Big Data Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Big Data skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Big Data 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
Big Data
Rank 362 514 -
Rank change year-on-year
+152 -
Contract jobs citing Big Data 186 51 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.401% 0.087% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.932% 0.459% -
Number of daily rates quoted 130 42 0
Average daily rate £450 £419 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.46% -
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
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%

Big Data
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

Big Data Daily Rate Trend

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Big Data Daily Rate Histogram

Big Data
Top 28 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Big Data 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 +167 180 £450 +7.46%
London +130 150 £450 +7.46%
City of London +53 40 £500 -
South East +31 13 £450 -12.19%
East of England - 7 £450 -
Hertfordshire - 7 £450 -
Surrey - 4 £600 -
South West +32 3 £450 +20.00%
Berkshire +19 3 - -
Wiltshire +4 3 £450 +20.00%
Yorkshire - 3 £500 -
West Yorkshire - 3 £500 -
Kent - 3 - -
Leeds - 3 £500 -
Welwyn Garden City - 3 £800 -
Swindon - 3 £450 -
Reading +15 2 - -
Hampshire - 2 £450 -
Epsom - 2 £600 -
West Midlands - 2 - -
Coventry - 2 - -
Scotland - 2 - -
Hammersmith - 1 £325 -
North West - 1 - -
Docklands, London - 1 - -
Edinburgh - 1 - -
Guildford - 1 - -
Glasgow - 1 - -

Big Data
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 179 (46.61%) Hadoop
2 165 (42.97%) Java
3 126 (32.81%) NoSQL
4 104 (27.08%) SQL
5 88 (22.92%) Analytics
6 84 (21.88%) Apache Cassandra
7 82 (21.35%) Finance
8 78 (20.31%) Business Intelligence
9 74 (19.27%) Data Warehouse
10 72 (18.75%) Apache Hive
11 71 (18.49%) ETL
12 65 (16.93%) MapReduce
13 63 (16.41%) Apache Pig
14 61 (15.89%) Agile Software Development
15 57 (14.84%) TDD
16 56 (14.58%) MongoDB
17 53 (13.80%) E-Commerce
18 52 (13.54%) JavaScript
18 52 (13.54%) Banking
19 51 (13.28%) Oracle
20 50 (13.02%) SQL Server
20 50 (13.02%) Linux
20 50 (13.02%) HBase
21 48 (12.50%) Data Analysis
21 48 (12.50%) Data Modelling
22 41 (10.68%) Scrum
23 40 (10.42%) Data Mining
23 40 (10.42%) Computer Science
24 37 (9.635%) Ruby
24 37 (9.635%) Data Architecture

