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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 683 537 544
Rank change year-on-year -146 +7 +75
Contract jobs citing HDFS 8 21 15
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.015% 0.064% 0.040%
As % of the System Software category 0.15% 0.52% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 4
10th Percentile - £320 £369
25th Percentile £304 £406 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £434 £402
Median % change year-on-year -15.92% +7.77% -36.90%
75th Percentile £438 £478 £452
90th Percentile - £504 £533
UK excluding London median daily rate £304 £434 £405
% change year-on-year -29.87% +7.17% -29.65%

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 5,404 4,003 4,291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.91% 12.11% 11.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,566 2,537 2,804
10th Percentile £225 £212 £213
25th Percentile £400 £375 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £600 £588 £608
90th Percentile £688 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 122 98
10th Percentile £16.50 £13.87 £14.16
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.03 £20.13
Median hourly rate £62.25 £33.39 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +86.46% +9.46% -36.28%
75th Percentile £74.00 £67.19 £69.92
90th Percentile £90.00 £88.68 £83.99
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £60.00 £43.08
% change year-on-year +5.23% +39.27% +7.71%

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
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 October 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 -111 7 £304 -31.99% 14
London -91 4 - - 10
UK excluding London -112 3 £304 -29.87% 6
East Midlands -13 2 £304 -27.62%
Midlands -55 2 £304 -27.62%
Work from Home -79 2 £371 -11.73% 10
North of England -61 1 £425 -10.53% 2
North East - 1 £425 -

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 (100.00%) Apache Spark
2 4 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (25.00%) Apache Pig
4 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon EMR
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (25.00%) GCP
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (12.50%) AWS KMS
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub
4 1 (12.50%) Kong
4 1 (12.50%) PaaS
4 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 1 (12.50%) Route 53
4 1 (12.50%) Serverless
4 1 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 8 (100.00%) Hadoop
2 7 (87.50%) Big Data
3 5 (62.50%) Data Lake
4 4 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (25.00%) HBase
5 2 (25.00%) Sqoop
6 1 (12.50%) DynamoDB
6 1 (12.50%) Impala
6 1 (12.50%) MySQL
6 1 (12.50%) Power BI
6 1 (12.50%) Power Query
6 1 (12.50%) Redshift Spectrum
6 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) GitLab
2 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Apache Spark Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Hadoop Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Scala Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (25.00%) Kafka
3 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
1 6 (75.00%) Data Science
2 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 5 (62.50%) Data Governance
3 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 4 (50.00%) High Availability
3 4 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
3 4 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 3 (37.50%) Data Ingestion
4 3 (37.50%) ETL
5 2 (25.00%) Data Security
5 2 (25.00%) MapReduce
6 1 (12.50%) Data Integration
6 1 (12.50%) Data Migration
6 1 (12.50%) Data Validation
6 1 (12.50%) Migration
6 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
6 1 (12.50%) Validation
6 1 (12.50%) Visualisation
6 1 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) Bash
3 2 (25.00%) Java
3 2 (25.00%) Scala
4 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
4 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
2 2 (25.00%) Apache Flume
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Kubernetes
2 4 (50.00%) Ansible
2 4 (50.00%) Puppet
3 1 (12.50%) Grafana
3 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Cloudera
2 1 (12.50%) Informatica
2 1 (12.50%) Splunk
2 1 (12.50%) Tenable