The first table below looks at the demand for Amazon EC2 skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Amazon EC2 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 England 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
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
Rank 396 509 562
Rank change year-on-year
+113 +53
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 117 50 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.281% 0.094% 0.016%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.540% 0.571% 0.095%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 37 8
Average daily rate £325 £350 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -3.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £284 £301
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £413 £451
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £340 £375
% change year-on-year
-19.11% -9.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Platforms
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
7597 8759 9463
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 18.27% 16.42% 16.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 4350 4939 5121
Average daily rate £363 £350 £385
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.57% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £513 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 423 407 529
Average hourly rate £21.50 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.50% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.20 £38.00 £42.35
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
Amazon EC2
UK

Amazon EC2
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Amazon EC2 across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

England Amazon EC2 Jobs Demand Trend

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 across the England region.

England Amazon EC2 Daily Rate Trend

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Amazon EC2 across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England Amazon EC2 Daily Rate Histogram

Amazon EC2
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Amazon EC2 across the England region.

England Amazon EC2 Hourly Rate Trend

Amazon EC2
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon EC2 within the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Yorkshire +55 56 £275 -
London +44 44 £400 +14.28%
South East - 13 £200 -
East of England +12 1 - -
South West - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -
Amazon EC2
UK

Amazon EC2
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Amazon EC2 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 Amazon EC2.

1 128 (68.82%) Linux
2 123 (66.13%) Amazon AWS
3 114 (61.29%) MySQL
4 104 (55.91%) Python
5 89 (47.85%) Web Services
6 87 (46.77%) Puppet
7 83 (44.62%) Amazon S3
8 78 (41.94%) MongoDB
9 75 (40.32%) Amazon RDS
10 74 (39.78%) Ruby
11 73 (39.25%) Java
12 70 (37.63%) Redis
13 67 (36.02%) Oracle
14 66 (35.48%) Apache
15 62 (33.33%) DNS
16 61 (32.80%) Bash shell
17 60 (32.26%) Route 53
18 59 (31.72%) Perl
18 59 (31.72%) Git (software)
19 57 (30.65%) Scrum
20 55 (29.57%) PHP
21 53 (28.49%) Internet
22 51 (27.42%) JavaScript
23 50 (26.88%) NoSQL
24 49 (26.34%) Jenkins
25 45 (24.19%) C++
25 45 (24.19%) nginx
26 44 (23.66%) TDD
27 43 (23.12%) Maven
28 42 (22.58%) Node.js