Big Data
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 65 (16.93%) MapReduce
2 35 (9.115%) Web Services
2 35 (9.115%) CSS
3 32 (8.333%) Spring
3 32 (8.333%) RESTful
4 26 (6.771%) J2EE
5 23 (5.990%) HTML
6 22 (5.729%) .NET
7 20 (5.208%) XML
8 17 (4.427%) HTML5
9 16 (4.167%) SOAP
10 15 (3.906%) jQuery
11 14 (3.646%) Node.js
11 14 (3.646%) JSON
12 12 (3.125%) Ajax
12 12 (3.125%) Ruby on Rails
12 12 (3.125%) Middleware
12 12 (3.125%) Hibernate
13 11 (2.865%) JDBC
13 11 (2.865%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 63 (16.41%) Apache Pig
2 26 (6.771%) Apache
3 25 (6.510%) SAS
4 20 (5.208%) Amazon AWS
5 11 (2.865%) Apache Solr
6 10 (2.604%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (2.604%) CMS
7 8 (2.083%) Windows Azure
7 8 (2.083%) Tomcat
8 5 (1.302%) WebSphere MQ
8 5 (1.302%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (1.302%) Amazon EMR
9 4 (1.042%) Kafka
9 4 (1.042%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.042%) Jetty
9 4 (1.042%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.781%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.781%) TIBCO EMS
11 2 (0.521%) ESB
11 2 (0.521%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 20 (5.208%) SPSS
2 5 (1.302%) MS Excel
3 1 (0.260%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.260%) MS Project
3 1 (0.260%) Weka
3 1 (0.260%) PowerPivot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.260%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.167%) HTTP
2 8 (2.083%) Radio Access Network
2 8 (2.083%) LTE
2 8 (2.083%) 3G
2 8 (2.083%) ATM
2 8 (2.083%) IPv4
2 8 (2.083%) 2G
3 5 (1.302%) Internet
4 3 (0.781%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.781%) SMTP
4 3 (0.781%) SSL
4 3 (0.781%) SAN
5 2 (0.521%) NAS
6 1 (0.260%) Firewall
6 1 (0.260%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.260%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (46.61%) Hadoop
2 126 (32.81%) NoSQL
3 84 (21.88%) Apache Cassandra
4 74 (19.27%) Data Warehouse
5 72 (18.75%) Apache Hive
6 56 (14.58%) MongoDB
7 50 (13.02%) SQL Server
7 50 (13.02%) HBase
8 40 (10.42%) Data Mining
9 27 (7.031%) Mahout
10 23 (5.990%) OLAP
11 21 (5.469%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 20 (5.208%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 20 (5.208%) DB2
13 18 (4.688%) Redis
14 14 (3.646%) RDBMS
15 11 (2.865%) MySQL
15 11 (2.865%) Sqoop
15 11 (2.865%) MarkLogic
16 10 (2.604%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (4.948%) JUnit
2 16 (4.167%) Cucumber
2 16 (4.167%) Selenium
3 15 (3.906%) WebDriver
3 15 (3.906%) GitHub
4 12 (3.125%) Maven
5 9 (2.344%) Ant
5 9 (2.344%) Jasmine
6 8 (2.083%) Jenkins
6 8 (2.083%) jMock
7 7 (1.823%) CruiseControl
8 6 (1.563%) Talend Open Studio
8 6 (1.563%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (1.302%) Git (software)
9 5 (1.302%) Mockito
10 4 (1.042%) EasyMock
11 3 (0.781%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.781%) Axure RP
12 2 (0.521%) Hudson
12 2 (0.521%) Mercurial
General
1 82 (21.35%) Finance
2 52 (13.54%) Banking
3 26 (6.771%) Telecoms
4 20 (5.208%) Investment Banking
4 20 (5.208%) Retail
5 19 (4.948%) Publishing
6 12 (3.125%) Marketing
7 10 (2.604%) Back Office
8 9 (2.344%) Games
9 8 (2.083%) Front Office
10 4 (1.042%) Music
10 4 (1.042%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.781%) Billing
11 3 (0.781%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.521%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.260%) Advertising
13 1 (0.260%) French Language
13 1 (0.260%) German Language
13 1 (0.260%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 158 (41.15%) Developer
2 55 (14.32%) Java Developer
3 54 (14.06%) Architect
4 46 (11.98%) Analyst
5 37 (9.635%) Senior Developer
6 36 (9.375%) Data Architect
7 28 (7.292%) Business Analyst
8 23 (5.990%) Hadoop Developer
9 21 (5.469%) Senior Java Developer
10 16 (4.167%) Technical Leader
11 15 (3.906%) Project Manager
12 13 (3.385%) Data Manager
12 13 (3.385%) Ruby Developer
12 13 (3.385%) Data Scientist
13 12 (3.125%) Database Developer
13 12 (3.125%) Consultant
14 11 (2.865%) Software Engineer
14 11 (2.865%) Technical Manager
15 10 (2.604%) Business Intelligence Manager
15 10 (2.604%) Data Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 40 (10.42%) Computer Science
2 35 (9.115%) Open Source
3 34 (8.854%) Mathematics
4 30 (7.813%) Social Media
5 20 (5.208%) Social Network
5 20 (5.208%) Visualisation
6 19 (4.948%) Physics
7 18 (4.688%) Machine Learning
8 13 (3.385%) Data Integration
9 12 (3.125%) Statistics
10 9 (2.344%) Grid Computing
11 8 (2.083%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (1.823%) Equities
12 7 (1.823%) Management Information System
12 7 (1.823%) Neural Network
13 6 (1.563%) Hedge funds
13 6 (1.563%) Market Risk
14 5 (1.302%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 5 (1.302%) Online Games
14 5 (1.302%) Heroku
Operating Systems
1 50 (13.02%) Linux
2 30 (7.813%) UNIX
3 21 (5.469%) Windows
4 5 (1.302%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.042%) CentOS
6 1 (0.260%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (22.92%) Analytics
2 78 (20.31%) Business Intelligence
3 71 (18.49%) ETL
4 61 (15.89%) Agile Software Development
5 57 (14.84%) TDD
6 53 (13.80%) E-Commerce
7 48 (12.50%) Data Analysis
7 48 (12.50%) Data Modelling
8 41 (10.68%) Scrum
9 37 (9.635%) Data Architecture
10 31 (8.073%) BDD
11 26 (6.771%) Business Analysis
12 24 (6.250%) OO
12 24 (6.250%) Migration
13 23 (5.990%) Data Migration
14 22 (5.729%) Multithreading
14 22 (5.729%) Software Engineering
14 22 (5.729%) Continuous Integration
15 21 (5.469%) MVC
16 20 (5.208%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 165 (42.97%) Java
2 104 (27.08%) SQL
3 52 (13.54%) JavaScript
4 37 (9.635%) Ruby
5 35 (9.115%) Python
6 31 (8.073%) Scala
7 26 (6.771%) Perl
8 22 (5.729%) R
9 21 (5.469%) C#
9 21 (5.469%) C++
10 15 (3.906%) C
11 8 (2.083%) Groovy
12 7 (1.823%) PHP
13 6 (1.563%) XQuery
13 6 (1.563%) MATLAB
14 4 (1.042%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.781%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.781%) XPath
15 3 (0.781%) Clojure
16 2 (0.521%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 31 (8.073%) Degree
2 14 (3.646%) PhD
3 6 (1.563%) Security Cleared
3 6 (1.563%) CISSP
4 5 (1.302%) SC Cleared
5 3 (0.781%) CEH
6 1 (0.260%) MBA
6 1 (0.260%) MCSE
6 1 (0.260%) CCNA
6 1 (0.260%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.260%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.260%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (0.260%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.260%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.083%) QA
2 7 (1.823%) SLA
3 2 (0.521%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.260%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (1.823%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 2 (0.521%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.260%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.260%) Xen
3 1 (0.260%) OpenSSO
Systems Management
1 11 (2.865%) MOM
2 8 (2.083%) Splunk
3 6 (1.563%) Puppet
4 4 (1.042%) Nagios
5 2 (0.521%) Ganglia
Vendors
1 51 (13.28%) Oracle
2 28 (7.292%) Informatica
3 16 (4.167%) Microsoft
4 15 (3.906%) Business Objects
5 14 (3.646%) Teradata
6 10 (2.604%) Cloudera
7 9 (2.344%) Tableau
7 9 (2.344%) Vertica
8 8 (2.083%) Netezza
8 8 (2.083%) SAP
9 7 (1.823%) Google
9 7 (1.823%) Hortonworks
10 6 (1.563%) Talend
10 6 (1.563%) Greenplum
10 6 (1.563%) IBM
11 5 (1.302%) MicroStrategy
11 5 (1.302%) Citrix
12 4 (1.042%) Rackspace
12 4 (1.042%) Nokia Siemens Networks
12 4 (1.042%) Huawei
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