The first table below looks at the demand for Windows Azure skills in IT jobs advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows Azure 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 Hertfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows Azure
Rank 136 - 164
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Windows Azure 8 0 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.326% - 0.091%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.646% - 0.462%
Number of salaries quoted 8 0 3
Average salary £95,000 - £32,500
UK excluding London average salary £44,500 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year
-11.00% -16.66%
All Application Platforms
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
486 601 650
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 19.80% 24.00% 19.79%
Number of salaries quoted 412 443 487
Average salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.88% -5.55%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,250 £28,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
Windows Azure
East of England

Windows Azure
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire Windows Azure Jobs Demand Trend

Windows Azure
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Windows Azure across the Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Windows Azure Salary Trend

Windows Azure
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Windows Azure across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Hertfordshire Windows Azure Salary Histogram

Windows Azure
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Windows Azure 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 Windows Azure.

1 9 (75.00%) .NET
1 9 (75.00%) MVC
1 9 (75.00%) Scrum
1 9 (75.00%) TDD
1 9 (75.00%) BDD
2 7 (58.33%) Amazon AWS
3 5 (41.67%) Rhino Mocks
3 5 (41.67%) Scala
3 5 (41.67%) Zachman Framework
3 5 (41.67%) TOGAF
3 5 (41.67%) Spring
3 5 (41.67%) WCF
3 5 (41.67%) WPF
3 5 (41.67%) Kanban
3 5 (41.67%) Hibernate
3 5 (41.67%) UML
3 5 (41.67%) J2EE
3 5 (41.67%) Java
3 5 (41.67%) SOA
4 4 (33.33%) SQL
4 4 (33.33%) ASP.NET
4 4 (33.33%) CSS
4 4 (33.33%) C#
4 4 (33.33%) E-Commerce
4 4 (33.33%) Law
4 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
4 4 (33.33%) TeamCity
4 4 (33.33%) Git (software)
4 4 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
4 4 (33.33%) jQuery

Windows Azure
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Windows Azure 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 Windows Azure. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (75.00%) .NET
2 5 (41.67%) J2EE
2 5 (41.67%) Hibernate
2 5 (41.67%) Spring
2 5 (41.67%) WCF
2 5 (41.67%) WPF
3 4 (33.33%) jQuery
3 4 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
3 4 (33.33%) Node.js
3 4 (33.33%) CSS3
3 4 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 4 (33.33%) CSS
4 3 (25.00%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 7 (58.33%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 3 (25.00%) MS Office
1 3 (25.00%) MS Excel
1 3 (25.00%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) LAN
1 3 (25.00%) WAN
1 3 (25.00%) Internet
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Rhino Mocks
2 4 (33.33%) Subversion
2 4 (33.33%) Selenium
2 4 (33.33%) TeamCity
2 4 (33.33%) Git (software)
General
1 4 (33.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Architect
1 5 (41.67%) Solutions Architect
1 5 (41.67%) Lead Architect
1 5 (41.67%) Lead Solutions Architect
2 4 (33.33%) ScrumMaster
2 4 (33.33%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Lead Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Technical Specialist
3 3 (25.00%) Technical Support Specialist
3 3 (25.00%) Technical Support
3 3 (25.00%) Support Specialist
4 2 (16.67%) 1st Line Support
4 2 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) MVC
1 9 (75.00%) Scrum
1 9 (75.00%) TDD
1 9 (75.00%) BDD
2 5 (41.67%) SOA
2 5 (41.67%) UML
2 5 (41.67%) Kanban
2 5 (41.67%) Zachman Framework
2 5 (41.67%) TOGAF
3 4 (33.33%) Web Development
3 4 (33.33%) Refactoring
3 4 (33.33%) Pair Programming
3 4 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
3 4 (33.33%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) Java
1 5 (41.67%) Scala
2 4 (33.33%) Clojure
2 4 (33.33%) C#
2 4 (33.33%) SQL
2 4 (33.33%) Ruby
2 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) MCP
1 3 (25.00%) MCSE
1 3 (25.00%) MCSA
1 3 (25.00%) CCNA
1 3 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (25.00%) MCTS
1 3 (25.00%) MCITP
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Cisco
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft