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 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 513 494 574
Rank change year-on-year -19 +80 +108
Contract jobs citing HDFS 21 16 13
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.071% 0.052% 0.032%
As % of the System Software category 0.56% 0.43% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 5 4
10th Percentile £320 £432 £666
25th Percentile £406 - £728
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £477 £825
Median % change year-on-year -5.97% -42.18% +51.38%
75th Percentile £478 £490 £909
90th Percentile £504 £549 £949
UK median daily rate £449 £484 £825
% change year-on-year -7.24% -41.39% +37.50%

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 3,721 3,688 5,279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.64% 11.96% 13.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,416 2,370 3,641
10th Percentile £213 £220 £198
25th Percentile £395 £384 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £675 £701 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 78 241
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.94 £15.50
25th Percentile £20.87 £21.66 £18.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £50.00 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +14.29% +84.21%
75th Percentile £73.82 £69.92 £65.98
90th Percentile £88.38 £75.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £38.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year -31.58% -17.18% +93.18%

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 9 November 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 9 November 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 +13 11 £450 - 12
Midlands -21 8 £420 -13.13%
West Midlands -27 5 £477 -1.34%
East Midlands -7 3 £420 -
Yorkshire -28 3 £475 -
North of England -33 3 £475 +17.43%
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 18 (85.71%) Apache Spark
2 12 (57.14%) Apache
2 12 (57.14%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (4.76%) Apache Pig
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.76%) Google Ads
1 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
1 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) SSH
2 1 (4.76%) HTTP
2 1 (4.76%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (95.24%) Hadoop
2 19 (90.48%) Apache Hive
3 15 (71.43%) HBase
4 10 (47.62%) Big Data
5 7 (33.33%) Impala
6 4 (19.05%) NoSQL
7 3 (14.29%) Metadata
8 2 (9.52%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (4.76%) Dremio
9 1 (4.76%) Power BI
9 1 (4.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Git
2 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
2 2 (9.52%) SonarQube
2 2 (9.52%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Finance
3 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Banking
4 1 (4.76%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.76%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Developer
2 7 (33.33%) Hadoop Engineer
3 6 (28.57%) Scala Developer
4 5 (23.81%) Hadoop Developer
5 3 (14.29%) Apache Spark Developer
6 2 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) SQL Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Architect
7 1 (4.76%) Data Architect
7 1 (4.76%) Data Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Java Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Java Hadoop Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Lead
7 1 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (66.67%) Spark Streaming
2 4 (19.05%) Kafka
3 3 (14.29%) PySpark
4 1 (4.76%) Pandas
4 1 (4.76%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Data Centre
2 3 (14.29%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (9.52%) Market Risk
4 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (52.38%) Linux
2 2 (9.52%) Windows
2 2 (9.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) Data Engineering
2 10 (47.62%) Analytics
2 10 (47.62%) CI/CD
2 10 (47.62%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (42.86%) Data Analytics
3 9 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
4 5 (23.81%) Configuration Management
4 5 (23.81%) Data Governance
4 5 (23.81%) Data Security
4 5 (23.81%) Decision-Making
4 5 (23.81%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (19.05%) MapReduce
5 4 (19.05%) Use Case
6 3 (14.29%) Data Science
6 3 (14.29%) Mentoring
6 3 (14.29%) Metadata Management
6 3 (14.29%) Unit Testing
7 2 (9.52%) Containerisation
7 2 (9.52%) DevOps
7 2 (9.52%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 13 (61.90%) Python
2 7 (33.33%) Scala
3 6 (28.57%) Shell Script
3 6 (28.57%) SQL
4 2 (9.52%) Java
4 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (4.76%) Degree
1 1 (4.76%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 10 (47.62%) Hadoop YARN
2 7 (33.33%) Ansible
3 5 (23.81%) Puppet
4 3 (14.29%) Oozie
5 2 (9.52%) Kibana
5 2 (9.52%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) Ab Initio
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle