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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Big Data
Rank 76 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 12 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Wales 1.144% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.738% - -
Number of salaries quoted 12 0 0
Average salary £25,750 - -
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £46,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+3.26% +15.00%
All Database & Business Intelligence
South Wales
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
321 271 206
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Wales 30.60% 28.44% 22.97%
Number of salaries quoted 301 247 197
Average salary £32,500 £35,000 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.14% +11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,450 £26,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £42,000 £50,000 £42,050
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
Big Data
Wales

Big Data
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Wales 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 South Wales region.

South Wales Big Data Salary Trend

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 South Wales region 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Cardiff - 12 £25,750 -
Big Data
Wales

Big Data
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the South Wales 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 39 (100.00%) Data Mining
1 39 (100.00%) Games
1 39 (100.00%) Web Mining
2 20 (51.28%) Neural Network
2 20 (51.28%) Automated Testing
2 20 (51.28%) Linux
2 20 (51.28%) OOD
2 20 (51.28%) Java
2 20 (51.28%) MySQL
2 20 (51.28%) Analytics
3 19 (48.72%) HTML
3 19 (48.72%) Web Usability
3 19 (48.72%) Haml
3 19 (48.72%) LESS
3 19 (48.72%) SCSS
3 19 (48.72%) CSS
3 19 (48.72%) JavaScript
3 19 (48.72%) Cloud Computing

Big Data
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the South Wales 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 19 (48.72%) HTML
1 19 (48.72%) CSS
1 19 (48.72%) Haml
1 19 (48.72%) LESS
1 19 (48.72%) SCSS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (100.00%) Data Mining
2 20 (51.28%) MySQL
General
1 39 (100.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 20 (51.28%) Developer
1 20 (51.28%) Java Developer
2 19 (48.72%) UI Designer
2 19 (48.72%) Designer
3 10 (25.64%) Interface Designer
4 9 (23.08%) User Experience Designer
Miscellaneous
1 20 (51.28%) Neural Network
2 19 (48.72%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 20 (51.28%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (100.00%) Web Mining
2 20 (51.28%) OOD
2 20 (51.28%) Automated Testing
2 20 (51.28%) Analytics
3 19 (48.72%) Web Usability
Programming Languages
1 20 (51.28%) Java
2 19 (48.72%) JavaScript