The first table below looks at the demand for Amazon EC2 skills in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Amazon EC2 over the 3 months to 19 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 City of London region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
Rank 278 285 335
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +50
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 45 38 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.375% 0.289% 0.006%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.994% 1.537% 0.040%
Number of salaries quoted 36 37 1
Average salary £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.16%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £38,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+16.88% +10.00%
All Application Platforms
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
2257 2473 2520
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 18.80% 18.78% 15.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1989 2290 2317
Average salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.00% -
90% offered a salary of more than £34,500 £33,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%
Amazon EC2
London

Amazon EC2
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London Amazon EC2 Salary Trend

Amazon EC2
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Amazon EC2 across the City of London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

City of London Amazon EC2 Salary Histogram

Amazon EC2
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 48 (59.26%) Linux
2 45 (55.56%) Amazon AWS
3 43 (53.09%) Java
4 36 (44.44%) Web Services
5 31 (38.27%) MySQL
6 30 (37.04%) Git (software)
7 28 (34.57%) JavaScript
8 27 (33.33%) NoSQL
9 23 (28.40%) Continuous Integration
10 20 (24.69%) SQL
10 20 (24.69%) Windows
10 20 (24.69%) SOA
11 19 (23.46%) Python
11 19 (23.46%) C#
11 19 (23.46%) REST
12 18 (22.22%) .NET
12 18 (22.22%) TDD
12 18 (22.22%) Maven
13 17 (20.99%) ActionScript
13 17 (20.99%) Servlets
13 17 (20.99%) JMS
13 17 (20.99%) RDBMS
13 17 (20.99%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 17 (20.99%) AMQP
13 17 (20.99%) Windows Azure
14 16 (19.75%) PHP
14 16 (19.75%) J2EE
15 15 (18.52%) Ruby
15 15 (18.52%) PaaS
16 14 (17.28%) Heroku

