The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term IaaS 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 IaaS over the 3 months to 21 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 terms in our Miscellaneous 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Rank 219 241 -
Rank change year-on-year
+22 -
Contract jobs citing IaaS 1 4 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.013% 0.039% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.063% 0.208% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 0
Average daily rate - £388 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £388 -
% change year-on-year
+9.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
1577 1926 1933
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 19.91% 18.96% 18.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 714 824 798
Average daily rate £375 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £475 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 180 179
Average hourly rate £23.75 £27.50 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.63% -12.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £45.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-4.34% -13.20%
IaaS
England

IaaS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East IaaS Jobs Demand Trend

IaaS
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East IaaS Daily Rate Trend

IaaS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IaaS within the South East region over the 3 months to 21 May 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
Surrey - 1 - -
IaaS
England

IaaS
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing IaaS 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 IaaS.

1 6 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 5 (55.56%) VoIP
2 5 (55.56%) SaaS
2 5 (55.56%) Unified Communications
3 4 (44.44%) NoSQL
3 4 (44.44%) OpenStack
3 4 (44.44%) Linux
3 4 (44.44%) Apache
3 4 (44.44%) Java
3 4 (44.44%) PHP
3 4 (44.44%) Web Services
3 4 (44.44%) Red Hat
3 4 (44.44%) Configuration Management
3 4 (44.44%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (44.44%) CentOS
3 4 (44.44%) Amazon AWS
3 4 (44.44%) Open Source
4 3 (33.33%) Performance Management
4 3 (33.33%) PRINCE2
5 2 (22.22%) ERP
5 2 (22.22%) SLA
5 2 (22.22%) PMI
5 2 (22.22%) PMI Certification
5 2 (22.22%) Marketing
5 2 (22.22%) Manufacturing
5 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (11.11%) Cisco
6 1 (11.11%) B2B

IaaS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing IaaS 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 IaaS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (44.44%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 4 (44.44%) OpenStack
1 4 (44.44%) Apache
1 4 (44.44%) Amazon AWS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) VoIP
1 5 (55.56%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) NoSQL
General
1 6 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 2 (22.22%) Marketing
2 2 (22.22%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Project Manager
2 3 (33.33%) Administrator
3 2 (22.22%) Linux Administrator
3 2 (22.22%) Telecoms Project Manager
3 2 (22.22%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Manager
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Project Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Operations Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (11.11%) Web Administrator
4 1 (11.11%) Web Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Programme Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) VoIP Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) SaaS
2 4 (44.44%) Open Source
3 2 (22.22%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
1 4 (44.44%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Configuration Management
1 4 (44.44%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (33.33%) Performance Management
2 3 (33.33%) PRINCE2
3 2 (22.22%) ERP
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (11.11%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Java
1 4 (44.44%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) SLA
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Red Hat
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco
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