The first table below looks at the demand for Windows Azure skills in IT contracts advertised for the Slough region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows Azure 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 Slough 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
Microsoft Windows Azure
Rank 38 21 -
Rank change year-on-year
-17 -
Contract jobs citing Windows Azure 1 8 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Slough 0.400% 3.902% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.778% 21.62% -
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
Slough
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
36 37 36
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Slough 14.40% 18.05% 11.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 11 15
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £318 £225 £168
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 6
Average hourly rate - £14.75 £45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -67.22%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
Windows Azure
Berkshire

Windows Azure
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Slough Windows Azure Jobs Demand Trend

Windows Azure
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Slough 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 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) IIS
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) LINQ
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 1 (50.00%) Razor View Engine
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript

Windows Azure
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Slough 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 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) Ajax
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (50.00%) LINQ
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
1 1 (50.00%) Razor View Engine
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) DBA
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (50.00%) SQL DBA
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft