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 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 366 358 423
Rank change year-on-year -8 +65 +50
Contract jobs citing HDFS 6 9 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.039% 0.049% 0.014%
As % of the System Software category 0.31% 0.39% 0.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 2
10th Percentile £407 £370 £523
25th Percentile - £400 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -21.74% +12.75%
75th Percentile £430 £500 £613
90th Percentile £562 £530 £628
UK median daily rate £410 £342 £550
% change year-on-year +19.88% -37.82% -6.78%

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 1,923 2,295 3,307
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.49% 12.60% 14.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,270 1,574 2,232
10th Percentile £200 £200 £175
25th Percentile £317 £350 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £580
90th Percentile £650 £657 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 124 178
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.06 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.65 £14.48 £16.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £26.00 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +140.38% -1.89% +32.50%
75th Percentile £88.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £91.50 £72.65 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £33.64 £24.18 £50.00
% change year-on-year +39.10% -51.64% +127.27%

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 10 August 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 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
East Midlands -6 3 £415 -7.78%
Midlands -13 3 £415 -17.00%
Northern Ireland - 2 £410 - 2
Yorkshire -17 1 £650 +52.94%
North of England -21 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 6 (100.00%) Apache Spark
2 4 (66.67%) Apache
3 2 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 6 (100.00%) Big Data
2 5 (83.33%) HBase
3 4 (66.67%) Hadoop
3 4 (66.67%) NoSQL
4 3 (50.00%) Impala
5 2 (33.33%) Metadata
6 1 (16.67%) Presto
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Banking
3 2 (33.33%) Financial Institution
3 2 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (33.33%) Law
4 1 (16.67%) Automotive
4 1 (16.67%) Front Office
4 1 (16.67%) International Banking
4 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Scala Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Apache Spark Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Hadoop Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Kafka
2 2 (33.33%) Apache Avro
2 2 (33.33%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Distributed Computing
1 2 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (16.67%) Credit Risk
2 1 (16.67%) Life Science
2 1 (16.67%) Market Risk
2 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Mentoring
2 3 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Multithreading
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (33.33%) Data Science
3 2 (33.33%) Low Latency
3 2 (33.33%) MapReduce
3 2 (33.33%) Metadata Management
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) SOA
3 2 (33.33%) Storyboarding
3 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Use Case
4 1 (16.67%) Digital Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
4 1 (16.67%) Microservices
4 1 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) The Twelve-Factor App
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
1 3 (50.00%) Scala
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Hadoop YARN
1 2 (33.33%) Oozie
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Hitachi