The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Computing 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 Cloud Computing over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cloud Computing
Rank 195 175 224
Rank change year-on-year
-20 +49
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 15 37 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.221% 0.478% 0.270%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.695% 1.478% 0.685%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 28 20
Average daily rate £475 £475 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £291 £345
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £555
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £425 £400
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £54.00 - £9.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £10.00
All of the Miscellaneous Category
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
2159 2503 3939
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 31.84% 32.33% 39.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1610 1949 3091
Average daily rate £500 £500 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £300 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £632 £650 £675
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £328
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +5.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 51 57
Average hourly rate £22.50 £21.00 £21.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -1.17%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.30 £12.70 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £38.30 £50.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.63 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-3.88% -10.00%
Cloud Computing
London

Cloud Computing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Cloud Computing Jobs Demand Trend

Cloud Computing
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Cloud Computing Daily Rate Trend

Cloud Computing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cloud Computing across the City of London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

City of London Cloud Computing Daily Rate Histogram

Cloud Computing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Cloud Computing Hourly Rate Trend

Cloud Computing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Cloud Computing 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 Cloud Computing.

1 14 (33.33%) Java
2 13 (30.95%) SaaS
3 10 (23.81%) Migration
3 10 (23.81%) VMware
3 10 (23.81%) Linux
3 10 (23.81%) Salesforce.com
3 10 (23.81%) Visualforce
3 10 (23.81%) Apex Code
3 10 (23.81%) Mason
4 8 (19.05%) Finance
5 7 (16.67%) Force.com
6 6 (14.29%) Big Data
6 6 (14.29%) Mobile App
6 6 (14.29%) UNIX
6 6 (14.29%) J2EE
7 5 (11.90%) JavaScript
7 5 (11.90%) SQL
7 5 (11.90%) SQL Server
7 5 (11.90%) SOA
7 5 (11.90%) ETL
7 5 (11.90%) Firewall
7 5 (11.90%) Business Analysis
7 5 (11.90%) Marketing
7 5 (11.90%) MapReduce
7 5 (11.90%) Puppet
7 5 (11.90%) NoSQL
7 5 (11.90%) Hadoop
7 5 (11.90%) Team Foundation Server
7 5 (11.90%) RESTful
7 5 (11.90%) VMware Infrastructure

