The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Computing in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire 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 61 69 57
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -12
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 2 1 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.314% 0.102% 0.799%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.515% 0.495% 5.000%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
Average daily rate £550 - £490
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
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
132 202 140
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 20.72% 20.68% 15.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 80 66
Average daily rate £388 £350 £345
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.71% +1.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £255 £222 £148
10% offered a daily rate of more than £504 £446 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 15 9
Average hourly rate £35.00 £23.50 £37.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+48.93% -36.48%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £10.27 £25.49
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £49.00 £37.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Cloud Computing
East of England

Cloud Computing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Cloud Computing Daily Rate Trend

Cloud Computing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 8 (88.89%) Project Management
2 5 (55.56%) SAN
2 5 (55.56%) MS Office
2 5 (55.56%) ITIL
2 5 (55.56%) PRINCE2
2 5 (55.56%) VoIP
2 5 (55.56%) VPN
2 5 (55.56%) Service Management
2 5 (55.56%) Firewall
2 5 (55.56%) Degree
2 5 (55.56%) ITIL V3
3 3 (33.33%) PDCA
3 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 3 (33.33%) Mason
3 3 (33.33%) Six Sigma
3 3 (33.33%) Salesforce.com
4 2 (22.22%) PRINCE
4 2 (22.22%) Visualforce
4 2 (22.22%) Apex Code
5 1 (11.11%) SaaS
5 1 (11.11%) Waterfall
5 1 (11.11%) Force.com
5 1 (11.11%) BEA
5 1 (11.11%) WebSphere
5 1 (11.11%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (11.11%) WebSphere MQ
5 1 (11.11%) Middleware
5 1 (11.11%) UNIX
5 1 (11.11%) Solaris
5 1 (11.11%) Apache

Cloud Computing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 3 (33.33%) Mason
2 2 (22.22%) Visualforce
3 1 (11.11%) WebSphere
3 1 (11.11%) Middleware
3 1 (11.11%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Force.com
1 1 (11.11%) WebSphere MQ
1 1 (11.11%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (55.56%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) SAN
1 5 (55.56%) VoIP
1 5 (55.56%) VPN
1 5 (55.56%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Head of IT
2 3 (33.33%) Architect
2 3 (33.33%) IT Manager
3 2 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Salesforce.com Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) UNIX
1 1 (11.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Project Management
2 5 (55.56%) ITIL
2 5 (55.56%) PRINCE2
2 5 (55.56%) Service Management
2 5 (55.56%) ITIL V3
3 3 (33.33%) PDCA
3 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 3 (33.33%) Six Sigma
4 2 (22.22%) PRINCE
5 1 (11.11%) Waterfall
5 1 (11.11%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Apex Code
2 1 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Salesforce.com
2 1 (11.11%) BEA
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle