The first table below looks at the demand for Apache skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Apache 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 London 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 HTTP Server
Rank 115 103 131
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +28
Contract jobs citing Apache 369 518 469
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 1.705% 1.923% 1.484%
As % of the Application Platforms category 9.200% 11.86% 8.927%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 348 284
Average daily rate £414 £375 £390
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.33% -3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £250 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 3
Average hourly rate £43.50 £69.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-37.41% +178.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £34.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -27.53%
All Application Platforms
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
4011 4367 5254
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 18.54% 16.22% 16.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2562 2707 3223
Average daily rate £400 £380 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.26% -10.58%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 127 178
Average hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.40 £13.00 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £40.00 £41.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%
Apache
England

Apache
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London Apache Daily Rate Trend

Apache
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Apache across the London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

London Apache Daily Rate Histogram

Apache
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Apache across the London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 23 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
City of London -21 81 £400 +14.28%
Docklands, London +3 4 £500 +5.26%
Canary Wharf -8 4 £258 -48.50%
Brentford -8 2 £475 +5.55%
Surbiton - 2 - -
Uxbridge +4 1 - -
Hammersmith +2 1 £400 +14.28%
Harrow 0 1 £363 +81.25%
Kingston Upon Thames - 1 £375 -
Ealing - 1 - -
Apache
England

Apache
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

1 443 (61.44%) Linux
2 342 (47.43%) Java
3 264 (36.62%) MySQL
4 239 (33.15%) Tomcat
5 213 (29.54%) Windows
6 193 (26.77%) UNIX
7 186 (25.80%) Oracle
8 177 (24.55%) JavaScript
9 175 (24.27%) SQL
9 175 (24.27%) Web Services
10 174 (24.13%) PHP
10 174 (24.13%) Red Hat
11 171 (23.72%) XML
12 170 (23.58%) HTML
13 161 (22.33%) CSS
14 150 (20.80%) IIS
15 142 (19.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 138 (19.14%) J2EE
17 131 (18.17%) Perl
18 122 (16.92%) SOAP
19 119 (16.50%) Spring
20 112 (15.53%) jQuery
21 109 (15.12%) JBoss
22 108 (14.98%) Open Source
23 106 (14.70%) Firewall
24 105 (14.56%) E-Commerce
25 101 (14.01%) WebSphere
26 98 (13.59%) SQL Server
26 98 (13.59%) Subversion
27 97 (13.45%) VMware

