The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Neural Network in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Neural Network 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 terms in our Miscellaneous 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Neural Networks
Rank 511 564 -
Rank change year-on-year
+53 -
Contract jobs citing Neural Network 3 6 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.007% 0.011% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.026% 0.044% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 0
Average daily rate £500 £600 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% -
UK excluding London average daily rate - £325 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
11343 13713 16199
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 26.87% 25.28% 29.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 6998 8224 9756
Average daily rate £440 £435 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.14% -17.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £258 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 499 636 683
Average hourly rate £23.75 £22.50 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.55% -2.17%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £47.50 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.66
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -12.31%
Neural Network
UK

Neural Network
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Neural Network across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

England Neural Network Jobs Demand Trend

Neural Network
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Neural Network Daily Rate Trend

Neural Network
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Neural Network across the England region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

England Neural Network Daily Rate Histogram

Neural Network
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Neural Network across the England region.

England Neural Network Hourly Rate Trend

Neural Network
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Neural Network within the England region over the 3 months to 22 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 +29 3 £500 -16.66%
Neural Network
UK

Neural Network
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Neural Network 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 Neural Network.

1 11 (91.67%) SQL
1 11 (91.67%) Data Mining
1 11 (91.67%) Predictive Modelling
1 11 (91.67%) Analytics
2 10 (83.33%) Big Data
2 10 (83.33%) Visualisation
3 8 (66.67%) SPSS
4 7 (58.33%) Data Analysis
4 7 (58.33%) Software Engineering
4 7 (58.33%) Python
4 7 (58.33%) SAS
4 7 (58.33%) C++
4 7 (58.33%) Java
4 7 (58.33%) R
4 7 (58.33%) Statistics
4 7 (58.33%) Degree
4 7 (58.33%) Scala
5 6 (50.00%) Apache Pig
5 6 (50.00%) Hadoop
5 6 (50.00%) Apache Hive
5 6 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
5 6 (50.00%) MapReduce
5 6 (50.00%) HBase
5 6 (50.00%) Mahout
5 6 (50.00%) Apache
5 6 (50.00%) PhD
5 6 (50.00%) Mathematics
5 6 (50.00%) Physics
5 6 (50.00%) Computer Science
5 6 (50.00%) Social Network

Neural Network
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Neural Network 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 Neural Network. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (50.00%) MapReduce
2 2 (16.67%) ASP
3 1 (8.333%) COM
Application Platforms
1 7 (58.33%) SAS
2 6 (50.00%) Apache Pig
2 6 (50.00%) Apache
3 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (66.67%) SPSS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (91.67%) Data Mining
2 10 (83.33%) Big Data
3 6 (50.00%) Hadoop
3 6 (50.00%) Apache Hive
3 6 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
3 6 (50.00%) HBase
3 6 (50.00%) Mahout
4 4 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (33.33%) GIS
4 4 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
5 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
5 3 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 1 (8.333%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Data Scientist
2 6 (50.00%) Research Engineer
2 6 (50.00%) Analyst
3 5 (41.67%) Data Analyst
4 3 (25.00%) Research Scientist
5 1 (8.333%) Research Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 10 (83.33%) Visualisation
2 7 (58.33%) Statistics
3 6 (50.00%) Mathematics
3 6 (50.00%) Physics
3 6 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 6 (50.00%) Social Network
3 6 (50.00%) Grid Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Predictive Modelling
1 11 (91.67%) Analytics
2 7 (58.33%) Data Analysis
2 7 (58.33%) Software Engineering
3 4 (33.33%) ETL
3 4 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (33.33%) Data Virtualisation
4 2 (16.67%) Business Analysis
5 1 (8.333%) Data Management
5 1 (8.333%) Master Data Management
5 1 (8.333%) Regression Analysis
5 1 (8.333%) Predictive Analytics
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) SQL
2 7 (58.33%) Python
2 7 (58.33%) C++
2 7 (58.33%) Java
2 7 (58.33%) R
2 7 (58.33%) Scala
3 4 (33.33%) C#
3 4 (33.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) Degree
2 6 (50.00%) PhD
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.333%) IBM