Hybrid/Remote HDFS Contract Job Trends

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring HDFS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 324 412
Rank change year-on-year +25 +88 +140
Contract jobs citing HDFS 9 8 5
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.092% 0.063% 0.025%
As % of the System Software category 0.82% 0.61% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 5
10th Percentile £348 £430 £528
25th Percentile £410 £475 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -24.55% -4.35% +6.48%
75th Percentile £430 £569 £600
90th Percentile £439 £580 £645
UK median daily rate £434 £425 £600
% change year-on-year +2.00% -29.17% +1.69%

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 1,102 1,309 2,456
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.22% 10.29% 12.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 726 926 1,689
10th Percentile £313 £290 £287
25th Percentile £410 £411 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -3.23%
75th Percentile £583 £610 £638
90th Percentile £638 £700 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 102
10th Percentile £29.40 £40.40 £19.25
25th Percentile £33.00 £51.25 £39.60
Median hourly rate £54.00 £80.00 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.50% +26.98% +26.00%
75th Percentile £67.00 £85.78 £71.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £92.00 £78.63
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £25.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +36.00% -50.00% +127.27%

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 Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing HDFS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing HDFS

HDFS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing HDFS over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

HDFS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

HDFS
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing HDFS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing HDFS

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 8 (88.89%) Apache Spark
2 7 (77.78%) Apache
3 5 (55.56%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (22.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
1 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) HTTP
1 1 (11.11%) SMTP
1 1 (11.11%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (88.89%) Apache Hive
2 7 (77.78%) Hadoop
2 7 (77.78%) HBase
3 5 (55.56%) Big Data
4 4 (44.44%) NoSQL
5 3 (33.33%) Impala
6 2 (22.22%) Metadata
7 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (11.11%) Dremio
7 1 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (11.11%) Power BI
7 1 (11.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
2 1 (11.11%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Financial Institution
3 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (22.22%) Law
3 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Hadoop Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Apache Spark Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Hadoop Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Java Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Scala Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Data Architect
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) Kafka
2 3 (33.33%) Spark Streaming
3 2 (22.22%) Apache Avro
3 2 (22.22%) JSON
4 1 (11.11%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (22.22%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (22.22%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (11.11%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Unix
3 1 (11.11%) Windows
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 5 (55.56%) Data Engineering
2 5 (55.56%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (55.56%) Use Case
3 4 (44.44%) Analytics
3 4 (44.44%) Data Governance
3 4 (44.44%) Mentoring
4 3 (33.33%) Configuration Management
4 3 (33.33%) Data Analytics
4 3 (33.33%) Data Security
5 2 (22.22%) Data Science
5 2 (22.22%) Low Latency
5 2 (22.22%) MapReduce
5 2 (22.22%) Metadata Management
5 2 (22.22%) Multithreading
5 2 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (22.22%) SOA
5 2 (22.22%) Storyboarding
5 2 (22.22%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) Java
2 3 (33.33%) Shell Script
2 3 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (22.22%) Scala
4 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Hadoop YARN
2 4 (44.44%) Ansible
3 3 (33.33%) Puppet
4 2 (22.22%) Oozie
5 1 (11.11%) Kibana
5 1 (11.11%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Ab Initio
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft