The first table below looks at the demand for Sqoop skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Sqoop 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
Sqoop
Rank 524 581 -
Rank change year-on-year
+57 -
Contract jobs citing Sqoop 5 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.011% 0.005% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.052% 0.027% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
Average daily rate £475 £400 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.75% -
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
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%

Sqoop
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sqoop Jobs Demand Trend

Sqoop
Daily Rate Trend

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

Sqoop Daily Rate Trend

Sqoop
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Sqoop Daily Rate Histogram

Sqoop
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 Sqoop 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 +48 5 £475 +18.75%
London +40 5 £475 +18.75%
City of London - 2 £538 -

Sqoop
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 12 (100.00%) Java
1 12 (100.00%) Hadoop
2 11 (91.67%) Big Data
3 9 (75.00%) BDD
3 9 (75.00%) TDD
4 8 (66.67%) Apache Hive
4 8 (66.67%) Automated Testing
4 8 (66.67%) RESTful
4 8 (66.67%) Analytics
4 8 (66.67%) Apache Pig
5 7 (58.33%) NoSQL
5 7 (58.33%) SOAP
6 6 (50.00%) Apache Solr
7 4 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
7 4 (33.33%) Selenium
7 4 (33.33%) jQuery
7 4 (33.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 4 (33.33%) CSS3
7 4 (33.33%) HTML5
7 4 (33.33%) WebDriver
7 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
7 4 (33.33%) HTML
7 4 (33.33%) CSS
7 4 (33.33%) Customer Intelligence
7 4 (33.33%) Cucumber
8 3 (25.00%) Talend
8 3 (25.00%) Lucene
8 3 (25.00%) Maven
8 3 (25.00%) Migration
8 3 (25.00%) Informatica

Sqoop
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 8 (66.67%) RESTful
2 7 (58.33%) SOAP
3 4 (33.33%) jQuery
3 4 (33.33%) CSS3
3 4 (33.33%) HTML5
3 4 (33.33%) HTML
3 4 (33.33%) CSS
4 3 (25.00%) Lucene
4 3 (25.00%) MapReduce
5 1 (8.333%) Apache Avro
5 1 (8.333%) XML
5 1 (8.333%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 8 (66.67%) Apache Pig
2 6 (50.00%) Apache Solr
3 1 (8.333%) CMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (100.00%) Hadoop
2 11 (91.67%) Big Data
3 8 (66.67%) Apache Hive
4 7 (58.33%) NoSQL
5 2 (16.67%) Pentaho
6 1 (8.333%) HBase
6 1 (8.333%) CouchDB
6 1 (8.333%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Selenium
1 4 (33.33%) WebDriver
1 4 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 3 (25.00%) Maven
2 3 (25.00%) Jasmine
2 3 (25.00%) Talend Open Studio
3 1 (8.333%) Git (software)
General
1 2 (16.67%) Finance
1 2 (16.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Hadoop Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Lead Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Architect
4 1 (8.333%) Technical Architect
4 1 (8.333%) Applications Architect
4 1 (8.333%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Technical Leader
4 1 (8.333%) Lead Java Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Lead Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.333%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Ubuntu
1 2 (16.67%) CentOS
1 2 (16.67%) UNIX
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (8.333%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) BDD
1 9 (75.00%) TDD
2 8 (66.67%) Automated Testing
2 8 (66.67%) Analytics
3 4 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (33.33%) Customer Intelligence
4 3 (25.00%) Migration
4 3 (25.00%) ETL
4 3 (25.00%) Unit Testing
4 3 (25.00%) Data Migration
4 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (16.67%) Scrum
6 1 (8.333%) Customer Insight
6 1 (8.333%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 3 (25.00%) C
3 3 (25.00%) Python
4 1 (8.333%) Shell Script
4 1 (8.333%) XQuery
4 1 (8.333%) PL/SQL
4 1 (8.333%) SQL
4 1 (8.333%) Scala
4 1 (8.333%) XPath
4 1 (8.333%) R
4 1 (8.333%) Bash shell
4 1 (8.333%) Clojure
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (8.333%) Apache Flume
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Talend
1 3 (25.00%) Informatica
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (8.333%) Cognos
2 1 (8.333%) Tableau