Amazon EC2
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 36 (44.44%) Web Services
2 19 (23.46%) REST
3 18 (22.22%) .NET
4 17 (20.99%) Servlets
4 17 (20.99%) JMS
5 16 (19.75%) J2EE
6 14 (17.28%) RabbitMQ
6 14 (17.28%) Ruby on Rails
6 14 (17.28%) JSP
7 12 (14.81%) Visualforce
8 11 (13.58%) HTML
9 10 (12.35%) Spring
10 9 (11.11%) MapReduce
11 8 (9.877%) jQuery
11 8 (9.877%) Protocol Buffers
11 8 (9.877%) Kafka
11 8 (9.877%) ZeroMQ
11 8 (9.877%) NSQ
12 5 (6.173%) CSS
12 5 (6.173%) Symfony
Application Platforms
1 45 (55.56%) Amazon AWS
2 17 (20.99%) Windows Azure
3 14 (17.28%) Force.com
4 9 (11.11%) Apache Pig
4 9 (11.11%) Jetty
5 8 (9.877%) Amazon S3
5 8 (9.877%) OpenStack
6 5 (6.173%) Apache
7 3 (3.704%) Apache Solr
7 3 (3.704%) Rackspace Cloud
8 2 (2.469%) CloudStack
8 2 (2.469%) nginx
8 2 (2.469%) IIS
9 1 (1.235%) Tomcat
9 1 (1.235%) Drupal
9 1 (1.235%) Confluence
9 1 (1.235%) Amazon ELB
Applications
1 2 (2.469%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.235%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.235%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (2.469%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 17 (20.99%) AMQP
2 7 (8.642%) DNS
3 4 (4.938%) Extranet
4 3 (3.704%) Firewall
4 3 (3.704%) DHCP
4 3 (3.704%) TCP/IP
4 3 (3.704%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (38.27%) MySQL
2 27 (33.33%) NoSQL
3 17 (20.99%) RDBMS
4 11 (13.58%) Hadoop
4 11 (13.58%) Big Data
5 10 (12.35%) Apache Cassandra
6 9 (11.11%) Apache Hive
6 9 (11.11%) HBase
7 8 (9.877%) Data Mining
8 5 (6.173%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (2.469%) MongoDB
9 2 (2.469%) Redis
9 2 (2.469%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (2.469%) SQL Server
10 1 (1.235%) Riak
Development Applications
1 30 (37.04%) Git (software)
2 18 (22.22%) Maven
3 11 (13.58%) Jenkins
4 4 (4.938%) Subversion
5 2 (2.469%) GitHub
6 1 (1.235%) JIRA
6 1 (1.235%) PHPUnit
General
1 14 (17.28%) Investment Banking
1 14 (17.28%) Banking
2 11 (13.58%) Games
3 7 (8.642%) Finance
4 2 (2.469%) Music Industry
4 2 (2.469%) Marketing
5 1 (1.235%) Back Office
5 1 (1.235%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (41.98%) Developer
2 11 (13.58%) Systems Engineer
3 8 (9.877%) Ruby Developer
3 8 (9.877%) Big Data Developer
4 7 (8.642%) Senior Developer
4 7 (8.642%) Java Developer
4 7 (8.642%) .NET Developer
4 7 (8.642%) Server Engineer
5 5 (6.173%) Agile Java Developer
6 4 (4.938%) ASP.NET Developer
7 3 (3.704%) Web Developer
7 3 (3.704%) Architect
7 3 (3.704%) Operations Manager
7 3 (3.704%) Administrator
7 3 (3.704%) IT Operations Manager
7 3 (3.704%) Web Manager
7 3 (3.704%) Linux Administrator
7 3 (3.704%) Systems Manager
7 3 (3.704%) Agile .NET Developer
7 3 (3.704%) DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 15 (18.52%) PaaS
2 14 (17.28%) Heroku
2 14 (17.28%) Cloud Computing
2 14 (17.28%) SaaS
3 11 (13.58%) Open Source
4 9 (11.11%) Computer Science
5 8 (9.877%) Social Network
5 8 (9.877%) Statistics
6 7 (8.642%) Online Games
7 3 (3.704%) Mobile Games
7 3 (3.704%) Social Media
7 3 (3.704%) Social Gaming
8 2 (2.469%) IaaS
8 2 (2.469%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
8 2 (2.469%) Biology
8 2 (2.469%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.235%) N-Tier
9 1 (1.235%) Biotechnology
9 1 (1.235%) Taxonomies
9 1 (1.235%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 48 (59.26%) Linux
2 20 (24.69%) Windows
3 8 (9.877%) UNIX
4 4 (4.938%) Apple iOS
4 4 (4.938%) Android
4 4 (4.938%) Debian
5 3 (3.704%) Ubuntu
5 3 (3.704%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (3.704%) Mac OS X Server
6 2 (2.469%) Windows 7
6 2 (2.469%) CentOS
7 1 (1.235%) SUSE
7 1 (1.235%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (28.40%) Continuous Integration
2 20 (24.69%) SOA
3 18 (22.22%) TDD
4 17 (20.99%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 12 (14.81%) OOP
5 12 (14.81%) OO
6 10 (12.35%) Agile Software Development
7 9 (11.11%) MVC
8 8 (9.877%) Multithreading
8 8 (9.877%) Complex Event Processing
9 5 (6.173%) Disaster Recovery
9 5 (6.173%) E-Commerce
9 5 (6.173%) Scrum
9 5 (6.173%) Business Continuity
10 4 (4.938%) Configuration Management
11 3 (3.704%) Network Design
11 3 (3.704%) Game Development
11 3 (3.704%) Analytics
12 2 (2.469%) Network Management
12 2 (2.469%) Email Marketing
Programming Languages
1 43 (53.09%) Java
2 28 (34.57%) JavaScript
3 20 (24.69%) SQL
4 19 (23.46%) Python
4 19 (23.46%) C#
5 17 (20.99%) ActionScript
6 16 (19.75%) PHP
7 15 (18.52%) Ruby
8 13 (16.05%) Bash shell
9 12 (14.81%) Apex Code
9 12 (14.81%) Perl
10 8 (9.877%) Erlang
10 8 (9.877%) Scala
10 8 (9.877%) AspectJ
10 8 (9.877%) C++
11 2 (2.469%) Shell Script
12 1 (1.235%) C-shell
12 1 (1.235%) Golang
Qualifications
1 11 (13.58%) Degree
2 1 (1.235%) RHCE
System Software
1 11 (13.58%) Xen
2 8 (9.877%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (3.704%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.469%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.235%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.235%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 8 (9.877%) Puppet
2 2 (2.469%) Ganglia
3 1 (1.235%) Nagios
3 1 (1.235%) Zenoss
3 1 (1.235%) SCCM
3 1 (1.235%) Splunk
Vendors
1 14 (17.28%) Google
2 7 (8.642%) Rackspace
3 6 (7.407%) Microsoft
4 5 (6.173%) Cisco
5 4 (4.938%) Twitter
6 3 (3.704%) Juniper
6 3 (3.704%) Oracle
6 3 (3.704%) Brocade
6 3 (3.704%) VMware
6 3 (3.704%) Zend
7 2 (2.469%) SonicWALL
7 2 (2.469%) NETGEAR
7 2 (2.469%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.469%) Citrix
8 1 (1.235%) Salesforce.com
8 1 (1.235%) Joyent
8 1 (1.235%) Hortonworks
8 1 (1.235%) Cloudera
City, London
Lead JAVA Developer / Architect - Java, J2EE, Spring, MySQL, Hibernate - London, Permanent 75k... Lead JAVA Developer / Architect - Java, J2EE, Spring, MySQL, Hibernate My client is currently undertaking a project...
Resource Partners Limited
Salary: £55000 - £75000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
City of London
Primarily you will Administrate and maintain all in-house operational support systems and infrastructure services such a web/email services, DNS, authentication servers and other operational tools. Ensure...
clearedgeconsulting
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
City of London
You'll have intimate knowledge of constructing highly available and scalable infrastructures (especially for interacting with mobile devices) running in the Amazon EC2 environment across multiple regions and...
DP Connect Ltd
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum
Posted: 28 May 2013
City, London
Experience of Test Driven Development and Behaviour Driven Development would be an advantage - Experience in other open source technologies such as Memcached, Varnish, Apache SOLR, MongoDB, ActiveMQ or...
Consulting Point
Salary: £60000 - £70000 per annum + benefits package
Posted: 14 June 2013
City of London
You'll have intimate knowledge of constructing highly available and scalable infrastructures (especially for interacting with mobile devices) running in the Amazon EC2 environment across multiple regions and...
DP Connect Ltd
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 28 May 2013
City of London
DP Connect Ltd
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 28 May 2013
City of London
clearedgeconsulting
Salary: £60000 - £80000 per annum + bonus
Posted: 12 June 2013
City of London
clearedgeconsulting
Salary: £90000 - £110000 per annum + bonus
Posted: 12 June 2013
City, London
Client Server
Salary: £45k to £55k + benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013