The first table below looks at the demand for Amazon AWS skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Amazon AWS 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 Application Platforms category for the City of London 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Amazon Web Services (Amazon AWS)
Rank 180 211 -
Rank change year-on-year
+31 -
Contract jobs citing Amazon AWS 21 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.334% 0.026% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.921% 0.171% -
Number of daily rates quoted 17 2 0
Average daily rate £310 £203 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+52.89% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £280 £375
% change year-on-year
-1.78% -25.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £42.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.00 - -
All Application Platforms
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
1093 1173 1447
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 17.36% 15.08% 14.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 770 788 1031
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £250 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 35 63
Average hourly rate £40.00 £20.00 £20.70
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+100.00% -3.38%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £15.00 £12.65
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.20 £48.85
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
Amazon AWS
London

Amazon AWS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Amazon AWS across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

City of London Amazon AWS Jobs Demand Trend

Amazon AWS
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Amazon AWS across the City of London region.

City of London Amazon AWS Daily Rate Trend

Amazon AWS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Amazon AWS across the City of London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

City of London Amazon AWS Daily Rate Histogram

Amazon AWS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Amazon AWS 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 Amazon AWS.

1 32 (86.49%) Web Services
2 14 (37.84%) Linux
2 14 (37.84%) JavaScript
3 12 (32.43%) Oracle
4 10 (27.03%) CSS
4 10 (27.03%) Amazon EC2
4 10 (27.03%) MongoDB
4 10 (27.03%) Jenkins
5 9 (24.32%) MySQL
5 9 (24.32%) Java
5 9 (24.32%) Internet
5 9 (24.32%) Scrum
5 9 (24.32%) JSON
6 8 (21.62%) Ajax
6 8 (21.62%) jQuery
6 8 (21.62%) TDD
6 8 (21.62%) Python
6 8 (21.62%) Git (software)
7 7 (18.92%) Hadoop
7 7 (18.92%) Security Testing
7 7 (18.92%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (18.92%) BDD
7 7 (18.92%) Puppet
7 7 (18.92%) Apache Hive
7 7 (18.92%) HTML5
7 7 (18.92%) Analytics
7 7 (18.92%) Apache Pig
7 7 (18.92%) Big Data
7 7 (18.92%) Redis
8 6 (16.22%) Oracle EBS

