The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Computing in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cloud Computing over the 3 months to 19 June 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 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cloud Computing
Rank 325 307 358
Rank change year-on-year
-18 +51
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 59 104 85
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.259% 0.391% 0.270%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.781% 1.224% 0.719%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 69 64
Average daily rate £425 £475 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.52% -5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £279 £350 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £593 £609 £593
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £425 £400
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £54.00 - £9.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £10.00
All of the Miscellaneous Category
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
7553 8494 11818
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 33.12% 31.95% 37.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 5226 5808 8072
Average daily rate £475 £475 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -13.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £328
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +5.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 192 165
Average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +4.65%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.50 £13.00 £12.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £47.50 £52.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.63 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-3.88% -10.00%
Cloud Computing
England

Cloud Computing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

London Cloud Computing Daily Rate Histogram

Cloud Computing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Cloud Computing Hourly Rate Trend

Cloud Computing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Computing within the London region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
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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
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Vacancies
City of London -20 15 £475 - 14
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Cloud Computing
England

Cloud Computing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 42 (32.81%) Java
2 24 (18.75%) SaaS
3 23 (17.97%) Salesforce.com
4 22 (17.19%) SQL
4 22 (17.19%) Apex Code
4 22 (17.19%) Team Foundation Server
4 22 (17.19%) Visualforce
5 20 (15.63%) Windows Azure
5 20 (15.63%) C#
5 20 (15.63%) Finance
5 20 (15.63%) Games
5 20 (15.63%) VMware
6 19 (14.84%) Mason
6 19 (14.84%) Linux
7 18 (14.06%) Force.com
8 17 (13.28%) Visual Studio
9 16 (12.50%) C++
9 16 (12.50%) JavaScript
9 16 (12.50%) SQL Server
9 16 (12.50%) Lua
9 16 (12.50%) MSBuild
10 15 (11.72%) Scrum
10 15 (11.72%) PRINCE2
11 14 (10.94%) .NET
11 14 (10.94%) J2EE
11 14 (10.94%) Windows
11 14 (10.94%) E-Commerce
11 14 (10.94%) Agile Software Development
11 14 (10.94%) TDD
11 14 (10.94%) Marketing

