The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Rackspace products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Rackspace 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 Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Rackspace.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Rackspace
Rank 495 550 564
Rank change year-on-year
+55 +14
Contract jobs citing Rackspace 18 9 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.043% 0.017% 0.012%
As % of the Vendors category 0.093% 0.037% 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 9 6
Average daily rate £465 £350 £293
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+32.85% +19.65%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £305 £325 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £362 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £425 £295
% change year-on-year
-11.76% +44.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
19388 24654 25908
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 46.63% 46.22% 46.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10664 13039 13321
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £235 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1105 1232 1516
Average hourly rate £19.63 £19.63 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -1.87%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.35 £11.50 £11.38
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £41.50 £39.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Rackspace
UK

Rackspace
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Rackspace Jobs Demand Trend

Rackspace
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Rackspace Daily Rate Trend

Rackspace
Daily Rate Histogram

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

England Rackspace Daily Rate Histogram

Rackspace
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Rackspace 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
London +47 18 £465 +32.85%
Rackspace
UK

Rackspace
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 32 (94.12%) Linux
2 19 (55.88%) Java
3 18 (52.94%) Amazon AWS
3 18 (52.94%) NoSQL
4 17 (50.00%) Firewall
5 16 (47.06%) Apache
5 16 (47.06%) Amazon EC2
5 16 (47.06%) Samba
6 15 (44.12%) Puppet
6 15 (44.12%) SAN
7 14 (41.18%) HTTP
7 14 (41.18%) DNS
7 14 (41.18%) UNIX
7 14 (41.18%) PHP
7 14 (41.18%) MySQL
7 14 (41.18%) Oracle
7 14 (41.18%) SQL Server
7 14 (41.18%) REST
7 14 (41.18%) Load Balancing
8 13 (38.24%) SSL
9 12 (35.29%) RTP
9 12 (35.29%) SOAP
9 12 (35.29%) Perl
9 12 (35.29%) Tomcat
9 12 (35.29%) JBoss
9 12 (35.29%) Penetration Testing
9 12 (35.29%) RTSP
9 12 (35.29%) Maven
9 12 (35.29%) MongoDB
9 12 (35.29%) Continuous Integration

