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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 638 503 517
Rank change year-on-year -135 +14 +64
Contract jobs citing HDFS 7 20 11
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.015% 0.071% 0.034%
As % of the System Software category 0.15% 0.57% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 13 2
10th Percentile - £309 £418
25th Percentile - £405 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £304 £447 £490
Median % change year-on-year -31.99% -8.73% -24.65%
75th Percentile £371 £488 £542
90th Percentile £411 £506 £569
UK median daily rate £365 £447 £402
% change year-on-year -18.46% +11.12% -36.90%

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 4,685 3,516 3,712
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.00% 12.50% 11.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,059 2,268 2,419
10th Percentile £218 £208 £220
25th Percentile £393 £375 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £614
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 111 79
10th Percentile £17.75 £15.50 £14.23
25th Percentile £26.35 £21.63 £20.77
Median hourly rate £62.50 £34.50 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +81.16% +11.29% -34.74%
75th Percentile £74.24 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £89.63 £81.71
UK median hourly rate £60.92 £30.00 £30.50
% change year-on-year +103.05% -1.64% -39.00%

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
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 14 October 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 -107 4 - - 9
East Midlands -18 2 £304 -27.62%
Midlands -57 2 £304 -27.62%
North of England -73 1 £425 -10.53% 2
North East - 1 £425 -
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 7 (100.00%) Apache Spark
2 4 (57.14%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (28.57%) Apache Pig
4 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 7 (100.00%) Hadoop
2 6 (85.71%) Big Data
3 5 (71.43%) Data Lake
4 4 (57.14%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (28.57%) HBase
5 2 (28.57%) Sqoop
6 1 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (14.29%) Impala
6 1 (14.29%) Power BI
6 1 (14.29%) Power Query
6 1 (14.29%) Redshift Spectrum
6 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) GitLab
1 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Apache Spark Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Hadoop Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Scala Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (28.57%) Kafka
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Data Pipeline
1 6 (85.71%) Data Science
2 5 (71.43%) Data Governance
3 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
3 4 (57.14%) High Availability
3 4 (57.14%) Platform Engineering
3 4 (57.14%) Vulnerability Management
4 3 (42.86%) Data Ingestion
4 3 (42.86%) ETL
5 2 (28.57%) Data Security
5 2 (28.57%) MapReduce
6 1 (14.29%) Data Integration
6 1 (14.29%) Data Migration
6 1 (14.29%) Data Validation
6 1 (14.29%) Migration
6 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
6 1 (14.29%) Validation
6 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
6 1 (14.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) Bash
3 2 (28.57%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) Scala
4 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
2 2 (28.57%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Ansible
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
1 4 (57.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Cloudera
2 1 (14.29%) Informatica