Cloud Computing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 Development
1 22 (17.19%) Visualforce
2 19 (14.84%) Mason
3 14 (10.94%) .NET
3 14 (10.94%) J2EE
4 12 (9.375%) CSS
5 11 (8.594%) WebSphere
6 10 (7.813%) HTML5
6 10 (7.813%) JSON
6 10 (7.813%) HTML
7 9 (7.031%) Web Services
8 8 (6.250%) XML
9 7 (5.469%) jQuery
9 7 (5.469%) Ruby on Rails
9 7 (5.469%) Ajax
9 7 (5.469%) RESTful
9 7 (5.469%) REST
10 6 (4.688%) CSS3
10 6 (4.688%) MapReduce
11 5 (3.906%) SOAP
11 5 (3.906%) ActiveMQ
Application Platforms
1 20 (15.63%) Windows Azure
2 18 (14.06%) Force.com
3 12 (9.375%) Google App Engine
4 7 (5.469%) Apache
5 6 (4.688%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (4.688%) Tomcat
5 6 (4.688%) WebLogic
6 5 (3.906%) Amazon AWS
6 5 (3.906%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (2.344%) IIS
8 2 (1.563%) CMS
9 1 (0.781%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.781%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.781%) Drupal
9 1 (0.781%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.781%) Magento
9 1 (0.781%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.781%) Amazon EMR
Applications
1 2 (1.563%) MS Excel
1 2 (1.563%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.781%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.813%) Internet
2 8 (6.250%) Firewall
3 6 (4.688%) DNS
4 5 (3.906%) LAN
5 4 (3.125%) IPsec
5 4 (3.125%) WAN
5 4 (3.125%) HTTP
5 4 (3.125%) SNMP
5 4 (3.125%) VPN
6 3 (2.344%) SAN
6 3 (2.344%) SMTP
6 3 (2.344%) NAS
7 2 (1.563%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (1.563%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (1.563%) DHCP
7 2 (1.563%) FTP
8 1 (0.781%) DWDM
8 1 (0.781%) MPLS
8 1 (0.781%) OSPF
8 1 (0.781%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 11 (8.594%) MySQL
2 11 (8.594%) NoSQL
2 11 (8.594%) MongoDB
3 8 (6.250%) Big Data
4 7 (5.469%) Hadoop
5 5 (3.906%) Apache Cassandra
5 5 (3.906%) Riak
6 4 (3.125%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.344%) Redis
8 2 (1.563%) CouchDB
8 2 (1.563%) Apache Hive
8 2 (1.563%) QlikView
8 2 (1.563%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.781%) Oracle 10g
9 1 (0.781%) GIS
9 1 (0.781%) DB2
9 1 (0.781%) Oracle 8/8i
9 1 (0.781%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.781%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (17.19%) Team Foundation Server
2 17 (13.28%) Visual Studio
3 16 (12.50%) MSBuild
4 13 (10.16%) Git (software)
5 8 (6.250%) Subversion
6 7 (5.469%) TeamCity
7 6 (4.688%) Mercurial
7 6 (4.688%) Maven
8 5 (3.906%) Ant
8 5 (3.906%) JIRA
8 5 (3.906%) AnthillPro
8 5 (3.906%) FishEye
8 5 (3.906%) Gerrit
8 5 (3.906%) Jenkins
9 4 (3.125%) JUnit
10 3 (2.344%) LoadRunner
11 2 (1.563%) GitHub
12 1 (0.781%) RSpec
12 1 (0.781%) Capistrano
12 1 (0.781%) Cucumber
General
1 20 (15.63%) Finance
1 20 (15.63%) Games
2 14 (10.94%) Marketing
3 9 (7.031%) Retail
4 6 (4.688%) Telecoms
5 3 (2.344%) Banking
6 2 (1.563%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.781%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.781%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.781%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 32 (25.00%) Developer
2 25 (19.53%) Architect
3 13 (10.16%) Build Engineer
4 12 (9.375%) Java Developer
4 12 (9.375%) Business Analyst
4 12 (9.375%) Analyst
5 9 (7.031%) Technical Architect
5 9 (7.031%) Solutions Architect
5 9 (7.031%) Salesforce.com Business Analyst
6 8 (6.250%) Project Manager
7 6 (4.688%) Software Engineer
8 5 (3.906%) Senior Developer
8 5 (3.906%) Infrastructure Architect
8 5 (3.906%) Deployment Engineer
9 4 (3.125%) Salesforce.com Architect
9 4 (3.125%) Senior Java Developer
9 4 (3.125%) Infrastructure Manager
9 4 (3.125%) Infrastructure Project Manager
9 4 (3.125%) Software Developer
9 4 (3.125%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 24 (18.75%) SaaS
2 11 (8.594%) Digital Media
3 10 (7.813%) Mobile App
4 9 (7.031%) Computer Science
5 8 (6.250%) PaaS
6 7 (5.469%) Social Network
6 7 (5.469%) IaaS
7 6 (4.688%) Social Media
8 4 (3.125%) New Media
8 4 (3.125%) Open Source
8 4 (3.125%) Online Games
9 3 (2.344%) Mainframe
9 3 (2.344%) Grid Computing
9 3 (2.344%) Heroku
10 2 (1.563%) Social Gaming
10 2 (1.563%) Graphic Design
10 2 (1.563%) IBM Mainframe
10 2 (1.563%) Replication
10 2 (1.563%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.563%) Streaming Video
Operating Systems
1 19 (14.84%) Linux
2 14 (10.94%) Windows
3 9 (7.031%) UNIX
4 5 (3.906%) Debian
4 5 (3.906%) Android
4 5 (3.906%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (3.906%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.344%) CentOS
5 3 (2.344%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (1.563%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.563%) VMS
