The first table below looks at the demand for NoSQL 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 NoSQL over the 3 months to 23 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 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
NoSQL
Rank 163 204 244
Rank change year-on-year
+41 +40
Contract jobs citing NoSQL 36 15 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.567% 0.191% 0.010%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.605% 1.049% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 13 1
Average daily rate £450 £530 £675
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.09% -21.48%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
-13.33% -
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
1382 1430 1857
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 21.76% 18.17% 18.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1040 1030 1391
Average daily rate £425 £425 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-0.75% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 19 14
Average hourly rate £39.51 £33.75 £25.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+17.05% +31.06%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £17.10 £17.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.90 £47.50 £65.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
NoSQL
London

NoSQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London NoSQL Jobs Demand Trend

NoSQL
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London NoSQL Daily Rate Trend

NoSQL
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing NoSQL across the City of London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

City of London NoSQL Daily Rate Histogram

NoSQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing NoSQL 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 NoSQL.

1 43 (58.90%) Java
2 42 (57.53%) Hadoop
3 37 (50.68%) Big Data
4 36 (49.32%) Apache Cassandra
5 35 (47.95%) TDD
6 34 (46.58%) MongoDB
7 29 (39.73%) Scrum
8 24 (32.88%) Linux
8 24 (32.88%) MapReduce
9 19 (26.03%) SQL
10 18 (24.66%) Apache Hive
11 17 (23.29%) HBase
12 16 (21.92%) Apache Pig
13 15 (20.55%) E-Commerce
14 14 (19.18%) HTTP
14 14 (19.18%) Finance
14 14 (19.18%) BDD
15 13 (17.81%) JavaScript
15 13 (17.81%) C#
15 13 (17.81%) OO
16 12 (16.44%) Agile Software Development
16 12 (16.44%) REST
17 11 (15.07%) Web Services
17 11 (15.07%) Python
18 10 (13.70%) Analytics
18 10 (13.70%) Kanban
19 9 (12.33%) Continuous Integration
19 9 (12.33%) MVC
19 9 (12.33%) Spring
19 9 (12.33%) Ruby

NoSQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing NoSQL 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 NoSQL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 24 (32.88%) MapReduce
2 12 (16.44%) REST
3 11 (15.07%) Web Services
4 9 (12.33%) Spring
4 9 (12.33%) .NET
5 8 (10.96%) RESTful
5 8 (10.96%) jQuery
6 6 (8.219%) CSS
6 6 (8.219%) ASP
6 6 (8.219%) J2EE
6 6 (8.219%) JSON
7 5 (6.849%) Ruby on Rails
7 5 (6.849%) HTML
8 4 (5.479%) ASP.NET
8 4 (5.479%) SOAP
8 4 (5.479%) XML
8 4 (5.479%) Middleware
8 4 (5.479%) Java EE
8 4 (5.479%) HTML5
9 3 (4.110%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 16 (21.92%) Apache Pig
2 8 (10.96%) Windows Azure
3 7 (9.589%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (8.219%) Apache
4 6 (8.219%) Amazon AWS
5 3 (4.110%) Apache Solr
5 3 (4.110%) CMS
6 2 (2.740%) nginx
6 2 (2.740%) Rackspace Cloud
6 2 (2.740%) OpenStack
6 2 (2.740%) Kafka
7 1 (1.370%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.370%) ESB
7 1 (1.370%) WordPress
7 1 (1.370%) Google App Engine
7 1 (1.370%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (1.370%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (1.370%) MS Exchange
7 1 (1.370%) SharePoint
7 1 (1.370%) MSMQ
Business Applications
1 1 (1.370%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 14 (19.18%) HTTP
2 3 (4.110%) Internet
3 2 (2.740%) AMQP
4 1 (1.370%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (57.53%) Hadoop
2 37 (50.68%) Big Data
3 36 (49.32%) Apache Cassandra
4 34 (46.58%) MongoDB
5 18 (24.66%) Apache Hive
6 17 (23.29%) HBase
7 9 (12.33%) Data Mining
7 9 (12.33%) RDBMS
7 9 (12.33%) SQL Server
8 8 (10.96%) OLAP
8 8 (10.96%) Mahout
8 8 (10.96%) Redis
9 5 (6.849%) CouchDB
10 4 (5.479%) MySQL
10 4 (5.479%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (5.479%) MarkLogic
11 3 (4.110%) Neo4j
11 3 (4.110%) DB2
12 2 (2.740%) PostgreSQL
12 2 (2.740%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 6 (8.219%) JUnit
2 5 (6.849%) JIRA
3 4 (5.479%) Git (software)
4 3 (4.110%) SpecFlow
4 3 (4.110%) Cucumber
4 3 (4.110%) RSpec
4 3 (4.110%) Subversion
5 2 (2.740%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (2.740%) Hudson
5 2 (2.740%) Behat
5 2 (2.740%) QUnit
5 2 (2.740%) Jasmine
5 2 (2.740%) Capybara
6 1 (1.370%) Axure RP
6 1 (1.370%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.370%) Mercurial
6 1 (1.370%) Maven
6 1 (1.370%) CruiseControl
6 1 (1.370%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.370%) Oracle Forms
General
1 14 (19.18%) Finance
2 4 (5.479%) Banking
3 3 (4.110%) Telecoms
4 2 (2.740%) Manufacturing
4 2 (2.740%) Publishing
5 1 (1.370%) Music
5 1 (1.370%) Music Industry
5 1 (1.370%) Marketing
5 1 (1.370%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 40 (54.79%) Developer
2 13 (17.81%) Architect
3 11 (15.07%) Data Architect
4 10 (13.70%) Java Developer
4 10 (13.70%) Hadoop Developer
5 6 (8.219%) Senior Developer
6 5 (6.849%) Technical Leader
6 5 (6.849%) C# Developer
7 4 (5.479%) PHP Developer
7 4 (5.479%) Senior PHP Developer
7 4 (5.479%) Ruby on Rails Developer
8 3 (4.110%) C# .NET Developer
8 3 (4.110%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 3 (4.110%) .NET Developer
8 3 (4.110%) Software Engineer
9 2 (2.740%) Software Developer
9 2 (2.740%) Database Developer
9 2 (2.740%) Linux Engineer
9 2 (2.740%) Administrator
9 2 (2.740%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.96%) Data Integration
1 8 (10.96%) Mathematics
1 8 (10.96%) Physics
1 8 (10.96%) Computer Science
1 8 (10.96%) Social Network
1 8 (10.96%) Machine Learning
2 6 (8.219%) Cloud Computing
3 5 (6.849%) Open Source
4 4 (5.479%) Heroku
5 2 (2.740%) SaaS
6 1 (1.370%) IaaS
6 1 (1.370%) Social Media
6 1 (1.370%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.370%) Podcast
6 1 (1.370%) Streaming Video
6 1 (1.370%) BBC
6 1 (1.370%) Grid Computing
6 1 (1.370%) DTV
6 1 (1.370%) Cryptography
6 1 (1.370%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 24 (32.88%) Linux
2 9 (12.33%) Windows
3 7 (9.589%) UNIX
4 2 (2.740%) Mac OS X
4 2 (2.740%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.370%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (1.370%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (47.95%) TDD
2 29 (39.73%) Scrum
3 15 (20.55%) E-Commerce
4 14 (19.18%) BDD
5 13 (17.81%) OO
6 12 (16.44%) Agile Software Development
7 10 (13.70%) Analytics
7 10 (13.70%) Kanban
8 9 (12.33%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (12.33%) MVC
9 8 (10.96%) Data Modelling
9 8 (10.96%) Business Analysis
9 8 (10.96%) Data Analysis
9 8 (10.96%) Software Engineering
10 6 (8.219%) SOA
10 6 (8.219%) Technical Architecture
11 5 (6.849%) CRM
11 5 (6.849%) ETL
12 4 (5.479%) Migration
13 3 (4.110%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 43 (58.90%) Java
2 19 (26.03%) SQL
3 13 (17.81%) JavaScript
3 13 (17.81%) C#
4 11 (15.07%) Python
5 9 (12.33%) Ruby
6 7 (9.589%) PHP
7 3 (4.110%) Bash shell
7 3 (4.110%) C++
7 3 (4.110%) Perl
8 2 (2.740%) XQuery
8 2 (2.740%) Scala
8 2 (2.740%) Groovy
9 1 (1.370%) Erlang
9 1 (1.370%) PowerHouse
9 1 (1.370%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.370%) ActionScript
9 1 (1.370%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (1.370%) MCPD
1 1 (1.370%) DV Cleared
1 1 (1.370%) Security Cleared
1 1 (1.370%) CCNA
1 1 (1.370%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.370%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.740%) Samba
1 2 (2.740%) Xen
2 1 (1.370%) Apache Flume
2 1 (1.370%) OpenSSO
2 1 (1.370%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (1.370%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (6.849%) Puppet
2 3 (4.110%) Nagios
3 2 (2.740%) ZABBIX
3 2 (2.740%) Splunk
Vendors
1 6 (8.219%) Rackspace
2 5 (6.849%) Hortonworks
2 5 (6.849%) Cloudera
3 4 (5.479%) Oracle
3 4 (5.479%) Zend
4 3 (4.110%) Informatica
5 2 (2.740%) Google
6 1 (1.370%) Facebook
6 1 (1.370%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.370%) Greenplum
6 1 (1.370%) Omniture
6 1 (1.370%) EMC
6 1 (1.370%) Cisco
6 1 (1.370%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.370%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.370%) SAP
City, London
Is looking for a java/NoSQL developer... Experience with NoSQL databases is essential in particularly Cassandra... Experience with noSQL databases. Exposure to working in Agile environments... Desirable; Experience...
Hydrogen Group
Rate: £0.00 - £450.00 per day + Negotiable
Posted: 22 May 2013
City of London
Key Requirements: The suitable candidate will possess expert Python knowledge supported with a secondary programming language (C/C++, Java). You must also have a strong knowledge of database...
Real Staffing
Rate: £550 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
City, London
Required skills and technologies; Demonstrated experience in software engineering. Diverse technological background with experience in several of the following; java, c++, ruby, python, XML based components, tomcat, spring...
Hydrogen Group
Rate: £0.00 - £450.00 per day + Negotiable
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
Is looking for a java/NoSQL developer... Experience with noSQL databases (Cassandra) Exposure to working in Agile environments. Experience with alternative languages such as Groovy, Ruby, Scala, Python...
Hydrogen Group
Rate: £0.00 - £425.00 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
City, London
You will be working on the initial stages of an exciting project - You will be working on B2B and D2C websites running cross-browser and cross-platform - You...
Coal IT Services
Rate: From £400 to £500 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
City, London
DevOps - Engineer - Puppet - Chef - Big Data - Cloud - MongoDB - Jenknins - Maven - Cloud - Agile... Cassandra, MongoDB, NoSQL and other relevant Big Data/Cloud technologies. CloudStack, OpenStack API. CI tools - Jenkins,...
Oliver Bernard
Rate: From £500 to £550 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
City of London
Key responsibilities are: Organising and managing lab activities including the prioritisation processes, lab infrastructure, organisation of experiments and basic lab budgets management Main point of contact for the...
Capita Resourcing Ltd
Rate: £450 - £550 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
City, London
Perl) . Core DWH ETL tools, Informatica The DB2 Data Engineer would benefit from having exposure to NoSQL technologies and big data platforms such as Hadoop, HBASE or Cassandra,...
E-synergy Solutions
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013