Windows Azure Contracts in England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Windows Azure 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 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 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
Microsoft Windows Azure
Rank 336 502 547
Rank change year-on-year
+166 +45
Contract jobs citing Windows Azure 183 57 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.440% 0.107% 0.043%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.409% 0.651% 0.254%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 35 16
Average daily rate £390 £400 £403
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.50% -0.62%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £325 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £625 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £400 £230
% change year-on-year
-3.12% +73.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £15.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £15.00 -
Search 66 Windows Azure jobs in England
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%
Windows Azure
UK

Windows Azure
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England 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 England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England Windows Azure Daily Rate Histogram

Windows Azure
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Windows Azure Hourly Rate Trend

Windows Azure
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Azure 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 +86 78 £375 -6.25%
South East +77 76 £400 -
South West +33 9 £475 +58.33%
Yorkshire - 7 £425 -
East of England +17 3 £313 -21.87%
North West +13 3 £313 -7.40%
South Coast - 3 - -
East Midlands - 3 £225 -
West Midlands - 1 - -
Windows Azure
UK

Windows Azure
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 223 (69.69%) .NET
2 212 (66.25%) C#
3 144 (45.00%) Microsoft
4 129 (40.31%) Windows
5 124 (38.75%) SQL Server
6 102 (31.88%) ASP.NET
7 101 (31.56%) MVC
8 82 (25.63%) SQL
9 81 (25.31%) Visual Studio
10 76 (23.75%) TDD
10 76 (23.75%) WCF
11 74 (23.13%) JavaScript
12 71 (22.19%) Scrum
13 58 (18.13%) XML
14 57 (17.81%) CSS
15 55 (17.19%) HTML
16 53 (16.56%) ASP.NET MVC
17 52 (16.25%) Web Services
17 52 (16.25%) MS Excel
18 48 (15.00%) Agile Software Development
19 42 (13.13%) SOA
20 41 (12.81%) Cloud Computing
21 39 (12.19%) .NET Framework
22 37 (11.56%) Games
22 37 (11.56%) PaaS
23 35 (10.94%) LINQ
23 35 (10.94%) BizTalk Server
24 34 (10.63%) Amazon EC2
24 34 (10.63%) BDD
25 33 (10.31%) jQuery

