The first table below looks at the demand for Mahout skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Mahout over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Mahout
Rank 530 576 579
Rank change year-on-year
+46 +3
Contract jobs citing Mahout 10 5 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.021% 0.009% 0.002%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.102% 0.045% 0.008%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 0
Average daily rate £500 £390 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+28.20% -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
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
9812 11109 12243
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 20.78% 19.00% 20.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 5905 6380 6804
Average daily rate £388 £375 £390
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.33% -3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £255 £260 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £525 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 262 395
Average hourly rate £25.70 £26.50 £32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.01% -17.18%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.31 £12.50 £16.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £26.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+3.77% -18.46%

Mahout
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Mahout Jobs Demand Trend

Mahout
Daily Rate Trend

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

Mahout Daily Rate Trend

Mahout
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Mahout within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Mahout Daily Rate Histogram

Mahout
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mahout within the UK over the 3 months to 21 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 +50 10 £500 +28.20%
London +21 10 £500 +28.20%
City of London - 8 £500 -

Mahout
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Mahout 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 Mahout.

1 28 (96.55%) Hadoop
1 28 (96.55%) Apache Hive
1 28 (96.55%) Big Data
1 28 (96.55%) Apache Pig
2 27 (93.10%) MapReduce
3 26 (89.66%) HBase
4 22 (75.86%) Apache Cassandra
4 22 (75.86%) Java
5 20 (68.97%) Data Analysis
5 20 (68.97%) Software Engineering
6 19 (65.52%) Social Network
7 18 (62.07%) Computer Science
8 17 (58.62%) Mathematics
8 17 (58.62%) Physics
8 17 (58.62%) SQL
9 15 (51.72%) Data Mining
9 15 (51.72%) NoSQL
9 15 (51.72%) Machine Learning
10 13 (44.83%) MongoDB
11 12 (41.38%) TDD
12 11 (37.93%) Scala
12 11 (37.93%) Business Analysis
12 11 (37.93%) Data Integration
12 11 (37.93%) Apache
12 11 (37.93%) Scrum
13 10 (34.48%) Python
13 10 (34.48%) Data Modelling
13 10 (34.48%) Analytics
14 9 (31.03%) R
14 9 (31.03%) Degree

Mahout
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Mahout 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 Mahout. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 27 (93.10%) MapReduce
2 6 (20.69%) ASP
3 1 (3.448%) Lucene
3 1 (3.448%) J2SE
3 1 (3.448%) Web Services
3 1 (3.448%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 28 (96.55%) Apache Pig
2 11 (37.93%) Apache
3 8 (27.59%) SAS
4 1 (3.448%) Apache Solr
4 1 (3.448%) Amazon AWS
4 1 (3.448%) Amazon EMR
Applications
1 8 (27.59%) SPSS
2 1 (3.448%) Weka
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.24%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (96.55%) Hadoop
1 28 (96.55%) Apache Hive
1 28 (96.55%) Big Data
2 26 (89.66%) HBase
3 22 (75.86%) Apache Cassandra
4 15 (51.72%) Data Mining
4 15 (51.72%) NoSQL
5 13 (44.83%) MongoDB
6 9 (31.03%) OLAP
6 9 (31.03%) RDBMS
7 3 (10.34%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (3.448%) OrientDB
8 1 (3.448%) Neo4j
General
1 1 (3.448%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (41.38%) Data Scientist
2 11 (37.93%) Developer
3 8 (27.59%) Research Engineer
3 8 (27.59%) Hadoop Developer
4 5 (17.24%) Software Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) Data Analyst
5 4 (13.79%) Analyst
6 3 (10.34%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 3 (10.34%) Research Scientist
7 2 (6.897%) Senior Software Engineer
8 1 (3.448%) Research Analyst
8 1 (3.448%) Java/J2EE Developer
8 1 (3.448%) Business Data Analyst
8 1 (3.448%) Business Intelligence Architect
8 1 (3.448%) Software Developer
8 1 (3.448%) Architect
8 1 (3.448%) Business Analyst
8 1 (3.448%) Consultant
8 1 (3.448%) Data Architect
8 1 (3.448%) Business Intelligence Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 19 (65.52%) Social Network
2 18 (62.07%) Computer Science
3 17 (58.62%) Mathematics
3 17 (58.62%) Physics
4 15 (51.72%) Machine Learning
5 11 (37.93%) Data Integration
6 8 (27.59%) Grid Computing
6 8 (27.59%) Statistics
7 6 (20.69%) Visualisation
7 6 (20.69%) Neural Network
8 4 (13.79%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.448%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (68.97%) Data Analysis
1 20 (68.97%) Software Engineering
2 12 (41.38%) TDD
3 11 (37.93%) Business Analysis
3 11 (37.93%) Scrum
4 10 (34.48%) Data Modelling
4 10 (34.48%) Analytics
5 6 (20.69%) Predictive Modelling
6 4 (13.79%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (13.79%) CRM
7 3 (10.34%) Data Architecture
7 3 (10.34%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
8 1 (3.448%) Agile Software Development
8 1 (3.448%) Data Cleansing
8 1 (3.448%) BDD
8 1 (3.448%) RDF
Programming Languages
1 22 (75.86%) Java
2 17 (58.62%) SQL
3 11 (37.93%) Scala
4 10 (34.48%) Python
5 9 (31.03%) R
6 8 (27.59%) C++
7 1 (3.448%) Clojure
7 1 (3.448%) Bash shell
7 1 (3.448%) Perl
Qualifications
1 9 (31.03%) Degree
2 8 (27.59%) PhD
Vendors
1 1 (3.448%) Business Objects
1 1 (3.448%) Hortonworks
1 1 (3.448%) Cloudera