The first table below looks at the demand for Data Mining skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Data Mining over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Data Mining
Rank 295 380 397
Rank change year-on-year
+85 +17
Contract jobs citing Data Mining 261 209 190
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.563% 0.358% 0.311%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.722% 1.884% 1.526%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 128 118
Average daily rate £455 £411 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.63% -8.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £300 £298
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £568 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £438 £360 £380
% change year-on-year
+21.52% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 8
Average hourly rate £52.50 £40.00 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+31.25% +220.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £52.50 £40.00 £12.50
% change year-on-year
+31.25% +220.00%
All Database & Business Intelligence
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
9589 11093 12450
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 20.67% 19.02% 20.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 5784 6372 6932
Average daily rate £388 £375 £394
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.33% -4.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £255 £258 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £525 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 268 387
Average hourly rate £25.60 £28.00 £31.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.57% -9.67%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.34 £12.67 £16.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £44.70 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%

Data Mining
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Data Mining Jobs Demand Trend

Data Mining
Daily Rate Trend

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

Data Mining Daily Rate Trend

Data Mining
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Data Mining within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Data Mining Daily Rate Histogram

Data Mining
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Data Mining within the UK.

Data Mining Hourly Rate Trend

Data Mining
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Mining within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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 +69 223 £470 +10.58%
London +73 181 £475 +11.76%
City of London +16 56 £500 +17.64%
Scotland +12 31 £440 +22.22%
South East +22 25 £350 -1.06%
Edinburgh +16 15 £445 +11.25%
Docklands, London +9 11 £130 -76.99%
Berkshire +24 10 £330 -
Surrey +19 10 - -
Canary Wharf +6 8 £525 -4.54%
Stirling - 7 - -
East of England +20 6 £470 -
Guildford -6 6 - -
Reading - 6 £330 -
Glasgow -14 5 £388 +7.63%
East Midlands -8 4 - -
Hampshire - 4 £450 -
Yorkshire +1 3 £375 +2.04%
North East - 3 - -
Suffolk - 3 £470 -
Newcastle upon Tyne - 3 - -
Tyne and Wear - 3 - -
Hertfordshire +5 2 £475 -
West Yorkshire +2 2 £375 +1.35%
Leicestershire -16 2 - -
Derby - 2 - -
Leeds - 2 £375 -
Derbyshire - 2 - -
Oxfordshire +6 1 - -
West Midlands +3 1 - -

Data Mining
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Data Mining 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 Data Mining.

1 235 (50.87%) SQL
2 152 (32.90%) Data Analysis
3 130 (28.14%) Finance
4 115 (24.89%) Data Modelling
5 114 (24.68%) Banking
6 92 (19.91%) Data Warehouse
7 89 (19.26%) Business Intelligence
8 76 (16.45%) Oracle
9 73 (15.80%) Analytics
10 72 (15.58%) SAS
11 70 (15.15%) Degree
12 69 (14.94%) MS Excel
13 68 (14.72%) SQL Server
13 68 (14.72%) Microsoft
14 66 (14.29%) Business Analysis
15 60 (12.99%) Investment Banking
16 59 (12.77%) ETL
17 54 (11.69%) VBA
18 50 (10.82%) Computer Science
19 44 (9.524%) Java
20 43 (9.307%) XML
20 43 (9.307%) Data Management
21 42 (9.091%) Derivative
22 41 (8.874%) C#
22 41 (8.874%) Big Data
23 39 (8.442%) Visualisation
24 38 (8.225%) C++
25 33 (7.143%) Migration
26 32 (6.926%) Mathematics
26 32 (6.926%) Teradata

Data Mining
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Data Mining 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 Data Mining. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 43 (9.307%) XML
2 21 (4.545%) .NET
3 18 (3.896%) MapReduce
4 6 (1.299%) ASP
4 6 (1.299%) Silverlight
5 5 (1.082%) Ruby on Rails
5 5 (1.082%) HTML
5 5 (1.082%) J2SE
6 4 (0.866%) MDX
6 4 (0.866%) REST
7 3 (0.649%) FpML
7 3 (0.649%) ASP.NET
7 3 (0.649%) Web Services
7 3 (0.649%) CSS
8 2 (0.433%) XML Schema
8 2 (0.433%) SOAP
8 2 (0.433%) STL
8 2 (0.433%) ADO.NET
8 2 (0.433%) DOM
8 2 (0.433%) XSL
Application Platforms
1 72 (15.58%) SAS
2 23 (4.978%) SharePoint
3 17 (3.680%) Apache Pig
4 9 (1.948%) Apache
5 7 (1.515%) CMS
6 4 (0.866%) IIS
7 3 (0.649%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.433%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.433%) LiveCycle
8 2 (0.433%) SharePoint 2013
8 2 (0.433%) SharePoint 2010
9 1 (0.216%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.216%) Windows Azure
9 1 (0.216%) MS Project Server
9 1 (0.216%) Oracle Spatial
9 1 (0.216%) LiveLink
9 1 (0.216%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.216%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 69 (14.94%) MS Excel
2 27 (5.844%) MS Visio
3 24 (5.195%) SPSS
4 15 (3.247%) MS PowerPoint
5 7 (1.515%) MS Project
6 6 (1.299%) MS Office
7 2 (0.433%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.433%) QuarkXPress
7 2 (0.433%) FreeHand
7 2 (0.433%) Fireworks
7 2 (0.433%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.433%) FastStats
8 1 (0.216%) PowerPivot
8 1 (0.216%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (1.948%) Google Analytics
2 8 (1.732%) SiteCatalyst
3 7 (1.515%) Taleo
4 2 (0.433%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.216%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.216%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.216%) Cognos Business Intelligence
5 1 (0.216%) SAP IS-U
5 1 (0.216%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.216%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.381%) HTTP
2 8 (1.732%) Internet
3 4 (0.866%) DVB
3 4 (0.866%) UPnP
4 3 (0.649%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.433%) ATM
5 2 (0.433%) FTP
5 2 (0.433%) DNS
5 2 (0.433%) MPLS
5 2 (0.433%) Frame Relay
5 2 (0.433%) Firewall
5 2 (0.433%) Wireless
6 1 (0.216%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.216%) BSS
6 1 (0.216%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.216%) SSH
6 1 (0.216%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.216%) SAN
6 1 (0.216%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.216%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (19.91%) Data Warehouse
2 68 (14.72%) SQL Server
3 41 (8.874%) Big Data
4 31 (6.710%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 30 (6.494%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 29 (6.277%) Hadoop
7 25 (5.411%) OLAP
8 24 (5.195%) MS Access
9 22 (4.762%) Spotfire
10 20 (4.329%) SQL Server 2008
10 20 (4.329%) RDBMS
11 17 (3.680%) DTS
12 16 (3.463%) HBase
13 15 (3.247%) Apache Cassandra
13 15 (3.247%) NoSQL
13 15 (3.247%) Apache Hive
14 14 (3.030%) MongoDB
14 14 (3.030%) Mahout
14 14 (3.030%) QlikView
15 11 (2.381%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 11 (2.381%) JIRA
2 5 (1.082%) Visual Studio
3 4 (0.866%) Oracle Forms
3 4 (0.866%) ClearQuest
4 3 (0.649%) Rational Rose
5 2 (0.433%) Dreamweaver
5 2 (0.433%) ERwin
6 1 (0.216%) Gerrit
6 1 (0.216%) Git (software)
6 1 (0.216%) Subversion
6 1 (0.216%) FrontPage
6 1 (0.216%) TestDirector
General
1 130 (28.14%) Finance
2 114 (24.68%) Banking
3 60 (12.99%) Investment Banking
4 28 (6.061%) Telecoms
5 26 (5.628%) Marketing
6 24 (5.195%) Retail
7 22 (4.762%) Games
8 15 (3.247%) Front Office
9 10 (2.165%) Retail Banking
10 6 (1.299%) Billing
11 5 (1.082%) Legal
12 4 (0.866%) Back Office
12 4 (0.866%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.866%) General Ledger
13 3 (0.649%) Local Government
13 3 (0.649%) International Banking
13 3 (0.649%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.433%) Publishing
14 2 (0.433%) Private Banking
14 2 (0.433%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 210 (45.45%) Analyst
2 94 (20.35%) Business Analyst
3 86 (18.61%) Data Analyst
4 83 (17.97%) Developer
5 39 (8.442%) Architect
6 20 (4.329%) Project Manager
6 20 (4.329%) Software Engineer
7 17 (3.680%) Banking Business Analyst
8 16 (3.463%) Solutions Architect
9 15 (3.247%) Data Architect
10 12 (2.597%) SQL Developer
11 11 (2.381%) Data Scientist
11 11 (2.381%) Consultant
12 10 (2.165%) Senior Analyst
12 10 (2.165%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 9 (1.948%) Hadoop Developer
13 9 (1.948%) Development Engineer
13 9 (1.948%) Junior
14 8 (1.732%) Software Developer
14 8 (1.732%) Junior Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 50 (10.82%) Computer Science
2 42 (9.091%) Derivative
3 39 (8.442%) Visualisation
4 32 (6.926%) Mathematics
5 26 (5.628%) Management Information System
6 23 (4.978%) Credit Risk
7 20 (4.329%) Fixed Income
7 20 (4.329%) Statistics
8 19 (4.113%) Physics
8 19 (4.113%) Equities
9 17 (3.680%) Credit Derivative
9 17 (3.680%) Reference Data
10 16 (3.463%) Data Integration
11 14 (3.030%) Social Network
12 11 (2.381%) Machine Learning
12 11 (2.381%) Market Risk
13 8 (1.732%) Streaming Video
13 8 (1.732%) Data Extraction
13 8 (1.732%) Neural Network
14 7 (1.515%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 30 (6.494%) UNIX
2 23 (4.978%) Linux
3 22 (4.762%) Windows
4 4 (0.866%) Solaris
4 4 (0.866%) Windows 8
5 2 (0.433%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.216%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.216%) CentOS
6 1 (0.216%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.216%) Debian
6 1 (0.216%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.216%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (32.90%) Data Analysis
2 115 (24.89%) Data Modelling
3 89 (19.26%) Business Intelligence
4 73 (15.80%) Analytics
5 66 (14.29%) Business Analysis
6 59 (12.77%) ETL
7 43 (9.307%) Data Management
8 33 (7.143%) Migration
9 32 (6.926%) Data Architecture
10 31 (6.710%) Project Management
11 27 (5.844%) Stakeholder Management
12 25 (5.411%) Data Analytics
13 24 (5.195%) Test Automation
13 24 (5.195%) Agile Software Development
13 24 (5.195%) TDD
14 21 (4.545%) Data Migration
14 21 (4.545%) Software Engineering
14 21 (4.545%) Predictive Modelling
15 19 (4.113%) Change Management
15 19 (4.113%) Game Development
Programming Languages
1 235 (50.87%) SQL
2 54 (11.69%) VBA
3 44 (9.524%) Java
4 41 (8.874%) C#
5 38 (8.225%) C++
6 25 (5.411%) T-SQL
7 24 (5.195%) C
7 24 (5.195%) Python
8 17 (3.680%) Perl
8 17 (3.680%) R
9 14 (3.030%) XPath
10 13 (2.814%) JavaScript
11 11 (2.381%) PL/SQL
12 10 (2.165%) VBScript
12 10 (2.165%) VB
13 9 (1.948%) Scala
14 6 (1.299%) Ruby
15 5 (1.082%) Bash shell
15 5 (1.082%) MATLAB
16 3 (0.649%) PHP
Qualifications
1 70 (15.15%) Degree
2 9 (1.948%) Security Cleared
2 9 (1.948%) PhD
3 7 (1.515%) PMI Certification
4 6 (1.299%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (1.299%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.082%) MBA
5 5 (1.082%) PMP
6 4 (0.866%) SAS Certification
6 4 (0.866%) SC Cleared
7 3 (0.649%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 3 (0.649%) CISSP
8 2 (0.433%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.433%) ISEB
8 2 (0.433%) CISA
8 2 (0.433%) BC Cleared
8 2 (0.433%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.216%) GCIH
9 1 (0.216%) ACSA
9 1 (0.216%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.680%) QA
2 12 (2.597%) Data Quality
3 8 (1.732%) Basel III
4 5 (1.082%) ISO 9001
5 4 (0.866%) Basel II
6 2 (0.433%) SLA
6 2 (0.433%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.216%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.216%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (0.433%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.216%) vSphere
2 1 (0.216%) XenServer
2 1 (0.216%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.216%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (1.732%) HP Quality Center
2 4 (0.866%) Splunk
3 1 (0.216%) PureDisk
3 1 (0.216%) OVSD
3 1 (0.216%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 1 (0.216%) OpenView
Vendors
1 76 (16.45%) Oracle
2 68 (14.72%) Microsoft
3 32 (6.926%) Teradata
4 21 (4.545%) TIBCO
5 20 (4.329%) Business Objects
6 17 (3.680%) Cadis
7 15 (3.247%) Informatica
8 13 (2.814%) SAP
9 12 (2.597%) Cognos
10 11 (2.381%) Tableau
10 11 (2.381%) IBM
11 10 (2.165%) Unica
12 9 (1.948%) Google
13 8 (1.732%) Actimize
14 7 (1.515%) Sybase
14 7 (1.515%) HP
15 5 (1.082%) Remedy
16 4 (0.866%) MicroStrategy
16 4 (0.866%) Red Hat
16 4 (0.866%) Omniture
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Search Consultancy is looking for an experienced Data Analyst who has the technical abilities to work with data models and database design development. Be able to understand XML...
Search Consultancy
Rate: Market rate
Posted: 20 May 2013
London
Working for a leading organisation within the Data Analysis team, the Data Insight Analyst will be responsible for data modelling and data mining techniques using SAS and SPSS...
Connectus
Rate: £390 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
