The first table below looks at the demand for AWK skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited AWK over the 3 months to 23 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 Programming Languages category for the Leeds 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
AWK
Rank 70 67 54
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -13
Contract jobs citing AWK 4 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 0.545% 0.114% 0.156%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.294% 0.295% 0.472%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Average daily rate £335 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.28% +7.69%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £250 £325
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -23.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £29.75
All Programming Languages
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
309 339 212
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 42.10% 38.48% 33.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 219 112
Average daily rate £275 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.38% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £220 £221
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £390 £395
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 8
Average hourly rate £33.00 £17.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+94.11% -24.44%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.50 £20.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.50 £57.50 £33.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
AWK
West Yorkshire

AWK
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing AWK across the Leeds region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Leeds AWK Jobs Demand Trend

AWK
Daily Rate Trend

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

Leeds AWK Daily Rate Trend

AWK
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing AWK 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 AWK.

1 4 (100.00%) Ant
1 4 (100.00%) WebLogic
1 4 (100.00%) UNIX
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) Perl
1 4 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 4 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 4 (100.00%) Subversion
1 4 (100.00%) Maven
1 4 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (75.00%) Shell Script
2 3 (75.00%) CruiseControl
2 3 (75.00%) ATG
2 3 (75.00%) ATG Dynamo
2 3 (75.00%) JBoss
2 3 (75.00%) Apache
2 3 (75.00%) Tomcat
2 3 (75.00%) Solaris
3 1 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) Jython
3 1 (25.00%) IBM
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (25.00%) Bash shell
3 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software

AWK
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing AWK 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 AWK. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) WebLogic
2 3 (75.00%) ATG Dynamo
2 3 (75.00%) Apache
2 3 (75.00%) Tomcat
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Ant
1 4 (100.00%) Subversion
1 4 (100.00%) Maven
2 3 (75.00%) CruiseControl
3 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Configuration Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Release Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) UNIX
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 4 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) Perl
2 3 (75.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) Jython
3 1 (25.00%) Bash shell
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) ATG
1 3 (75.00%) JBoss
2 1 (25.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
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