HDFS Contracts in England

Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring HDFS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited HDFS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 478 513 623
Rank change year-on-year +35 +110 +49
Contract jobs citing HDFS 7 29 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.029% 0.078% 0.059%
As % of the System Software category 0.23% 0.72% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 21 14
10th Percentile £615 £281 -
25th Percentile £638 £300 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £694 £385 £538
Median % change year-on-year +80.19% -28.37% -8.90%
75th Percentile £770 £500 £594
90th Percentile £796 £738 £635
UK median daily rate £600 £385 £538
% change year-on-year +55.84% -28.37% -8.90%

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 3,088 4,031 6,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.68% 10.84% 13.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,136 2,794 4,778
10th Percentile £213 £190 £204
25th Percentile £400 £325 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £494 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
75th Percentile £625 £600 £650
90th Percentile £725 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 209 243
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.06 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.48 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.94 £21.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.05% -58.00% +163.16%
75th Percentile £64.50 £58.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.65 £72.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.50 £53.43
% change year-on-year +22.22% -57.88% +167.13%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing HDFS in England.

Daily rate trend for HDFS in England

HDFS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HDFS in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HDFS in England

HDFS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing HDFS in England.

Hourly rate trend for HDFS in England

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 1 May 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 +20 3 £756 +96.43% 7
Midlands +21 1 - -
North of England +18 1 £650 +52.94%
East Midlands +10 1 - -
Yorkshire +7 1 £650 +52.94%
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 5 (71.43%) Apache Spark
2 2 (28.57%) Apache
2 2 (28.57%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (28.57%) Dagster
2 2 (28.57%) Prefect
2 2 (28.57%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) Apache Hive
1 5 (71.43%) Big Data
1 5 (71.43%) Hadoop
2 4 (57.14%) Impala
3 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
3 2 (28.57%) Spark SQL
3 2 (28.57%) Sqoop
4 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
4 1 (14.29%) HBase
4 1 (14.29%) Presto
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Banking
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Investment Banking
4 1 (14.29%) Automotive
4 1 (14.29%) Front Office
4 1 (14.29%) International Banking
4 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
4 1 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Data Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Banking Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Scala Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Kafka
1 2 (28.57%) NumPy
1 2 (28.57%) Pandas
1 2 (28.57%) Polars
1 2 (28.57%) PySpark
1 2 (28.57%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Genomics
1 2 (28.57%) Omics
2 1 (14.29%) Credit Risk
2 1 (14.29%) Life Science
2 1 (14.29%) Market Risk
2 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) ETL
2 4 (57.14%) Data Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
4 2 (28.57%) Bioinformatics
4 2 (28.57%) Code Quality
4 2 (28.57%) Data Science
4 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
4 2 (28.57%) Observability
4 2 (28.57%) Process Improvement
4 2 (28.57%) Proteomics
4 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Transcriptomics
4 2 (28.57%) Visualisation
5 1 (14.29%) Data Acquisition
5 1 (14.29%) Data Ingestion
5 1 (14.29%) Digital Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (14.29%) The Twelve-Factor App
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) Scala
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
2 1 (14.29%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Ranger
1 1 (14.29%) Hadoop YARN
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Cloudera
1 1 (14.29%) Hitachi