Birmingham Apache Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Apache HTTP Server skills within the Birmingham region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Apache over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Apache HTTP Server
Location Abingdon Aldershot Basildon Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Croydon Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Johnstone Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire London Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rugby Scotland Shropshire Slough South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Teddington Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	41	40
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	13	27
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.027 %
As % of the category below	14.77 %	16.56 %
Daily rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£270
Average daily rate	£350	£295
% change on same period last year	+18.64 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£320
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£340
% change on same period last year	+4.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£38.00	£35.33
Average hourly rate	£38.67	£37.08
% change on same period last year	+4.26 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£39.33	£38.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.48	£33.94
% change on same period last year	-1.34 %
Application Platforms Birmingham
Matching contract IT job ads	88	163
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.116 %	0.162 %
Daily rates quoted	12	23
Average minimum daily rate	£311	£329
Average daily rate	£345	£353
% change on same period last year	-2.35 %
Average maximum daily rate	£379	£378
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£347
% change on same period last year	+1.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	55
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.59	£16.96
Average hourly rate	£29.68	£17.63
% change on same period last year	+68.34 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.77	£18.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.10	£24.95
% change on same period last year	+0.60 %
Apache West Midlands

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Apache
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Apache across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Apache across the Birmingham region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Apache across the Birmingham region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Apache across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Apache 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited Apache.

1 14 (87.50 %) Linux 2 11 (68.75 %) PHP 3 9 (56.25 %) MySQL 4 4 (25.00 %) LAMP 4 4 (25.00 %) Oracle 5 3 (18.75 %) Struts 5 3 (18.75 %) VMS 5 3 (18.75 %) PowerHouse 5 3 (18.75 %) J2EE 6 2 (12.50 %) CMS 6 2 (12.50 %) Joomla! 6 2 (12.50 %) Velocity 6 2 (12.50 %) OpenVMS 6 2 (12.50 %) Internet 6 2 (12.50 %) UNIX

6 2 (12.50 %) Windows 6 2 (12.50 %) Tomcat 6 2 (12.50 %) ITIL 6 2 (12.50 %) Ant 6 2 (12.50 %) JUnit 6 2 (12.50 %) WebLogic 6 2 (12.50 %) SQL Server 6 2 (12.50 %) .NET 6 2 (12.50 %) DCL 7 1 (6.250 %) Service Management 7 1 (6.250 %) Change Management 7 1 (6.250 %) Automotive 7 1 (6.250 %) Manufacturing 7 1 (6.250 %) Validation 7 1 (6.250 %) SQL Server 2005

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Apache also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Apache. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 4 (25.00 %) LAMP 2 3 (18.75 %) Struts 2 3 (18.75 %) J2EE 3 2 (12.50 %) Velocity 3 2 (12.50 %) .NET 4 1 (6.250 %) WebSphere 4 1 (6.250 %) Servlets 4 1 (6.250 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 2 (12.50 %) CMS 1 2 (12.50 %) Joomla! 1 2 (12.50 %) Tomcat 1 2 (12.50 %) WebLogic 2 1 (6.250 %) SharePoint
Business Applications 1 1 (6.250 %) Remedy AR System	Communications & Networking 1 2 (12.50 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (56.25 %) MySQL 2 2 (12.50 %) SQL Server 3 1 (6.250 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (6.250 %) Oracle 8/8i	Development Applications 1 2 (12.50 %) Ant 1 2 (12.50 %) JUnit 2 1 (6.250 %) IntelliJ
General 1 1 (6.250 %) Automotive 1 1 (6.250 %) Manufacturing 1 1 (6.250 %) Banking	Job Titles 1 5 (31.25 %) Developer 2 2 (12.50 %) Systems Analyst 2 2 (12.50 %) Web Developer 2 2 (12.50 %) Analyst 2 2 (12.50 %) Technical Support 2 2 (12.50 %) Linux Support 2 2 (12.50 %) 3rd Line Support 2 2 (12.50 %) Lead Developer 3 1 (6.250 %) Administrator 3 1 (6.250 %) Senior Linux Administrator 3 1 (6.250 %) Java/J2EE Developer 3 1 (6.250 %) Support Engineer 3 1 (6.250 %) Support Specialist 3 1 (6.250 %) IT Manager 3 1 (6.250 %) Network Analyst 3 1 (6.250 %) Java Developer 3 1 (6.250 %) J2EE Developer 3 1 (6.250 %) Technical Specialist 3 1 (6.250 %) Remedy Developer 3 1 (6.250 %) Technical Engineer
Operating Systems 1 14 (87.50 %) Linux 2 3 (18.75 %) VMS 3 2 (12.50 %) OpenVMS 3 2 (12.50 %) UNIX 3 2 (12.50 %) Windows 4 1 (6.250 %) Debian 4 1 (6.250 %) Solaris 4 1 (6.250 %) Windows 2000 Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (12.50 %) ITIL 2 1 (6.250 %) Service Management 2 1 (6.250 %) Change Management 2 1 (6.250 %) Validation 2 1 (6.250 %) Web Design 2 1 (6.250 %) Asset Management 2 1 (6.250 %) PRINCE2 2 1 (6.250 %) CRM 2 1 (6.250 %) E-Commerce 2 1 (6.250 %) Project Management
Programming Languages 1 11 (68.75 %) PHP 2 3 (18.75 %) PowerHouse 3 2 (12.50 %) DCL 4 1 (6.250 %) Java 4 1 (6.250 %) SQL 4 1 (6.250 %) VB.NET	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (6.250 %) QA
System Software 1 1 (6.250 %) Oracle RAC	Vendors 1 4 (25.00 %) Oracle 2 1 (6.250 %) Sybase 2 1 (6.250 %) Remedy