The first table below looks at the demand for Apache skills in IT contracts advertised for the East Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Apache over the 3 months to 17 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 East Midlands 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache HTTP Server
Rank 71 78 63
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -15
Contract jobs citing Apache 13 8 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 1.031% 0.586% 0.877%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.603% 3.361% 5.797%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 9
Average daily rate £375 £410 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.53% +2.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
Average hourly rate £27.50 - £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £29.00 £34.50
% change year-on-year
+3.44% -15.94%
All Application Platforms
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
232 238 207
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 18.40% 17.44% 15.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 132 67
Average daily rate £300 £275 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% -21.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £205 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 22 16
Average hourly rate £18.00 £30.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-40.00% +71.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.20 £8.50 £15.27
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £57.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
Apache
England

Apache
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 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
Nottinghamshire +2 7 £400 -8.04%
Northamptonshire - 3 £413 -
Leicestershire -8 1 £300 +42.85%
Apache
England

Apache
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 20 (86.96%) Linux
2 11 (47.83%) MySQL
3 9 (39.13%) JavaScript
3 9 (39.13%) PHP
3 9 (39.13%) UNIX
4 8 (34.78%) Windows
4 8 (34.78%) Cisco
4 8 (34.78%) Citrix
5 7 (30.43%) CSS
5 7 (30.43%) OOP
5 7 (30.43%) OO
5 7 (30.43%) HTML
5 7 (30.43%) Twitter
5 7 (30.43%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 6 (26.09%) Cisco Nexus
6 6 (26.09%) IIS
6 6 (26.09%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (26.09%) Telecoms
6 6 (26.09%) Validation
6 6 (26.09%) VMware
6 6 (26.09%) Web Services
6 6 (26.09%) MetaFrame
6 6 (26.09%) Tivoli
6 6 (26.09%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 5 (21.74%) Middleware
7 5 (21.74%) Oracle
7 5 (21.74%) Finance
7 5 (21.74%) Agile Software Development
8 4 (17.39%) TDD
8 4 (17.39%) Oracle Fusion

Apache
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 7 (30.43%) HTML
1 7 (30.43%) CSS
1 7 (30.43%) Twitter Bootstrap
2 6 (26.09%) Web Services
3 5 (21.74%) Middleware
4 4 (17.39%) CodeIgniter
4 4 (17.39%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (8.696%) LAMP
6 1 (4.348%) Lucene
Application Platforms
1 6 (26.09%) IIS
2 4 (17.39%) WebLogic
3 2 (8.696%) Tomcat
4 1 (4.348%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 1 (4.348%) Google Apps
Business Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 6 (26.09%) Cisco Nexus
2 4 (17.39%) SAN
3 3 (13.04%) LAN
4 2 (8.696%) WAN
5 1 (4.348%) VPN
5 1 (4.348%) Firewall
5 1 (4.348%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (47.83%) MySQL
2 3 (13.04%) SQL Server
3 2 (8.696%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) PHPUnit
General
1 6 (26.09%) Telecoms
2 5 (21.74%) Finance
3 2 (8.696%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Developer
2 5 (21.74%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Network Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Designer
3 3 (13.04%) Designer
4 2 (8.696%) Middleware Engineer
4 2 (8.696%) Server Engineer
4 2 (8.696%) PHP Developer
5 1 (4.348%) Storage Engineer
5 1 (4.348%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (4.348%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Open Source
1 3 (13.04%) IaaS
2 2 (8.696%) SaaS
3 1 (4.348%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 20 (86.96%) Linux
2 9 (39.13%) UNIX
3 8 (34.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (30.43%) OOP
1 7 (30.43%) OO
2 6 (26.09%) Validation
3 5 (21.74%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (17.39%) TDD
4 4 (17.39%) Process Management
4 4 (17.39%) Service Delivery
5 2 (8.696%) SOA
5 2 (8.696%) Project Management
6 1 (4.348%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (4.348%) Scrum
6 1 (4.348%) Agile Project Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (39.13%) JavaScript
1 9 (39.13%) PHP
2 2 (8.696%) C++
3 1 (4.348%) Java
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) MetaFrame
1 6 (26.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.348%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.348%) Xen
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Tivoli
1 6 (26.09%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) Cisco
1 8 (34.78%) Citrix
2 7 (30.43%) Twitter
3 6 (26.09%) VMware
4 5 (21.74%) Oracle
5 4 (17.39%) Zend
6 3 (13.04%) IBM
6 3 (13.04%) F5
7 1 (4.348%) HP
7 1 (4.348%) McAfee
7 1 (4.348%) hybris
7 1 (4.348%) Google