East of England Apache Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Apache HTTP Server skills within the East of England region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Apache over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Abingdon Aldershot Basildon Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Johnstone Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire London Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rugby Scotland Shropshire Slough South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southwark Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Swindon Teddington Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	89	99
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	50	55
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.067 %	0.055 %
As % of the category below	9.276 %	8.029 %
Daily rates quoted	27	16
Average minimum daily rate	£373	£368
Average daily rate	£392	£372
% change on same period last year	+5.28 %
Average maximum daily rate	£410	£377
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£341
% change on same period last year	+5.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.67	£29.91
Average hourly rate	£28.50	£30.14
% change on same period last year	-5.42 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.33	£30.36
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.60	£34.09
% change on same period last year	-1.43 %
Application Platforms East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	539	685
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.718 %	0.683 %
Daily rates quoted	165	200
Average minimum daily rate	£333	£315
Average daily rate	£350	£330
% change on same period last year	+6.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£368	£345
UK excluding London average daily rate	£354	£344
% change on same period last year	+2.73 %
Hourly rates quoted	53	94
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.84	£27.10
Average hourly rate	£21.93	£28.33
% change on same period last year	-22.60 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.02	£29.57
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.40	£24.75
% change on same period last year	+2.59 %
Apache England

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.

Apache
Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Apache across the East of England region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Apache across the East of England region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Apache across the East of England region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Apache across the East of England region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Apache within the East of England region over the 3 months to 29 August 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
Hertfordshire	+20	24	£375	+0.08 %
Cambridgeshire	+7	12	£298	-5.85 %
Essex	0	9	£463	-
Suffolk	+8	2	£280	-55.20 %
Bedfordshire	+23	2	-	-
East Anglia	-	1	-	-

Apache England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 44 (45.36 %) Linux 2 43 (44.33 %) Java 3 42 (43.30 %) UNIX 4 38 (39.18 %) WebLogic 5 31 (31.96 %) J2EE 5 31 (31.96 %) MySQL 6 30 (30.93 %) PHP 7 29 (29.90 %) Solaris 8 27 (27.84 %) Tomcat 9 25 (25.77 %) Windows 10 23 (23.71 %) XML 11 20 (20.62 %) Oracle 12 18 (18.56 %) Telecoms 13 17 (17.53 %) WebServices 13 17 (17.53 %) Sun

14 16 (16.49 %) Middleware 15 15 (15.46 %) WebSphere 15 15 (15.46 %) Red Hat Linux 15 15 (15.46 %) Red Hat 16 14 (14.43 %) Shell Script 16 14 (14.43 %) Perl 17 13 (13.40 %) SQL 17 13 (13.40 %) Hibernate 17 13 (13.40 %) Agile Software Development 18 12 (12.37 %) HTML 18 12 (12.37 %) SOA 18 12 (12.37 %) Disaster Recovery 18 12 (12.37 %) TCP/IP 19 11 (11.34 %) HTTP 19 11 (11.34 %) NetApp

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 31 (31.96 %) J2EE 2 23 (23.71 %) XML 3 17 (17.53 %) WebServices 4 16 (16.49 %) Middleware 5 15 (15.46 %) WebSphere 6 13 (13.40 %) Hibernate 7 12 (12.37 %) HTML 8 9 (9.278 %) CSS 8 9 (9.278 %) JSP 8 9 (9.278 %) SOAP 8 9 (9.278 %) Struts 8 9 (9.278 %) WSDL 9 7 (7.216 %) Tapestry 9 7 (7.216 %) Apache Wicket 10 6 (6.186 %) JSR 168 10 6 (6.186 %) AJAX 10 6 (6.186 %) XSLT 11 5 (5.155 %) XHTML 11 5 (5.155 %) Spring 11 5 (5.155 %) LAMP	Application Platforms 1 38 (39.18 %) WebLogic 2 27 (27.84 %) Tomcat 3 10 (10.31 %) JBoss 4 7 (7.216 %) IIS 4 7 (7.216 %) Tuxedo 5 6 (6.186 %) Rendezvous 5 6 (6.186 %) TIBCO EMS 6 5 (5.155 %) Resin 6 5 (5.155 %) MQSeries 7 4 (4.124 %) Oracle Application Server 8 3 (3.093 %) MS Exchange 9 2 (2.062 %) WebSphere MQ 9 2 (2.062 %) WebSphere Application Server 10 1 (1.031 %) ESB 10 1 (1.031 %) Zope
Applications 1 3 (3.093 %) Photoshop 2 1 (1.031 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 1 (1.031 %) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking 1 12 (12.37 %) TCP/IP 2 11 (11.34 %) HTTP 3 10 (10.31 %) SAN 4 8 (8.247 %) Firewall 5 7 (7.216 %) Wi-Fi 5 7 (7.216 %) Internet 5 7 (7.216 %) DNS 5 7 (7.216 %) FTP 6 5 (5.155 %) SMTP 6 5 (5.155 %) SSH 6 5 (5.155 %) SMPP 7 3 (3.093 %) LDAP 8 2 (2.062 %) DHCP 8 2 (2.062 %) Intrusion Detection 8 2 (2.062 %) Wireless 9 1 (1.031 %) RTSP 9 1 (1.031 %) Cisco PIX 9 1 (1.031 %) SSL 9 1 (1.031 %) RTP 9 1 (1.031 %) SMS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 31 (31.96 %) MySQL 2 7 (7.216 %) DB2 3 4 (4.124 %) SQL Server 4 3 (3.093 %) Oracle 9i 4 3 (3.093 %) RDBMS 4 3 (3.093 %) IDOL 5 2 (2.062 %) Oracle 10g 6 1 (1.031 %) SQLite 6 1 (1.031 %) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications 1 8 (8.247 %) Ant 2 6 (6.186 %) Subversion 3 5 (5.155 %) Bugzilla 4 2 (2.062 %) ClearCase 5 1 (1.031 %) Eclipse 5 1 (1.031 %) LoadRunner 5 1 (1.031 %) ClearQuest 5 1 (1.031 %) JUnit 5 1 (1.031 %) Flash	General 1 18 (18.56 %) Telecoms 2 9 (9.278 %) Finance 3 6 (6.186 %) Insurance 4 5 (5.155 %) Back Office 5 4 (4.124 %) Banking 6 3 (3.093 %) Graphic Design 7 2 (2.062 %) Advertising 7 2 (2.062 %) Retail 8 1 (1.031 %) Electronics 8 1 (1.031 %) Construction 8 1 (1.031 %) Education 8 1 (1.031 %) Electric 8 1 (1.031 %) Government
Job Titles 1 37 (38.14 %) Developer 2 16 (16.49 %) Java Developer 3 12 (12.37 %) Administrator 4 11 (11.34 %) Analyst 5 9 (9.278 %) Support Analyst 6 7 (7.216 %) Senior Developer 6 7 (7.216 %) Consultant 6 7 (7.216 %) Systems Administrator 6 7 (7.216 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 6 7 (7.216 %) UNIX Administrator 6 7 (7.216 %) Web Analyst 7 6 (6.186 %) Senior Java Developer 7 6 (6.186 %) Java/J2EE Developer 7 6 (6.186 %) Software Engineer 7 6 (6.186 %) Web Developer 8 5 (5.155 %) PHP Developer 9 4 (4.124 %) Linux Engineer 9 4 (4.124 %) J2EE Developer 10 3 (3.093 %) C++ Software Engineer 10 3 (3.093 %) Support Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 3 (3.093 %) W3C 1 3 (3.093 %) Web 2.0 2 2 (2.062 %) IPTV 2 2 (2.062 %) Computer Science 3 1 (1.031 %) Data Integration 3 1 (1.031 %) Client/Server 3 1 (1.031 %) Mathematics 3 1 (1.031 %) Physics 3 1 (1.031 %) Blackberry 3 1 (1.031 %) e-Health 3 1 (1.031 %) PKI
Operating Systems 1 44 (45.36 %) Linux 2 42 (43.30 %) UNIX 3 29 (29.90 %) Solaris 4 25 (25.77 %) Windows 5 15 (15.46 %) Red Hat Linux 6 8 (8.247 %) Windows CE 7 5 (5.155 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 5 (5.155 %) CentOS 8 3 (3.093 %) SUSE 9 2 (2.062 %) Windows Server 2003 9 2 (2.062 %) HPUX 9 2 (2.062 %) Windows 2000 9 2 (2.062 %) FreeBSD 9 2 (2.062 %) Windows XP 10 1 (1.031 %) Symbian OS	Processes & Methodologies 1 13 (13.40 %) Agile Software Development 2 12 (12.37 %) Disaster Recovery 2 12 (12.37 %) SOA 3 7 (7.216 %) Web Development 4 6 (6.186 %) OO 5 3 (3.093 %) UML 5 3 (3.093 %) Use Case 6 2 (2.062 %) OOD 6 2 (2.062 %) Project Management 6 2 (2.062 %) ITIL 6 2 (2.062 %) PRINCE2 6 2 (2.062 %) SC Cleared 6 2 (2.062 %) Security Cleared 7 1 (1.031 %) DV Cleared 7 1 (1.031 %) OOP 7 1 (1.031 %) OOA/OOD 7 1 (1.031 %) E-Commerce 7 1 (1.031 %) Configuration Management 7 1 (1.031 %) HOOD 7 1 (1.031 %) Migration
Programming Languages 1 43 (44.33 %) Java 2 30 (30.93 %) PHP 3 14 (14.43 %) Perl 3 14 (14.43 %) Shell Script 4 13 (13.40 %) SQL 5 10 (10.31 %) C++ 5 10 (10.31 %) C 6 9 (9.278 %) JavaScript 7 4 (4.124 %) XPath 7 4 (4.124 %) Python 8 3 (3.093 %) PHP4 8 3 (3.093 %) C# 9 2 (2.062 %) PL/SQL 9 2 (2.062 %) PHP5 10 1 (1.031 %) Transact-SQL 10 1 (1.031 %) ActionScript	Qualifications 1 11 (11.34 %) Degree 2 1 (1.031 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 1 (1.031 %) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (3.093 %) SLA 1 3 (3.093 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 1 3 (3.093 %) WCAG 1 3 (3.093 %) WAI	System Software 1 6 (6.186 %) Active Directory 1 6 (6.186 %) AquaLogic 2 2 (2.062 %) NFS 2 2 (2.062 %) NetBackup 3 1 (1.031 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 3 1 (1.031 %) Samba 3 1 (1.031 %) Oracle RAC
Systems Management 1 2 (2.062 %) Tivoli 2 1 (1.031 %) Netcool 2 1 (1.031 %) Netcool/OMNIbus	Vendors 1 20 (20.62 %) Oracle 2 17 (17.53 %) Sun 3 15 (15.46 %) Red Hat 4 11 (11.34 %) NetApp 5 7 (7.216 %) IBM 6 6 (6.186 %) TIBCO 7 4 (4.124 %) Microsoft 7 4 (4.124 %) BEA 8 2 (2.062 %) Cisco 8 2 (2.062 %) HP 8 2 (2.062 %) Google 8 2 (2.062 %) VERITAS 9 1 (1.031 %) Mapinfo 9 1 (1.031 %) Mercator 9 1 (1.031 %) ATG 9 1 (1.031 %) Symbian