The first table below looks at the demand for Amazon AWS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Amazon AWS over the 3 months to 24 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 Surrey 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Amazon Web Services (Amazon AWS)
Rank - 94 101
Contract jobs citing Amazon AWS 0 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey - 0.062% 0.109%
As % of the Application Platforms category - 0.318% 0.501%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 2
Average daily rate - £488 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +30.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £280 £375
% change year-on-year
-1.78% -25.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.00 - -
All Application Platforms
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
227 314 399
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 19.69% 19.49% 21.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 170 195
Average daily rate £350 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £160 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 20 21
Average hourly rate £17.00 £16.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.25% +6.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.50 £23.70 £21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
Amazon AWS
South East

Amazon AWS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey Amazon AWS Daily Rate Trend

Amazon AWS
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 4 (100.00%) Web Services
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Apache
2 3 (75.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) PHP
2 3 (75.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (75.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (75.00%) CentOS
2 3 (75.00%) Open Source
2 3 (75.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (75.00%) OpenStack
2 3 (75.00%) IaaS
3 2 (50.00%) SaaS
3 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing
3 2 (50.00%) ERP
4 1 (25.00%) DNS
4 1 (25.00%) IIS
4 1 (25.00%) Windows
4 1 (25.00%) Publishing
4 1 (25.00%) Network Load Balancing
4 1 (25.00%) Cacti
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3

Amazon AWS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 4 (100.00%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) Apache
1 3 (75.00%) OpenStack
2 1 (25.00%) IIS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) NoSQL
General
1 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
1 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (25.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Administrator
2 2 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (50.00%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (25.00%) Operations Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (25.00%) Web Administrator
3 1 (25.00%) Web Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Open Source
1 3 (75.00%) IaaS
2 2 (50.00%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) CentOS
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (50.00%) ERP
3 1 (25.00%) Network Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) PHP
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Cacti
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Red Hat