HDFS Contract Job Trends in London

Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring HDFS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 368 372 397
Rank change year-on-year +4 +25 +134
Contract jobs citing HDFS 13 5 12
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.091% 0.032% 0.061%
As % of the System Software category 0.80% 0.31% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 4
10th Percentile £285 £721 £666
25th Percentile £372 £723 £728
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £756 £825
Median % change year-on-year -40.50% -8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £456 £798 £909
90th Percentile £528 £807 £949
England median daily rate £450 £490 £825
% change year-on-year -8.16% -40.61% +47.32%

All System Software Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,633 1,609 2,210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.42% 10.31% 11.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,053 1,069 1,570
10th Percentile £311 £262 £213
25th Percentile £425 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £653 £650
90th Percentile £720 £788 £750
England median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 15 24
10th Percentile £21.00 £20.40 £22.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.70 £25.56
Median hourly rate £23.00 £23.80 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% -45.71% +39.17%
75th Percentile £25.47 £77.50 £65.03
90th Percentile £42.75 £105.20 £75.88
England median hourly rate £34.00 £35.33 £40.00
% change year-on-year -3.77% -11.67% +58.42%

HDFS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing HDFS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

HDFS job vacancy trend in London

HDFS
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HDFS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HDFS

HDFS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HDFS in London over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HDFS in London

HDFS
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HDFS within the London region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Central London +5 1 £285 -61.36% 1
HDFS
England

HDFS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 (69.23%) Apache Spark
2 3 (23.08%) Apache
2 3 (23.08%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (7.69%) Apache Pig
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon ELB
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
1 1 (7.69%) AWS
1 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (7.69%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
1 1 (7.69%) GCP
1 1 (7.69%) GitHub
1 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (7.69%) Google Ads
1 1 (7.69%) Route 53
1 1 (7.69%) Serverless
1 1 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) SSH
2 1 (7.69%) HTTP
2 1 (7.69%) Kerberos
2 1 (7.69%) SMTP
2 1 (7.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (92.31%) Apache Hive
1 12 (92.31%) Hadoop
2 9 (69.23%) Impala
3 8 (61.54%) Big Data
4 7 (53.85%) HBase
5 2 (15.38%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
6 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
6 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 2 (15.38%) SonarQube
2 2 (15.38%) TeamCity
3 1 (7.69%) GitLab
General
1 7 (53.85%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Apache Spark Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Scala Developer
3 2 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Hadoop Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) SQL Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Hadoop Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Java Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Java Hadoop Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (69.23%) Spark Streaming
2 2 (15.38%) PySpark
3 1 (7.69%) JSON
3 1 (7.69%) Kafka
3 1 (7.69%) Pandas
3 1 (7.69%) REST
3 1 (7.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Market Risk
2 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Windows
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (46.15%) Decision-Making
3 4 (30.77%) Data Engineering
4 3 (23.08%) Analytics
4 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
4 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
4 3 (23.08%) Data Analytics
4 3 (23.08%) DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) Data Transformation
5 2 (15.38%) Observability
5 2 (15.38%) Open Source
5 2 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (7.69%) Cost Management
6 1 (7.69%) Cost Optimisation
6 1 (7.69%) Data Ingestion
6 1 (7.69%) Data Modelling
6 1 (7.69%) Data Pipeline
6 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (7.69%) Key Management
6 1 (7.69%) MapReduce
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) Python
2 6 (46.15%) SQL
3 4 (30.77%) Scala
4 3 (23.08%) Java
5 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Ansible
1 2 (15.38%) Kibana
1 2 (15.38%) Progress Chef
2 1 (7.69%) Hadoop YARN
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Cloudera