The first table below looks at the demand for Amazon EC2 skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Amazon EC2 over the 3 months to 20 June 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 Cheshire region.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
Rank 122 136 119
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -17
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 1 3 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.054% 0.142% 0.228%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.279% 0.664% 1.156%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 4
Average salary £36,000 £33,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.09% -17.50%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £38,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+16.88% +10.00%
All Application Platforms
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
358 452 346
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 19.29% 21.37% 19.73%
Number of salaries quoted 297 413 324
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £39,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -10.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £50,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%
Amazon EC2
North West

Amazon EC2
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire Amazon EC2 Salary Trend

Amazon EC2
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon EC2 within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 20 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Warrington +12 1 £36,000 +9.09%
Amazon EC2
North West

Amazon EC2
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) JBoss
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) LAMP
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (100.00%) Jetty
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
1 1 (100.00%) RightScale
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) Cobbler

Amazon EC2
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (100.00%) Jetty
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Cobbler
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) JBoss
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) RightScale