The first table below looks at the demand for Windows Azure 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 Windows Azure 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows Azure
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Windows Azure 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire - - -
As % of the Application Platforms category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £400 £230
% change year-on-year
-3.12% +73.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £15.00 -
All Application Platforms
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
38 99 54
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 14.02% 15.37% 12.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 62 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 £303 £323 £169
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £450 £358
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 5
Average hourly rate £24.50 £20.50 £20.63
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+19.51% -0.60%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
Windows Azure
South West

Windows Azure
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

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%) PaaS
1 7 (100.00%) IaaS
2 6 (85.71%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (85.71%) Amazon AWS
2 6 (85.71%) vSphere

Windows Azure
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire region citing Windows Azure 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 Windows Azure. 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
2 6 (85.71%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (85.71%) Amazon AWS
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
1 7 (100.00%) IaaS
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%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu
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%) vSphere
2 6 (85.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Cisco
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 7 (100.00%) Sun
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle
1 7 (100.00%) VMware
2 6 (85.71%) Red Hat