Cloud Computing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Cloud Computing 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 Cloud Computing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (23.81%) Visualforce
1 10 (23.81%) Mason
2 6 (14.29%) J2EE
3 5 (11.90%) MapReduce
3 5 (11.90%) RESTful
4 3 (7.143%) .NET
4 3 (7.143%) WebSphere
4 3 (7.143%) Java EE
5 2 (4.762%) HTML5
5 2 (4.762%) JSON
5 2 (4.762%) Flash
5 2 (4.762%) HTML
5 2 (4.762%) CSS
6 1 (2.381%) SOAP
6 1 (2.381%) XML
Application Platforms
1 7 (16.67%) Force.com
2 3 (7.143%) Apache
2 3 (7.143%) Tomcat
2 3 (7.143%) WebLogic
2 3 (7.143%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (7.143%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (4.762%) Windows Azure
3 2 (4.762%) Google App Engine
4 1 (2.381%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (2.381%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.90%) Firewall
2 3 (7.143%) HTTP
3 2 (4.762%) SMTP
3 2 (4.762%) SAN
4 1 (2.381%) Intranet
4 1 (2.381%) Internet
4 1 (2.381%) MPLS
4 1 (2.381%) OSPF
4 1 (2.381%) BGP
4 1 (2.381%) EIGRP
4 1 (2.381%) LAN
4 1 (2.381%) SNMP
4 1 (2.381%) VPN
4 1 (2.381%) DNS
4 1 (2.381%) IPsec
4 1 (2.381%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (2.381%) Network Security
4 1 (2.381%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (2.381%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (14.29%) Big Data
2 5 (11.90%) SQL Server
2 5 (11.90%) NoSQL
2 5 (11.90%) Hadoop
3 3 (7.143%) MySQL
3 3 (7.143%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (7.143%) Redis
3 3 (7.143%) MongoDB
3 3 (7.143%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (4.762%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.381%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 5 (11.90%) Team Foundation Server
2 3 (7.143%) Ant
2 3 (7.143%) JUnit
2 3 (7.143%) Subversion
2 3 (7.143%) Maven
2 3 (7.143%) JIRA
2 3 (7.143%) Jenkins
2 3 (7.143%) FishEye
2 3 (7.143%) Gerrit
2 3 (7.143%) Mercurial
2 3 (7.143%) AnthillPro
2 3 (7.143%) TeamCity
2 3 (7.143%) Git (software)
3 2 (4.762%) MSBuild
3 2 (4.762%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (19.05%) Finance
2 5 (11.90%) Marketing
3 4 (9.524%) Games
4 3 (7.143%) Banking
5 2 (4.762%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.381%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.381%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.381%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (26.19%) Architect
2 8 (19.05%) Business Analyst
2 8 (19.05%) Analyst
3 7 (16.67%) Developer
4 6 (14.29%) Salesforce.com Business Analyst
5 4 (9.524%) Salesforce.com Architect
5 4 (9.524%) Technical Architect
6 3 (7.143%) Deployment Engineer
6 3 (7.143%) Java Developer
6 3 (7.143%) Project Manager
7 2 (4.762%) Infrastructure Delivery Manager
7 2 (4.762%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.762%) Big Data Architect
7 2 (4.762%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 2 (4.762%) Data Architect
7 2 (4.762%) Infrastructure Project Manager
7 2 (4.762%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.762%) C# Developer
7 2 (4.762%) Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (4.762%) Infrastructure Manager
Miscellaneous
1 13 (30.95%) SaaS
2 6 (14.29%) Mobile App
3 4 (9.524%) Social Media
3 4 (9.524%) Digital Media
4 3 (7.143%) Heroku
5 2 (4.762%) PaaS
5 2 (4.762%) Open Source
5 2 (4.762%) New Media
5 2 (4.762%) IaaS
6 1 (2.381%) NHS
6 1 (2.381%) Mainframe
6 1 (2.381%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.381%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 10 (23.81%) Linux
2 6 (14.29%) UNIX
3 3 (7.143%) Windows
3 3 (7.143%) Debian
4 2 (4.762%) Android
4 2 (4.762%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (4.762%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.381%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (2.381%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (2.381%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (23.81%) Migration
2 5 (11.90%) SOA
2 5 (11.90%) ETL
2 5 (11.90%) Business Analysis
3 4 (9.524%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (9.524%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (9.524%) Scrum
3 4 (9.524%) E-business
3 4 (9.524%) E-Commerce
3 4 (9.524%) Project Management
3 4 (9.524%) PRINCE2
3 4 (9.524%) OO
4 3 (7.143%) TDD
4 3 (7.143%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (7.143%) Analytics
4 3 (7.143%) BDD
4 3 (7.143%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (7.143%) Kanban
5 2 (4.762%) Data Migration
5 2 (4.762%) Game Development
Programming Languages
1 14 (33.33%) Java
2 10 (23.81%) Apex Code
3 5 (11.90%) JavaScript
3 5 (11.90%) SQL
4 3 (7.143%) PL/SQL
4 3 (7.143%) Bash shell
5 2 (4.762%) ActionScript 3.0
5 2 (4.762%) ActionScript 2.0
5 2 (4.762%) Lua
5 2 (4.762%) Ruby
5 2 (4.762%) Python
5 2 (4.762%) ActionScript
5 2 (4.762%) Perl
5 2 (4.762%) PHP
5 2 (4.762%) C
5 2 (4.762%) C#
5 2 (4.762%) C++
6 1 (2.381%) PowerHouse
Qualifications
1 3 (7.143%) Degree
2 1 (2.381%) CCIE
2 1 (2.381%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.381%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (2.381%) VCP5
2 1 (2.381%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.143%) QA
System Software
1 5 (11.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (9.524%) vSphere
3 3 (7.143%) vCloud
4 2 (4.762%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.762%) Active Directory
5 1 (2.381%) VMware ESX
5 1 (2.381%) Xen
5 1 (2.381%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 5 (11.90%) Puppet
2 1 (2.381%) BladeLogic
2 1 (2.381%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 10 (23.81%) VMware
1 10 (23.81%) Salesforce.com
2 4 (9.524%) Oracle
3 2 (4.762%) F5
3 2 (4.762%) Facebook
3 2 (4.762%) Twitter
3 2 (4.762%) Google
3 2 (4.762%) HP
3 2 (4.762%) Cisco
3 2 (4.762%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.381%) SAP
4 1 (2.381%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.381%) CheckPoint
4 1 (2.381%) McAfee
4 1 (2.381%) EMC
4 1 (2.381%) Juniper
4 1 (2.381%) 3PAR
City of London
Salesforce.com Developer - 6 month Contract - Needed ASAP - LondonMy client, a boutique Salesforce.com partner, urgently requires a Salesforce.com Developer for a 6 month contract based in...
Mason Frank International
Rate: £400 - £450 per day
Posted: 6 June 2013
City of London
Skills required for the Role: Strong knowledge of VMWARE server and Virtulisation Technologies. Strong knowledge of Windows server 2003/2008. Strong knowledge of Active Directory. Strong Expeirence of...
ITHR
Posted: 13 June 2013
City of London
My client, a global media business, urgently requires a Salesforce.com Support Analyst for a 6 month contract based in their Head Office in London.You will be...
Mason Frank International
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
City of London
A leading Shipping business who are headquartered in the City are actively recruiting for a Salesforce.com Business Analyst to drive two urgent projects. The initial contract will...
Mason Frank International
Rate: £400 - £450 per day
Posted: 5 June 2013
City of London
My client is receiving an overwhelming amount of new business that is exhausting their resources.My client's predominant focus is within the Financial and Retail sectors and...
Mason Frank International
Rate: £480 - £525 per day
Posted: 6 June 2013
City, London
People Source Consulting
Rate: excellent rates !
Posted: 17 June 2013
City of London
People Source Consulting
Rate: excellent rates !
Posted: 17 June 2013