The first table below looks at the demand for Apache skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Apache over the 3 months to 17 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 Cambridge region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache HTTP Server
Rank 31 39 27
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -12
Contract jobs citing Apache 10 10 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 2.924% 2.392% 2.000%
As % of the Application Platforms category 13.33% 11.90% 17.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 2
Average daily rate £315 £369 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.57% +22.91%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £41.25 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £29.00 £34.50
% change year-on-year
+3.44% -15.94%
All Application Platforms
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
75 84 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 21.93% 20.10% 11.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 31 14
Average daily rate £280 £300 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £175 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 3
Average hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% +159.25%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
Apache
Cambridgeshire

Apache
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Apache across the Cambridge region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Cambridge Apache Jobs Demand Trend

Apache
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cambridge Apache Daily Rate Trend

Apache
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cambridge Apache Hourly Rate Trend

Apache
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 33 (94.29%) Linux
2 20 (57.14%) Perl
3 18 (51.43%) Java
3 18 (51.43%) Tomcat
4 17 (48.57%) SQL
4 17 (48.57%) Oracle
4 17 (48.57%) VMware
5 16 (45.71%) DNS
5 16 (45.71%) DHCP
6 15 (42.86%) MySQL
7 13 (37.14%) Red Hat
8 12 (34.29%) UNIX
9 11 (31.43%) JBoss
9 11 (31.43%) JSON
9 11 (31.43%) VMware Infrastructure
10 10 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 10 (28.57%) Active Directory
10 10 (28.57%) RHCE
11 9 (25.71%) EMC
11 9 (25.71%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 9 (25.71%) ITIL
11 9 (25.71%) ERP
11 9 (25.71%) SAP
11 9 (25.71%) EMC NetWorker
11 9 (25.71%) Oracle RMAN
12 8 (22.86%) Subversion
12 8 (22.86%) Unit Testing
12 8 (22.86%) Git (software)
12 8 (22.86%) RESTful
12 8 (22.86%) PHP

Apache
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 11 (31.43%) JSON
2 8 (22.86%) RESTful
3 7 (20.00%) HTML
3 7 (20.00%) Web Services
4 6 (17.14%) CSS
4 6 (17.14%) Symfony
5 5 (14.29%) XML
5 5 (14.29%) Memcached
6 4 (11.43%) Node.js
6 4 (11.43%) SOAP
6 4 (11.43%) jQuery
6 4 (11.43%) Swing
6 4 (11.43%) J2EE
6 4 (11.43%) Middleware
6 4 (11.43%) Hibernate
6 4 (11.43%) Spring
6 4 (11.43%) Ajax
6 4 (11.43%) Ruby on Rails
6 4 (11.43%) Java EE
7 3 (8.571%) CodeIgniter
Application Platforms
1 18 (51.43%) Tomcat
2 7 (20.00%) IIS
3 4 (11.43%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (11.43%) concrete5
3 4 (11.43%) CMS
4 3 (8.571%) Drupal
4 3 (8.571%) WordPress
4 3 (8.571%) Amazon AWS
Business Applications
1 6 (17.14%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (45.71%) DHCP
1 16 (45.71%) DNS
2 7 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 7 (20.00%) BIG-IP
3 4 (11.43%) NAS
3 4 (11.43%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (42.86%) MySQL
2 4 (11.43%) Oracle 8/8i
2 4 (11.43%) MongoDB
2 4 (11.43%) Redis
3 1 (2.857%) GIS
3 1 (2.857%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (22.86%) Subversion
1 8 (22.86%) Git (software)
2 4 (11.43%) Maven
3 2 (5.714%) TestNG
Job Titles
1 20 (57.14%) Administrator
2 15 (42.86%) Developer
2 15 (42.86%) Systems Administrator
3 8 (22.86%) Linux Administrator
4 7 (20.00%) Java Developer
5 4 (11.43%) PHP Developer
6 3 (8.571%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 3 (8.571%) Senior Developer
7 2 (5.714%) Senior PHP Developer
8 1 (2.857%) Senior Architect
8 1 (2.857%) Platform Architect
8 1 (2.857%) Architect
8 1 (2.857%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Computer Science
2 4 (11.43%) PKI
2 4 (11.43%) Informatics
3 2 (5.714%) Biology
3 2 (5.714%) LIMS
4 1 (2.857%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 33 (94.29%) Linux
2 12 (34.29%) UNIX
3 10 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (20.00%) HPUX
5 5 (14.29%) Windows
6 4 (11.43%) Debian
6 4 (11.43%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (2.857%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (25.71%) ITIL
1 9 (25.71%) ERP
2 8 (22.86%) MVC
2 8 (22.86%) Unit Testing
3 7 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 6 (17.14%) Data Analysis
4 6 (17.14%) TDD
4 6 (17.14%) Migration
5 5 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
6 4 (11.43%) SEO
6 4 (11.43%) OOP
6 4 (11.43%) OO
6 4 (11.43%) Information Management
7 3 (8.571%) Configuration Management
7 3 (8.571%) E-business
8 2 (5.714%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 20 (57.14%) Perl
2 18 (51.43%) Java
3 17 (48.57%) SQL
4 8 (22.86%) PHP
5 7 (20.00%) Shell Script
6 6 (17.14%) JavaScript
6 6 (17.14%) T-SQL
7 5 (14.29%) Python
8 4 (11.43%) Lisp
8 4 (11.43%) Ruby
8 4 (11.43%) PHP5
8 4 (11.43%) C#
Qualifications
1 10 (28.57%) RHCE
2 6 (17.14%) OCP
2 6 (17.14%) Oracle Certification
3 4 (11.43%) Degree
3 4 (11.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.714%) GAMP
1 2 (5.714%) GxP
System Software
1 11 (31.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (28.57%) Active Directory
3 9 (25.71%) Oracle RMAN
4 7 (20.00%) VMware ESX
4 7 (20.00%) vSphere
5 1 (2.857%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 9 (25.71%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 9 (25.71%) EMC NetWorker
2 3 (8.571%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (48.57%) Oracle
1 17 (48.57%) VMware
2 13 (37.14%) Red Hat
3 11 (31.43%) JBoss
4 9 (25.71%) SAP
4 9 (25.71%) EMC
5 6 (17.14%) Microsoft
6 4 (11.43%) NetApp
7 3 (8.571%) Zend
7 3 (8.571%) Akamai
8 2 (5.714%) Citrix
8 2 (5.714%) webMethods