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 8 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 599 510 566
Rank change year-on-year -89 +56 +142
Contract jobs citing HDFS 20 17 25
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.047% 0.057% 0.056%
As % of the System Software category 0.42% 0.44% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 12 19
10th Percentile £410 £410 £281
25th Percentile £428 £477 £317
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £527 £385
Median % change year-on-year -14.61% +36.88% -23.00%
75th Percentile £483 £591 £619
90th Percentile £494 £741 £798
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 4,804 3,878 4,900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.33% 12.90% 10.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,293 2,579 3,320
10th Percentile £206 £206 £190
25th Percentile £400 £391 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £594 £623 £600
90th Percentile £694 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 91 240
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.44 £14.06
25th Percentile £20.82 £21.36 £16.25
Median hourly rate £41.94 £32.50 £31.38
Median % change year-on-year +29.05% +3.59% -21.56%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.40 £86.25 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.31 £37.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year +12.83% +3.45% +47.24%

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 8 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 8 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 -77 17 £450 -15.49% 5
London -38 12 £450 -40.50% 2
UK excluding London -82 8 £450 -5.66% 3
West Midlands -56 5 £450 -6.93% 1
Midlands -68 5 £450 -6.93% 1
Work from Home -32 2 £453 -17.79% 4
Northern Ireland - 2 £463 -
Scotland +8 1 £285 -20.08%

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 14 (70.00%) Apache Spark
2 4 (20.00%) Apache
3 3 (15.00%) Confluence
3 3 (15.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) AWS
2 4 (20.00%) Azure
2 4 (20.00%) GCP
2 4 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (15.00%) GitHub
3 3 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon Bedrock
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon ELB
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon S3
4 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Direct Connect
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (10.00%) Route 53
4 2 (10.00%) Serverless
4 2 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) Kerberos
2 2 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (85.00%) Hadoop
2 14 (70.00%) Apache Hive
3 13 (65.00%) Impala
4 11 (55.00%) Big Data
5 5 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (25.00%) Data Lake
5 5 (25.00%) HBase
5 5 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (20.00%) Power BI
7 3 (15.00%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (15.00%) MySQL
7 3 (15.00%) Pentaho
7 3 (15.00%) Spark SQL
7 3 (15.00%) Sqoop
7 3 (15.00%) Tableau
8 2 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (10.00%) Data Mining
8 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
9 1 (5.00%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (25.00%) GitLab
3 3 (15.00%) Bitbucket
3 3 (15.00%) JIRA
4 1 (5.00%) Git
General
1 7 (35.00%) Finance
2 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Banking
3 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.00%) Marketing
5 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Developer
2 4 (20.00%) Senior
3 3 (15.00%) Administrator
3 3 (15.00%) Cloud Administrator
4 2 (10.00%) Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Apache Spark Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Data Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Data Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Data Visualisation Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Scala Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Data Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Software Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Tableau Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Java Hadoop Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) PySpark
1 5 (25.00%) Spark Streaming
2 3 (15.00%) Pandas
3 2 (10.00%) CrewAI
3 2 (10.00%) HTML
3 2 (10.00%) JSON
3 2 (10.00%) Kafka
3 2 (10.00%) Keras
3 2 (10.00%) LangChain
3 2 (10.00%) LangGraph
3 2 (10.00%) Model Context Protocol
3 2 (10.00%) NLTK
3 2 (10.00%) Plotly
3 2 (10.00%) PyTorch
3 2 (10.00%) scikit-learn
3 2 (10.00%) SciPy
3 2 (10.00%) Seaborn
3 2 (10.00%) TensorFlow
3 2 (10.00%) XGBoost
3 2 (10.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (10.00%) AI Agents
3 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (30.00%) Linux
2 4 (20.00%) Unix
3 1 (5.00%) CentOS
3 1 (5.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (30.00%) Data Engineering
1 6 (30.00%) DevOps
2 5 (25.00%) Analytics
2 5 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (25.00%) Visualisation
3 4 (20.00%) Agile
3 4 (20.00%) AI
3 4 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 4 (20.00%) ETL
4 3 (15.00%) Data Analytics
4 3 (15.00%) Data Virtualisation
4 3 (15.00%) Scrum
4 3 (15.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (10.00%) Deep Learning
5 2 (10.00%) Linear Regression
5 2 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 12 (60.00%) Python
2 10 (50.00%) SQL
3 8 (40.00%) Java
4 4 (20.00%) Scala
5 3 (15.00%) HiveQL
5 3 (15.00%) PL/SQL
6 2 (10.00%) Ada
6 2 (10.00%) C#
6 2 (10.00%) C++
6 2 (10.00%) R
6 2 (10.00%) Shell Script
7 1 (5.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) Degree
2 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Ansible
1 4 (20.00%) Grafana
2 2 (10.00%) Hadoop YARN
2 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.00%) Terraform
3 1 (5.00%) Apache Ranger
3 1 (5.00%) Oozie
3 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Oracle
2 3 (15.00%) Cloudera
2 3 (15.00%) Denodo
2 3 (15.00%) Informatica
2 3 (15.00%) Talend
3 2 (10.00%) Databricks
3 2 (10.00%) OpenAI
4 1 (5.00%) Ab Initio
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.00%) Red Hat