Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 23 July 2017

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Cloud Computing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Computing over the 6 months to 23 July 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Cloud Computing
UK
6 months to
23 Jul 2017		 Same period 2016 Same period 2015
Rank 416 422 471
Rank change year-on-year +6 +49 +45
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 1266 1455 1365
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK 0.71% 0.72% 0.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.32% 6.09% 7.09%
Number of salaries quoted 948 1180 1044
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median salary % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £31,250
90th Percentile £86,250 £83,750 £79,850
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year - +3.09% +2.11%

Cloud Computing is in the cloud computing skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Cloud Computing Skills
UK
Permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 29309 23877 19259
As % of all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK 16.52% 11.80% 8.70%
Number of salaries quoted 24145 20151 15527
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median salary % change year-on-year - +5.26% -
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,500 £27,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £76,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £44,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +2.27% +3.53% +6.25%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cloud Computing as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Computing in the UK

Cloud Computing
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cloud Computing in the UK

Cloud Computing
Salary Histogram

The salary distribution of IT jobs citing Cloud Computing over the 6 months to 23 July 2017.

Salary histogram for Cloud Computing in the UK

Cloud Computing
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Computing within the UK over the 6 months to 23 July 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads		 Median Salary
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Job
Vacancies
England +9 1197 £55,000 - 122
London +28 642 £65,000 +8.33% 79
UK excluding London -13 609 £50,000 - 53
South East +12 223 £49,000 -10.91% 20
East of England -13 112 £50,000 - 10
North of England -6 99 £42,500 -5.56% 5
Midlands +4 69 £47,500 -13.64% 5
South West +30 54 £47,500 +11.76% 3
North West -54 51 £37,500 -21.88% 2
Scotland +42 49 £55,000 +22.22% 10
Yorkshire +31 42 £45,000 - 2
West Midlands -5 35 £47,500 -13.64% 2
East Midlands +22 31 £42,500 -5.56% 3
North East +15 6 £39,000 -10.82% 1
Wales -3 5 £35,000 -12.50%

For the 6 months to 23 July 2017, IT jobs citing Cloud Computing also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all job ads with a requirement for Cloud Computing.

1 447 (35.31%) Amazon AWS
2 385 (30.41%) Agile Software Development
3 372 (29.38%) Microsoft Azure
4 339 (26.78%) Java
5 312 (24.64%) Windows
6 310 (24.49%) Microsoft
7 288 (22.75%) Linux
8 283 (22.35%) SQL
9 280 (22.12%) JavaScript
10 255 (20.14%) Degree
11 233 (18.40%) SQL Server
12 221 (17.46%) Python
13 210 (16.59%) DevOps
14 208 (16.43%) Web Services
15 206 (16.27%) Software Engineering
16 205 (16.19%) VMware
17 204 (16.11%) Finance
18 195 (15.40%) CSS
19 178 (14.06%) Big Data
20 175 (13.82%) Continuous Integration
21 172 (13.59%) HTML
22 168 (13.27%) C#
23 165 (13.03%) Data Centre
24 164 (12.95%) .NET
24 164 (12.95%) Computer Science
25 162 (12.80%) Analytical Skills
26 159 (12.56%) Windows Server
26 159 (12.56%) NoSQL
26 159 (12.56%) ITIL
27 153 (12.09%) AngularJS