Amazon EC2
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Amazon EC2 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 Amazon EC2. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 89 (47.85%) Web Services
2 42 (22.58%) Node.js
3 39 (20.97%) HTML5
4 32 (17.20%) .NET
5 31 (16.67%) J2EE
6 29 (15.59%) CSS
7 28 (15.05%) SOAP
7 28 (15.05%) jQuery
8 25 (13.44%) REST
9 22 (11.83%) Ajax
10 20 (10.75%) CSS3
11 19 (10.22%) HTML
12 18 (9.677%) POSIX
13 16 (8.602%) Java EE
14 15 (8.065%) JSON
14 15 (8.065%) XML
15 14 (7.527%) Hibernate
15 14 (7.527%) LAMP
15 14 (7.527%) Spring
16 10 (5.376%) Flash
Application Platforms
1 123 (66.13%) Amazon AWS
2 83 (44.62%) Amazon S3
3 66 (35.48%) Apache
4 60 (32.26%) Route 53
5 45 (24.19%) nginx
6 34 (18.28%) Windows Azure
7 23 (12.37%) Tomcat
8 14 (7.527%) Adobe CQ
9 13 (6.989%) WebLogic
10 9 (4.839%) OpenStack
11 8 (4.301%) CloudStack
11 8 (4.301%) Apache Solr
12 6 (3.226%) GlassFish
12 6 (3.226%) Oracle Application Server
13 5 (2.688%) IIS
13 5 (2.688%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 5 (2.688%) Amazon ELB
14 4 (2.151%) MS Exchange
15 2 (1.075%) Rackspace Cloud
15 2 (1.075%) CloudFront
Applications
1 12 (6.452%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.538%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 30 (16.13%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 62 (33.33%) DNS
2 53 (28.49%) Internet
3 35 (18.82%) HTTP
4 27 (14.52%) SSL
5 24 (12.90%) TCP/IP
6 23 (12.37%) DHCP
7 19 (10.22%) Firewall
8 16 (8.602%) SAN
9 12 (6.452%) Intrusion Detection
10 10 (5.376%) RTP
10 10 (5.376%) NAS
10 10 (5.376%) Network Security
10 10 (5.376%) RTSP
11 6 (3.226%) MPLS
12 4 (2.151%) SSH
13 1 (0.538%) AMQP
13 1 (0.538%) Intranet
13 1 (0.538%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (61.29%) MySQL
2 78 (41.94%) MongoDB
3 75 (40.32%) Amazon RDS
4 70 (37.63%) Redis
5 50 (26.88%) NoSQL
6 29 (15.59%) RDBMS
6 29 (15.59%) SQL Server
7 26 (13.98%) Hadoop
8 18 (9.677%) SimpleDB
8 18 (9.677%) Couchbase
9 14 (7.527%) Amazon DynamoDB
10 11 (5.914%) CouchDB
11 10 (5.376%) Big Data
11 10 (5.376%) Oracle 8/8i
12 9 (4.839%) Apache Cassandra
13 7 (3.763%) PostgreSQL
14 6 (3.226%) HBase
14 6 (3.226%) Oracle 10g
14 6 (3.226%) Oracle 11g
15 5 (2.688%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 59 (31.72%) Git (software)
2 49 (26.34%) Jenkins
3 43 (23.12%) Maven
4 25 (13.44%) Subversion
5 22 (11.83%) Selenium
6 15 (8.065%) JIRA
7 14 (7.527%) Hudson
8 7 (3.763%) Team Foundation Server
8 7 (3.763%) TeamCity
8 7 (3.763%) Mercurial
8 7 (3.763%) Ant
9 5 (2.688%) AnthillPro
9 5 (2.688%) Gerrit
9 5 (2.688%) FishEye
10 3 (1.613%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.538%) NUnit
11 1 (0.538%) CruiseControl
11 1 (0.538%) MSI
11 1 (0.538%) InstallShield
11 1 (0.538%) JMeter
General
1 25 (13.44%) Telecoms
2 17 (9.140%) Publishing
3 16 (8.602%) Games
4 8 (4.301%) Marketing
5 3 (1.613%) Finance
6 1 (0.538%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 48 (25.81%) Developer
2 30 (16.13%) DevOps Engineer
3 27 (14.52%) Linux Engineer
4 22 (11.83%) Architect
5 21 (11.29%) Software Engineer
6 15 (8.065%) Web Developer
7 14 (7.527%) Systems Engineer
8 13 (6.989%) Java Developer
9 11 (5.914%) Front-End Developer
9 11 (5.914%) Front-End Web Developer
9 11 (5.914%) Mobile Developer
10 10 (5.376%) Technical Architect
10 10 (5.376%) Infrastructure Architect
11 9 (4.839%) Operations Engineer
12 7 (3.763%) Deployment Engineer
