The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Hortonworks products and/or services in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Hortonworks over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Vendors currently tracked.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Hortonworks.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Hortonworks
Rank 525 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Hortonworks 5 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.011% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.023% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
Average daily rate £575 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
21775 27088 28510
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 46.93% 46.48% 46.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11633 13855 14263
Average daily rate £400 £400 £408
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £235 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1193 1289 1605
Average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.50% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.15 £11.50 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £41.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%

Hortonworks
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Hortonworks within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Hortonworks Jobs Demand Trend

Hortonworks
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Hortonworks within the UK.

Hortonworks Daily Rate Trend

Hortonworks
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Hortonworks within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England - 5 £575 -
City of London - 5 £575 -
London - 5 £575 -

Hortonworks
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Hortonworks also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Hortonworks.

1 7 (100.00%) Java
1 7 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 7 (100.00%) MapReduce
1 7 (100.00%) HBase
1 7 (100.00%) Big Data
1 7 (100.00%) Cloudera
1 7 (100.00%) Analytics
2 6 (85.71%) Apache Cassandra
2 6 (85.71%) NoSQL
2 6 (85.71%) Linux
2 6 (85.71%) Python
3 5 (71.43%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (57.14%) Windows Azure
4 4 (57.14%) Technical Architecture
4 4 (57.14%) C#
4 4 (57.14%) Rackspace
4 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
4 4 (57.14%) Windows
5 2 (28.57%) Splunk
5 2 (28.57%) Apache Hive
5 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
5 2 (28.57%) Apache Pig
6 1 (14.29%) Mahout
6 1 (14.29%) Degree
6 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
6 1 (14.29%) Greenplum
6 1 (14.29%) Product Management
6 1 (14.29%) Google App Engine
6 1 (14.29%) Amazon AWS
6 1 (14.29%) Bash shell

Hortonworks
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Hortonworks also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Hortonworks. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (100.00%) MapReduce
Application Platforms
1 5 (71.43%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (57.14%) Windows Azure
3 2 (28.57%) Apache Pig
4 1 (14.29%) Google App Engine
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 7 (100.00%) HBase
1 7 (100.00%) Big Data
2 6 (85.71%) Apache Cassandra
2 6 (85.71%) NoSQL
3 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
4 2 (28.57%) Apache Hive
4 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
5 1 (14.29%) MySQL
5 1 (14.29%) Mahout
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Architect
1 5 (71.43%) Data Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Hadoop Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Linux
2 4 (57.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Analytics
2 4 (57.14%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Product Management
3 1 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (14.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (85.71%) Python
3 4 (57.14%) C#
4 1 (14.29%) Perl
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
4 1 (14.29%) Ruby
4 1 (14.29%) Bash shell
4 1 (14.29%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Splunk
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Cloudera
2 4 (57.14%) Rackspace
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) EMC
3 1 (14.29%) Google
3 1 (14.29%) Greenplum