The first table below looks at the demand for Apache Cassandra skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Apache Cassandra over the 3 months to 17 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 London 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Cassandra
Rank 328 346 435
Rank change year-on-year
+18 +89
Contract jobs citing Apache Cassandra 57 60 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.264% 0.224% 0.006%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.263% 1.203% 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 54 0
Average daily rate £500 £450 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.11% -
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
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
4514 4988 6187
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 20.91% 18.63% 19.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3132 3217 3949
Average daily rate £438 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.94% -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £550 £598
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 40 57
Average hourly rate £22.50 £26.00 £26.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.46% -1.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.30 £18.20 £16.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.00 £47.50 £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
Apache Cassandra
England

Apache Cassandra
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 17 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
City of London - 19 £500 -
Brentford - 2 £475 -
Apache Cassandra
England

Apache Cassandra
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 87 (63.97%) Hadoop
2 79 (58.09%) Java
3 78 (57.35%) Big Data
4 75 (55.15%) NoSQL
5 53 (38.97%) MongoDB
6 48 (35.29%) Linux
7 44 (32.35%) MapReduce
8 42 (30.88%) TDD
8 42 (30.88%) Ruby
9 41 (30.15%) HBase
10 40 (29.41%) Open Source
10 40 (29.41%) Agile Software Development
11 38 (27.94%) Scrum
12 36 (26.47%) Apache
12 36 (26.47%) Apache Pig
13 34 (25.00%) Apache Hive
14 31 (22.79%) SQL
15 29 (21.32%) Web Services
16 26 (19.12%) Scala
17 25 (18.38%) Spring
18 24 (17.65%) Tomcat
19 22 (16.18%) E-Commerce
19 22 (16.18%) Mahout
20 21 (15.44%) Amazon AWS
20 21 (15.44%) Computer Science
20 21 (15.44%) Social Network
21 19 (13.97%) Data Analysis
21 19 (13.97%) Mathematics
21 19 (13.97%) Python
21 19 (13.97%) Software Engineering

Apache Cassandra
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 44 (32.35%) MapReduce
2 29 (21.32%) Web Services
3 25 (18.38%) Spring
4 18 (13.24%) CSS
5 13 (9.559%) J2EE
5 13 (9.559%) REST
5 13 (9.559%) HTML5
6 10 (7.353%) Hibernate
7 9 (6.618%) SOAP
7 9 (6.618%) RESTful
8 8 (5.882%) CSS3
8 8 (5.882%) Ajax
8 8 (5.882%) HTML
9 7 (5.147%) JSON
10 6 (4.412%) ASP
10 6 (4.412%) Java EE
11 5 (3.676%) Ruby on Rails
11 5 (3.676%) Node.js
11 5 (3.676%) Spring Batch
12 4 (2.941%) XML
Application Platforms
1 36 (26.47%) Apache
1 36 (26.47%) Apache Pig
2 24 (17.65%) Tomcat
3 21 (15.44%) Amazon AWS
4 9 (6.618%) SAS
5 8 (5.882%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (4.412%) Windows Azure
6 6 (4.412%) Apache Solr
7 2 (1.471%) Kafka
7 2 (1.471%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.735%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.735%) Google App Engine
8 1 (0.735%) ActiveMQ
8 1 (0.735%) ESB
8 1 (0.735%) Amazon EMR
Applications
1 8 (5.882%) SPSS
2 1 (0.735%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.735%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 15 (11.03%) HTTP
2 13 (9.559%) DNS
3 3 (2.206%) SSL
3 3 (2.206%) SAN
3 3 (2.206%) RTP
3 3 (2.206%) Firewall
3 3 (2.206%) RTSP
3 3 (2.206%) Network Security
3 3 (2.206%) NAS
4 2 (1.471%) Internet
5 1 (0.735%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (63.97%) Hadoop
2 78 (57.35%) Big Data
3 75 (55.15%) NoSQL
4 53 (38.97%) MongoDB
5 41 (30.15%) HBase
6 34 (25.00%) Apache Hive
7 22 (16.18%) Mahout
8 17 (12.50%) Data Mining
9 14 (10.29%) Data Warehouse
10 13 (9.559%) MySQL
11 12 (8.824%) Redis
12 11 (8.088%) OLAP
13 10 (7.353%) RDBMS
13 10 (7.353%) DB2
14 9 (6.618%) CouchDB
15 6 (4.412%) PostgreSQL
15 6 (4.412%) SQL Server
16 2 (1.471%) Neo4j
16 2 (1.471%) Hypertable
16 2 (1.471%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 8 (5.882%) JUnit
1 8 (5.882%) Selenium
2 7 (5.147%) Cucumber
3 6 (4.412%) Git (software)
4 5 (3.676%) Hudson
4 5 (3.676%) Maven
5 4 (2.941%) RSpec
6 3 (2.206%) WebDriver
6 3 (2.206%) JIRA
6 3 (2.206%) Jenkins
7 2 (1.471%) Gradle
7 2 (1.471%) Subversion
7 2 (1.471%) Mercurial
8 1 (0.735%) JBehave
8 1 (0.735%) Ant
8 1 (0.735%) FishEye
8 1 (0.735%) FitNesse
8 1 (0.735%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.735%) TestNG
General
1 9 (6.618%) Finance
2 5 (3.676%) Banking
3 3 (2.206%) Telecoms
4 2 (1.471%) Games
4 2 (1.471%) Marketing
5 1 (0.735%) Electronics
5 1 (0.735%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.735%) Advertising
5 1 (0.735%) Investment Banking
5 1 (0.735%) Music
5 1 (0.735%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 60 (44.12%) Developer
2 30 (22.06%) Java Developer
3 25 (18.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 18 (13.24%) Architect
5 11 (8.088%) Data Architect
6 10 (7.353%) Data Scientist
6 10 (7.353%) Hadoop Developer
7 8 (5.882%) Research Engineer
7 8 (5.882%) Database Developer
8 7 (5.147%) Technical Leader
9 5 (3.676%) Systems Engineer
9 5 (3.676%) Software Engineer
10 4 (2.941%) Technical Architect
11 3 (2.206%) Analyst
11 3 (2.206%) Software Developer
11 3 (2.206%) Solutions Architect
11 3 (2.206%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (2.206%) Technical Solutions Architect
11 3 (2.206%) DB2 Developer
11 3 (2.206%) Research Scientist
Miscellaneous
1 40 (29.41%) Open Source
2 21 (15.44%) Social Network
2 21 (15.44%) Computer Science
3 19 (13.97%) Mathematics
4 17 (12.50%) Physics
4 17 (12.50%) Machine Learning
5 12 (8.824%) Data Integration
6 8 (5.882%) Statistics
6 8 (5.882%) Grid Computing
7 6 (4.412%) Neural Network
7 6 (4.412%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (4.412%) Visualisation
7 6 (4.412%) Digital Media
8 5 (3.676%) Heroku
9 2 (1.471%) Social Media
9 2 (1.471%) Video on Demand
10 1 (0.735%) PaaS
10 1 (0.735%) Online Gambling
10 1 (0.735%) IPTV
10 1 (0.735%) DTV
Operating Systems
1 48 (35.29%) Linux
2 12 (8.824%) UNIX
3 5 (3.676%) Windows
4 1 (0.735%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (30.88%) TDD
2 40 (29.41%) Agile Software Development
3 38 (27.94%) Scrum
4 22 (16.18%) E-Commerce
5 19 (13.97%) Data Analysis
5 19 (13.97%) Software Engineering
6 18 (13.24%) BDD
6 18 (13.24%) Analytics
7 13 (9.559%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (9.559%) Business Intelligence
8 12 (8.824%) OO
8 12 (8.824%) ETL
9 11 (8.088%) Business Analysis
10 10 (7.353%) Security Management
10 10 (7.353%) Data Modelling
10 10 (7.353%) Kanban
11 7 (5.147%) CRM
11 7 (5.147%) Continuous Integration
11 7 (5.147%) Multithreading
12 6 (4.412%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 79 (58.09%) Java
2 42 (30.88%) Ruby
3 31 (22.79%) SQL
4 26 (19.12%) Scala
5 19 (13.97%) Python
6 14 (10.29%) JavaScript
7 10 (7.353%) C++
8 9 (6.618%) Perl
8 9 (6.618%) PHP
9 8 (5.882%) R
10 4 (2.941%) C#
11 3 (2.206%) Groovy
11 3 (2.206%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.471%) C
13 1 (0.735%) Erlang
13 1 (0.735%) F#
13 1 (0.735%) Bash shell
13 1 (0.735%) Clojure
13 1 (0.735%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.735%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (8.824%) Degree
2 10 (7.353%) PhD
3 1 (0.735%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (0.735%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.471%) QA
System Software
1 3 (2.206%) Samba
1 3 (2.206%) Apache Flume
2 2 (1.471%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 5 (3.676%) Nagios
1 5 (3.676%) Puppet
2 4 (2.941%) Splunk
3 3 (2.206%) ZABBIX
3 3 (2.206%) OpenView
Vendors
1 9 (6.618%) Oracle
2 8 (5.882%) Informatica
3 6 (4.412%) Hortonworks
3 6 (4.412%) Cloudera
4 5 (3.676%) Rackspace
5 3 (2.206%) JBoss
6 2 (1.471%) Jaspersoft
6 2 (1.471%) Greenplum
6 2 (1.471%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.735%) Foundry
7 1 (0.735%) EMC
7 1 (0.735%) SAP
7 1 (0.735%) VMware
7 1 (0.735%) Teradata
7 1 (0.735%) Google
7 1 (0.735%) Netezza
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
Central London / West End
Software Engineer, DevOps, Cloud, Puppet, Linux, Java, Cassandra, MongoDB, Big Data, Chef One of London's leading Social Networking organisations are looking for an experienced Software Engineer to...
Oliver Bernard
Rate: From £550 to £650 per day
Posted: 13 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
London
Essential skills: Core Java. J2EE. Related tools like Spring, Hibernate, REST, SOAP, Maven, Gradle, etc... Multithreading. Nice-to-haves: Groovy. Another functional language - F#, Erlang, Matlab. Javascript, HTML5,...
Oliver Bernard
Rate: £400 per day for 6 months
Posted: 13 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