The first table below looks at the demand for SimpleDB 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 SimpleDB over the 3 months to 21 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 Database & Business Intelligence 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Amazon SimpleDB
Rank 202 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SimpleDB 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.016% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.072% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £425 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £280 -
% change year-on-year
+16.07% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Database & Business Intelligence
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
1393 1413 1794
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 21.68% 17.97% 18.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1046 1017 1345
Average daily rate £425 £425 £459
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -7.35%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 19 14
Average hourly rate £39.51 £33.75 £25.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+17.05% +31.06%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £17.10 £17.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.90 £47.50 £65.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £26.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+3.77% -18.46%
SimpleDB
London

SimpleDB
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SimpleDB across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

City of London SimpleDB Jobs Demand Trend

SimpleDB
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London SimpleDB Daily Rate Trend

SimpleDB
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing SimpleDB 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 SimpleDB.

1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) ASP
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon AWS
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Sinatra
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
1 1 (100.00%) Couchbase

SimpleDB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing SimpleDB 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 SimpleDB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) ASP
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Sinatra
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
1 1 (100.00%) Couchbase
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Client/Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby