The first table below looks at the demand for Apache skills in IT contracts advertised for the North East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Apache over the 3 months to 21 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 North East 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache HTTP Server
Rank 25 44 41
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -3
Contract jobs citing Apache 12 3 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 4.428% 0.615% 1.139%
As % of the Application Platforms category 30.77% 2.885% 6.098%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 2
Average daily rate £264 £250 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.50% -35.48%
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
North East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
39 104 82
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 14.39% 21.31% 18.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 62 36
Average daily rate £300 £350 £319
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% +9.80%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £432 £447 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 13 4
Average hourly rate £13.11 £19.00 £25.76
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-31.00% -26.24%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
Apache
England

Apache
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North East 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 North East region.

North East 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 North East region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

North East 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 North East region.

North East 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 North East region over the 3 months to 21 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
Tyne and Wear - 10 £281 -
Apache
England

Apache
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 12 (92.31%) Red Hat
2 11 (84.62%) Linux
3 10 (76.92%) MySQL
4 9 (69.23%) CentOS
5 8 (61.54%) Firewall
6 7 (53.85%) LDAP
6 7 (53.85%) DNS
7 6 (46.15%) DHCP
7 6 (46.15%) VPN
7 6 (46.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (38.46%) Cisco
8 5 (38.46%) Citrix
8 5 (38.46%) SAN
8 5 (38.46%) Disaster Recovery
9 4 (30.77%) OSPF
9 4 (30.77%) HP
9 4 (30.77%) Nagios
10 3 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
10 3 (23.08%) XenServer
10 3 (23.08%) Oracle
10 3 (23.08%) UNIX
10 3 (23.08%) BGP
10 3 (23.08%) Identity Management
10 3 (23.08%) VMware
11 2 (15.38%) JBoss
11 2 (15.38%) Java
11 2 (15.38%) SQL
11 2 (15.38%) WebLogic
11 2 (15.38%) Solaris
11 2 (15.38%) MS Visio

Apache
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 (7.692%) Middleware
1 1 (7.692%) JSP
1 1 (7.692%) Struts
1 1 (7.692%) Web Services
1 1 (7.692%) XML
1 1 (7.692%) J2EE
1 1 (7.692%) Spring
1 1 (7.692%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) WebLogic
2 1 (7.692%) IIS
2 1 (7.692%) Tomcat
2 1 (7.692%) ESB
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 8 (61.54%) Firewall
2 7 (53.85%) LDAP
2 7 (53.85%) DNS
3 6 (46.15%) DHCP
3 6 (46.15%) VPN
4 5 (38.46%) SAN
5 4 (30.77%) OSPF
6 3 (23.08%) BGP
7 1 (7.692%) HSRP
7 1 (7.692%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (7.692%) Internet
7 1 (7.692%) VLAN
7 1 (7.692%) Wireless
7 1 (7.692%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (76.92%) MySQL
2 1 (7.692%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 1 (7.692%) JUnit
1 1 (7.692%) Maven
General
1 1 (7.692%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Administrator
2 8 (61.54%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 8 (61.54%) Linux Administrator
2 8 (61.54%) Systems Administrator
3 4 (30.77%) Senior Systems Administrator
3 4 (30.77%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
3 4 (30.77%) Senior Linux Administrator
4 2 (15.38%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (7.692%) Technical Developer
5 1 (7.692%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 1 (7.692%) Java Developer
5 1 (7.692%) Network Administrator
5 1 (7.692%) Senior Network Administrator
5 1 (7.692%) Developer
5 1 (7.692%) Consultant
5 1 (7.692%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (7.692%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 1 (7.692%) Applications Support
5 1 (7.692%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.692%) Client/Server
1 1 (7.692%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 11 (84.62%) Linux
2 9 (69.23%) CentOS
3 6 (46.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (23.08%) UNIX
5 2 (15.38%) Solaris
6 1 (7.692%) Windows
6 1 (7.692%) SUSE
6 1 (7.692%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (23.08%) Identity Management
3 1 (7.692%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (7.692%) RDF
3 1 (7.692%) ITIL
3 1 (7.692%) E-Commerce
3 1 (7.692%) Regression Testing
3 1 (7.692%) Load Balancing
3 1 (7.692%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (7.692%) System Testing
3 1 (7.692%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) Java
1 2 (15.38%) SQL
2 1 (7.692%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.692%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.692%) CCNA
1 1 (7.692%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (7.692%) RHCE
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (23.08%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Nagios
2 1 (7.692%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 12 (92.31%) Red Hat
2 5 (38.46%) Cisco
2 5 (38.46%) Citrix
3 4 (30.77%) HP
4 3 (23.08%) Oracle
4 3 (23.08%) VMware
5 2 (15.38%) JBoss