The first table below looks at the demand for AWK 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 AWK 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 Programming Languages 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
AWK
Rank 202 217 236
Rank change year-on-year
+15 +19
Contract jobs citing AWK 1 1 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.016% 0.013% 0.092%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.038% 0.035% 0.217%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 5
Average daily rate £325 £508 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-35.96% +19.41%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £288 £325
% change year-on-year
+4.34% -11.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £26.50
All Programming Languages
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
2664 2885 4138
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 41.76% 36.68% 42.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2061 2166 3141
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 33 37
Average hourly rate £39.51 £32.50 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+21.55% +16.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.39 £15.00 £17.24
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.00 £50.00 £57.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
AWK
London

AWK
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing AWK across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

City of London AWK Jobs Demand Trend

AWK
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London AWK Daily Rate Trend

AWK
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing AWK across the City of London region.

City of London AWK Hourly Rate Trend

AWK
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing AWK 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 AWK.

1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) UNIX
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (100.00%) sed
2 2 (66.67%) RHCE
2 2 (66.67%) Perl
2 2 (66.67%) Apache
3 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
3 1 (33.33%) POP3
3 1 (33.33%) SMTP
3 1 (33.33%) NFS
3 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (33.33%) VPN
3 1 (33.33%) IBM
3 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (33.33%) OpenView
3 1 (33.33%) HP
3 1 (33.33%) Intel
3 1 (33.33%) PHP
3 1 (33.33%) MySQL
3 1 (33.33%) AIX
3 1 (33.33%) Solaris
3 1 (33.33%) SAN
3 1 (33.33%) HACMP
3 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 1 (33.33%) Retail
3 1 (33.33%) SCSA
3 1 (33.33%) RHCT
3 1 (33.33%) SSH

AWK
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing AWK 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 AWK. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Apache
2 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) POP3
1 1 (33.33%) SMTP
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
1 1 (33.33%) SSH
1 1 (33.33%) IMAP
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
General
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Administrator
2 2 (66.67%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (66.67%) UNIX Administrator
3 1 (33.33%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (33.33%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (33.33%) UNIX Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) HACMP
1 1 (33.33%) LPAR
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) UNIX
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (33.33%) AIX
2 1 (33.33%) Solaris
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) sed
2 2 (66.67%) Perl
3 1 (33.33%) PHP
3 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) RHCE
2 1 (33.33%) SCSA
2 1 (33.33%) RHCT
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) NFS
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) qmail
1 1 (33.33%) Sendmail
1 1 (33.33%) Samba
1 1 (33.33%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) OpenView
1 1 (33.33%) HP Data Protector
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) IBM
2 1 (33.33%) HP
2 1 (33.33%) Intel
2 1 (33.33%) VMware