Amazon AWS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Amazon AWS 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 Amazon AWS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 32 (86.49%) Web Services
2 10 (27.03%) CSS
3 9 (24.32%) JSON
4 8 (21.62%) jQuery
4 8 (21.62%) Ajax
5 7 (18.92%) HTML5
6 6 (16.22%) CSS3
6 6 (16.22%) MapReduce
7 5 (13.51%) REST
7 5 (13.51%) HTML
8 3 (8.108%) .NET
8 3 (8.108%) XML
8 3 (8.108%) SOAP
9 2 (5.405%) J2EE
9 2 (5.405%) ASP
9 2 (5.405%) Spring
9 2 (5.405%) JSP
9 2 (5.405%) Servlets
9 2 (5.405%) JMS
10 1 (2.703%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 10 (27.03%) Amazon EC2
2 7 (18.92%) Apache Pig
3 6 (16.22%) Amazon S3
3 6 (16.22%) Route 53
4 5 (13.51%) Apache
5 3 (8.108%) OpenStack
6 2 (5.405%) Tomcat
7 1 (2.703%) CMS
7 1 (2.703%) ESB
7 1 (2.703%) Drupal
7 1 (2.703%) Umbraco
7 1 (2.703%) Mule
7 1 (2.703%) Magento
7 1 (2.703%) Adobe CQ
7 1 (2.703%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (2.703%) Google App Engine
7 1 (2.703%) Rackspace Cloud
Applications
1 1 (2.703%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (16.22%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (24.32%) Internet
2 2 (5.405%) HTTP
3 1 (2.703%) Intranet
3 1 (2.703%) Network Security
3 1 (2.703%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (27.03%) MongoDB
2 9 (24.32%) MySQL
3 7 (18.92%) Hadoop
3 7 (18.92%) Redis
3 7 (18.92%) Big Data
3 7 (18.92%) Apache Hive
4 6 (16.22%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (16.22%) NoSQL
4 6 (16.22%) SQL Server
5 5 (13.51%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (13.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (13.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (5.405%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (2.703%) HBase
7 1 (2.703%) Couchbase
7 1 (2.703%) Mahout
7 1 (2.703%) SimpleDB
7 1 (2.703%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (27.03%) Jenkins
2 8 (21.62%) Git (software)
3 6 (16.22%) Selenium
4 3 (8.108%) Hudson
5 2 (5.405%) Subversion
5 2 (5.405%) Maven
6 1 (2.703%) Ant
6 1 (2.703%) Visual Studio
6 1 (2.703%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (5.405%) Games
2 1 (2.703%) Multimedia
2 1 (2.703%) Marketing
2 1 (2.703%) Telecoms
2 1 (2.703%) Manufacturing
2 1 (2.703%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 18 (48.65%) Developer
2 7 (18.92%) Web Developer
3 6 (16.22%) Front-End Developer
3 6 (16.22%) Front-End Web Developer
3 6 (16.22%) Mobile Developer
4 5 (13.51%) Systems Administrator
4 5 (13.51%) Administrator
5 3 (8.108%) Architect
5 3 (8.108%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.405%) UNIX Administrator
6 2 (5.405%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (5.405%) Salesforce.com Business Analyst
6 2 (5.405%) Linux Administrator
6 2 (5.405%) Senior UNIX Administrator
6 2 (5.405%) Business Analyst
6 2 (5.405%) Analyst
6 2 (5.405%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (5.405%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 2 (5.405%) Java Developer
6 2 (5.405%) C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) Social Media
2 2 (5.405%) Open Source
2 2 (5.405%) New Media
3 1 (2.703%) IaaS
3 1 (2.703%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.703%) SaaS
3 1 (2.703%) Heroku
Operating Systems
1 14 (37.84%) Linux
2 6 (16.22%) UNIX
3 2 (5.405%) Windows
3 2 (5.405%) Solaris
3 2 (5.405%) Windows XP
3 2 (5.405%) Debian
3 2 (5.405%) Ubuntu
3 2 (5.405%) CentOS
3 2 (5.405%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (5.405%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (24.32%) Scrum
2 8 (21.62%) TDD
3 7 (18.92%) Security Testing
3 7 (18.92%) Continuous Integration
3 7 (18.92%) BDD
3 7 (18.92%) Analytics
4 6 (16.22%) Automated Testing
4 6 (16.22%) Configuration Management
4 6 (16.22%) Data Modelling
5 5 (13.51%) ETL
5 5 (13.51%) Big Data Analytics
6 3 (8.108%) Web Development
6 3 (8.108%) E-Commerce
7 2 (5.405%) OO
7 2 (5.405%) MVC
7 2 (5.405%) Workflow
7 2 (5.405%) Agile Software Development
8 1 (2.703%) Pair Programming
8 1 (2.703%) Content Management
8 1 (2.703%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 14 (37.84%) JavaScript
2 9 (24.32%) Java
3 8 (21.62%) Python
4 5 (13.51%) SQL
4 5 (13.51%) Ruby
5 4 (10.81%) Bash shell
5 4 (10.81%) Perl
6 3 (8.108%) C
7 2 (5.405%) C#
7 2 (5.405%) C++
7 2 (5.405%) PHP
7 2 (5.405%) Scala
7 2 (5.405%) XPath
8 1 (2.703%) Lua
8 1 (2.703%) Erlang
8 1 (2.703%) Groovy
8 1 (2.703%) R
8 1 (2.703%) ActionScript
8 1 (2.703%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 1 (2.703%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (2.703%) VMware ESX
1 1 (2.703%) Xen
1 1 (2.703%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 7 (18.92%) Puppet
2 2 (5.405%) CFEngine
3 1 (2.703%) Nagios
Vendors
1 12 (32.43%) Oracle
2 6 (16.22%) Percona
3 5 (13.51%) Vertica
3 5 (13.51%) Red Hat
4 3 (8.108%) Salesforce.com
4 3 (8.108%) Rackspace
5 2 (5.405%) Joyent
6 1 (2.703%) Hortonworks
6 1 (2.703%) Cloudera
6 1 (2.703%) Perforce
6 1 (2.703%) VMware
6 1 (2.703%) Google
6 1 (2.703%) Greenplum
6 1 (2.703%) Sitecore
6 1 (2.703%) JBoss
6 1 (2.703%) Adobe
6 1 (2.703%) EMC
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