The first table below looks at the demand for Tomcat 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 Tomcat over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Tomcat
Rank 27 36 36
Rank change year-on-year
+9 0
Contract jobs citing Tomcat 9 13 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 2.894% 2.915% 0.694%
As % of the Application Platforms category 13.04% 13.98% 3.922%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 1
Average daily rate £400 £400 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +37.93%
UK excluding London average daily rate £355 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
+1.42% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.00 £23.75 £22.25
% change year-on-year
+43.15% +6.74%
All Application Platforms
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
69 93 51
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 22.19% 20.85% 17.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 42 26
Average daily rate £280 £338 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.03% -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £224 £191
10% offered a daily rate of more than £410 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 12 3
Average hourly rate £34.00 £33.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.03% +10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £22.50 £26.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.25 £36.50 £33.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +5.26%
Tomcat
Cambridgeshire

Tomcat
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge Tomcat Jobs Demand Trend

Tomcat
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cambridge Tomcat Daily Rate Trend

Tomcat
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cambridge Tomcat Hourly Rate Trend

Tomcat
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing Tomcat 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 Tomcat.

1 19 (63.33%) Apache
2 18 (60.00%) Linux
3 16 (53.33%) SQL
4 12 (40.00%) Java
5 10 (33.33%) Perl
5 10 (33.33%) UNIX
5 10 (33.33%) JBoss
6 9 (30.00%) MySQL
7 7 (23.33%) VMware
7 7 (23.33%) Subversion
7 7 (23.33%) Web Services
7 7 (23.33%) VMware Infrastructure
8 6 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
8 6 (20.00%) Oracle
8 6 (20.00%) IIS
8 6 (20.00%) DHCP
8 6 (20.00%) TCP/IP
8 6 (20.00%) DNS
8 6 (20.00%) Shell Script
8 6 (20.00%) Computer Science
8 6 (20.00%) Unit Testing
8 6 (20.00%) BIG-IP
9 5 (16.67%) Red Hat
10 4 (13.33%) Hibernate
10 4 (13.33%) MVC
10 4 (13.33%) Debian
10 4 (13.33%) Spring
10 4 (13.33%) Maven
10 4 (13.33%) Agile Software Development
10 4 (13.33%) TDD

Tomcat
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing Tomcat 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 Tomcat. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (23.33%) Web Services
2 4 (13.33%) Hibernate
2 4 (13.33%) Spring
2 4 (13.33%) JSON
2 4 (13.33%) Ruby on Rails
2 4 (13.33%) J2EE
2 4 (13.33%) Swing
2 4 (13.33%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (13.33%) JAX-RS
2 4 (13.33%) RESTful
3 3 (10.00%) Middleware
4 2 (6.667%) GWT
4 2 (6.667%) EDI
4 2 (6.667%) JDBC
Application Platforms
1 19 (63.33%) Apache
2 6 (20.00%) IIS
3 3 (10.00%) Amazon AWS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.00%) DHCP
1 6 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 6 (20.00%) DNS
1 6 (20.00%) BIG-IP
2 3 (10.00%) NAS
2 3 (10.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (30.00%) MySQL
2 4 (13.33%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (3.333%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (23.33%) Subversion
2 4 (13.33%) Maven
2 4 (13.33%) Git (software)
3 3 (10.00%) JIRA
4 2 (6.667%) TestNG
Job Titles
1 13 (43.33%) Administrator
2 8 (26.67%) Systems Administrator
3 7 (23.33%) Linux Administrator
4 6 (20.00%) Developer
4 6 (20.00%) Java Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 2 (6.667%) Linux Engineer
7 1 (3.333%) Consultant
7 1 (3.333%) Technical Engineer
7 1 (3.333%) Linux Consultant
7 1 (3.333%) Systems Engineer
7 1 (3.333%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (13.33%) Informatics
3 2 (6.667%) Biology
3 2 (6.667%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 18 (60.00%) Linux
2 10 (33.33%) UNIX
3 4 (13.33%) Debian
3 4 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (10.00%) Windows
5 1 (3.333%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 6 (20.00%) Unit Testing
2 4 (13.33%) MVC
2 4 (13.33%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (13.33%) TDD
2 4 (13.33%) Information Management
3 3 (10.00%) Configuration Management
4 2 (6.667%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 16 (53.33%) SQL
2 12 (40.00%) Java
3 10 (33.33%) Perl
4 6 (20.00%) Shell Script
5 4 (13.33%) Ruby
5 4 (13.33%) Lisp
5 4 (13.33%) C#
5 4 (13.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) Degree
1 4 (13.33%) RHCE
1 4 (13.33%) PhD
System Software
1 7 (23.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (10.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.333%) Postfix
3 1 (3.333%) Xen
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (33.33%) JBoss
2 7 (23.33%) VMware
3 6 (20.00%) Oracle
4 5 (16.67%) Red Hat
5 3 (10.00%) Akamai
5 3 (10.00%) NetApp
6 2 (6.667%) webMethods
6 2 (6.667%) IBM
Cambridge, East Anglia
Job Title: LSF Administrator / Engineer Location: Cambridge Contract: Start date June - 12 month contract.
Muse Resourcing
Rate: £375 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013