The first table below looks at the demand for Amazon EC2 skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Amazon EC2 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 for the West Yorkshire 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
Rank 46 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 49 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 3.864% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 17.31% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 43 0 0
Average daily rate £275 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £340 £375
% change year-on-year
-19.11% -9.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Platforms
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
283 278 249
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 22.32% 17.16% 22.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 156 103
Average daily rate £275 £325 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.38% -4.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £203 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £361 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 18
Average hourly rate £23.50 £11.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+104.34% -45.23%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.25 £11.00 £11.35
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.00 £30.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
Amazon EC2
Yorkshire

Amazon EC2
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Amazon EC2 across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

West Yorkshire Amazon EC2 Jobs Demand Trend

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire Amazon EC2 Daily Rate Trend

Amazon EC2
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon EC2 within the West Yorkshire region 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
Leeds - 49 £275 -
Amazon EC2
Yorkshire

Amazon EC2
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing Amazon EC2 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 EC2.

1 49 (100.00%) MySQL
1 49 (100.00%) Web Services
1 49 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 49 (100.00%) Amazon AWS
1 49 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 49 (100.00%) Redis
1 49 (100.00%) Route 53
1 49 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
2 42 (85.71%) Internet
3 39 (79.59%) Linux
3 39 (79.59%) Apache
3 39 (79.59%) Python
3 39 (79.59%) C++
3 39 (79.59%) PHP
3 39 (79.59%) nginx
3 39 (79.59%) Kanban
3 39 (79.59%) Ruby
3 39 (79.59%) Node.js
3 39 (79.59%) Bash shell
4 38 (77.55%) DNS
5 35 (71.43%) Oracle
6 33 (67.35%) TDD
7 32 (65.31%) Configuration Management
7 32 (65.31%) Puppet
8 31 (63.27%) Scrum
9 30 (61.22%) Client/Server
10 29 (59.18%) Security Testing
11 28 (57.14%) Java
12 27 (55.10%) Percona
13 25 (51.02%) Telecoms

Amazon EC2
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing Amazon EC2 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 EC2. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 49 (100.00%) Web Services
2 39 (79.59%) Node.js
3 17 (34.69%) jQuery
3 17 (34.69%) HTML5
4 16 (32.65%) POSIX
5 12 (24.49%) REST
5 12 (24.49%) CSS3
5 12 (24.49%) J2EE
5 12 (24.49%) CSS
5 12 (24.49%) SOAP
5 12 (24.49%) Hibernate
5 12 (24.49%) Spring
6 5 (10.20%) Ajax
6 5 (10.20%) Java EE
6 5 (10.20%) JSON
6 5 (10.20%) LAMP
7 2 (4.082%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 49 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 49 (100.00%) Amazon AWS
1 49 (100.00%) Route 53
2 39 (79.59%) Apache
2 39 (79.59%) nginx
3 12 (24.49%) Adobe CQ
4 7 (14.29%) Apache Solr
4 7 (14.29%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 23 (46.94%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 42 (85.71%) Internet
2 38 (77.55%) DNS
3 23 (46.94%) HTTP
4 17 (34.69%) TCP/IP
4 17 (34.69%) SSL
4 17 (34.69%) DHCP
5 12 (24.49%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (2.041%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (100.00%) MySQL
1 49 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 49 (100.00%) Redis
1 49 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (32.65%) Couchbase
2 16 (32.65%) NoSQL
2 16 (32.65%) RDBMS
2 16 (32.65%) SimpleDB
Development Applications
1 17 (34.69%) Git (software)
1 17 (34.69%) Jenkins
2 12 (24.49%) Maven
3 5 (10.20%) Selenium
General
1 25 (51.02%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (36.73%) Developer
2 16 (32.65%) Software Engineer
3 12 (24.49%) Java Developer
4 9 (18.37%) Operations Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) Mobile Developer
5 5 (10.20%) Front-End Developer
5 5 (10.20%) Front-End Web Developer
5 5 (10.20%) Web Developer
6 2 (4.082%) Administrator
6 2 (4.082%) Linux Administrator
7 1 (2.041%) Python Developer
7 1 (2.041%) Linux Engineer
7 1 (2.041%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 30 (61.22%) Client/Server
2 1 (2.041%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 39 (79.59%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (79.59%) Kanban
2 33 (67.35%) TDD
3 32 (65.31%) Configuration Management
4 31 (63.27%) Scrum
5 29 (59.18%) Security Testing
6 25 (51.02%) Test Automation
7 17 (34.69%) BDD
7 17 (34.69%) Load Balancing
8 16 (32.65%) Continuous Integration
8 16 (32.65%) Capacity Management
8 16 (32.65%) Incident Management
9 12 (24.49%) SOA
10 7 (14.29%) Software Engineering
11 6 (12.24%) Performance Testing
12 5 (10.20%) Automated Testing
13 2 (4.082%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 39 (79.59%) PHP
1 39 (79.59%) Python
1 39 (79.59%) Ruby
1 39 (79.59%) Bash shell
1 39 (79.59%) C++
2 28 (57.14%) Java
3 23 (46.94%) Perl
4 17 (34.69%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (4.082%) Degree
Systems Management
1 32 (65.31%) Puppet
Vendors
1 35 (71.43%) Oracle
2 27 (55.10%) Percona
3 12 (24.49%) Adobe
3 12 (24.49%) hybris