12 7 (3.763%) Linux Administrator
13 6 (3.226%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (3.226%) Administrator
14 5 (2.688%) Python Developer
14 5 (2.688%) Web Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 31 (16.67%) Client/Server
2 29 (15.59%) Open Source
3 18 (9.677%) PaaS
4 16 (8.602%) IaaS
5 15 (8.065%) Cloud Computing
6 12 (6.452%) Online Games
7 11 (5.914%) SaaS
8 10 (5.376%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (5.376%) Taxonomies
8 10 (5.376%) Ontologies
9 3 (1.613%) Mathematics
9 3 (1.613%) Digital Media
10 2 (1.075%) Replication
10 2 (1.075%) Visualisation
10 2 (1.075%) Computer Science
11 1 (0.538%) FMCG
11 1 (0.538%) Streaming Video
11 1 (0.538%) Heroku
Operating Systems
1 128 (68.82%) Linux
2 27 (14.52%) UNIX
3 17 (9.140%) Windows
4 13 (6.989%) CentOS
5 11 (5.914%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (4.839%) Ubuntu
6 9 (4.839%) Debian
6 9 (4.839%) Solaris
7 4 (2.151%) SUSE
8 2 (1.075%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.538%) Fedora
9 1 (0.538%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (30.65%) Scrum
2 44 (23.66%) TDD
3 41 (22.04%) Kanban
4 40 (21.51%) Continuous Integration
5 38 (20.43%) Configuration Management
6 36 (19.35%) Security Testing
7 33 (17.74%) Load Balancing
8 29 (15.59%) SOA
9 25 (13.44%) Test Automation
10 24 (12.90%) BDD
11 16 (8.602%) E-Commerce
11 16 (8.602%) Incident Management
11 16 (8.602%) Capacity Management
12 13 (6.989%) Automated Testing
12 13 (6.989%) Release Management
13 10 (5.376%) Information Architecture
13 10 (5.376%) Business Intelligence
13 10 (5.376%) DRM
13 10 (5.376%) Penetration Testing
14 9 (4.839%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 104 (55.91%) Python
2 74 (39.78%) Ruby
3 73 (39.25%) Java
4 61 (32.80%) Bash shell
5 59 (31.72%) Perl
6 55 (29.57%) PHP
7 51 (27.42%) JavaScript
8 45 (24.19%) C++
9 20 (10.75%) C#
10 14 (7.527%) Shell Script
10 14 (7.527%) SQL
11 5 (2.688%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.075%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.538%) Erlang
13 1 (0.538%) Scala
13 1 (0.538%) ActionScript
13 1 (0.538%) C
Qualifications
1 5 (2.688%) MCITP
2 4 (2.151%) Degree
2 4 (2.151%) MCTS
3 1 (0.538%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (0.538%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.688%) QA
2 1 (0.538%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (8.602%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (6.452%) Samba
3 10 (5.376%) Xen
4 8 (4.301%) Hyper-V
5 7 (3.763%) vCloud
6 6 (3.226%) Active Directory
6 6 (3.226%) Oracle RAC
7 5 (2.688%) vSphere
8 4 (2.151%) UAG
9 2 (1.075%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (1.075%) Sendmail
10 1 (0.538%) VMware ESX
10 1 (0.538%) NFS
Systems Management
1 87 (46.77%) Puppet
2 19 (10.22%) SCOM
3 9 (4.839%) Nagios
4 6 (3.226%) OpenView
4 6 (3.226%) ZABBIX
5 2 (1.075%) Splunk
6 1 (0.538%) SCCM
6 1 (0.538%) Cacti
6 1 (0.538%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 67 (36.02%) Oracle
2 36 (19.35%) Percona
3 30 (16.13%) Microsoft
4 23 (12.37%) VMware
5 16 (8.602%) Rackspace
6 14 (7.527%) Red Hat
6 14 (7.527%) Adobe
6 14 (7.527%) Google
7 13 (6.989%) hybris
8 11 (5.914%) JBoss
9 8 (4.301%) Sun
9 8 (4.301%) Citrix
10 6 (3.226%) RightScale
10 6 (3.226%) Cisco
11 5 (2.688%) Hortonworks
11 5 (2.688%) Cloudera
12 4 (2.151%) Akamai
13 2 (1.075%) Sitecore
14 1 (0.538%) Greenplum
14 1 (0.538%) Zend
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