Windows Azure Contracts in the City of London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Windows Azure 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 Windows Azure 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 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows Azure
Rank 180 213 244
Rank change year-on-year
+33 +31
Contract jobs citing Windows Azure 23 5 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.361% 0.064% 0.010%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.114% 0.419% 0.070%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 5 1
Average daily rate £355 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.42% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £400 £230
% change year-on-year
-3.12% +73.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £15.00 -
Search 5 Windows Azure jobs in the City of London
All Application Platforms
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category		 1088 1193 1435
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 17.06% 15.17% 14.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 753 808 1010
Average daily rate £405 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.25% -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £253 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 35 63
Average hourly rate £30.00 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+50.00% -
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 £49.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
Windows Azure
London

Windows Azure
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Windows Azure Jobs Demand Trend

Windows Azure
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Windows Azure Daily Rate Trend

Windows Azure
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows Azure across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London Windows Azure Daily Rate Histogram

Windows Azure
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 32 (86.49%) C#
2 27 (72.97%) .NET
3 22 (59.46%) ASP.NET
4 19 (51.35%) Windows
5 18 (48.65%) MVC
6 17 (45.95%) TDD
7 16 (43.24%) Microsoft
8 14 (37.84%) Scrum
8 14 (37.84%) Agile Software Development
8 14 (37.84%) CSS
8 14 (37.84%) JavaScript
8 14 (37.84%) WCF
8 14 (37.84%) Analytics
9 12 (32.43%) HTML
10 11 (29.73%) BDD
11 10 (27.03%) Rapid Prototyping
11 10 (27.03%) Selenium
11 10 (27.03%) LESS
11 10 (27.03%) Gherkin
11 10 (27.03%) Razor View Engine
11 10 (27.03%) SQL Server
11 10 (27.03%) MS Excel
11 10 (27.03%) PhD
12 8 (21.62%) Linux
12 8 (21.62%) Web Services
12 8 (21.62%) SQL
12 8 (21.62%) NoSQL
12 8 (21.62%) ASP.NET MVC
13 7 (18.92%) REST
13 7 (18.92%) Workflow

Windows Azure
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 27 (72.97%) .NET
2 22 (59.46%) ASP.NET
3 14 (37.84%) CSS
3 14 (37.84%) WCF
4 12 (32.43%) HTML
5 10 (27.03%) LESS
5 10 (27.03%) Gherkin
5 10 (27.03%) Razor View Engine
6 8 (21.62%) Web Services
6 8 (21.62%) ASP.NET MVC
7 7 (18.92%) REST
8 5 (13.51%) MapReduce
8 5 (13.51%) ASP.NET MVC 4
9 4 (10.81%) JSON
9 4 (10.81%) LINQ
9 4 (10.81%) HTML5
9 4 (10.81%) XML
10 3 (8.108%) Lucene
10 3 (8.108%) .NET Framework
10 3 (8.108%) ADO.NET
Application Platforms
1 5 (13.51%) IIS
1 5 (13.51%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (5.405%) Google App Engine
3 1 (2.703%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.703%) Apache
3 1 (2.703%) Apache Pig
3 1 (2.703%) OpenStack
3 1 (2.703%) Kafka
3 1 (2.703%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 10 (27.03%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.108%) Internet
2 1 (2.703%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (27.03%) SQL Server
2 8 (21.62%) NoSQL
3 5 (13.51%) HBase
3 5 (13.51%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (13.51%) Apache Cassandra
3 5 (13.51%) Big Data
3 5 (13.51%) Hadoop
4 4 (10.81%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (2.703%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.703%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (2.703%) MySQL
5 1 (2.703%) Hypertable
5 1 (2.703%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.703%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 10 (27.03%) Selenium
2 5 (13.51%) Git (software)
2 5 (13.51%) Team Foundation Server
3 4 (10.81%) JIRA
3 4 (10.81%) TeamCity
3 4 (10.81%) Subversion
4 3 (8.108%) Visual Studio
5 2 (5.405%) MSBuild
6 1 (2.703%) Mercurial
General
1 3 (8.108%) Games
2 1 (2.703%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (40.54%) Developer
2 8 (21.62%) C# Developer
3 5 (13.51%) .NET Developer
3 5 (13.51%) Architect
3 5 (13.51%) C# .NET Developer
4 4 (10.81%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 4 (10.81%) Data Architect
5 2 (5.405%) ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (2.703%) Infrastructure Project Manager
6 1 (2.703%) Senior Developer
6 1 (2.703%) Project Manager
6 1 (2.703%) Software Engineer
6 1 (2.703%) Infrastructure Manager
6 1 (2.703%) Software Development Engineer
6 1 (2.703%) ASP Developer
6 1 (2.703%) Silverlight Developer
6 1 (2.703%) Development Engineer
6 1 (2.703%) Technical Design Leader
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) PaaS
2 2 (5.405%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (5.405%) Digital Media
3 1 (2.703%) Open Source
3 1 (2.703%) IaaS
Operating Systems
1 19 (51.35%) Windows
2 8 (21.62%) Linux
3 3 (8.108%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (5.405%) Windows Mobile
5 1 (2.703%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.703%) Windows Phone
5 1 (2.703%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (48.65%) MVC
2 17 (45.95%) TDD
3 14 (37.84%) Scrum
3 14 (37.84%) Agile Software Development
3 14 (37.84%) Analytics
4 11 (29.73%) BDD
5 10 (27.03%) Rapid Prototyping
6 7 (18.92%) Workflow
7 5 (13.51%) Technical Architecture
8 4 (10.81%) Release Management
8 4 (10.81%) Capacity Planning
8 4 (10.81%) Configuration Management
9 3 (8.108%) MVVM
9 3 (8.108%) Kanban
10 2 (5.405%) Game Development
10 2 (5.405%) Migration
10 2 (5.405%) Stakeholder Management
11 1 (2.703%) Web Design
11 1 (2.703%) Service Delivery
11 1 (2.703%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (86.49%) C#
2 14 (37.84%) JavaScript
3 8 (21.62%) SQL
4 5 (13.51%) Java
4 5 (13.51%) Python
5 4 (10.81%) Perl
6 3 (8.108%) C++
7 2 (5.405%) Lua
7 2 (5.405%) C
8 1 (2.703%) Ruby
8 1 (2.703%) PHP
8 1 (2.703%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (27.03%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.81%) QA
2 3 (8.108%) Dublin Core
System Software
1 1 (2.703%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 2 (5.405%) Splunk
Vendors
1 16 (43.24%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.81%) Rackspace
2 4 (10.81%) Hortonworks
2 4 (10.81%) Cloudera
3 2 (5.405%) Google
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