The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term PaaS in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PaaS 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 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Rank 360 350 428
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +78
Contract jobs citing PaaS 17 60 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.079% 0.223% 0.022%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.237% 0.696% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 50 5
Average daily rate £469 £450 £570
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.16% -21.05%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £350 £438
10% offered a daily rate of more than £570 £650 £603
UK excluding London average daily rate £438 £388 -
% change year-on-year
+12.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
7165 8624 11965
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 33.11% 32.02% 37.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 4963 5869 8076
Average daily rate £475 £475 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -13.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £283 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 210 199
Average hourly rate £22.75 £22.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.11% +7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £13.50 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £52.00 £52.50 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -13.20%
PaaS
England

PaaS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London PaaS Jobs Demand Trend

PaaS
Daily Rate Trend

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

London PaaS Daily Rate Trend

PaaS
Daily Rate Histogram

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

London PaaS Daily Rate Histogram

PaaS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PaaS 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
Westminster - 2 £500 -
City of London +19 1 £500 +25.00%
PaaS
England

PaaS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 30 (52.63%) IaaS
2 24 (42.11%) SaaS
3 19 (33.33%) Windows
4 14 (24.56%) C#
4 14 (24.56%) Windows Azure
5 13 (22.81%) SQL
6 12 (21.05%) VMware
6 12 (21.05%) Microsoft
6 12 (21.05%) VMware Infrastructure
7 11 (19.30%) .NET
7 11 (19.30%) Ruby
8 10 (17.54%) Java
8 10 (17.54%) Git (software)
9 9 (15.79%) Cloud Computing
9 9 (15.79%) ITIL
9 9 (15.79%) Workflow
9 9 (15.79%) Finance
10 8 (14.04%) Migration
10 8 (14.04%) Internet
10 8 (14.04%) Middleware
11 7 (12.28%) RAD
11 7 (12.28%) SOA
11 7 (12.28%) Web Services
11 7 (12.28%) Validation
11 7 (12.28%) Scrum
11 7 (12.28%) MVC
11 7 (12.28%) Load Balancing
11 7 (12.28%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (10.53%) vCloud
12 6 (10.53%) MongoDB

