The first table below looks at the demand for Tomcat skills in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Tomcat over the 3 months to 23 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 Glasgow 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Tomcat
Rank 58 40 46
Rank change year-on-year
-18 +6
Contract jobs citing Tomcat 24 17 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 2.537% 2.199% 2.401%
As % of the Application Platforms category 14.37% 13.08% 10.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 4 13
Average daily rate £338 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.57% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £287 £315 £288
10% offered a daily rate of more than £393 £368 £391
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £338 £350
% change year-on-year
+3.70% -3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £23.75 £23.00
% change year-on-year
+36.84% +3.26%
All Application Platforms
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
167 130 164
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 17.65% 16.82% 23.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 48 80
Average daily rate £338 £311 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.52% -11.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £233 £238 £241
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 5
Average hourly rate £14.00 £26.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-46.15% -35.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%
Tomcat
Scotland

Tomcat
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow Tomcat Hourly Rate Trend

Tomcat
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 61 (93.85%) Java
2 48 (73.85%) Spring
3 38 (58.46%) SQL
4 27 (41.54%) Sybase
5 26 (40.00%) XML
5 26 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
6 25 (38.46%) Eclipse
7 24 (36.92%) Web Services
8 23 (35.38%) SQL Server
8 23 (35.38%) Hibernate
9 21 (32.31%) Enterprise Software
10 20 (30.77%) Oracle
10 20 (30.77%) Apache
11 18 (27.69%) Scrum
11 18 (27.69%) Continuous Integration
12 16 (24.62%) Subversion
12 16 (24.62%) UNIX
13 15 (23.08%) Windows
14 14 (21.54%) JMS
14 14 (21.54%) Maven
14 14 (21.54%) Finance
15 12 (18.46%) JIRA
16 11 (16.92%) Unit Testing
17 10 (15.38%) XML Schema
17 10 (15.38%) JBoss
17 10 (15.38%) SOAP
17 10 (15.38%) J2EE
18 9 (13.85%) Degree
18 9 (13.85%) Mule
18 9 (13.85%) Jenkins

Tomcat
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 48 (73.85%) Spring
2 26 (40.00%) XML
3 24 (36.92%) Web Services
4 23 (35.38%) Hibernate
5 14 (21.54%) JMS
6 10 (15.38%) XML Schema
6 10 (15.38%) SOAP
6 10 (15.38%) J2EE
7 8 (12.31%) WebSphere
8 5 (7.692%) RESTful
8 5 (7.692%) Apache CXF
8 5 (7.692%) Ruby on Rails
9 4 (6.154%) JSON
9 4 (6.154%) Middleware
10 3 (4.615%) JFace
10 3 (4.615%) Velocity
10 3 (4.615%) Spring MVC
10 3 (4.615%) SWT
11 2 (3.077%) XSLT
11 2 (3.077%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 20 (30.77%) Apache
2 9 (13.85%) Mule
3 6 (9.231%) WebLogic
4 5 (7.692%) Oracle Coherence
4 5 (7.692%) ESB
5 3 (4.615%) WebSphere Transformation Extender
5 3 (4.615%) MQSeries
5 3 (4.615%) Documentum
5 3 (4.615%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (4.615%) WebSphere Message Broker
5 3 (4.615%) GlassFish
6 1 (1.538%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.538%) GemFire
Applications
1 1 (1.538%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.077%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (35.38%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.615%) RDBMS
3 2 (3.077%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.538%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 25 (38.46%) Eclipse
2 16 (24.62%) Subversion
3 14 (21.54%) Maven
4 12 (18.46%) JIRA
5 9 (13.85%) Jenkins
6 8 (12.31%) JUnit
7 7 (10.77%) Selenium
8 6 (9.231%) CruiseControl
8 6 (9.231%) Ant
8 6 (9.231%) Cucumber
9 3 (4.615%) TeamCity
9 3 (4.615%) Hudson
9 3 (4.615%) Eclipse RCP
9 3 (4.615%) Trac
9 3 (4.615%) Bugzilla
10 1 (1.538%) MSBuild
10 1 (1.538%) JMeter
General
1 14 (21.54%) Finance
2 5 (7.692%) Banking
3 3 (4.615%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 49 (75.38%) Developer
2 40 (61.54%) Java Developer
3 6 (9.231%) Senior Developer
3 6 (9.231%) Senior Java Developer
3 6 (9.231%) ScrumMaster
4 4 (6.154%) Consultant
5 3 (4.615%) Designer
5 3 (4.615%) Configuration Manager
5 3 (4.615%) Documentum Developer
5 3 (4.615%) WebSphere Developer
6 2 (3.077%) Build Manager
6 2 (3.077%) WebSphere Consultant
6 2 (3.077%) Agile Java Developer
7 1 (1.538%) Tester
7 1 (1.538%) Applications Developer
7 1 (1.538%) Data Warehouse Consultant
7 1 (1.538%) Software Tester
7 1 (1.538%) Test Engineer
7 1 (1.538%) SQL Developer
7 1 (1.538%) Oracle Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 21 (32.31%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (7.692%) N-Tier
2 5 (7.692%) Clustering
3 3 (4.615%) Blackberry
3 3 (4.615%) Computer Science
4 2 (3.077%) Derivative
4 2 (3.077%) Equity Derivative
4 2 (3.077%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.538%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.538%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.538%) RIA
5 1 (1.538%) Ergonomics
Operating Systems
1 16 (24.62%) UNIX
2 15 (23.08%) Windows
3 7 (10.77%) Linux
4 3 (4.615%) Windows XP
4 3 (4.615%) Windows Vista
4 3 (4.615%) Windows Mobile
5 2 (3.077%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (3.077%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
2 18 (27.69%) Scrum
2 18 (27.69%) Continuous Integration
3 11 (16.92%) Unit Testing
4 8 (12.31%) Test Automation
4 8 (12.31%) SOA
5 7 (10.77%) Data Modelling
5 7 (10.77%) Extreme Programming
6 5 (7.692%) Multithreading
6 5 (7.692%) OO
6 5 (7.692%) TDD
7 4 (6.154%) Kanban
7 4 (6.154%) Product Management
8 3 (4.615%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (4.615%) OOA/OOD
8 3 (4.615%) MVC
8 3 (4.615%) Risk Management
8 3 (4.615%) Validation
8 3 (4.615%) Software Testing
8 3 (4.615%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 61 (93.85%) Java
2 38 (58.46%) SQL
3 8 (12.31%) T-SQL
4 7 (10.77%) C#
5 5 (7.692%) C++
5 5 (7.692%) Ruby
6 4 (6.154%) PL/SQL
7 3 (4.615%) Shell Script
7 3 (4.615%) Python
7 3 (4.615%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.615%) Jython
8 2 (3.077%) Korn
8 2 (3.077%) Perl
8 2 (3.077%) Bash shell
9 1 (1.538%) Smalltalk
9 1 (1.538%) XPath
Qualifications
1 9 (13.85%) Degree
2 2 (3.077%) ISEB
2 2 (3.077%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.077%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.615%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.538%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.538%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 27 (41.54%) Sybase
2 20 (30.77%) Oracle
3 10 (15.38%) JBoss
4 6 (9.231%) Informatica
5 3 (4.615%) IBM
5 3 (4.615%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.538%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.538%) BEA
6 1 (1.538%) HP
6 1 (1.538%) VMware