HDFS Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring HDFS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 100 -
Rank change year-on-year -35 - -
Contract jobs citing HDFS 6 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.27% 0.30% -
As % of the System Software category 1.48% 2.66% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 0
10th Percentile £448 - -
25th Percentile £449 £477 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £484 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.93% - -
75th Percentile £480 £514 -
90th Percentile £498 £558 -
England median daily rate £450 £490 £825
% change year-on-year -8.16% -40.61% +52.78%

All System Software Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 406 188 263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 18.26% 11.18% 14.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 132 191
10th Percentile £249 £158 £160
25th Percentile £400 £200 £261
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £456 £418
Median % change year-on-year +15.07% +9.28% +4.38%
75th Percentile £582 £589 £556
90th Percentile £675 £685 £688
England median daily rate £500 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -3.38% +3.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 8
10th Percentile - £16.82 £17.50
25th Percentile £54.75 £19.23 £17.69
Median hourly rate £56.50 £24.35 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +132.08% +31.59% -23.71%
75th Percentile £58.25 £29.60 £19.38
90th Percentile - £32.09 £22.23
England median hourly rate £47.50 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +46.15% -18.75% +60.00%

HDFS
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing HDFS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

HDFS job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

HDFS
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing HDFS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing HDFS

HDFS
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HDFS within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Birmingham - 4 £507 -
Warwickshire -7 1 £450 -21.74%
Solihull - 1 £447 -
HDFS
England

HDFS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 5 (83.33%) Apache Spark
2 4 (66.67%) Apache
2 4 (66.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon ELB
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) GCP
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
1 1 (16.67%) Route 53
1 1 (16.67%) SaaS
1 1 (16.67%) Serverless
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Kerberos
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Hadoop
2 5 (83.33%) Apache Hive
3 4 (66.67%) HBase
4 2 (33.33%) Big Data
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
5 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (16.67%) Dremio
5 1 (16.67%) Impala
5 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (16.67%) Power BI
5 1 (16.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
1 1 (16.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Hadoop Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Data Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Hadoop Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Spark Streaming
2 1 (16.67%) JSON
2 1 (16.67%) PySpark
2 1 (16.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Analytics
1 5 (83.33%) Data Engineering
1 5 (83.33%) Data Governance
1 5 (83.33%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Data Analytics
2 4 (66.67%) Use Case
3 3 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 3 (50.00%) Data Security
4 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (16.67%) Data Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Data Management
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) ITIL
4 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 1 (16.67%) TOGAF
4 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Hadoop YARN
2 3 (50.00%) Ansible
2 3 (50.00%) Puppet
3 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Ab Initio
1 1 (16.67%) Cloudera
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle