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 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
NoSQL
Rank 373 439 578
Rank change year-on-year
+66 +139
Contract jobs citing NoSQL 171 126 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.369% 0.216% 0.013%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.777% 1.134% 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 90 6
Average daily rate £413 £400 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.12% -3.03%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £322 £280 £338
10% offered a daily rate of more than £501 £530 £575
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
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%

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 23 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 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 +79 164 £413 +3.12%
London +61 114 £450 +12.50%
City of London +41 36 £450 -15.09%
West Yorkshire +13 22 £325 +16.07%
Yorkshire +8 22 £325 +16.07%
Leeds +6 22 £325 +16.07%
South East +26 15 £323 -37.07%
East of England +16 6 £400 -9.85%
North West +15 6 £361 +80.62%
Scotland - 6 £425 -
Glasgow - 5 £425 -
Cheshire - 5 £400 -
Berkshire - 5 - -
Hampshire +2 4 £321 -1.15%
Westminster - 4 £500 -
Basingstoke - 4 £321 -
Essex - 4 £400 -
Harlow - 4 £400 -
Edinburgh - 3 £425 -
Chester - 3 £425 -
Reading - 3 - -
Kent - 3 - -
Hertfordshire +1 2 £400 -9.85%
St Albans -2 2 £400 -20.00%
Surrey - 2 £600 -
Manchester +11 1 £323 +61.25%
East Sussex +7 1 - -
Stirlingshire - 1 £475 -
Salford - 1 £323 -
Stirling - 1 £475 -

NoSQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 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.

1 218 (56.77%) Java
2 159 (41.41%) MongoDB
3 142 (36.98%) TDD
4 126 (32.81%) Big Data
5 116 (30.21%) Hadoop
6 114 (29.69%) Linux
7 108 (28.13%) Web Services
8 104 (27.08%) Continuous Integration
9 103 (26.82%) JavaScript
10 101 (26.30%) Agile Software Development
11 99 (25.78%) Scrum
12 92 (23.96%) REST
13 86 (22.40%) Ruby
14 83 (21.61%) MySQL
15 79 (20.57%) Apache Cassandra
16 77 (20.05%) MVC
17 75 (19.53%) SQL
18 72 (18.75%) CSS
18 72 (18.75%) Open Source
19 71 (18.49%) BDD
19 71 (18.49%) Spring
20 70 (18.23%) Python
21 66 (17.19%) SOAP
21 66 (17.19%) JSON
22 65 (16.93%) SQL Server
23 64 (16.67%) Apache
24 62 (16.15%) HTTP
25 61 (15.89%) Puppet
26 60 (15.63%) Amazon AWS
27 59 (15.36%) PHP

NoSQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 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
1 108 (28.13%) Web Services
2 92 (23.96%) REST
3 72 (18.75%) CSS
4 71 (18.49%) Spring
5 66 (17.19%) SOAP
5 66 (17.19%) JSON
6 58 (15.10%) jQuery
7 56 (14.58%) J2EE
8 53 (13.80%) HTML5
9 51 (13.28%) HTML
10 46 (11.98%) RESTful
11 44 (11.46%) Ruby on Rails
12 43 (11.20%) XML
13 42 (10.94%) .NET
14 41 (10.68%) Node.js
15 39 (10.16%) MapReduce
16 35 (9.115%) CSS3
17 34 (8.854%) Ajax
18 32 (8.333%) Java EE
19 31 (8.073%) Spring MVC
Application Platforms
1 64 (16.67%) Apache
2 60 (15.63%) Amazon AWS
3 50 (13.02%) Amazon EC2
4 40 (10.42%) Apache Pig
5 32 (8.333%) Amazon S3
6 24 (6.250%) nginx
6 24 (6.250%) Tomcat
7 18 (4.688%) Route 53
8 17 (4.427%) BizTalk Server
9 15 (3.906%) CMS
9 15 (3.906%) Apache Solr
9 15 (3.906%) RabbitMQ
10 12 (3.125%) Windows Azure
11 11 (2.865%) OpenStack
12 8 (2.083%) TIBCO EMS
12 8 (2.083%) ActiveMQ
13 6 (1.563%) ESB
14 5 (1.302%) Mule
15 4 (1.042%) Kafka
15 4 (1.042%) MSMQ
Applications
