The first table below looks at the demand for AWK 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 AWK over the 3 months to 23 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 Programming Languages 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
AWK
Rank - - 256
Contract jobs citing AWK 0 0 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East - - 0.028%
As % of the Programming Languages category - - 0.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £250 £325
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -23.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £29.75
All Programming Languages
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
2579 3053 3554
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 33.14% 30.02% 33.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1285 1483 1559
Average daily rate £343 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.38% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £238 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 203 298
Average hourly rate £35.00 £36.50 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.10% -2.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.10 £20.75 £25.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
AWK
England

AWK
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing AWK across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

South East AWK Jobs Demand Trend

AWK
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East AWK Daily Rate Trend

AWK
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing AWK across the South East region.

South East AWK Hourly Rate Trend

AWK
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing AWK 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 AWK.

1 12 (100.00%) Perl
1 12 (100.00%) Oracle
2 8 (66.67%) sed
3 6 (50.00%) Moq
3 6 (50.00%) NUnit
3 6 (50.00%) WCF
3 6 (50.00%) WPF
3 6 (50.00%) Silverlight
3 6 (50.00%) .NET
3 6 (50.00%) XML
3 6 (50.00%) SOA
3 6 (50.00%) SAN
3 6 (50.00%) Shell Script
3 6 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (50.00%) Telecoms
3 6 (50.00%) Clustering
4 5 (41.67%) Agile Software Development
5 4 (33.33%) VMware
5 4 (33.33%) Teradata
5 4 (33.33%) Banking
5 4 (33.33%) Nmap
5 4 (33.33%) Squid
5 4 (33.33%) Cryptography
5 4 (33.33%) Load Balancing
5 4 (33.33%) Memory Management
5 4 (33.33%) tcpdump
5 4 (33.33%) Liferay
5 4 (33.33%) iSCSI
5 4 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (33.33%) Git (software)

AWK
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing AWK 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 AWK. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (50.00%) WCF
1 6 (50.00%) WPF
1 6 (50.00%) Silverlight
1 6 (50.00%) .NET
1 6 (50.00%) XML
2 4 (33.33%) JDBC
3 1 (8.333%) XSLT
3 1 (8.333%) XML Schema
3 1 (8.333%) WSDL
3 1 (8.333%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 4 (33.33%) Liferay
1 4 (33.33%) Apache
1 4 (33.33%) Tomcat
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle Coherence
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) SAN
2 4 (33.33%) tcpdump
2 4 (33.33%) iSCSI
2 4 (33.33%) NAS
2 4 (33.33%) TELNET
2 4 (33.33%) SSL
2 4 (33.33%) SMTP
2 4 (33.33%) DHCP
2 4 (33.33%) HTTP
2 4 (33.33%) SNMP
2 4 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 4 (33.33%) LDAP
2 4 (33.33%) DNS
3 3 (25.00%) BSS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (33.33%) MySQL
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle 10g
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle 11g
3 2 (16.67%) VLDB
3 2 (16.67%) OLTP
3 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
4 1 (8.333%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (8.333%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (8.333%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Moq
1 6 (50.00%) NUnit
2 4 (33.33%) Git (software)
2 4 (33.33%) Hudson
2 4 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (8.333%) JIRA
3 1 (8.333%) Subversion
General
1 6 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 4 (33.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Administrator
2 4 (33.33%) Linux Administrator
2 4 (33.33%) Design Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) .NET Developer
3 2 (16.67%) UNIX Administrator
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior .NET Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (8.333%) Software Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Silverlight Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Senior Silverlight Developer
4 1 (8.333%) SOA Developer
4 1 (8.333%) WPF Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Software Design Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Linux Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Clustering
2 4 (33.33%) Cryptography
3 3 (25.00%) Mathematics
3 3 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (8.333%) Open Source
4 1 (8.333%) Physics
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (16.67%) UNIX
2 2 (16.67%) HPUX
2 2 (16.67%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) SOA
1 6 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (41.67%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (33.33%) Load Balancing
3 4 (33.33%) Memory Management
4 3 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (16.67%) TDD
5 2 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (16.67%) Benchmarking
5 2 (16.67%) Business Continuity
6 1 (8.333%) UML
6 1 (8.333%) Data Modelling
6 1 (8.333%) Scrum
6 1 (8.333%) Regression Testing
6 1 (8.333%) Configuration Management
6 1 (8.333%) Product Management
6 1 (8.333%) User Stories
6 1 (8.333%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (8.333%) Use Case
6 1 (8.333%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) Perl
2 8 (66.67%) sed
3 6 (50.00%) Shell Script
4 4 (33.33%) Bash shell
4 4 (33.33%) Python
4 4 (33.33%) SQL
4 4 (33.33%) C#
4 4 (33.33%) Java
5 2 (16.67%) Korn
5 2 (16.67%) Bourne shell
6 1 (8.333%) XPath
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) Sun Certification
3 1 (8.333%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.333%) QA
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Nmap
1 4 (33.33%) Squid
1 4 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (33.33%) Postfix
1 4 (33.33%) NFS
2 2 (16.67%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Veritas File System
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Puppet
1 4 (33.33%) Nagios
2 2 (16.67%) BMC PATROL
2 2 (16.67%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Oracle
2 4 (33.33%) VMware
2 4 (33.33%) Teradata
2 4 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 4 (33.33%) NetApp
2 4 (33.33%) EMC
2 4 (33.33%) JBoss
2 4 (33.33%) SAP
3 2 (16.67%) Sun
3 2 (16.67%) Veritas
3 2 (16.67%) BMC
4 1 (8.333%) WSO2