The first table below looks at the demand for Apache Pig 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 Pig 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 Application Platforms 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Pig
Rank 508 581 -
Rank change year-on-year
+73 -
Contract jobs citing Apache Pig 26 5 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.055% 0.008% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.305% 0.052% -
Number of daily rates quoted 22 5 0
Average daily rate £473 £410 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.24% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £425 -
% change year-on-year
-5.88% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Platforms
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
8518 9671 10055
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 18.07% 16.31% 16.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 4829 5304 5361
Average daily rate £355 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.42% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 467 438 552
Average hourly rate £21.00 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.20 £40.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%

Apache Pig
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Apache Pig within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Apache Pig Jobs Demand Trend

Apache Pig
Daily Rate Trend

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

Apache Pig Daily Rate Trend

Apache Pig
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Apache Pig within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Apache Pig Daily Rate Histogram

Apache Pig
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Apache Pig within the UK 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
England +76 25 £475 +15.85%
London +51 22 £500 +22.69%
City of London - 13 £488 -
East of England +14 2 £400 -5.88%
Hertfordshire +10 2 £400 -5.88%
St Albans - 2 £400 -
Berkshire - 1 - -
Reading - 1 - -
South East - 1 - -

Apache Pig
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Apache Pig 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 Pig.

1 79 (100.00%) Hadoop
2 71 (89.87%) Apache Hive
3 64 (81.01%) Big Data
4 60 (75.95%) Java
5 49 (62.03%) MapReduce
6 41 (51.90%) NoSQL
7 39 (49.37%) Apache Cassandra
8 33 (41.77%) Analytics
9 32 (40.51%) HBase
9 32 (40.51%) TDD
10 28 (35.44%) Mahout
11 26 (32.91%) MongoDB
12 23 (29.11%) Scala
13 22 (27.85%) Data Analysis
13 22 (27.85%) Software Engineering
13 22 (27.85%) Computer Science
14 21 (26.58%) SQL
15 19 (24.05%) Scrum
15 19 (24.05%) Data Mining
15 19 (24.05%) Mathematics
15 19 (24.05%) Social Network
16 18 (22.78%) Python
16 18 (22.78%) Data Modelling
17 17 (21.52%) Physics
17 17 (21.52%) Machine Learning
18 16 (20.25%) Spring
19 15 (18.99%) Apache
20 14 (17.72%) ETL
21 13 (16.46%) BDD
22 12 (15.19%) Amazon AWS

