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

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