The first table below looks at the demand for Big Data skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Big Data 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 Reading 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
Big Data
Rank 68 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Big Data 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.241% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.351% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £375 -
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Database & Business Intelligence
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
148 120 244
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 17.83% 11.28% 23.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 34 127
Average daily rate £375 £400 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% +17.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £243 £216 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £490 £448 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 9
Average hourly rate £32.50 £11.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+182.60% -64.61%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
Big Data
Berkshire

Big Data
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading Big Data Jobs Demand Trend

Big Data
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading Big Data Daily Rate Trend

Big Data
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 4 (100.00%) C
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) Perl
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
1 4 (100.00%) Business Objects
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) IPv4
1 4 (100.00%) Citrix
1 4 (100.00%) Ericsson
1 4 (100.00%) 3G
1 4 (100.00%) NEC
1 4 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 4 (100.00%) 2G
1 4 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (100.00%) ATM
1 4 (100.00%) Greenplum
1 4 (100.00%) LTE
1 4 (100.00%) Open Source
1 4 (100.00%) Nokia Siemens Networks
1 4 (100.00%) eTOM
1 4 (100.00%) Huawei
1 4 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (100.00%) Radio Access Network
2 3 (75.00%) Fault Management

Big Data
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) ATM
1 4 (100.00%) IPv4
1 4 (100.00%) 3G
1 4 (100.00%) 2G
1 4 (100.00%) LTE
1 4 (100.00%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (100.00%) NoSQL
General
1 4 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Technical Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Team Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Perl Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
1 4 (100.00%) eTOM
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) Fault Management
2 3 (75.00%) Network Management
2 3 (75.00%) ETL
2 3 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) Perl
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
1 4 (100.00%) Business Objects
1 4 (100.00%) Citrix
1 4 (100.00%) Ericsson
1 4 (100.00%) NEC
1 4 (100.00%) Huawei
1 4 (100.00%) Greenplum
1 4 (100.00%) Nokia Siemens Networks