The first table below looks at the demand for Amazon S3 skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Amazon S3 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 Application Platforms category 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.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
Rank 362 382 433
Rank change year-on-year
+20 +51
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 15 28 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.069% 0.104% 0.006%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.374% 0.641% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 22 1
Average daily rate £338 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.57% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 - £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Platforms
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
4011 4367 5254
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 18.54% 16.22% 16.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2562 2707 3223
Average daily rate £400 £380 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.26% -10.58%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 127 178
Average hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.40 £13.00 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £40.00 £41.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%
Amazon S3
England

Amazon S3
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Amazon S3 across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

London Amazon S3 Jobs Demand Trend

Amazon S3
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Amazon S3 across the London region.

London Amazon S3 Daily Rate Trend

Amazon S3
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Amazon S3 across the London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

London Amazon S3 Daily Rate Histogram

Amazon S3
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon S3 within the London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of London - 6 £238 -
Amazon S3
England

Amazon S3
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Amazon S3 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 Amazon S3.

1 31 (81.58%) Amazon EC2
2 29 (76.32%) Amazon AWS
3 27 (71.05%) MySQL
4 24 (63.16%) Linux
4 24 (63.16%) Python
5 21 (55.26%) Web Services
6 20 (52.63%) Java
7 19 (50.00%) Puppet
8 16 (42.11%) NoSQL
9 12 (31.58%) MongoDB
9 12 (31.58%) Shell Script
10 10 (26.32%) Maven
10 10 (26.32%) jQuery
10 10 (26.32%) Git (software)
10 10 (26.32%) Amazon RDS
11 9 (23.68%) CentOS
11 9 (23.68%) Redis
11 9 (23.68%) Route 53
11 9 (23.68%) Bash shell
11 9 (23.68%) TDD
11 9 (23.68%) Scrum
11 9 (23.68%) CSS
12 8 (21.05%) JavaScript
12 8 (21.05%) Internet
12 8 (21.05%) Hadoop
12 8 (21.05%) Jenkins
13 7 (18.42%) Security Testing
13 7 (18.42%) Ubuntu
13 7 (18.42%) JSON
13 7 (18.42%) Selenium

Amazon S3
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Amazon S3 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 Amazon S3. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 21 (55.26%) Web Services
2 10 (26.32%) jQuery
3 9 (23.68%) CSS
4 7 (18.42%) JSON
4 7 (18.42%) HTML5
5 6 (15.79%) CSS3
5 6 (15.79%) Ajax
6 3 (7.895%) Node.js
6 3 (7.895%) HTML
7 2 (5.263%) POSIX
7 2 (5.263%) REST
7 2 (5.263%) MapReduce
8 1 (2.632%) KnockoutJS
8 1 (2.632%) Backbone.js
8 1 (2.632%) WF
8 1 (2.632%) Java EE
8 1 (2.632%) Hibernate
8 1 (2.632%) LAMP
8 1 (2.632%) Spring
8 1 (2.632%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 31 (81.58%) Amazon EC2
2 29 (76.32%) Amazon AWS
3 9 (23.68%) Route 53
4 3 (7.895%) Apache
4 3 (7.895%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (5.263%) Apache Pig
5 2 (5.263%) IIS
5 2 (5.263%) nginx
5 2 (5.263%) Adobe CQ
6 1 (2.632%) Windows Azure
6 1 (2.632%) Google App Engine
6 1 (2.632%) CMS
6 1 (2.632%) Tomcat
6 1 (2.632%) Amazon ELB
Applications
1 1 (2.632%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 7 (18.42%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (21.05%) Internet
2 3 (7.895%) DNS
3 2 (5.263%) HTTP
4 1 (2.632%) Firewall
4 1 (2.632%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (71.05%) MySQL
2 16 (42.11%) NoSQL
3 12 (31.58%) MongoDB
4 10 (26.32%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (23.68%) Redis
6 8 (21.05%) Hadoop
7 4 (10.53%) Big Data
8 3 (7.895%) Apache Hive
9 2 (5.263%) Amazon DynamoDB
9 2 (5.263%) Couchbase
9 2 (5.263%) RDBMS
9 2 (5.263%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (5.263%) SimpleDB
10 1 (2.632%) SQL Server 2012
10 1 (2.632%) CouchDB
10 1 (2.632%) SQL Server 2005
10 1 (2.632%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (26.32%) Maven
1 10 (26.32%) Git (software)
2 8 (21.05%) Jenkins
3 7 (18.42%) Selenium
4 2 (5.263%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (2.632%) MSBuild
5 1 (2.632%) WiX
5 1 (2.632%) MSI
5 1 (2.632%) InstallShield
5 1 (2.632%) JMeter
5 1 (2.632%) NUnit
5 1 (2.632%) CruiseControl
General
1 2 (5.263%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 20 (52.63%) Developer
2 8 (21.05%) Web Developer
2 8 (21.05%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (15.79%) Systems Engineer
3 6 (15.79%) Mobile Developer
3 6 (15.79%) Front-End Developer
3 6 (15.79%) Front-End Web Developer
4 5 (13.16%) Linux Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Java Developer
6 3 (7.895%) Python Developer
6 3 (7.895%) Technical Architect
6 3 (7.895%) Architect
7 2 (5.263%) Software Engineer
8 1 (2.632%) PHP MySQL Developer
8 1 (2.632%) Java Engineer
8 1 (2.632%) Software Programmer
8 1 (2.632%) Web Programmer
8 1 (2.632%) Senior Developer
8 1 (2.632%) Programmer
8 1 (2.632%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.42%) Open Source
2 6 (15.79%) Digital Media
3 4 (10.53%) Mathematics
4 3 (7.895%) PaaS
5 2 (5.263%) IaaS
5 2 (5.263%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (5.263%) SaaS
6 1 (2.632%) Heroku
6 1 (2.632%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 24 (63.16%) Linux
2 9 (23.68%) CentOS
3 7 (18.42%) Ubuntu
4 3 (7.895%) UNIX
4 3 (7.895%) Windows
5 1 (2.632%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.632%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (2.632%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (23.68%) TDD
1 9 (23.68%) Scrum
2 7 (18.42%) Security Testing
2 7 (18.42%) BDD
2 7 (18.42%) Automated Testing
3 6 (15.79%) OO
4 5 (13.16%) E-Commerce
5 4 (10.53%) Product Management
6 3 (7.895%) Web Application Development
7 2 (5.263%) Configuration Management
7 2 (5.263%) MVC
7 2 (5.263%) Digital Marketing
7 2 (5.263%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (5.263%) Kanban
7 2 (5.263%) User Acceptance Testing
8 1 (2.632%) Stress Testing
8 1 (2.632%) Technical Architecture
8 1 (2.632%) Agile Software Development
8 1 (2.632%) Workflow
8 1 (2.632%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 24 (63.16%) Python
2 20 (52.63%) Java
3 12 (31.58%) Shell Script
4 9 (23.68%) Bash shell
5 8 (21.05%) JavaScript
6 6 (15.79%) Ruby
7 2 (5.263%) C++
7 2 (5.263%) Perl
7 2 (5.263%) PHP
7 2 (5.263%) SQL
7 2 (5.263%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.632%) C#
Systems Management
1 19 (50.00%) Puppet
2 1 (2.632%) Nagios
2 1 (2.632%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 7 (18.42%) Percona
1 7 (18.42%) Oracle
2 2 (5.263%) Adobe
2 2 (5.263%) Twitter
3 1 (2.632%) hybris
3 1 (2.632%) Google
3 1 (2.632%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.632%) Microsoft
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