The first table below looks at the demand for Apache skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Apache over the 3 months to 24 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 Cheshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache HTTP Server
Rank 58 47 61
Rank change year-on-year
-11 +14
Contract jobs citing Apache 5 16 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.691% 2.003% 1.135%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.968% 10.88% 7.483%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 10
Average daily rate £375 £353 £346
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.38% +1.80%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £328 £350
% change year-on-year
-0.76% -6.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £34.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -27.53%
All Application Platforms
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
126 147 147
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 17.40% 18.40% 15.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 74 89
Average daily rate £325 £338 £360
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.70% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £231 £290 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 2
Average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% -42.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £14.00 £31.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.50 £30.00 £39.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
Apache
North West

Apache
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire Apache Hourly Rate Trend

Apache
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Apache within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Chester - 3 £375 -
Apache
North West

Apache
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 7 (77.78%) Java
1 7 (77.78%) Oracle
2 6 (66.67%) Web Services
2 6 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 6 (66.67%) J2EE
2 6 (66.67%) Hibernate
2 6 (66.67%) TDD
3 5 (55.56%) jQuery
3 5 (55.56%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (55.56%) Finance
4 4 (44.44%) XHTML
4 4 (44.44%) WSDL
4 4 (44.44%) JAX-RPC
4 4 (44.44%) PL/SQL
4 4 (44.44%) SQL
4 4 (44.44%) DOM
4 4 (44.44%) XSLT
4 4 (44.44%) JUnit
4 4 (44.44%) CSS
4 4 (44.44%) JSP
4 4 (44.44%) Servlets
4 4 (44.44%) SOAP
4 4 (44.44%) Spring
4 4 (44.44%) Apache Axis
4 4 (44.44%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (44.44%) Ajax
4 4 (44.44%) Web 2.0
4 4 (44.44%) WebSphere
4 4 (44.44%) XPath
4 4 (44.44%) Waterfall

Apache
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 6 (66.67%) Web Services
1 6 (66.67%) J2EE
1 6 (66.67%) Hibernate
2 5 (55.56%) jQuery
3 4 (44.44%) XHTML
3 4 (44.44%) WSDL
3 4 (44.44%) JAX-RPC
3 4 (44.44%) DOM
3 4 (44.44%) XSLT
3 4 (44.44%) CSS
3 4 (44.44%) JSP
3 4 (44.44%) Servlets
3 4 (44.44%) SOAP
3 4 (44.44%) Spring
3 4 (44.44%) Apache Axis
3 4 (44.44%) Ajax
3 4 (44.44%) WebSphere
4 3 (33.33%) ICEfaces
4 3 (33.33%) RichFaces
4 3 (33.33%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Mule
1 1 (11.11%) ESB
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) JUnit
2 3 (33.33%) JIRA
2 3 (33.33%) Subversion
2 3 (33.33%) Eclipse
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Java Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Support Technician
4 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (11.11%) Server Support
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Web 2.0
2 1 (11.11%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) UNIX
2 2 (22.22%) Linux
3 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) TDD
2 5 (55.56%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (44.44%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (44.44%) Waterfall
4 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 3 (33.33%) Integration Testing
5 2 (22.22%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Java
2 6 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 4 (44.44%) PL/SQL
3 4 (44.44%) SQL
3 4 (44.44%) XPath
4 2 (22.22%) Python
4 2 (22.22%) Perl
4 2 (22.22%) PHP
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Oracle
2 3 (33.33%) IBM
2 3 (33.33%) Perforce
3 2 (22.22%) JBoss
Chester, North West
To be suitable for this role you should have; * Minimum 5yrs commercial Java/J2EE experience incorporating the Spring Framework * Comprehensive experience in Web Service development using Spring-WS,...
Computer Futures
Rate: £350 - £450 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Chester, North West
Required: * Extensive (minimum 5yrs + commercial) experience of Web 2.0 technologies i.e AJAX, XHTML, JavaScript, XPATH, CSS, XSLT, DOM, JSP, Servlets * Minimum 2yrs + JSF experience * Minimum 5yrs...
Computer Futures
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Chester, North West
Required Skills:SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:Essential:-Extensive experience of Web 2.0 technologies i.e AJAX, XHTML, JavaScript, XPATH, CSS, XSLT, DOM, JSP, Servlets-Minimum 2yrs + JSF...
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 11 May 2013