The first table below looks at the demand for Big Data skills in IT jobs advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Big Data over the 3 months to 19 June 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 for the Berkshire region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Big Data
Rank 120 202 205
Rank change year-on-year
+82 +3
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 91 25 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 1.714% 0.403% 0.037%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.523% 1.435% 0.129%
Number of salaries quoted 83 23 2
Average salary £45,000 £50,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.00% +33.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £43,000 £35,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £57,500 £39,500
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £50,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +33.33%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
1395 1742 1555
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 26.28% 28.07% 28.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1232 1557 1353
Average salary £45,000 £42,500 £41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.88% +2.40%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £57,500 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
Big Data
South East

Big Data
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Big Data across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Berkshire Big Data Jobs Demand Trend

Big Data
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Big Data across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire Big Data Salary Trend

Big Data
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Big Data across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Berkshire Big Data Salary Histogram

Big Data
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Big Data within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Reading +7 31 £55,000 - 5
Newbury +13 9 £42,500 -1.16%
Bracknell -16 7 £50,000 +8.69% 1
Wokingham - 3 £27,500 - 1
Big Data
South East

Big Data
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing Big Data 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Big Data.

1 52 (36.11%) Java
2 49 (34.03%) SQL Server
3 46 (31.94%) C++
4 43 (29.86%) Computer Science
5 42 (29.17%) Linux
6 41 (28.47%) .NET
7 40 (27.78%) JavaScript
7 40 (27.78%) Analytics
8 38 (26.39%) SaaS
9 36 (25.00%) Degree
10 34 (23.61%) HTML
10 34 (23.61%) C#
10 34 (23.61%) Windows
11 33 (22.92%) UNIX
11 33 (22.92%) Internet
11 33 (22.92%) Social Media
12 32 (22.22%) Subversion
12 32 (22.22%) Visual Studio
12 32 (22.22%) MapReduce
13 31 (21.53%) CSS
13 31 (21.53%) PHP
13 31 (21.53%) MVC
13 31 (21.53%) Text Mining
13 31 (21.53%) SQL Server 2005
13 31 (21.53%) Apache Cassandra
13 31 (21.53%) Natural Language Processing
13 31 (21.53%) WPF
13 31 (21.53%) jQuery
13 31 (21.53%) TeamCity
14 29 (20.14%) Microsoft

