The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term PaaS in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PaaS over the 3 months to 20 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.

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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Rank 498 499 581
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +82
Contract jobs citing PaaS 35 74 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.075% 0.127% 0.012%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.285% 0.517% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 62 5
Average daily rate £450 £450 £570
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -21.05%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £363 £350 £438
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £497 £603
UK excluding London average daily rate £438 £388 -
% change year-on-year
+12.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
12273 14324 16984
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 26.38% 24.55% 28.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 7382 8428 10080
Average daily rate £430 £425 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.17% -19.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £243 £251 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £343 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.18% +0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 539 660 718
Average hourly rate £22.66 £23.00 £23.36
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.47% -1.54%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £11.36
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £46.05 £41.28
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £24.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year
-8.16% -9.25%

PaaS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

PaaS Daily Rate Trend

PaaS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PaaS within the UK over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

PaaS Daily Rate Histogram

PaaS
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PaaS within the UK over the 3 months to 20 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 +26 34 £450 -
London -27 15 £494 +9.72%
North Yorkshire - 8 £425 -
Yorkshire - 8 £425 -
York - 6 £425 -
South East +21 4 £450 +16.12%
South West +24 2 - -
Berkshire +16 2 £450 +16.12%
Derbyshire - 2 £600 -
Reading - 2 £450 -
Derby - 2 £600 -
Westminster - 2 £500 -
East Sussex - 2 £413 -
East Midlands - 2 £600 -
City of London +18 1 £500 +25.00%
Exeter - 1 - -
Devon - 1 - -

PaaS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 53 (52.48%) IaaS
2 47 (46.53%) SaaS
3 42 (41.58%) Microsoft
4 41 (40.59%) Windows Azure
5 35 (34.65%) Windows
6 31 (30.69%) VMware
7 30 (29.70%) VMware Infrastructure
8 24 (23.76%) C#
9 21 (20.79%) SQL
9 21 (20.79%) Cloud Computing
10 19 (18.81%) .NET
11 17 (16.83%) Scrum
11 17 (16.83%) Amazon EC2
12 15 (14.85%) Middleware
12 15 (14.85%) MVC
13 14 (13.86%) Migration
13 14 (13.86%) Citrix
13 14 (13.86%) Azure SQL Database
13 14 (13.86%) Load Balancing
14 13 (12.87%) Ruby
14 13 (12.87%) Hyper-V
14 13 (12.87%) Oracle
14 13 (12.87%) MPLS
14 13 (12.87%) Firewall
15 12 (11.88%) Finance
15 12 (11.88%) SQL Server
15 12 (11.88%) ITIL
15 12 (11.88%) SAN
15 12 (11.88%) Git (software)
15 12 (11.88%) SCOM