Apache Pig
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Apache Pig 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 Pig. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 49 (62.03%) MapReduce
2 16 (20.25%) Spring
3 10 (12.66%) Web Services
4 6 (7.595%) jQuery
4 6 (7.595%) RESTful
4 6 (7.595%) Lucene
4 6 (7.595%) ASP
4 6 (7.595%) CSS
4 6 (7.595%) SOAP
4 6 (7.595%) HTML5
4 6 (7.595%) CSS3
5 5 (6.329%) Spring Batch
6 4 (5.063%) HTML
7 2 (2.532%) Spring MVC
7 2 (2.532%) Hibernate
7 2 (2.532%) J2EE
8 1 (1.266%) JMS
8 1 (1.266%) XML
8 1 (1.266%) J2SE
8 1 (1.266%) Guice
Application Platforms
1 15 (18.99%) Apache
2 12 (15.19%) Amazon AWS
3 9 (11.39%) Apache Solr
4 8 (10.13%) SAS
5 3 (3.797%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (2.532%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.532%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.532%) Kafka
7 1 (1.266%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.266%) OpenStack
7 1 (1.266%) Windows Azure
7 1 (1.266%) Google App Engine
Applications
1 8 (10.13%) SPSS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.329%) HTTP
2 2 (2.532%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (100.00%) Hadoop
2 71 (89.87%) Apache Hive
3 64 (81.01%) Big Data
4 41 (51.90%) NoSQL
5 39 (49.37%) Apache Cassandra
6 32 (40.51%) HBase
7 28 (35.44%) Mahout
8 26 (32.91%) MongoDB
9 19 (24.05%) Data Mining
10 11 (13.92%) OLAP
11 10 (12.66%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (11.39%) SQL Server
12 9 (11.39%) RDBMS
13 7 (8.861%) Sqoop
13 7 (8.861%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 7 (8.861%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 5 (6.329%) CouchDB
15 4 (5.063%) MySQL
16 3 (3.797%) PostgreSQL
17 1 (1.266%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 6 (7.595%) Selenium
1 6 (7.595%) WebDriver
1 6 (7.595%) Cucumber
2 5 (6.329%) Jasmine
3 3 (3.797%) Talend Open Studio
4 2 (2.532%) Maven
5 1 (1.266%) Mercurial
5 1 (1.266%) Git (software)
5 1 (1.266%) Subversion
General
1 7 (8.861%) Finance
2 3 (3.797%) Publishing
2 3 (3.797%) Banking
3 2 (2.532%) Retail
4 1 (1.266%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.266%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 47 (59.49%) Developer
2 20 (25.32%) Hadoop Developer
3 16 (20.25%) Java Developer
4 14 (17.72%) Data Scientist
5 8 (10.13%) Research Engineer
6 5 (6.329%) Architect
6 5 (6.329%) Software Engineer
7 4 (5.063%) Data Analyst
7 4 (5.063%) Analyst
7 4 (5.063%) Data Architect
7 4 (5.063%) Senior Developer
8 3 (3.797%) Research Scientist
8 3 (3.797%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 2 (2.532%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (2.532%) Database Developer
9 2 (2.532%) Senior Java Developer
10 1 (1.266%) Senior Architect
10 1 (1.266%) Business Intelligence Architect
10 1 (1.266%) DevOps Engineer
10 1 (1.266%) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 22 (27.85%) Computer Science
2 19 (24.05%) Mathematics
2 19 (24.05%) Social Network
3 17 (21.52%) Physics
3 17 (21.52%) Machine Learning
4 12 (15.19%) Data Integration
5 10 (12.66%) Social Media
6 9 (11.39%) Grid Computing
6 9 (11.39%) Statistics
7 8 (10.13%) Visualisation
7 8 (10.13%) Open Source
8 6 (7.595%) Neural Network
9 4 (5.063%) Smart Meter
10 2 (2.532%) Artificial Intelligence
10 2 (2.532%) Client/Server
11 1 (1.266%) Hedge funds
11 1 (1.266%) Ontologies
Operating Systems
1 10 (12.66%) Linux
2 6 (7.595%) UNIX
2 6 (7.595%) Windows
3 2 (2.532%) Ubuntu
3 2 (2.532%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (41.77%) Analytics
2 32 (40.51%) TDD
3 22 (27.85%) Data Analysis
3 22 (27.85%) Software Engineering
4 19 (24.05%) Scrum
5 18 (22.78%) Data Modelling
6 14 (17.72%) ETL
7 13 (16.46%) BDD
8 11 (13.92%) Business Analysis
9 8 (10.13%) Business Intelligence
10 6 (7.595%) Agile Software Development
10 6 (7.595%) Big Data Analytics
10 6 (7.595%) Predictive Modelling
11 5 (6.329%) Automated Testing
11 5 (6.329%) Data Architecture
11 5 (6.329%) Unit Testing
12 4 (5.063%) Migration
12 4 (5.063%) Extreme Programming
12 4 (5.063%) CRM
12 4 (5.063%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 60 (75.95%) Java
2 23 (29.11%) Scala
3 21 (26.58%) SQL
4 18 (22.78%) Python
5 12 (15.19%) C++
6 10 (12.66%) R
7 8 (10.13%) Ruby
7 8 (10.13%) JavaScript
8 4 (5.063%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.532%) Haskell
9 2 (2.532%) Groovy
9 2 (2.532%) Perl
9 2 (2.532%) C
10 1 (1.266%) Clojure
10 1 (1.266%) Bash shell
10 1 (1.266%) PHP
10 1 (1.266%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 11 (13.92%) Degree
2 10 (12.66%) PhD
System Software
1 4 (5.063%) Apache Flume
2 2 (2.532%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 1 (1.266%) Splunk
1 1 (1.266%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (13.92%) Oracle
2 7 (8.861%) Vertica
3 3 (3.797%) Cloudera
3 3 (3.797%) Talend
4 2 (2.532%) Informatica
4 2 (2.532%) Jaspersoft
4 2 (2.532%) Hortonworks
4 2 (2.532%) Twitter
5 1 (1.266%) Tableau
5 1 (1.266%) Cognos
5 1 (1.266%) Business Objects
5 1 (1.266%) EMC
5 1 (1.266%) Greenplum
5 1 (1.266%) Google
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