The first table below looks at the demand for Apache skills in IT contracts advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Apache over the 3 months to 20 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 Kent 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache HTTP Server
Rank - 35 39
Contract jobs citing Apache 0 2 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent - 0.741% 1.905%
As % of the Application Platforms category - 4.348% 9.375%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 5
Average daily rate - - £263
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £34.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -27.53%
All Application Platforms
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
66 46 64
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 22.00% 17.04% 20.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 27 44
Average daily rate £295 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.66% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £235 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £368 £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
Average hourly rate £14.75 £17.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.23% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
Apache
South East

Apache
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent Apache Hourly Rate Trend

Apache
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 3 (75.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) FreeBSD
2 2 (50.00%) SAN
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) MySQL
2 2 (50.00%) PHP
2 2 (50.00%) UNIX
2 2 (50.00%) VoIP
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) OpenBSD
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) nginx
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (25.00%) iSeries
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) Open Source
3 1 (25.00%) Memcached
3 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (25.00%) F5
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (25.00%) CentOS
3 1 (25.00%) Replication
3 1 (25.00%) Clustering
3 1 (25.00%) Fedora
3 1 (25.00%) Backup Exec
3 1 (25.00%) Ubuntu
3 1 (25.00%) Squid
3 1 (25.00%) VLAN
3 1 (25.00%) WebSphere

Apache
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 1 (25.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (25.00%) Memcached
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) nginx
2 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2007
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) VoIP
1 2 (50.00%) SAN
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) IPsec
2 1 (25.00%) VLAN
2 1 (25.00%) iSCSI
2 1 (25.00%) Internet
2 1 (25.00%) MPLS
2 1 (25.00%) VRRP
2 1 (25.00%) SMTP
2 1 (25.00%) HTTP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) WebLOAD
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) DBA
1 1 (25.00%) UNIX Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Head of IT
1 1 (25.00%) UNIX Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Senior UNIX Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Linux Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL DBA
1 1 (25.00%) Head of Infrastructure
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (25.00%) Replication
1 1 (25.00%) Clustering
1 1 (25.00%) iSeries
1 1 (25.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) FreeBSD
2 2 (50.00%) OpenBSD
2 2 (50.00%) UNIX
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) Fedora
3 1 (25.00%) Ubuntu
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (25.00%) CentOS
3 1 (25.00%) VMS
3 1 (25.00%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL
1 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (25.00%) Service Management
1 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (25.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) F5
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) IBM
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) HP
3 1 (25.00%) Intel
3 1 (25.00%) Avaya
3 1 (25.00%) Nokia