The first table below looks at the demand for Amazon AWS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Amazon AWS over the 3 months to 23 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 Gloucestershire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Amazon Web Services (Amazon AWS)
Rank 33 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Amazon AWS 4 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 1.471% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 10.53% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £350 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £280 £375
% change year-on-year
-1.78% -25.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.00 - -
All Application Platforms
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
38 97 54
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 13.97% 14.76% 12.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 61 28
Average daily rate £400 £375 £294
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% +27.65%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £304 £325 £169
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £450 £358
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 5
Average hourly rate £24.50 £21.00 £20.63
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% +1.81%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%
Amazon AWS
South West

Amazon AWS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire Amazon AWS Jobs Demand Trend

Amazon AWS
Daily Rate Trend

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

Gloucestershire Amazon AWS Daily Rate Trend

Amazon AWS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon AWS within the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Cheltenham - 3 £350 -
Amazon AWS
South West

Amazon AWS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire region citing Amazon AWS 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 AWS.

1 7 (70.00%) Windows
1 7 (70.00%) Cisco
1 7 (70.00%) Microsoft
1 7 (70.00%) Firewall
1 7 (70.00%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (60.00%) Windows Azure
2 6 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (60.00%) PaaS
2 6 (60.00%) IaaS
2 6 (60.00%) Oracle Application Server
2 6 (60.00%) Load Balancing
2 6 (60.00%) Oracle RAC
2 6 (60.00%) Oracle 11g
2 6 (60.00%) GlassFish
2 6 (60.00%) VMware
2 6 (60.00%) SAN
2 6 (60.00%) Middleware
2 6 (60.00%) MPLS
2 6 (60.00%) Oracle 10g
2 6 (60.00%) Sun
2 6 (60.00%) UNIX
2 6 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (60.00%) Solaris
2 6 (60.00%) Linux
2 6 (60.00%) DHCP
2 6 (60.00%) TCP/IP
2 6 (60.00%) DNS
2 6 (60.00%) Oracle
2 6 (60.00%) WebLogic
3 5 (50.00%) SQL Server

Amazon AWS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire region citing Amazon AWS 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 AWS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (60.00%) Middleware
2 3 (30.00%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 7 (70.00%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (60.00%) Windows Azure
2 6 (60.00%) Oracle Application Server
2 6 (60.00%) GlassFish
2 6 (60.00%) WebLogic
Communications & Networking
1 7 (70.00%) Firewall
2 6 (60.00%) SAN
2 6 (60.00%) MPLS
2 6 (60.00%) DHCP
2 6 (60.00%) TCP/IP
2 6 (60.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) Oracle 11g
1 6 (60.00%) Oracle 10g
2 5 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MSI
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure Architect
1 6 (60.00%) Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Administrator
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Administrator
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco Technical Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Web Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Leader
2 1 (10.00%) Web Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) PaaS
1 6 (60.00%) IaaS
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Windows
2 6 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (60.00%) UNIX
2 6 (60.00%) Solaris
2 6 (60.00%) Linux
3 1 (10.00%) SUSE
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (10.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (30.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (10.00%) CCNP
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Oracle RAC
1 6 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (50.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Cisco
1 7 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (60.00%) VMware
2 6 (60.00%) Sun
2 6 (60.00%) Oracle
3 5 (50.00%) Red Hat