The first table below looks at the demand for SimpleDB skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SimpleDB over the 3 months to 20 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 Database & Business Intelligence category.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Amazon SimpleDB
Rank 853 906 848
Rank change year-on-year
+53 -58
Permanent jobs citing SimpleDB 6 6 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.006% 0.005% 0.013%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.018% 0.017% 0.045%
Number of salaries quoted 6 6 16
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -27.27%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £40,000 -
% change year-on-year
+6.25% -
All Database & Business Intelligence
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
33257 35969 35480
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 30.98% 29.70% 29.15%
Number of salaries quoted 28772 31849 30843
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £29,000 £28,500
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% -

SimpleDB
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing SimpleDB within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

SimpleDB Jobs Demand Trend

SimpleDB
Salary Trend

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

SimpleDB Salary Trend

SimpleDB
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SimpleDB within the UK over the 3 months to 20 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 +26 6 £42,500 +6.25%
Yorkshire - 5 £42,500 -
North Yorkshire - 5 £42,500 -
York - 5 £42,500 -
East of England - 1 £35,000 -
Norwich - 1 £35,000 -
Norfolk - 1 £35,000 -

SimpleDB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing SimpleDB 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 SimpleDB.

1 8 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 8 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 8 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
2 5 (62.50%) Java
2 5 (62.50%) Linux
3 3 (37.50%) MSMQ
3 3 (37.50%) XHTML
3 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 3 (37.50%) SQL
3 3 (37.50%) .NET
3 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
3 3 (37.50%) IIS
3 3 (37.50%) ASP.NET
3 3 (37.50%) CSS
3 3 (37.50%) C#
3 3 (37.50%) Load Balancing
3 3 (37.50%) CloudFront
3 3 (37.50%) AppFabric
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon AWS
4 2 (25.00%) MySQL
4 2 (25.00%) Tomcat
5 1 (12.50%) Python
5 1 (12.50%) Apache
5 1 (12.50%) Web Services
5 1 (12.50%) vSphere
5 1 (12.50%) Web Application Development
5 1 (12.50%) LAMP
5 1 (12.50%) VMware
5 1 (12.50%) VMware ESX

SimpleDB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (37.50%) .NET
1 3 (37.50%) ASP.NET
1 3 (37.50%) CSS
1 3 (37.50%) XHTML
1 3 (37.50%) AppFabric
2 1 (12.50%) LAMP
2 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 8 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 8 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 8 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
2 3 (37.50%) CloudFront
2 3 (37.50%) IIS
2 3 (37.50%) MSMQ
3 2 (25.00%) Tomcat
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon AWS
4 1 (12.50%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (25.00%) MySQL
General
1 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Systems Administrator
1 5 (62.50%) Administrator
2 3 (37.50%) Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Web Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Developer
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Load Balancing
2 1 (12.50%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Java
2 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 3 (37.50%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) Python
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) VMware ESX
1 1 (12.50%) vSphere
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) VMware