Apache
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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
1 175 (24.27%) Web Services
2 171 (23.72%) XML
3 170 (23.58%) HTML
4 161 (22.33%) CSS
5 138 (19.14%) J2EE
6 122 (16.92%) SOAP
7 119 (16.50%) Spring
8 112 (15.53%) jQuery
9 101 (14.01%) WebSphere
10 82 (11.37%) XSLT
11 76 (10.54%) JSP
12 71 (9.847%) Ajax
13 70 (9.709%) RESTful
14 69 (9.570%) .NET
15 64 (8.877%) HTML5
16 62 (8.599%) LAMP
17 61 (8.460%) Java EE
18 55 (7.628%) Hibernate
18 55 (7.628%) CSS3
19 50 (6.935%) REST
Application Platforms
1 239 (33.15%) Tomcat
2 150 (20.80%) IIS
3 94 (13.04%) WebLogic
4 61 (8.460%) WebSphere Application Server
5 53 (7.351%) Amazon AWS
6 38 (5.270%) nginx
7 34 (4.716%) CMS
8 24 (3.329%) Drupal
9 23 (3.190%) Amazon EC2
10 22 (3.051%) SharePoint
11 19 (2.635%) ESB
12 17 (2.358%) Apache Solr
13 15 (2.080%) IBM HTTP Server
14 14 (1.942%) Apache Pig
15 12 (1.664%) Mule
15 12 (1.664%) WebSphere MQ
15 12 (1.664%) WebLogic Portal
16 10 (1.387%) Oracle Workflow
17 9 (1.248%) SAS
17 9 (1.248%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 44 (6.103%) MS Excel
2 10 (1.387%) MS Office
3 8 (1.110%) SPSS
3 8 (1.110%) Photoshop
4 7 (0.971%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.277%) MS PowerPoint
6 1 (0.139%) MS Project
6 1 (0.139%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 12 (1.664%) RMDS
2 3 (0.416%) WebTrends
3 2 (0.277%) ION MarketView
3 2 (0.277%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.277%) BusinessWorks
3 2 (0.277%) PeopleSoft Financials
4 1 (0.139%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.139%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.139%) SiteCatalyst
4 1 (0.139%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.139%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 106 (14.70%) Firewall
2 91 (12.62%) DNS
3 88 (12.21%) SAN
4 80 (11.10%) TCP/IP
5 67 (9.293%) HTTP
6 61 (8.460%) LDAP
6 61 (8.460%) NAS
7 51 (7.074%) BIG-IP
8 45 (6.241%) Internet
9 40 (5.548%) SSL
10 39 (5.409%) NetScaler
11 26 (3.606%) DHCP
12 25 (3.467%) FTP
13 19 (2.635%) SMTP
14 16 (2.219%) VPN
15 14 (1.942%) Network Security
16 13 (1.803%) SNMP
16 13 (1.803%) RTP
16 13 (1.803%) RTSP
16 13 (1.803%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 264 (36.62%) MySQL
2 98 (13.59%) SQL Server
3 47 (6.519%) MongoDB
4 41 (5.687%) NoSQL
5 36 (4.993%) Apache Cassandra
6 30 (4.161%) RDBMS
7 26 (3.606%) Big Data
8 24 (3.329%) Hadoop
9 23 (3.190%) Oracle 8/8i
10 21 (2.913%) Redis
11 17 (2.358%) BusinessObjects XI
12 16 (2.219%) Oracle 11g
12 16 (2.219%) MarkLogic
13 15 (2.080%) BusinessObjects
14 14 (1.942%) CouchDB
14 14 (1.942%) Apache Hive
14 14 (1.942%) Oracle Reports
14 14 (1.942%) DB2
15 13 (1.803%) ReportNet
15 13 (1.803%) HBase
Development Applications
1 98 (13.59%) Subversion
2 84 (11.65%) Git (software)
3 73 (10.12%) Maven
4 64 (8.877%) JIRA
5 55 (7.628%) Jenkins
6 54 (7.490%) JUnit
7 39 (5.409%) Eclipse
8 33 (4.577%) Hudson
9 32 (4.438%) Selenium
10 30 (4.161%) Ant
11 22 (3.051%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 18 (2.497%) Mockito
13 16 (2.219%) Mercurial
14 9 (1.248%) ClearCase
15 8 (1.110%) TeamCity
15 8 (1.110%) PHPUnit
15 8 (1.110%) Spring Roo
15 8 (1.110%) GitHub
16 7 (0.971%) Team Foundation Server
17 6 (0.832%) AnthillPro
General
1 86 (11.93%) Finance
2 71 (9.847%) Banking
3 43 (5.964%) Retail
4 31 (4.300%) Publishing
5 23 (3.190%) Investment Banking
6 21 (2.913%) Retail Banking
7 16 (2.219%) Telecoms
8 12 (1.664%) Games
9 9 (1.248%) Back Office
10 5 (0.693%) Front Office
10 5 (0.693%) Marketing
11 4 (0.555%) Advertising
12 3 (0.416%) Multimedia
12 3 (0.416%) German Language
13 2 (0.277%) Music
13 2 (0.277%) Dutch Language
13 2 (0.277%) French Language
13 2 (0.277%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.139%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.139%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 277 (38.42%) Developer
2 98 (13.59%) Java Developer
3 76 (10.54%) Administrator
4 67 (9.293%) Systems Administrator
5 58 (8.044%) Systems Engineer
6 54 (7.490%) Senior Developer
7 52 (7.212%) Architect
8 51 (7.074%) Linux Administrator
9 46 (6.380%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 44 (6.103%) DevOps Engineer
11 43 (5.964%) PHP Developer
12 39 (5.409%) Support Engineer
13 38 (5.270%) Linux Engineer
14 27 (3.745%) Web Developer
14 27 (3.745%) Senior Java Developer
15 24 (3.329%) Analyst
16 23 (3.190%) Senior Support Engineer