Rackspace
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 14 (41.18%) REST
2 12 (35.29%) SOAP
3 11 (32.35%) XML
3 11 (32.35%) J2EE
4 10 (29.41%) Flash
4 10 (29.41%) DHTML
4 10 (29.41%) HTML
4 10 (29.41%) HTML5
4 10 (29.41%) WSRP
4 10 (29.41%) JSR 168
4 10 (29.41%) Java EE
4 10 (29.41%) Ajax
5 9 (26.47%) .NET
5 9 (26.47%) LAMP
6 4 (11.76%) MapReduce
7 2 (5.882%) Spring
7 2 (5.882%) Middleware
7 2 (5.882%) Web Services
7 2 (5.882%) JSP
7 2 (5.882%) Servlets
Application Platforms
1 18 (52.94%) Amazon AWS
2 16 (47.06%) Apache
2 16 (47.06%) Amazon EC2
3 12 (35.29%) Tomcat
4 7 (20.59%) Rackspace Cloud
5 4 (11.76%) Windows Azure
6 1 (2.941%) OpenStack
6 1 (2.941%) Magento
6 1 (2.941%) LiveSite
Applications
1 1 (2.941%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 17 (50.00%) Firewall
2 15 (44.12%) SAN
3 14 (41.18%) HTTP
3 14 (41.18%) DNS
4 13 (38.24%) SSL
5 12 (35.29%) RTP
5 12 (35.29%) RTSP
5 12 (35.29%) Network Security
5 12 (35.29%) NAS
6 4 (11.76%) Internet
7 2 (5.882%) SSH
7 2 (5.882%) VLAN
8 1 (2.941%) LAN
8 1 (2.941%) WAN
8 1 (2.941%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (52.94%) NoSQL
2 14 (41.18%) MySQL
2 14 (41.18%) SQL Server
3 12 (35.29%) MongoDB
3 12 (35.29%) CouchDB
3 12 (35.29%) Redis
4 10 (29.41%) RDBMS
4 10 (29.41%) Oracle 8/8i
5 6 (17.65%) Hadoop
5 6 (17.65%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (11.76%) HBase
6 4 (11.76%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 12 (35.29%) Maven
2 11 (32.35%) Git (software)
3 10 (29.41%) JIRA
3 10 (29.41%) Hudson
3 10 (29.41%) Selenium
3 10 (29.41%) Jenkins
4 2 (5.882%) Eclipse
5 1 (2.941%) Subversion
General
1 2 (5.882%) Music
2 1 (2.941%) Finance
2 1 (2.941%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 10 (29.41%) Systems Engineer
2 7 (20.59%) Architect
2 7 (20.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) Linux Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) Administrator
4 5 (14.71%) Systems Administrator
4 5 (14.71%) Web Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Data Architect
5 4 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (8.824%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 3 (8.824%) Technical Architect
6 3 (8.824%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 3 (8.824%) Linux Administrator
6 3 (8.824%) Senior UNIX Administrator
6 3 (8.824%) Team Leader
6 3 (8.824%) UNIX Administrator
6 3 (8.824%) Infrastructure Architect
6 3 (8.824%) Senior Systems Administrator
6 3 (8.824%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
6 3 (8.824%) Senior Web Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (29.41%) Taxonomies
1 10 (29.41%) Ontologies
2 7 (20.59%) Open Source
3 3 (8.824%) New Media
4 2 (5.882%) Client/Server
4 2 (5.882%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.941%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 32 (94.12%) Linux
2 14 (41.18%) UNIX
3 8 (23.53%) Windows
4 5 (14.71%) Solaris
4 5 (14.71%) Debian
5 4 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (8.824%) Windows XP
6 3 (8.824%) Windows 7
7 2 (5.882%) Ubuntu
7 2 (5.882%) SUSE
8 1 (2.941%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (41.18%) Load Balancing
2 12 (35.29%) Penetration Testing
2 12 (35.29%) Continuous Integration
3 10 (29.41%) DRM
3 10 (29.41%) SOA
3 10 (29.41%) Information Architecture
4 6 (17.65%) E-Commerce
5 4 (11.76%) Technical Architecture
5 4 (11.76%) Migration
5 4 (11.76%) Analytics
6 3 (8.824%) ITIL
6 3 (8.824%) Project Management
7 2 (5.882%) Data Migration
8 1 (2.941%) Stakeholder Management
8 1 (2.941%) Service Management
8 1 (2.941%) Agile Software Development
8 1 (2.941%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 19 (55.88%) Java
2 14 (41.18%) PHP
3 12 (35.29%) Perl
4 10 (29.41%) JavaScript
5 5 (14.71%) Python
6 4 (11.76%) C#
7 3 (8.824%) Ruby
8 1 (2.941%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.941%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 4 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.824%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.882%) Degree
4 1 (2.941%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 16 (47.06%) Samba
2 2 (5.882%) Sendmail
3 1 (2.941%) NFS
Systems Management
1 15 (44.12%) Puppet
2 10 (29.41%) Nagios
2 10 (29.41%) ZABBIX
3 8 (23.53%) OpenView
4 3 (8.824%) CFEngine
5 2 (5.882%) Splunk
Vendors
1 14 (41.18%) Oracle
2 12 (35.29%) JBoss
3 9 (26.47%) Red Hat
4 6 (17.65%) RightScale
5 4 (11.76%) Hortonworks
5 4 (11.76%) Cloudera
6 3 (8.824%) Joyent
7 2 (5.882%) Sun
8 1 (2.941%) StorageTek
8 1 (2.941%) Akamai
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