The first table below looks at the demand for Amazon EC2 skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Amazon EC2 over the 3 months to 24 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 Cambridge region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
Rank 118 116 120
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +4
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 5 7 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.275% 0.348% 0.187%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.425% 2.147% 1.190%
Number of salaries quoted 3 7 4
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+20.00% +7.14%
All Application Platforms
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
351 326 336
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 19.34% 16.22% 15.68%
Number of salaries quoted 313 306 282
Average salary £41,000 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.50% +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £48,100 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -
Amazon EC2
Cambridgeshire

Amazon EC2
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge Amazon EC2 Jobs Demand Trend

Amazon EC2
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Amazon EC2 across the Cambridge region.

Cambridge Amazon EC2 Salary Trend

Amazon EC2
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Amazon EC2.

1 5 (83.33%) MySQL
2 4 (66.67%) SaaS
3 3 (50.00%) Amazon AWS
3 3 (50.00%) Linux
3 3 (50.00%) Apache
3 3 (50.00%) Web Services
3 3 (50.00%) Python
3 3 (50.00%) E-Commerce
4 2 (33.33%) Eclipse
4 2 (33.33%) IntelliJ
4 2 (33.33%) XML
4 2 (33.33%) Windows
4 2 (33.33%) CSS
4 2 (33.33%) JSP
4 2 (33.33%) Struts
4 2 (33.33%) Java
4 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (33.33%) Tomcat
4 2 (33.33%) SQL
4 2 (33.33%) X.509
4 2 (33.33%) SSL
4 2 (33.33%) Confluence
4 2 (33.33%) HTML5
4 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
4 2 (33.33%) CSS3
4 2 (33.33%) FishEye
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (33.33%) Automotive
4 2 (33.33%) Hibernate
4 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development

Amazon EC2
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Amazon EC2. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (50.00%) Web Services
2 2 (33.33%) XML
2 2 (33.33%) CSS
2 2 (33.33%) JSP
2 2 (33.33%) Struts
2 2 (33.33%) HTML5
2 2 (33.33%) CSS3
2 2 (33.33%) Hibernate
2 2 (33.33%) JSON
2 2 (33.33%) WSE
2 2 (33.33%) Django
2 2 (33.33%) jQuery
2 2 (33.33%) Struts2
Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Apache
2 2 (33.33%) Tomcat
2 2 (33.33%) Confluence
2 2 (33.33%) nginx
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Azure
3 1 (16.67%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) X.509
1 2 (33.33%) SSL
2 1 (16.67%) Internet
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) FTP
2 1 (16.67%) HTTP
2 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) MySQL
2 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Eclipse
1 2 (33.33%) IntelliJ
1 2 (33.33%) FishEye
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
1 2 (33.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 2 (33.33%) Automotive
1 2 (33.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Python Developer
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) SaaS
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
2 1 (16.67%) IaaS
2 1 (16.67%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Android
2 2 (33.33%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Bash shell
3 1 (16.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) CCNA
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Nagios
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Atlassian
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
You will have an in depth knowledge of linux clustering, preferably within in a HPC / scientific environment... You should also have knowledge of high performance parallel filesystems (lustre,...
Sanger Institute
Salary: From £36,825 to £46,850 per annum dependent on experience plus excelle
Posted: 21 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
The Candidate: You the Python Developer should be skilled in the following areas: -Python -MySQL -JSON or XML -Full Development lifecycle experience It is highly desirable BUT NOT...
Stott & May
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013