HDFS Contract Job Trends

Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring HDFS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 592 501 558
Rank change year-on-year -91 +57 +147
Contract jobs citing HDFS 18 17 30
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.041% 0.058% 0.068%
As % of the System Software category 0.37% 0.44% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 11 22
10th Percentile £405 £477 £281
25th Percentile £425 £484 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £527 £368
Median % change year-on-year -14.61% +43.40% -28.64%
75th Percentile £475 £625 £500
90th Percentile £493 £756 £774
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £477 £350
% change year-on-year -5.66% +36.29% -40.43%

All System Software Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,856 3,856 4,799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.06% 13.06% 10.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,330 2,607 3,259
10th Percentile £213 £210 £190
25th Percentile £400 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £480
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% +8.96% -8.57%
75th Percentile £596 £623 £600
90th Percentile £688 £713 £699
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £454
% change year-on-year - +4.63% -4.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 88 230
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.30 £14.06
25th Percentile £20.87 £21.41 £16.06
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.00 £24.99
Median % change year-on-year +55.17% +16.07% -42.70%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.25 £61.88
90th Percentile £80.00 £79.84 £72.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £37.50 £26.08
% change year-on-year +20.00% +43.82% -1.53%

HDFS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

HDFS job vacancy trend in the UK

HDFS
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

HDFS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HDFS over the 6 months to 22 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for HDFS in the UK

HDFS
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HDFS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HDFS

HDFS
Top 8 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 22 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
England -116 15 £450 -17.43% 2
London -38 11 £445 -41.16%
UK excluding London -76 7 £450 -5.66% 2
Midlands -60 4 £450 -5.66%
West Midlands -66 4 £450 -5.66%
Northern Ireland - 2 £463 -
Work from Home -31 1 £459 -12.90%
Scotland - 1 £285 -

HDFS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 13 (72.22%) Apache Spark
2 4 (22.22%) Apache
3 3 (16.67%) Confluence
3 3 (16.67%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) AWS
2 4 (22.22%) Azure
2 4 (22.22%) GCP
3 3 (16.67%) GitHub
3 3 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon Bedrock
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon ELB
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon S3
4 2 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (11.11%) AWS Direct Connect
4 2 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (11.11%) Route 53
4 2 (11.11%) Serverless
4 2 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) Kerberos
2 2 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (88.89%) Hadoop
2 14 (77.78%) Apache Hive
3 13 (72.22%) Impala
4 10 (55.56%) Big Data
5 5 (27.78%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (27.78%) Data Lake
5 5 (27.78%) HBase
5 5 (27.78%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (16.67%) BusinessObjects
6 3 (16.67%) MySQL
6 3 (16.67%) Pentaho
6 3 (16.67%) Power BI
6 3 (16.67%) Spark SQL
6 3 (16.67%) Sqoop
7 2 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (11.11%) Data Mining
7 2 (11.11%) Tableau
8 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 5 (27.78%) GitLab
3 3 (16.67%) Bitbucket
3 3 (16.67%) JIRA
4 1 (5.56%) Git
General
1 5 (27.78%) Finance
2 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Banking
4 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Developer
1 4 (22.22%) Senior
2 3 (16.67%) Administrator
2 3 (16.67%) Cloud Administrator
3 2 (11.11%) Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Apache Spark Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Data Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Data Visualisation Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Java Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Scala Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Data Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Software Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Tableau Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Hadoop Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Hadoop Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) Spark Streaming
2 3 (16.67%) PySpark
3 2 (11.11%) CrewAI
3 2 (11.11%) HTML
3 2 (11.11%) JSON
3 2 (11.11%) Keras
3 2 (11.11%) LangChain
3 2 (11.11%) LangGraph
3 2 (11.11%) Matplotlib
3 2 (11.11%) Model Context Protocol
3 2 (11.11%) NLTK
3 2 (11.11%) Node.js
3 2 (11.11%) NumPy
3 2 (11.11%) Plotly
3 2 (11.11%) PyTorch
3 2 (11.11%) SciPy
3 2 (11.11%) Seaborn
3 2 (11.11%) TensorFlow
3 2 (11.11%) XGBoost
3 2 (11.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (11.11%) AI Agents
3 1 (5.56%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Linux
2 4 (22.22%) Unix
3 1 (5.56%) CentOS
3 1 (5.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 6 (33.33%) Data Engineering
1 6 (33.33%) DevOps
2 5 (27.78%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (22.22%) Agile
3 4 (22.22%) AI
3 4 (22.22%) Analytics
3 4 (22.22%) Decision-Making
3 4 (22.22%) ETL
3 4 (22.22%) Visualisation
4 3 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (16.67%) Data Analytics
4 3 (16.67%) Data Virtualisation
4 3 (16.67%) Scrum
4 3 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (11.11%) Convolutional Neural Network
5 2 (11.11%) Cost Optimisation
5 2 (11.11%) Support Vector Machines
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) Python
1 10 (55.56%) SQL
2 8 (44.44%) Java
3 4 (22.22%) Scala
4 3 (16.67%) HiveQL
4 3 (16.67%) PL/SQL
5 2 (11.11%) Ada
5 2 (11.11%) C#
5 2 (11.11%) C++
5 2 (11.11%) R
5 2 (11.11%) Shell Script
6 1 (5.56%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) Degree
4 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Ansible
1 4 (22.22%) Grafana
2 2 (11.11%) Hadoop YARN
2 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.11%) Terraform
3 1 (5.56%) Apache Ranger
3 1 (5.56%) Oozie
3 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Cloudera
1 3 (16.67%) Denodo
1 3 (16.67%) Informatica
1 3 (16.67%) Oracle
1 3 (16.67%) Talend
2 2 (11.11%) Databricks
2 2 (11.11%) OpenAI
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) Red Hat