Windows Azure
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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
1 223 (69.69%) .NET
2 102 (31.88%) ASP.NET
3 76 (23.75%) WCF
4 58 (18.13%) XML
5 57 (17.81%) CSS
6 55 (17.19%) HTML
7 53 (16.56%) ASP.NET MVC
8 52 (16.25%) Web Services
9 39 (12.19%) .NET Framework
10 35 (10.94%) LINQ
11 33 (10.31%) jQuery
12 29 (9.063%) Razor View Engine
13 26 (8.125%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
14 25 (7.813%) REST
15 24 (7.500%) WF
16 21 (6.563%) Ajax
16 21 (6.563%) ASP.NET MVC 3
17 17 (5.313%) AppFabric
17 17 (5.313%) Silverlight
18 16 (5.000%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 35 (10.94%) BizTalk Server
2 34 (10.63%) Amazon EC2
3 29 (9.063%) IIS
4 20 (6.250%) ESB
5 17 (5.313%) Google App Engine
5 17 (5.313%) Amazon AWS
6 10 (3.125%) SharePoint
7 9 (2.813%) OpenStack
7 9 (2.813%) WebLogic
8 8 (2.500%) CMS
8 8 (2.500%) CloudStack
9 7 (2.188%) GlassFish
9 7 (2.188%) Oracle Application Server
10 4 (1.250%) MS Exchange
10 4 (1.250%) MSMQ
11 3 (0.938%) Apache
12 2 (0.625%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.625%) Amazon S3
13 1 (0.313%) Kentico
13 1 (0.313%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 52 (16.25%) MS Excel
2 4 (1.250%) MS Project
2 4 (1.250%) MS Office
2 4 (1.250%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.313%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 5 (1.563%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (1.563%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.625%) Bond Adapt
3 1 (0.313%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.000%) Internet
2 10 (3.125%) HTTP
2 10 (3.125%) TCP/IP
3 9 (2.813%) DNS
3 9 (2.813%) Firewall
4 8 (2.500%) DHCP
4 8 (2.500%) SAN
5 7 (2.188%) MPLS
6 5 (1.563%) SSL
7 2 (0.625%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.625%) Intranet
8 1 (0.313%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (38.75%) SQL Server
2 28 (8.750%) SQL Server 2005
2 28 (8.750%) Azure SQL Database
3 26 (8.125%) SQL Server 2008
4 17 (5.313%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 16 (5.000%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 11 (3.438%) NoSQL
7 10 (3.125%) VLDB
8 9 (2.813%) SQL Server 2012
9 8 (2.500%) Hadoop
9 8 (2.500%) Big Data
10 7 (2.188%) Oracle 11g
10 7 (2.188%) Oracle 10g
11 6 (1.875%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 6 (1.875%) Apache Cassandra
12 5 (1.563%) HBase
12 5 (1.563%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (1.250%) MongoDB
14 3 (0.938%) Amazon RDS
14 3 (0.938%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 81 (25.31%) Visual Studio
2 32 (10.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 15 (4.688%) MSBuild
4 13 (4.063%) Git (software)
5 12 (3.750%) Subversion
6 11 (3.438%) Selenium
7 9 (2.813%) JMeter
8 8 (2.500%) TeamCity
9 7 (2.188%) JIRA
10 5 (1.563%) SpecFlow
10 5 (1.563%) JUnit
11 3 (0.938%) Moq
11 3 (0.938%) XMLUnit
11 3 (0.938%) MSTest
11 3 (0.938%) Visual Studio Team System
11 3 (0.938%) HttpUnit
11 3 (0.938%) Ant
12 2 (0.625%) FitNesse
12 2 (0.625%) Log4j
13 1 (0.313%) Hudson
General
1 37 (11.56%) Games
2 32 (10.00%) Finance
3 7 (2.188%) Pharmaceutical
4 6 (1.875%) Marketing
5 3 (0.938%) Banking
5 3 (0.938%) Retail
6 2 (0.625%) Publishing
7 1 (0.313%) Law
7 1 (0.313%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.313%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.313%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 155 (48.44%) Developer
2 74 (23.13%) .NET Developer
3 50 (15.63%) C# Developer
4 34 (10.63%) Architect
5 30 (9.375%) C# .NET Developer
6 26 (8.125%) ASP.NET Developer
7 23 (7.188%) Software Engineer
8 16 (5.000%) Web Developer
8 16 (5.000%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 14 (4.375%) Software Development Engineer
9 14 (4.375%) Consultant
9 14 (4.375%) Development Engineer
10 12 (3.750%) Analyst
10 12 (3.750%) .NET Web Developer
10 12 (3.750%) Build Engineer
