The first table below looks at the demand for Windows Azure skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows Azure 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 Application Platforms category for the Cambridgeshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows Azure
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Windows Azure 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire - - -
As % of the Application Platforms category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
112 128 74
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 20.48% 18.66% 13.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 48 36
Average daily rate £290 £303 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.13% -10.37%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £168 £172 £211
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 6 9
Average hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.42% +191.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.65 £35.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £41.25 £16.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
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 Cambridgeshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire Windows Azure Daily Rate Trend

Windows Azure
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 10 (100.00%) Java
1 10 (100.00%) .NET
1 10 (100.00%) Oracle
1 10 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 10 (100.00%) SAP
1 10 (100.00%) SOA
1 10 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) VLDB
1 10 (100.00%) BizTalk Server
1 10 (100.00%) TDD
1 10 (100.00%) ESB
1 10 (100.00%) Contract for Difference
1 10 (100.00%) SAP PI
2 9 (90.00%) Systems Analysis
2 9 (90.00%) Multithreading
2 9 (90.00%) Finance
2 9 (90.00%) Validation
2 9 (90.00%) WSDL
2 9 (90.00%) XML Schema
2 9 (90.00%) XML
2 9 (90.00%) N-Tier
3 5 (50.00%) E-business
4 1 (10.00%) dBASE
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (10.00%) SAP Implementation

Windows Azure
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 10 (100.00%) .NET
1 10 (100.00%) SAP PI
2 9 (90.00%) WSDL
2 9 (90.00%) XML Schema
2 9 (90.00%) XML
Application Platforms
1 10 (100.00%) BizTalk Server
1 10 (100.00%) ESB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 10 (100.00%) VLDB
2 1 (10.00%) dBASE
General
1 9 (90.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Architect
1 10 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 10 (100.00%) Contract for Difference
2 9 (90.00%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) SOA
1 10 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) TDD
2 9 (90.00%) Systems Analysis
2 9 (90.00%) Multithreading
2 9 (90.00%) Validation
3 5 (50.00%) E-business
4 1 (10.00%) SAP Implementation
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Java
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Oracle
1 10 (100.00%) SAP
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft