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

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 689 792 926
Rank change year-on-year +103 +134 +220
Permanent jobs citing HDFS 20 120 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.036% 0.12% 0.037%
As % of the System Software category 0.32% 1.00% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 27
10th Percentile £54,125 - £49,000
25th Percentile £65,938 £29,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £31,000 £68,823
Median % change year-on-year +182.26% -54.96% -1.68%
75th Percentile £108,750 £33,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £115,500 - £106,894
UK excluding London median annual salary £100,000 - £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 6,212 11,994 15,156
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.21% 11.61% 15.60%
Number of salaries quoted 3,576 9,354 9,841
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,875 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.75% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £76,840 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £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 May 2025.

Salary histogram for HDFS in the UK

HDFS
Top 9 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 May 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 +105 15 £100,000 -
England +151 13 £87,500 +182.26%
Work from Home +129 11 - -
South East +95 11 £105,000 -
Scotland +23 2 - -
London +99 1 £75,000 +141.94%
North East - 1 £47,500 -
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
North of England - 1 £47,500 -

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 11 (55.00%) Apache
3 7 (35.00%) 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%) SAS
4 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (55.00%) AWS
2 8 (40.00%) Azure
3 7 (35.00%) GCP
4 6 (30.00%) OpenShift
4 6 (30.00%) Snowflake
5 5 (25.00%) Power Platform
6 4 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (15.00%) Amazon S3
8 2 (10.00%) H2O.ai
8 2 (10.00%) IaaS
8 2 (10.00%) PaaS
8 2 (10.00%) SaaS
8 2 (10.00%) Vertex AI
9 1 (5.00%) Amazon EMR
9 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (5.00%) GitHub
9 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Network Security
1 1 (5.00%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (95.00%) Hadoop
2 13 (65.00%) Big Data
3 12 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (55.00%) Apache Hive
5 9 (45.00%) NoSQL
6 7 (35.00%) Apache Iceberg
6 7 (35.00%) BigQuery
6 7 (35.00%) Data Lake
6 7 (35.00%) Delta Lake
6 7 (35.00%) HBase
6 7 (35.00%) Metadata
6 7 (35.00%) Tableau
7 6 (30.00%) Apache Hudi
8 5 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (25.00%) Impala
8 5 (25.00%) Power BI
9 4 (20.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 4 (20.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 4 (20.00%) SAP BW
10 2 (10.00%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (10.00%) Git
2 2 (10.00%) Gradle
2 2 (10.00%) Maven
2 2 (10.00%) MLflow
3 1 (5.00%) ERwin
3 1 (5.00%) JIRA
3 1 (5.00%) Subversion
General
1 15 (75.00%) Law
2 12 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (30.00%) Finance
4 3 (15.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
5 2 (10.00%) Marketing
6 1 (5.00%) Banking
6 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Lead
3 4 (20.00%) Architect
3 4 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
3 4 (20.00%) Data Architect
3 4 (20.00%) Lead Data Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Python Data Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Python Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Java Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Java Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Java Software Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Java Software Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Software Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (50.00%) Kafka
2 7 (35.00%) PySpark
3 6 (30.00%) PyArrow
4 2 (10.00%) JPA
4 2 (10.00%) NumPy
4 2 (10.00%) Pandas
4 2 (10.00%) PyTorch
4 2 (10.00%) REST
4 2 (10.00%) scikit-learn
4 2 (10.00%) Spring
4 2 (10.00%) TensorFlow
5 1 (5.00%) Apache Avro
5 1 (5.00%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (5.00%) JSON
5 1 (5.00%) Plotly
5 1 (5.00%) Regular Expression
5 1 (5.00%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
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 13 (65.00%) Data Governance
2 12 (60.00%) Data Modelling
2 12 (60.00%) Data Science
2 12 (60.00%) ETL
3 10 (50.00%) Data Architecture
3 10 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (45.00%) Data Engineering
5 8 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 8 (40.00%) CI/CD
6 7 (35.00%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (35.00%) Collaborative Working
6 7 (35.00%) Computer Science
6 7 (35.00%) Performance Optimisation
7 6 (30.00%) Machine Learning
7 6 (30.00%) Mentoring
7 6 (30.00%) Metadata Management
8 5 (25.00%) Data Integration
8 5 (25.00%) Decision-Making
8 5 (25.00%) DevOps
8 5 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 14 (70.00%) SQL
2 11 (55.00%) Python
3 10 (50.00%) Java
4 6 (30.00%) PL/SQL
5 3 (15.00%) C++
5 3 (15.00%) R
6 2 (10.00%) Ruby
7 1 (5.00%) Bash
7 1 (5.00%) C#
7 1 (5.00%) PROC SQL
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 2 (10.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.00%) CCSP
4 1 (5.00%) CISA
4 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.00%) CISM
4 1 (5.00%) CISSP
4 1 (5.00%) CRISC
4 1 (5.00%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (70.00%) Data Quality
2 8 (40.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.00%) COBIT
3 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.00%) NIST
3 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Docker
2 2 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.00%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 10 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.00%) Hadoop YARN
2 2 (10.00%) Kubeflow
3 1 (5.00%) Kibana
3 1 (5.00%) logstash
3 1 (5.00%) Oozie
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Databricks
1 7 (35.00%) Google
2 6 (30.00%) Oracle
2 6 (30.00%) Red Hat
3 5 (25.00%) Cloudera
3 5 (25.00%) SAP
4 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (20.00%) Teradata
5 2 (10.00%) Dataiku
5 2 (10.00%) Informatica
5 2 (10.00%) MapR
6 1 (5.00%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (5.00%) Sybase