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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 664 761 943
Rank change year-on-year +97 +182 +164
Permanent jobs citing HDFS 20 124 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.038% 0.13% 0.042%
As % of the System Software category 0.37% 1.01% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 34
10th Percentile £77,000 - £50,000
25th Percentile £83,750 £29,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £31,000 £68,823
Median % change year-on-year +222.58% -54.96% +7.96%
75th Percentile £112,500 £33,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £117,000 - £125,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £105,000 - £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 5,388 12,269 15,980
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.33% 12.48% 15.37%
Number of salaries quoted 3,933 9,741 10,518
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £27,915
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -1.79%
75th Percentile £78,750 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £86,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -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 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for HDFS in the UK

HDFS
Top 6 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 30 April 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
England +182 15 £100,000 +222.58% 7
UK excluding London +116 15 £105,000 - 3
Work from Home +194 14 - - 5
South East +123 14 £105,000 - 2
London +87 1 £75,000 +141.94% 5
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 19 (95.00%) Apache Spark
2 14 (70.00%) Apache
3 9 (45.00%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (45.00%) OpenShift
2 8 (40.00%) AWS
3 7 (35.00%) Azure
4 6 (30.00%) GCP
4 6 (30.00%) Snowflake
5 4 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (20.00%) Power Platform
6 3 (15.00%) Amazon S3
7 2 (10.00%) H2O.ai
7 2 (10.00%) IaaS
7 2 (10.00%) PaaS
7 2 (10.00%) SaaS
7 2 (10.00%) Vertex AI
8 1 (5.00%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (95.00%) Hadoop
2 14 (70.00%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (55.00%) NoSQL
4 10 (50.00%) Apache Iceberg
4 10 (50.00%) Big Data
4 10 (50.00%) Delta Lake
5 9 (45.00%) Apache Hudi
6 8 (40.00%) Apache Hive
7 7 (35.00%) Data Lake
8 6 (30.00%) BigQuery
8 6 (30.00%) Metadata
8 6 (30.00%) Tableau
9 5 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (20.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 4 (20.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 4 (20.00%) HBase
10 4 (20.00%) Impala
10 4 (20.00%) Power BI
10 4 (20.00%) SAP BW
11 2 (10.00%) Bigtable
Development Applications
1 9 (45.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (10.00%) MLflow
3 1 (5.00%) ERwin
3 1 (5.00%) Git
3 1 (5.00%) JIRA
3 1 (5.00%) Subversion
General
1 16 (80.00%) Law
2 10 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Finance
4 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) Data Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) Python Data Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) Python Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) Lead
4 4 (20.00%) Architect
4 4 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
4 4 (20.00%) Data Architect
4 4 (20.00%) Lead Data Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) Senior
5 3 (15.00%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Big Data Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Apache Spark Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Big Data Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Java Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Risk Manager
7 1 (5.00%) Technology Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (60.00%) Kafka
2 9 (45.00%) PyArrow
2 9 (45.00%) PySpark
3 2 (10.00%) NumPy
3 2 (10.00%) Pandas
3 2 (10.00%) PyTorch
3 2 (10.00%) scikit-learn
3 2 (10.00%) TensorFlow
4 1 (5.00%) Apache Avro
4 1 (5.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (10.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (50.00%) Unix
2 2 (10.00%) Linux
3 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (80.00%) Data Governance
2 14 (70.00%) Data Modelling
2 14 (70.00%) Data Science
2 14 (70.00%) ETL
3 13 (65.00%) Data Architecture
4 11 (55.00%) Data Engineering
5 10 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
6 8 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (35.00%) Computer Science
7 7 (35.00%) Performance Optimisation
8 6 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (30.00%) CI/CD
8 6 (30.00%) Metadata Management
9 5 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
9 5 (25.00%) Data Integration
9 5 (25.00%) DevOps
9 5 (25.00%) Mentoring
10 4 (20.00%) Data Stewardship
10 4 (20.00%) Migration
10 4 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 14 (70.00%) SQL
2 13 (65.00%) Python
3 7 (35.00%) Java
4 4 (20.00%) PL/SQL
5 3 (15.00%) C++
6 2 (10.00%) R
6 2 (10.00%) Ruby
7 1 (5.00%) C#
7 1 (5.00%) Scala
7 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
7 1 (5.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (50.00%) Degree
2 7 (35.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (35.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.00%) CCSP
3 1 (5.00%) CISA
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.00%) CISM
3 1 (5.00%) CISSP
3 1 (5.00%) CRISC
3 1 (5.00%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (80.00%) Data Quality
2 11 (55.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.00%) COBIT
3 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.00%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Docker
2 2 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (65.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.00%) Hadoop YARN
2 2 (10.00%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 9 (45.00%) Red Hat
2 7 (35.00%) Google
3 6 (30.00%) Oracle
4 4 (20.00%) Databricks
4 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (20.00%) SAP
4 4 (20.00%) Teradata
5 3 (15.00%) Cloudera
6 2 (10.00%) Dataiku
6 2 (10.00%) MapR
7 1 (5.00%) Informatica
7 1 (5.00%) Sybase