PaaS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 11 (19.30%) .NET
2 8 (14.04%) Middleware
3 7 (12.28%) Web Services
4 5 (8.772%) Ajax
4 5 (8.772%) Ruby on Rails
4 5 (8.772%) Grails
4 5 (8.772%) JSON
4 5 (8.772%) Ext JS
4 5 (8.772%) jQuery
4 5 (8.772%) KnockoutJS
5 4 (7.018%) SOAP
6 3 (5.263%) ASP.NET
6 3 (5.263%) REST
7 2 (3.509%) Task Parallel Library
7 2 (3.509%) ODBC
7 2 (3.509%) WSH
8 1 (1.754%) J2SE
8 1 (1.754%) CORBA
8 1 (1.754%) XML
8 1 (1.754%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 14 (24.56%) Windows Azure
2 6 (10.53%) IIS
3 5 (8.772%) ActiveMQ
3 5 (8.772%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (7.018%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (7.018%) Apache
5 3 (5.263%) Amazon S3
5 3 (5.263%) Amazon AWS
6 2 (3.509%) TIBCO EMS
6 2 (3.509%) Force.com
7 1 (1.754%) CMS
7 1 (1.754%) Escenic
7 1 (1.754%) Google App Engine
7 1 (1.754%) OpenStack
7 1 (1.754%) Adobe CQ
7 1 (1.754%) CloudStack
Applications
1 5 (8.772%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.509%) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.04%) Internet
2 6 (10.53%) MPLS
3 5 (8.772%) SAN
3 5 (8.772%) NAS
4 4 (7.018%) LAN
4 4 (7.018%) WAN
4 4 (7.018%) Ethernet
4 4 (7.018%) VPN
5 3 (5.263%) PBX
5 3 (5.263%) Firewall
6 2 (3.509%) VoIP
6 2 (3.509%) CTI
7 1 (1.754%) EIGRP
7 1 (1.754%) OSPF
7 1 (1.754%) BGP
7 1 (1.754%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.754%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.28%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (10.53%) MongoDB
2 6 (10.53%) NoSQL
3 5 (8.772%) SQL Server
3 5 (8.772%) Riak
4 3 (5.263%) OLTP
4 3 (5.263%) Oracle 8/8i
5 2 (3.509%) Amazon DynamoDB
5 2 (3.509%) DB2
6 1 (1.754%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (1.754%) SQL Server 2012
6 1 (1.754%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 10 (17.54%) Git (software)
2 5 (8.772%) TeamCity
2 5 (8.772%) JIRA
3 4 (7.018%) Subversion
4 2 (3.509%) SpecFlow
4 2 (3.509%) Moq
General
1 9 (15.79%) Finance
2 4 (7.018%) Games
3 3 (5.263%) Marketing
3 3 (5.263%) Telecoms
3 3 (5.263%) Publishing
3 3 (5.263%) Back Office
4 2 (3.509%) Dutch Language
4 2 (3.509%) German Language
4 2 (3.509%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (3.509%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.754%) Retail
5 1 (1.754%) Billing
5 1 (1.754%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 15 (26.32%) Architect
2 13 (22.81%) Developer
2 13 (22.81%) Consultant
3 6 (10.53%) Senior Developer
3 6 (10.53%) C# Developer
4 5 (8.772%) Java Developer
4 5 (8.772%) Technical Architect
5 4 (7.018%) VMware Consultant
5 4 (7.018%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (7.018%) Senior Java Developer
5 4 (7.018%) Service Manager
6 3 (5.263%) Solutions Consultant
7 2 (3.509%) VMware Architect
7 2 (3.509%) Integration Architect
7 2 (3.509%) Technical Leader
7 2 (3.509%) IT Services Manager
7 2 (3.509%) Services Delivery Manager
7 2 (3.509%) Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (3.509%) Delivery Manager
8 1 (1.754%) Senior .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 30 (52.63%) IaaS
2 24 (42.11%) SaaS
3 9 (15.79%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (5.263%) IVR
5 2 (3.509%) Digital Media
5 2 (3.509%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.509%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (3.509%) Open Source
5 2 (3.509%) Heroku
5 2 (3.509%) AS400
6 1 (1.754%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.754%) Online Games
6 1 (1.754%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 19 (33.33%) Windows
2 3 (5.263%) Linux
3 2 (3.509%) Ubuntu
3 2 (3.509%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (3.509%) CentOS
4 1 (1.754%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (15.79%) ITIL
1 9 (15.79%) Workflow
2 8 (14.04%) Migration
3 7 (12.28%) RAD
3 7 (12.28%) SOA
3 7 (12.28%) Validation
3 7 (12.28%) Scrum
3 7 (12.28%) MVC
3 7 (12.28%) Load Balancing
4 6 (10.53%) Service Delivery
4 6 (10.53%) Service Management
4 6 (10.53%) OO
5 5 (8.772%) Configuration Management
5 5 (8.772%) Agile Software Development
5 5 (8.772%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (8.772%) Capacity Planning
5 5 (8.772%) Release Management
5 5 (8.772%) Multithreading
5 5 (8.772%) Kanban
6 4 (7.018%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 14 (24.56%) C#
2 13 (22.81%) SQL
3 11 (19.30%) Ruby
4 10 (17.54%) Java
5 5 (8.772%) Clojure
5 5 (8.772%) Groovy
5 5 (8.772%) Haskell
5 5 (8.772%) Erlang
6 4 (7.018%) Python
7 3 (5.263%) C
7 3 (5.263%) JavaScript
7 3 (5.263%) VBScript
7 3 (5.263%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.509%) Bash shell
8 2 (3.509%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.754%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (3.509%) Degree
2 1 (1.754%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (1.754%) CCIE
2 1 (1.754%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (1.754%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.754%) VCP5
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.772%) QA
2 4 (7.018%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (21.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (10.53%) vCloud
2 6 (10.53%) vSphere
3 4 (7.018%) Active Directory
4 3 (5.263%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (3.509%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.754%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (1.754%) Xen
6 1 (1.754%) VMware ESX
6 1 (1.754%) XenApp
6 1 (1.754%) XenServer
6 1 (1.754%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (3.509%) BladeLogic
2 1 (1.754%) HP Operations Orchestration
2 1 (1.754%) SCCM
2 1 (1.754%) SCOM
2 1 (1.754%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (21.05%) VMware
1 12 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.53%) Oracle
3 4 (7.018%) Infoblox
3 4 (7.018%) NetApp
4 3 (5.263%) Cisco
5 2 (3.509%) SAP
5 2 (3.509%) Citrix
5 2 (3.509%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.509%) Salesforce.com
5 2 (3.509%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.754%) BMC
6 1 (1.754%) HP
6 1 (1.754%) Adobe
6 1 (1.754%) DoubleClick
6 1 (1.754%) Google
6 1 (1.754%) Open Text
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