5/17/2018 6:04:00 PM by SS Umbrella Ltd
The latest report by Experis has revealed that Big Data skills are in high demand across the UK. According to the report titled, the Tech Cities Job Watch, the demand for Big Data skills in Q1 2018 has increased by 78 percent as compared to the same quarter last year.
The report that is published every quarter by Experis, an international IT resourcing firm, sheds light on business and employment outlook in 10 cities in the UK. The quarterly job report monitors IT jobs and income advertised in Web Development, Mobile, IT Security, Cloud, and Big Data segment in the UK.
According to the report, contractor demand of individuals with Big Data skills has increased by up to 128 percent as compared to last year. Also, the demand for permanent jobs has increased by up to 68 percent.
The latest report has also found that the most in-demand programming certifications for Big Data positions include Java, Python, Spark, Hadoop, Cloudera, Hive, MongoDB, and Tableau. In addition, hybrid roles in which individuals have a broad knowledge of IT are also in demand at the moment.
Reasons for Increase in Big Data Positions
The rising demand for Big Data roles in the UK builds on a similar increase in demand last year. Experis UK and Ireland Director of Specialists Markets, Martin Ewings, states that the EU GDPR laws and Internet of Things (IoT) has put pressure on companies to focus on improved data management.
As a result, corporations in the UK are eager to hire individuals with the right skills to manage data.
But Ewings also thinks that most companies don’t fully comprehend the skills required for data management. He says that a data architect or engineer is more important to improve data infrastructure as compared to a data scientist, which not many companies are aware of.
Individuals with Big Data skills earn the highest advertised salary on average of about £67,464. However, the salaries have remained somehow fixed with only 0.1 percent increase since the previous year. This represents the lowest increase in salaries as compared to the other five technologies.
According to Ewing, various reasons can be cited for a stall in the salaries of Big Data positions. A rebalancing in the market is one of the reasons for a ceiling in the salaries. Increasing numbers of IT professionals have updated their skills to meet the market demand. The increase in the supply of IT specialists with Big Data skills has resulted in the stagnation in pay increases. But overall, the demand for the role remains strong.