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 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 573 511 570
Rank change year-on-year -62 +59 +144
Contract jobs citing HDFS 28 16 15
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.072% 0.051% 0.034%
As % of the System Software category 0.60% 0.42% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 12 7
10th Percentile £285 £410 £500
25th Percentile £414 £477 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £527 £725
Median % change year-on-year -14.61% -27.31% +13.28%
75th Percentile £489 £591 £831
90th Percentile £499 £741 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £477 -
% change year-on-year -3.04% - -

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 4,658 3,783 5,208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.89% 12.14% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,171 2,451 3,572
10th Percentile £206 £200 £190
25th Percentile £400 £378 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +5.64% -7.14%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £694 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £468 £450
% change year-on-year +1.44% +4.06% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 92 252
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.51 £14.06
25th Percentile £20.82 £21.20 £17.72
Median hourly rate £41.94 £30.75 £43.79
Median % change year-on-year +36.39% -29.78% +25.12%
75th Percentile £73.20 £64.50 £65.98
90th Percentile £91.50 £75.00 £77.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.11 £37.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +28.29% -18.80% +109.91%

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 6 February 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 11 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 6 February 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 -51 25 £450 -15.49% 3
London -20 16 £450 -40.50% 3
UK excluding London -70 12 £463 -3.04% 1
Midlands -53 7 £449 -7.24%
Work from Home -27 6 £420 -23.77% 2
West Midlands -42 6 £450 -6.93%
North of England -51 3 £475 +17.43%
Yorkshire - 3 £475 -
Northern Ireland - 2 £463 -
Scotland +7 1 £285 -20.08%
East Midlands -26 1 £420 -

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 23 (82.14%) Apache Spark
2 12 (42.86%) Apache
3 10 (35.71%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (3.57%) Apache Pig
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.86%) AWS
2 3 (10.71%) Azure
2 3 (10.71%) GCP
3 2 (7.14%) Amazon Bedrock
3 2 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (7.14%) Amazon ELB
3 2 (7.14%) Amazon EMR
3 2 (7.14%) Amazon Kinesis
3 2 (7.14%) Amazon S3
3 2 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (7.14%) AWS Direct Connect
3 2 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (7.14%) GitHub
3 2 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (7.14%) Route 53
3 2 (7.14%) Serverless
3 2 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (3.57%) Google Ads
4 1 (3.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) Kerberos
2 2 (7.14%) SSH
2 2 (7.14%) VPN
3 1 (3.57%) HTTP
3 1 (3.57%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (89.29%) Hadoop
2 23 (82.14%) Apache Hive
3 14 (50.00%) HBase
4 12 (42.86%) Big Data
4 12 (42.86%) Impala
5 5 (17.86%) Data Lake
6 3 (10.71%) Tableau
7 2 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (7.14%) Data Mining
7 2 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (7.14%) NoSQL
7 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (7.14%) Spark SQL
7 2 (7.14%) Sqoop
8 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (3.57%) Dremio
8 1 (3.57%) Metadata
8 1 (3.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.14%) GitLab
2 2 (7.14%) SonarQube
2 2 (7.14%) TeamCity
3 1 (3.57%) Git
General
1 9 (32.14%) Finance
2 7 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Banking
3 3 (10.71%) Social Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.57%) Marketing
5 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Hadoop Engineer
2 7 (25.00%) Developer
3 3 (10.71%) Administrator
3 3 (10.71%) Cloud Administrator
3 3 (10.71%) Hadoop Developer
3 3 (10.71%) Scala Developer
3 3 (10.71%) Senior
4 2 (7.14%) Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Apache Spark Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Data Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Data Visualisation Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Java Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Senior Data Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Tableau Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) Architect
5 1 (3.57%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (50.00%) Spark Streaming
2 5 (17.86%) PySpark
3 4 (14.29%) Kafka
4 3 (10.71%) Pandas
5 2 (7.14%) CrewAI
5 2 (7.14%) HTML
5 2 (7.14%) JSON
5 2 (7.14%) Keras
5 2 (7.14%) LangChain
5 2 (7.14%) LangGraph
5 2 (7.14%) Model Context Protocol
5 2 (7.14%) NLTK
5 2 (7.14%) Plotly
5 2 (7.14%) PyTorch
5 2 (7.14%) scikit-learn
5 2 (7.14%) SciPy
5 2 (7.14%) Seaborn
5 2 (7.14%) TensorFlow
5 2 (7.14%) XGBoost
5 2 (7.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Data Centre
2 2 (7.14%) AI Agents
2 2 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (7.14%) Market Risk
3 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.57%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (46.43%) Linux
2 2 (7.14%) Windows
2 2 (7.14%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.57%) CentOS
3 1 (3.57%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (53.57%) Data Engineering
2 11 (39.29%) Data Pipeline
3 10 (35.71%) Analytics
3 10 (35.71%) CI/CD
4 9 (32.14%) Data Analytics
4 9 (32.14%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (17.86%) Configuration Management
5 5 (17.86%) Data Governance
5 5 (17.86%) Data Security
5 5 (17.86%) Decision-Making
5 5 (17.86%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (17.86%) Visualisation
6 4 (14.29%) Containerisation
6 4 (14.29%) DevOps
6 4 (14.29%) MapReduce
6 4 (14.29%) Use Case
7 3 (10.71%) AI
7 3 (10.71%) Data Transformation
8 2 (7.14%) Logistic Regression
8 2 (7.14%) Multivariate Analysis
Programming Languages
1 20 (71.43%) Python
2 9 (32.14%) SQL
3 7 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 6 (21.43%) Java
5 4 (14.29%) Scala
6 2 (7.14%) Ada
6 2 (7.14%) C#
6 2 (7.14%) C++
6 2 (7.14%) PowerShell
6 2 (7.14%) R
7 1 (3.57%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (3.57%) Degree
1 1 (3.57%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (17.86%) Docker
2 2 (7.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 10 (35.71%) Hadoop YARN
2 8 (28.57%) Ansible
3 5 (17.86%) Puppet
4 2 (7.14%) Kibana
4 2 (7.14%) Oozie
4 2 (7.14%) Progress Chef
4 2 (7.14%) Terraform
5 1 (3.57%) Apache Ranger
5 1 (3.57%) Grafana
5 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
5 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.71%) Cloudera
3 2 (7.14%) Databricks
3 2 (7.14%) OpenAI
4 1 (3.57%) Ab Initio
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle
4 1 (3.57%) Red Hat