The first table below looks at the demand for Big Data skills in IT contracts advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Big Data 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 Kent 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
Big Data
Rank 33 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Big Data 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 1.045% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.125% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
96 61 69
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 33.45% 23.11% 22.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 31 45
Average daily rate £313 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.16% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £206 £207
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £333 £365
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £22.69 - £170.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
Big Data
South East

Big Data
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent Big Data Jobs Demand Trend

Big Data
Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (100.00%) MVC
1 6 (100.00%) Ruby
1 6 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 6 (100.00%) JSON
1 6 (100.00%) Metaprogramming
1 6 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 6 (100.00%) Redis

Big Data
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 6 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 6 (100.00%) JSON
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 6 (100.00%) Redis
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
1 6 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 6 (100.00%) Ruby Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) MVC
1 6 (100.00%) Metaprogramming
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (100.00%) Ruby