Big Data
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing Big Data also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Big Data. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 41 (28.47%) .NET
2 34 (23.61%) HTML
3 32 (22.22%) MapReduce
4 31 (21.53%) CSS
4 31 (21.53%) Natural Language Processing
4 31 (21.53%) WPF
4 31 (21.53%) jQuery
5 26 (18.06%) Node.js
6 23 (15.97%) ASP.NET
6 23 (15.97%) Lucene
7 22 (15.28%) ASP.NET MVC
7 22 (15.28%) MonoTouch
7 22 (15.28%) WCF
7 22 (15.28%) ASP
8 18 (12.50%) Flash
8 18 (12.50%) FIX Protocol
8 18 (12.50%) ZeroMQ
9 12 (8.333%) REST
10 10 (6.944%) Web Services
11 9 (6.250%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 18 (12.50%) SAS
2 9 (6.250%) WebLogic
3 6 (4.167%) FileNet
4 5 (3.472%) JCAPS
5 4 (2.778%) WebSphere Application Server
6 3 (2.083%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.694%) ElasticSearch
7 1 (0.694%) Apache
7 1 (0.694%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.694%) Amazon S3
Applications
1 22 (15.28%) MS Excel
2 12 (8.333%) MS Office
3 6 (4.167%) SPSS
4 2 (1.389%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.389%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 33 (22.92%) Internet
2 18 (12.50%) SNMP
2 18 (12.50%) SSL
2 18 (12.50%) iSCSI
2 18 (12.50%) Fibre Channel
3 9 (6.250%) HTTP
4 3 (2.083%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.694%) FTP
5 1 (0.694%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (34.03%) SQL Server
2 31 (21.53%) Text Mining
2 31 (21.53%) SQL Server 2005
2 31 (21.53%) Apache Cassandra
3 22 (15.28%) Hadoop
4 21 (14.58%) DB2
5 17 (11.81%) NoSQL
6 14 (9.722%) Redis
7 12 (8.333%) MySQL
8 11 (7.639%) DataStage
9 10 (6.944%) RDBMS
10 9 (6.250%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (5.556%) Data Mining
12 5 (3.472%) IBM InfoSphere
13 4 (2.778%) DB2 UDB
14 1 (0.694%) Amazon DynamoDB
14 1 (0.694%) Informix
14 1 (0.694%) PostgreSQL
14 1 (0.694%) MongoDB
14 1 (0.694%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 32 (22.22%) Subversion
1 32 (22.22%) Visual Studio
2 31 (21.53%) TeamCity
3 22 (15.28%) JIRA
4 9 (6.250%) Git (software)
5 1 (0.694%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 11 (7.639%) Marketing
2 9 (6.250%) Billing
3 4 (2.778%) Banking
3 4 (2.778%) Finance
4 2 (1.389%) Legal
4 2 (1.389%) Games
5 1 (0.694%) Telecoms
5 1 (0.694%) Financial Institution
5 1 (0.694%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (28.47%) Developer
2 30 (20.83%) Software Engineer
3 23 (15.97%) C# Developer
4 22 (15.28%) .NET Developer
4 22 (15.28%) ASP.NET Developer
4 22 (15.28%) C# .NET Developer
4 22 (15.28%) WPF Developer
4 22 (15.28%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 19 (13.19%) Support Engineer
6 18 (12.50%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 14 (9.722%) Analyst
8 13 (9.028%) Architect
9 11 (7.639%) Technical Engineer
10 10 (6.944%) Consultant
10 10 (6.944%) Technical Support
10 10 (6.944%) Technical Support Engineer
11 9 (6.250%) Web Developer
11 9 (6.250%) Product Manager
11 9 (6.250%) UI Developer
11 9 (6.250%) UI Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 43 (29.86%) Computer Science
2 38 (26.39%) SaaS
3 33 (22.92%) Social Media
4 18 (12.50%) Clustering
4 18 (12.50%) Device Driver
4 18 (12.50%) Firmware
5 15 (10.42%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (6.250%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (4.861%) Data Integration
8 2 (1.389%) Mathematics
9 1 (0.694%) Machine Learning
9 1 (0.694%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.694%) Thin Client
9 1 (0.694%) Fat Client
9 1 (0.694%) Blog
9 1 (0.694%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 42 (29.17%) Linux
2 34 (23.61%) Windows
3 33 (22.92%) UNIX
4 22 (15.28%) Apple iOS
4 22 (15.28%) Android
5 18 (12.50%) FreeBSD
6 7 (4.861%) Solaris
6 7 (4.861%) Mac OS X
7 5 (3.472%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (27.78%) Analytics
2 31 (21.53%) MVC
3 27 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
4 22 (15.28%) Web Development
5 19 (13.19%) Software Engineering
6 11 (7.639%) ETL
7 10 (6.944%) Data Modelling
8 9 (6.250%) OOP
8 9 (6.250%) Product Management
8 9 (6.250%) Business Analytics
8 9 (6.250%) User Stories
9 8 (5.556%) Data Management
10 7 (4.861%) Agile Software Development
11 6 (4.167%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (4.167%) Predictive Analytics
11 6 (4.167%) Information Management
11 6 (4.167%) Document Management
11 6 (4.167%) GAP Analysis
12 5 (3.472%) EAI
12 5 (3.472%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 52 (36.11%) Java
2 46 (31.94%) C++
3 40 (27.78%) JavaScript
4 34 (23.61%) C#
5 31 (21.53%) PHP
6 28 (19.44%) C
7 25 (17.36%) Python
8 20 (13.89%) SQL
8 20 (13.89%) Ruby
9 18 (12.50%) Embedded C
9 18 (12.50%) Embedded C++
10 16 (11.11%) Scala
11 5 (3.472%) Perl
12 2 (1.389%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.694%) VC++
13 1 (0.694%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 36 (25.00%) Degree
2 9 (6.250%) MCSE
2 9 (6.250%) MCSA
2 9 (6.250%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (4.861%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.778%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.778%) ISTQB
4 4 (2.778%) A+ Certification
4 4 (2.778%) ISEB
5 1 (0.694%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.694%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.167%) QA
2 5 (3.472%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.389%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (4.861%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 2 (1.389%) Puppet
1 2 (1.389%) Ganglia
1 2 (1.389%) Zenoss
Vendors
1 29 (20.14%) Microsoft
2 15 (10.42%) Sybase
2 15 (10.42%) Oracle
3 11 (7.639%) IBM
4 9 (6.250%) JBoss
5 6 (4.167%) Netezza
5 6 (4.167%) Cognos
6 5 (3.472%) TIBCO
6 5 (3.472%) Ab Initio
7 2 (1.389%) BEA
7 2 (1.389%) Facebook
7 2 (1.389%) Twitter
8 1 (0.694%) Cisco
8 1 (0.694%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.694%) Salesforce.com
8 1 (0.694%) Juniper
8 1 (0.694%) HP
8 1 (0.694%) Riverbed
Reading, Thames Valley
Applicants need to be very experienced developing Java and should have considerable expertise in UNIX - this includes scripting and Perl. The client is using SQL on SQL Server -...
E-Resourcing
Salary: £60000 - £65000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Reading, Thames Valley
Can demonstrate experience in two or more programming languages: Java, Node.js, PHP, Python, Ruby, .NET, C++ Experience in software development... Knowledge of HTTP and WebSocket protocols. An...
bridgenoble
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Skills: C/ C++, Unix (Linux/Solaris), Multi-Threaded Programming... Ideal candidate will have the following skills; -C and C++ Skills -Multi-Threaded Programming Skills -Knowledge of Agile Development...
Aston Carter
Salary: £45000 - £65000 per annum + bonus + benefits
Posted: 16 June 2013
Berkshire, Thames Valley
Experience with TCP/IP and HTTP. Practical knowledge of shell scripting and experience in at least one of the following languages: C++, NodeJS, PHP, Scala, Ruby, Python or...
bridgenoble
Salary: £50000 - £65000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 5 June 2013
Berkshire, Thames Valley
This service can be integrated with BI applications, databases, data warehousing platforms and other cloud services, including Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon S3, MongoDB, CouchDB, FTP/SFTP, ElasticSearch and WebHooks.....
bridgenoble
Salary: £70000 - £80000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Bracknell, Berkshire
Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Ltd
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + bonus, pension, BUPA etc
Posted: 17 June 2013
Slough, Thames Valley
Progressive Recruitment
Salary: £45000 - £60000 per annum + BENEFITS
Posted: 18 June 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Orleston Associates Ltd
Salary: £20000 - £30000 per annum
Posted: 12 June 2013
Wokingham, Berkshire
Orleston Associates Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum
Posted: 13 June 2013
Reading, Thames Valley
bridgenoble
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 5 June 2013
Berkshire
Orleston Associates Ltd
Salary: £23000 - £28000 per annum
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