HDFS Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring HDFS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 114 -
Rank change year-on-year -65 - -
Contract jobs citing HDFS 5 6 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.13% 0.30% -
As % of the System Software category 0.92% 2.30% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 0
10th Percentile £441 - -
25th Percentile £447 £477 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £484 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.93% - -
75th Percentile £459 £514 -
90th Percentile £461 £558 -
England median daily rate £450 £533 £500
% change year-on-year -15.49% +6.50% -

All System Software Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 543 261 271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.10% 13.10% 9.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 378 176 202
10th Percentile £180 £160 £151
25th Percentile £306 £205 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £469 £375
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% +25.00% -11.24%
75th Percentile £571 £613 £519
90th Percentile £657 £700 £600
England median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 9
10th Percentile £15.71 £15.17 £15.30
25th Percentile £16.25 £15.22 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £18.13 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.72% -2.00% +4.40%
75th Percentile £26.00 £25.94 £19.95
90th Percentile £47.50 £37.04 £23.73
England median hourly rate £34.00 £29.00 £25.06
% change year-on-year +17.24% +15.73% -34.92%

HDFS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

HDFS job vacancy trend in the Midlands

HDFS
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing HDFS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing HDFS

HDFS
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HDFS within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 March 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
West Midlands -54 5 £450 -6.93% 1
HDFS
England

HDFS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (60.00%) Confluence
1 3 (60.00%) SAS
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (20.00%) Route 53
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Kerberos
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Hadoop
2 4 (80.00%) Apache Hive
2 4 (80.00%) Impala
2 4 (80.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (80.00%) Power BI
3 3 (60.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (60.00%) BusinessObjects
3 3 (60.00%) MySQL
3 3 (60.00%) Pentaho
4 2 (40.00%) Big Data
5 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
5 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (20.00%) Dremio
5 1 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) GitLab
1 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (60.00%) Bitbucket
2 3 (60.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (20.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) JSON
1 1 (20.00%) PySpark
1 1 (20.00%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Analytics
1 4 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Data Analytics
2 3 (60.00%) Data Virtualisation
2 3 (60.00%) ETL
2 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Cost Management
3 1 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Data Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (20.00%) Data Management
3 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) HiveQL
2 3 (60.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) PL/SQL
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
1 3 (60.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle
2 3 (60.00%) Denodo
2 3 (60.00%) Informatica
2 3 (60.00%) Talend
3 1 (20.00%) Ab Initio
3 1 (20.00%) Cloudera