HDFS Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 336 456
Rank change year-on-year +36 +120 +107
Contract jobs citing HDFS 4 9 21
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.040% 0.059% 0.081%
As % of the System Software category 0.34% 0.62% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 7
10th Percentile - - £535
25th Percentile - - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £300 £575
Median % change year-on-year +36.67% -47.83% +0.88%
75th Percentile £469 £334 £600
90th Percentile £504 £420 £620
UK median daily rate £600 £385 £538
% change year-on-year +55.84% -28.37% -8.90%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

HDFS falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,169 1,452 3,207
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.80% 9.46% 12.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 868 1,058 2,296
10th Percentile £358 £263 £300
25th Percentile £425 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.68% -3.84% -
75th Percentile £625 £618 £633
90th Percentile £775 £677 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 34 101
10th Percentile £25.25 £15.50 £19.00
25th Percentile £52.44 £15.88 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.50 £43.32 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.20% -33.35% +165.31%
75th Percentile £79.38 £65.00 £70.25
90th Percentile £92.50 £84.57 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.50 £53.43
% change year-on-year +22.22% -57.88% +167.13%

HDFS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing HDFS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

HDFS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

HDFS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing HDFS.

HDFS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

HDFS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (75.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (50.00%) Apache
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (25.00%) Confluence
3 1 (25.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 4 (100.00%) Impala
2 3 (75.00%) Big Data
2 3 (75.00%) HBase
3 2 (50.00%) Hadoop
3 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (25.00%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (25.00%) MySQL
4 1 (25.00%) Pentaho
4 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (25.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Financial Institution
2 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (50.00%) Law
3 1 (25.00%) Automotive
3 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Apache Spark Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Avro
1 2 (50.00%) JSON
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (25.00%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Multithreading
2 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Low Latency
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) SOA
2 2 (50.00%) Storyboarding
2 2 (50.00%) Use Case
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Data Virtualisation
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) HiveQL
3 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Denodo
2 1 (25.00%) Hitachi
2 1 (25.00%) Informatica
2 1 (25.00%) Talend