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 9 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 537 536 649
Rank change year-on-year -1 +113 +80
Contract jobs citing HDFS 10 36 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% 0.093% 0.044%
As % of the System Software category 0.26% 0.81% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 20 15
10th Percentile £285 £281 -
25th Percentile £405 £300 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £342 £550
Median % change year-on-year +19.88% -37.82% -6.78%
75th Percentile £450 £391 £600
90th Percentile £490 £455 £660
UK excluding London median daily rate £410 £450 £575
% change year-on-year -8.89% -21.74% +12.75%

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 3,878 4,445 6,868
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.69% 11.44% 13.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,484 3,077 4,705
10th Percentile £230 £220 £200
25th Percentile £388 £380 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £638
90th Percentile £675 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 144 249
10th Percentile £14.12 £14.06 £15.24
25th Percentile £18.03 £16.00 £18.50
Median hourly rate £33.64 £24.18 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.10% -51.64% +129.57%
75th Percentile £80.00 £58.98 £66.00
90th Percentile £91.50 £70.88 £75.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £24.20 £26.00
% change year-on-year +158.26% -6.92% +30.00%

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 9 August 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 9 August 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 -10 8 £420 +14.29% 1
UK excluding London -7 6 £410 -8.89% 3
Work from Home +18 5 £410 +29.34% 1
London -4 4 £368 +22.67%
East Midlands -4 3 £415 -7.78%
Midlands -11 3 £415 -17.00%
Northern Ireland - 2 £410 - 2
Yorkshire -15 1 £650 +52.94%
North of England -19 1 £650 +52.94%

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 8 (80.00%) Apache Spark
2 4 (40.00%) Apache
3 2 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) SSH
2 1 (10.00%) HTTP
2 1 (10.00%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) Apache Hive
2 8 (80.00%) Big Data
2 8 (80.00%) Hadoop
3 7 (70.00%) HBase
3 7 (70.00%) Impala
4 4 (40.00%) NoSQL
5 2 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (20.00%) Metadata
6 1 (10.00%) Presto
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (20.00%) SonarQube
1 2 (20.00%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (70.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (20.00%) Banking
4 2 (20.00%) Financial Institution
4 2 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (20.00%) Law
5 1 (10.00%) Automotive
5 1 (10.00%) Front Office
5 1 (10.00%) International Banking
5 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Developer
2 5 (50.00%) Scala Developer
3 4 (40.00%) Apache Spark Developer
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Hadoop Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Java Developer
4 2 (20.00%) SQL Developer
5 1 (10.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) Kafka
2 2 (20.00%) Apache Avro
2 2 (20.00%) JSON
2 2 (20.00%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Market Risk
2 2 (20.00%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (10.00%) Credit Risk
3 1 (10.00%) Life Science
3 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Unix
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) Data Engineering
3 3 (30.00%) Multithreading
4 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (20.00%) Data Science
4 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Low Latency
4 2 (20.00%) MapReduce
4 2 (20.00%) Metadata Management
4 2 (20.00%) Observability
4 2 (20.00%) Open Source
4 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (20.00%) SOA
4 2 (20.00%) Storyboarding
4 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) SQL
2 5 (50.00%) Scala
3 4 (40.00%) Java
4 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Ansible
1 2 (20.00%) Hadoop YARN
1 2 (20.00%) Kibana
1 2 (20.00%) Oozie
1 2 (20.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Hitachi