The first table below looks at the demand for Hadoop skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Hadoop over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Database & Business Intelligence category for the City of London region.

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.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Hadoop
Rank 149 211 247
Rank change year-on-year
+62 +36
Contract jobs citing Hadoop 67 11 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.972% 0.143% 0.010%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.452% 0.770% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 9 0
Average daily rate £500 £500 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £285 £469 -
% change year-on-year
-39.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Database & Business Intelligence
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
1505 1429 1939
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 21.83% 18.53% 19.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1114 1044 1465
Average daily rate £425 £425 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £333
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -2.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 19 18
Average hourly rate £39.51 £39.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.29% +56.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £19.00 £17.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £52.05 £50.00 £65.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.25 £26.50 £31.50
% change year-on-year
+6.60% -15.87%
Hadoop
London

Hadoop
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Hadoop across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

City of London Hadoop Jobs Demand Trend

Hadoop
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Hadoop across the City of London region.

City of London Hadoop Daily Rate Trend

Hadoop
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Hadoop across the City of London region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

City of London Hadoop Daily Rate Histogram

Hadoop
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Hadoop 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 Hadoop.

1 82 (73.21%) Big Data
2 70 (62.50%) Java
3 57 (50.89%) Apache Cassandra
4 51 (45.54%) NoSQL
5 49 (43.75%) MapReduce
6 46 (41.07%) Apache Hive
7 40 (35.71%) SQL
8 38 (33.93%) HBase
9 35 (31.25%) Apache Pig
10 29 (25.89%) Analytics
10 29 (25.89%) MongoDB
11 26 (23.21%) Python
12 24 (21.43%) TDD
13 23 (20.54%) Scrum
14 21 (18.75%) Linux
14 21 (18.75%) E-Commerce
14 21 (18.75%) Data Mining
14 21 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
14 21 (18.75%) Computer Science
15 20 (17.86%) Data Analysis
16 19 (16.96%) ETL
16 19 (16.96%) Data Warehouse
16 19 (16.96%) Mahout
17 18 (16.07%) Finance
18 17 (15.18%) Agile Software Development
19 16 (14.29%) Oracle
19 16 (14.29%) Scala
19 16 (14.29%) Mathematics
19 16 (14.29%) Social Network
20 15 (13.39%) Software Engineering

