The first table below looks at the demand for Rackspace Cloud skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Rackspace Cloud over the 3 months to 21 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.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Rackspace Cloud
Rank 823 885 866
Rank change year-on-year
+62 -19
Permanent jobs citing Rackspace Cloud 37 2 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.034% 0.002% 0.004%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.159% 0.008% 0.021%
Number of salaries quoted 20 2 5
Average salary £52,500 £50,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.00% +66.66%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 - -
All Application Platforms
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
23261 24865 23288
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 21.41% 20.52% 19.08%
Number of salaries quoted 19764 21620 20058
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -

Rackspace Cloud
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Rackspace Cloud within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Rackspace Cloud Jobs Demand Trend

Rackspace Cloud
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Rackspace Cloud within the UK.

Rackspace Cloud Salary Trend

Rackspace Cloud
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Rackspace Cloud over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 within the UK.

Rackspace Cloud Salary Histogram

Rackspace Cloud
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Rackspace Cloud within the UK over the 3 months to 21 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
England +43 36 £52,500 +5.00%
London +60 31 £52,500 +5.00%
South East - 5 £40,000 -
Feltham - 4 £56,000 -
Middlesex - 3 - -
City of London - 3 £52,500 -
Surrey - 2 £40,000 -
Farnham - 2 £40,000 -
Twickenham - 1 £57,500 -

Rackspace Cloud
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Rackspace Cloud 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 Rackspace Cloud.

1 74 (100.00%) Linux
2 51 (68.92%) Red Hat
3 46 (62.16%) Amazon EC2
3 46 (62.16%) Amazon AWS
4 42 (56.76%) Rackspace
5 37 (50.00%) Web Services
6 33 (44.59%) UNIX
7 29 (39.19%) Java
7 29 (39.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 27 (36.49%) Ruby
8 27 (36.49%) MySQL
8 27 (36.49%) Apache
8 27 (36.49%) DNS
9 26 (35.14%) SUSE
10 25 (33.78%) SSH
11 24 (32.43%) Perl
12 23 (31.08%) Oracle
12 23 (31.08%) MongoDB
13 22 (29.73%) Puppet
13 22 (29.73%) Redis
13 22 (29.73%) Samba
13 22 (29.73%) Solaris
13 22 (29.73%) NFS
13 22 (29.73%) Sun
13 22 (29.73%) Sendmail
14 21 (28.38%) Git (software)
14 21 (28.38%) VMware
14 21 (28.38%) StorageTek
14 21 (28.38%) E-Commerce
15 20 (27.03%) Windows