Cloud Computing
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 86 (6.79%) Elasticsearch
2 70 (5.53%) SharePoint
3 53 (4.19%) Apache
4 51 (4.03%) Tomcat
5 48 (3.79%) Apache Spark
6 41 (3.24%) MS Exchange
7 39 (3.08%) IIS
8 32 (2.53%) Skype for Business
9 31 (2.45%) SharePoint 2013
10 29 (2.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 26 (2.05%) OpenStack
12 22 (1.74%) SAS
13 21 (1.66%) Exchange Server 2010
13 21 (1.66%) WebLogic
14 18 (1.42%) nginx
15 17 (1.34%) Ethereum
15 17 (1.34%) Hyperledger
15 17 (1.34%) JBoss
16 16 (1.26%) Exchange Server 2013
16 16 (1.26%) WebSphere
Applications
1 49 (3.87%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (2.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (1.66%) Photoshop
4 20 (1.58%) SPSS
5 6 (0.47%) Camtasia
6 4 (0.32%) Abaqus
6 4 (0.32%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 2 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.16%) InVision
9 1 (0.079%) LaTeX
9 1 (0.079%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.63%) Salesforce.com CRM
3 7 (0.55%) Eloqua
3 7 (0.55%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.47%) Dynamics AX
4 6 (0.47%) Magento
5 5 (0.39%) Oracle Applications
5 5 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.39%) Oracle Retail
6 4 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.16%) BASE24
7 2 (0.16%) R3 Corda
7 2 (0.16%) RMDS
8 1 (0.079%) Oracle CRM
8 1 (0.079%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.079%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 447 (35.31%) Amazon AWS
2 372 (29.38%) Microsoft Azure
3 134 (10.58%) SaaS
4 97 (7.66%) Office 365
5 81 (6.40%) IaaS
6 65 (5.13%) PaaS
7 49 (3.87%) GitHub
8 34 (2.69%) Google Cloud Platform
9 17 (1.34%) Amazon EC2
10 15 (1.18%) Force.com
11 13 (1.03%) Slack
11 13 (1.03%) Sumo Logic
12 12 (0.95%) Azure Active Directory
12 12 (0.95%) Loggly
13 11 (0.87%) G Suite
13 11 (0.87%) Google App Engine
14 8 (0.63%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (0.55%) Adobe Analytics
16 5 (0.39%) Amazon S3
16 5 (0.39%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 121 (9.56%) Firewall
2 87 (6.87%) Internet
3 79 (6.24%) TCP/IP
4 71 (5.61%) WAN
5 70 (5.53%) LAN
6 57 (4.50%) DNS
7 41 (3.24%) VPN
8 40 (3.16%) VoIP
9 36 (2.84%) Wireless
10 33 (2.61%) SAN
11 32 (2.53%) Network Security
12 31 (2.45%) Skype
13 30 (2.37%) DHCP
14 27 (2.13%) NetScaler
15 26 (2.05%) HTTP
16 23 (1.82%) SSL
17 20 (1.58%) IPsec
17 20 (1.58%) SNMP
18 14 (1.11%) SMTP
19 13 (1.03%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 233 (18.40%) SQL Server
2 178 (14.06%) Big Data
3 159 (12.56%) NoSQL
4 96 (7.58%) Hadoop
5 89 (7.03%) MySQL
6 78 (6.16%) MongoDB
7 57 (4.50%) Relational Database
8 47 (3.71%) PostgreSQL
8 47 (3.71%) Redis
9 41 (3.24%) Apache Cassandra
10 30 (2.37%) RDBMS
11 29 (2.29%) HBase
12 27 (2.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 26 (2.05%) Blockchain
14 25 (1.97%) Apache Hive
15 24 (1.90%) SQL Server 2016
16 21 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
16 21 (1.66%) InfluxDB
16 21 (1.66%) SQL Server 2012
17 19 (1.50%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 110 (8.69%) Git (software)
2 90 (7.11%) Jenkins
3 67 (5.29%) Team Foundation Server
4 50 (3.95%) Maven
5 42 (3.32%) Visual Studio
6 37 (2.92%) Subversion
7 34 (2.69%) Selenium
8 30 (2.37%) JUnit
8 30 (2.37%) Vagrant
9 25 (1.97%) PHPUnit
10 23 (1.82%) JIRA
11 21 (1.66%) TeamCity
12 20 (1.58%) Cucumber
13 15 (1.18%) Babel
13 15 (1.18%) NUnit
13 15 (1.18%) webpack
14 14 (1.11%) Eclipse
15 13 (1.03%) SpecFlow
16 12 (0.95%) Ant
16 12 (0.95%) JMeter
General
1 204 (16.11%) Finance
2 98 (7.74%) Retail
3 64 (5.06%) Telecoms
4 61 (4.82%) Marketing
5 41 (3.24%) Advertising
5 41 (3.24%) Manufacturing
6 40 (3.16%) Banking
