The first table below looks at the demand for Windows Azure skills in IT contracts advertised for the Ipswich region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows Azure over the 3 months to 21 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 Ipswich 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows Azure
Rank 17 24 -
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -
Contract jobs citing Windows Azure 1 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Ipswich 1.351% 0.826% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 12.50% 3.846% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £250 - -
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
Ipswich
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
8 26 40
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Ipswich 10.81% 21.49% 37.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 13 15
Average daily rate £250 £325 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.07% +6.55%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 2
Average hourly rate £10.00 £17.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-41.17% +25.92%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
Windows Azure
Suffolk

Windows Azure
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Ipswich Windows Azure Jobs Demand Trend

Windows Azure
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Windows Azure across the Ipswich region.

Ipswich Windows Azure Daily Rate Trend

Windows Azure
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Ipswich 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 3 (75.00%) SQL
1 3 (75.00%) T-SQL
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) OLTP
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 3 (75.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server 2012
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) VPN

Windows Azure
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Ipswich 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.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (75.00%) OLTP
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 3 (75.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server 2012
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon RDS
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) DBA
1 3 (75.00%) SQL DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
1 3 (75.00%) T-SQL
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) VMware