The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Computing in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cloud Computing 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 terms in our Miscellaneous 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cloud Computing
Rank - - 45
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 0 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire - - 0.459%
As % of the Miscellaneous category - - 2.778%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £413 £375 £465
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -19.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.50 - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
51 147 72
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 18.82% 22.83% 16.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 81 35
Average daily rate £400 £500 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +61.29%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £300 £233
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £575 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 1
Average hourly rate £42.00 £20.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+110.00% -42.85%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Cloud Computing
South West

Cloud Computing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire Cloud Computing Jobs Demand Trend

Cloud Computing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Gloucestershire Cloud Computing Daily Rate Trend

Cloud Computing
Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire region citing Cloud Computing 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 Cloud Computing.

1 5 (100.00%) Oracle
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 5 (100.00%) Web Services
1 5 (100.00%) ITIL
1 5 (100.00%) Service Management
1 5 (100.00%) ITSM
2 1 (20.00%) Release Management
2 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery

Cloud Computing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 5 (100.00%) Web Services
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Designer
2 4 (80.00%) Solutions Designer
3 1 (20.00%) Network Designer
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) ITIL
1 5 (100.00%) Service Management
1 5 (100.00%) ITSM
2 1 (20.00%) Release Management
2 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle