HDFS Contracts

Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring HDFS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited HDFS over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 509 567 681
Rank change year-on-year +58 +114 +33
Contract jobs citing HDFS 10 33 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.034% 0.076% 0.054%
As % of the System Software category 0.27% 0.70% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 24 14
10th Percentile £410 £281 -
25th Percentile £469 £300 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £385 £538
Median % change year-on-year +55.84% -28.37% -8.90%
75th Percentile £703 £500 £594
90th Percentile £779 £681 £635
UK excluding London median daily rate £410 £450 £588
% change year-on-year -8.89% -23.40% +12.98%

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 3,664 4,691 7,882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.53% 10.76% 13.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,498 3,206 5,629
10th Percentile £214 £198 £205
25th Percentile £400 £331 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £623 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £460 £483
% change year-on-year +3.26% -4.69% +7.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 233 280
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.06 £14.95
25th Percentile £16.25 £15.50 £18.25
Median hourly rate £27.72 £22.50 £53.43
Median % change year-on-year +23.20% -57.88% +167.13%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £77.90 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £41.88
% change year-on-year +29.55% -47.46% +131.16%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing HDFS.

Daily rate trend for HDFS in the UK

HDFS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HDFS over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HDFS in the UK

HDFS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing HDFS.

Hourly rate trend for HDFS in the UK

HDFS
Top 9 Contract 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 30 April 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 +41 7 £694 +80.19% 7
UK excluding London +49 4 £410 -8.89% 3
Work from Home +45 4 £410 +36.67% 5
London +17 3 £756 +96.43% 5
Northern Ireland - 2 £410 -
North of England +27 1 £650 +52.94%
Midlands +23 1 - -
Yorkshire +14 1 £650 +52.94%
East Midlands +10 1 - -

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 7 (70.00%) Apache Spark
2 4 (40.00%) Apache
3 2 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (10.00%) Confluence
4 1 (10.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Dagster
2 2 (20.00%) GCP
2 2 (20.00%) Prefect
2 2 (20.00%) Serverless
3 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) Apache Hive
2 7 (70.00%) Big Data
2 7 (70.00%) Impala
3 6 (60.00%) Hadoop
4 4 (40.00%) NoSQL
5 3 (30.00%) HBase
6 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (20.00%) Spark SQL
6 2 (20.00%) Sqoop
7 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (10.00%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
7 1 (10.00%) MySQL
7 1 (10.00%) Pentaho
7 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (10.00%) Power BI
7 1 (10.00%) Presto
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (60.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Banking
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Financial Institution
3 2 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (20.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (20.00%) Law
4 1 (10.00%) Automotive
4 1 (10.00%) Front Office
4 1 (10.00%) International Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Apache Spark Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Banking Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Data Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Scala Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Kafka
2 2 (20.00%) Apache Avro
2 2 (20.00%) JSON
2 2 (20.00%) NumPy
2 2 (20.00%) Pandas
2 2 (20.00%) Polars
2 2 (20.00%) PySpark
2 2 (20.00%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Genomics
1 2 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (20.00%) Omics
2 1 (10.00%) Credit Risk
2 1 (10.00%) Life Science
2 1 (10.00%) Market Risk
2 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Unix
2 2 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) ETL
2 4 (40.00%) Data Engineering
2 4 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (30.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (30.00%) Multithreading
4 2 (20.00%) Bioinformatics
4 2 (20.00%) Code Quality
4 2 (20.00%) Data Science
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Low Latency
4 2 (20.00%) Observability
4 2 (20.00%) Process Improvement
4 2 (20.00%) Proteomics
4 2 (20.00%) SOA
4 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Storyboarding
4 2 (20.00%) Transcriptomics
4 2 (20.00%) Use Case
4 2 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) SQL
2 6 (60.00%) Python
3 4 (40.00%) Java
4 2 (20.00%) Scala
5 1 (10.00%) Bash
5 1 (10.00%) HiveQL
5 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Ranger
2 1 (10.00%) Grafana
2 1 (10.00%) Hadoop YARN
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Cloudera
2 1 (10.00%) Denodo
2 1 (10.00%) Hitachi
2 1 (10.00%) Informatica
2 1 (10.00%) Talend