Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the 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 16 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Platforms category for the London region.

 Apache HTTP Server
Location
3 months to
16 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank128132151
Rank change year-on-year
Up+4Up+19
Matching contract IT job ads345192402
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London1.360 %1.149 %1.109 %
As % of the Application Platforms category10.54 %7.491 %8.181 %
Daily rates quoted12274161
Average daily rate£375£350£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.140 %-12.50 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£250£228£275
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£550£425£525
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£350£331
% change year-on-year
-7.140 %+5.660 %
Hourly rates quoted644
Average hourly rate£18.13£29.00£29.61
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-37.50 %-2.060 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£16.00£20.90£21.62
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£22.63£42.00£39.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate£35.00£30.50£30.00
% change year-on-year
+14.75 %+1.660 %
London IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryAll Application Platforms
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
327225634914
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London12.90 %15.34 %13.56 %
Daily rates quoted16399191794
Average daily rate£400£388£405
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.220 %-4.270 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£240£213£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£550£525£575
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£345£375
% change year-on-year
-5.790 %-8.000 %
Hourly rates quoted125156345
Average hourly rate£19.50£22.50£21.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.33 %+3.440 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£12.00£14.40£13.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£43.00£40.50£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£17.50£22.50£20.00
% change year-on-year
-22.22 %+12.50 %
Apache EnglandApache
England

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.

Apache
Demand Trend

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

London Apache Demand Trend

Apache
Daily Rate Trend

The 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

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Apache across the London region over the 3 months to 16 March 2010.

London Apache Daily Rate Histogram

Apache
Hourly Rate Trend

The 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 16 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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 LondonDown-1182£425+4.61 %
LutonDown-54£375-
CroydonNew entry-4£230-
BrentfordNew entry-1--
UxbridgeNew entry-1--
Apache EnglandApache
England

Apache
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 March 2010, 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.

1317 (54.94 %)Linux
2271 (46.97 %)Java
3234 (40.55 %)Tomcat
4166 (28.77 %)MySQL
5165 (28.60 %)Windows
6160 (27.73 %)PHP
7157 (27.21 %)UNIX
8147 (25.48 %)Oracle
9142 (24.61 %)SQL
10127 (22.01 %)Banking
11115 (19.93 %)JavaScript
12110 (19.06 %)Red Hat Linux
13106 (18.37 %)Red Hat
14104 (18.02 %)IIS
15101 (17.50 %)HTML
1699 (17.16 %)CSS
1792 (15.94 %)JSP
1891 (15.77 %)Subversion
1990 (15.60 %)J2EE
2086 (14.90 %)XML
2181 (14.04 %)Perl
2278 (13.52 %)Hibernate
2278 (13.52 %)Spring
2371 (12.31 %)SQL Server
2470 (12.13 %)JBoss
2568 (11.79 %)Solaris
2664 (11.09 %)OO
2763 (10.92 %)E-Commerce
2862 (10.75 %)Agile Software Development
2961 (10.57 %)Investment Banking

Apache
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 March 2010, 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.

London IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1101 (17.50 %)HTML
299 (17.16 %)CSS
392 (15.94 %)JSP
490 (15.60 %)J2EE
586 (14.90 %)XML
678 (13.52 %)Hibernate
678 (13.52 %)Spring
759 (10.23 %)Web Services
857 (9.879 %)JDBC
956 (9.705 %)AJAX
956 (9.705 %)WebSphere
1048 (8.319 %)XSLT
1145 (7.799 %)Struts
1145 (7.799 %).NET
1145 (7.799 %)LAMP
1244 (7.626 %)Middleware
1340 (6.932 %)Servlets
1428 (4.853 %)Java EE
1524 (4.159 %)SOAP
1622 (3.813 %)ASP
London IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1234 (40.55 %)Tomcat
2104 (18.02 %)IIS
359 (10.23 %)WebLogic
441 (7.106 %)CMS
539 (6.759 %)Drupal
628 (4.853 %)TIBCO EMS
726 (4.506 %)WebSphere Application Server
813 (2.253 %)WebSphere Portal
912 (2.080 %)WordPress
912 (2.080 %)Alfresco
1010 (1.733 %)Joomla!
1010 (1.733 %)IBM HTTP Server
119 (1.560 %)WebSphere MQ
119 (1.560 %)ESB
127 (1.213 %)SharePoint
136 (1.040 %)Documentum
145 (0.867 %)MQSeries
145 (0.867 %)ColdFusion
154 (0.693 %)Confluence
154 (0.693 %)Oracle HTTP Server
London IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
118 (3.120 %)MS Excel
215 (2.600 %)MS Office
312 (2.080 %)MS PowerPoint
45 (0.867 %)MS Project
45 (0.867 %)Photoshop
53 (0.520 %)MS Visio
61 (0.173 %)Fireworks
London IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
110 (1.733 %)TIBCO iProcess
29 (1.560 %)BusinessWorks
38 (1.386 %)Oracle BPM
45 (0.867 %)Oracle iStore
54 (0.693 %)Maximo
54 (0.693 %)WebTrends
61 (0.173 %)SAP FI
61 (0.173 %)Oracle EBS
61 (0.173 %)SAP CO
61 (0.173 %)SAP FI/CO
61 (0.173 %)Oracle Applications
London IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
158 (10.05 %)Internet
250 (8.666 %)HTTP
342 (7.279 %)DNS
441 (7.106 %)LDAP
534 (5.893 %)Firewall
625 (4.333 %)TCP/IP
722 (3.813 %)BIG-IP
820 (3.466 %)SAN
916 (2.773 %)SSL
1013 (2.253 %)SMTP
1112 (2.080 %)Intranet
128 (1.386 %)SSH
136 (1.040 %)FTP
136 (1.040 %)VPN
145 (0.867 %)WAN
145 (0.867 %)LAN
145 (0.867 %)VLAN
154 (0.693 %)Wi-Fi
154 (0.693 %)Broadband
154 (0.693 %)SNMP
London IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1166 (28.77 %)MySQL
271 (12.31 %)SQL Server
326 (4.506 %)RDBMS
418 (3.120 %)Oracle 10g
517 (2.946 %)Oracle Reports
610 (1.733 %)BusinessObjects
79 (1.560 %)SQL Server 2005
88 (1.386 %)SQL Server 2000
94 (0.693 %)PostgreSQL
94 (0.693 %)Datawarehouse
94 (0.693 %)DB2
102 (0.347 %)CouchDB
102 (0.347 %)SQLPlus
102 (0.347 %)Oracle 8/8i
102 (0.347 %)ETL
111 (0.173 %)Oracle 9i
111 (0.173 %)JasperReports
111 (0.173 %)Data Mart
111 (0.173 %)SQL Server 2008
111 (0.173 %)KDB
London IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
191 (15.77 %)Subversion
253 (9.185 %)Maven
351 (8.839 %)JUnit
450 (8.666 %)Ant
525 (4.333 %)Eclipse
623 (3.986 %)JMeter
719 (3.293 %)NUnit
815 (2.600 %)VSS/SourceSafe
912 (2.080 %)TeamCity
912 (2.080 %)WebDriver
912 (2.080 %)IntelliJ
1010 (1.733 %)JIRA
114 (0.693 %)EasyMock
122 (0.347 %)Selenium
122 (0.347 %)ClearCase
131 (0.173 %)Visual Studio
131 (0.173 %)ClearQuest
131 (0.173 %)XMLSpy
131 (0.173 %)PowerBuilder
131 (0.173 %)Bugzilla
London IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1127 (22.01 %)Banking
261 (10.57 %)Investment Banking
352 (9.012 %)Finance
427 (4.679 %)Front Office
519 (3.293 %)Games
615 (2.600 %)Government
711 (1.906 %)Law
89 (1.560 %)Marketing
97 (1.213 %)Education
97 (1.213 %)Telecoms
106 (1.040 %)Publishing
106 (1.040 %)Multimedia
106 (1.040 %)Health
115 (0.867 %)Financial Institution
124 (0.693 %)Mobile Games
133 (0.520 %)Back Office
133 (0.520 %)Legal
133 (0.520 %)Police
133 (0.520 %)Online Betting
142 (0.347 %)Graphic Design
London IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1296 (51.30 %)Developer
2125 (21.66 %)Java Developer
364 (11.09 %)Administrator
463 (10.92 %)PHP Developer
553 (9.185 %)Systems Administrator
645 (7.799 %)Senior Developer
738 (6.586 %)Analyst
832 (5.546 %)Web Developer
832 (5.546 %)Senior Java Developer
925 (4.333 %)Linux Administrator
1024 (4.159 %)Systems Engineer
1123 (3.986 %)Linux Systems Administrator
1222 (3.813 %)Web Engineer
1222 (3.813 %)UNIX Administrator
1222 (3.813 %)Linux Engineer
1320 (3.466 %)Java/J2EE Developer
1320 (3.466 %)UNIX Systems Administrator
1320 (3.466 %)J2EE Developer
1419 (3.293 %)Support Engineer
1419 (3.293 %)Architect
London IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
132 (5.546 %)Open Source
215 (2.600 %)N-Tier
311 (1.906 %)Fixed Income
410 (1.733 %)Derivative
410 (1.733 %)Clustering
58 (1.386 %)Equities
58 (1.386 %)BBC
67 (1.213 %)Computer Science
76 (1.040 %)iPhone
76 (1.040 %)Data Protection Act
76 (1.040 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
76 (1.040 %)W3C
85 (0.867 %)HACMP
85 (0.867 %)Blackberry
85 (0.867 %)PKI
85 (0.867 %)Mathematics
85 (0.867 %)Wiki
85 (0.867 %)Credit Risk
85 (0.867 %)RIA
94 (0.693 %)Social Network
London IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1317 (54.94 %)Linux
2165 (28.60 %)Windows
3157 (27.21 %)UNIX
4110 (19.06 %)Red Hat Linux
568 (11.79 %)Solaris
655 (9.532 %)Windows Server 2003
740 (6.932 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
817 (2.946 %)Windows XP
817 (2.946 %)Windows Server 2008
914 (2.426 %)CentOS
1011 (1.906 %)AIX
1011 (1.906 %)HPUX
118 (1.386 %)Windows 2000
126 (1.040 %)Windows 2000 Server
135 (0.867 %)Android
144 (0.693 %)Debian
144 (0.693 %)Tru64
153 (0.520 %)Ubuntu
162 (0.347 %)Fedora
171 (0.173 %)Mac OS X
London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
164 (11.09 %)OO
263 (10.92 %)E-Commerce
362 (10.75 %)Agile Software Development
434 (5.893 %)Continuous Integration
525 (4.333 %)Content Management
624 (4.159 %)Scrum
723 (3.986 %)User Acceptance Testing
822 (3.813 %)Web Development
822 (3.813 %)ITIL
918 (3.120 %)Project Management
918 (3.120 %)Workflow
1017 (2.946 %)Unit Testing
1116 (2.773 %)Migration
1116 (2.773 %)SOA
1215 (2.600 %)Disaster Recovery
1215 (2.600 %)TDD
1314 (2.426 %)Load Balancing
1314 (2.426 %)Change Management
1314 (2.426 %)OOD
1413 (2.253 %)RAD
London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1271 (46.97 %)Java
2160 (27.73 %)PHP
3142 (24.61 %)SQL
4115 (19.93 %)JavaScript
581 (14.04 %)Perl
649 (8.492 %)Shell Script
734 (5.893 %)C#
831 (5.373 %)Python
924 (4.159 %)PL/SQL
1019 (3.293 %)C
1019 (3.293 %)PHP5
1118 (3.120 %)Bash shell
1213 (2.253 %)C++
1310 (1.733 %)ActionScript
1310 (1.733 %)VBA
149 (1.560 %)VB
157 (1.213 %)Korn
165 (0.867 %)VB.NET
165 (0.867 %)PHP4
174 (0.693 %)Groovy
London IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
126 (4.506 %)Security Cleared
214 (2.426 %)Degree
38 (1.386 %)DV Cleared
47 (1.213 %)Cisco Certification
56 (1.040 %)SC Cleared
64 (0.693 %)BC Cleared
72 (0.347 %)Linux+ Certification
72 (0.347 %)CISM
72 (0.347 %)CISSP
72 (0.347 %)ISEB
72 (0.347 %)PRINCE2 Certification
72 (0.347 %)Microsoft Certification
72 (0.347 %)MCSE
72 (0.347 %)CCNA
81 (0.173 %)OCP
81 (0.173 %)Oracle Certification
81 (0.173 %)Sun Certification
81 (0.173 %)CTC Cleared
London IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
18 (1.386 %)QA
26 (1.040 %)SLA
31 (0.173 %)COBIT
London IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
121 (3.640 %)Active Directory
219 (3.293 %)VMware Infrastructure
311 (1.906 %)Oracle RAC
410 (1.733 %)Squid
58 (1.386 %)NFS
65 (0.867 %)Hyper-V
65 (0.867 %)Sendmail
73 (0.520 %)VMware ESX
73 (0.520 %)XenServer
82 (0.347 %)qmail
82 (0.347 %)Veritas Cluster Server
82 (0.347 %)Xen
82 (0.347 %)Snort
82 (0.347 %)Samba
91 (0.173 %)ISA Server
91 (0.173 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
91 (0.173 %)Citrix Presentation Server
91 (0.173 %)Hadoop
91 (0.173 %)Postfix
91 (0.173 %)XenApp
London IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
118 (3.120 %)Tivoli
28 (1.386 %)Nagios
34 (0.693 %)Cacti
34 (0.693 %)NetBackup
34 (0.693 %)CA SiteMinder
43 (0.520 %)AutoSys
43 (0.520 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
43 (0.520 %)YUM
52 (0.347 %)Zenoss
61 (0.173 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
61 (0.173 %)MSI
61 (0.173 %)Tivoli Identity Manager
61 (0.173 %)ZABBIX
London IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1147 (25.48 %)Oracle
2106 (18.37 %)Red Hat
370 (12.13 %)JBoss
450 (8.666 %)Microsoft
543 (7.452 %)TIBCO
640 (6.932 %)IBM
730 (5.199 %)VMware
821 (3.640 %)HP
919 (3.293 %)Zend
919 (3.293 %)Sun
1016 (2.773 %)Google
1115 (2.600 %)Cisco
1214 (2.426 %)Sybase
1214 (2.426 %)Adobe
1310 (1.733 %)Alterian
1310 (1.733 %)McAfee
1310 (1.733 %)Business Objects
149 (1.560 %)BEA
149 (1.560 %)Fujitsu
158 (1.386 %)ILOG