The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Computing in IT contracts advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cloud Computing over the 3 months to 20 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 Kent 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cloud Computing
Rank 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 1.000% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.688% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £368 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £375 £461
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -18.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.50 - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
64 55 72
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 21.33% 20.37% 22.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 26 23
Average daily rate £303 £285 £293
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.14% -2.56%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £191 £162
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £399 £398
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £343 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.18% +0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 10
Average hourly rate £19.20 £10.00 £14.88
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+91.95% -32.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.21 £9.25 £7.77
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £98.85 £44.50 £17.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £24.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year
-8.16% -9.25%
Cloud Computing
South East

Cloud Computing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent Cloud Computing Daily Rate Trend

Cloud Computing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cloud Computing across the Kent region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Kent Cloud Computing Daily Rate Histogram

Cloud Computing
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 3 (100.00%) C
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 3 (100.00%) Games
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Google App Engine
2 2 (66.67%) Game Development
2 2 (66.67%) Google
2 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Lua
2 2 (66.67%) C++
2 2 (66.67%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (66.67%) MSBuild
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Load Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy

Cloud Computing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Google App Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (66.67%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (66.67%) MSBuild
General
1 3 (100.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Build Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Game Development
2 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Load Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C
1 3 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) C++
2 2 (66.67%) Lua
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Google