The first table below looks at the demand for Amazon EC2 skills in IT jobs advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Amazon EC2 over the 3 months to 23 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 North West region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
Rank 244 227 232
Rank change year-on-year
-17 +5
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 5 9 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.070% 0.126% 0.072%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.362% 0.583% 0.381%
Number of salaries quoted 4 9 5
Average salary £47,500 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+26.66% -6.25%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+20.00% +7.14%
All Application Platforms
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
1380 1545 1311
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 19.31% 21.71% 18.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1173 1370 1192
Average salary £37,500 £33,500 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.94% -9.45%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £23,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £55,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
Amazon EC2
England

Amazon EC2
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 23 May 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
Manchester -16 5 £47,500 +26.66%
Amazon EC2
England

Amazon EC2
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 18 (90.00%) Apache
1 18 (90.00%) DNS
1 18 (90.00%) VMware
1 18 (90.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 18 (90.00%) Bash shell
2 12 (60.00%) Windows
3 10 (50.00%) Linux
3 10 (50.00%) DHCP
3 10 (50.00%) Python
3 10 (50.00%) E-Commerce
3 10 (50.00%) Perl
3 10 (50.00%) PHP
3 10 (50.00%) IIS
3 10 (50.00%) Web Services
3 10 (50.00%) ITIL
3 10 (50.00%) RHCT
3 10 (50.00%) CCNA
3 10 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (50.00%) RHCE
3 10 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 10 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 10 (50.00%) Incident Management
4 8 (40.00%) Load Balancing
4 8 (40.00%) Postfix
4 8 (40.00%) Puppet
4 8 (40.00%) MongoDB
4 8 (40.00%) Apache Cassandra
4 8 (40.00%) NoSQL
4 8 (40.00%) VirtualBox
4 8 (40.00%) Hudson

Amazon EC2
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 10 (50.00%) Web Services
2 8 (40.00%) J2EE
3 1 (5.000%) COM
Application Platforms
1 18 (90.00%) Apache
2 10 (50.00%) IIS
3 8 (40.00%) Amazon AWS
3 8 (40.00%) Amazon ELB
4 2 (10.00%) MS Exchange
4 2 (10.00%) Windows Azure
5 1 (5.000%) Lync
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Office 365
2 1 (5.000%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 18 (90.00%) DNS
2 10 (50.00%) DHCP
3 8 (40.00%) Firewall
4 1 (5.000%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (40.00%) MongoDB
1 8 (40.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 8 (40.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (40.00%) Hudson
1 8 (40.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (5.000%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 10 (50.00%) Linux Administrator
1 10 (50.00%) Administrator
1 10 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
2 8 (40.00%) Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) Support Consultant
4 1 (5.000%) IT Support
4 1 (5.000%) IT Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 8 (40.00%) Open Source
1 8 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.000%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 12 (60.00%) Windows
2 10 (50.00%) Linux
2 10 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 10 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 8 (40.00%) Ubuntu
3 8 (40.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 10 (50.00%) ITIL
1 10 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 8 (40.00%) Load Balancing
2 8 (40.00%) E-business
3 6 (30.00%) B2C
4 1 (5.000%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 18 (90.00%) Bash shell
2 10 (50.00%) Python
2 10 (50.00%) Perl
2 10 (50.00%) PHP
3 8 (40.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (50.00%) RHCT
1 10 (50.00%) CCNA
1 10 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 10 (50.00%) RHCE
2 2 (10.00%) MCITP
System Software
1 18 (90.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (40.00%) Postfix
2 8 (40.00%) VirtualBox
3 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (40.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (90.00%) VMware
2 8 (40.00%) Oracle
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft