The first table below looks at the demand for Apache Cassandra skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Apache Cassandra over the 3 months to 21 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 England 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Cassandra
Rank 450 490 551
Rank change year-on-year
+40 +61
Contract jobs citing Apache Cassandra 62 67 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.147% 0.125% 0.007%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.705% 0.655% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 58 1
Average daily rate £475 £450 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.55% +63.63%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £406 £275
% change year-on-year
-1.53% +47.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Database & Business Intelligence
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
8794 10222 11309
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 20.79% 19.10% 20.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 5380 6026 6414
Average daily rate £400 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £260 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £529 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 235 369
Average hourly rate £25.00 £26.89 £32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.02% -15.96%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.31 £13.10 £16.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £26.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+3.77% -18.46%
Apache Cassandra
UK

Apache Cassandra
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Apache Cassandra Jobs Demand Trend

Apache Cassandra
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Apache Cassandra across the England region.

England Apache Cassandra Daily Rate Trend

Apache Cassandra
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Apache Cassandra across the England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

England Apache Cassandra Daily Rate Histogram

Apache Cassandra
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Apache Cassandra within the England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +16 59 £500 +11.11%
South East - 2 £400 -
Apache Cassandra
UK

Apache Cassandra
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Apache Cassandra 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 Apache Cassandra.

1 92 (63.89%) Hadoop
2 85 (59.03%) Java
3 81 (56.25%) Big Data
4 78 (54.17%) NoSQL
5 57 (39.58%) MongoDB
6 51 (35.42%) Linux
7 45 (31.25%) Ruby
7 45 (31.25%) MapReduce
8 44 (30.56%) TDD
9 41 (28.47%) Agile Software Development
9 41 (28.47%) HBase
10 40 (27.78%) Open Source
11 39 (27.08%) Apache Pig
11 39 (27.08%) Scrum
12 38 (26.39%) Apache Hive
13 36 (25.00%) Apache
14 31 (21.53%) SQL
15 30 (20.83%) Web Services
16 28 (19.44%) Spring
17 26 (18.06%) Scala
18 24 (16.67%) Tomcat
19 23 (15.97%) E-Commerce
19 23 (15.97%) Social Network
20 22 (15.28%) Computer Science
20 22 (15.28%) Amazon AWS
20 22 (15.28%) Mahout
21 19 (13.19%) BDD
21 19 (13.19%) Mathematics
21 19 (13.19%) Python
21 19 (13.19%) Data Analysis