1 6 (1.563%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.260%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (1.302%) RMDS
2 1 (0.260%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.260%) Taleo
2 1 (0.260%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 62 (16.15%) HTTP
2 32 (8.333%) DNS
3 23 (5.990%) Internet
4 16 (4.167%) SSL
5 15 (3.906%) Network Security
6 13 (3.385%) SAN
6 13 (3.385%) RTP
6 13 (3.385%) RTSP
6 13 (3.385%) Firewall
6 13 (3.385%) NAS
7 8 (2.083%) LTE
7 8 (2.083%) Radio Access Network
7 8 (2.083%) 2G
7 8 (2.083%) 3G
7 8 (2.083%) ATM
7 8 (2.083%) IPv4
8 3 (0.781%) DHCP
8 3 (0.781%) SSH
8 3 (0.781%) AMQP
9 2 (0.521%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (41.41%) MongoDB
2 126 (32.81%) Big Data
3 116 (30.21%) Hadoop
4 83 (21.61%) MySQL
5 79 (20.57%) Apache Cassandra
6 65 (16.93%) SQL Server
7 56 (14.58%) Redis
8 40 (10.42%) Apache Hive
9 38 (9.896%) RDBMS
10 30 (7.813%) CouchDB
11 25 (6.510%) MarkLogic
12 24 (6.250%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 24 (6.250%) HBase
13 22 (5.729%) Couchbase
13 22 (5.729%) PostgreSQL
14 19 (4.948%) SimpleDB
15 18 (4.688%) Amazon RDS
16 17 (4.427%) Data Warehouse
17 16 (4.167%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 14 (3.646%) Mahout
Development Applications
1 57 (14.84%) Git (software)
2 52 (13.54%) Maven
3 40 (10.42%) Selenium
4 34 (8.854%) JIRA
4 34 (8.854%) JUnit
5 22 (5.729%) Jenkins
6 21 (5.469%) Mockito
7 18 (4.688%) Hudson
8 16 (4.167%) Cucumber
9 11 (2.865%) SpecFlow
10 9 (2.344%) Subversion
10 9 (2.344%) JBehave
10 9 (2.344%) Team Foundation Server
11 8 (2.083%) Jasmine
12 7 (1.823%) Ant
12 7 (1.823%) WebDriver
12 7 (1.823%) GitHub
13 5 (1.302%) EasyMock
13 5 (1.302%) RSpec
13 5 (1.302%) jMock
General
1 58 (15.10%) Finance
2 22 (5.729%) Publishing
2 22 (5.729%) Telecoms
3 17 (4.427%) Banking
4 10 (2.604%) Retail
5 9 (2.344%) Investment Banking
5 9 (2.344%) Games
6 5 (1.302%) Front Office
7 4 (1.042%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (1.042%) Manufacturing
8 3 (0.781%) Retail Banking
9 2 (0.521%) Marketing
9 2 (0.521%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.260%) Billing
10 1 (0.260%) Electronics
10 1 (0.260%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.260%) Music
10 1 (0.260%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 214 (55.73%) Developer
2 89 (23.18%) Java Developer
3 45 (11.72%) Senior Developer
4 35 (9.115%) Architect
4 35 (9.115%) Software Engineer
5 23 (5.990%) DevOps Engineer
6 22 (5.729%) Technical Leader
6 22 (5.729%) Senior Java Developer
7 20 (5.208%) Data Architect
8 18 (4.688%) Systems Engineer
9 16 (4.167%) C# Developer
10 15 (3.906%) Linux Engineer
10 15 (3.906%) Hadoop Developer
11 14 (3.646%) Ruby on Rails Developer
12 13 (3.385%) Software Developer
12 13 (3.385%) Ruby Developer
13 11 (2.865%) Administrator
14 10 (2.604%) Systems Administrator
14 10 (2.604%) Lead Developer
15 9 (2.344%) Senior Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 72 (18.75%) Open Source
2 25 (6.510%) Computer Science
3 18 (4.688%) Mathematics
4 16 (4.167%) Cloud Computing
5 15 (3.906%) Data Integration
5 15 (3.906%) IaaS
6 12 (3.125%) Ontologies
6 12 (3.125%) Social Network
7 11 (2.865%) Physics
8 10 (2.604%) Taxonomies
8 10 (2.604%) Machine Learning
8 10 (2.604%) SaaS
9 6 (1.563%) PaaS
9 6 (1.563%) Social Media
9 6 (1.563%) Visualisation
10 5 (1.302%) Digital Media
11 4 (1.042%) Semantic Web
11 4 (1.042%) Inversion of Control
11 4 (1.042%) Heroku
