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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Big Data
Rank 59 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 8 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cardiff 1.439% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.278% - -
Number of salaries quoted 8 0 0
Average salary £25,750 - -
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £47,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+6.38% +17.50%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Cardiff
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
187 102 120
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cardiff 33.63% 23.13% 20.91%
Number of salaries quoted 172 98 112
Average salary £32,500 £34,000 £30,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.41% +10.56%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £47,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
Big Data
South Wales

Big Data
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff Big Data Salary Trend

Big Data
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cardiff 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 29 (100.00%) Data Mining
1 29 (100.00%) Games
1 29 (100.00%) Web Mining
2 20 (68.97%) Analytics
3 15 (51.72%) Neural Network
3 15 (51.72%) Automated Testing
3 15 (51.72%) Linux
3 15 (51.72%) OOD
3 15 (51.72%) Java
3 15 (51.72%) MySQL
4 14 (48.28%) CSS
4 14 (48.28%) JavaScript
4 14 (48.28%) HTML
4 14 (48.28%) Web Usability
4 14 (48.28%) Haml
4 14 (48.28%) LESS
4 14 (48.28%) SCSS
5 9 (31.03%) Cloud Computing

Big Data
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cardiff 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 14 (48.28%) CSS
1 14 (48.28%) HTML
1 14 (48.28%) Haml
1 14 (48.28%) LESS
1 14 (48.28%) SCSS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (100.00%) Data Mining
2 15 (51.72%) MySQL
General
1 29 (100.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 15 (51.72%) Java Developer
1 15 (51.72%) Developer
2 14 (48.28%) UI Designer
2 14 (48.28%) Designer
3 10 (34.48%) Interface Designer
4 4 (13.79%) User Experience Designer
Miscellaneous
1 15 (51.72%) Neural Network
2 9 (31.03%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 15 (51.72%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (100.00%) Web Mining
2 20 (68.97%) Analytics
3 15 (51.72%) Automated Testing
3 15 (51.72%) OOD
4 14 (48.28%) Web Usability
Programming Languages
1 15 (51.72%) Java
2 14 (48.28%) JavaScript