PaaS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 19 (18.81%) .NET
2 15 (14.85%) Middleware
3 8 (7.921%) ASP.NET
4 7 (6.931%) Web Services
5 6 (5.941%) Ajax
5 6 (5.941%) Ruby on Rails
5 6 (5.941%) Grails
5 6 (5.941%) jQuery
5 6 (5.941%) Ext JS
5 6 (5.941%) JSON
5 6 (5.941%) KnockoutJS
6 5 (4.950%) ASP.NET MVC
6 5 (4.950%) SOAP
7 4 (3.960%) REST
8 3 (2.970%) Task Parallel Library
9 2 (1.980%) ODBC
9 2 (1.980%) WSH
10 1 (0.990%) WCF
10 1 (0.990%) WPF
10 1 (0.990%) CORBA
Application Platforms
1 41 (40.59%) Windows Azure
2 17 (16.83%) Amazon EC2
3 9 (8.911%) OpenStack
3 9 (8.911%) CloudStack
4 8 (7.921%) Amazon AWS
5 7 (6.931%) Oracle Application Server
5 7 (6.931%) GlassFish
5 7 (6.931%) WebLogic
5 7 (6.931%) IIS
6 6 (5.941%) Force.com
6 6 (5.941%) ActiveMQ
6 6 (5.941%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (3.960%) TIBCO EMS
7 4 (3.960%) Apache
7 4 (3.960%) MS Exchange
8 2 (1.980%) CMS
8 2 (1.980%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.980%) Google App Engine
9 1 (0.990%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.990%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 11 (10.89%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (3.960%) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking
1 13 (12.87%) MPLS
1 13 (12.87%) Firewall
2 12 (11.88%) SAN
3 9 (8.911%) Internet
3 9 (8.911%) TCP/IP
4 8 (7.921%) DNS
5 7 (6.931%) DHCP
6 6 (5.941%) VPN
7 5 (4.950%) LAN
7 5 (4.950%) WAN
7 5 (4.950%) NAS
8 4 (3.960%) Ethernet
9 3 (2.970%) PBX
10 2 (1.980%) VoIP
10 2 (1.980%) CTI
11 1 (0.990%) OSPF
11 1 (0.990%) BGP
11 1 (0.990%) EIGRP
11 1 (0.990%) LDAP
11 1 (0.990%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (13.86%) Azure SQL Database
2 12 (11.88%) SQL Server
3 7 (6.931%) Oracle 10g
3 7 (6.931%) Oracle 11g
3 7 (6.931%) MongoDB
3 7 (6.931%) NoSQL
4 6 (5.941%) Riak
5 3 (2.970%) OLTP
5 3 (2.970%) Oracle 8/8i
6 2 (1.980%) DB2
6 2 (1.980%) SQL Server 2005
6 2 (1.980%) SQL Server 2012
7 1 (0.990%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.990%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 12 (11.88%) Git (software)
2 6 (5.941%) JIRA
2 6 (5.941%) TeamCity
3 5 (4.950%) Subversion
4 3 (2.970%) Moq
4 3 (2.970%) SpecFlow
General
1 12 (11.88%) Finance
2 4 (3.960%) Games
3 3 (2.970%) Back Office
3 3 (2.970%) Telecoms
3 3 (2.970%) Publishing
4 2 (1.980%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (1.980%) Dutch Language
4 2 (1.980%) German Language
4 2 (1.980%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.990%) Advertising
5 1 (0.990%) Retail
5 1 (0.990%) Multimedia
5 1 (0.990%) Billing
5 1 (0.990%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 37 (36.63%) Architect
2 23 (22.77%) Developer
3 17 (16.83%) Infrastructure Architect
4 16 (15.84%) Consultant
5 13 (12.87%) C# Developer
6 11 (10.89%) Technical Architect
7 8 (7.921%) Senior Developer
7 8 (7.921%) Technical Leader
8 6 (5.941%) Java Developer
9 5 (4.950%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (4.950%) Senior Java Developer
9 5 (4.950%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 5 (4.950%) C# .NET Developer
10 4 (3.960%) VMware Consultant
10 4 (3.960%) Service Manager
10 4 (3.960%) Integration Architect
11 3 (2.970%) Project Manager
11 3 (2.970%) Agile C# Developer
11 3 (2.970%) Solutions Consultant
11 3 (2.970%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
Miscellaneous
1 53 (52.48%) IaaS
2 47 (46.53%) SaaS
3 21 (20.79%) Cloud Computing
4 12 (11.88%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (9.901%) Open Source
6 7 (6.931%) Heroku
7 3 (2.970%) IVR
8 2 (1.980%) Economics
8 2 (1.980%) NHS
8 2 (1.980%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.980%) AS400
8 2 (1.980%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (1.980%) New Media
9 1 (0.990%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.990%) BBC
9 1 (0.990%) Computer Science
9 1 (0.990%) CMDB
9 1 (0.990%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 35 (34.65%) Windows
2 10 (9.901%) Linux
3 8 (7.921%) UNIX
4 7 (6.931%) Solaris
4 7 (6.931%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (3.960%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (2.970%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.980%) CentOS
8 1 (0.990%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (16.83%) Scrum
2 15 (14.85%) MVC
3 14 (13.86%) Migration
3 14 (13.86%) Load Balancing
4 12 (11.88%) ITIL
4 12 (11.88%) Multithreading
5 11 (10.89%) Workflow
6 9 (8.911%) SOA
6 9 (8.911%) Agile Software Development
6 9 (8.911%) TDD
7 8 (7.921%) RAD
8 7 (6.931%) Validation
8 7 (6.931%) OO
8 7 (6.931%) Quality Management
8 7 (6.931%) Data Migration
8 7 (6.931%) Capacity Planning
9 6 (5.941%) Kanban
9 6 (5.941%) Service Delivery
9 6 (5.941%) Disaster Recovery
9 6 (5.941%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (23.76%) C#
2 21 (20.79%) SQL
3 13 (12.87%) Ruby
4 11 (10.89%) Java
5 6 (5.941%) Haskell
5 6 (5.941%) Erlang
5 6 (5.941%) Groovy
5 6 (5.941%) Clojure
6 4 (3.960%) Python
7 3 (2.970%) VBScript
7 3 (2.970%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.970%) C
7 3 (2.970%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.980%) Bash shell
8 2 (1.980%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.990%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (3.960%) MCTS
1 4 (3.960%) MCITP
2 3 (2.970%) Degree
3 2 (1.980%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (0.990%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (0.990%) CCIE
4 1 (0.990%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.990%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (0.990%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.990%) VCP5
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.931%) QA
2 4 (3.960%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (29.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (12.87%) Hyper-V
3 12 (11.88%) Xen
3 12 (11.88%) vSphere
4 11 (10.89%) Active Directory
5 7 (6.931%) Oracle RAC
5 7 (6.931%) UAG
6 6 (5.941%) vCloud
7 3 (2.970%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.990%) VMware ESX
8 1 (0.990%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.990%) XenApp
8 1 (0.990%) XenServer
8 1 (0.990%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 12 (11.88%) SCOM
2 2 (1.980%) BladeLogic
3 1 (0.990%) SCCM
3 1 (0.990%) Tivoli
3 1 (0.990%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 1 (0.990%) NetBackup
3 1 (0.990%) HP Operations Orchestration
3 1 (0.990%) Puppet
Vendors
1 42 (41.58%) Microsoft
2 31 (30.69%) VMware
3 14 (13.86%) Citrix
4 13 (12.87%) Oracle
5 11 (10.89%) Cisco
6 10 (9.901%) Google
7 8 (7.921%) Red Hat
8 7 (6.931%) Salesforce.com
8 7 (6.931%) SAP
8 7 (6.931%) Sun
9 4 (3.960%) TIBCO
9 4 (3.960%) Infoblox
9 4 (3.960%) NetApp
10 1 (0.990%) DoubleClick
10 1 (0.990%) Open Text
10 1 (0.990%) HP
10 1 (0.990%) Juniper
10 1 (0.990%) BMC
10 1 (0.990%) JBoss
10 1 (0.990%) IBM
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