The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Akamai products and/or services in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Akamai 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 Vendors currently tracked.

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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Akamai Technologies, Inc.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Akamai
Rank 524 569 579
Rank change year-on-year
+45 +10
Contract jobs citing Akamai 16 12 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.034% 0.021% 0.002%
As % of the Vendors category 0.072% 0.044% 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 1
Average daily rate £350 £419 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.41% +30.85%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £438 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
22181 27194 27998
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 46.98% 46.52% 46.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11810 13898 14021
Average daily rate £400 £400 £408
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £235 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1218 1319 1577
Average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.50% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.23 £11.50 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £41.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
- -7.31%

Akamai
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Akamai within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Akamai Jobs Demand Trend

Akamai
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Akamai within the UK.

Akamai Daily Rate Trend

Akamai
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Akamai within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Akamai Daily Rate Histogram

Akamai
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Akamai within the UK.

Akamai Hourly Rate Trend

Akamai
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Akamai within the UK 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
England +49 16 £350 -16.41%
London +18 12 £350 -12.50%
Cambridge - 3 - -
Cambridgeshire - 3 - -
East of England - 3 - -
South East +24 1 - -
Berkshire - 1 - -
Maidenhead - 1 - -

Akamai
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Akamai 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 Akamai.

1 23 (88.46%) Linux
2 18 (69.23%) Puppet
3 16 (61.54%) Apache
4 13 (50.00%) DNS
5 12 (46.15%) Amazon AWS
6 9 (34.62%) VMware
6 9 (34.62%) MySQL
7 8 (30.77%) UNIX
7 8 (30.77%) TCP/IP
8 7 (26.92%) Subversion
8 7 (26.92%) Git (software)
8 7 (26.92%) Open Source
8 7 (26.92%) Bash shell
8 7 (26.92%) Hudson
8 7 (26.92%) Jenkins
8 7 (26.92%) Red Hat
8 7 (26.92%) Nagios
8 7 (26.92%) Tomcat
8 7 (26.92%) Perl
9 6 (23.08%) Web Services
9 6 (23.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
9 6 (23.08%) JIRA
10 5 (19.23%) PHP
10 5 (19.23%) SSL
10 5 (19.23%) HTTP
10 5 (19.23%) SAN
10 5 (19.23%) LAMP
11 4 (15.38%) Firewall
11 4 (15.38%) Clustering

Akamai
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Akamai 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 Akamai. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (23.08%) Web Services
2 5 (19.23%) LAMP
3 4 (15.38%) Middleware
4 3 (11.54%) HTML
4 3 (11.54%) CSS
5 2 (7.692%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 16 (61.54%) Apache
2 12 (46.15%) Amazon AWS
3 7 (26.92%) Tomcat
4 4 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (11.54%) IIS
5 3 (11.54%) CMS
6 2 (7.692%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 13 (50.00%) DNS
2 8 (30.77%) TCP/IP
3 5 (19.23%) SSL
3 5 (19.23%) HTTP
3 5 (19.23%) SAN
4 4 (15.38%) Firewall
4 4 (15.38%) Internet
4 4 (15.38%) SMTP
4 4 (15.38%) SSH
5 3 (11.54%) NAS
5 3 (11.54%) BIG-IP
5 3 (11.54%) HTTPS
5 3 (11.54%) DHCP
6 2 (7.692%) LAN
7 1 (3.846%) VLAN
7 1 (3.846%) MRTG
7 1 (3.846%) DAB
7 1 (3.846%) BGP
7 1 (3.846%) ISDN
7 1 (3.846%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (34.62%) MySQL
2 4 (15.38%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 7 (26.92%) Subversion
1 7 (26.92%) Git (software)
1 7 (26.92%) Hudson
1 7 (26.92%) Jenkins
2 6 (23.08%) JIRA
3 2 (7.692%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 3 (11.54%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 12 (46.15%) Systems Engineer
2 8 (30.77%) Administrator
2 8 (30.77%) Systems Administrator
2 8 (30.77%) Linux Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 4 (15.38%) Linux Administrator
4 3 (11.54%) Architect
5 2 (7.692%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.846%) Web Engineer
6 1 (3.846%) Lead Architect
6 1 (3.846%) Technical Leader
6 1 (3.846%) Senior Linux Administrator
6 1 (3.846%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 1 (3.846%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
6 1 (3.846%) Web Server Administrator
6 1 (3.846%) Applications Engineer
6 1 (3.846%) Technical Support
6 1 (3.846%) Support Specialist
6 1 (3.846%) Analyst
6 1 (3.846%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 7 (26.92%) Open Source
2 4 (15.38%) Clustering
3 3 (11.54%) N-Tier
4 2 (7.692%) Smartphone
4 2 (7.692%) Replication
5 1 (3.846%) Social Media
5 1 (3.846%) iPad
5 1 (3.846%) iPhone
5 1 (3.846%) Streaming Media
5 1 (3.846%) Digital Media
5 1 (3.846%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.846%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 23 (88.46%) Linux
2 8 (30.77%) UNIX
3 6 (23.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (15.38%) Solaris
5 3 (11.54%) Android
5 3 (11.54%) Apple iOS
5 3 (11.54%) Windows
5 3 (11.54%) SUSE
6 1 (3.846%) Ubuntu
6 1 (3.846%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (15.38%) Configuration Management
2 3 (11.54%) Content Management
2 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (3.846%) Time Management
3 1 (3.846%) Load Balancing
3 1 (3.846%) Software Engineering
3 1 (3.846%) Project Management
3 1 (3.846%) Scrum
3 1 (3.846%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (3.846%) OO
Programming Languages
1 7 (26.92%) Bash shell
1 7 (26.92%) Perl
2 5 (19.23%) PHP
3 4 (15.38%) Shell Script
3 4 (15.38%) Java
4 3 (11.54%) SQL
4 3 (11.54%) Python
5 1 (3.846%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) RHCE
2 1 (3.846%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.692%) QA
System Software
1 6 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.846%) NFS
Systems Management
1 18 (69.23%) Puppet
2 7 (26.92%) Nagios
3 1 (3.846%) Cacti
Vendors
1 9 (34.62%) VMware
2 7 (26.92%) Red Hat
3 4 (15.38%) Cisco
4 3 (11.54%) JBoss
5 2 (7.692%) Zend
6 1 (3.846%) Atlassian
6 1 (3.846%) Twitter
6 1 (3.846%) Rackspace
6 1 (3.846%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.846%) Adobe