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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 483 517 586
Rank change year-on-year +34 +69 +87
Contract jobs citing HDFS 18 16 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.065% 0.049% 0.033%
As % of the System Software category 0.53% 0.42% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 6
10th Percentile £298 £329 £531
25th Percentile £409 £400 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £450 £588
Median % change year-on-year -0.33% -23.40% +6.82%
75th Percentile £488 £500 £656
90th Percentile £508 £530 £825
UK median daily rate £434 £400 £600
% change year-on-year +8.38% -33.33% +1.69%

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 3,380 3,820 5,526
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.17% 11.68% 13.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,173 2,567 3,793
10th Percentile £214 £219 £200
25th Percentile £375 £380 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% - -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £609 £638
90th Percentile £675 £694 £733
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £501
% change year-on-year - -0.20% -4.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 100 247
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.16 £15.40
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.75 £18.13
Median hourly rate £36.00 £24.35 £47.83
Median % change year-on-year +47.84% -49.09% +117.41%
75th Percentile £81.00 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.75 £80.13 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £33.39 £24.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year +37.10% -51.30% +127.27%

HDFS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing HDFS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for HDFS 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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 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
London +26 8 £450 +56.52%
Midlands -6 8 £420 -16.00%
West Midlands -7 5 £477 -13.27%
East Midlands -3 3 £420 -6.67%
Yorkshire -13 3 £475 +11.76%
North of England -15 3 £475 +11.76%
HDFS
UK

HDFS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 15 (83.33%) Apache Spark
2 12 (66.67%) Apache
2 12 (66.67%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (5.56%) Apache Pig
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.56%) Google Ads
1 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
1 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) SSH
2 1 (5.56%) HTTP
2 1 (5.56%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (94.44%) Hadoop
2 16 (88.89%) Apache Hive
3 12 (66.67%) HBase
4 7 (38.89%) Big Data
5 4 (22.22%) Impala
5 4 (22.22%) NoSQL
6 3 (16.67%) Metadata
7 2 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (5.56%) Dremio
8 1 (5.56%) Power BI
8 1 (5.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Git
2 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.11%) SonarQube
2 2 (11.11%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (33.33%) Finance
2 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Financial Institution
3 1 (5.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Developer
1 7 (38.89%) Hadoop Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Scala Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Hadoop Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Apache Spark Developer
4 2 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) SQL Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Data Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (61.11%) Spark Streaming
2 4 (22.22%) Kafka
3 2 (11.11%) PySpark
4 1 (5.56%) Pandas
4 1 (5.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Data Centre
2 3 (16.67%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (11.11%) Market Risk
4 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (44.44%) Linux
2 2 (11.11%) Windows
2 2 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 10 (55.56%) Analytics
2 10 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 9 (50.00%) Data Analytics
3 9 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
4 7 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (27.78%) Configuration Management
5 5 (27.78%) Data Governance
5 5 (27.78%) Data Security
5 5 (27.78%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (22.22%) MapReduce
6 4 (22.22%) Use Case
7 3 (16.67%) Data Science
7 3 (16.67%) Mentoring
7 3 (16.67%) Metadata Management
7 3 (16.67%) Unit Testing
8 2 (11.11%) Containerisation
8 2 (11.11%) Decision-Making
8 2 (11.11%) DevOps
8 2 (11.11%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 13 (72.22%) Python
2 6 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 5 (27.78%) Scala
4 4 (22.22%) SQL
5 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
6 1 (5.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (5.56%) Degree
1 1 (5.56%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 10 (55.56%) Hadoop YARN
2 7 (38.89%) Ansible
3 5 (27.78%) Puppet
4 3 (16.67%) Oozie
5 2 (11.11%) Kibana
5 2 (11.11%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Ab Initio
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle