Dorset Tomcat Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Apache Tomcat skills within the Dorset region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Tomcat over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Apache Tomcat
Location Alderley Edge Altrincham Barnstaple Bath Berkshire Bletchley Bootle Borehamwood Bracknell Brighton Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chippenham City of London Colchester Conwy Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnham Glasgow Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Hayes Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Llandudno London Macclesfield Manchester Marlow Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North Wales North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Poole Reading Rugby Scotland Sheffield Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Suffolk Surrey Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	39	34
Rank change on same period last year	-5
Matching contract IT job ads	1	13
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.014 %
As % of the category below	2.000 %	22.03 %
Daily rates quoted	0	5
Average minimum daily rate	-	£267
Average daily rate	-	£294
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£321
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£345
% change on same period last year	+1.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.36	£38.19
% change on same period last year	-7.41 %
Application Platforms Dorset
Matching contract IT job ads	50	59
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.066 %	0.063 %
Daily rates quoted	23	16
Average minimum daily rate	£337	£301
Average daily rate	£353	£323
% change on same period last year	+9.22 %
Average maximum daily rate	£369	£346
UK excluding London average daily rate	£359	£347
% change on same period last year	+3.68 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.33	£26.81
Average hourly rate	£22.50	£29.31
% change on same period last year	-23.24 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.67	£31.81
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.43	£24.21
% change on same period last year	-3.23 %
Tomcat South West

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Tomcat
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Tomcat across the Dorset region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Tomcat
Daily Rate Trend

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

Tomcat
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Tomcat within the Dorset region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Poole	0	1	-	-

Tomcat South West

Tomcat
Top 6 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset 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 1 (100.00 %) Java 1 1 (100.00 %) SQL 1 1 (100.00 %) MySQL 1 1 (100.00 %) Ant 1 1 (100.00 %) J2ME 1 1 (100.00 %) Eclipse

Tomcat
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset 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 1 (100.00 %) J2ME	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (100.00 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 1 (100.00 %) Ant 1 1 (100.00 %) Eclipse	Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Developer
Programming Languages 1 1 (100.00 %) Java 1 1 (100.00 %) SQL