7 33 (2.61%) Electronics
8 30 (2.37%) Publishing
9 18 (1.42%) Games
10 17 (1.34%) Legal
11 14 (1.11%) Billing
11 14 (1.11%) Law
12 7 (0.55%) Multimedia
13 5 (0.39%) Front Office
13 5 (0.39%) Retail Banking
14 4 (0.32%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.32%) Prime Brokerage
15 3 (0.24%) Automotive
15 3 (0.24%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 309 (24.41%) Developer
2 255 (20.14%) Architect
3 106 (8.37%) Java Developer
4 87 (6.87%) Analyst
5 82 (6.48%) Senior Developer
6 80 (6.32%) Solutions Architect
7 78 (6.16%) Software Engineer
8 73 (5.77%) Consultant
9 61 (4.82%) .NET Developer
10 57 (4.50%) Cloud Architect
11 54 (4.27%) Technical Architect
12 51 (4.03%) JavaScript Developer
13 47 (3.71%) Software Developer
14 46 (3.63%) Graduate
15 43 (3.40%) Cloud Engineer
16 42 (3.32%) DevOps Engineer
17 41 (3.24%) Infrastructure Manager
17 41 (3.24%) Support Analyst
18 37 (2.92%) Enterprise Architect
19 36 (2.84%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 208 (16.43%) Web Services
2 195 (15.40%) CSS
3 172 (13.59%) HTML
4 164 (12.95%) .NET
5 153 (12.09%) AngularJS
6 96 (7.58%) REST
7 93 (7.35%) ASP.NET
8 80 (6.32%) Node.js
8 80 (6.32%) XML
9 78 (6.16%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 77 (6.08%) HTML5
11 76 (6.00%) jQuery
12 74 (5.85%) JSON
12 74 (5.85%) Spring
13 73 (5.77%) RESTful
14 70 (5.53%) ASP.NET Web API
15 54 (4.27%) CSS3
16 50 (3.95%) React
17 43 (3.40%) .NET Framework
17 43 (3.40%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 165 (13.03%) Data Centre
2 164 (12.95%) Computer Science
3 162 (12.80%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (6.40%) Management Information System
5 57 (4.50%) Enterprise Software
6 43 (3.40%) Public Cloud
7 41 (3.24%) Algorithms
7 41 (3.24%) Hybrid Cloud
8 39 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
8 39 (3.08%) Internet of Things
9 38 (3.00%) Client/Server
9 38 (3.00%) User Experience
10 36 (2.84%) N-Tier
11 29 (2.29%) Digital Media
12 28 (2.21%) Data Structures
13 27 (2.13%) Private Cloud
14 24 (1.90%) Mobile App
15 20 (1.58%) Life Science
15 20 (1.58%) Linux Command Line
16 17 (1.34%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 312 (24.64%) Windows
2 288 (22.75%) Linux
3 159 (12.56%) Windows Server
4 88 (6.95%) Unix
5 52 (4.11%) Windows Server 2012
6 44 (3.48%) Android
6 44 (3.48%) Windows Server 2008
7 36 (2.84%) CentOS
8 28 (2.21%) Apple iOS
9 25 (1.97%) Ubuntu
10 22 (1.74%) Windows 10
10 22 (1.74%) Windows 7
11 19 (1.50%) Debian
11 19 (1.50%) Windows Mobile
12 15 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 15 (1.18%) Windows Server 2003
13 10 (0.79%) Data ONTAP
14 5 (0.39%) Embedded Linux
14 5 (0.39%) Mac OS
15 4 (0.32%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 385 (30.41%) Agile Software Development
2 210 (16.59%) DevOps
3 206 (16.27%) Software Engineering
4 175 (13.82%) Continuous Integration
5 159 (12.56%) ITIL
6 142 (11.22%) Test Automation
7 140 (11.06%) TDD
8 130 (10.27%) Analytics
9 123 (9.72%) Scrum
10 119 (9.40%) MVC
11 110 (8.69%) Presales
12 107 (8.45%) Open Source
13 101 (7.98%) Business Intelligence
14 100 (7.90%) TOGAF
15 98 (7.74%) SOA
16 95 (7.50%) Project Management
17 84 (6.64%) Mentoring
17 84 (6.64%) OO
18 81 (6.40%) Microservices
19 74 (5.85%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 339 (26.78%) Java
2 283 (22.35%) SQL
3 280 (22.12%) JavaScript
4 221 (17.46%) Python
5 168 (13.27%) C#
6 101 (7.98%) C++
7 84 (6.64%) PHP
8 82 (6.48%) C
8 82 (6.48%) PowerShell
9 61 (4.82%) Perl
10 46 (3.63%) Bash Shell
11 44 (3.48%) Scala
12 36 (2.84%) Ruby
13 33 (2.61%) T-SQL
14 31 (2.45%) R
15 29 (2.29%) VBA
16 22 (1.74%) Go
17 19 (1.50%) Shell Script
18 17 (1.34%) ES6
18 17 (1.34%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 255 (20.14%) Degree
