The first table below looks at the demand for Tomcat 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 Tomcat 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 Tomcat
Rank 166 133 124
Rank change year-on-year
-33 -9
Contract jobs citing Tomcat 37 85 125
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.580% 1.081% 1.276%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.401% 7.125% 8.711%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 54 92
Average daily rate £425 £408 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.29% -18.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £323 £339 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £570 £500 £588
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £23.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+36.84% -26.92%
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%
Tomcat
London

Tomcat
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London Tomcat Daily Rate Trend

Tomcat
Daily Rate Histogram

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

City of London Tomcat Daily Rate Histogram

Tomcat
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Tomcat Hourly Rate Trend

Tomcat
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 58 (76.32%) Java
2 42 (55.26%) Apache
3 40 (52.63%) Spring
4 36 (47.37%) Linux
4 36 (47.37%) Oracle
5 28 (36.84%) SQL
6 27 (35.53%) J2EE
7 24 (31.58%) JavaScript
8 23 (30.26%) JUnit
9 22 (28.95%) HTML
9 22 (28.95%) Windows
10 21 (27.63%) JBoss
10 21 (27.63%) JSP
10 21 (27.63%) Maven
11 20 (26.32%) Hibernate
11 20 (26.32%) WebSphere
12 19 (25.00%) WebLogic
13 18 (23.68%) CSS
13 18 (23.68%) Finance
14 16 (21.05%) Agile Software Development
14 16 (21.05%) Subversion
14 16 (21.05%) MySQL
14 16 (21.05%) XML
14 16 (21.05%) UNIX
15 15 (19.74%) Servlets
15 15 (19.74%) .NET
16 14 (18.42%) IIS
17 13 (17.11%) SQL Server
18 12 (15.79%) Ant
18 12 (15.79%) Struts

