The first table below looks at the demand for Amazon AWS skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Amazon AWS over the 3 months to 17 June 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 South East 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 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Amazon Web Services (Amazon AWS)
Rank 234 248 242
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -6
Contract jobs citing Amazon AWS 4 1 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.049% 0.010% 0.039%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.284% 0.066% 0.234%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 3
Average daily rate £375 £488 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.07% +30.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £300 £375
% change year-on-year
-8.33% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.00 - -
All Application Platforms
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
1410 1514 1712
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 17.37% 15.05% 16.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 745 744 760
Average daily rate £350 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £200 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 88 148
Average hourly rate £18.50 £21.50 £18.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.95% +16.21%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £12.50 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.70 £39.75 £42.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +2.56%
Amazon AWS
England

Amazon AWS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East Amazon AWS Jobs Demand Trend

Amazon AWS
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East Amazon AWS Daily Rate Trend

Amazon AWS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon AWS within the South East region over the 3 months to 17 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Berkshire - 2 £375 -
Surrey +10 1 - -
Hampshire - 1 £425 - 1
Oxfordshire - - - -
West Sussex - - - -
Amazon AWS
England

Amazon AWS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Amazon AWS 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 AWS.

1 14 (100.00%) Web Services
2 7 (50.00%) Linux
3 6 (42.86%) Apache
3 6 (42.86%) PHP
3 6 (42.86%) Open Source
4 5 (35.71%) CentOS
4 5 (35.71%) Java
4 5 (35.71%) Red Hat
4 5 (35.71%) Configuration Management
5 4 (28.57%) C#
5 4 (28.57%) .NET
5 4 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
5 4 (28.57%) NoSQL
5 4 (28.57%) OpenStack
5 4 (28.57%) IaaS
6 3 (21.43%) TDD
6 3 (21.43%) jQuery
6 3 (21.43%) SQL Server
6 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
6 3 (21.43%) Firewall
6 3 (21.43%) Telecoms
7 2 (14.29%) Manufacturing
7 2 (14.29%) Python
7 2 (14.29%) ERP
7 2 (14.29%) Amazon S3
7 2 (14.29%) SaaS
7 2 (14.29%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (7.143%) JIRA

Amazon AWS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Amazon AWS 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 AWS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 14 (100.00%) Web Services
2 4 (28.57%) .NET
3 3 (21.43%) jQuery
4 1 (7.143%) RESTful
4 1 (7.143%) LAMP
4 1 (7.143%) Django
Application Platforms
1 6 (42.86%) Apache
2 4 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (28.57%) OpenStack
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon ELB
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 1 (7.143%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) Firewall
2 1 (7.143%) LAN
2 1 (7.143%) WAN
2 1 (7.143%) HTTP
2 1 (7.143%) DNS
2 1 (7.143%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) NoSQL
2 3 (21.43%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.143%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.143%) JIRA
General
1 3 (21.43%) Telecoms
2 2 (14.29%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.143%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Agile .NET Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Agile C# Developer
2 3 (21.43%) C# .NET Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Administrator
2 3 (21.43%) .NET Developer
2 3 (21.43%) C# Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Operations Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (14.29%) Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Web Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (7.143%) Python Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (7.143%) Data Architect
4 1 (7.143%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.143%) Development Manager
4 1 (7.143%) Product Manager
4 1 (7.143%) Linux Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Open Source
2 4 (28.57%) IaaS
3 2 (14.29%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Linux
2 5 (35.71%) CentOS
3 1 (7.143%) Fedora
3 1 (7.143%) UNIX
3 1 (7.143%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Configuration Management
2 4 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (21.43%) TDD
4 2 (14.29%) ERP
5 1 (7.143%) Network Load Balancing
5 1 (7.143%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) PHP
2 5 (35.71%) Java
3 4 (28.57%) C#
4 2 (14.29%) Python
5 1 (7.143%) Bash shell
5 1 (7.143%) C
5 1 (7.143%) C++
5 1 (7.143%) JavaScript
5 1 (7.143%) Perl
System Software
1 1 (7.143%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (7.143%) Cacti
1 1 (7.143%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Red Hat
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.143%) Cisco
3 1 (7.143%) VMware
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