Hybrid/Remote HDFS Job Trends

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring HDFS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 415 - 515
Rank change year-on-year - - +328
Permanent jobs citing HDFS 6 0 7
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.037% - 0.029%
As % of the System Software category 0.30% - 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £50,000
25th Percentile £82,500 - £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 - £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -39.53%
75th Percentile £87,500 - £83,750
90th Percentile - - £87,500
UK median annual salary £53,750 - £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -13.33%

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 1,983 2,788 3,881
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.17% 11.89% 15.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,096 1,755 3,345
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £56,525 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.47% -5.79% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £53,909 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.25% -1.98% -

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 Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing HDFS.

Salary 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 5 (83.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (16.67%) Apache
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
1 5 (83.33%) GCP
2 4 (66.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 4 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 4 (66.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Big Data
2 5 (83.33%) Apache Hive
2 5 (83.33%) Hadoop
3 4 (66.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (66.67%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 4 (66.67%) BigQuery
3 4 (66.67%) Data Lake
3 4 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (66.67%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 4 (66.67%) Metadata
3 4 (66.67%) Power BI
3 4 (66.67%) SAP BW
3 4 (66.67%) Tableau
4 1 (16.67%) HBase
4 1 (16.67%) Impala
4 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 5 (83.33%) Law
2 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (16.67%) Retail
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Architect
1 4 (66.67%) Cloud Architect
1 4 (66.67%) Data Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Big Data Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Avro
1 1 (16.67%) JSON
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Mentoring
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (66.67%) Analytical Thinking
3 4 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (66.67%) Computer Science
3 4 (66.67%) Critical Thinking
3 4 (66.67%) Data Architecture
3 4 (66.67%) Data Integration
3 4 (66.67%) Data Lineage
3 4 (66.67%) Data Migration
3 4 (66.67%) Data Modelling
3 4 (66.67%) Data Science
3 4 (66.67%) Data Strategy
3 4 (66.67%) ETL
3 4 (66.67%) Migration
3 4 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
3 4 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (66.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 4 (66.67%) PL/SQL
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) Scala
3 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
1 4 (66.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
1 5 (83.33%) Oracle
2 4 (66.67%) Databricks
2 4 (66.67%) Google
2 4 (66.67%) SAP
2 4 (66.67%) Teradata