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 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 622 532 558
Rank change year-on-year -90 +26 +100
Contract jobs citing HDFS 11 6 36
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.022% 0.020% 0.082%
As % of the System Software category 0.22% 0.16% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 24
10th Percentile £384 - £281
25th Percentile £438 - £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £410 £385
Median % change year-on-year +9.76% +6.49% -26.67%
75th Percentile £461 £530 £500
90th Percentile £478 £602 £681
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £410 £450
% change year-on-year +9.76% -8.89% -14.29%

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 4,936 3,638 4,771
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.77% 12.20% 10.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,290 2,388 3,293
10th Percentile £220 £215 £205
25th Percentile £400 £385 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £694 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -0.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 89 229
10th Percentile £15.04 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.44 £15.50
Median hourly rate £51.00 £28.00 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +82.14% +15.80% -55.68%
75th Percentile £73.00 £70.00 £60.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £91.50 £75.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £37.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +36.00% +36.36% -37.14%

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 19 June 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 7 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 19 June 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 -106 9 £450 -30.77%
London -65 5 £440 -
Work from Home -37 4 £448 +9.33%
Midlands -54 4 £450 -
UK excluding London -107 4 £450 +9.76%
West Midlands - 3 £450 -
East Midlands -17 1 £304 -

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 8 (72.73%) Apache Spark
2 3 (27.27%) Confluence
2 3 (27.27%) SAS
3 2 (18.18%) Apache
4 1 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (9.09%) Apache Pig
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) AWS
2 5 (45.45%) Azure
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon EMR
3 3 (27.27%) GCP
3 3 (27.27%) GitHub
3 3 (27.27%) Power Platform
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon ELB
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
4 2 (18.18%) AWS KMS
4 2 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (18.18%) Kong
4 2 (18.18%) PaaS
4 2 (18.18%) Route 53
4 2 (18.18%) Serverless
4 2 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (100.00%) Hadoop
2 9 (81.82%) Apache Hive
3 7 (63.64%) Big Data
4 6 (54.55%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (45.45%) MySQL
6 4 (36.36%) Impala
7 3 (27.27%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (27.27%) Data Lake
7 3 (27.27%) Pentaho
7 3 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (27.27%) Power BI
8 2 (18.18%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (18.18%) DynamoDB
8 2 (18.18%) Sqoop
9 1 (9.09%) Data Mining
9 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (9.09%) HBase
9 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
9 1 (9.09%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) GitLab
2 5 (45.45%) Jenkins
3 3 (27.27%) Bitbucket
3 3 (27.27%) JIRA
4 2 (18.18%) SonarQube
5 1 (9.09%) Git
General
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Banking
2 1 (9.09%) Financial Institution
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (18.18%) Apache Spark Developer
1 2 (18.18%) Data Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Developer
1 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Scala Developer
1 2 (18.18%) Software Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) Data Analytics Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Data Architect
2 1 (9.09%) DevOps Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Hadoop Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Hadoop Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Senior
2 1 (9.09%) Senior Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (9.09%) HTML
1 1 (9.09%) Kafka
1 1 (9.09%) Keras
1 1 (9.09%) LangChain
1 1 (9.09%) LangGraph
1 1 (9.09%) Matplotlib
1 1 (9.09%) NLTK
1 1 (9.09%) Node.js
1 1 (9.09%) NumPy
1 1 (9.09%) Pandas
1 1 (9.09%) Plotly
1 1 (9.09%) PySpark
1 1 (9.09%) PyTorch
1 1 (9.09%) scikit-learn
1 1 (9.09%) SciPy
1 1 (9.09%) Seaborn
1 1 (9.09%) Spark Streaming
1 1 (9.09%) TensorFlow
1 1 (9.09%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (9.09%) AI Agents
2 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Unix
2 3 (27.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
2 6 (54.55%) DevOps
3 5 (45.45%) ETL
4 4 (36.36%) Agile
4 4 (36.36%) Analytics
5 3 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (27.27%) Data Analytics
5 3 (27.27%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (27.27%) Data Virtualisation
5 3 (27.27%) Scrum
5 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering
5 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (18.18%) AI
6 2 (18.18%) Data Engineering
6 2 (18.18%) Data Ingestion
6 2 (18.18%) Data Science
6 2 (18.18%) Data Security
6 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Monitoring
6 2 (18.18%) MapReduce
6 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) Python
2 5 (45.45%) Java
2 5 (45.45%) SQL
3 3 (27.27%) HiveQL
3 3 (27.27%) PL/SQL
3 3 (27.27%) Scala
4 1 (9.09%) Ada
4 1 (9.09%) Bash
4 1 (9.09%) C#
4 1 (9.09%) C++
4 1 (9.09%) R
4 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (9.09%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
1 2 (18.18%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (9.09%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Grafana
2 4 (36.36%) Ansible
2 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
3 2 (18.18%) Prometheus
3 2 (18.18%) Terraform
4 1 (9.09%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (9.09%) Oozie
4 1 (9.09%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Denodo
1 3 (27.27%) Informatica
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle
1 3 (27.27%) Talend
2 2 (18.18%) Splunk
2 2 (18.18%) Tenable
3 1 (9.09%) Cloudera
3 1 (9.09%) Databricks
3 1 (9.09%) OpenAI