The first table below looks at the demand for Hadoop skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Hadoop over the 3 months to 24 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 Edinburgh 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Hadoop
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Hadoop 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh - - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £444 -
% change year-on-year
-9.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Database & Business Intelligence
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
150 134 178
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 18.01% 12.33% 13.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 63 70
Average daily rate £394 £335 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.53% -0.74%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £215 £256
10% offered a daily rate of more than £516 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
Average hourly rate £70.00 £40.00 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+75.00% +175.86%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
Hadoop
Scotland