2 82 (6.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 57 (4.50%) Security Cleared
4 39 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
5 36 (2.84%) SC Cleared
6 24 (1.90%) ITIL Certification
7 22 (1.74%) Master's Degree
8 21 (1.66%) MCSE
9 19 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
10 16 (1.26%) CCNA
10 16 (1.26%) MCSA
11 14 (1.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 13 (1.03%) CISSP
13 12 (0.95%) CISM
13 12 (0.95%) DV Cleared
13 12 (0.95%) MCP
13 12 (0.95%) PhD
13 12 (0.95%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 12 (0.95%) RHCE
14 7 (0.55%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (6.40%) QA
2 31 (2.45%) PCI DSS
3 30 (2.37%) SLA
4 27 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (0.95%) GDPR
6 11 (0.87%) GCP
6 11 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 10 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 9 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
9 7 (0.55%) COBIT
10 3 (0.24%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.16%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.16%) PMO
12 1 (0.079%) IEC 62304
12 1 (0.079%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.079%) PMBOK
System Software
1 151 (11.93%) Active Directory
2 150 (11.85%) Docker
3 137 (10.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 73 (5.77%) Hyper-V
5 63 (4.98%) vSphere
6 24 (1.90%) XenDesktop
7 20 (1.58%) XenApp
8 18 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
9 15 (1.18%) vCloud
10 13 (1.03%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 13 (1.03%) HDFS
11 7 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
12 6 (0.47%) KVM
13 5 (0.39%) NFS
13 5 (0.39%) Varnish
13 5 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
14 4 (0.32%) Apache Flume
14 4 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
15 3 (0.24%) Snort
16 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 67 (5.29%) Puppet
2 63 (4.98%) Ansible
3 52 (4.11%) Kubernetes
4 50 (3.95%) Opscode Chef
5 35 (2.76%) SCCM
6 31 (2.45%) Nagios
7 21 (1.66%) Grafana
8 17 (1.34%) Terraform
9 14 (1.11%) ZABBIX
10 12 (0.95%) Packer
11 10 (0.79%) Capistrano
11 10 (0.79%) CFEngine
12 9 (0.71%) Consul
12 9 (0.71%) Icinga
13 7 (0.55%) SCOM
14 4 (0.32%) cPanel
14 4 (0.32%) Graylog
14 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
14 4 (0.32%) Plesk
14 4 (0.32%) Salt
Vendors
1 310 (24.49%) Microsoft
2 205 (16.19%) VMware
3 130 (10.27%) Oracle
4 91 (7.19%) Cisco
5 80 (6.32%) Citrix
6 58 (4.58%) Google
7 55 (4.34%) HP
8 49 (3.87%) Salesforce.com
9 47 (3.71%) New Relic
10 41 (3.24%) CheckPoint
11 40 (3.16%) NetApp
11 40 (3.16%) SAP
12 32 (2.53%) IBM
12 32 (2.53%) Red Hat
13 31 (2.45%) Adobe
14 30 (2.37%) Splunk
15 26 (2.05%) Tableau
16 25 (1.97%) Cognizant
17 24 (1.90%) Juniper
18 23 (1.82%) Teradata
141 Cloud Computing job vacancies Nationwide
Graduate C# Full Stack Developer
London
Zorba Consulting Limited
Salary: £22k - 25k per year + Benefits
Posted: 2 hours ago
Principal AWS Architect - AWS Hyperscale SDLC to £140k
Staines, Middlesex
Quadratek People Limited
Salary: From £85,000 to £130,000 per annum to £100k basic plus variable + bene
Posted: Yesterday
Software Development Manager
Bristol, Avon
Vertus Partners
Salary: From £65,000 to £75,000 per annum
Posted: 2 days ago
Python Developer
Bristol, Avon
n-tier selection limited
Salary: £40000 - £55000 per annum + 36 days holiday + lots more!
Posted: 3 days ago
Data Centre Technical Support
Maidenhead, Berkshire
EXCELerate
Salary: Up to £25,000 per annum + Package
Posted: 3 days ago
Java Technical Lead, Team Lead, AWS, Agile, MongoDB, Angular, Jenkins
Oxford, Oxfordshire
Haybrook IT Resourcing Ltd
Salary: Up to £70,000 per annum
Posted: 2 days ago
