The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term IaaS in IT contracts advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited IaaS over the 3 months to 17 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Essex 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Rank 45 43 -
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -
Contract jobs citing IaaS 1 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 0.246% 0.244% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.893% 1.163% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £438 -
% change year-on-year
-2.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
112 86 93
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 27.52% 20.98% 23.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 42 42
Average daily rate £325 £250 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+30.00% +11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £110 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £465 £403
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 12 25
Average hourly rate £27.73 £17.00 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+63.11% -38.18%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.66 £11.56 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £21.00 £32.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%
IaaS
East of England

IaaS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing IaaS across the Essex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Essex IaaS Jobs Demand Trend

IaaS
Daily Rate Trend

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

Essex IaaS Daily Rate Trend

IaaS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IaaS within the Essex region over the 3 months to 17 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
Southend-on-Sea - 1 - -
IaaS
East of England

IaaS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region citing IaaS 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 IaaS.

1 4 (80.00%) VMware
1 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (60.00%) SaaS
2 3 (60.00%) PaaS
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco
2 3 (60.00%) Finance
3 2 (40.00%) Firewall
3 2 (40.00%) Identity Management
3 2 (40.00%) Juniper
3 2 (40.00%) WebSphere MQ
3 2 (40.00%) IBM
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (40.00%) VPN
3 2 (40.00%) DNS
3 2 (40.00%) Citrix
3 2 (40.00%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (40.00%) JBoss
3 2 (40.00%) LDAP
3 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (40.00%) TOGAF
3 2 (40.00%) Document Management
3 2 (40.00%) WebSphere
3 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (20.00%) Network Security

IaaS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region citing IaaS 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 IaaS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (40.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 2 (40.00%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (20.00%) WebLogic
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (40.00%) VPN
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) LDAP
2 1 (20.00%) VoIP
2 1 (20.00%) WAN
2 1 (20.00%) Wireless
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (20.00%) SAN
2 1 (20.00%) MPLS
2 1 (20.00%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (20.00%) Storage Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Specialist
3 1 (20.00%) Storage Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Backup Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Backup Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) SaaS
1 3 (60.00%) PaaS
2 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Identity Management
1 2 (40.00%) TOGAF
1 2 (40.00%) Document Management
1 2 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (20.00%) SOA
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CCIE
1 1 (20.00%) CCNP
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) UAG
2 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Tivoli
1 1 (20.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 1 (20.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco
3 2 (40.00%) IBM
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) Citrix
3 2 (40.00%) Juniper
3 2 (40.00%) JBoss
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle
4 1 (20.00%) BMC
4 1 (20.00%) CA
4 1 (20.00%) Siemens