11 11 (3.438%) Agile .NET Developer
11 11 (3.438%) Infrastructure Architect
11 11 (3.438%) Solutions Architect
12 9 (2.813%) BizTalk Developer
12 9 (2.813%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 41 (12.81%) Cloud Computing
2 37 (11.56%) PaaS
3 24 (7.500%) Enterprise Software
4 21 (6.563%) SaaS
5 19 (5.938%) Open Source
6 18 (5.625%) IaaS
7 12 (3.750%) Online Games
8 10 (3.125%) N-Tier
8 10 (3.125%) Contract for Difference
8 10 (3.125%) Computer Science
9 7 (2.188%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.938%) Digital Media
10 3 (0.938%) Visualisation
11 2 (0.625%) New Media
11 2 (0.625%) Inversion of Control
12 1 (0.313%) Heroku
12 1 (0.313%) Social Media
12 1 (0.313%) FMCG
12 1 (0.313%) Grid Computing
12 1 (0.313%) Economics
Operating Systems
1 129 (40.31%) Windows
2 23 (7.188%) Linux
3 11 (3.438%) Windows Mobile
4 10 (3.125%) UNIX
5 7 (2.188%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.188%) Solaris
6 4 (1.250%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (0.938%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.625%) Windows 8
8 2 (0.625%) Windows Phone
8 2 (0.625%) Android
8 2 (0.625%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.313%) Windows Phone 7
9 1 (0.313%) Windows Phone 8
9 1 (0.313%) SUSE
9 1 (0.313%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (31.56%) MVC
2 76 (23.75%) TDD
3 71 (22.19%) Scrum
4 48 (15.00%) Agile Software Development
5 42 (13.13%) SOA
6 34 (10.63%) BDD
7 23 (7.188%) Business Intelligence
7 23 (7.188%) Workflow
8 21 (6.563%) Test Automation
9 20 (6.250%) Multithreading
10 18 (5.625%) Analytics
11 17 (5.313%) Release Management
11 17 (5.313%) Web Development
12 15 (4.688%) E-Commerce
13 13 (4.063%) Configuration Management
14 12 (3.750%) Migration
14 12 (3.750%) Game Development
15 10 (3.125%) Stakeholder Management
15 10 (3.125%) Performance Testing
15 10 (3.125%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 212 (66.25%) C#
2 82 (25.63%) SQL
3 74 (23.13%) JavaScript
4 25 (7.813%) Java
4 25 (7.813%) C++
5 15 (4.688%) Python
5 15 (4.688%) Ruby
5 15 (4.688%) Lua
6 13 (4.063%) C
7 9 (2.813%) Groovy
7 9 (2.813%) T-SQL
8 4 (1.250%) Perl
9 2 (0.625%) PHP
9 2 (0.625%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.313%) Clojure
10 1 (0.313%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.313%) VC++
10 1 (0.313%) VB
Qualifications
1 10 (3.125%) PhD
2 9 (2.813%) Degree
3 5 (1.563%) SC Cleared
3 5 (1.563%) Security Cleared
3 5 (1.563%) MCTS
3 5 (1.563%) MCITP
3 5 (1.563%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (1.563%) CCNP
3 5 (1.563%) CCNA
4 3 (0.938%) ISTQB
5 2 (0.625%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.313%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.313%) MBA
6 1 (0.313%) ISEB Practitioner
6 1 (0.313%) ISEB
6 1 (0.313%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (0.313%) MCP
6 1 (0.313%) MCAD
6 1 (0.313%) MCSD
6 1 (0.313%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.500%) QA
2 3 (0.938%) Dublin Core
System Software
1 16 (5.000%) Active Directory
2 15 (4.688%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (3.438%) Hyper-V
4 8 (2.500%) Xen
5 7 (2.188%) Oracle RAC
6 6 (1.875%) vSphere
7 5 (1.563%) XenServer
8 4 (1.250%) UAG
9 2 (0.625%) Varnish
10 1 (0.313%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 19 (5.938%) SCOM
2 2 (0.625%) SCCM
2 2 (0.625%) Splunk
3 1 (0.313%) Puppet
Vendors
1 144 (45.00%) Microsoft
2 26 (8.125%) Google
3 20 (6.250%) Oracle
4 16 (5.000%) VMware
5 10 (3.125%) SAP
6 8 (2.500%) Citrix
6 8 (2.500%) Cisco
7 7 (2.188%) Sun
8 6 (1.875%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.250%) TIBCO
9 4 (1.250%) Rackspace
9 4 (1.250%) Hortonworks
9 4 (1.250%) Cloudera
10 2 (0.625%) Open Text
10 2 (0.625%) RedDot
10 2 (0.625%) Facebook
11 1 (0.313%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.313%) Twitter
11 1 (0.313%) HP
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