The first table below looks at the demand for Amazon S3 skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Amazon S3 over the 3 months to 17 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 North West 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
Rank 116 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.044% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.254% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £275 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 - £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Platforms
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
394 608 505
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 17.15% 19.20% 16.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 314 268
Average daily rate £313 £318 £343
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.57% -7.29%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £224 £184 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 39 33
Average hourly rate £19.50 £17.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.42% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £13.75 £10.35
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.00 £30.00 £37.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
Amazon S3
England

Amazon S3
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon S3 within the North West region over the 3 months to 17 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
Lancashire - 1 £275 -
Amazon S3
England

Amazon S3
Top 3 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Amazon S3 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 Amazon S3.

1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Azure

Amazon S3
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Amazon S3 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 Amazon S3. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Azure
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analysis