The first table below looks at the demand for Apache skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Apache over the 3 months to 20 June 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 Manchester 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 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache HTTP Server
Rank 43 70 58
Rank change year-on-year
+27 -12
Contract jobs citing Apache 27 14 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 2.778% 1.150% 0.975%
As % of the Application Platforms category 13.17% 6.278% 7.143%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 5
Average daily rate £238 £325 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-26.92% -18.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £160 £279 £333
10% offered a daily rate of more than £353 £329 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £350 £340
% change year-on-year
-3.50% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Average hourly rate - £22.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £23.75 £34.50
% change year-on-year
+36.84% -31.15%
All Application Platforms
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
205 223 140
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 21.09% 18.32% 13.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 122 83
Average daily rate £300 £300 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £168 £204 £192
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 15 11
Average hourly rate £17.50 £19.25 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.09% +75.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.00 £9.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.40 £22.75 £20.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +5.26%
Apache
North West

Apache
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester 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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester 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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 20 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Altrincham - - - -
Bolton - - - -
Cheadle - - - -
Rochdale - - - - 1
Sale - - - - 1
Stockport - - - - 3
Apache
North West

Apache
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 28 (65.12%) Linux
2 25 (58.14%) PHP
2 25 (58.14%) JavaScript
3 23 (53.49%) MySQL
4 22 (51.16%) CSS
5 17 (39.53%) Red Hat
6 15 (34.88%) Ruby
7 14 (32.56%) HTML
8 13 (30.23%) SQL
8 13 (30.23%) LAMP
9 11 (25.58%) LDAP
9 11 (25.58%) Puppet
10 10 (23.26%) Photoshop
11 9 (20.93%) UNIX
11 9 (20.93%) C
11 9 (20.93%) Perl
11 9 (20.93%) Netcool
11 9 (20.93%) Nagios
11 9 (20.93%) Telecoms
11 9 (20.93%) Active Directory
11 9 (20.93%) MS Visio
11 9 (20.93%) IBM
11 9 (20.93%) Ajax
11 9 (20.93%) Wiki
11 9 (20.93%) jQuery
12 7 (16.28%) HTML5
12 7 (16.28%) WordPress
12 7 (16.28%) Microsoft
13 6 (13.95%) Dreamweaver
13 6 (13.95%) Java

Apache
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 22 (51.16%) CSS
2 14 (32.56%) HTML
3 13 (30.23%) LAMP
4 9 (20.93%) Ajax
4 9 (20.93%) jQuery
5 7 (16.28%) HTML5
6 6 (13.95%) Web Services
6 6 (13.95%) XML
6 6 (13.95%) RESTful
6 6 (13.95%) JSON
6 6 (13.95%) CodeIgniter
7 5 (11.63%) XHTML
7 5 (11.63%) CSS3
8 4 (9.302%) Sass
8 4 (9.302%) .NET
8 4 (9.302%) Ruby on Rails
9 3 (6.977%) XSL
10 2 (4.651%) Regular Expression
10 2 (4.651%) ASP
10 2 (4.651%) Sinatra
Application Platforms
1 7 (16.28%) WordPress
2 6 (13.95%) Drupal
3 3 (6.977%) Tomcat
4 2 (4.651%) Apache Solr
5 1 (2.326%) GlassFish
5 1 (2.326%) ESB
Applications
1 10 (23.26%) Photoshop
2 9 (20.93%) MS Visio
3 3 (6.977%) Fireworks
Communications & Networking
1 11 (25.58%) LDAP
2 2 (4.651%) DNS
2 2 (4.651%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (53.49%) MySQL
2 4 (9.302%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.651%) RavenDB
3 2 (4.651%) CouchDB
3 2 (4.651%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (4.651%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 6 (13.95%) Dreamweaver
2 5 (11.63%) Subversion
3 4 (9.302%) Git (software)
4 2 (4.651%) QUnit
4 2 (4.651%) Visual Studio
4 2 (4.651%) Ant
4 2 (4.651%) Cucumber
4 2 (4.651%) PHPUnit
5 1 (2.326%) JIRA
5 1 (2.326%) Eclipse
5 1 (2.326%) PhoneGap
5 1 (2.326%) Appcelerator Titanium
General
1 9 (20.93%) Telecoms
2 3 (6.977%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 30 (69.77%) Developer
2 11 (25.58%) Support Engineer
2 11 (25.58%) Systems Engineer
2 11 (25.58%) Systems Support
2 11 (25.58%) Systems Support Engineer
3 8 (18.60%) PHP Developer
4 5 (11.63%) Drupal Developer
5 4 (9.302%) Web Developer
6 3 (6.977%) Front-End Developer
6 3 (6.977%) LAMP Developer
7 2 (4.651%) Agile .NET Developer
7 2 (4.651%) Android Developer
7 2 (4.651%) Software Developer
7 2 (4.651%) .NET Developer
8 1 (2.326%) Ruby on Rails Developer
8 1 (2.326%) PHP Web Developer
8 1 (2.326%) Mobile Applications Developer
8 1 (2.326%) Mobile Developer
8 1 (2.326%) Java Developer
8 1 (2.326%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.93%) Wiki
2 5 (11.63%) Mobile App
3 3 (6.977%) Computer Science
4 2 (4.651%) Linked Data
4 2 (4.651%) NHS
4 2 (4.651%) BBC
4 2 (4.651%) Semantic Web
4 2 (4.651%) Kindle
4 2 (4.651%) Open Source
4 2 (4.651%) Smartphone
5 1 (2.326%) Social Media
5 1 (2.326%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 28 (65.12%) Linux
2 9 (20.93%) UNIX
3 3 (6.977%) Apple iOS
3 3 (6.977%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (4.651%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (9.302%) MVC
1 4 (9.302%) Scrum
1 4 (9.302%) Continuous Integration
1 4 (9.302%) TDD
2 3 (6.977%) Web Development
2 3 (6.977%) OOP
2 3 (6.977%) Change Control
3 2 (4.651%) RDF
3 2 (4.651%) Web Design
3 2 (4.651%) ITIL
3 2 (4.651%) PRINCE2
3 2 (4.651%) Unit Testing
3 2 (4.651%) Kanban
3 2 (4.651%) Trend Analysis
3 2 (4.651%) Progressive Enhancement
3 2 (4.651%) BDD
3 2 (4.651%) Content Management
3 2 (4.651%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (4.651%) Test-First Development
4 1 (2.326%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 25 (58.14%) PHP
1 25 (58.14%) JavaScript
2 15 (34.88%) Ruby
3 13 (30.23%) SQL
4 9 (20.93%) C
4 9 (20.93%) Perl
5 6 (13.95%) Java
6 2 (4.651%) Objective-C
6 2 (4.651%) C#
6 2 (4.651%) T-SQL
6 2 (4.651%) VB.NET
6 2 (4.651%) PowerShell
6 2 (4.651%) Bash shell
7 1 (2.326%) XPath
Qualifications
1 4 (9.302%) Degree
2 2 (4.651%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.651%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 9 (20.93%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.977%) Postfix
3 2 (4.651%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 11 (25.58%) Puppet
2 9 (20.93%) Netcool
2 9 (20.93%) Nagios
Vendors
1 17 (39.53%) Red Hat
2 9 (20.93%) IBM
3 7 (16.28%) Microsoft
4 4 (9.302%) Adobe
5 3 (6.977%) Oracle
6 2 (4.651%) Apple
6 2 (4.651%) Zend
7 1 (2.326%) JBoss
7 1 (2.326%) Facebook
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