The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term PaaS 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 PaaS 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Rank 200 212 -
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -
Contract jobs citing PaaS 1 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.016% 0.013% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.050% 0.039% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £500 £375 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+33.33% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £438 £394 -
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
1991 2580 3971
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 31.63% 33.16% 40.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1475 1982 3065
Average daily rate £500 £500 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £311 £298 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £650 £675
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 69 51
Average hourly rate £25.00 £21.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.27% +2.38%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £13.00 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £45.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%
PaaS
London

PaaS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London PaaS Jobs Demand Trend

PaaS
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London PaaS Daily Rate Trend

PaaS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 6 (46.15%) C#
1 6 (46.15%) Windows
1 6 (46.15%) Windows Azure
1 6 (46.15%) IaaS
2 5 (38.46%) SaaS
3 4 (30.77%) Capacity Planning
3 4 (30.77%) Git (software)
3 4 (30.77%) TeamCity
3 4 (30.77%) JIRA
3 4 (30.77%) QA
3 4 (30.77%) Release Management
3 4 (30.77%) .NET
3 4 (30.77%) Configuration Management
3 4 (30.77%) Workflow
4 3 (23.08%) Internet
4 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
4 3 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (23.08%) Migration
4 3 (23.08%) VMware
4 3 (23.08%) Subversion
4 3 (23.08%) vSphere
5 2 (15.38%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (15.38%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (15.38%) ITIL
5 2 (15.38%) TDD
5 2 (15.38%) Validation
5 2 (15.38%) Service Delivery
5 2 (15.38%) Oracle
5 2 (15.38%) SLA

PaaS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (30.77%) .NET
2 1 (7.692%) ASP.NET
2 1 (7.692%) SOAP
2 1 (7.692%) XML
Application Platforms
1 6 (46.15%) Windows Azure
2 1 (7.692%) OpenStack
2 1 (7.692%) IIS
2 1 (7.692%) Force.com
Applications
1 1 (7.692%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) Internet
2 1 (7.692%) OSPF
2 1 (7.692%) BGP
2 1 (7.692%) EIGRP
2 1 (7.692%) Firewall
2 1 (7.692%) NAS
2 1 (7.692%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (7.692%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (7.692%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) JIRA
1 4 (30.77%) TeamCity
1 4 (30.77%) Git (software)
2 3 (23.08%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Services Delivery Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Service Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (7.692%) Technical Leader
3 1 (7.692%) Agile C# Developer
3 1 (7.692%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Data Centre Architect
3 1 (7.692%) VMware Architect
3 1 (7.692%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) C# Developer
3 1 (7.692%) Developer
3 1 (7.692%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) IaaS
2 5 (38.46%) SaaS
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (7.692%) Heroku
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Windows
2 1 (7.692%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Configuration Management
1 4 (30.77%) Workflow
1 4 (30.77%) Release Management
1 4 (30.77%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (23.08%) Migration
3 2 (15.38%) Validation
3 2 (15.38%) ITIL
3 2 (15.38%) Service Delivery
3 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (15.38%) TDD
4 1 (7.692%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (7.692%) Load Balancing
4 1 (7.692%) Multithreading
4 1 (7.692%) Data Migration
4 1 (7.692%) Quality Management
4 1 (7.692%) Scrum
4 1 (7.692%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) C#
2 2 (15.38%) SQL
3 1 (7.692%) VBScript
3 1 (7.692%) Ruby
3 1 (7.692%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.692%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (7.692%) CCIE
1 1 (7.692%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (7.692%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 1 (7.692%) Degree
1 1 (7.692%) VCP5
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) QA
2 2 (15.38%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (23.08%) vSphere
2 1 (7.692%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (7.692%) vCloud
2 1 (7.692%) Hyper-V
2 1 (7.692%) VMware ESX
2 1 (7.692%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1 (7.692%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
1 3 (23.08%) VMware
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) SAP
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco
3 1 (7.692%) Salesforce.com