The first table below looks at the demand for NoSQL skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited NoSQL over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
NoSQL
Rank 367 455 580
Rank change year-on-year
+88 +125
Contract jobs citing NoSQL 169 123 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.364% 0.211% 0.013%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.750% 1.110% 0.064%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 87 6
Average daily rate £413 £400 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.12% -15.78%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £322 £280 £338
10% offered a daily rate of more than £504 £530 £675
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
-13.33% -
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
9659 11079 12476
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 20.82% 19.01% 20.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 5830 6348 6943
Average daily rate £382 £375 £390
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.86% -3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £255 £259 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £525 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 253 405
Average hourly rate £25.70 £27.50 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.54% -12.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.22 £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 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%

NoSQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

NoSQL Jobs Demand Trend

NoSQL
Daily Rate Trend

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

NoSQL Daily Rate Trend

NoSQL
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing NoSQL within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

NoSQL Daily Rate Histogram

NoSQL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

NoSQL Hourly Rate Trend

NoSQL
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 NoSQL within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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 +80 162 £400 -
London +53 113 £450 +12.50%
City of London +33 34 £450 -15.09%
West Yorkshire +15 22 £325 +16.07%
Yorkshire +9 22 £325 +16.07%
Leeds +4 22 £325 +16.07%
South East +32 16 £323 -37.07%
North West +19 6 £361 +80.62%
Scotland - 6 £425 -
Hampshire -1 5 £323 -0.76%
Cheshire - 5 £400 -
Berkshire - 5 - -
Basingstoke - 5 £323 -
East of England +10 4 £400 -9.85%
Westminster - 4 £500 -
Kent - 4 - -
Glasgow - 4 £419 -
Chester - 3 £425 -
Hertfordshire -1 2 £400 -9.85%
St Albans -3 2 £400 -20.00%
Stirlingshire - 2 £475 -
Edinburgh - 2 £419 -
Harlow - 2 £400 -
Reading - 2 - -
Stirling - 2 £475 -
Essex - 2 £400 -
East Sussex +11 1 - -
Manchester +10 1 £323 +61.25%
Surrey - 1 - -
Salford - 1 £323 -

NoSQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing NoSQL 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 NoSQL.

1 216 (57.45%) Java
2 160 (42.55%) MongoDB
3 141 (37.50%) TDD
4 124 (32.98%) Big Data
5 117 (31.12%) Linux
6 113 (30.05%) Hadoop
7 106 (28.19%) Web Services
8 104 (27.66%) Continuous Integration
9 103 (27.39%) JavaScript
10 99 (26.33%) Scrum
11 98 (26.06%) Agile Software Development
12 95 (25.27%) REST
13 85 (22.61%) Ruby
14 83 (22.07%) MySQL
15 77 (20.48%) MVC
15 77 (20.48%) Apache Cassandra
16 76 (20.21%) SQL
17 72 (19.15%) CSS
18 70 (18.62%) BDD
18 70 (18.62%) Open Source
19 69 (18.35%) Spring
20 68 (18.09%) SQL Server
20 68 (18.09%) Python
21 67 (17.82%) SOAP
21 67 (17.82%) JSON
22 66 (17.55%) Apache
22 66 (17.55%) HTTP
23 62 (16.49%) Puppet
24 61 (16.22%) Finance
25 60 (15.96%) jQuery

NoSQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing NoSQL 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 NoSQL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 106 (28.19%) Web Services
2 95 (25.27%) REST
3 72 (19.15%) CSS
4 69 (18.35%) Spring
5 67 (17.82%) SOAP
5 67 (17.82%) JSON
6 60 (15.96%) jQuery
7 57 (15.16%) J2EE
8 54 (14.36%) HTML
8 54 (14.36%) HTML5
9 45 (11.97%) RESTful
9 45 (11.97%) .NET
10 44 (11.70%) XML
10 44 (11.70%) Ruby on Rails
11 39 (10.37%) Node.js
12 38 (10.11%) MapReduce
12 38 (10.11%) Ajax
13 34 (9.043%) Java EE
13 34 (9.043%) CSS3
14 30 (7.979%) Spring MVC
Application Platforms
1 66 (17.55%) Apache
2 59 (15.69%) Amazon AWS
3 51 (13.56%) Amazon EC2
4 39 (10.37%) Apache Pig
5 31 (8.245%) Amazon S3
6 26 (6.915%) Tomcat
7 24 (6.383%) nginx
8 17 (4.521%) BizTalk Server
8 17 (4.521%) CMS
8 17 (4.521%) Route 53
9 15 (3.989%) Apache Solr
10 13 (3.457%) RabbitMQ
11 12 (3.191%) Windows Azure
12 11 (2.926%) OpenStack
13 9 (2.394%) ActiveMQ
14 8 (2.128%) TIBCO EMS
15 6 (1.596%) ESB
16 5 (1.330%) Mule
17 4 (1.064%) MSMQ
18 3 (0.798%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (1.596%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.266%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (1.330%) RMDS
2 1 (0.266%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.266%) Taleo
2 1 (0.266%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 66 (17.55%) HTTP
2 33 (8.777%) DNS
3 23 (6.117%) Internet
4 18 (4.787%) SSL
5 17 (4.521%) Network Security
6 15 (3.989%) RTP
6 15 (3.989%) NAS
6 15 (3.989%) RTSP
6 15 (3.989%) SAN
6 15 (3.989%) Firewall
7 8 (2.128%) 2G
7 8 (2.128%) 3G
7 8 (2.128%) IPv4
7 8 (2.128%) ATM
7 8 (2.128%) Radio Access Network
7 8 (2.128%) LTE
8 3 (0.798%) AMQP
8 3 (0.798%) DHCP
8 3 (0.798%) SSH
9 2 (0.532%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (42.55%) MongoDB
2 124 (32.98%) Big Data
3 113 (30.05%) Hadoop
4 83 (22.07%) MySQL
5 77 (20.48%) Apache Cassandra
6 68 (18.09%) SQL Server
7 58 (15.43%) Redis
8 40 (10.64%) RDBMS
9 39 (10.37%) Apache Hive
10 31 (8.245%) CouchDB
11 27 (7.181%) MarkLogic
12 24 (6.383%) HBase
12 24 (6.383%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 22 (5.851%) PostgreSQL
14 21 (5.585%) Couchbase
15 18 (4.787%) SimpleDB
16 17 (4.521%) Amazon RDS
17 16 (4.255%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 16 (4.255%) Data Warehouse
18 15 (3.989%) Mahout
Development Applications
1 58 (15.43%) Git (software)
2 53 (14.10%) Maven
3 42 (11.17%) Selenium
4 38 (10.11%) JIRA
5 34 (9.043%) JUnit
6 24 (6.383%) Jenkins
7 21 (5.585%) Mockito
8 20 (5.319%) Hudson
9 17 (4.521%) Cucumber
10 13 (3.457%) SpecFlow
11 9 (2.394%) Team Foundation Server
11 9 (2.394%) JBehave
11 9 (2.394%) Subversion
12 8 (2.128%) Jasmine
13 7 (1.862%) GitHub
13 7 (1.862%) Ant
13 7 (1.862%) WebDriver
14 6 (1.596%) RSpec
15 5 (1.330%) EasyMock
15 5 (1.330%) jMock
General
1 61 (16.22%) Finance
2 21 (5.585%) Telecoms
3 20 (5.319%) Publishing
4 16 (4.255%) Banking
5 9 (2.394%) Retail
6 8 (2.128%) Investment Banking
6 8 (2.128%) Games
7 5 (1.330%) Front Office
8 4 (1.064%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (1.064%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.532%) Retail Banking
9 2 (0.532%) Marketing
9 2 (0.532%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.266%) Billing
10 1 (0.266%) Music
10 1 (0.266%) Music Industry
10 1 (0.266%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.266%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 208 (55.32%) Developer
2 85 (22.61%) Java Developer
3 42 (11.17%) Senior Developer
4 35 (9.309%) Software Engineer
5 34 (9.043%) Architect
6 24 (6.383%) DevOps Engineer
7 22 (5.851%) Technical Leader
8 20 (5.319%) Senior Java Developer
8 20 (5.319%) Data Architect
9 19 (5.053%) Systems Engineer
10 16 (4.255%) C# Developer
10 16 (4.255%) Linux Engineer
11 14 (3.723%) Hadoop Developer
11 14 (3.723%) Ruby on Rails Developer
12 13 (3.457%) Ruby Developer
13 12 (3.191%) Software Developer
14 11 (2.926%) .NET Developer
14 11 (2.926%) Administrator
15 10 (2.660%) Systems Administrator
16 9 (2.394%) Lead Developer
Miscellaneous
1 70 (18.62%) Open Source
2 26 (6.915%) Computer Science
3 19 (5.053%) Mathematics
4 17 (4.521%) Cloud Computing
5 16 (4.255%) IaaS
6 15 (3.989%) Data Integration
7 13 (3.457%) Social Network
7 13 (3.457%) Ontologies
8 12 (3.191%) Physics
8 12 (3.191%) Taxonomies
9 11 (2.926%) Machine Learning
10 10 (2.660%) SaaS
11 7 (1.862%) PaaS
12 6 (1.596%) Social Media
12 6 (1.596%) Visualisation
13 5 (1.330%) Digital Media
14 4 (1.064%) Heroku
14 4 (1.064%) Semantic Web
14 4 (1.064%) Inversion of Control
