The first table below looks at the demand for Windows Azure skills in IT contracts advertised for the Brighton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows Azure over the 3 months to 20 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 Brighton 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows Azure
Rank 26 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Windows Azure 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 0.704% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.263% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £400 - -
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
Brighton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
19 37 32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 13.38% 14.45% 24.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 11 6
Average daily rate £325 £370 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.16% +27.58%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £245 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £470 £520 £360
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Average hourly rate - £17.25 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +23.21%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
Windows Azure
East Sussex

Windows Azure
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Brighton Windows Azure Daily Rate Trend

Windows Azure
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 7 (100.00%) C#
1 7 (100.00%) .NET
2 5 (71.43%) MVC
2 5 (71.43%) TDD
2 5 (71.43%) ASP.NET
2 5 (71.43%) Windows
3 4 (57.14%) ASP.NET MVC
3 4 (57.14%) HTTP
4 2 (28.57%) RESTful
4 2 (28.57%) REST
4 2 (28.57%) Scrum
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
5 1 (14.29%) TIBCO
5 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (14.29%) WCF
5 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
5 1 (14.29%) MSMQ
5 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
5 1 (14.29%) Web Services
5 1 (14.29%) SQL
5 1 (14.29%) RavenDB
5 1 (14.29%) Unity DI Container
5 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (14.29%) StructureMap
5 1 (14.29%) Castle Windsor
5 1 (14.29%) Multithreading
5 1 (14.29%) Spring.NET
5 1 (14.29%) Dependency Injection
5 1 (14.29%) PaaS
5 1 (14.29%) BDD

Windows Azure
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 7 (100.00%) .NET
2 5 (71.43%) ASP.NET
3 4 (57.14%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (28.57%) REST
4 2 (28.57%) RESTful
5 1 (14.29%) Unity DI Container
5 1 (14.29%) StructureMap
5 1 (14.29%) Castle Windsor
5 1 (14.29%) Web Services
5 1 (14.29%) WCF
5 1 (14.29%) Spring.NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) MSMQ
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) HTTP
2 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (14.29%) RavenDB
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Developer
2 5 (71.43%) C# Developer
2 5 (71.43%) C# .NET Developer
3 4 (57.14%) .NET Developer
4 3 (42.86%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (14.29%) Agile .NET Developer
5 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) PaaS
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) TDD
1 5 (71.43%) MVC
2 2 (28.57%) Scrum
3 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Multithreading
3 1 (14.29%) Dependency Injection
3 1 (14.29%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) TIBCO