The first table below looks at the demand for Windows Azure 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 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows Azure
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Windows Azure 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 £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
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
72 73 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 30.77% 21.99% 18.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 43 17
Average daily rate £340 £400 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 10
Average hourly rate £24.50 £14.00 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+75.00% -39.13%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
Windows Azure
Oxfordshire

Windows Azure
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford Windows Azure Daily Rate Trend

Windows Azure
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) SOA
1 1 (100.00%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) WF
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) AppFabric

Windows Azure
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) WF
1 1 (100.00%) AppFabric
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) BizTalk Server
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) BizTalk Developer
1 1 (100.00%) BizTalk Consultant
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#