The first table below looks at the demand for the Research Scientist role 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 Research Scientist in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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 Job Titles advertised 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Research Scientist
Rank 203 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a Research Scientist 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.031% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £525 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - £350 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5944 7299 8873
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.46% 91.48% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4372 5246 6461
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £278 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 182 195
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £41.50 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Research Scientist
London

Research Scientist
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Research Scientist across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

City of London Research Scientist Jobs Demand Trend

Research Scientist
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Research Scientist Daily Rate Trend

Research Scientist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Research Scientist in their job title 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 with Research Scientist in their job title.

1 3 (100.00%) SPSS
1 3 (100.00%) Grid Computing
1 3 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) Neural Network
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Statistics
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
1 3 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 3 (100.00%) Physics
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (100.00%) Social Network
1 3 (100.00%) Scala
1 3 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 3 (100.00%) Visualisation
1 3 (100.00%) Predictive Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 3 (100.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 3 (100.00%) R
1 3 (100.00%) MapReduce
1 3 (100.00%) HBase
1 3 (100.00%) Mahout
1 3 (100.00%) Big Data
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Apache Pig
1 3 (100.00%) C++
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) Apache
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) PhD

Research Scientist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Research Scientist in their job title 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 with Research Scientist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) MapReduce
2 1 (33.33%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) Apache Pig
1 3 (100.00%) Apache
1 3 (100.00%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (100.00%) SPSS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 3 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 3 (100.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 3 (100.00%) HBase
1 3 (100.00%) Mahout
1 3 (100.00%) Big Data
1 3 (100.00%) Data Mining
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Grid Computing
1 3 (100.00%) Neural Network
1 3 (100.00%) Statistics
1 3 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 3 (100.00%) Physics
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (100.00%) Social Network
1 3 (100.00%) Visualisation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Predictive Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Scala
1 3 (100.00%) R
1 3 (100.00%) C++
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
1 3 (100.00%) PhD