Rackspace Cloud
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Rackspace Cloud 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 Rackspace Cloud. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 37 (50.00%) Web Services
2 19 (25.68%) Ruby on Rails
3 17 (22.97%) J2EE
4 16 (21.62%) jQuery
5 15 (20.27%) ASP.NET MVC 4
5 15 (20.27%) KnockoutJS
5 15 (20.27%) ASP.NET MVC
5 15 (20.27%) .NET
5 15 (20.27%) ASP.NET
5 15 (20.27%) CSS
6 14 (18.92%) HTML
6 14 (18.92%) Ajax
6 14 (18.92%) Velocity
7 4 (5.405%) Middleware
7 4 (5.405%) LAMP
8 2 (2.703%) REST
8 2 (2.703%) Haml
8 2 (2.703%) Sass
9 1 (1.351%) Memcached
9 1 (1.351%) DOM
Application Platforms
1 46 (62.16%) Amazon EC2
1 46 (62.16%) Amazon AWS
2 27 (36.49%) Apache
3 16 (21.62%) Tomcat
4 5 (6.757%) nginx
5 3 (4.054%) OpenStack
6 2 (2.703%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.351%) Pressflow
7 1 (1.351%) Windows Azure
7 1 (1.351%) Google App Engine
7 1 (1.351%) Drupal
Communications & Networking
1 27 (36.49%) DNS
2 25 (33.78%) SSH
3 20 (27.03%) BIG-IP
4 4 (5.405%) LDAP
4 4 (5.405%) HTTP
4 4 (5.405%) Kerberos
5 3 (4.054%) SMTP
5 3 (4.054%) FTP
6 1 (1.351%) Network Security
6 1 (1.351%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (1.351%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (36.49%) MySQL
2 23 (31.08%) MongoDB
3 22 (29.73%) Redis
4 19 (25.68%) NoSQL
5 3 (4.054%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (2.703%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.351%) Big Data
7 1 (1.351%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.351%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.351%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 21 (28.38%) Git (software)
2 15 (20.27%) SpecFlow
2 15 (20.27%) TeamCity
3 4 (5.405%) Subversion
3 4 (5.405%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.703%) RSpec
4 2 (2.703%) Capistrano
4 2 (2.703%) Capybara
5 1 (1.351%) QUnit
5 1 (1.351%) WebDriver
5 1 (1.351%) NUnit
5 1 (1.351%) JMeter
5 1 (1.351%) Visual Studio
General
1 17 (22.97%) Back Office
2 15 (20.27%) Retail
3 3 (4.054%) Marketing
3 3 (4.054%) Games
Job Titles
1 26 (35.14%) Administrator
2 25 (33.78%) Linux Administrator
3 22 (29.73%) Systems Administrator
4 21 (28.38%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 21 (28.38%) Developer
5 18 (24.32%) Team Leader
6 12 (16.22%) Senior Linux Administrator
7 9 (12.16%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
7 9 (12.16%) UNIX Team Leader
7 9 (12.16%) Senior Systems Administrator
8 6 (8.108%) Systems Manager
9 5 (6.757%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (5.405%) Senior Developer
11 2 (2.703%) Software Developer
12 1 (1.351%) Storage Systems Administrator
12 1 (1.351%) Ruby Developer
12 1 (1.351%) Drupal Developer
12 1 (1.351%) Linux Engineer
12 1 (1.351%) Infrastructure Team Leader
12 1 (1.351%) Senior Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 17 (22.97%) Clustering
1 17 (22.97%) Replication
2 16 (21.62%) Mobile App
3 14 (18.92%) Open Source
3 14 (18.92%) Blog
4 6 (8.108%) Digital Media
5 5 (6.757%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (4.054%) Online Games
7 2 (2.703%) Heroku
7 2 (2.703%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (1.351%) SaaS
8 1 (1.351%) PaaS
8 1 (1.351%) Taxonomies
8 1 (1.351%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 74 (100.00%) Linux
2 33 (44.59%) UNIX
3 29 (39.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 26 (35.14%) SUSE
5 22 (29.73%) Solaris
6 20 (27.03%) Windows
6 20 (27.03%) CentOS
7 18 (24.32%) Debian
7 18 (24.32%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (28.38%) E-Commerce
2 18 (24.32%) Configuration Management
2 18 (24.32%) TDD
3 16 (21.62%) Agile Software Development
4 15 (20.27%) BDD
4 15 (20.27%) Continuous Integration
4 15 (20.27%) Pair Programming
4 15 (20.27%) MVC
4 15 (20.27%) Service Management
5 14 (18.92%) Business Continuity
5 14 (18.92%) Capacity Planning
5 14 (18.92%) Mobile Application Development
6 12 (16.22%) ITIL
7 11 (14.86%) Knowledge Management
7 11 (14.86%) Root Cause Analysis
8 3 (4.054%) Business Development
9 2 (2.703%) Migration
9 2 (2.703%) Change Control
10 1 (1.351%) Analytics
10 1 (1.351%) Information Architecture
Programming Languages
1 29 (39.19%) Java
2 27 (36.49%) Ruby
3 24 (32.43%) Perl
4 19 (25.68%) JavaScript
5 16 (21.62%) C#
5 16 (21.62%) SQL
6 14 (18.92%) PHP
7 9 (12.16%) Python
8 5 (6.757%) Shell Script
9 3 (4.054%) C
9 3 (4.054%) C++
10 2 (2.703%) CoffeeScript
11 1 (1.351%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 1 (1.351%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (20.27%) QA
2 5 (6.757%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (29.73%) Samba
1 22 (29.73%) NFS
1 22 (29.73%) Sendmail
2 20 (27.03%) Xen
3 4 (5.405%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.405%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (4.054%) qmail
4 3 (4.054%) Postfix
5 1 (1.351%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 22 (29.73%) Puppet
Vendors
1 51 (68.92%) Red Hat
2 42 (56.76%) Rackspace
3 23 (31.08%) Oracle
4 22 (29.73%) Sun
5 21 (28.38%) VMware
5 21 (28.38%) StorageTek
6 16 (21.62%) F5
7 15 (20.27%) Isilon
7 15 (20.27%) NetApp
8 12 (16.22%) Cisco
9 1 (1.351%) Google
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