The first table below looks at the demand for SimpleDB 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 SimpleDB 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 of the Database & Business Intelligence 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
Amazon SimpleDB
Rank 381 406 442
Rank change year-on-year
+25 +36
Contract jobs citing SimpleDB 3 4 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.013% 0.015% 0.003%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.062% 0.079% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
Average daily rate £375 £375 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £550
% change year-on-year
+8.33% -45.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Database & Business Intelligence
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
4843 5093 6539
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 21.24% 19.16% 20.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3314 3344 4195
Average daily rate £425 £413 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.03% -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £288 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £330
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -1.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 47 53
Average hourly rate £23.20 £26.00 £23.96
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.76% +8.51%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.30 £15.50 £17.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.30 £47.50 £65.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -19.35%
SimpleDB
England

SimpleDB
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SimpleDB across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

London SimpleDB Jobs Demand Trend

SimpleDB
Daily Rate Trend

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

London SimpleDB Daily Rate Trend

SimpleDB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing SimpleDB 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 SimpleDB.

1 3 (100.00%) HTTP
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Ruby
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (100.00%) Kanban
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon AWS
1 3 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (100.00%) Redis
1 3 (100.00%) Couchbase
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (66.67%) Route 53
2 2 (66.67%) Bash shell
2 2 (66.67%) POSIX
2 2 (66.67%) Puppet
2 2 (66.67%) nginx
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) Node.js
2 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 2 (66.67%) RDBMS
2 2 (66.67%) Web Services
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Apache
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) C++
2 2 (66.67%) PHP
2 2 (66.67%) MySQL

SimpleDB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing SimpleDB 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 SimpleDB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (66.67%) POSIX
1 2 (66.67%) Node.js
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
2 1 (33.33%) ASP
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) LAMP
2 1 (33.33%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (33.33%) jQuery
2 1 (33.33%) Spring
2 1 (33.33%) Sinatra
Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Route 53
2 2 (66.67%) nginx
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) HTTP
2 2 (66.67%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (100.00%) Redis
1 3 (100.00%) Couchbase
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (66.67%) RDBMS
2 2 (66.67%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) PHP Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Web Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Programmer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Programmer
2 1 (33.33%) PHP Web Developer
2 1 (33.33%) PHP Programmer
2 1 (33.33%) Web Programmer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) PHP MySQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (100.00%) Kanban
2 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Security Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Ruby
2 2 (66.67%) Bash shell
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) C++
2 2 (66.67%) PHP
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Puppet
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