The first table below looks at the demand for Windows Azure skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows Azure 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 of the Application Platforms 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
Microsoft Windows Azure
Rank 346 499 569
Rank change year-on-year
+153 +70
Contract jobs citing Windows Azure 195 74 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.419% 0.127% 0.032%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.310% 0.778% 0.188%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 42 14
Average daily rate £384 £360 £403
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.59% -10.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £325 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £494 £625 £640
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £400 £230
% change year-on-year
-3.12% +73.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £15.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £15.00 -
All Application Platforms
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
8443 9517 10097
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 18.14% 16.31% 16.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 4788 5237 5378
Average daily rate £350 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 456 422 560
Average hourly rate £21.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.20 £40.00 £42.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -

Windows Azure
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

Windows Azure Daily Rate Trend

Windows Azure
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Windows Azure Daily Rate Histogram

Windows Azure
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Windows Azure Hourly Rate Trend

Windows Azure
Top 30 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 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 +171 185 £388 +7.63%
London +66 80 £375 +7.14%
South East +78 75 £400 -
Berkshire +36 32 £400 -8.57%
City of London +39 24 £335 -10.66%
Hampshire +19 23 £400 -
Surrey +38 20 £388 +29.16%
South West +29 11 £475 +58.33%
Reading +9 10 £375 -
Kent - 8 £350 -
North Yorkshire - 7 £425 -
Yorkshire - 7 £425 -
Guildford -10 6 - -
Staines - 6 £388 -
York - 5 £425 -
Devon +5 4 £475 +58.33%
East Sussex - 4 £388 -
Basingstoke - 4 - -
East of England +20 3 £313 -21.87%
Exeter 0 3 £475 +58.33%
South Coast - 3 - -
North West +15 2 £313 -7.40%
Bedfordshire - 2 £375 -
Luton - 2 £375 -
East Midlands - 2 £225 -
Suffolk +12 1 £250 -
Ipswich +7 1 £250 -
Slough -19 1 - -
Northampton - 1 £225 -
Swindon - 1 - -

Windows Azure
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1 239 (70.71%) .NET
2 225 (66.57%) C#
3 152 (44.97%) Microsoft
4 136 (40.24%) Windows
5 132 (39.05%) SQL Server
6 114 (33.73%) ASP.NET
7 110 (32.54%) MVC
8 85 (25.15%) TDD
9 84 (24.85%) WCF
10 83 (24.56%) SQL
11 80 (23.67%) Visual Studio
12 73 (21.60%) JavaScript
13 68 (20.12%) Scrum
14 62 (18.34%) ASP.NET MVC
15 61 (18.05%) Web Services
15 61 (18.05%) XML
16 57 (16.86%) CSS
17 56 (16.57%) HTML
18 51 (15.09%) MS Excel
19 47 (13.91%) Agile Software Development
19 47 (13.91%) .NET Framework
20 44 (13.02%) SOA
21 42 (12.43%) Cloud Computing
22 41 (12.13%) LINQ
22 41 (12.13%) PaaS
23 40 (11.83%) BDD
24 36 (10.65%) Razor View Engine
24 36 (10.65%) BizTalk Server
25 35 (10.36%) Games
26 34 (10.06%) REST

