HDFS Contracts in the West Midlands

Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 26 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 110 128
Rank change year-on-year +3 +18 +32
DemandTrendContract jobs citing HDFS 4 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.23% 0.052% 0.046%
As % of the System Software category 1.59% 0.47% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £504 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.82% +4.76% +2.04%
75th Percentile £511 - £538
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £450 £368 £575
% change year-on-year +22.45% -36.09% +3.60%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 251 212 334
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.54% 11.12% 15.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 152 221
10th Percentile £240 £190 £163
25th Percentile £400 £300 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £430
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% +21.98% +1.18%
75th Percentile £581 £625 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £731
England median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 10
10th Percentile - - £17.73
25th Percentile £54.75 - £17.88
Median hourly rate £56.50 £16.00 £22.25
Median % change year-on-year +253.13% -28.09% +34.85%
75th Percentile £58.25 - £28.56
90th Percentile - - £28.75
England median hourly rate £37.50 £23.80 £43.75
% change year-on-year +57.56% -45.60% +98.86%

HDFS
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing HDFS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for HDFS 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
DemandTrendContract 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 26 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham - 4 £507 -
HDFS
England

HDFS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 4 (100.00%) Apache
1 4 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 4 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 4 (100.00%) HBase
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Hadoop Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Hadoop Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Analytics
1 4 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 4 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 4 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (100.00%) Use Case
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (75.00%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) Shell Script
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Hadoop YARN
2 3 (75.00%) Ansible
2 3 (75.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft