The first table below looks at the demand for AWK 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 AWK over the 3 months to 24 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
AWK
Rank 372 400 419
Rank change year-on-year
+28 +19
Contract jobs citing AWK 5 15 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.023% 0.056% 0.074%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.056% 0.148% 0.174%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 14 14
Average daily rate £325 £508 £444
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-35.96% +14.36%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £288 £325
% change year-on-year
+4.34% -11.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £26.50
All Programming Languages
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
8875 10154 13197
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 40.98% 37.69% 42.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 6378 6878 8900
Average daily rate £450 £440 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.27% -7.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £288 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 157 180
Average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.85 £18.00 £18.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £50.00 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
AWK
England

AWK
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London AWK Daily Rate Trend

AWK
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London AWK Hourly Rate Trend

AWK
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWK within the London region over the 3 months to 24 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
Surbiton - 2 - -
City of London +15 1 £325 -35.96%
AWK
England

AWK
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 13 (100.00%) sed
2 11 (84.62%) Linux
3 9 (69.23%) UNIX
4 8 (61.54%) Red Hat
5 7 (53.85%) Perl
5 7 (53.85%) Tomcat
5 7 (53.85%) TCP/IP
6 6 (46.15%) Apache
7 5 (38.46%) JBoss
7 5 (38.46%) Java
7 5 (38.46%) SQL
7 5 (38.46%) Memory Management
7 5 (38.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (30.77%) Puppet
8 4 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
8 4 (30.77%) Bash shell
8 4 (30.77%) VMware
8 4 (30.77%) Shell Script
8 4 (30.77%) RHCE
8 4 (30.77%) NFS
9 3 (23.08%) HTTP
9 3 (23.08%) JDBC
9 3 (23.08%) AIX
9 3 (23.08%) MySQL
9 3 (23.08%) SAN
9 3 (23.08%) SSL
9 3 (23.08%) IBM
9 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
9 3 (23.08%) OpenView
9 3 (23.08%) HP

AWK
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 3 (23.08%) JDBC
2 2 (15.38%) JPA
2 2 (15.38%) Regular Expression
2 2 (15.38%) RESTful
2 2 (15.38%) JAX-RS
3 1 (7.692%) HTML
3 1 (7.692%) XHTML
3 1 (7.692%) XML
3 1 (7.692%) XSD
3 1 (7.692%) .NET
3 1 (7.692%) CSS
3 1 (7.692%) HTML5
3 1 (7.692%) CSS3
3 1 (7.692%) Ajax
3 1 (7.692%) Lucene
3 1 (7.692%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 7 (53.85%) Tomcat
2 6 (46.15%) Apache
3 1 (7.692%) IIS
3 1 (7.692%) Liferay
Communications & Networking
1 7 (53.85%) TCP/IP
2 3 (23.08%) HTTP
2 3 (23.08%) SAN
2 3 (23.08%) SSL
2 3 (23.08%) TELNET
2 3 (23.08%) tcpdump
3 2 (15.38%) Firewall
3 2 (15.38%) Internet
3 2 (15.38%) SMTP
4 1 (7.692%) DHCP
4 1 (7.692%) SNMP
4 1 (7.692%) VPN
4 1 (7.692%) DNS
4 1 (7.692%) LDAP
4 1 (7.692%) POP3
4 1 (7.692%) IMAP
4 1 (7.692%) SSH
4 1 (7.692%) iSCSI
4 1 (7.692%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) MySQL
2 1 (7.692%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.692%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.692%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.692%) QuickTest Pro
1 1 (7.692%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.692%) Hudson
1 1 (7.692%) Git (software)
1 1 (7.692%) Selenium
General
1 3 (23.08%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Banking
3 1 (7.692%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Administrator
2 5 (38.46%) Systems Administrator
2 5 (38.46%) UNIX Administrator
2 5 (38.46%) Linux Administrator
3 4 (30.77%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 3 (23.08%) Developer
4 3 (23.08%) UNIX Systems Administrator
5 2 (15.38%) Senior Linux Administrator
5 2 (15.38%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
5 2 (15.38%) Senior Systems Administrator
5 2 (15.38%) Java Developer
6 1 (7.692%) PHP Developer
6 1 (7.692%) Test Leader
6 1 (7.692%) Web Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) HACMP
1 3 (23.08%) Clustering
1 3 (23.08%) LPAR
1 3 (23.08%) Cryptography
2 1 (7.692%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 11 (84.62%) Linux
2 9 (69.23%) UNIX
3 5 (38.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (23.08%) AIX
5 2 (15.38%) Debian
5 2 (15.38%) Solaris
6 1 (7.692%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Memory Management
2 3 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (23.08%) Load Balancing
3 1 (7.692%) OOP
3 1 (7.692%) OO
3 1 (7.692%) ETL
3 1 (7.692%) MVC
3 1 (7.692%) Regression Testing
3 1 (7.692%) Automation Testing
3 1 (7.692%) Waterfall
3 1 (7.692%) Web Application Development
3 1 (7.692%) Functional Testing
3 1 (7.692%) Test Strategy
3 1 (7.692%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (7.692%) TDD
3 1 (7.692%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (7.692%) Performance Testing
3 1 (7.692%) Load Testing
3 1 (7.692%) Integration Testing
3 1 (7.692%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) sed
2 7 (53.85%) Perl
3 5 (38.46%) Java
3 5 (38.46%) SQL
4 4 (30.77%) Bash shell
4 4 (30.77%) Shell Script
5 2 (15.38%) Groovy
5 2 (15.38%) PHP
6 1 (7.692%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) RHCE
2 3 (23.08%) RHCT
2 3 (23.08%) DV Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.692%) SCSA
3 1 (7.692%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.692%) QA
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (30.77%) NFS
2 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
2 3 (23.08%) VMware ESX
2 3 (23.08%) Samba
2 3 (23.08%) Nmap
3 1 (7.692%) Squid
3 1 (7.692%) qmail
3 1 (7.692%) Postfix
3 1 (7.692%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Puppet
2 3 (23.08%) OpenView
2 3 (23.08%) HP Data Protector
3 1 (7.692%) Nagios
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Red Hat
2 5 (38.46%) JBoss
3 4 (30.77%) VMware
4 3 (23.08%) IBM
4 3 (23.08%) HP
4 3 (23.08%) Intel
5 1 (7.692%) Oracle
5 1 (7.692%) SAP
5 1 (7.692%) EMC
5 1 (7.692%) Informatica
5 1 (7.692%) NetApp