The first table below looks at the demand for AWK 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 AWK 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 Programming Languages 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
AWK
Rank 500 537 522
Rank change year-on-year
+37 -15
Contract jobs citing AWK 13 22 49
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.031% 0.041% 0.087%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.084% 0.116% 0.228%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 21 29
Average daily rate £313 £500 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-37.50% +25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £250 £284
10% offered a daily rate of more than £332 £550 £485
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £288 £325
% change year-on-year
+4.34% -11.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £26.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £26.50
All Programming Languages
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
15538 18900 21502
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 37.37% 35.43% 38.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 9795 11399 12698
Average daily rate £400 £383 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.57% -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 684 872
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £17.50 £19.52
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
AWK
UK

AWK
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing AWK across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

England AWK Jobs Demand Trend

AWK
Daily Rate Trend

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

England AWK Daily Rate Trend

AWK
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England AWK Hourly Rate Trend

AWK
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWK 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 +3 8 £300 +20.00%
London +28 5 £325 -35.96%
AWK
UK

AWK
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 27 (77.14%) Perl
2 23 (65.71%) Linux
2 23 (65.71%) sed
3 21 (60.00%) UNIX
4 20 (57.14%) Oracle
5 17 (48.57%) Java
6 15 (42.86%) Shell Script
7 14 (40.00%) Tomcat
8 13 (37.14%) Apache
8 13 (37.14%) Bash shell
9 12 (34.29%) JBoss
9 12 (34.29%) Red Hat
10 11 (31.43%) TCP/IP
10 11 (31.43%) Continuous Integration
11 10 (28.57%) Jenkins
11 10 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
11 10 (28.57%) VMware
12 9 (25.71%) Clustering
12 9 (25.71%) Disaster Recovery
12 9 (25.71%) SAN
12 9 (25.71%) Configuration Management
12 9 (25.71%) Subversion
12 9 (25.71%) Python
12 9 (25.71%) SQL
12 9 (25.71%) Memory Management
13 8 (22.86%) Puppet
13 8 (22.86%) WebSphere
13 8 (22.86%) Ant
13 8 (22.86%) WebLogic
13 8 (22.86%) E-Commerce

