Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring HDFS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited HDFS over the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 712 810 865
Rank change year-on-year +98 +55 +349
Permanent jobs citing HDFS 23 89 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.038% 0.086% 0.037%
As % of the System Software category 0.34% 0.78% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 22
10th Percentile £43,750 - £47,750
25th Percentile £46,250 - £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 - £68,823
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.41%
75th Percentile £98,125 - £78,162
90th Percentile £112,500 - £114,512
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 - £68,823
% change year-on-year - - +19.69%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 6,679 11,378 13,552
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.12% 10.99% 15.78%
Number of salaries quoted 3,922 8,688 9,426
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £49,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.91% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £93,778 £85,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +2.22% -5.26% -5.00%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing HDFS.

Salary trend for HDFS in the UK

HDFS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing HDFS over the 6 months to 12 July 2025.

Salary histogram for HDFS in the UK

HDFS
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing HDFS within the UK over the 6 months to 12 July 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +95 18 £47,500 -
England +149 13 £61,250 - 3
Work from Home +100 9 - - 2
South East +80 9 £105,000 -
Scotland +26 5 - -
North of England - 3 £47,500 -
North East - 3 £47,500 -
London +81 1 £75,000 - 3
West Midlands - 1 £42,500 -
Midlands - 1 £42,500 -
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

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 22 (95.65%) Apache Spark
2 9 (39.13%) Apache
3 7 (30.43%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (13.04%) SAS
5 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (4.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (4.35%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 16 (69.57%) AWS
2 10 (43.48%) Azure
3 9 (39.13%) GCP
4 7 (30.43%) Power Platform
5 6 (26.09%) Snowflake
6 4 (17.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (17.39%) OpenShift
7 3 (13.04%) Amazon S3
7 3 (13.04%) GitHub
8 2 (8.70%) H2O.ai
8 2 (8.70%) IaaS
8 2 (8.70%) PaaS
8 2 (8.70%) SaaS
8 2 (8.70%) Vertex AI
9 1 (4.35%) Amazon EMR
9 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.04%) PuTTY
2 1 (4.35%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (95.65%) Hadoop
2 18 (78.26%) Big Data
3 16 (69.57%) Apache Hive
4 12 (52.17%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (52.17%) HBase
5 9 (39.13%) BigQuery
5 9 (39.13%) Metadata
5 9 (39.13%) NoSQL
5 9 (39.13%) Tableau
6 7 (30.43%) Data Lake
6 7 (30.43%) Impala
6 7 (30.43%) Power BI
7 5 (21.74%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (21.74%) Apache Iceberg
7 5 (21.74%) Delta Lake
8 4 (17.39%) Apache Hudi
8 4 (17.39%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 4 (17.39%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 4 (17.39%) SAP BW
9 3 (13.04%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Git
1 5 (21.74%) Gradle
1 5 (21.74%) Maven
2 4 (17.39%) Bitbucket
3 2 (8.70%) MLflow
4 1 (4.35%) ERwin
4 1 (4.35%) JIRA
4 1 (4.35%) Subversion
General
1 16 (69.57%) Law
2 15 (65.22%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (39.13%) Finance
4 6 (26.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (21.74%) Marketing
6 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
6 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
7 1 (4.35%) Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) Data Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Developer
2 6 (26.09%) Java Developer
3 5 (21.74%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (21.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 5 (21.74%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Java Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Java Software Developer
3 5 (21.74%) Java Software Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Software Developer
3 5 (21.74%) Software Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Architect
4 4 (17.39%) Cloud Architect
4 4 (17.39%) Data Architect
5 3 (13.04%) Lead
6 2 (8.70%) Lead Data Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Python Data Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (43.48%) Kafka
2 8 (34.78%) PySpark
3 5 (21.74%) JPA
3 5 (21.74%) REST
3 5 (21.74%) Spring
4 4 (17.39%) PyArrow
5 3 (13.04%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (13.04%) Plotly
5 3 (13.04%) Regular Expression
5 3 (13.04%) Shiny
6 2 (8.70%) NumPy
6 2 (8.70%) Pandas
6 2 (8.70%) PyTorch
6 2 (8.70%) scikit-learn
6 2 (8.70%) TensorFlow
7 1 (4.35%) Apache Avro
7 1 (4.35%) JSON
7 1 (4.35%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (8.70%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (8.70%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (56.52%) Unix
2 2 (8.70%) Linux
3 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (56.52%) Artificial Intelligence
1 13 (56.52%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (52.17%) Data Modelling
2 12 (52.17%) Data Science
2 12 (52.17%) ETL
3 11 (47.83%) CI/CD
3 11 (47.83%) Data Governance
3 11 (47.83%) Machine Learning
4 9 (39.13%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (39.13%) Data Engineering
5 8 (34.78%) Agile
5 8 (34.78%) Data Architecture
5 8 (34.78%) Decision-Making
5 8 (34.78%) Mentoring
5 8 (34.78%) Operational Stability
5 8 (34.78%) Software Engineering
6 7 (30.43%) Computer Science
6 7 (30.43%) Performance Optimisation
6 7 (30.43%) Visualisation
7 6 (26.09%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 17 (73.91%) SQL
2 15 (65.22%) Java
3 11 (47.83%) Python
4 9 (39.13%) PL/SQL
5 5 (21.74%) R
6 3 (13.04%) Bash
6 3 (13.04%) C++
6 3 (13.04%) PROC SQL
7 2 (8.70%) Ruby
8 1 (4.35%) C#
8 1 (4.35%) Scala
8 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
8 1 (4.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (43.48%) Degree
2 7 (30.43%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (30.43%) Master's Degree
3 4 (17.39%) AWS Certification
4 3 (13.04%) Azure Certification
5 1 (4.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.35%) CCSP
5 1 (4.35%) CISA
5 1 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (4.35%) CISM
5 1 (4.35%) CISSP
5 1 (4.35%) CRISC
5 1 (4.35%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (60.87%) Data Quality
2 6 (26.09%) Accessibility
3 3 (13.04%) QA
4 1 (4.35%) COBIT
4 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (4.35%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Apache Flume
1 3 (13.04%) Docker
2 2 (8.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (34.78%) Kubernetes
2 3 (13.04%) Kibana
2 3 (13.04%) logstash
2 3 (13.04%) Oozie
3 2 (8.70%) Hadoop YARN
3 2 (8.70%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 12 (52.17%) Databricks
2 8 (34.78%) Cloudera
3 7 (30.43%) Google
3 7 (30.43%) SAP
4 6 (26.09%) Oracle
5 4 (17.39%) Informatica
5 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
5 4 (17.39%) Red Hat
5 4 (17.39%) Teradata
6 3 (13.04%) MicroStrategy
7 2 (8.70%) Dataiku
7 2 (8.70%) MapR
8 1 (4.35%) Sybase