Java Developer, Software Engineer, AWS, Big Data, AngularJS, Docker
Oxford, Oxfordshire
Haybrook IT Resourcing Ltd
Salary: Up to £63,000 per annum
Posted: 2 days ago
Java Developer
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Empiric
Salary: Up to £55,000 per annum Experience Dependent
Posted: 2 days ago
Web Designer - HTML, CSS, UI, Illustrator
London
Zorba Consulting Limited
Salary: £25k - 30k per year + Benefits
Posted: 2 hours ago
DevOps Engineer Fintech
Surbiton, Surrey
Quant Capital
Salary: Unspecified Very competitive + benefits
Posted: 3 days ago
DevOps Engineer Fintech
City, London
Quant Capital
Salary: Up to £75,000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 3 days ago
Senior Devops Engineer Linux, AWS - Leeds (West Yorkshire)
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Candour Solutions
Salary: From £40,000 to £65,000 per annum Excellent Benefits
Posted: 2 days ago
Network Engineer - Cisco, WAN/LAN, CCNA, Routers/Switches
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Oscar
Salary: £28000 - £38000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 15 hours ago
Network Engineer - Cisco, WAN/LAN, CCNA, Routers, Switches
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Oscar
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 15 hours ago
Snr Full-Stack Developer (JavaScript, Java, Angular)- Perm
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
McGregor Boyall
Posted: 2 days ago
Pre-Sales Solutions Architect - Storage & Virtualisation
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
EXCELerate
Salary: Up to £55,000 per annum Pension
Posted: 4 days ago
HPC Systems Analyst
Oxfordshire
HAYS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Salary: £40000 - £65000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 3 days ago
DevOps engineer
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Talent International
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + Bonus
Posted: 5 days ago
Infrastructure Engineer - Spanish Speaking
London
Cititec
Posted: 5 days ago
Senior Java Developer / Technical Lead
City, London
Client Server
Salary: £75k to £90k + bonus + benefits
Posted: 5 days ago
.NET Systems Developer
Norwich, Norfolk
Tec Partners
Salary: £30000.00 - £35000.00 per annum
Posted: 5 days ago
Graduate Java Developer - (Distributed Systems)
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Understanding Recruitment
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + shares + bens
Posted: 6 days ago
Technical Lead (Java) - Investments
City, London
Oliver Bernard
Salary: £70000 - £90000 per annum + Excellent bonus & benefits
Posted: 5 days ago
Front End Web Developer
Gatwick, West Sussex
Reflex Computer Recruitment
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits Package
Posted: 5 days ago
Web Developer, Javascript, HTML,CSS, UI Developer
Newbury, Berkshire
People Source Consulting
Salary: £40000 - £52000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 4 days ago
Junior Mulesoft Developer // WAKEFIELD
Wakefield, West Yorkshire
Modis International
Salary: £20000.00 - £25000.00 per annum + Benefits package
Posted: 4 days ago
Performance Engineer II (Java, JVM, CI, Linux, Tomcat, AWS)
London
Salt
Salary: £55000 - £70000 per annum + bonus+benefits+package
Posted: 6 days ago
Lead Big Data Engineer
London
Engage PSG
Salary: £80000 - £90000 per annum + 20% bonus
Posted: 6 days ago
Field Engineers - X-Train to be an Azure Consultant!
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
EMBS Ltd
Salary: £40k per year + Car Allowance & Bens
Posted: 4 days ago
Scientific Software Engineer Python Developer £55k
Saffron Walden, Essex
Amazing Prospects Ltd
Salary: £35k - 55k per year + Awesome Benefit
Posted: 5 days ago