The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term IaaS in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing IaaS 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire - - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category - - -
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
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
54 162 74
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 19.71% 23.34% 17.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 88 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 £214
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £575 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 2
Average hourly rate £42.00 £23.85 £26.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+76.10% -10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.54 £10.70 £19.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £41.00 £33.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%
IaaS
South West

IaaS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 7 (100.00%) WebLogic
1 7 (100.00%) UNIX
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) Solaris
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
1 7 (100.00%) DHCP
1 7 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 7 (100.00%) DNS
1 7 (100.00%) Cisco
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle 10g
1 7 (100.00%) Sun
1 7 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 7 (100.00%) SAN
1 7 (100.00%) Middleware
1 7 (100.00%) MPLS
1 7 (100.00%) Firewall
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle
1 7 (100.00%) VMware
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle Application Server
1 7 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle RAC
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle 11g
1 7 (100.00%) GlassFish
1 7 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 7 (100.00%) Windows Azure
1 7 (100.00%) PaaS
2 6 (85.71%) Amazon AWS
2 6 (85.71%) vSphere
2 6 (85.71%) Amazon EC2

IaaS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 7 (100.00%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 7 (100.00%) WebLogic
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle Application Server
1 7 (100.00%) GlassFish
1 7 (100.00%) Windows Azure
2 6 (85.71%) Amazon AWS
2 6 (85.71%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) DHCP
1 7 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 7 (100.00%) DNS
1 7 (100.00%) SAN
1 7 (100.00%) MPLS
1 7 (100.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle 10g
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle 11g
2 6 (85.71%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Architect
1 7 (100.00%) Infrastructure Architect
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) PaaS
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) UNIX
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) Solaris
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
1 7 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (14.29%) SUSE
2 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Load Balancing
2 4 (57.14%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle RAC
2 6 (85.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (85.71%) vSphere
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle
1 7 (100.00%) Cisco
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 7 (100.00%) Sun
1 7 (100.00%) VMware
2 6 (85.71%) Red Hat