6 2 (1.563%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.781%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.781%) AIX
7 1 (0.781%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (11.72%) Scrum
1 15 (11.72%) PRINCE2
2 14 (10.94%) E-Commerce
2 14 (10.94%) Agile Software Development
2 14 (10.94%) TDD
3 12 (9.375%) Game Development
3 12 (9.375%) Migration
3 12 (9.375%) OO
4 10 (7.813%) TOGAF
4 10 (7.813%) Project Management
5 8 (6.250%) Business Analysis
5 8 (6.250%) Kanban
5 8 (6.250%) Continuous Integration
6 7 (5.469%) UML
6 7 (5.469%) CRM
6 7 (5.469%) SOA
6 7 (5.469%) ETL
6 7 (5.469%) Zachman Framework
6 7 (5.469%) User Acceptance Testing
7 6 (4.688%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 42 (32.81%) Java
2 22 (17.19%) SQL
2 22 (17.19%) Apex Code
3 20 (15.63%) C#
4 16 (12.50%) C++
4 16 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 16 (12.50%) Lua
5 10 (7.813%) Ruby
6 7 (5.469%) C
6 7 (5.469%) PHP
7 6 (4.688%) Bash shell
7 6 (4.688%) Haskell
8 5 (3.906%) PL/SQL
8 5 (3.906%) Erlang
8 5 (3.906%) Groovy
8 5 (3.906%) Clojure
9 4 (3.125%) Python
10 3 (2.344%) Perl
10 3 (2.344%) PowerShell
10 3 (2.344%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (7.813%) Degree
2 7 (5.469%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 5 (3.906%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.563%) ISTQB
4 2 (1.563%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 2 (1.563%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (0.781%) CCIE
5 1 (0.781%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.781%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.781%) VCP5
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.94%) QA
2 1 (0.781%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (8.594%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (5.469%) vSphere
3 6 (4.688%) vCloud
4 4 (3.125%) Hyper-V
4 4 (3.125%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.563%) VMware ESX
6 1 (0.781%) VMware Server
6 1 (0.781%) Xen
6 1 (0.781%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 7 (5.469%) Puppet
2 1 (0.781%) BladeLogic
2 1 (0.781%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 23 (17.97%) Salesforce.com
2 20 (15.63%) VMware
3 13 (10.16%) Google
4 12 (9.375%) Microsoft
5 9 (7.031%) Oracle
6 4 (3.125%) F5
6 4 (3.125%) Cisco
6 4 (3.125%) IBM
7 3 (2.344%) HP
7 3 (2.344%) EMC
7 3 (2.344%) Citrix
7 3 (2.344%) Facebook
7 3 (2.344%) Twitter
8 2 (1.563%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.781%) Intel
9 1 (0.781%) Nortel
9 1 (0.781%) Dell
9 1 (0.781%) Juniper
9 1 (0.781%) McAfee
9 1 (0.781%) CheckPoint
City of London
Salesforce.com Developer - 6 month Contract - Needed ASAP - LondonMy client, a boutique Salesforce.com partner, urgently requires a Salesforce.com Developer for a 6 month contract based in...
Mason Frank International
Rate: £400 - £450 per day
Posted: 6 June 2013
London
My client is a market leading Salesforce.com Partner based in London and they are actively recruiting for a Technical Architect to facilitate an increase in project workflow...
Mason Frank International
Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Posted: 31 May 2013
London
Experience of working with sever technologies on Apache, Tomcat, Experience with Web Services. Experience of working with TCP/ IP, HTTP, Linux, Must be technically strong and can write...
Progressive Recruitment
Rate: £250 - £300 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
City of London
Skills required for the Role: Strong knowledge of VMWARE server and Virtulisation Technologies. Strong knowledge of Windows server 2003/2008. Strong knowledge of Active Directory. Strong Expeirence of...
ITHR
Posted: 13 June 2013
London
You will be working in a boutique practice and will be taking ownership of several projects so it will require a self-sufficient consultant who can juggle multiple...
Mason Frank International
Rate: £400 - £450 per annum
Posted: 30 May 2013
City of London
Mason Frank International
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
Mason Frank International
Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
City of London
Mason Frank International
Rate: £400 - £450 per day
Posted: 5 June 2013
London
Sanderson
Rate: £300 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
City of London
Mason Frank International
Rate: £480 - £525 per day
Posted: 6 June 2013
City, London
People Source Consulting
Rate: excellent rates !
Posted: 17 June 2013
City of London
People Source Consulting
Rate: excellent rates !
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
NFP Group Ltd
Rate: £300 - £425 per day
Posted: 3 June 2013
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