Windows Azure Contracts in Surrey
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Windows Azure 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 Windows Azure over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows Azure
Rank 57 98 -
Rank change year-on-year
+41 -
Contract jobs citing Windows Azure 20 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 1.756% 0.122% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.811% 0.615% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 0
Average daily rate £388 £300 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+29.16% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £400 £230
% change year-on-year
-3.12% +73.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £15.00 -
All Application Platforms
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category		 227 325 406
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 19.93% 19.74% 21.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 171 199
Average daily rate £345 £367 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.98% -2.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £183 £160 £253
10% offered a daily rate of more than £440 £500 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 18 21
Average hourly rate £17.50 £15.50 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.90% +3.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.50 £24.00 £21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
Windows Azure
South East

Windows Azure
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey Windows Azure Jobs Demand Trend

Windows Azure
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Windows Azure across the Surrey region.

Surrey Windows Azure Daily Rate Trend

Windows Azure
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Azure within the Surrey region over the 3 months to 17 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
Guildford -9 6 - -
Staines - 6 £388 -
Haslemere - 1 £400 -
Windows Azure
South East

Windows Azure
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region citing Windows Azure 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 Windows Azure.

1 18 (69.23%) C#
1 18 (69.23%) .NET
2 16 (61.54%) Scrum
3 15 (57.69%) Microsoft
4 11 (42.31%) Games
4 11 (42.31%) SCOM
4 11 (42.31%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (38.46%) Release Management
5 10 (38.46%) Online Games
5 10 (38.46%) Visual Studio
5 10 (38.46%) MS Excel
6 8 (30.77%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (30.77%) MVC
6 8 (30.77%) Python
6 8 (30.77%) JavaScript
6 8 (30.77%) Ruby
7 6 (23.08%) Groovy
7 6 (23.08%) JMeter
8 5 (19.23%) Web Services
9 4 (15.38%) ESB
9 4 (15.38%) Windows
10 3 (11.54%) SOA
10 3 (11.54%) Finance
10 3 (11.54%) SQL
10 3 (11.54%) SOAP
10 3 (11.54%) WCF
10 3 (11.54%) .NET Framework
10 3 (11.54%) soapUI
11 2 (7.692%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
11 2 (7.692%) MSTest

Windows Azure
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region citing Windows Azure 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 Windows Azure. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 18 (69.23%) .NET
2 5 (19.23%) Web Services
3 3 (11.54%) .NET Framework
3 3 (11.54%) WCF
3 3 (11.54%) soapUI
3 3 (11.54%) SOAP
4 2 (7.692%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 2 (7.692%) ASP.NET
4 2 (7.692%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (3.846%) StructureMap
5 1 (3.846%) WF
5 1 (3.846%) Spring.NET
5 1 (3.846%) Castle Windsor
5 1 (3.846%) Unity DI Container
Application Platforms
1 11 (42.31%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (15.38%) ESB
3 1 (3.846%) MSMQ
Applications
1 10 (38.46%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.692%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.846%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 10 (38.46%) Visual Studio
2 6 (23.08%) JMeter
3 2 (7.692%) Subversion
3 2 (7.692%) MSTest
4 1 (3.846%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 11 (42.31%) Games
2 3 (11.54%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (34.62%) Developer
2 6 (23.08%) .NET Developer
3 5 (19.23%) Test Leader
4 4 (15.38%) C# Developer
4 4 (15.38%) Network Engineer
5 2 (7.692%) Agile .NET Developer
6 1 (3.846%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (3.846%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
6 1 (3.846%) Development Engineer
6 1 (3.846%) Agile Test Analyst
6 1 (3.846%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.846%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.846%) Analyst
6 1 (3.846%) Test Analyst
6 1 (3.846%) ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (3.846%) Software Development Engineer
6 1 (3.846%) C# ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (38.46%) Online Games
2 1 (3.846%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (3.846%) PaaS
2 1 (3.846%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 4 (15.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (61.54%) Scrum
2 10 (38.46%) Release Management
3 8 (30.77%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (30.77%) MVC
4 3 (11.54%) SOA
5 2 (7.692%) E-Commerce
5 2 (7.692%) Unit Testing
6 1 (3.846%) Multithreading
6 1 (3.846%) Test Automation
6 1 (3.846%) Dependency Injection
6 1 (3.846%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (3.846%) BDD
6 1 (3.846%) Game Development
6 1 (3.846%) Test Strategy
6 1 (3.846%) Web Application Development
6 1 (3.846%) Performance Testing
6 1 (3.846%) Load Testing
6 1 (3.846%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (3.846%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 18 (69.23%) C#
2 8 (30.77%) JavaScript
2 8 (30.77%) Python
2 8 (30.77%) Ruby
3 6 (23.08%) Groovy
4 3 (11.54%) SQL
5 1 (3.846%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (3.846%) MCP
1 1 (3.846%) MCAD
1 1 (3.846%) MCSD
1 1 (3.846%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (3.846%) MCTS
1 1 (3.846%) ISTQB
1 1 (3.846%) Degree
1 1 (3.846%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.846%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 11 (42.31%) SCOM
2 1 (3.846%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (57.69%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.692%) Facebook
3 1 (3.846%) TIBCO
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