The first table below looks at the demand for Big Data skills in IT contracts advertised for the South Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Big Data 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 South Wales 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
Big Data
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Big Data 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Wales - - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £444 -
% change year-on-year
+1.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Database & Business Intelligence
South Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
62 74 100
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Wales 18.84% 18.41% 24.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 40 47
Average daily rate £350 £350 £328
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +6.87%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £308 £275 £310
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 7
Average hourly rate - £26.50 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -37.64%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-0.90% -14.61%
Big Data
Wales

Big Data
Top 7 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) ActionScript
1 1 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 1 (100.00%) Flash
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5

Big Data
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 1 (100.00%) Flash
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Photoshop
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Interactive Designer
1 1 (100.00%) Interactive Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Designer
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Designer
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared