The first table below looks at the demand for Amazon ELB skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Amazon ELB over the 3 months to 22 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 Oxfordshire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (Amazon ELB)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon ELB 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire - - -
As % of the Application Platforms category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Platforms
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
130 142 94
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 28.70% 22.54% 20.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 72 48
Average daily rate £330 £380 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.15% +8.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £210 £160
10% offered a daily rate of more than £380 £475 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 14 14
Average hourly rate £19.00 £16.50 £18.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.15% -10.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.25 £11.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.75 £22.55 £28.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%
Amazon ELB
South East

Amazon ELB
Top 6 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing Amazon ELB 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 ELB.

1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source

Amazon ELB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing Amazon ELB 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 ELB. 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 EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source