The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Akamai products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Akamai 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 Vendors for the London 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Akamai Technologies, Inc.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Akamai
Rank 369 392 433
Rank change year-on-year
+23 +41
Contract jobs citing Akamai 12 10 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.055% 0.037% 0.003%
As % of the Vendors category 0.122% 0.084% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 1
Average daily rate £350 £400 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% +25.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £438 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
9803 11923 13860
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 45.19% 44.40% 45.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 6187 7228 8368
Average daily rate £425 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £270 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 289 401
Average hourly rate £21.34 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.67% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £35.50 £39.65
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Akamai
England

Akamai
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Akamai across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

London Akamai Jobs Demand Trend

Akamai
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Akamai Daily Rate Trend

Akamai
Daily Rate Histogram

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

London Akamai Daily Rate Histogram

Akamai
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Akamai across the London region.

London Akamai Hourly Rate Trend

Akamai
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Akamai 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 Akamai.

1 19 (86.36%) Linux
2 15 (68.18%) Puppet
3 13 (59.09%) Apache
4 10 (45.45%) DNS
5 9 (40.91%) MySQL
5 9 (40.91%) Amazon AWS
6 7 (31.82%) Subversion
6 7 (31.82%) Red Hat
6 7 (31.82%) Nagios
6 7 (31.82%) Open Source
6 7 (31.82%) Bash shell
6 7 (31.82%) Hudson
6 7 (31.82%) Jenkins
6 7 (31.82%) Git (software)
7 6 (27.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (27.27%) JIRA
7 6 (27.27%) VMware
8 5 (22.73%) LAMP
8 5 (22.73%) SSL
8 5 (22.73%) TCP/IP
8 5 (22.73%) HTTP
8 5 (22.73%) PHP
9 4 (18.18%) UNIX
9 4 (18.18%) Tomcat
9 4 (18.18%) Perl
9 4 (18.18%) Solaris
9 4 (18.18%) Firewall
9 4 (18.18%) SMTP
9 4 (18.18%) Clustering
9 4 (18.18%) SSH

Akamai
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 5 (22.73%) LAMP
2 3 (13.64%) HTML
2 3 (13.64%) CSS
2 3 (13.64%) Web Services
3 2 (9.091%) CSS3
4 1 (4.545%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 13 (59.09%) Apache
2 9 (40.91%) Amazon AWS
3 4 (18.18%) Tomcat
3 4 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (13.64%) CMS
5 2 (9.091%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 10 (45.45%) DNS
2 5 (22.73%) SSL
2 5 (22.73%) HTTP
2 5 (22.73%) TCP/IP
3 4 (18.18%) SMTP
3 4 (18.18%) Firewall
3 4 (18.18%) SSH
4 3 (13.64%) Internet
4 3 (13.64%) HTTPS
5 2 (9.091%) SAN
5 2 (9.091%) LAN
6 1 (4.545%) VPN
6 1 (4.545%) BGP
6 1 (4.545%) VLAN
6 1 (4.545%) MRTG
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (40.91%) MySQL
2 4 (18.18%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 7 (31.82%) Subversion
1 7 (31.82%) Git (software)
1 7 (31.82%) Hudson
1 7 (31.82%) Jenkins
2 6 (27.27%) JIRA
3 2 (9.091%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 3 (13.64%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 12 (54.55%) Systems Engineer
2 8 (36.36%) Linux Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) Administrator
3 5 (22.73%) Systems Administrator
4 3 (13.64%) Linux Administrator
4 3 (13.64%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 3 (13.64%) Architect
5 2 (9.091%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.545%) Analyst
6 1 (4.545%) Technical Architect
6 1 (4.545%) Web Administrator
6 1 (4.545%) Server Administrator
6 1 (4.545%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.545%) Operations Analyst
6 1 (4.545%) Senior Linux Administrator
6 1 (4.545%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 1 (4.545%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
6 1 (4.545%) Lead Architect
6 1 (4.545%) Web Engineer
6 1 (4.545%) Applications Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Open Source
2 4 (18.18%) Clustering
3 3 (13.64%) N-Tier
4 2 (9.091%) Replication
4 2 (9.091%) Smartphone
5 1 (4.545%) iPhone
5 1 (4.545%) Social Media
5 1 (4.545%) iPad
5 1 (4.545%) Digital Media
5 1 (4.545%) Mobile App
5 1 (4.545%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 19 (86.36%) Linux
2 6 (27.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (18.18%) UNIX
3 4 (18.18%) Solaris
4 3 (13.64%) Android
4 3 (13.64%) SUSE
4 3 (13.64%) Apple iOS
5 2 (9.091%) Windows
6 1 (4.545%) Debian
6 1 (4.545%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (13.64%) Content Management
2 1 (4.545%) Software Engineering
2 1 (4.545%) Load Balancing
2 1 (4.545%) Time Management
2 1 (4.545%) OO
2 1 (4.545%) Configuration Management
2 1 (4.545%) Project Management
2 1 (4.545%) Scrum
2 1 (4.545%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) Bash shell
2 5 (22.73%) PHP
3 4 (18.18%) Perl
4 3 (13.64%) SQL
4 3 (13.64%) Python
5 1 (4.545%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.545%) Java
5 1 (4.545%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) RHCE
2 1 (4.545%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.091%) QA
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.545%) NFS
Systems Management
1 15 (68.18%) Puppet
2 7 (31.82%) Nagios
3 1 (4.545%) Cacti
Vendors
1 7 (31.82%) Red Hat
2 6 (27.27%) VMware
3 3 (13.64%) Cisco
4 2 (9.091%) Zend
5 1 (4.545%) Atlassian
5 1 (4.545%) Twitter
5 1 (4.545%) Rackspace