14 4 (1.064%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 117 (31.12%) Linux
2 34 (9.043%) UNIX
3 25 (6.649%) Windows
4 22 (5.851%) CentOS
5 14 (3.723%) Ubuntu
6 7 (1.862%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.064%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.266%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.266%) Solaris
8 1 (0.266%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (37.50%) TDD
2 104 (27.66%) Continuous Integration
3 99 (26.33%) Scrum
4 98 (26.06%) Agile Software Development
5 77 (20.48%) MVC
6 70 (18.62%) BDD
7 55 (14.63%) Kanban
8 52 (13.83%) E-Commerce
9 46 (12.23%) OO
10 34 (9.043%) Configuration Management
11 28 (7.447%) SOA
11 28 (7.447%) Analytics
12 23 (6.117%) Dependency Injection
12 23 (6.117%) Web Development
13 21 (5.585%) Data Modelling
14 20 (5.319%) Load Balancing
14 20 (5.319%) Pair Programming
14 20 (5.319%) Software Architecture
15 19 (5.053%) ETL
16 17 (4.521%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 216 (57.45%) Java
2 103 (27.39%) JavaScript
3 85 (22.61%) Ruby
4 76 (20.21%) SQL
5 68 (18.09%) Python
6 59 (15.69%) PHP
7 43 (11.44%) C#
8 37 (9.840%) C++
9 30 (7.979%) Bash shell
10 27 (7.181%) Scala
11 26 (6.915%) Perl
12 25 (6.649%) Groovy
13 23 (6.117%) XQuery
14 14 (3.723%) C
15 12 (3.191%) Shell Script
16 8 (2.128%) Haskell
16 8 (2.128%) Erlang
16 8 (2.128%) Clojure
17 7 (1.862%) T-SQL
18 6 (1.596%) XPath
Qualifications
1 25 (6.649%) Degree
2 4 (1.064%) Security Cleared
3 3 (0.798%) DV Cleared
4 2 (0.532%) MCPD
5 1 (0.266%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (0.266%) CCNA
5 1 (0.266%) CISSP
5 1 (0.266%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.266%) SSCP
5 1 (0.266%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (1.862%) SLA
2 3 (0.798%) QA
3 2 (0.532%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (4.521%) Samba
2 6 (1.596%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (0.532%) Xen
4 1 (0.266%) OpenSSO
4 1 (0.266%) Varnish
4 1 (0.266%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.266%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 62 (16.49%) Puppet
2 16 (4.255%) ZABBIX
3 14 (3.723%) Nagios
4 11 (2.926%) OpenView
5 2 (0.532%) Splunk
6 1 (0.266%) Cobbler
Vendors
1 46 (12.23%) Oracle
2 31 (8.245%) JBoss
3 19 (5.053%) Rackspace
4 12 (3.191%) Red Hat
5 11 (2.926%) TIBCO
6 9 (2.394%) RightScale
6 9 (2.394%) Twitter
7 7 (1.862%) Cloudera
7 7 (1.862%) Microsoft
8 6 (1.596%) Greenplum
8 6 (1.596%) Hortonworks
9 5 (1.330%) Informatica
9 5 (1.330%) 29West
9 5 (1.330%) Reuters
9 5 (1.330%) Bloomberg
10 4 (1.064%) NEC
10 4 (1.064%) Citrix
10 4 (1.064%) Business Objects
10 4 (1.064%) Nokia Siemens Networks
10 4 (1.064%) Ericsson
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Hydrogen Group
Rate: £0.00 - £450.00 per day + Negotiable
Posted: 17 May 2013
London
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ANSON MCCADE
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Posted: 13 May 2013
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Hydrogen Group
Rate: £0.00 per day + Negotiable
Posted: 15 May 2013
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Rate: From £400 to £500 per day negotiable
Posted: 16 May 2013
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Rate: £500 per day
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Posted: 8 May 2013
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Rate: £300.00 - £400.00 per day
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Rate: £300.00 - £400.00 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
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ReThink Recruitment
Rate: £350.00 - £450 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
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Eutopia Solutions Ltd
Rate: £300 - £450 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
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Rate: £400 - £500 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
London
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Hotfoot Resourcing.
Rate: From £300 to £350 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
City, London
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Oliver Bernard
Rate: From £300 to £450 per day
Posted: 13 May 2013
Harlow, Essex
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Lorien Resourcing
Posted: 15 May 2013
Surrey
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Rate: £600 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
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Rate: £0.00 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013