Hortonworks Contract Job Trends

Hortonworks
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Hortonworks products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Hortonworks over the 6 months leading up to 13 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 605 - 593
Rank change year-on-year - - +101
Contract jobs citing Hortonworks 3 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.007% - 0.007%
As % of the Vendors category 0.016% - 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £466 - -
25th Percentile £472 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - £300
Median % change year-on-year - - -44.83%
75th Percentile £497 - -
90th Percentile £499 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £300
% change year-on-year - - -58.62%

All Vendors
UK

Hortonworks falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,840 13,859 19,210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 43.99% 47.04% 43.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,042 8,621 11,982
10th Percentile £306 £284 £256
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £515
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% +0.49% -2.83%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 959 447 1,031
10th Percentile £15.30 £15.62 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.05 £14.48
Median hourly rate £25.00 £29.00 £24.65
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +17.65% -31.53%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £53.25
90th Percentile £75.65 £82.68 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £27.50 £23.22
% change year-on-year -16.36% +18.46% -30.70%

Hortonworks
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Hortonworks relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Hortonworks job vacancy trend in the UK

Hortonworks
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Hortonworks.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Hortonworks

Hortonworks
Top 2 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Hortonworks within the UK over the 6 months to 13 March 2026. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London - 3 £488 - 3
England - 3 £488 - 3

Hortonworks
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) Apache
1 3 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 3 (100.00%) Metadata
2 2 (66.67%) Delta Lake
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (66.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 3 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Metadata Management
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 3 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cloudera
1 3 (100.00%) Databricks