The first table below looks at the demand for NoSQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited NoSQL 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 North West 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
NoSQL
Rank 111 130 -
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -
Contract jobs citing NoSQL 6 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.261% 0.063% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.124% 0.285% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
Average daily rate £361 £200 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+80.62% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
-13.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Database & Business Intelligence
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
534 701 685
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 23.25% 22.13% 22.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 368 381
Average daily rate £325 £300 £328
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -8.39%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £222
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £453 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 31 41
Average hourly rate £30.00 £30.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +33.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.57 £10.70 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £71.50 £35.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
NoSQL
England

NoSQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West NoSQL Jobs Demand Trend

NoSQL
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West NoSQL Daily Rate Trend

NoSQL
Daily Rate Histogram

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

North West NoSQL Daily Rate Histogram

NoSQL
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NoSQL within the North West 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
Cheshire - 5 £400 -
Manchester +10 1 £323 +61.25%
NoSQL
England

NoSQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing NoSQL 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 NoSQL.

1 8 (80.00%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (50.00%) TDD
2 5 (50.00%) Spring
2 5 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 5 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 5 (50.00%) Java
2 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 5 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 4 (40.00%) J2EE
3 4 (40.00%) RESTful
3 4 (40.00%) BDD
4 3 (30.00%) REST
4 3 (30.00%) SPARQL
4 3 (30.00%) Data Integration
4 3 (30.00%) Cucumber
4 3 (30.00%) SQL Server 2012
4 3 (30.00%) JAX-RS
4 3 (30.00%) MySQL
4 3 (30.00%) T-SQL
4 3 (30.00%) Web Services
4 3 (30.00%) XML
4 3 (30.00%) XSLT
4 3 (30.00%) OLTP
4 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
4 3 (30.00%) VLDB
4 3 (30.00%) RDF
4 3 (30.00%) XQuery

NoSQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 5 (50.00%) Spring
2 4 (40.00%) J2EE
2 4 (40.00%) RESTful
3 3 (30.00%) REST
3 3 (30.00%) JAX-RS
3 3 (30.00%) Web Services
3 3 (30.00%) XML
3 3 (30.00%) XSLT
3 3 (30.00%) JSON
4 2 (20.00%) Spring MVC
4 2 (20.00%) CSS
4 2 (20.00%) HTML
5 1 (10.00%) JSP
5 1 (10.00%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) ActiveMQ
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 5 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 5 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (30.00%) SQL Server 2012
2 3 (30.00%) MySQL
2 3 (30.00%) IDMS
2 3 (30.00%) VLDB
2 3 (30.00%) SQL Server 2000
2 3 (30.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 3 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (30.00%) OLTP
3 2 (20.00%) MarkLogic
4 1 (10.00%) Couchbase
4 1 (10.00%) CouchDB
4 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (20.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (20.00%) Subversion
3 1 (10.00%) Maven
3 1 (10.00%) Ant
3 1 (10.00%) JUnit
3 1 (10.00%) Gradle
General
1 2 (20.00%) Publishing
1 2 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) DBA
2 3 (30.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Java Software Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) SQL Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Java Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) SQL DBA
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Replication
1 3 (30.00%) Data Integration
2 2 (20.00%) Semantic Web
2 2 (20.00%) Streaming Video
2 2 (20.00%) Interactive TV
2 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (10.00%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) UNIX
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (50.00%) TDD
2 5 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (40.00%) BDD
4 3 (30.00%) Scrum
4 3 (30.00%) Load Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Unit Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Pair Programming
4 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
4 3 (30.00%) RDF
4 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (20.00%) MVC
5 2 (20.00%) ITIL
5 2 (20.00%) OO
5 2 (20.00%) RUP
5 2 (20.00%) Benchmarking
5 2 (20.00%) Change Management
5 2 (20.00%) Content Management
5 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (20.00%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
1 5 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (30.00%) T-SQL
2 3 (30.00%) XQuery
2 3 (30.00%) Ruby
2 3 (30.00%) XPath
2 3 (30.00%) SPARQL
3 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (20.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree