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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 515 487 530
Rank change year-on-year -28 +43 +153
Contract jobs citing HDFS 27 14 10
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.085% 0.050% 0.028%
As % of the System Software category 0.68% 0.42% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 8 3
10th Percentile £366 £455 -
25th Percentile £410 £477 £763
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £533 £825
Median % change year-on-year -15.49% -35.45% +52.78%
75th Percentile £484 £639 £931
90th Percentile £496 £773 £958
UK median daily rate £450 £527 £825
% change year-on-year -14.61% -36.12% +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 3,949 3,356 4,538
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.46% 11.94% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,664 2,179 3,133
10th Percentile £213 £205 £190
25th Percentile £400 £363 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £613
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 79 204
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.60 £15.75
25th Percentile £20.93 £21.02 £18.50
Median hourly rate £48.11 £28.41 £46.29
Median % change year-on-year +69.34% -38.62% +79.75%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.50 £68.63
90th Percentile £90.45 £78.50 £77.85
UK median hourly rate £48.11 £27.96 £50.00
% change year-on-year +72.10% -44.09% +94.17%

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 1 January 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 1 January 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 -4 16 £450 -40.50% 2
Midlands -33 9 £434 -10.34%
West Midlands -29 6 £450 -6.93%
East Midlands -16 3 £420 -
Yorkshire -50 3 £475 -
North of England -53 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 22 (81.48%) Apache Spark
2 12 (44.44%) Apache
2 12 (44.44%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.70%) Apache Pig
Cloud Services
1 4 (14.81%) AWS
2 2 (7.41%) Amazon Bedrock
2 2 (7.41%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (7.41%) Amazon ELB
2 2 (7.41%) Amazon EMR
2 2 (7.41%) Amazon Kinesis
2 2 (7.41%) Amazon S3
2 2 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (7.41%) AWS Direct Connect
2 2 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (7.41%) Azure
2 2 (7.41%) GCP
2 2 (7.41%) GitHub
2 2 (7.41%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (7.41%) Route 53
2 2 (7.41%) Serverless
2 2 (7.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (3.70%) Google Ads
3 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) Kerberos
2 2 (7.41%) SSH
2 2 (7.41%) VPN
3 1 (3.70%) HTTP
3 1 (3.70%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (96.30%) Hadoop
2 23 (85.19%) Apache Hive
3 16 (59.26%) HBase
4 15 (55.56%) Big Data
5 11 (40.74%) Impala
6 4 (14.81%) Data Lake
6 4 (14.81%) NoSQL
7 3 (11.11%) Metadata
8 2 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (7.41%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (7.41%) Data Mining
8 2 (7.41%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (3.70%) Dremio
9 1 (3.70%) Power BI
9 1 (3.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Jenkins
2 3 (11.11%) Git
3 2 (7.41%) GitLab
3 2 (7.41%) SonarQube
3 2 (7.41%) TeamCity
General
1 10 (37.04%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (25.93%) Finance
3 5 (18.52%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Banking
4 1 (3.70%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.70%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (33.33%) Developer
2 7 (25.93%) Hadoop Engineer
3 6 (22.22%) Scala Developer
4 5 (18.52%) Hadoop Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Administrator
5 3 (11.11%) Apache Spark Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Cloud Administrator
6 2 (7.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) SQL Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Architect
7 1 (3.70%) Data Architect
7 1 (3.70%) Data Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Java Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Java Hadoop Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Lead
7 1 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Python Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (55.56%) Spark Streaming
2 5 (18.52%) Kafka
2 5 (18.52%) PySpark
3 3 (11.11%) Pandas
4 2 (7.41%) HTML
4 2 (7.41%) JSON
4 2 (7.41%) Keras
4 2 (7.41%) LangChain
4 2 (7.41%) Matplotlib
4 2 (7.41%) NLTK
4 2 (7.41%) Node.js
4 2 (7.41%) NumPy
4 2 (7.41%) Plotly
4 2 (7.41%) PyTorch
4 2 (7.41%) scikit-learn
4 2 (7.41%) SciPy
4 2 (7.41%) Seaborn
4 2 (7.41%) TensorFlow
4 2 (7.41%) XGBoost
4 2 (7.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Data Centre
2 3 (11.11%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (7.41%) AI Agents
3 2 (7.41%) Market Risk
4 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (48.15%) Linux
2 2 (7.41%) Windows
2 2 (7.41%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.70%) CentOS
3 1 (3.70%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (55.56%) Data Engineering
2 12 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 11 (40.74%) Data Pipeline
3 11 (40.74%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (37.04%) Analytics
5 9 (33.33%) Data Analytics
6 6 (22.22%) Decision-Making
6 6 (22.22%) MapReduce
7 5 (18.52%) Configuration Management
7 5 (18.52%) Data Governance
7 5 (18.52%) Data Security
7 5 (18.52%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (14.81%) Containerisation
8 4 (14.81%) DevOps
8 4 (14.81%) Use Case
9 3 (11.11%) Data Science
9 3 (11.11%) Mentoring
9 3 (11.11%) Metadata Management
9 3 (11.11%) Unit Testing
9 3 (11.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 18 (66.67%) Python
2 8 (29.63%) SQL
3 7 (25.93%) Scala
3 7 (25.93%) Shell Script
4 5 (18.52%) Java
5 2 (7.41%) Ada
5 2 (7.41%) C#
5 2 (7.41%) C++
5 2 (7.41%) PowerShell
5 2 (7.41%) R
6 1 (3.70%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) MCP
2 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.70%) Degree
2 1 (3.70%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) Docker
2 2 (7.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 11 (40.74%) Hadoop YARN
2 8 (29.63%) Ansible
3 5 (18.52%) Puppet
4 3 (11.11%) Oozie
5 2 (7.41%) Kibana
5 2 (7.41%) Progress Chef
5 2 (7.41%) Terraform
6 1 (3.70%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (3.70%) Grafana
6 1 (3.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.11%) Cloudera
3 2 (7.41%) Databricks
3 2 (7.41%) OpenAI
4 1 (3.70%) Ab Initio
4 1 (3.70%) Oracle
4 1 (3.70%) Red Hat