The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term PaaS in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PaaS over the 3 months to 18 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the South West 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Rank 109 136 -
Rank change year-on-year
+27 -
Contract jobs citing PaaS 1 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.049% 0.032% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.235% 0.172% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £400 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £438 £448 £500
% change year-on-year
-2.23% -10.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
426 580 513
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 20.73% 18.50% 17.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 305 227
Average daily rate £370 £360 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.77% -0.68%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £250 £214
10% offered a daily rate of more than £512 £520 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £340 £330
% change year-on-year
+2.94% +3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 38 50
Average hourly rate £17.50 £31.00 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-43.54% +34.78%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.62 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £48.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -10.00%
PaaS
England

PaaS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West PaaS Jobs Demand Trend

PaaS
Daily Rate Trend

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

South West PaaS Daily Rate Trend

PaaS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing PaaS 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 PaaS.

1 8 (88.89%) Microsoft
1 8 (88.89%) Windows Azure
1 8 (88.89%) IaaS
2 7 (77.78%) Oracle 11g
2 7 (77.78%) GlassFish
2 7 (77.78%) Oracle RAC
2 7 (77.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (77.78%) Oracle 10g
2 7 (77.78%) Sun
2 7 (77.78%) Active Directory
2 7 (77.78%) SAN
2 7 (77.78%) Middleware
2 7 (77.78%) MPLS
2 7 (77.78%) VMware
2 7 (77.78%) Oracle Application Server
2 7 (77.78%) Firewall
2 7 (77.78%) Load Balancing
2 7 (77.78%) Oracle
2 7 (77.78%) WebLogic
2 7 (77.78%) UNIX
2 7 (77.78%) Windows
2 7 (77.78%) Solaris
2 7 (77.78%) Linux
2 7 (77.78%) DHCP
2 7 (77.78%) TCP/IP
2 7 (77.78%) DNS
2 7 (77.78%) Cisco
3 6 (66.67%) SQL Server
3 6 (66.67%) Red Hat
3 6 (66.67%) Amazon EC2

PaaS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing PaaS 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 PaaS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (77.78%) Middleware
2 1 (11.11%) .NET Framework
2 1 (11.11%) WCF
2 1 (11.11%) WPF
2 1 (11.11%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) SOAP
2 1 (11.11%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 8 (88.89%) Windows Azure
2 7 (77.78%) WebLogic
2 7 (77.78%) Oracle Application Server
2 7 (77.78%) GlassFish
3 6 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (66.67%) Amazon AWS
4 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 7 (77.78%) DHCP
1 7 (77.78%) TCP/IP
1 7 (77.78%) DNS
1 7 (77.78%) SAN
1 7 (77.78%) MPLS
1 7 (77.78%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (77.78%) Oracle 10g
1 7 (77.78%) Oracle 11g
2 6 (66.67%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Architect
1 7 (77.78%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (88.89%) IaaS
2 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 7 (77.78%) UNIX
1 7 (77.78%) Windows
1 7 (77.78%) Solaris
1 7 (77.78%) Linux
1 7 (77.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (11.11%) SUSE
2 1 (11.11%) Ubuntu
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Load Balancing
2 4 (44.44%) Scrum
3 1 (11.11%) MVVM
3 1 (11.11%) ITIL
3 1 (11.11%) PRINCE2
3 1 (11.11%) Project Management
3 1 (11.11%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) C#
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 7 (77.78%) Active Directory
1 7 (77.78%) Oracle RAC
2 6 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (66.67%) vSphere
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Microsoft
2 7 (77.78%) Sun
2 7 (77.78%) Oracle
2 7 (77.78%) Cisco
2 7 (77.78%) VMware
3 6 (66.67%) Red Hat
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