Apache Cassandra
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Apache Cassandra 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 Apache Cassandra. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 45 (31.25%) MapReduce
2 30 (20.83%) Web Services
3 28 (19.44%) Spring
4 18 (12.50%) CSS
5 14 (9.722%) HTML5
6 13 (9.028%) REST
6 13 (9.028%) J2EE
7 12 (8.333%) Hibernate
8 9 (6.250%) RESTful
8 9 (6.250%) SOAP
9 8 (5.556%) HTML
9 8 (5.556%) Ajax
9 8 (5.556%) CSS3
10 7 (4.861%) Ruby on Rails
10 7 (4.861%) JSON
11 6 (4.167%) ASP
11 6 (4.167%) Java EE
12 5 (3.472%) Node.js
12 5 (3.472%) Spring Batch
13 4 (2.778%) XML
Application Platforms
1 39 (27.08%) Apache Pig
2 36 (25.00%) Apache
3 24 (16.67%) Tomcat
4 22 (15.28%) Amazon AWS
5 9 (6.250%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (6.250%) SAS
6 6 (4.167%) Apache Solr
6 6 (4.167%) Windows Azure
7 5 (3.472%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (2.778%) Kafka
9 2 (1.389%) Facebook Platform
10 1 (0.694%) ESB
10 1 (0.694%) Amazon EMR
10 1 (0.694%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.694%) Google App Engine
10 1 (0.694%) ActiveMQ
Applications
1 8 (5.556%) SPSS
2 1 (0.694%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.694%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 15 (10.42%) HTTP
2 13 (9.028%) DNS
3 3 (2.083%) NAS
3 3 (2.083%) Network Security
3 3 (2.083%) RTSP
3 3 (2.083%) Firewall
3 3 (2.083%) RTP
3 3 (2.083%) SAN
3 3 (2.083%) SSL
4 2 (1.389%) Internet
5 1 (0.694%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (63.89%) Hadoop
2 81 (56.25%) Big Data
3 78 (54.17%) NoSQL
4 57 (39.58%) MongoDB
5 41 (28.47%) HBase
6 38 (26.39%) Apache Hive
7 22 (15.28%) Mahout
8 17 (11.81%) Data Mining
9 15 (10.42%) Redis
10 14 (9.722%) Data Warehouse
11 13 (9.028%) MySQL
12 12 (8.333%) CouchDB
13 11 (7.639%) OLAP
14 10 (6.944%) DB2
14 10 (6.944%) RDBMS
14 10 (6.944%) PostgreSQL
15 6 (4.167%) SQL Server
16 2 (1.389%) Hazelcast
16 2 (1.389%) Hypertable
16 2 (1.389%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 8 (5.556%) JUnit
1 8 (5.556%) Selenium
2 7 (4.861%) Cucumber
3 6 (4.167%) Git (software)
4 5 (3.472%) Hudson
4 5 (3.472%) Maven
5 4 (2.778%) RSpec
6 3 (2.083%) JIRA
6 3 (2.083%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.083%) WebDriver
7 2 (1.389%) Subversion
7 2 (1.389%) Gradle
7 2 (1.389%) Mercurial
8 1 (0.694%) FitNesse
8 1 (0.694%) TestNG
8 1 (0.694%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.694%) FishEye
8 1 (0.694%) JBehave
8 1 (0.694%) Ant
General
1 9 (6.250%) Finance
2 5 (3.472%) Banking
3 3 (2.083%) Telecoms
4 2 (1.389%) Games
4 2 (1.389%) Marketing
5 1 (0.694%) Music
5 1 (0.694%) Music Industry
5 1 (0.694%) Investment Banking
5 1 (0.694%) Electronics
5 1 (0.694%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.694%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 67 (46.53%) Developer
2 33 (22.92%) Java Developer
3 25 (17.36%) DevOps Engineer
4 19 (13.19%) Architect
5 11 (7.639%) Hadoop Developer
5 11 (7.639%) Data Architect
6 10 (6.944%) Database Developer
6 10 (6.944%) Data Scientist
7 8 (5.556%) Research Engineer
8 7 (4.861%) Technical Leader
9 5 (3.472%) Systems Engineer
9 5 (3.472%) Senior Developer
9 5 (3.472%) Software Engineer
10 4 (2.778%) Technical Architect
10 4 (2.778%) Senior Java Developer
11 3 (2.083%) DB2 Developer
11 3 (2.083%) Research Scientist
11 3 (2.083%) Technical Solutions Architect
11 3 (2.083%) Solutions Architect
11 3 (2.083%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 40 (27.78%) Open Source
2 23 (15.97%) Social Network
3 22 (15.28%) Computer Science
4 19 (13.19%) Mathematics
5 17 (11.81%) Physics
5 17 (11.81%) Machine Learning
6 12 (8.333%) Data Integration
7 8 (5.556%) Grid Computing
7 8 (5.556%) Statistics
8 6 (4.167%) Neural Network
8 6 (4.167%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (4.167%) Visualisation
8 6 (4.167%) Digital Media
9 5 (3.472%) Heroku
10 3 (2.083%) Mobile App
11 2 (1.389%) Client/Server