Hadoop
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Hadoop 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 Hadoop. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 49 (43.75%) MapReduce
2 8 (7.143%) ASP
3 7 (6.250%) Spring
3 7 (6.250%) RabbitMQ
4 6 (5.357%) XML
5 5 (4.464%) Java EE
6 4 (3.571%) RESTful
6 4 (3.571%) Kafka
6 4 (3.571%) XSLT
7 3 (2.679%) CSS
7 3 (2.679%) .NET
7 3 (2.679%) J2EE
7 3 (2.679%) Web Services
7 3 (2.679%) CSS3
7 3 (2.679%) HTML5
7 3 (2.679%) Node.js
8 2 (1.786%) REST
8 2 (1.786%) Lucene
8 2 (1.786%) Sass
8 2 (1.786%) LESS
Application Platforms
1 35 (31.25%) Apache Pig
2 11 (9.821%) Apache
3 8 (7.143%) SAS
4 6 (5.357%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (4.464%) Windows Azure
5 5 (4.464%) Amazon AWS
6 2 (1.786%) GemFire
6 2 (1.786%) IIS
6 2 (1.786%) ElasticSearch
6 2 (1.786%) Oracle Coherence
6 2 (1.786%) Apache Solr
6 2 (1.786%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (1.786%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.893%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.893%) ESB
7 1 (0.893%) Google App Engine
7 1 (0.893%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.893%) Amazon EMR
Applications
1 8 (7.143%) SPSS
2 1 (0.893%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (0.893%) PowerPivot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.786%) RMDS
2 1 (0.893%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.893%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.821%) HTTP
2 2 (1.786%) SAN
2 2 (1.786%) LAN
2 2 (1.786%) WAN
2 2 (1.786%) NAS
2 2 (1.786%) FCoE
2 2 (1.786%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (0.893%) AMQP
3 1 (0.893%) Internet
3 1 (0.893%) BSS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (73.21%) Big Data
2 57 (50.89%) Apache Cassandra
3 51 (45.54%) NoSQL
4 46 (41.07%) Apache Hive
5 38 (33.93%) HBase
6 29 (25.89%) MongoDB
7 21 (18.75%) Data Mining
8 19 (16.96%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (16.96%) Mahout
9 11 (9.821%) SQL Server
10 10 (8.929%) DB2
11 9 (8.036%) RDBMS
12 8 (7.143%) OLAP
13 6 (5.357%) CouchDB
14 5 (4.464%) Redis
15 4 (3.571%) MySQL
16 3 (2.679%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 3 (2.679%) MarkLogic
17 2 (1.786%) Sqoop
17 2 (1.786%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 6 (5.357%) Git (software)
2 4 (3.571%) JIRA
3 3 (2.679%) JUnit
4 2 (1.786%) Subversion
4 2 (1.786%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (1.786%) Talend Open Studio
5 1 (0.893%) Mercurial
5 1 (0.893%) Gerrit
5 1 (0.893%) Maven
5 1 (0.893%) Oracle Forms
General
1 18 (16.07%) Finance
2 14 (12.50%) Banking
3 5 (4.464%) Investment Banking
4 3 (2.679%) Telecoms
5 2 (1.786%) Marketing
6 1 (0.893%) Wholesale Banking
6 1 (0.893%) Retail
6 1 (0.893%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.893%) Publishing
6 1 (0.893%) Back Office
6 1 (0.893%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 54 (48.21%) Developer
2 19 (16.96%) Architect
2 19 (16.96%) Hadoop Developer
3 16 (14.29%) Big Data Developer
4 14 (12.50%) Java Developer
5 13 (11.61%) Data Architect
6 10 (8.929%) Big Data Architect
6 10 (8.929%) Data Scientist
7 7 (6.250%) Senior Developer
7 7 (6.250%) Analyst
8 6 (5.357%) Technical Leader
8 6 (5.357%) Research Engineer
9 5 (4.464%) Senior Java Developer
9 5 (4.464%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (4.464%) Database Developer
10 4 (3.571%) Data Analyst
10 4 (3.571%) Project Manager
10 4 (3.571%) DB2 Developer
11 3 (2.679%) Research Scientist
11 3 (2.679%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 21 (18.75%) Computer Science
2 16 (14.29%) Mathematics
2 16 (14.29%) Social Network
3 13 (11.61%) Visualisation
3 13 (11.61%) Physics
4 10 (8.929%) Statistics
5 9 (8.036%) Grid Computing
6 8 (7.143%) Open Source
6 8 (7.143%) Machine Learning
7 7 (6.250%) Data Integration
8 6 (5.357%) Neural Network
9 5 (4.464%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (2.679%) Heroku
11 2 (1.786%) Social Media
11 2 (1.786%) Streaming Music
12 1 (0.893%) Blog
12 1 (0.893%) DTV
12 1 (0.893%) Smart Meter
12 1 (0.893%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 21 (18.75%) Linux
2 10 (8.929%) Windows
3 7 (6.250%) UNIX
4 2 (1.786%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (25.89%) Analytics
2 24 (21.43%) TDD
3 23 (20.54%) Scrum
4 21 (18.75%) E-Commerce
4 21 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
5 20 (17.86%) Data Analysis
6 19 (16.96%) ETL
7 17 (15.18%) Agile Software Development
8 15 (13.39%) Software Engineering
9 14 (12.50%) Data Modelling
10 8 (7.143%) OO
11 7 (6.250%) Business Analysis
11 7 (6.250%) BDD
12 6 (5.357%) Predictive Modelling
12 6 (5.357%) CRM
12 6 (5.357%) Migration
13 5 (4.464%) Technical Architecture
14 4 (3.571%) Data Migration
15 3 (2.679%) Kanban
15 3 (2.679%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 70 (62.50%) Java
2 40 (35.71%) SQL
3 26 (23.21%) Python
4 16 (14.29%) Scala
5 11 (9.821%) Perl
5 11 (9.821%) R
6 9 (8.036%) Ruby
6 9 (8.036%) JavaScript
6 9 (8.036%) C#
6 9 (8.036%) C++
7 5 (4.464%) Clojure
8 3 (2.679%) Bash shell
8 3 (2.679%) Groovy
9 2 (1.786%) C
9 2 (1.786%) XPath
9 2 (1.786%) XQuery
9 2 (1.786%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.786%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.893%) PHP
10 1 (0.893%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (9.821%) Degree
2 9 (8.036%) PhD
3 3 (2.679%) DV Cleared
3 3 (2.679%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.893%) MCPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.893%) QA
System Software
1 2 (1.786%) NFS
1 2 (1.786%) Oracle RAC
1 2 (1.786%) SRDF
1 2 (1.786%) Apache Flume
2 1 (0.893%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 3 (2.679%) Splunk
1 3 (2.679%) Oozie
2 1 (0.893%) Nagios
2 1 (0.893%) Ganglia
Vendors
1 16 (14.29%) Oracle
2 10 (8.929%) Informatica
3 8 (7.143%) Cloudera
4 7 (6.250%) Hortonworks
5 4 (3.571%) Rackspace
5 4 (3.571%) Teradata
5 4 (3.571%) Tableau
6 3 (2.679%) EMC
7 2 (1.786%) Intel
7 2 (1.786%) NetApp
7 2 (1.786%) TIBCO
7 2 (1.786%) Google
7 2 (1.786%) Netezza
7 2 (1.786%) DataSynapse
7 2 (1.786%) Sybase
7 2 (1.786%) Business Objects
7 2 (1.786%) Cisco
7 2 (1.786%) IBM
7 2 (1.786%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.786%) Vertica
City, London
Java, J2EE, Big Data, No SQL, Hadoop or Cassandra, Rabbit MQ, Storm, KafKa, Senior Java Developer... As these are the first hands on Java Developers on the initial...
Edison Hill Ltd
Rate: From £500 to £700 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
City, London
DB2 Development ... Perl) . Core DWH ETL tools, Informatica The DB2 Developer would benefit from having exposure to NoSQL technologies and big data platforms such as Hadoop, HBASE or...
E-synergy Solutions
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
City, London
People Source specialise in niche technology markets including Information Technology, Digital TV, Digital Marketing, Project and Programme Management, SAP, Digital and Consumer Electronics, Air Traffic Management, Management Consultancy,...
People Source Consulting
Rate: £425 - £475 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
City of London
Wide range of technical skills, with the ability to pick up new skills through practical hands-on activities, but specifically of the type: Highly technically-literate, comfortable working...
Capita Resourcing Ltd
Rate: £450 - £550 per day
Posted: 29 May 2013
City of London
A summary of the key skills are as follows: Networking (Cisco, TCP/UDP, Broadcast/Multicast, LAN/WAN) Server Operating systems internals, benchmarking and performance tuning (Linux, Windows, Solaris) &...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £575 - £576 per day
Posted: 5 June 2013