HDFS Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 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 383 591 648
Rank change year-on-year +208 +57 +169
Permanent jobs citing HDFS 14 1 25
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.094% 0.003% 0.058%
As % of the System Software category 0.74% 0.023% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 21
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -36.84%
75th Percentile - - £72,647
90th Percentile - - £80,000
UK median annual salary £100,000 £31,000 £68,823
% change year-on-year +222.58% -54.96% +7.96%

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 permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,887 4,369 6,374
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.62% 12.91% 14.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,533 3,497 4,708
10th Percentile £30,750 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £71,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £86,550 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -2.35%

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
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

HDFS salary trend 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 14 (100.00%) Apache Spark
2 10 (71.43%) Apache
3 9 (64.29%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) OpenShift
2 4 (28.57%) AWS
2 4 (28.57%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 4 (28.57%) GCP
2 4 (28.57%) Power Platform
2 4 (28.57%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (92.86%) Data Warehouse
1 13 (92.86%) Hadoop
2 10 (71.43%) NoSQL
3 9 (64.29%) Apache Hudi
3 9 (64.29%) Apache Iceberg
3 9 (64.29%) Delta Lake
4 7 (50.00%) Big Data
5 5 (35.71%) Apache Hive
6 4 (28.57%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (28.57%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 4 (28.57%) BigQuery
6 4 (28.57%) Data Lake
6 4 (28.57%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 4 (28.57%) Metadata
6 4 (28.57%) Power BI
6 4 (28.57%) SAP BW
6 4 (28.57%) Tableau
7 1 (7.14%) HBase
7 1 (7.14%) Impala
Development Applications
1 9 (64.29%) Bitbucket
2 1 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 14 (100.00%) Law
2 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) Data Engineer
2 7 (50.00%) Python Data Engineer
2 7 (50.00%) Python Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) Architect
3 4 (28.57%) Cloud Architect
3 4 (28.57%) Data Architect
3 4 (28.57%) Lead
3 4 (28.57%) Lead Data Engineer
4 3 (21.43%) Senior
4 3 (21.43%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Big Data Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Big Data Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (71.43%) Kafka
2 9 (64.29%) PyArrow
2 9 (64.29%) PySpark
3 1 (7.14%) Apache Avro
3 1 (7.14%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 10 (71.43%) Unix
2 1 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) Data Architecture
1 13 (92.86%) Data Governance
1 13 (92.86%) Data Modelling
1 13 (92.86%) Data Science
1 13 (92.86%) ETL
2 9 (64.29%) Collaborative Working
2 9 (64.29%) Data Engineering
3 5 (35.71%) Mentoring
4 4 (28.57%) Analytical Thinking
4 4 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 4 (28.57%) Critical Thinking
4 4 (28.57%) Data Lineage
4 4 (28.57%) Data Strategy
4 4 (28.57%) Data Visualisation
4 4 (28.57%) DevOps
4 4 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
4 4 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (28.57%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) SQL
2 7 (50.00%) Python
3 4 (28.57%) PL/SQL
4 1 (7.14%) Java
4 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
1 4 (28.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (92.86%) Data Quality
2 9 (64.29%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 9 (64.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) Red Hat
2 5 (35.71%) Oracle
3 4 (28.57%) Databricks
3 4 (28.57%) Google
3 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 4 (28.57%) SAP
3 4 (28.57%) Teradata