Windows Azure
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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
1 239 (70.71%) .NET
2 114 (33.73%) ASP.NET
3 84 (24.85%) WCF
4 62 (18.34%) ASP.NET MVC
5 61 (18.05%) Web Services
5 61 (18.05%) XML
6 57 (16.86%) CSS
7 56 (16.57%) HTML
8 47 (13.91%) .NET Framework
9 41 (12.13%) LINQ
10 36 (10.65%) Razor View Engine
11 34 (10.06%) REST
12 33 (9.763%) jQuery
13 27 (7.988%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
14 25 (7.396%) WF
15 22 (6.509%) Ajax
16 21 (6.213%) ASP.NET MVC 3
17 17 (5.030%) Silverlight
17 17 (5.030%) AppFabric
18 15 (4.438%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 36 (10.65%) BizTalk Server
2 33 (9.763%) Amazon EC2
3 30 (8.876%) IIS
4 21 (6.213%) ESB
5 19 (5.621%) Google App Engine
5 19 (5.621%) Amazon AWS
6 11 (3.254%) CMS
7 10 (2.959%) SharePoint
8 9 (2.663%) WebLogic
8 9 (2.663%) OpenStack
9 8 (2.367%) CloudStack
10 7 (2.071%) Oracle Application Server
10 7 (2.071%) GlassFish
11 5 (1.479%) MSMQ
12 4 (1.183%) MS Exchange
13 3 (0.888%) Apache
13 3 (0.888%) Amazon S3
14 2 (0.592%) Kentico
14 2 (0.592%) Tomcat
15 1 (0.296%) Orchard CMS
Applications
1 51 (15.09%) MS Excel
2 5 (1.479%) MS Project
3 4 (1.183%) MS Office
3 4 (1.183%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.296%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 5 (1.479%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (1.479%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.592%) Bond Adapt
3 1 (0.296%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.734%) Internet
2 10 (2.959%) Firewall
2 10 (2.959%) HTTP
2 10 (2.959%) TCP/IP
3 9 (2.663%) DNS
4 8 (2.367%) DHCP
4 8 (2.367%) SAN
5 7 (2.071%) MPLS
6 5 (1.479%) SSL
7 2 (0.592%) Intranet
7 2 (0.592%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.296%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (39.05%) SQL Server
2 30 (8.876%) SQL Server 2005
2 30 (8.876%) Azure SQL Database
3 24 (7.101%) SQL Server 2008
4 16 (4.734%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 14 (4.142%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 12 (3.550%) NoSQL
7 11 (3.254%) VLDB
8 7 (2.071%) Oracle 10g
8 7 (2.071%) Oracle 11g
8 7 (2.071%) SQL Server 2012
9 6 (1.775%) Apache Cassandra
9 6 (1.775%) Big Data
9 6 (1.775%) Hadoop
10 5 (1.479%) MongoDB
10 5 (1.479%) HBase
11 4 (1.183%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 3 (0.888%) OLTP
12 3 (0.888%) RavenDB
12 3 (0.888%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 80 (23.67%) Visual Studio
2 32 (9.467%) Team Foundation Server
3 15 (4.438%) MSBuild
4 14 (4.142%) Subversion
5 13 (3.846%) Git (software)
6 12 (3.550%) Selenium
7 9 (2.663%) TeamCity
7 9 (2.663%) JMeter
8 7 (2.071%) JIRA
9 5 (1.479%) JUnit
9 5 (1.479%) SpecFlow
10 3 (0.888%) Ant
10 3 (0.888%) HttpUnit
10 3 (0.888%) Visual Studio Team System
10 3 (0.888%) XMLUnit
10 3 (0.888%) MSTest
10 3 (0.888%) Moq
11 2 (0.592%) FitNesse
11 2 (0.592%) Log4j
12 1 (0.296%) ReSharper
General
1 35 (10.36%) Games
2 31 (9.172%) Finance
3 7 (2.071%) Pharmaceutical
4 6 (1.775%) Marketing
5 3 (0.888%) Retail
6 2 (0.592%) Banking
6 2 (0.592%) Publishing
7 1 (0.296%) Multimedia
7 1 (0.296%) Back Office
7 1 (0.296%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.296%) Law
7 1 (0.296%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 170 (50.30%) Developer
2 78 (23.08%) .NET Developer
3 58 (17.16%) C# Developer
4 35 (10.36%) Architect
5 31 (9.172%) C# .NET Developer
6 25 (7.396%) ASP.NET Developer
7 23 (6.805%) Software Engineer
8 18 (5.325%) Web Developer
9 17 (5.030%) C# ASP.NET Developer
10 16 (4.734%) Senior Developer
11 14 (4.142%) Consultant
12 13 (3.846%) Software Development Engineer
12 13 (3.846%) Development Engineer
13 12 (3.550%) Build Engineer
13 12 (3.550%) .NET Web Developer
13 12 (3.550%) Solutions Architect
14 11 (3.254%) Analyst
