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 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 568 476 510
Rank change year-on-year -92 +34 +118
Contract jobs citing HDFS 14 12 31
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.036% 0.049% 0.083%
As % of the System Software category 0.33% 0.38% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 23
10th Percentile £413 £477 £281
25th Percentile £428 £484 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £385
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +55.84% -25.96%
75th Percentile £462 £703 £525
90th Percentile £477 £779 £773
UK median daily rate £450 £527 £385
% change year-on-year -14.61% +36.88% -25.96%

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 4,307 3,151 4,086
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.97% 12.91% 10.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,954 2,185 2,825
10th Percentile £213 £213 £190
25th Percentile £400 £400 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +9.38% -8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £694 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £485
% change year-on-year -4.76% +8.25% -7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 82 204
10th Percentile £16.08 £15.16 £14.06
25th Percentile £22.26 £21.30 £14.48
Median hourly rate £54.00 £29.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +86.21% +38.10% -52.00%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.75 £54.69
90th Percentile £85.33 £85.88 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £29.00 £22.30
% change year-on-year +81.03% +30.04% -55.40%

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 16 April 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 16 April 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
London -46 9 £450 -40.50% 1
Midlands -68 5 £450 -5.66%
West Midlands -58 4 £450 -5.66%
East Midlands -34 1 £304 -
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 9 (64.29%) Apache Spark
2 3 (21.43%) Confluence
2 3 (21.43%) SAS
3 2 (14.29%) Apache
4 1 (7.14%) Apache Pig
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (35.71%) Azure
2 5 (35.71%) GCP
3 3 (21.43%) GitHub
3 3 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (21.43%) Power Platform
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon Bedrock
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon ELB
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 2 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (14.29%) AWS Direct Connect
4 2 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (14.29%) Route 53
4 2 (14.29%) Serverless
4 2 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) Kerberos
2 2 (14.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (100.00%) Hadoop
2 11 (78.57%) Apache Hive
3 9 (64.29%) Big Data
3 9 (64.29%) Impala
4 5 (35.71%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (35.71%) Data Lake
4 5 (35.71%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (21.43%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (21.43%) HBase
5 3 (21.43%) MySQL
5 3 (21.43%) Pentaho
5 3 (21.43%) Power BI
6 2 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (14.29%) Data Mining
6 2 (14.29%) Sqoop
7 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
7 1 (7.14%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 5 (35.71%) GitLab
3 3 (21.43%) Bitbucket
3 3 (21.43%) JIRA
4 1 (7.14%) Git
General
1 3 (21.43%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Administrator
1 3 (21.43%) Cloud Administrator
1 3 (21.43%) Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Apache Spark Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Hadoop Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Scala Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Senior
2 2 (14.29%) Software Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Data Analytics Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Data Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Hadoop Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Java Hadoop Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) Spark Streaming
2 2 (14.29%) HTML
2 2 (14.29%) JSON
2 2 (14.29%) Kafka
2 2 (14.29%) Keras
2 2 (14.29%) LangChain
2 2 (14.29%) Matplotlib
2 2 (14.29%) NLTK
2 2 (14.29%) Node.js
2 2 (14.29%) NumPy
2 2 (14.29%) Pandas
2 2 (14.29%) Plotly
2 2 (14.29%) PySpark
2 2 (14.29%) PyTorch
2 2 (14.29%) scikit-learn
2 2 (14.29%) SciPy
2 2 (14.29%) Seaborn
2 2 (14.29%) TensorFlow
2 2 (14.29%) XGBoost
2 2 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (14.29%) AI Agents
3 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Unix
2 3 (21.43%) Linux
3 1 (7.14%) CentOS
3 1 (7.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
1 6 (42.86%) DevOps
2 5 (35.71%) Data Engineering
2 5 (35.71%) ETL
3 4 (28.57%) Agile
3 4 (28.57%) Analytics
3 4 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (21.43%) AI
4 3 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (21.43%) Data Analytics
4 3 (21.43%) Data Virtualisation
4 3 (21.43%) MapReduce
4 3 (21.43%) Scrum
4 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
4 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (14.29%) Data Analysis
5 2 (14.29%) Data Security
5 2 (14.29%) Logistic Regression
5 2 (14.29%) Multivariate Analysis
5 2 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) Python
2 8 (57.14%) Java
3 6 (42.86%) SQL
4 3 (21.43%) HiveQL
4 3 (21.43%) PL/SQL
4 3 (21.43%) Scala
5 2 (14.29%) Ada
5 2 (14.29%) C#
5 2 (14.29%) C++
5 2 (14.29%) R
5 2 (14.29%) Shell Script
6 1 (7.14%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) Apache Flume
2 1 (7.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Ansible
1 4 (28.57%) Grafana
2 2 (14.29%) Hadoop YARN
2 2 (14.29%) Terraform
3 1 (7.14%) Apache Ranger
3 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.14%) Oozie
3 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Cloudera
1 3 (21.43%) Denodo
1 3 (21.43%) Informatica
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle
1 3 (21.43%) Talend
2 2 (14.29%) Databricks
2 2 (14.29%) OpenAI
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) Red Hat