The first table below looks at the demand for Amazon EC2 skills in IT jobs advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Amazon EC2 over the 3 months to 17 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 Glasgow region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
Rank 92 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 3 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Glasgow 0.261% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.316% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Average salary £35,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £38,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+18.42% +8.57%
All Application Platforms
Glasgow
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
228 164 163
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Glasgow 19.83% 19.52% 16.77%
Number of salaries quoted 132 136 121
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,100 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £51,900 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
Amazon EC2
Scotland

Amazon EC2
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow Amazon EC2 Salary Trend

Amazon EC2
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Glasgow 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 9 (90.00%) Java
1 9 (90.00%) PHP
1 9 (90.00%) Internet
1 9 (90.00%) Games
1 9 (90.00%) TDD
1 9 (90.00%) Degree
2 6 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (50.00%) Puppet
3 5 (50.00%) Web Testing
3 5 (50.00%) Test Scripting
3 5 (50.00%) QA
3 5 (50.00%) Selenium
3 5 (50.00%) Scrum
3 5 (50.00%) Ant
4 4 (40.00%) EJB
4 4 (40.00%) Python
4 4 (40.00%) JUnit
4 4 (40.00%) MySQL
4 4 (40.00%) Oracle
4 4 (40.00%) SQL
4 4 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (40.00%) Hibernate
4 4 (40.00%) Web Development
4 4 (40.00%) EasyMock
4 4 (40.00%) PowerMock
5 1 (10.00%) Facebook
5 1 (10.00%) Umbraco
5 1 (10.00%) Git (software)
5 1 (10.00%) Windows Azure

Amazon EC2
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Glasgow 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 4 (40.00%) EJB
1 4 (40.00%) Hibernate
1 4 (40.00%) PowerMock
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (10.00%) YUI
2 1 (10.00%) jQuery
2 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) CMS
1 1 (10.00%) Umbraco
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Azure
Communications & Networking
1 9 (90.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) MySQL
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Ant
1 5 (50.00%) Selenium
1 5 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (40.00%) EasyMock
2 4 (40.00%) JUnit
3 1 (10.00%) Subversion
3 1 (10.00%) Git (software)
General
1 9 (90.00%) Games
2 1 (10.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Tester
1 5 (50.00%) Developer
1 5 (50.00%) Software Tester
1 5 (50.00%) Senior Tester
1 5 (50.00%) Senior Software Tester
2 4 (40.00%) Software Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Java Software Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Lead Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) TDD
2 6 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (50.00%) Scrum
3 5 (50.00%) Web Testing
3 5 (50.00%) Test Scripting
4 4 (40.00%) Web Development
4 4 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (10.00%) Content Management
5 1 (10.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Java
1 9 (90.00%) PHP
2 4 (40.00%) SQL
2 4 (40.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 9 (90.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Facebook