The first table below looks at the demand for Windows Azure skills in IT contracts advertised for the Luton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows Azure 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 Application Platforms category for the Luton 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
Microsoft Windows Azure
Rank 15 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Windows Azure 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Luton 2.500% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 9.524% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £375 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £400 £230
% change year-on-year
-3.12% +73.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £15.00 -
All Application Platforms
Luton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
21 9 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Luton 26.25% 14.52% 17.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 6 4
Average daily rate £325 £368 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.62% +13.15%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £200 £310
10% offered a daily rate of more than £405 £418 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
Windows Azure
Bedfordshire

Windows Azure
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Luton Windows Azure Jobs Demand Trend

Windows Azure
Daily Rate Trend

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

Luton Windows Azure Daily Rate Trend

Windows Azure
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Luton region citing Windows Azure 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 Windows Azure.

1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
2 3 (75.00%) E-Commerce
3 2 (50.00%) SOA
3 2 (50.00%) C#
3 2 (50.00%) TDD
3 2 (50.00%) Git (software)
3 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (50.00%) MVC
3 2 (50.00%) BDD
3 2 (50.00%) KnockoutJS
3 2 (50.00%) Agile Testing
4 1 (25.00%) SpecFlow
4 1 (25.00%) NServiceBus
4 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (25.00%) Dependency Injection
4 1 (25.00%) Inversion of Control
4 1 (25.00%) NHibernate
4 1 (25.00%) Web Development
4 1 (25.00%) HTML

Windows Azure
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Luton region citing Windows Azure 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 Windows Azure. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (50.00%) KnockoutJS
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (25.00%) NHibernate
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) NServiceBus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (50.00%) Git (software)
3 1 (25.00%) SpecFlow
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) .NET Developer
1 2 (50.00%) ScrumMaster
2 1 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Agile .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Agile C# Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# Web Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Web Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
2 3 (75.00%) E-Commerce
3 2 (50.00%) SOA
3 2 (50.00%) TDD
3 2 (50.00%) MVC
3 2 (50.00%) BDD
3 2 (50.00%) Agile Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Dependency Injection
4 1 (25.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft