The first table below looks at the demand for Apache skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Apache over the 3 months to 24 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 Reading 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache HTTP Server
Rank 57 79 78
Rank change year-on-year
+22 -1
Contract jobs citing Apache 13 5 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 1.557% 0.448% 0.672%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.471% 3.086% 3.608%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 1
Average daily rate £375 £175 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+114.28% -53.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £328 £350
% change year-on-year
-0.76% -6.42%
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
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
174 162 194
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 20.84% 14.53% 18.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 61 84
Average daily rate £400 £325 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% -3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £178 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 5 10
Average hourly rate £18.00 £19.00 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.26% +18.75%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.85 £10.00 £10.05
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £37.00 £19.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
Apache
Berkshire

Apache
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading 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 Reading region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading Apache Hourly Rate Trend

Apache
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 24 (75.00%) Tomcat
2 19 (59.38%) Java
3 18 (56.25%) Finance
4 15 (46.88%) Oracle
5 13 (40.63%) Windows
5 13 (40.63%) JUnit
5 13 (40.63%) Eclipse
5 13 (40.63%) TCP/IP
5 13 (40.63%) Spring
5 13 (40.63%) Maven
5 13 (40.63%) Apache CXF
6 12 (37.50%) Hibernate
6 12 (37.50%) HTTP
7 11 (34.38%) WebLogic
8 10 (31.25%) IIS
8 10 (31.25%) IBM
8 10 (31.25%) System Testing
9 9 (28.13%) SQL
9 9 (28.13%) .NET
9 9 (28.13%) ITIL
10 8 (25.00%) UNIX
10 8 (25.00%) Web Services
10 8 (25.00%) LAN
10 8 (25.00%) VMware
10 8 (25.00%) IBM HTTP Server
10 8 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
10 8 (25.00%) jQuery
10 8 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
10 8 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
11 7 (21.88%) Jenkins

Apache
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 13 (40.63%) Spring
1 13 (40.63%) Apache CXF
2 12 (37.50%) Hibernate
3 9 (28.13%) .NET
4 8 (25.00%) Web Services
4 8 (25.00%) jQuery
5 7 (21.88%) Struts
5 7 (21.88%) J2EE
5 7 (21.88%) HTML
6 6 (18.75%) Struts2
7 5 (15.63%) WebSphere
8 4 (12.50%) XHTML
9 3 (9.375%) Middleware
10 2 (6.250%) XML
11 1 (3.125%) KML
11 1 (3.125%) soapUI
11 1 (3.125%) REST
11 1 (3.125%) HTML5
11 1 (3.125%) SyncML
11 1 (3.125%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 24 (75.00%) Tomcat
2 11 (34.38%) WebLogic
3 10 (31.25%) IIS
4 8 (25.00%) IBM HTTP Server
5 6 (18.75%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 5 (15.63%) WebLogic Portal
7 4 (12.50%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (3.125%) Resin
8 1 (3.125%) FileNet
8 1 (3.125%) CMS
8 1 (3.125%) Oracle Workflow
Communications & Networking
1 13 (40.63%) TCP/IP
2 12 (37.50%) HTTP
3 8 (25.00%) LAN
4 6 (18.75%) SAN
5 5 (15.63%) Internet
6 4 (12.50%) 3G
7 2 (6.250%) SSL
7 2 (6.250%) Firewall
8 1 (3.125%) RTCP
8 1 (3.125%) RTP
8 1 (3.125%) RFID
8 1 (3.125%) DNS
8 1 (3.125%) SMS
8 1 (3.125%) GSM
8 1 (3.125%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.75%) MySQL
2 4 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 2 (6.250%) Oracle 8/8i
3 2 (6.250%) Oracle 10g
3 2 (6.250%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (3.125%) GIS
Development Applications
1 13 (40.63%) JUnit
1 13 (40.63%) Eclipse
1 13 (40.63%) Maven
2 7 (21.88%) Jenkins
2 7 (21.88%) Subversion
General
1 18 (56.25%) Finance
2 5 (15.63%) Telecoms
3 3 (9.375%) Retail
4 2 (6.250%) Banking
5 1 (3.125%) Marketing
5 1 (3.125%) Front Office
5 1 (3.125%) Back Office
5 1 (3.125%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 8 (25.00%) Developer
2 7 (21.88%) Analyst
3 6 (18.75%) Analyst Programmer
3 6 (18.75%) Programmer
4 5 (15.63%) Senior Programmer
4 5 (15.63%) Senior Analyst
4 5 (15.63%) Senior Analyst Programmer
5 4 (12.50%) Front-End Developer
6 3 (9.375%) Consultant
6 3 (9.375%) WebSphere Consultant
7 2 (6.250%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (6.250%) Java Developer
7 2 (6.250%) Oracle DBA
7 2 (6.250%) Administrator
7 2 (6.250%) Applications Support
7 2 (6.250%) DBA
7 2 (6.250%) Senior Developer
8 1 (3.125%) Linux Engineer
8 1 (3.125%) Linux Support
8 1 (3.125%) Senior Front-End Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Clustering
2 3 (9.375%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.125%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.125%) Oracle Exalogic
3 1 (3.125%) Device Driver
3 1 (3.125%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 13 (40.63%) Windows
2 8 (25.00%) UNIX
2 8 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 8 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (18.75%) Windows 7
4 3 (9.375%) Linux
5 2 (6.250%) Solaris
5 2 (6.250%) Windows XP
5 2 (6.250%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (3.125%) SUSE
6 1 (3.125%) OpenBSD
6 1 (3.125%) Windows CE
6 1 (3.125%) FreeBSD
6 1 (3.125%) AIX
6 1 (3.125%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (31.25%) System Testing
2 9 (28.13%) ITIL
3 7 (21.88%) SOA
4 6 (18.75%) Content Management
4 6 (18.75%) Workflow
5 3 (9.375%) Service Delivery
5 3 (9.375%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (6.250%) Problem Management
7 1 (3.125%) Mobile Application Development
7 1 (3.125%) Product Marketing
7 1 (3.125%) Performance Management
7 1 (3.125%) Unit Testing
7 1 (3.125%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (3.125%) Web Development
7 1 (3.125%) Operations Management
7 1 (3.125%) Change Control
7 1 (3.125%) E-business
7 1 (3.125%) Data Management
7 1 (3.125%) Data Modelling
7 1 (3.125%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 19 (59.38%) Java
2 9 (28.13%) SQL
3 6 (18.75%) Perl
4 5 (15.63%) PHP
4 5 (15.63%) JavaScript
5 3 (9.375%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.125%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (6.250%) OCP
1 2 (6.250%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (3.125%) Degree
2 1 (3.125%) SCSA
2 1 (3.125%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (3.125%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (3.125%) RHCE
2 1 (3.125%) HPUX Certification
2 1 (3.125%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.375%) SLA
2 1 (3.125%) JTAG
System Software
1 8 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (15.63%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (6.250%) VMware ESX
4 1 (3.125%) Xen
4 1 (3.125%) Postfix
4 1 (3.125%) Sendmail
4 1 (3.125%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (3.125%) VirtualBox
4 1 (3.125%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 6 (18.75%) HP SIM
2 4 (12.50%) Foglight
3 2 (6.250%) MOM
4 1 (3.125%) Tivoli
4 1 (3.125%) NetBackup
4 1 (3.125%) OpenView
Vendors
1 15 (46.88%) Oracle
2 10 (31.25%) IBM
3 8 (25.00%) VMware
4 7 (21.88%) JBoss
4 7 (21.88%) HP
5 4 (12.50%) Ericsson
6 2 (6.250%) Red Hat
6 2 (6.250%) SolarWinds
7 1 (3.125%) Egenera
7 1 (3.125%) ESRI
7 1 (3.125%) Remedy
7 1 (3.125%) ReadSoft
7 1 (3.125%) Sun
7 1 (3.125%) Mapinfo
7 1 (3.125%) Veritas
7 1 (3.125%) Intel