16 23 (3.190%) Consultant
17 22 (3.051%) Web Engineer
18 20 (2.774%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 108 (14.98%) Open Source
2 47 (6.519%) Computer Science
3 46 (6.380%) Clustering
4 39 (5.409%) PKI
5 32 (4.438%) W3C
6 17 (2.358%) N-Tier
7 14 (1.942%) Derivative
8 12 (1.664%) Digital Media
8 12 (1.664%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 11 (1.526%) Blackberry
9 11 (1.526%) Taxonomies
9 11 (1.526%) Semantic Web
10 10 (1.387%) iPhone
10 10 (1.387%) Statistics
10 10 (1.387%) Ontologies
10 10 (1.387%) IaaS
10 10 (1.387%) Replication
10 10 (1.387%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.248%) Mainframe
11 9 (1.248%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 443 (61.44%) Linux
2 213 (29.54%) Windows
3 193 (26.77%) UNIX
4 142 (19.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 65 (9.015%) Windows Server 2003
6 63 (8.738%) Windows Server 2008
6 63 (8.738%) Solaris
7 58 (8.044%) Windows XP
8 41 (5.687%) CentOS
9 31 (4.300%) Ubuntu
10 21 (2.913%) AIX
11 18 (2.497%) Windows 2000
12 17 (2.358%) Debian
13 15 (2.080%) Windows NT
13 15 (2.080%) Windows 7
14 11 (1.526%) Gentoo
15 9 (1.248%) VMS
15 9 (1.248%) SUSE
16 6 (0.832%) Android
16 6 (0.832%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (14.56%) E-Commerce
2 92 (12.76%) Continuous Integration
3 91 (12.62%) Agile Software Development
4 83 (11.51%) TDD
5 76 (10.54%) OO
6 68 (9.431%) MVC
7 55 (7.628%) Scrum
8 41 (5.687%) SOA
9 37 (5.132%) Load Balancing
10 34 (4.716%) ITIL
11 33 (4.577%) Software Engineering
11 33 (4.577%) Unit Testing
12 31 (4.300%) Change Control
13 30 (4.161%) Multithreading
13 30 (4.161%) Change Management
14 27 (3.745%) Analytics
15 26 (3.606%) Time Management
16 23 (3.190%) Content Management
17 21 (2.913%) User Acceptance Testing
17 21 (2.913%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 342 (47.43%) Java
2 177 (24.55%) JavaScript
3 175 (24.27%) SQL
4 174 (24.13%) PHP
5 131 (18.17%) Perl
6 74 (10.26%) Python
7 71 (9.847%) Bash shell
8 58 (8.044%) Shell Script
9 49 (6.796%) Ruby
10 31 (4.300%) C#
11 28 (3.883%) C++
12 27 (3.745%) PL/SQL
13 25 (3.467%) PHP5
14 18 (2.497%) VBScript
15 16 (2.219%) VB
15 16 (2.219%) C
16 15 (2.080%) XQuery
16 15 (2.080%) Groovy
17 13 (1.803%) Scala
18 10 (1.387%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 63 (8.738%) Degree
2 30 (4.161%) Security Cleared
3 24 (3.329%) RHCE
4 11 (1.526%) SC Cleared
4 11 (1.526%) DV Cleared
5 10 (1.387%) GWAPT
5 10 (1.387%) GPEN
5 10 (1.387%) GIAC
6 8 (1.110%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 8 (1.110%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (1.110%) PhD
7 6 (0.832%) CIPD
8 4 (0.555%) SCSA
8 4 (0.555%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.416%) MCSE
9 3 (0.416%) CCNA
9 3 (0.416%) RHCT
10 2 (0.277%) BC Cleared
10 2 (0.277%) PMP
10 2 (0.277%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (2.219%) QA
2 12 (1.664%) SLA
3 9 (1.248%) PCI DSS
4 6 (0.832%) WAI
System Software
1 57 (7.906%) VMware Infrastructure
2 32 (4.438%) vSphere
2 32 (4.438%) VMware ESX
3 27 (3.745%) Active Directory
3 27 (3.745%) Varnish
4 23 (3.190%) Samba
4 23 (3.190%) NFS
5 17 (2.358%) XenApp
6 16 (2.219%) Squid
7 15 (2.080%) Citrix Presentation Server
8 13 (1.803%) ProxySG
9 11 (1.526%) vCloud
9 11 (1.526%) Postfix
10 8 (1.110%) VMware ESXi
11 5 (0.693%) Oracle RAC
11 5 (0.693%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 5 (0.693%) SRDF
12 3 (0.416%) ISA Server
12 3 (0.416%) Nmap
12 3 (0.416%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 79 (10.96%) Puppet
2 56 (7.767%) Nagios
3 26 (3.606%) NetBackup
4 24 (3.329%) Backup Exec
5 19 (2.635%) SCOM
6 16 (2.219%) Zenoss
7 15 (2.080%) Legato
8 12 (1.664%) ZABBIX
9 10 (1.387%) Cobbler
10 9 (1.248%) OpenView
11 8 (1.110%) Cacti
12 7 (0.971%) CA SiteMinder
13 5 (0.693%) BladeLogic
13 5 (0.693%) EMC NetWorker
13 5 (0.693%) HP Quality Center
14 4 (0.555%) Splunk
15 3 (0.416%) Tivoli
15 3 (0.416%) YUM
15 3 (0.416%) SCCM
16 2 (0.277%) Ganglia
Vendors
1 186 (25.80%) Oracle
2 174 (24.13%) Red Hat
3 109 (15.12%) JBoss
4 97 (13.45%) VMware
4 97 (13.45%) Microsoft
5 68 (9.431%) Citrix
6 57 (7.906%) F5
7 56 (7.767%) IBM
8 49 (6.796%) HP
9 48 (6.657%) Cisco
10 43 (5.964%) Zend
11 38 (5.270%) NetApp
12 32 (4.438%) EMC
13 24 (3.329%) Veritas
14 23 (3.190%) SAP
15 20 (2.774%) Sun
15 20 (2.774%) FatWire
16 18 (2.497%) Business Objects
17 17 (2.358%) BMC
17 17 (2.358%) Sybase
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