The first table below looks at the demand for Hadoop skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Hadoop over the 3 months to 22 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 Scotland 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Hadoop
Rank 119 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Hadoop 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.081% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.364% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £475 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £444 -
% change year-on-year
-9.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Database & Business Intelligence
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
550 508 530
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 22.20% 18.98% 19.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 224 260
Average daily rate £350 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £240 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £449
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 23 13
Average hourly rate £28.50 £30.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.50 £14.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £70.00 £32.90 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-0.90% -14.61%
Hadoop
UK

Hadoop
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland Hadoop Jobs Demand Trend

Hadoop
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland Hadoop Daily Rate Trend

Hadoop
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Hadoop within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 22 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
Glasgow - 2 £475 -
Hadoop
UK

Hadoop
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Hadoop 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 Hadoop.

1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Scala
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Gephi
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) HTML5
2 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) MapReduce
2 1 (33.33%) Big Data
2 1 (33.33%) Web Application Development
2 1 (33.33%) Highcharts JS
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Ajax
2 1 (33.33%) Statistical Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Ontologies
2 1 (33.33%) ESB
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) jQuery
2 1 (33.33%) Haskell
2 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
2 1 (33.33%) SQL

Hadoop
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Hadoop 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 Hadoop. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (33.33%) HTML5
1 1 (33.33%) MapReduce
1 1 (33.33%) Highcharts JS
1 1 (33.33%) Ajax
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) jQuery
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) ESB
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Gephi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Scala Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Solutions Designer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
1 1 (33.33%) Ontologies
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Web Application Development
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Statistical Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) OO
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) Scala
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) Haskell
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
2 1 (33.33%) SQL