11 4 (1.042%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 114 (29.69%) Linux
2 32 (8.333%) UNIX
3 25 (6.510%) Windows
4 22 (5.729%) CentOS
5 14 (3.646%) Ubuntu
6 7 (1.823%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.042%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.260%) Solaris
8 1 (0.260%) VMS
8 1 (0.260%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (36.98%) TDD
2 104 (27.08%) Continuous Integration
3 101 (26.30%) Agile Software Development
4 99 (25.78%) Scrum
5 77 (20.05%) MVC
6 71 (18.49%) BDD
7 53 (13.80%) E-Commerce
7 53 (13.80%) Kanban
8 45 (11.72%) OO
9 35 (9.115%) Configuration Management
10 30 (7.813%) Analytics
11 24 (6.250%) SOA
12 23 (5.990%) Dependency Injection
13 22 (5.729%) Web Development
14 21 (5.469%) Pair Programming
14 21 (5.469%) Data Modelling
15 20 (5.208%) Software Architecture
15 20 (5.208%) ETL
16 18 (4.688%) Load Balancing
17 17 (4.427%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 218 (56.77%) Java
2 103 (26.82%) JavaScript
3 86 (22.40%) Ruby
4 75 (19.53%) SQL
5 70 (18.23%) Python
6 59 (15.36%) PHP
7 42 (10.94%) C#
8 39 (10.16%) C++
9 31 (8.073%) Bash shell
10 28 (7.292%) Scala
11 25 (6.510%) Perl
11 25 (6.510%) Groovy
12 21 (5.469%) XQuery
13 14 (3.646%) C
14 12 (3.125%) Shell Script
15 7 (1.823%) T-SQL
15 7 (1.823%) Clojure
15 7 (1.823%) Haskell
15 7 (1.823%) Erlang
16 6 (1.563%) XPath
Qualifications
1 25 (6.510%) Degree
2 4 (1.042%) Security Cleared
3 3 (0.781%) DV Cleared
4 2 (0.521%) MCPD
5 1 (0.260%) CISSP
5 1 (0.260%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.260%) CCNA
5 1 (0.260%) SSCP
5 1 (0.260%) GIAC
5 1 (0.260%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (1.823%) SLA
2 4 (1.042%) QA
3 2 (0.521%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (3.906%) Samba
2 6 (1.563%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (0.521%) Xen
4 1 (0.260%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.260%) Varnish
4 1 (0.260%) OpenSSO
4 1 (0.260%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 61 (15.89%) Puppet
2 14 (3.646%) ZABBIX
3 12 (3.125%) Nagios
4 9 (2.344%) OpenView
5 3 (0.781%) Splunk
6 1 (0.260%) Cobbler
Vendors
1 45 (11.72%) Oracle
2 29 (7.552%) JBoss
3 17 (4.427%) Rackspace
4 12 (3.125%) Red Hat
5 11 (2.865%) TIBCO
6 9 (2.344%) Twitter
7 7 (1.823%) Microsoft
7 7 (1.823%) RightScale
7 7 (1.823%) Cloudera
8 6 (1.563%) Hortonworks
8 6 (1.563%) Greenplum
8 6 (1.563%) Informatica
9 5 (1.302%) Reuters
9 5 (1.302%) Bloomberg
9 5 (1.302%) 29West
10 4 (1.042%) Huawei
10 4 (1.042%) Zend
10 4 (1.042%) Nokia Siemens Networks
10 4 (1.042%) NEC
10 4 (1.042%) Ericsson
City, London
Is looking for a java/NoSQL developer... Experience with NoSQL databases is essential in particularly Cassandra... Experience with noSQL databases. Exposure to working in Agile environments... Desirable; Experience...
Hydrogen Group
Rate: £0.00 - £450.00 per day + Negotiable
Posted: 22 May 2013
City, London
Required skills and technologies; Demonstrated experience in software engineering. Diverse technological background with experience in several of the following; java, c++, ruby, python, XML based components, tomcat, spring...
Hydrogen Group
Rate: £0.00 - £450.00 per day + Negotiable
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
Is looking for a java/NoSQL developer... Experience with noSQL databases (Cassandra) Exposure to working in Agile environments. Experience with alternative languages such as Groovy, Ruby, Scala, Python...
