The first table below looks at the demand for Amazon EC2 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Amazon EC2 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 Oxford 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 Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford - - -
As % of the Application Platforms category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £340 £375
% change year-on-year
-19.11% -9.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Platforms
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
66 75 30
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 29.86% 21.68% 18.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 46 17
Average daily rate £340 £400 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 9
Average hourly rate £24.50 £14.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+75.00% -30.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
Amazon EC2
Oxfordshire

Amazon EC2
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Amazon EC2 across the Oxford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Oxford Amazon EC2 Jobs Demand Trend

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 across the Oxford region.

Oxford Amazon EC2 Daily Rate Trend

Amazon EC2
Top 6 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford region citing Amazon EC2 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 EC2.

1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ELB

Amazon EC2
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford region citing Amazon EC2 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 EC2. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source