Big Data Contracts in England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Big Data 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 Big Data 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
Big Data
Rank 332 508 -
Rank change year-on-year
+176 -
Contract jobs citing Big Data 184 49 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.435% 0.092% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.092% 0.479% -
Number of daily rates quoted 135 40 0
Average daily rate £450 £419 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.46% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £444 -
% change year-on-year
+1.40% -
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%
Big Data
UK

Big Data
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Big Data Jobs Demand Trend

Big Data
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Big Data Daily Rate Trend

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram

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

England Big Data Daily Rate Histogram

Big Data
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Big Data 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 +120 153 £450 +7.46%
South East +37 13 £450 -12.19%
East of England - 9 £450 -
South West +27 3 £450 +20.00%
Yorkshire - 3 £500 -
West Midlands - 2 - -
Big Data
UK

Big Data
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 172 (46.11%) Hadoop
2 164 (43.97%) Java
3 124 (33.24%) NoSQL
4 103 (27.61%) SQL
5 87 (23.32%) Analytics
6 81 (21.72%) Finance
6 81 (21.72%) Apache Cassandra
7 73 (19.57%) Apache Hive
8 72 (19.30%) Business Intelligence
9 71 (19.03%) Data Warehouse
10 68 (18.23%) ETL
11 64 (17.16%) Apache Pig
12 63 (16.89%) MapReduce
13 58 (15.55%) Agile Software Development
13 58 (15.55%) TDD
14 56 (15.01%) MongoDB
15 51 (13.67%) Oracle
15 51 (13.67%) Banking
16 50 (13.40%) JavaScript
16 50 (13.40%) Linux
17 49 (13.14%) Data Modelling
17 49 (13.14%) E-Commerce
17 49 (13.14%) SQL Server
18 47 (12.60%) Data Analysis
18 47 (12.60%) HBase
19 44 (11.80%) Data Mining
20 39 (10.46%) Scrum
20 39 (10.46%) Computer Science
21 37 (9.920%) Ruby
22 36 (9.651%) Data Architecture

Big Data
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 63 (16.89%) MapReduce
2 35 (9.383%) CSS
3 33 (8.847%) Web Services
3 33 (8.847%) Spring
4 32 (8.579%) RESTful
5 26 (6.971%) J2EE
6 23 (6.166%) HTML
7 22 (5.898%) .NET
8 20 (5.362%) XML
9 16 (4.290%) HTML5
9 16 (4.290%) SOAP
10 15 (4.021%) jQuery
11 14 (3.753%) JSON
11 14 (3.753%) Node.js
12 13 (3.485%) Hibernate
13 12 (3.217%) Ajax
13 12 (3.217%) Ruby on Rails
13 12 (3.217%) ASP
13 12 (3.217%) Middleware
14 11 (2.949%) JDBC
Application Platforms
1 64 (17.16%) Apache Pig
2 26 (6.971%) Apache
3 24 (6.434%) SAS
4 19 (5.094%) Amazon AWS
5 10 (2.681%) Apache Solr
6 9 (2.413%) CMS
7 8 (2.145%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (2.145%) Tomcat
8 6 (1.609%) Windows Azure
9 5 (1.340%) WebSphere MQ
9 5 (1.340%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (1.340%) Amazon EMR
10 4 (1.072%) Kafka
10 4 (1.072%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.072%) Jetty
10 4 (1.072%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.804%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.804%) TIBCO EMS
12 2 (0.536%) Oracle Coherence
13 1 (0.268%) IIS
Applications
1 20 (5.362%) SPSS
2 3 (0.804%) MS Excel
3 1 (0.268%) MS Project
3 1 (0.268%) PowerPivot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.268%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.290%) HTTP
2 8 (2.145%) Radio Access Network
2 8 (2.145%) LTE
2 8 (2.145%) ATM
2 8 (2.145%) 3G
2 8 (2.145%) IPv4
2 8 (2.145%) 2G
3 5 (1.340%) Internet
4 3 (0.804%) SMTP
4 3 (0.804%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.804%) SSL
4 3 (0.804%) SAN
5 2 (0.536%) NAS
6 1 (0.268%) Firewall
6 1 (0.268%) NFC
6 1 (0.268%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (46.11%) Hadoop
2 124 (33.24%) NoSQL
3 81 (21.72%) Apache Cassandra
4 73 (19.57%) Apache Hive
5 71 (19.03%) Data Warehouse
6 56 (15.01%) MongoDB
7 49 (13.14%) SQL Server
8 47 (12.60%) HBase
9 44 (11.80%) Data Mining
10 27 (7.239%) Mahout
11 21 (5.630%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 20 (5.362%) OLAP
13 18 (4.826%) Redis
14 17 (4.558%) DB2
14 17 (4.558%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 16 (4.290%) RDBMS
16 11 (2.949%) MySQL
16 11 (2.949%) MarkLogic
16 11 (2.949%) Sqoop
17 8 (2.145%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (5.094%) JUnit
2 16 (4.290%) Selenium
2 16 (4.290%) Cucumber
3 15 (4.021%) WebDriver
4 14 (3.753%) GitHub
5 12 (3.217%) Maven
6 9 (2.413%) Ant
6 9 (2.413%) Jasmine
7 8 (2.145%) Jenkins
7 8 (2.145%) jMock
8 7 (1.877%) CruiseControl
9 6 (1.609%) Talend Open Studio
9 6 (1.609%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (1.340%) Git (software)
10 5 (1.340%) Mockito
11 4 (1.072%) EasyMock
12 3 (0.804%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.804%) Axure RP
13 2 (0.536%) Hudson
13 2 (0.536%) JBehave
General
1 81 (21.72%) Finance
2 51 (13.67%) Banking
3 26 (6.971%) Telecoms
4 20 (5.362%) Investment Banking
5 19 (5.094%) Retail
6 18 (4.826%) Publishing
7 11 (2.949%) Marketing
8 10 (2.681%) Back Office
9 8 (2.145%) Front Office
10 7 (1.877%) Games
11 4 (1.072%) Music
11 4 (1.072%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.804%) Billing
12 3 (0.804%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.536%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.268%) Advertising
14 1 (0.268%) Wholesale Banking
14 1 (0.268%) French Language
14 1 (0.268%) German Language
Job Titles
1 151 (40.48%) Developer
2 55 (14.75%) Java Developer
3 53 (14.21%) Architect
4 48 (12.87%) Analyst
5 37 (9.920%) Senior Developer
6 35 (9.383%) Data Architect
7 27 (7.239%) Business Analyst
8 23 (6.166%) Hadoop Developer
9 21 (5.630%) Senior Java Developer
10 16 (4.290%) Technical Leader
11 15 (4.021%) Project Manager
12 14 (3.753%) Data Scientist
13 13 (3.485%) Data Analyst
13 13 (3.485%) Ruby Developer
14 12 (3.217%) Software Engineer
14 12 (3.217%) Consultant
14 12 (3.217%) Data Manager
15 10 (2.681%) Business Intelligence Manager
15 10 (2.681%) Technical Manager
15 10 (2.681%) Database Developer
Miscellaneous
1 39 (10.46%) Computer Science
2 35 (9.383%) Open Source
2 35 (9.383%) Mathematics
3 30 (8.043%) Social Media
4 21 (5.630%) Social Network
5 20 (5.362%) Physics
6 19 (5.094%) Machine Learning
7 17 (4.558%) Visualisation
8 14 (3.753%) Data Integration
9 12 (3.217%) Statistics
10 10 (2.681%) Neural Network
11 9 (2.413%) Grid Computing
12 8 (2.145%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (1.877%) Equities
13 7 (1.877%) Management Information System
14 6 (1.609%) Hedge funds
14 6 (1.609%) Market Risk
15 5 (1.340%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 5 (1.340%) Online Games
15 5 (1.340%) Heroku
Operating Systems
1 50 (13.40%) Linux
2 30 (8.043%) UNIX
3 21 (5.630%) Windows
4 5 (1.340%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.072%) CentOS
6 1 (0.268%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (23.32%) Analytics
2 72 (19.30%) Business Intelligence
3 68 (18.23%) ETL
4 58 (15.55%) Agile Software Development
4 58 (15.55%) TDD
5 49 (13.14%) Data Modelling
5 49 (13.14%) E-Commerce
6 47 (12.60%) Data Analysis
7 39 (10.46%) Scrum
8 36 (9.651%) Data Architecture
9 32 (8.579%) BDD
10 29 (7.775%) Business Analysis
11 23 (6.166%) OO
11 23 (6.166%) Migration
11 23 (6.166%) Software Engineering
12 22 (5.898%) Multithreading
12 22 (5.898%) Data Migration
13 21 (5.630%) MVC
13 21 (5.630%) Data Management
13 21 (5.630%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 164 (43.97%) Java
2 103 (27.61%) SQL
3 50 (13.40%) JavaScript
4 37 (9.920%) Ruby
5 35 (9.383%) Python
6 31 (8.311%) Scala
7 24 (6.434%) Perl
8 23 (6.166%) C#
9 22 (5.898%) R
10 21 (5.630%) C++
11 15 (4.021%) C
12 8 (2.145%) Groovy
13 7 (1.877%) PHP
14 6 (1.609%) XQuery
14 6 (1.609%) MATLAB
15 4 (1.072%) Shell Script
15 4 (1.072%) VB
16 3 (0.804%) XPath
16 3 (0.804%) Clojure
17 2 (0.536%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 29 (7.775%) Degree
2 14 (3.753%) PhD
3 6 (1.609%) CISSP
4 3 (0.804%) CEH
4 3 (0.804%) SC Cleared
4 3 (0.804%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.268%) MBA
5 1 (0.268%) CCNA
5 1 (0.268%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.268%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (0.268%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.145%) QA
2 7 (1.877%) SLA
3 2 (0.536%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.268%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (1.877%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 2 (0.536%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.268%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.268%) Xen
3 1 (0.268%) OpenSSO
Systems Management
1 11 (2.949%) MOM
2 8 (2.145%) Splunk
3 6 (1.609%) Puppet
4 4 (1.072%) Nagios
5 2 (0.536%) Ganglia
Vendors
1 51 (13.67%) Oracle
2 26 (6.971%) Informatica
3 15 (4.021%) Microsoft
3 15 (4.021%) Business Objects
4 14 (3.753%) Teradata
5 10 (2.681%) Cloudera
6 9 (2.413%) Tableau
6 9 (2.413%) Vertica
7 8 (2.145%) Netezza
7 8 (2.145%) SAP
8 7 (1.877%) Google
8 7 (1.877%) Hortonworks
9 6 (1.609%) Talend
9 6 (1.609%) Greenplum
9 6 (1.609%) IBM
10 5 (1.340%) MicroStrategy
11 4 (1.072%) Rackspace
11 4 (1.072%) Nokia Siemens Networks
11 4 (1.072%) Huawei
11 4 (1.072%) Citrix
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