Hydrogen Group
Rate: £0.00 - £425.00 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
London
ruby, javascript, api, linux, nosql, mongo, python, elastic search, soap, lucene, Excellent position for a back end Ruby Developer to join a global organisation that always embrace the...
Search Consultancy
Posted: 21 May 2013
Central London / West End
Excellent Java experience - Groovy and Grails experience - A background in building JVM based applications at scale - Full stack Javascript knowledge Desired Skills. - NoSQL - DevOps - Puppet, Chef, Salt - RabbitMQ -...
Coal IT Services
Rate: From £400 to £500 per day negotiable
Posted: 16 May 2013
City, London
You will be working on the initial stages of an exciting project - You will be working on B2B and D2C websites running cross-browser and cross-platform - You...
Coal IT Services
Rate: From £400 to £500 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
London
You will join a technology driven firm that is committed to the Open Source community; As a Ruby Developer you will design and develop new features of their...
Explore Recruitment Solutions
Rate: £500 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
DevOps - Engineer - Puppet - Chef - Big Data - Cloud - MongoDB - Jenknins - Maven - Cloud - Agile... Cassandra, MongoDB, NoSQL and other relevant Big Data/Cloud technologies. CloudStack, OpenStack API. CI tools - Jenkins,...
Oliver Bernard
Rate: From £500 to £550 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
West London
Your role will include performing advanced and highly complex software design and development in Dunnhumby's primary technologies - primary focus will be .net 3.5 and 4 with...
Dunnhumby
Posted: 8 May 2013
London
net cms umbraco sitecore My client a TOP 10 NMA is in need of a senior .net Sitecore and Umbraco developer. You must experience of both of these...
Premier Group Recruitment
Rate: £300.00 - £400.00 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
UK Central London
net cms umbraco sitecoreMy client a TOP 10 NMA is in need of a senior .net Sitecore and Umbraco developer.You must experience of both of these CMS'...
Premier Group
Rate: £300.00 - £400.00 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
City, London
Key Skills & Background *Highly skilled in OO PHP programming around 5-7+ years of experience required. *Must be skilled in using Zend framework 2+ years of experience. *Experienced...
Eutopia Solutions Ltd
Rate: £300 - £450 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
City, London
Technical Stack *Java *Hadoop or Cassandra *RabbitMQ *Storm *Kafka *Agile, Scrum, TDD etc... People Source specialise in niche technology markets including Information Technology, Digital TV, Digital Marketing, Project...
People Source Consulting
Rate: £400 - £500 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
City of London
Key responsibilities are: Organising and managing lab activities including the prioritisation processes, lab infrastructure, organisation of experiments and basic lab budgets management Main point of contact for the...
Capita Resourcing Ltd
Rate: £450 - £550 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
London
Our Client is looking for a DV cleared Technical Lead to look at emerging technologies and evaluate their relevance in providing a response to some big challenges moving...
LA International
Rate: Excellent Rates
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
working in a LAMP environment (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) - developing software to use TCP, DNS and HTTP... - NoSQL solutions (Mongo DB, Simple DB, Membase, Redis) - RDBMS technologies (MySQL) -...
Hotfoot Resourcing.
Rate: From £300 to £350 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
London
Linux, JBoss, TomCat, Apache, PHP, DNS) Monitoring (e.g... Oracle, MySQL, NoSQL e.g. Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis, Hadoop & CouchDB) Security: Encryption; Network security; Network topology; System Hardening, Pen...
Bearing Partnership
Rate: From £450 to £480 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
City, London
Perl) . Core DWH ETL tools, Informatica The DB2 Data Engineer would benefit from having exposure to NoSQL technologies and big data platforms such as Hadoop, HBASE or Cassandra,...
E-synergy Solutions
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
London
Experience with some of the following; Hadoop, MapReduce, Hive, HBase, Pig, Cassandra, NoSQL. Machine Learning exposure a big plus, especially Apache Mahout. BSc/MSc in Maths, Statistics, Computer...
Hydrogen Group
Rate: £600.00 - £700.00 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
Surrey
Chief Software Architect - .NET Development Manager (Chief Software Architect, Scrum Master, CTO, Director, Team Leader, Technical Lead, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, C#, C++ WCF, RESTful,...
Careerwise UK Limited
Rate: £600 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013