14 11 (3.254%) Infrastructure Architect
14 11 (3.254%) Agile .NET Developer
15 9 (2.663%) BizTalk Developer
Miscellaneous
1 42 (12.43%) Cloud Computing
2 41 (12.13%) PaaS
3 24 (7.101%) Enterprise Software
4 22 (6.509%) SaaS
5 19 (5.621%) IaaS
6 18 (5.325%) Open Source
7 12 (3.550%) Online Games
8 11 (3.254%) Contract for Difference
9 10 (2.959%) N-Tier
10 9 (2.663%) Computer Science
11 8 (2.367%) Mobile App
12 3 (0.888%) Digital Media
12 3 (0.888%) New Media
13 2 (0.592%) Heroku
13 2 (0.592%) NHS
13 2 (0.592%) Inversion of Control
13 2 (0.592%) Economics
14 1 (0.296%) Social Media
14 1 (0.296%) Visualisation
14 1 (0.296%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 136 (40.24%) Windows
2 23 (6.805%) Linux
3 11 (3.254%) Windows Mobile
4 10 (2.959%) UNIX
5 7 (2.071%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.071%) Solaris
6 4 (1.183%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.183%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (0.888%) Windows Phone
7 3 (0.888%) Android
7 3 (0.888%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.592%) Windows Phone 7
8 2 (0.592%) Windows 8
9 1 (0.296%) Windows Phone 8
9 1 (0.296%) SUSE
9 1 (0.296%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (32.54%) MVC
2 85 (25.15%) TDD
3 68 (20.12%) Scrum
4 47 (13.91%) Agile Software Development
5 44 (13.02%) SOA
6 40 (11.83%) BDD
7 25 (7.396%) Workflow
8 23 (6.805%) Multithreading
9 22 (6.509%) Business Intelligence
10 19 (5.621%) Test Automation
11 17 (5.030%) Release Management
12 16 (4.734%) Web Development
12 16 (4.734%) E-Commerce
12 16 (4.734%) Analytics
13 14 (4.142%) Migration
14 13 (3.846%) Configuration Management
15 12 (3.550%) Game Development
16 10 (2.959%) Rapid Prototyping
16 10 (2.959%) Continuous Integration
16 10 (2.959%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 225 (66.57%) C#
2 83 (24.56%) SQL
3 73 (21.60%) JavaScript
4 29 (8.580%) Java
5 26 (7.692%) C++
6 16 (4.734%) Python
6 16 (4.734%) Ruby
7 15 (4.438%) Lua
8 12 (3.550%) C
9 9 (2.663%) Groovy
10 7 (2.071%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.183%) Perl
11 4 (1.183%) PHP
12 2 (0.592%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.296%) Clojure
13 1 (0.296%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.296%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.296%) VB
13 1 (0.296%) VC++
Qualifications
1 10 (2.959%) PhD
2 8 (2.367%) Degree
3 5 (1.479%) SC Cleared
3 5 (1.479%) Security Cleared
3 5 (1.479%) MCTS
3 5 (1.479%) CCNP
3 5 (1.479%) CCNA
3 5 (1.479%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (1.183%) MCITP
5 2 (0.592%) ISTQB
5 2 (0.592%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 2 (0.592%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.296%) MBA
6 1 (0.296%) ISEB Practitioner
6 1 (0.296%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.296%) MCP
6 1 (0.296%) MCAD
6 1 (0.296%) MCSD
6 1 (0.296%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.367%) QA
2 3 (0.888%) Dublin Core
System Software
1 16 (4.734%) Active Directory
2 15 (4.438%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (3.254%) Hyper-V
4 8 (2.367%) Xen
5 7 (2.071%) Oracle RAC
6 6 (1.775%) vSphere
7 5 (1.479%) XenServer
8 4 (1.183%) UAG
9 2 (0.592%) Varnish
10 1 (0.296%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 19 (5.621%) SCOM
2 2 (0.592%) SCCM
2 2 (0.592%) Splunk
3 1 (0.296%) Puppet
Vendors
1 152 (44.97%) Microsoft
2 28 (8.284%) Google
3 22 (6.509%) Oracle
4 16 (4.734%) VMware
5 12 (3.550%) SAP
6 8 (2.367%) Cisco
6 8 (2.367%) Citrix
7 7 (2.071%) Sun
8 6 (1.775%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.479%) TIBCO
10 4 (1.183%) Rackspace
10 4 (1.183%) Hortonworks
10 4 (1.183%) Cloudera
11 3 (0.888%) Facebook
12 2 (0.592%) Open Text
12 2 (0.592%) RedDot
13 1 (0.296%) HP
13 1 (0.296%) Twitter
13 1 (0.296%) Atlassian
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