Tomcat
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 40 (52.63%) Spring
2 27 (35.53%) J2EE
3 22 (28.95%) HTML
4 21 (27.63%) JSP
5 20 (26.32%) Hibernate
5 20 (26.32%) WebSphere
6 18 (23.68%) CSS
7 16 (21.05%) XML
8 15 (19.74%) Servlets
8 15 (19.74%) .NET
9 12 (15.79%) Struts
10 10 (13.16%) jQuery
10 10 (13.16%) JMS
11 9 (11.84%) Web Services
11 9 (11.84%) Spring MVC
11 9 (11.84%) Ajax
12 8 (10.53%) JDBC
13 6 (7.895%) JSTL
14 5 (6.579%) EJB
14 5 (6.579%) XSL
Application Platforms
1 42 (55.26%) Apache
2 19 (25.00%) WebLogic
3 14 (18.42%) IIS
4 8 (10.53%) SharePoint
5 6 (7.895%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (7.895%) WebSphere Application Server
6 5 (6.579%) WebSphere MQ
7 4 (5.263%) Alfresco
7 4 (5.263%) CMS
8 3 (3.947%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (2.632%) Lync
9 2 (2.632%) Exchange Server 2010
9 2 (2.632%) Oracle Coherence
9 2 (2.632%) MS Exchange
10 1 (1.316%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 1 (1.316%) Rendezvous
10 1 (1.316%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (1.316%) Jetty
10 1 (1.316%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 5 (6.579%) MS Office
2 4 (5.263%) MS Visio
2 4 (5.263%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.316%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.579%) Firewall
2 4 (5.263%) Internet
2 4 (5.263%) HTTP
3 2 (2.632%) LDAP
3 2 (2.632%) DNS
3 2 (2.632%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.632%) VPN
3 2 (2.632%) SSL
3 2 (2.632%) DMZ
4 1 (1.316%) SAN
4 1 (1.316%) DHCP
4 1 (1.316%) Cisco PIX
4 1 (1.316%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (1.316%) SPDY
4 1 (1.316%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (21.05%) MySQL
2 13 (17.11%) SQL Server
3 4 (5.263%) MS Access
3 4 (5.263%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (3.947%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.947%) BusinessObjects XI
5 2 (2.632%) Oracle 11g
5 2 (2.632%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (2.632%) Oracle 8/8i
5 2 (2.632%) ReportNet
6 1 (1.316%) Oracle 10g
6 1 (1.316%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.316%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (1.316%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 23 (30.26%) JUnit
2 21 (27.63%) Maven
3 16 (21.05%) Subversion
4 12 (15.79%) Ant
5 10 (13.16%) JIRA
6 8 (10.53%) Eclipse
7 7 (9.211%) Git (software)
8 6 (7.895%) Jenkins
9 5 (6.579%) TeamCity
10 4 (5.263%) WinDbg
10 4 (5.263%) FishEye
11 3 (3.947%) Selenium
11 3 (3.947%) AnthillPro
11 3 (3.947%) Gerrit
11 3 (3.947%) Mercurial
11 3 (3.947%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (2.632%) Hudson
13 1 (1.316%) QuickTest Pro
13 1 (1.316%) Visual Studio
13 1 (1.316%) NUnit
General
1 18 (23.68%) Finance
2 12 (15.79%) Banking
3 6 (7.895%) Investment Banking
4 5 (6.579%) Retail
5 4 (5.263%) Publishing
6 3 (3.947%) Retail Banking
7 2 (2.632%) Front Office
7 2 (2.632%) Back Office
8 1 (1.316%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.316%) Electronics
8 1 (1.316%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.316%) German Language
8 1 (1.316%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 33 (43.42%) Developer
2 23 (30.26%) Java Developer
3 10 (13.16%) Senior Developer
4 9 (11.84%) Senior Java Developer
5 7 (9.211%) Architect
6 5 (6.579%) Solutions Designer
6 5 (6.579%) Administrator
6 5 (6.579%) Analyst
6 5 (6.579%) Deployment Engineer
6 5 (6.579%) Front-End Developer
6 5 (6.579%) Designer
7 4 (5.263%) Applications Support Analyst
7 4 (5.263%) Software Engineer
7 4 (5.263%) Support Analyst
7 4 (5.263%) Applications Support
8 3 (3.947%) Business Developer
8 3 (3.947%) Systems Administrator
8 3 (3.947%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (3.947%) Business Objects Developer
8 3 (3.947%) Java Architect
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.53%) Computer Science
2 6 (7.895%) Open Source
2 6 (7.895%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (5.263%) SWIFT
3 4 (5.263%) Graphic Design
4 3 (3.947%) Derivative
4 3 (3.947%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (2.632%) Equities
5 2 (2.632%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.316%) DTV
6 1 (1.316%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.316%) Credit Derivative
6 1 (1.316%) Interactive TV
6 1 (1.316%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.316%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.316%) Mathematics
6 1 (1.316%) Ergonomics
6 1 (1.316%) Statistics
6 1 (1.316%) Exotic Derivative
6 1 (1.316%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 36 (47.37%) Linux
2 22 (28.95%) Windows
3 16 (21.05%) UNIX
4 8 (10.53%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (7.895%) Windows Server 2003
6 5 (6.579%) Debian
7 4 (5.263%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (5.263%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (3.947%) Solaris
9 2 (2.632%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (1.316%) AIX
10 1 (1.316%) SUSE
10 1 (1.316%) Windows Vista
10 1 (1.316%) Android
10 1 (1.316%) Apple iOS
10 1 (1.316%) Windows 8
10 1 (1.316%) Windows 7
10 1 (1.316%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (21.05%) Agile Software Development
2 11 (14.47%) TDD
3 10 (13.16%) Scrum
3 10 (13.16%) MVC
4 8 (10.53%) OO
5 6 (7.895%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (7.895%) E-Commerce
6 5 (6.579%) Software Engineering
6 5 (6.579%) Multithreading
7 4 (5.263%) Unit Testing
7 4 (5.263%) User Acceptance Testing
7 4 (5.263%) Release Management
7 4 (5.263%) Document Management
7 4 (5.263%) UML
7 4 (5.263%) ETL
8 3 (3.947%) SOA
8 3 (3.947%) Project Management
8 3 (3.947%) ITIL
8 3 (3.947%) Asset Management
8 3 (3.947%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 58 (76.32%) Java
2 28 (36.84%) SQL
3 24 (31.58%) JavaScript
4 12 (15.79%) Bash shell
5 9 (11.84%) PL/SQL
5 9 (11.84%) Perl
6 7 (9.211%) Python
7 6 (7.895%) C++
8 4 (5.263%) Groovy
8 4 (5.263%) Ruby
8 4 (5.263%) C#
8 4 (5.263%) VBScript
8 4 (5.263%) Shell Script
9 3 (3.947%) C
9 3 (3.947%) PHP
10 2 (2.632%) C-shell
11 1 (1.316%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.316%) Objective-C
11 1 (1.316%) AWK
11 1 (1.316%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 7 (9.211%) Degree
2 2 (2.632%) RHCE
3 1 (1.316%) CISSP
3 1 (1.316%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.316%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.316%) CCSP
3 1 (1.316%) CISA
3 1 (1.316%) CISM
3 1 (1.316%) MCDBA
3 1 (1.316%) SCSA
3 1 (1.316%) RHCT
3 1 (1.316%) CEH
3 1 (1.316%) CCSA
3 1 (1.316%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (1.316%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.263%) QA
System Software
1 5 (6.579%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (6.579%) vCloud
2 1 (1.316%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.316%) ClearTrust
Systems Management
1 5 (6.579%) Puppet
2 2 (2.632%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (1.316%) Nagios
3 1 (1.316%) CA SiteMinder
3 1 (1.316%) SCOM
3 1 (1.316%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 36 (47.37%) Oracle
2 21 (27.63%) JBoss
3 12 (15.79%) VMware
4 8 (10.53%) IBM
5 6 (7.895%) Red Hat
6 5 (6.579%) Microsoft
6 5 (6.579%) SAP
7 4 (5.263%) Business Objects
7 4 (5.263%) Lotus
7 4 (5.263%) Plumtree
8 3 (3.947%) hybris
9 2 (2.632%) Cognos
9 2 (2.632%) Sybase
9 2 (2.632%) Unisys
9 2 (2.632%) Sun
9 2 (2.632%) CA
9 2 (2.632%) HP
10 1 (1.316%) NetApp
10 1 (1.316%) BMC
10 1 (1.316%) Cisco
City, London
My client is a looking for a Support Analyst with the following skills and experience: - Extensive Oracle database management experience - Excellent Unix experience (Red Hat Linux preferred) - Java...
Aston Carter
Rate: market rate
Posted: 24 May 2013
City of London
Java/Apache Web Engineer role urgently required by a leading Investment Bank - this is an urgent hire to deliver a new encrypted password authentication solution for internet facing...
Real Staffing
Rate: £450 - £600 per day
Posted: 24 May 2013
City of London
Extensive experience in .Net and Java based Frameworks such as Struts, Spring etc Good experience in development methodologies such as Agile and testing tools (eg; Junit) Knowledge and...
Scope AT Ltd
Rate: neg
Posted: 10 May 2013
City, London
We are looking for DevOps Engineers with the followings skills sets: Java, Spring, Git, Atlassian Stash, Tomcat, WebSphere, Jenkins, Jira, Linux Monitoring and Shell Scripting. Any candidates with...
E-synergy Solutions
Rate: £450 - £550 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
City, London
Skill Requirements C / C++ programming with experience of Apache httpd module development... Java programming with experience of web service development. Apache Tomcat application development and lifecycling experience an...
Nicoll Curtin
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
City, London
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,...
Lawrence Harvey IT & Change
Rate: £650 - £850 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013