The first table below looks at the demand for Apache Cassandra skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Apache Cassandra 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.

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
Apache Cassandra
Rank 477 500 582
Rank change year-on-year
+23 +82
Contract jobs citing Apache Cassandra 64 65 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.138% 0.111% 0.006%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.665% 0.585% 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 56 1
Average daily rate £475 £450 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.55% +63.63%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £406 £275
% change year-on-year
-1.53% +47.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Database & Business Intelligence
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
9625 11115 12673
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 20.77% 19.04% 20.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 5819 6381 7051
Average daily rate £388 £375 £395
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.33% -5.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £255 £255 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £525 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-0.75% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 267 393
Average hourly rate £25.85 £27.50 £31.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.00% -12.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.34 £12.50 £16.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £44.55 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%

Apache Cassandra
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Apache Cassandra within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Apache Cassandra Jobs Demand Trend

Apache Cassandra
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Apache Cassandra within the UK.

Apache Cassandra Daily Rate Trend

Apache Cassandra
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Apache Cassandra within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Apache Cassandra Daily Rate Histogram

Apache Cassandra
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Apache Cassandra within the UK over the 3 months to 23 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
England +42 63 £475 +5.55%
London +36 60 £475 +5.55%
City of London - 22 £500 -
South East - 2 £400 -
Surrey - 2 £400 -
Brentford - 2 £475 -

Apache Cassandra
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Apache Cassandra 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 Apache Cassandra.

1 95 (64.19%) Hadoop
2 84 (56.76%) Big Data
2 84 (56.76%) Java
3 79 (53.38%) NoSQL
4 57 (38.51%) MongoDB
5 51 (34.46%) Linux
6 46 (31.08%) Ruby
7 44 (29.73%) TDD
7 44 (29.73%) MapReduce
7 44 (29.73%) HBase
8 42 (28.38%) Agile Software Development
9 41 (27.70%) Open Source
10 39 (26.35%) Scrum
11 38 (25.68%) Apache Pig
12 37 (25.00%) Apache Hive
13 36 (24.32%) Apache
14 32 (21.62%) SQL
15 30 (20.27%) Web Services
16 28 (18.92%) Spring
17 27 (18.24%) Scala
18 26 (17.57%) E-Commerce
19 24 (16.22%) Tomcat
20 22 (14.86%) Computer Science
20 22 (14.86%) Social Network
20 22 (14.86%) Amazon AWS
21 21 (14.19%) Mahout
22 20 (13.51%) Data Analysis
23 19 (12.84%) Python
23 19 (12.84%) CSS
23 19 (12.84%) BDD

Apache Cassandra
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Apache Cassandra 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 Apache Cassandra. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 44 (29.73%) MapReduce
2 30 (20.27%) Web Services
3 28 (18.92%) Spring
4 19 (12.84%) CSS
5 15 (10.14%) HTML5
6 14 (9.459%) REST
7 13 (8.784%) J2EE
8 12 (8.108%) Hibernate
9 9 (6.081%) Ajax
9 9 (6.081%) SOAP
9 9 (6.081%) RESTful
9 9 (6.081%) CSS3
10 8 (5.405%) Ruby on Rails
10 8 (5.405%) JSON
10 8 (5.405%) HTML
11 6 (4.054%) Java EE
12 5 (3.378%) ASP
12 5 (3.378%) Node.js
12 5 (3.378%) Spring Batch
13 4 (2.703%) Django
Application Platforms
1 38 (25.68%) Apache Pig
2 36 (24.32%) Apache
3 24 (16.22%) Tomcat
4 22 (14.86%) Amazon AWS
5 9 (6.081%) SAS
5 9 (6.081%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (4.054%) Windows Azure
6 6 (4.054%) Apache Solr
7 5 (3.378%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (2.703%) Kafka
9 2 (1.351%) Facebook Platform
10 1 (0.676%) ActiveMQ
10 1 (0.676%) ESB
10 1 (0.676%) Amazon EMR
10 1 (0.676%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.676%) Google App Engine
Applications
1 8 (5.405%) SPSS
2 1 (0.676%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.676%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.459%) HTTP
2 13 (8.784%) DNS
3 3 (2.027%) RTSP
3 3 (2.027%) Firewall
3 3 (2.027%) SAN
3 3 (2.027%) RTP
3 3 (2.027%) SSL
3 3 (2.027%) NAS
3 3 (2.027%) Network Security
4 2 (1.351%) Internet
5 1 (0.676%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (64.19%) Hadoop
2 84 (56.76%) Big Data
3 79 (53.38%) NoSQL
4 57 (38.51%) MongoDB
5 44 (29.73%) HBase
6 37 (25.00%) Apache Hive
7 21 (14.19%) Mahout
8 18 (12.16%) Data Warehouse
9 16 (10.81%) Data Mining
10 15 (10.14%) Redis
11 14 (9.459%) MySQL
11 14 (9.459%) DB2
12 12 (8.108%) CouchDB
13 11 (7.432%) PostgreSQL
14 10 (6.757%) OLAP
15 9 (6.081%) RDBMS
16 6 (4.054%) SQL Server
17 2 (1.351%) Hazelcast
17 2 (1.351%) Neo4j
17 2 (1.351%) Hypertable
Development Applications
1 8 (5.405%) Selenium
1 8 (5.405%) JUnit
2 7 (4.730%) Cucumber
3 6 (4.054%) Git (software)
4 5 (3.378%) Maven
4 5 (3.378%) Hudson
5 4 (2.703%) RSpec
6 3 (2.027%) JIRA
6 3 (2.027%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.027%) WebDriver
7 2 (1.351%) Mercurial
7 2 (1.351%) Subversion
7 2 (1.351%) Gradle
8 1 (0.676%) Ant
8 1 (0.676%) FitNesse
8 1 (0.676%) TestNG
8 1 (0.676%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.676%) FishEye
8 1 (0.676%) JBehave
General
1 10 (6.757%) Finance
2 5 (3.378%) Banking
3 3 (2.027%) Telecoms
4 2 (1.351%) Marketing
4 2 (1.351%) Games
5 1 (0.676%) Investment Banking
5 1 (0.676%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.676%) Advertising
5 1 (0.676%) Electronics
5 1 (0.676%) Music
5 1 (0.676%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 69 (46.62%) Developer
2 33 (22.30%) Java Developer
3 25 (16.89%) DevOps Engineer
4 20 (13.51%) Architect
5 12 (8.108%) Database Developer
6 11 (7.432%) Data Architect
6 11 (7.432%) Hadoop Developer
7 9 (6.081%) Data Scientist
8 7 (4.730%) Technical Leader
8 7 (4.730%) Research Engineer
9 5 (3.378%) Senior Developer
9 5 (3.378%) Systems Engineer
9 5 (3.378%) Technical Architect
10 4 (2.703%) Software Engineer
10 4 (2.703%) Senior Java Developer
11 3 (2.027%) Technical Solutions Architect
11 3 (2.027%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (2.027%) Solutions Architect
11 3 (2.027%) Analyst
11 3 (2.027%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 41 (27.70%) Open Source
2 22 (14.86%) Computer Science
2 22 (14.86%) Social Network
3 18 (12.16%) Mathematics
4 16 (10.81%) Physics
4 16 (10.81%) Machine Learning
5 11 (7.432%) Data Integration
6 8 (5.405%) Statistics
6 8 (5.405%) Grid Computing
7 6 (4.054%) Visualisation
7 6 (4.054%) Digital Media
7 6 (4.054%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (4.054%) Neural Network
8 5 (3.378%) Heroku
9 3 (2.027%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.351%) Video on Demand
10 2 (1.351%) iPad
10 2 (1.351%) Social Media
10 2 (1.351%) iPhone
10 2 (1.351%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 51 (34.46%) Linux
2 12 (8.108%) UNIX
3 7 (4.730%) Windows
4 2 (1.351%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.351%) Android
5 1 (0.676%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.676%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (29.73%) TDD
2 42 (28.38%) Agile Software Development
3 39 (26.35%) Scrum
4 26 (17.57%) E-Commerce
5 20 (13.51%) Data Analysis
6 19 (12.84%) BDD
6 19 (12.84%) Analytics
7 18 (12.16%) Business Intelligence
7 18 (12.16%) Software Engineering
8 17 (11.49%) ETL
9 13 (8.784%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (8.108%) OO
11 11 (7.432%) Kanban
12 10 (6.757%) Business Analysis
12 10 (6.757%) Security Management
13 9 (6.081%) Data Modelling
14 8 (5.405%) Unit Testing
15 7 (4.730%) CRM
15 7 (4.730%) Continuous Integration
15 7 (4.730%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 84 (56.76%) Java
2 46 (31.08%) Ruby
3 32 (21.62%) SQL
4 27 (18.24%) Scala
5 19 (12.84%) Python
6 14 (9.459%) JavaScript
7 11 (7.432%) Perl
8 10 (6.757%) C++
9 9 (6.081%) PHP
10 8 (5.405%) R
11 4 (2.703%) C#
12 3 (2.027%) Shell Script
12 3 (2.027%) Groovy
13 2 (1.351%) C
14 1 (0.676%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.676%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.676%) Erlang
14 1 (0.676%) F#
14 1 (0.676%) Clojure
14 1 (0.676%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 14 (9.459%) Degree
2 10 (6.757%) PhD
3 1 (0.676%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (0.676%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.351%) QA
2 1 (0.676%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (2.027%) Samba
1 3 (2.027%) Apache Flume
2 2 (1.351%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 6 (4.054%) Puppet
2 5 (3.378%) Nagios
3 4 (2.703%) Splunk
4 3 (2.027%) OpenView
4 3 (2.027%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 10 (6.757%) Informatica
2 9 (6.081%) Oracle
3 6 (4.054%) Hortonworks
3 6 (4.054%) Cloudera
4 5 (3.378%) Rackspace
5 3 (2.027%) JBoss
6 2 (1.351%) Facebook
6 2 (1.351%) Twitter
6 2 (1.351%) SolarWinds
6 2 (1.351%) Greenplum
6 2 (1.351%) Jaspersoft
7 1 (0.676%) VMware
7 1 (0.676%) Google
7 1 (0.676%) Teradata
7 1 (0.676%) SAP
7 1 (0.676%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.676%) EMC
7 1 (0.676%) Netezza
7 1 (0.676%) Foundry
City, London
Is looking for a java/NoSQL developer... Experience with NoSQL databases is essential in particularly Cassandra... Experience with noSQL databases. Exposure to working in Agile environments... Desirable; Experience...
Hydrogen Group
Rate: £0.00 - £450.00 per day + Negotiable
Posted: 22 May 2013
West Yorkshire
The successful candidate will be working on a full lifecycle development project designing, building, testing and developing through to implementation..Ideally they are seeking a candidate with the...
Computer Futures
Rate: £325 - £375 per day
Posted: 18 May 2013
City, London
Is looking for a java/NoSQL developer... Experience with noSQL databases (Cassandra) Exposure to working in Agile environments. Experience with alternative languages such as Groovy, Ruby, Scala, Python...
Hydrogen Group
Rate: £0.00 - £425.00 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
City, London
Required skills and technologies; Demonstrated experience in software engineering. Diverse technological background with experience in several of the following; java, c++, ruby, python, XML based components, tomcat, spring...
Hydrogen Group
Rate: £0.00 - £450.00 per day + Negotiable
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
My client, one of the leading European media company are looking to recruit a Hadoop Developer to join their team to design and build a new implementation for...
E-synergy Solutions
Rate: £500 - £650 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
City, London
Perl) . Core DWH ETL tools, Informatica The DB2 Data Engineer would benefit from having exposure to NoSQL technologies and big data platforms such as Hadoop, HBASE or Cassandra,...
E-synergy Solutions
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
London
Experience of working with Large Data Sets, ideally coming from a Data Warehousing or Business Intelligence environment... Understanding of No-SQL Technologies and Big Data Platforms (e.g...
Networking People
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
DevOps - Engineer - Puppet - Chef - Big Data - Cloud - MongoDB - Jenknins - Maven - Cloud - Agile... Cassandra, MongoDB, NoSQL and other relevant Big Data/Cloud technologies. CloudStack, OpenStack API. CI tools - Jenkins,...
Oliver Bernard
Rate: From £500 to £550 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
Responsibilities include: o Assessing business rules; o Performing source to target data mapping; o Designing, reviewing, implementing and optimizing ETL processes; o Reviewing project plans, development and test...
Premier Group Recruitment
Rate: £300.00 - £340.00 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
London
As a Data Engineer, you will be playing a technical role and will be responsible for the full development lifecycle of the solution, including detailed design, code development,...
Hydrogen Group
Rate: £300.00 - £340.00 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
City of London
Key responsibilities are: Organising and managing lab activities including the prioritisation processes, lab infrastructure, organisation of experiments and basic lab budgets management Main point of contact for the...
Capita Resourcing Ltd
Rate: £450 - £550 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
City, London
DB2 Database Develoepr -DATAWAREHOUSE ETL TOOLS (INFORMATICA), NO-SQL , PERL - 6 months contract £340.00 per day The Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) team of a global e-commerce...
Networking People
Posted: 22 May 2013
London
Our Client is looking for a DV cleared Technical Lead to look at emerging technologies and evaluate their relevance in providing a response to some big challenges moving...
LA International
Rate: Excellent Rates
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
Experience with some of the following; Hadoop, MapReduce, Hive, HBase, Pig, Cassandra, NoSQL. Machine Learning exposure a big plus, especially Apache Mahout. BSc/MSc in Maths, Statistics, Computer...
Hydrogen Group
Rate: £600.00 - £700.00 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
London
Linux, JBoss, TomCat, Apache, PHP, DNS) Monitoring (e.g... Oracle, MySQL, NoSQL e.g. Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis, Hadoop & CouchDB) Security: Encryption; Network security; Network topology; System Hardening, Pen...
Bearing Partnership
Rate: From £450 to £480 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013