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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 548 539 636
Rank change year-on-year -9 +97 +79
Contract jobs citing HDFS 20 20 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.061% 0.052% 0.030%
As % of the System Software category 0.51% 0.45% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 7 7
10th Percentile £322 £326 £535
25th Percentile £410 £378 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 £400 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.38% -33.33% +1.69%
75th Percentile £478 £475 £656
90th Percentile £504 £520 £795
UK excluding London median daily rate £420 £450 £575
% change year-on-year -6.67% -21.74% +15.00%

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 3,885 4,408 6,429
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.79% 11.45% 13.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,454 2,959 4,355
10th Percentile £218 £213 £200
25th Percentile £375 £375 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £501
Median % change year-on-year - -0.10% -4.67%
75th Percentile £588 £606 £625
90th Percentile £670 £688 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £472
% change year-on-year - +0.71% +4.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 113 269
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.16 £15.50
25th Percentile £19.02 £17.44 £19.25
Median hourly rate £34.00 £24.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.78% -51.00% +127.27%
75th Percentile £80.00 £59.88 £66.00
90th Percentile £91.05 £74.65 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £27.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +136.36% -31.25% +100.00%

HDFS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing HDFS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for HDFS 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 18 September 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 10 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 18 September 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 +18 18 £449 -0.33% 3
UK excluding London -4 12 £420 -6.67% 2
Work from Home +32 9 £415 -12.63% 3
London +22 8 £450 +56.52% 1
Midlands -10 8 £420 -16.00%
West Midlands -6 5 £477 -13.27%
East Midlands 0 3 £420 -6.67%
North of England -17 3 £475 +11.76%
Yorkshire -18 3 £475 +11.76%
Northern Ireland - 2 £410 -

HDFS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 17 (85.00%) Apache Spark
2 14 (70.00%) Apache
3 12 (60.00%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (10.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 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 18 (90.00%) Apache Hive
2 17 (85.00%) Hadoop
3 14 (70.00%) HBase
4 9 (45.00%) Big Data
5 6 (30.00%) Impala
5 6 (30.00%) NoSQL
6 3 (15.00%) Metadata
7 2 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (5.00%) Dremio
8 1 (5.00%) Power BI
8 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%) Finance
2 6 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (15.00%) Financial Institution
5 2 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (10.00%) Law
6 1 (5.00%) Banking
6 1 (5.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Developer
2 7 (35.00%) Hadoop Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) Scala Developer
4 4 (20.00%) Apache Spark Developer
4 4 (20.00%) Hadoop Developer
5 2 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Java Developer
5 2 (10.00%) SQL Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Data Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Data Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (55.00%) Spark Streaming
2 6 (30.00%) Kafka
3 2 (10.00%) Apache Avro
3 2 (10.00%) JSON
3 2 (10.00%) 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%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (10.00%) Market Risk
4 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (40.00%) Linux
2 2 (10.00%) Unix
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
4 7 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (30.00%) Use Case
6 5 (25.00%) Configuration Management
6 5 (25.00%) Data Governance
6 5 (25.00%) Data Security
6 5 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 5 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (20.00%) MapReduce
8 3 (15.00%) Data Science
8 3 (15.00%) Metadata Management
8 3 (15.00%) Unit Testing
9 2 (10.00%) Containerisation
9 2 (10.00%) Decision-Making
9 2 (10.00%) Observability
9 2 (10.00%) Storyboarding
Programming Languages
1 13 (65.00%) Python
2 6 (30.00%) Shell Script
2 6 (30.00%) SQL
3 5 (25.00%) Scala
4 3 (15.00%) Java
5 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
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
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.00%) Ab Initio