11 2 (1.389%) Video on Demand
11 2 (1.389%) iPad
11 2 (1.389%) Social Media
11 2 (1.389%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 51 (35.42%) Linux
2 12 (8.333%) UNIX
3 7 (4.861%) Windows
4 2 (1.389%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.389%) Android
5 1 (0.694%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.694%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (30.56%) TDD
2 41 (28.47%) Agile Software Development
3 39 (27.08%) Scrum
4 23 (15.97%) E-Commerce
5 19 (13.19%) BDD
5 19 (13.19%) Data Analysis
5 19 (13.19%) Software Engineering
5 19 (13.19%) Analytics
6 14 (9.722%) ETL
6 14 (9.722%) Business Intelligence
7 13 (9.028%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (8.333%) OO
9 11 (7.639%) Business Analysis
10 10 (6.944%) Data Modelling
10 10 (6.944%) Security Management
10 10 (6.944%) Kanban
11 7 (4.861%) Continuous Integration
11 7 (4.861%) Multithreading
11 7 (4.861%) CRM
12 6 (4.167%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 85 (59.03%) Java
2 45 (31.25%) Ruby
3 31 (21.53%) SQL
4 26 (18.06%) Scala
5 19 (13.19%) Python
6 14 (9.722%) JavaScript
7 10 (6.944%) C++
8 9 (6.250%) Perl
8 9 (6.250%) PHP
9 8 (5.556%) R
10 4 (2.778%) C#
11 3 (2.083%) Groovy
11 3 (2.083%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.389%) C
13 1 (0.694%) Erlang
13 1 (0.694%) F#
13 1 (0.694%) Clojure
13 1 (0.694%) Bash shell
13 1 (0.694%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.694%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 13 (9.028%) Degree
2 10 (6.944%) PhD
3 1 (0.694%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (0.694%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.389%) QA
2 1 (0.694%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (2.083%) Apache Flume
1 3 (2.083%) Samba
2 2 (1.389%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 6 (4.167%) Puppet
2 5 (3.472%) Nagios
3 4 (2.778%) Splunk
4 3 (2.083%) ZABBIX
4 3 (2.083%) OpenView
Vendors
1 9 (6.250%) Oracle
2 8 (5.556%) Informatica
3 6 (4.167%) Hortonworks
3 6 (4.167%) Cloudera
4 5 (3.472%) Rackspace
5 3 (2.083%) JBoss
6 2 (1.389%) Jaspersoft
6 2 (1.389%) Facebook
6 2 (1.389%) Twitter
6 2 (1.389%) SolarWinds
6 2 (1.389%) Greenplum
7 1 (0.694%) Netezza
7 1 (0.694%) Foundry
7 1 (0.694%) Google
7 1 (0.694%) VMware
7 1 (0.694%) Teradata
7 1 (0.694%) SAP
7 1 (0.694%) EMC
7 1 (0.694%) Red Hat
West Yorkshire
The successful candidate will be working on a full lifecycle development project designing, building, testing and developing through to implementation..Ideally they are seeking a candidate with the...
Computer Futures
Rate: £325 - £375 per day
Posted: 18 May 2013
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: 15 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
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
London
Experience of working with Large Data Sets, ideally coming from a Data Warehousing or Business Intelligence environment... Understanding of No-SQL Technologies and Big Data Platforms (e.g...
Networking People
Posted: 17 May 2013
London
Responsibilities include: o Assessing business rules; o Performing source to target data mapping; o Designing, reviewing, implementing and optimizing ETL processes; o Reviewing project plans, development and test...
Premier Group Recruitment
Rate: £300.00 - £340.00 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
London
As a Data Engineer, you will be playing a technical role and will be responsible for the full development lifecycle of the solution, including detailed design, code development,...
Hydrogen Group
Rate: £300.00 - £340.00 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
Technical Stack *Java *Hadoop or Cassandra *RabbitMQ *Storm *Kafka *Agile, Scrum, TDD etc... People Source specialise in niche technology markets including Information Technology, Digital TV, Digital Marketing, Project...
People Source Consulting
Rate: £400 - £500 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013