The first table below looks at the demand for Rackspace Cloud 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 Rackspace Cloud over the 3 months to 18 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 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Rackspace Cloud
Rank 387 410 -
Rank change year-on-year
+23 -
Contract jobs citing Rackspace Cloud 5 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.022% 0.011% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.120% 0.068% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
Average daily rate £350 £325 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - £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
4168 4420 4937
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 18.07% 16.60% 15.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 2652 2807 3058
Average daily rate £400 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £248 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £565
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 149 145 181
Average hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% +5.26%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £13.00 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £53.55 £40.50 £40.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +2.56%
Rackspace Cloud
England

Rackspace Cloud
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Rackspace Cloud Jobs Demand Trend

Rackspace Cloud
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Rackspace Cloud Daily Rate Trend

Rackspace Cloud
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Rackspace Cloud within the London region over the 3 months to 18 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
(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
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Job
Vacancies
City of London - 1 £350 - 2
Rackspace Cloud
England

Rackspace Cloud
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Rackspace Cloud 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 Rackspace Cloud.

1 8 (100.00%) Rackspace
2 7 (87.50%) Amazon AWS
3 5 (62.50%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (62.50%) Linux
4 4 (50.00%) Red Hat
4 4 (50.00%) Ruby
5 3 (37.50%) Ruby on Rails
5 3 (37.50%) Refactoring
5 3 (37.50%) jQuery
5 3 (37.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (37.50%) Amazon S3
5 3 (37.50%) Git (software)
5 3 (37.50%) RSpec
5 3 (37.50%) Open Source
5 3 (37.50%) Heroku
5 3 (37.50%) MongoDB
5 3 (37.50%) CoffeeScript
5 3 (37.50%) Backbone.js
5 3 (37.50%) MySQL
5 3 (37.50%) UNIX
5 3 (37.50%) Workflow
5 3 (37.50%) CMS
5 3 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (37.50%) TDD
5 3 (37.50%) Automated Testing
6 2 (25.00%) SSH
6 2 (25.00%) Pair Programming
6 2 (25.00%) DNS
6 2 (25.00%) Sun
6 2 (25.00%) SUSE

Rackspace Cloud
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Rackspace Cloud 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 Rackspace Cloud. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (37.50%) Ruby on Rails
1 3 (37.50%) jQuery
1 3 (37.50%) Backbone.js
2 1 (12.50%) J2EE
2 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 7 (87.50%) Amazon AWS
2 5 (62.50%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (37.50%) Amazon S3
3 3 (37.50%) CMS
4 2 (25.00%) Apache
5 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
5 1 (12.50%) Magento
5 1 (12.50%) OpenStack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
1 2 (25.00%) SSH
2 1 (12.50%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) MySQL
1 3 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (37.50%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git (software)
1 3 (37.50%) RSpec
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Administrator
1 3 (37.50%) Linux Administrator
2 2 (25.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 2 (25.00%) Ruby on Rails Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Team Leader
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Linux Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Open Source
1 3 (37.50%) Heroku
2 1 (12.50%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
2 3 (37.50%) UNIX
2 3 (37.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (25.00%) Solaris
3 2 (25.00%) SUSE
4 1 (12.50%) Debian
4 1 (12.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Workflow
1 3 (37.50%) TDD
1 3 (37.50%) Automated Testing
1 3 (37.50%) Refactoring
2 2 (25.00%) Pair Programming
3 1 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (12.50%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Ruby
2 3 (37.50%) CoffeeScript
3 1 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) Perl
3 1 (12.50%) PHP
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Samba
1 2 (25.00%) Sendmail
2 1 (12.50%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Rackspace
2 4 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (25.00%) Sun
4 1 (12.50%) StorageTek
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle
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