HDFS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 332 390 455
Rank change year-on-year +58 +65 +7
Contract jobs citing HDFS 4 9 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.031% 0.043% 0.029%
As % of the System Software category 0.22% 0.37% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 2
10th Percentile - £370 £526
25th Percentile - £400 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -23.40% +12.98%
75th Percentile £530 £500 £622
90th Percentile £602 £530 £639
UK median daily rate £600 £385 £538
% change year-on-year +55.84% -28.37% -8.90%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,814 2,460 3,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.21% 11.84% 15.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,249 1,649 2,640
10th Percentile £190 £175 £181
25th Percentile £325 £275 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £460 £483
Median % change year-on-year +4.13% -4.69% +7.26%
75th Percentile £588 £584 £588
90th Percentile £662 £650 £676
UK median daily rate £525 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 191 192
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.39 £14.16 £16.77
Median hourly rate £28.00 £22.00 £41.88
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -47.46% +131.16%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £86.60 £78.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.50 £53.43
% change year-on-year +22.22% -57.88% +167.13%

HDFS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for HDFS in the UK excluding London

HDFS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for HDFS in the UK excluding London

HDFS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HDFS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HDFS in the UK excluding London

HDFS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing HDFS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for HDFS in the UK excluding London

HDFS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Northern Ireland - 2 £410 -
Midlands +21 1 - -
North of England +18 1 £650 +52.94%
East Midlands +10 1 - -
Yorkshire +7 1 £650 +52.94%
HDFS
UK

HDFS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 4 (100.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (50.00%) Apache
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 4 (100.00%) Big Data
2 3 (75.00%) HBase
2 3 (75.00%) Impala
3 2 (50.00%) Hadoop
3 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (25.00%) Presto
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Financial Institution
2 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (50.00%) Law
3 1 (25.00%) Automotive
3 1 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Front Office
3 1 (25.00%) International Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Apache Spark Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Kafka
2 2 (50.00%) Apache Avro
2 2 (50.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (25.00%) Credit Risk
2 1 (25.00%) Life Science
2 1 (25.00%) Market Risk
2 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (75.00%) Multithreading
2 2 (50.00%) Low Latency
2 2 (50.00%) SOA
2 2 (50.00%) Storyboarding
2 2 (50.00%) Use Case
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) The Twelve-Factor App
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Hitachi