The first table below looks at the demand for Amazon EC2 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 EC2 over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
Rank 29 - 50
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 1 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 0.417% - 0.222%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.226% - 2.128%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
-21.42% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Platforms
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
31 96 47
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 12.92% 19.05% 10.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 64 27
Average daily rate £365 £375 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.66% +50.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £295 £300 £168
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 3
Average hourly rate £21.50 £20.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.87% +2.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £20.00 £17.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.50 £21.00 £20.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +5.26%
Amazon EC2
South West

Amazon EC2
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Amazon EC2 across the Gloucestershire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Gloucestershire Amazon EC2 Jobs Demand Trend

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 across the Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire Amazon EC2 Daily Rate Trend

Amazon EC2
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon EC2 within the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
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Cheltenham - 1 - -
Amazon EC2
South West

Amazon EC2
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire region citing Amazon EC2 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 EC2.

1 7 (100.00%) Amazon AWS
2 6 (85.71%) PaaS
2 6 (85.71%) IaaS
2 6 (85.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (85.71%) Windows Azure
2 6 (85.71%) VMware
2 6 (85.71%) Oracle Application Server
2 6 (85.71%) Load Balancing
2 6 (85.71%) Oracle RAC
2 6 (85.71%) Oracle 11g
2 6 (85.71%) GlassFish
2 6 (85.71%) UNIX
2 6 (85.71%) Windows
2 6 (85.71%) Solaris
2 6 (85.71%) Linux
2 6 (85.71%) DHCP
2 6 (85.71%) TCP/IP
2 6 (85.71%) DNS
2 6 (85.71%) Cisco
2 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
2 6 (85.71%) Oracle 10g
2 6 (85.71%) Sun
2 6 (85.71%) Active Directory
2 6 (85.71%) SAN
2 6 (85.71%) Oracle
2 6 (85.71%) WebLogic
2 6 (85.71%) Middleware
2 6 (85.71%) MPLS
2 6 (85.71%) Firewall
3 5 (71.43%) SQL Server

Amazon EC2
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire region citing Amazon EC2 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 EC2. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (85.71%) Middleware
2 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 7 (100.00%) Amazon AWS
2 6 (85.71%) Windows Azure
2 6 (85.71%) Oracle Application Server
2 6 (85.71%) GlassFish
2 6 (85.71%) WebLogic
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) DHCP
1 6 (85.71%) TCP/IP
1 6 (85.71%) DNS
1 6 (85.71%) SAN
1 6 (85.71%) MPLS
1 6 (85.71%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) Oracle 11g
1 6 (85.71%) Oracle 10g
2 5 (71.43%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure Architect
1 6 (85.71%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) PaaS
1 6 (85.71%) IaaS
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 6 (85.71%) UNIX
1 6 (85.71%) Windows
1 6 (85.71%) Solaris
1 6 (85.71%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu
2 1 (14.29%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Load Balancing
2 3 (42.86%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Oracle RAC
1 6 (85.71%) Active Directory
2 5 (71.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (71.43%) vSphere
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) VMware
1 6 (85.71%) Cisco
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
1 6 (85.71%) Sun
1 6 (85.71%) Oracle
2 5 (71.43%) Red Hat
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