City, London
SPLUNK 'Big Data' Search/Surveillance Engineer is required by a large financial organisation. You should have a strong background in data mining and Business Intelligence solutions and possess...
Harrington Starr
Rate: £450 - £600 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
They are not looking for business analysts with a background in testing) - Strong database analysis skills on Sybase and/or DB2, with a proficiency in writing complex SQL...
Claremont Consulting Ltd
Rate: £350 - £425 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
Glasgow, Scotland
They are not looking for business analysts with a background in testing) - Strong database analysis skills on Sybase and/or DB2, with a proficiency in writing complex SQL...
Claremont Consulting
Rate: £350 - £425 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
City of London
Experience of CADIS 8.5 Experience of MS SQL server development (SQL, T-SQL, SSIS/DTS, SSRS, database design) Experience of delivering financial services projects using ETL and...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £450 - £550 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Sound understanding of UAT processes, including experience of using HP Quality Centre. - Proficient in the use of MS Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint. - ?Knowledge of SQL. - Experience of...
Head Resourcing
Rate: £300 - £350 per day + depending on experience.
Posted: 21 May 2013
City of London
You should have a strong background in data mining and Business Intelligence solutions and possess a passion for Big Data and solid understanding of Splunk and Hadoop Skills:...
harringtonstarr
Rate: £450 - £600 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Cheshire, North West
ASP.Net / C# / SQL Server Developer required- Contract - Cheshire *** Type: 6 Month Contract Rate: Circa £200 per day Location:South Cheshire Start Date: ASAP C# / ASP.Net SQL...
Computer Futures
Posted: 15 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Essential Skills: Experience with software such as R, Graphite, Splunk, StatsD or similar tools. Experience with SQL (Postgres, Mysql), NOSQL, Hadoop, Hive, Pig, MapReduce, or other similar tools...
Greythorn
Rate: £0.00 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland
Will have experience of working on major programmes of work within banking sector, worked on data migration projects to demanding timescales, undertaking detailed business analysis and design, engaging...
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 27 April 2013
City of London
They are currently looking for an Oracle Business Intelligence Consultant(Oracle BI/OBIEE/OBI/ODI/Essbase/Hyperion) to join their Enterprise Data Management and Analytics department's growing...
Annapurna HR
Rate: £400.00 - £500 per day
Posted: 24 May 2013
City, London
They are currently looking for an Oracle Business Intelligence Consultant(Oracle BI/OBIEE/OBI/ODI/Essbase/Hyperion) to join their Enterprise Data Management and Analytics department's growing...
Annapurna
Rate: £400.00 - £500 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
RDF Group are recruiting for a Senior Project Manager to start an exciting project that requires a start in mid-June... Previous experience of the management of PCI...
RDF Resources
Posted: 21 May 2013
City of London
Although the department have an existing Management Control Information System (MCIS) the hardware and supporting software are coming to the end of their lifecycle, and the development and...
Capita Resourcing
Posted: 30 April 2013
City of London
You willWork with application development groups to build Application Security Schema data extracts to facilitate role mining and recertification along with Senior Security Management to identify and engage...
Interquest Group PLC
Posted: 26 April 2013
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
You will bring to this role experience of working on large Data Management and Data Centric projects - to include: Data Validation, Data Mapping, Data Migration and Data Mining.
RDF Resources
Posted: 21 May 2013
City, London
Strong Siebel Data Migration, in particular EIM. Solid commercial experience with Siebel Configuration / Configurator. Producing the design and build of the workflow for the Siebel front end. Advising...
ninesharp
Posted: 20 May 2013
Stevenage, Hertfordshire
Our client, a leading British Aerospace and Defence company is looking for a Manufacturing Composite Design Engineer for an initial 6 month contract to be based in Stevenage.....
Alexander Mann Solutions
Rate: Negotiatable
Posted: 7 May 2013