The first table below looks at the demand for SPSS 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 SPSS 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 Applications 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
SPSS
Rank 358 374 430
Rank change year-on-year
+16 +56
Contract jobs citing SPSS 27 32 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.125% 0.119% 0.022%
As % of the Applications category 1.012% 0.962% 0.194%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 22 3
Average daily rate £400 £300 £365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+33.33% -17.80%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £265 £353
10% offered a daily rate of more than £503 £371 £409
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £275 £375
% change year-on-year
+36.36% -26.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £17.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £13.25 -
All Applications
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
2669 3327 3607
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 12.36% 12.42% 11.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1686 2031 2185
Average daily rate £376 £390 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.52% -8.23%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £205 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £305 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 167 248
Average hourly rate £17.50 £16.00 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.37% -5.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £29.10 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £16.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year
-3.12% +3.22%
SPSS
England

SPSS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SPSS across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Applications category.

London SPSS Jobs Demand Trend

SPSS
Daily Rate Trend

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

London SPSS Daily Rate Trend

SPSS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SPSS across the London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

London SPSS Daily Rate Histogram

SPSS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London SPSS Hourly Rate Trend

SPSS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SPSS 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 +4 5 £500 +63.93%
Paddington - 3 £263 -
SPSS
England

SPSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing SPSS 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 SPSS.

1 42 (79.25%) SAS
2 32 (60.38%) SQL
3 22 (41.51%) Analytics
4 20 (37.74%) Data Mining
5 19 (35.85%) Statistics
5 19 (35.85%) Mathematics
6 18 (33.96%) Degree
7 17 (32.08%) R
8 16 (30.19%) Big Data
8 16 (30.19%) Marketing
9 11 (20.75%) Hadoop
9 11 (20.75%) Predictive Modelling
10 10 (18.87%) Customer Insight
11 9 (16.98%) Visualisation
11 9 (16.98%) Scala
11 9 (16.98%) Physics
11 9 (16.98%) Data Analysis
11 9 (16.98%) PhD
11 9 (16.98%) Python
11 9 (16.98%) C++
11 9 (16.98%) Java
11 9 (16.98%) Finance
12 8 (15.09%) Apache
12 8 (15.09%) Neural Network
12 8 (15.09%) Computer Science
12 8 (15.09%) HBase
12 8 (15.09%) Mahout
12 8 (15.09%) Apache Pig
12 8 (15.09%) Apache Hive
12 8 (15.09%) Apache Cassandra

SPSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing SPSS 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 SPSS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (15.09%) MapReduce
2 3 (5.660%) .NET
3 2 (3.774%) ASP
4 1 (1.887%) XML
Application Platforms
1 42 (79.25%) SAS
2 8 (15.09%) Apache
2 8 (15.09%) Apache Pig
3 5 (9.434%) MS Exchange
4 3 (5.660%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (1.887%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (11.32%) MS Excel
2 5 (9.434%) MS Office
3 4 (7.547%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (5.660%) Google Analytics
2 2 (3.774%) WebTrends
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.434%) LAN
1 5 (9.434%) WAN
1 5 (9.434%) TCP/IP
2 3 (5.660%) HTTP
3 1 (1.887%) Intranet
3 1 (1.887%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (37.74%) Data Mining
2 16 (30.19%) Big Data
3 11 (20.75%) Hadoop
4 8 (15.09%) Apache Hive
4 8 (15.09%) Apache Cassandra
4 8 (15.09%) HBase
4 8 (15.09%) Mahout
5 6 (11.32%) SQL Server
6 4 (7.547%) Clementine
7 2 (3.774%) DB2
8 1 (1.887%) OLAP
8 1 (1.887%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.887%) Spotfire
8 1 (1.887%) Oracle OLAP
8 1 (1.887%) QlikView
8 1 (1.887%) Base SAS
8 1 (1.887%) Oracle BI EE
8 1 (1.887%) Pentaho
8 1 (1.887%) IBM InfoSphere
8 1 (1.887%) BusinessObjects
General
1 16 (30.19%) Marketing
2 9 (16.98%) Finance
3 3 (5.660%) Retail
4 2 (3.774%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.887%) Multimedia
5 1 (1.887%) Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (58.49%) Analyst
2 13 (24.53%) Data Analyst
3 10 (18.87%) Data Scientist
4 9 (16.98%) Senior Analyst
4 9 (16.98%) SAS Analyst
5 6 (11.32%) Research Engineer
6 4 (7.547%) Insight Analyst
7 3 (5.660%) Research Scientist
7 3 (5.660%) Marketing Analyst
7 3 (5.660%) Customer Analyst
7 3 (5.660%) Database Marketing Executive
7 3 (5.660%) Marketing Executive
7 3 (5.660%) Senior SAS Analyst
8 2 (3.774%) Senior Data Analyst
8 2 (3.774%) Systems Engineer
8 2 (3.774%) 2nd Line Support
8 2 (3.774%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 2 (3.774%) SAS Insight Analyst
8 2 (3.774%) Senior Insight Analyst
8 2 (3.774%) Customer Insight Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 19 (35.85%) Statistics
1 19 (35.85%) Mathematics
2 9 (16.98%) Physics
2 9 (16.98%) Visualisation
3 8 (15.09%) Computer Science
3 8 (15.09%) Neural Network
4 6 (11.32%) Social Network
4 6 (11.32%) Grid Computing
5 4 (7.547%) Economics
6 3 (5.660%) Blackberry
7 2 (3.774%) NHS
7 2 (3.774%) Social Media
7 2 (3.774%) Digital Media
7 2 (3.774%) Machine Learning
8 1 (1.887%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.434%) Windows
1 5 (9.434%) Windows NT
2 4 (7.547%) Windows 7
3 3 (5.660%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (41.51%) Analytics
2 11 (20.75%) Predictive Modelling
3 10 (18.87%) Customer Insight
4 9 (16.98%) Data Analysis
5 7 (13.21%) Software Engineering
5 7 (13.21%) Operations Research
5 7 (13.21%) Direct Marketing
6 5 (9.434%) Logistic Regression
6 5 (9.434%) ITIL
6 5 (9.434%) E-Commerce
6 5 (9.434%) Customer Intelligence
6 5 (9.434%) Statistical Modelling
7 4 (7.547%) CHAID
8 3 (5.660%) Data Modelling
8 3 (5.660%) Disaster Recovery
8 3 (5.660%) Marketing Intelligence
8 3 (5.660%) Database Marketing
8 3 (5.660%) Data Management
8 3 (5.660%) Data Protection
8 3 (5.660%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 32 (60.38%) SQL
2 17 (32.08%) R
3 9 (16.98%) Scala
3 9 (16.98%) Python
3 9 (16.98%) C++
3 9 (16.98%) Java
4 7 (13.21%) VBA
5 1 (1.887%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 18 (33.96%) Degree
2 9 (16.98%) PhD
3 1 (1.887%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (1.887%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 5 (9.434%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.547%) Oracle
3 3 (5.660%) Citrix
3 3 (5.660%) Chordiant
3 3 (5.660%) McAfee
3 3 (5.660%) Omniture
3 3 (5.660%) Google
3 3 (5.660%) VMware
4 2 (3.774%) Teradata
4 2 (3.774%) Facebook
4 2 (3.774%) IBM
5 1 (1.887%) Ab Initio
5 1 (1.887%) Netezza
5 1 (1.887%) DataFlux
5 1 (1.887%) Tableau
5 1 (1.887%) Informatica
5 1 (1.887%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (1.887%) Business Objects
5 1 (1.887%) SAP
5 1 (1.887%) Cognos