The first table below looks at the demand for Windows Azure skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows Azure over the 3 months to 21 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 Application Platforms category for the Bedfordshire region.

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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows Azure
Rank 28 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Windows Azure 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 1.058% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.762% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £375 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £400 £230
% change year-on-year
-3.12% +73.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £15.00 -
All Application Platforms
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
42 54 74
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 22.22% 19.35% 25.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 29 38
Average daily rate £325 £375 £213
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% +76.47%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £173 £323 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £301
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
Average hourly rate £17.50 £12.00 £10.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+45.83% +11.62%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
Windows Azure
East of England

Windows Azure
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Windows Azure across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Bedfordshire Windows Azure Jobs Demand Trend

Windows Azure
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Windows Azure across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire Windows Azure Daily Rate Trend

Windows Azure
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Azure within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Luton - 2 £375 -
Windows Azure
East of England

Windows Azure
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Windows Azure 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 Windows Azure.

1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
2 3 (75.00%) E-Commerce
3 2 (50.00%) SOA
3 2 (50.00%) C#
3 2 (50.00%) TDD
3 2 (50.00%) Git (software)
3 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (50.00%) MVC
3 2 (50.00%) BDD
3 2 (50.00%) KnockoutJS
3 2 (50.00%) Agile Testing
4 1 (25.00%) SpecFlow
4 1 (25.00%) NServiceBus
4 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (25.00%) Dependency Injection
4 1 (25.00%) Inversion of Control
4 1 (25.00%) NHibernate
4 1 (25.00%) Web Development
4 1 (25.00%) HTML

Windows Azure
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Windows Azure 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 Windows Azure. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (50.00%) KnockoutJS
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (25.00%) NHibernate
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) NServiceBus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (50.00%) Git (software)
3 1 (25.00%) SpecFlow
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) .NET Developer
1 2 (50.00%) ScrumMaster
2 1 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Agile .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Agile C# Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# Web Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Web Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
2 3 (75.00%) E-Commerce
3 2 (50.00%) SOA
3 2 (50.00%) TDD
3 2 (50.00%) MVC
3 2 (50.00%) BDD
3 2 (50.00%) Agile Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Dependency Injection
4 1 (25.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft