The first table below looks at the demand for Apache skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London 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 City of London 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 121 97 134
Rank change year-on-year
-24 +37
Contract jobs citing Apache 83 131 115
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 1.301% 1.666% 1.174%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.629% 10.98% 8.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 65 71
Average daily rate £400 £350 £395
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -11.39%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £218 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £475 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £328 £350
% change year-on-year
-0.76% -6.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
Average hourly rate £41.50 £19.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+118.42% -24.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £34.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -27.53%
All Application Platforms
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
1088 1193 1435
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 17.06% 15.17% 14.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 753 808 1010
Average daily rate £405 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.25% -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £253 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 35 63
Average hourly rate £30.00 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+50.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £15.00 £12.65
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.20 £49.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
Apache
London

Apache
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London Apache Daily Rate Trend

Apache
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Apache across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London Apache Daily Rate Histogram

Apache
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Apache Hourly Rate Trend

Apache
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 91 (57.23%) Linux
2 89 (55.97%) Java
3 59 (37.11%) MySQL
4 55 (34.59%) HTML
5 52 (32.70%) SQL
5 52 (32.70%) CSS
6 49 (30.82%) JavaScript
7 42 (26.42%) Tomcat
8 40 (25.16%) Oracle
9 39 (24.53%) J2EE
9 39 (24.53%) PHP
9 39 (24.53%) Windows
10 38 (23.90%) Spring
11 36 (22.64%) MVC
12 34 (21.38%) Finance
12 34 (21.38%) UNIX
13 32 (20.13%) XML
14 31 (19.50%) Web Services
14 31 (19.50%) Banking
15 29 (18.24%) Subversion
15 29 (18.24%) IIS
15 29 (18.24%) jQuery
16 28 (17.61%) WebLogic
17 27 (16.98%) JSP
18 26 (16.35%) Struts
19 25 (15.72%) TDD
20 24 (15.09%) SQL Server
20 24 (15.09%) Spring MVC
21 22 (13.84%) RESTful
22 21 (13.21%) WebSphere

Apache
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 55 (34.59%) HTML
2 52 (32.70%) CSS
3 39 (24.53%) J2EE
4 38 (23.90%) Spring
5 32 (20.13%) XML
6 31 (19.50%) Web Services
7 29 (18.24%) jQuery
8 27 (16.98%) JSP
9 26 (16.35%) Struts
10 24 (15.09%) Spring MVC
11 22 (13.84%) RESTful
12 21 (13.21%) WebSphere
13 18 (11.32%) JMS
14 16 (10.06%) HTML5
14 16 (10.06%) Hibernate
15 15 (9.434%) SOAP
15 15 (9.434%) XSLT
15 15 (9.434%) CSS3
15 15 (9.434%) Ajax
16 14 (8.805%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 42 (26.42%) Tomcat
2 29 (18.24%) IIS
3 28 (17.61%) WebLogic
4 9 (5.660%) Apache Pig
5 8 (5.031%) CMS
5 8 (5.031%) WebLogic Portal
6 6 (3.774%) SAS
6 6 (3.774%) SharePoint
6 6 (3.774%) nginx
7 5 (3.145%) Alfresco
7 5 (3.145%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (3.145%) Apache Solr
8 4 (2.516%) WebSphere Application Server
8 4 (2.516%) WebSphere MQ
8 4 (2.516%) Liferay
8 4 (2.516%) Amazon AWS
8 4 (2.516%) Drupal
9 3 (1.887%) WordPress
9 3 (1.887%) CloudStack
9 3 (1.887%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 9 (5.660%) MS Excel
2 6 (3.774%) SPSS
3 5 (3.145%) MS Office
3 5 (3.145%) MS Visio
4 4 (2.516%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (5.031%) RMDS
2 2 (1.258%) ION MarketView
3 1 (0.629%) Google Analytics
3 1 (0.629%) SiteCatalyst
3 1 (0.629%) WebTrends
Communications & Networking
1 14 (8.805%) SAN
1 14 (8.805%) Firewall
2 11 (6.918%) NAS
2 11 (6.918%) HTTP
2 11 (6.918%) TCP/IP
3 10 (6.289%) Internet
4 7 (4.403%) SSL
5 6 (3.774%) DNS
5 6 (3.774%) FTP
5 6 (3.774%) LDAP
6 5 (3.145%) BIG-IP
7 4 (2.516%) DHCP
8 3 (1.887%) FWSM
8 3 (1.887%) Fibre Channel
8 3 (1.887%) IPsec
8 3 (1.887%) VoIP
9 2 (1.258%) VPN
9 2 (1.258%) SMTP
9 2 (1.258%) LAN
9 2 (1.258%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (37.11%) MySQL
2 24 (15.09%) SQL Server
3 10 (6.289%) Apache Cassandra
3 10 (6.289%) Hadoop
4 9 (5.660%) HBase
4 9 (5.660%) Apache Hive
4 9 (5.660%) Big Data
5 8 (5.031%) Mahout
5 8 (5.031%) MarkLogic
5 8 (5.031%) MongoDB
6 6 (3.774%) Data Mining
6 6 (3.774%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.516%) BusinessObjects
7 4 (2.516%) MS Access
8 3 (1.887%) BusinessObjects XI
8 3 (1.887%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.258%) Oracle 8/8i
9 2 (1.258%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (1.258%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.258%) ReportNet
Development Applications
1 29 (18.24%) Subversion
2 18 (11.32%) JIRA
2 18 (11.32%) Maven
3 16 (10.06%) JUnit
3 16 (10.06%) Eclipse
4 13 (8.176%) Ant
5 12 (7.547%) Git (software)
6 10 (6.289%) Jenkins
7 9 (5.660%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 7 (4.403%) Selenium
8 7 (4.403%) Mercurial
9 5 (3.145%) ClearCase
10 4 (2.516%) Dreamweaver
10 4 (2.516%) VisualAge
10 4 (2.516%) WinDbg
10 4 (2.516%) FishEye
10 4 (2.516%) GitHub
11 3 (1.887%) AnthillPro
11 3 (1.887%) Gerrit
11 3 (1.887%) Redmine
General
1 34 (21.38%) Finance
2 31 (19.50%) Banking
3 15 (9.434%) Retail
4 9 (5.660%) Publishing
5 8 (5.031%) Telecoms
5 8 (5.031%) Investment Banking
6 6 (3.774%) Retail Banking
7 4 (2.516%) Advertising
7 4 (2.516%) Back Office
8 3 (1.887%) Front Office
9 2 (1.258%) Games
9 2 (1.258%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.629%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.629%) Marketing
10 1 (0.629%) German Language
10 1 (0.629%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 73 (45.91%) Developer
2 35 (22.01%) Java Developer
3 17 (10.69%) Senior Developer
4 15 (9.434%) Administrator
5 14 (8.805%) Architect
6 13 (8.176%) Senior Java Developer
7 12 (7.547%) Systems Administrator
8 11 (6.918%) PHP Developer
9 9 (5.660%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 9 (5.660%) Linux Administrator
10 7 (4.403%) Front-End Developer
10 7 (4.403%) Data Scientist
11 6 (3.774%) Infrastructure Architect
11 6 (3.774%) Analyst
11 6 (3.774%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (3.774%) Research Engineer
12 5 (3.145%) Linux Engineer
13 4 (2.516%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
14 3 (1.887%) Java Architect
14 3 (1.887%) Web Manager
Miscellaneous
1 19 (11.95%) Open Source
2 17 (10.69%) Computer Science
3 11 (6.918%) N-Tier
4 9 (5.660%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 7 (4.403%) Statistics
5 7 (4.403%) Mathematics
5 7 (4.403%) Social Network
5 7 (4.403%) W3C
5 7 (4.403%) Grid Computing
5 7 (4.403%) Clustering
6 6 (3.774%) Visualisation
6 6 (3.774%) Semantic Web
6 6 (3.774%) Physics
6 6 (3.774%) Neural Network
7 5 (3.145%) Derivative
7 5 (3.145%) Fixed Income
8 4 (2.516%) SWIFT
9 3 (1.887%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (1.887%) Mainframe
9 3 (1.887%) CLARiiON
Operating Systems
1 91 (57.23%) Linux
2 39 (24.53%) Windows
3 34 (21.38%) UNIX
4 15 (9.434%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (6.289%) Solaris
5 10 (6.289%) Windows Server 2003
6 9 (5.660%) Windows Server 2008
7 7 (4.403%) CentOS
8 5 (3.145%) Debian
9 4 (2.516%) Windows XP
9 4 (2.516%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (1.887%) Gentoo
10 3 (1.887%) Windows 2000
10 3 (1.887%) Windows NT
11 2 (1.258%) VMS
11 2 (1.258%) AIX
11 2 (1.258%) Windows 7
11 2 (1.258%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (1.258%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.629%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (22.64%) MVC
2 25 (15.72%) TDD
3 20 (12.58%) Continuous Integration
3 20 (12.58%) Multithreading
4 17 (10.69%) Scrum
5 16 (10.06%) Agile Software Development
6 15 (9.434%) OO
7 14 (8.805%) Analytics
8 13 (8.176%) E-Commerce
9 12 (7.547%) Software Engineering
10 8 (5.031%) Release Management
10 8 (5.031%) Web Development
11 7 (4.403%) Unit Testing
11 7 (4.403%) ITIL
12 6 (3.774%) SOA
12 6 (3.774%) Benchmarking
12 6 (3.774%) Predictive Modelling
12 6 (3.774%) Complex Event Processing
12 6 (3.774%) Load Balancing
12 6 (3.774%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 89 (55.97%) Java
2 52 (32.70%) SQL
3 49 (30.82%) JavaScript
4 39 (24.53%) PHP
5 17 (10.69%) Python
6 14 (8.805%) Bash shell
6 14 (8.805%) Perl
6 14 (8.805%) Shell Script
7 11 (6.918%) C++
8 10 (6.289%) C#
9 9 (5.660%) PL/SQL
10 8 (5.031%) XQuery
10 8 (5.031%) PHP5
11 7 (4.403%) Scala
12 6 (3.774%) VBScript
12 6 (3.774%) R
12 6 (3.774%) Ruby
13 5 (3.145%) C
14 2 (1.258%) sed
14 2 (1.258%) VB
Qualifications
1 18 (11.32%) Degree
2 6 (3.774%) PhD
2 6 (3.774%) Security Cleared
2 6 (3.774%) CIPD
3 2 (1.258%) RHCE
3 2 (1.258%) PMP
3 2 (1.258%) PMI Certification
3 2 (1.258%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.629%) SCSA
4 1 (0.629%) RHCT
4 1 (0.629%) BC Cleared
4 1 (0.629%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (0.629%) MCDBA
4 1 (0.629%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.629%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.629%) CCNP
4 1 (0.629%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.516%) QA
1 4 (2.516%) WAI
2 1 (0.629%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (5.031%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (4.403%) Squid
3 6 (3.774%) vSphere
3 6 (3.774%) vCloud
4 4 (2.516%) NFS
4 4 (2.516%) VMware ESX
5 3 (1.887%) Citrix Presentation Server
5 3 (1.887%) XenApp
6 2 (1.258%) Varnish
7 1 (0.629%) ClearTrust
7 1 (0.629%) ProxySG
7 1 (0.629%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.629%) Forefront TMG
7 1 (0.629%) OpenSSO
7 1 (0.629%) qmail
7 1 (0.629%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.629%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 1 (0.629%) ISA Server
7 1 (0.629%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (6.918%) Puppet
2 8 (5.031%) Nagios
3 5 (3.145%) BladeLogic
4 4 (2.516%) Backup Exec
4 4 (2.516%) SCOM
5 3 (1.887%) Zenoss
5 3 (1.887%) Legato
5 3 (1.887%) NetBackup
6 2 (1.258%) CA SiteMinder
6 2 (1.258%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.629%) CA Wily
7 1 (0.629%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.629%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 40 (25.16%) Oracle
2 20 (12.58%) JBoss
3 18 (11.32%) Red Hat
4 17 (10.69%) IBM
5 16 (10.06%) Microsoft
6 14 (8.805%) Cisco
6 14 (8.805%) VMware
7 11 (6.918%) Zend
8 10 (6.289%) NetApp
8 10 (6.289%) F5
9 9 (5.660%) Sybase
9 9 (5.660%) EMC
10 6 (3.774%) 29West
10 6 (3.774%) Atlassian
10 6 (3.774%) DataSynapse
11 5 (3.145%) Sun
11 5 (3.145%) HP
12 4 (2.516%) Plumtree
12 4 (2.516%) BMC
12 4 (2.516%) Citrix
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Rate: £450 - £600 per day
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Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
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My client, a leading investment bank based in the City of London, urgently require an experienced Technical Programme Manager with strong skills in Weblogic, Java, Linux, Apache, Tomcat,...
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Rate: £650 - £850 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
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