HDFS Contract Job Trends in England

Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring HDFS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 619 495 500
Rank change year-on-year -124 +5 +99
Contract jobs citing HDFS 7 8 28
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.015% 0.029% 0.084%
As % of the System Software category 0.15% 0.24% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 16
10th Percentile - £285 £281
25th Percentile £304 £346 £295
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £420 £368
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +14.29% -36.09%
75th Percentile £459 £450 £391
90th Percentile £461 £530 £475
UK median daily rate £450 £410 £342
% change year-on-year +9.76% +19.88% -40.52%

All System Software Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,623 3,280 3,881
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.09% 11.85% 11.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,046 2,122 2,697
10th Percentile £215 £225 £225
25th Percentile £400 £386 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £608
90th Percentile £680 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 94 131
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.11 £14.06
25th Percentile £29.00 £23.00 £15.63
Median hourly rate £60.33 £40.73 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +48.14% +71.11% -31.01%
75th Percentile £74.26 £81.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £89.75 £91.50 £73.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £34.50 £24.18
% change year-on-year +59.42% +42.68% -47.64%

HDFS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

HDFS job vacancy trend in England

HDFS
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing HDFS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing HDFS

HDFS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HDFS in England over the 6 months to 15 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for HDFS in England

HDFS
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing HDFS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing HDFS

HDFS
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HDFS within the England region over the 6 months to 15 August 2026. 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
Midlands -44 5 £450 +8.43%
West Midlands - 3 £450 -
East Midlands -16 2 £304 -26.75%
London -71 2 - - 5
HDFS
UK

HDFS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (57.14%) Apache Spark
2 3 (42.86%) Confluence
2 3 (42.86%) SAS
3 2 (28.57%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (28.57%) Apache Pig
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Power Platform
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 7 (100.00%) Hadoop
2 4 (57.14%) Big Data
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (42.86%) BusinessObjects
3 3 (42.86%) Impala
3 3 (42.86%) MySQL
3 3 (42.86%) Pentaho
3 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (42.86%) Power BI
4 2 (28.57%) Data Lake
4 2 (28.57%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (28.57%) HBase
4 2 (28.57%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) GitLab
1 5 (71.43%) Jenkins
2 3 (42.86%) Bitbucket
2 3 (42.86%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Apache Spark Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Data Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Hadoop Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Scala Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Data Analytics Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (28.57%) Kafka
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Unix
2 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
1 5 (71.43%) ETL
2 4 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (57.14%) Data Science
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) Analytics
3 3 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (42.86%) Data Analytics
3 3 (42.86%) Data Virtualisation
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Scrum
3 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
4 2 (28.57%) Data Ingestion
4 2 (28.57%) Data Security
4 2 (28.57%) High Availability
4 2 (28.57%) MapReduce
4 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (71.43%) Java
3 3 (42.86%) HiveQL
3 3 (42.86%) PL/SQL
3 3 (42.86%) SQL
4 2 (28.57%) Bash
4 2 (28.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Apache Flume
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Ansible
2 3 (42.86%) Grafana
3 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 2 (28.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Denodo
1 3 (42.86%) Informatica
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle
1 3 (42.86%) Talend
2 2 (28.57%) Cloudera