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 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 563 543 608
Rank change year-on-year -20 +65 +122
Contract jobs citing HDFS 20 22 14
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.059% 0.060% 0.030%
As % of the System Software category 0.48% 0.51% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 9 6
10th Percentile £309 £391 £563
25th Percentile £405 £402 £616
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £477 £738
Median % change year-on-year -6.29% -35.32% +25.00%
75th Percentile £488 £527 £888
90th Percentile £506 £588 £931
UK excluding London median daily rate £447 £477 £575
% change year-on-year -6.29% -17.04% +9.52%

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 4,167 4,272 6,196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.28% 11.67% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,664 2,755 4,223
10th Percentile £208 £213 £198
25th Percentile £379 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £625
90th Percentile £670 £700 £702
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 86 256
10th Percentile £15.09 £17.22 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.59 £21.46 £18.50
Median hourly rate £26.75 £44.00 £45.94
Median % change year-on-year -39.20% -4.22% +101.93%
75th Percentile £67.19 £69.92 £66.31
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.00 £50.00 £38.75
% change year-on-year +8.00% +29.03% +100.99%

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 28 October 2025.

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 9 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 28 October 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
England -4 20 £447 -6.29% 1
London +25 10 £425 - 1
UK excluding London -28 10 £447 -6.29%
Midlands -21 8 £420 -13.13%
Work from Home +14 7 £420 -23.77% 1
West Midlands -16 5 £477 -1.34%
East Midlands -9 3 £420 -
Yorkshire -32 3 £475 -
North of England -37 3 £475 +17.43%

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 17 (85.00%) Apache Spark
2 12 (60.00%) Apache
2 12 (60.00%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (5.00%) Apache Pig
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.00%) Google Ads
1 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) SSH
2 1 (5.00%) HTTP
2 1 (5.00%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (95.00%) Hadoop
2 18 (90.00%) Apache Hive
3 14 (70.00%) HBase
4 9 (45.00%) Big Data
5 6 (30.00%) Impala
6 4 (20.00%) NoSQL
7 3 (15.00%) Metadata
8 2 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (5.00%) Dremio
9 1 (5.00%) Power BI
9 1 (5.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Git
2 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.00%) SonarQube
2 2 (10.00%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Finance
3 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Developer
2 7 (35.00%) Hadoop Engineer
3 6 (30.00%) Scala Developer
4 4 (20.00%) Hadoop Developer
5 3 (15.00%) Apache Spark Developer
6 2 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) SQL Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Architect
7 1 (5.00%) Data Architect
7 1 (5.00%) Data Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Lead
7 1 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (65.00%) Spark Streaming
2 4 (20.00%) Kafka
3 3 (15.00%) PySpark
4 1 (5.00%) Pandas
4 1 (5.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (15.00%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (10.00%) Market Risk
4 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (10.00%) Windows
2 2 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Data Engineering
2 10 (50.00%) Analytics
2 10 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 9 (45.00%) Data Analytics
3 9 (45.00%) Data Pipeline
3 9 (45.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 5 (25.00%) Data Governance
4 5 (25.00%) Data Security
4 5 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 4 (20.00%) MapReduce
5 4 (20.00%) Use Case
6 3 (15.00%) Data Science
6 3 (15.00%) Mentoring
6 3 (15.00%) Metadata Management
6 3 (15.00%) Unit Testing
7 2 (10.00%) Data Transformation
7 2 (10.00%) DevOps
7 2 (10.00%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 13 (65.00%) Python
2 7 (35.00%) Scala
3 6 (30.00%) Shell Script
3 6 (30.00%) SQL
4 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (5.00%) Degree
1 1 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 10 (50.00%) Hadoop YARN
2 7 (35.00%) Ansible
3 5 (25.00%) Puppet
4 3 (15.00%) Oozie
5 2 (10.00%) Kibana
5 2 (10.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Ab Initio
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle