The first table below looks at the demand for Data Mining skills in IT contracts advertised for the Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Data Mining over the 3 months to 23 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 Midlands 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Data Mining
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Mining 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Midlands - - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £439 £360 £380
% change year-on-year
+21.87% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £52.50 £40.00 £12.50
% change year-on-year
+31.25% +220.00%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
25 43 60
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Midlands 14.53% 15.99% 17.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 23 14
Average daily rate £350 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £255 £204 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £568 £445
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-0.75% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 11
Average hourly rate - - £24.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
Data Mining
England

Data Mining
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Midlands Data Mining Jobs Demand Trend

Data Mining
Daily Rate Trend

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

Midlands Data Mining Daily Rate Trend

Data Mining
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands region citing Data Mining 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 Data Mining.

1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Code Coverage
2 2 (66.67%) C
2 2 (66.67%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) C++
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) MS Excel
2 2 (66.67%) MS Visio
2 2 (66.67%) Games
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (66.67%) Automated Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Software Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Process Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Game Development
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) SAP HANA
3 1 (33.33%) Business Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Tableau
3 1 (33.33%) QA
3 1 (33.33%) Spotfire
3 1 (33.33%) Quantitative Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery

Data Mining
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands region citing Data Mining 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 Data Mining. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) MS Excel
1 2 (66.67%) MS Visio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SAP HANA
1 1 (33.33%) Spotfire
1 1 (33.33%) SAP BI
1 1 (33.33%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (33.33%) SAP BW
General
1 2 (66.67%) Games
2 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Design Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Software Design Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Code Coverage
1 2 (66.67%) Risk Assessment
1 2 (66.67%) Automated Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Software Architecture
1 2 (66.67%) Process Architecture
1 2 (66.67%) Game Development
1 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Quantitative Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) SOA
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) C++
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Tableau
2 1 (33.33%) Business Objects
2 1 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (33.33%) TIBCO
2 1 (33.33%) MicroStrategy