HDFS Contracts in London

Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 10 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 361 360 449
Rank change year-on-year -1 +89 +104
Contract jobs citing HDFS 4 19 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.029% 0.12% 0.080%
As % of the System Software category 0.27% 1.09% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 13
10th Percentile £284 - -
25th Percentile £285 £281 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 £300 £550
Median % change year-on-year +22.67% -45.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £450 £388 £600
90th Percentile - - £660
England median daily rate £420 £368 £538
% change year-on-year +14.29% -31.63% -6.52%

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 1,474 1,738 2,791
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.78% 10.74% 11.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 959 1,246 2,017
10th Percentile £280 £262 £238
25th Percentile £413 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £560
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -8.04% -2.61%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £675
90th Percentile £725 £725 £775
England median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 19 29
10th Percentile £22.45 £20.40 £21.25
25th Percentile £22.63 £20.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £23.80 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.24% -60.33% +53.12%
75th Percentile £35.75 £24.18 £72.50
90th Percentile £54.75 £31.50 £83.71
England median hourly rate £40.00 £24.18 £40.00
% change year-on-year +65.43% -39.55% +86.05%

HDFS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing HDFS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for HDFS in London

HDFS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for HDFS in London

HDFS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HDFS in London over the 6 months to 10 August 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 10 August 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 +3 1 £285 -25.97%
HDFS
England

HDFS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 2 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) SSH
2 1 (25.00%) HTTP
2 1 (25.00%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 4 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 4 (100.00%) Impala
2 2 (50.00%) Big Data
2 2 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (50.00%) HBase
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (50.00%) SonarQube
1 2 (50.00%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Spark Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Scala Developer
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Developer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Observability
1 2 (50.00%) Open Source
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Key Management
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Scala
3 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Kibana
1 2 (50.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft