The first table below looks at the demand for Tomcat skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh 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 49 61 54
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -7
Contract jobs citing Tomcat 8 2 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.960% 0.184% 1.081%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.369% 1.307% 8.589%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 3
Average daily rate £463 - £313
90% offered a daily rate of more than £334 - £283
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 - £331
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
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
149 153 163
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 17.89% 14.08% 12.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 60 58
Average daily rate £350 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £184 £200 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £430 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 4
Average hourly rate £20.00 £13.75 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+45.45% -21.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.40 £11.75 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.50 £14.00 £18.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
Tomcat
Scotland

Tomcat
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Tomcat Hourly Rate Trend

Tomcat
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 10 (100.00%) Apache
2 7 (70.00%) Java
3 5 (50.00%) Linux
3 5 (50.00%) SQL
3 5 (50.00%) Finance
4 3 (30.00%) Subversion
4 3 (30.00%) WebSphere
4 3 (30.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (30.00%) TortoiseSVN
4 3 (30.00%) J2EE
4 3 (30.00%) JBoss
4 3 (30.00%) Red Hat
4 3 (30.00%) Middleware
5 2 (20.00%) TIBCO
5 2 (20.00%) TeamSite
5 2 (20.00%) Eclipse
5 2 (20.00%) XML
5 2 (20.00%) UNIX
5 2 (20.00%) Oracle
5 2 (20.00%) WebLogic
5 2 (20.00%) Asset Management
5 2 (20.00%) Marketing
5 2 (20.00%) JIRA
5 2 (20.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (20.00%) Investment Management
5 2 (20.00%) Content Management
5 2 (20.00%) Spring
5 2 (20.00%) Maven
5 2 (20.00%) Migration
5 2 (20.00%) Cocoon

Tomcat
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 3 (30.00%) WebSphere
1 3 (30.00%) J2EE
1 3 (30.00%) Middleware
2 2 (20.00%) XML
2 2 (20.00%) Spring
2 2 (20.00%) Cocoon
2 2 (20.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (10.00%) JSP
3 1 (10.00%) Servlets
3 1 (10.00%) SOAP
3 1 (10.00%) Web Services
3 1 (10.00%) CGI
3 1 (10.00%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 10 (100.00%) Apache
2 2 (20.00%) TeamSite
2 2 (20.00%) WebLogic
2 2 (20.00%) LiveSite
3 1 (10.00%) WebSphere Message Broker
3 1 (10.00%) WebSphere Transformation Extender
3 1 (10.00%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (10.00%) MQSeries
3 1 (10.00%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle 11g
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (10.00%) TOAD
1 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle 9i
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Subversion
1 3 (30.00%) TortoiseSVN
2 2 (20.00%) Eclipse
2 2 (20.00%) JIRA
2 2 (20.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 2 (20.00%) Maven
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Marketing
3 1 (10.00%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (10.00%) DBA
4 1 (10.00%) WebSphere Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (10.00%) J2EE Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (30.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (20.00%) UNIX
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (10.00%) Windows
4 1 (10.00%) Solaris
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) Asset Management
1 2 (20.00%) Investment Management
1 2 (20.00%) Content Management
1 2 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (10.00%) Change Control
2 1 (10.00%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Java
2 5 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Korn
3 1 (10.00%) Bash shell
3 1 (10.00%) Perl
3 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (10.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) JBoss
1 3 (30.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (20.00%) TIBCO
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) Red Gate
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Sun
3 1 (10.00%) HP
3 1 (10.00%) Embarcadero