AWK
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 8 (22.86%) WebSphere
2 7 (20.00%) JDBC
2 7 (20.00%) XML
2 7 (20.00%) .NET
3 6 (17.14%) WCF
3 6 (17.14%) WPF
3 6 (17.14%) Silverlight
4 2 (5.714%) RESTful
4 2 (5.714%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (5.714%) Regular Expression
4 2 (5.714%) JPA
4 2 (5.714%) JAX-RS
4 2 (5.714%) Middleware
5 1 (2.857%) Ajax
5 1 (2.857%) Lucene
5 1 (2.857%) XHTML
5 1 (2.857%) WSDL
5 1 (2.857%) XML Schema
5 1 (2.857%) HTML
5 1 (2.857%) XSD
Application Platforms
1 14 (40.00%) Tomcat
2 13 (37.14%) Apache
3 8 (22.86%) WebLogic
4 5 (14.29%) Liferay
5 3 (8.571%) ATG Dynamo
5 3 (8.571%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (2.857%) IIS
Business Applications
1 2 (5.714%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 11 (31.43%) TCP/IP
2 9 (25.71%) SAN
3 7 (20.00%) TELNET
3 7 (20.00%) SSL
3 7 (20.00%) HTTP
3 7 (20.00%) tcpdump
4 6 (17.14%) SMTP
5 5 (14.29%) DHCP
5 5 (14.29%) SNMP
5 5 (14.29%) LDAP
5 5 (14.29%) DNS
5 5 (14.29%) iSCSI
5 5 (14.29%) NAS
6 3 (8.571%) BSS
7 2 (5.714%) Internet
7 2 (5.714%) Firewall
8 1 (2.857%) SSH
8 1 (2.857%) VPN
8 1 (2.857%) POP3
8 1 (2.857%) IMAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.00%) MySQL
2 5 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (8.571%) Oracle 10g
3 3 (8.571%) RDBMS
3 3 (8.571%) SQL Server
3 3 (8.571%) Oracle 11g
4 2 (5.714%) VLDB
4 2 (5.714%) OLTP
5 1 (2.857%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.857%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (2.857%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 10 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 9 (25.71%) Subversion
3 8 (22.86%) Ant
3 8 (22.86%) Maven
4 6 (17.14%) Moq
4 6 (17.14%) NUnit
5 5 (14.29%) Hudson
5 5 (14.29%) Git (software)
6 3 (8.571%) CruiseControl
7 1 (2.857%) QuickTest Pro
7 1 (2.857%) Selenium
7 1 (2.857%) JIRA
General
1 6 (17.14%) Telecoms
1 6 (17.14%) Banking
2 5 (14.29%) Finance
3 4 (11.43%) Marketing
4 1 (2.857%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (45.71%) Administrator
2 9 (25.71%) Linux Administrator
3 7 (20.00%) Release Engineer
3 7 (20.00%) UNIX Administrator
3 7 (20.00%) Configuration Engineer
4 6 (17.14%) Systems Administrator
5 5 (14.29%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 5 (14.29%) Developer
6 4 (11.43%) Design Engineer
7 3 (8.571%) UNIX Systems Administrator
8 2 (5.714%) Senior Developer
8 2 (5.714%) Senior Systems Administrator
8 2 (5.714%) Senior Linux Administrator
8 2 (5.714%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
8 2 (5.714%) Senior .NET Developer
8 2 (5.714%) Java Developer
8 2 (5.714%) .NET Developer
9 1 (2.857%) PHP Developer
9 1 (2.857%) Web Administrator
9 1 (2.857%) Software Design Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.71%) Clustering
2 7 (20.00%) Cryptography
3 5 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (11.43%) Computer Science
5 3 (8.571%) HACMP
5 3 (8.571%) Mathematics
5 3 (8.571%) LPAR
6 2 (5.714%) HP Superdome
6 2 (5.714%) Client/Server
7 1 (2.857%) Physics
7 1 (2.857%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 23 (65.71%) Linux
2 21 (60.00%) UNIX
3 7 (20.00%) Solaris
4 5 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (11.43%) HPUX
6 3 (8.571%) AIX
7 2 (5.714%) Debian
8 1 (2.857%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (31.43%) Continuous Integration
2 9 (25.71%) Disaster Recovery
2 9 (25.71%) Configuration Management
2 9 (25.71%) Memory Management
3 8 (22.86%) E-Commerce
4 7 (20.00%) Load Balancing
5 6 (17.14%) SOA
5 6 (17.14%) Agile Software Development
6 3 (8.571%) TDD
7 2 (5.714%) Capacity Planning
7 2 (5.714%) Problem Management
7 2 (5.714%) ITIL
7 2 (5.714%) Benchmarking
7 2 (5.714%) Regression Testing
7 2 (5.714%) Business Continuity
8 1 (2.857%) MVC
8 1 (2.857%) Scrum
8 1 (2.857%) Data Modelling
8 1 (2.857%) ETL
8 1 (2.857%) UML
Programming Languages
1 27 (77.14%) Perl
2 23 (65.71%) sed
3 17 (48.57%) Java
4 15 (42.86%) Shell Script
5 13 (37.14%) Bash shell
6 9 (25.71%) Python
6 9 (25.71%) SQL
7 5 (14.29%) Jython
8 4 (11.43%) C#
9 2 (5.714%) Bourne shell
9 2 (5.714%) Groovy
9 2 (5.714%) PHP
9 2 (5.714%) Korn
10 1 (2.857%) JavaScript
10 1 (2.857%) XPath
Qualifications
1 4 (11.43%) Degree
1 4 (11.43%) RHCE
2 3 (8.571%) RHCT
2 3 (8.571%) DV Cleared
2 3 (8.571%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.714%) Sun Certification
4 1 (2.857%) SCSA
4 1 (2.857%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.714%) QA
System Software
1 10 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (22.86%) NFS
3 7 (20.00%) Nmap
4 5 (14.29%) Squid
4 5 (14.29%) Postfix
5 3 (8.571%) VMware ESX
5 3 (8.571%) Samba
5 3 (8.571%) Active Directory
6 2 (5.714%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 2 (5.714%) Veritas File System
6 2 (5.714%) vSphere
7 1 (2.857%) qmail
7 1 (2.857%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 8 (22.86%) Puppet
2 5 (14.29%) Nagios
3 3 (8.571%) OpenView
3 3 (8.571%) HP Data Protector
4 2 (5.714%) BMC PATROL
4 2 (5.714%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 20 (57.14%) Oracle
2 12 (34.29%) JBoss
2 12 (34.29%) Red Hat
3 10 (28.57%) VMware
4 8 (22.86%) IBM
5 5 (14.29%) NetApp
5 5 (14.29%) HP
5 5 (14.29%) EMC
5 5 (14.29%) SAP
6 4 (11.43%) Teradata
7 3 (8.571%) ATG
7 3 (8.571%) Intel
8 2 (5.714%) Endeca
8 2 (5.714%) Sun
8 2 (5.714%) Veritas
8 2 (5.714%) BMC
9 1 (2.857%) Informatica
9 1 (2.857%) WSO2
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