The first table below looks at the demand for Apache skills in IT contracts advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Apache over the 3 months to 22 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 Chester 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache HTTP Server
Rank 22 - 21
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Apache 3 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 2.143% - 0.629%
As % of the Application Platforms category 13.64% - 3.846%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
Average daily rate £375 - £360
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.75 £25.00 £34.50
% change year-on-year
+15.00% -27.53%
All Application Platforms
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
22 16 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 15.71% 13.79% 16.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 14
Average daily rate £313 £338 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.40% -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £239 £258 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £415 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
Average hourly rate £9.00 £14.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.71% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%
Apache
Cheshire

Apache
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester Apache Hourly Rate Trend

Apache
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Hibernate
2 2 (66.67%) JAX-RPC
2 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Spring
2 2 (66.67%) Ajax
2 2 (66.67%) Web 2.0
2 2 (66.67%) WebSphere
2 2 (66.67%) XPath
2 2 (66.67%) JUnit
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) JSP
2 2 (66.67%) Servlets
2 2 (66.67%) SOAP
2 2 (66.67%) Web Services
2 2 (66.67%) DOM
2 2 (66.67%) XSLT
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) PL/SQL
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) J2EE
2 2 (66.67%) XHTML
2 2 (66.67%) WSDL
2 2 (66.67%) Apache Axis
2 2 (66.67%) Waterfall
3 1 (33.33%) CSS3
3 1 (33.33%) RIA

Apache
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 2 (66.67%) Hibernate
1 2 (66.67%) JAX-RPC
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
1 2 (66.67%) Ajax
1 2 (66.67%) WebSphere
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
1 2 (66.67%) JSP
1 2 (66.67%) Servlets
1 2 (66.67%) SOAP
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
1 2 (66.67%) DOM
1 2 (66.67%) XSLT
1 2 (66.67%) J2EE
1 2 (66.67%) XHTML
1 2 (66.67%) WSDL
1 2 (66.67%) Apache Axis
2 1 (33.33%) CSS3
2 1 (33.33%) jQuery
2 1 (33.33%) ICEfaces
2 1 (33.33%) RichFaces
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Mule
1 1 (33.33%) ESB
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Internet
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JUnit
2 1 (33.33%) Eclipse
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Subversion
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Server Support
1 1 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Web 2.0
2 1 (33.33%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) UNIX
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (66.67%) TDD
1 2 (66.67%) Waterfall
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) XPath
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) PL/SQL
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) IBM
2 1 (33.33%) Perforce
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