The first table below looks at the demand for Apache skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland 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 Scotland 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 80 98 66
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -32
Contract jobs citing Apache 42 11 51
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 1.699% 0.416% 1.863%
As % of the Application Platforms category 9.524% 2.792% 11.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 3 28
Average daily rate £338 £350 £343
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.57% +2.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £350 £224
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £370 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £30.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £34.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -27.53%
All Application Platforms
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
441 394 447
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 17.84% 14.91% 16.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 163 204
Average daily rate £350 £325 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £200 £216
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £428 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 18 17
Average hourly rate £15.77 £25.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-36.92% +25.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.65 £10.00 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £28.36 £35.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
Apache
UK

Apache
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland 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
Glasgow -8 19 £338 -3.57%
Edinburgh +21 16 £350 -
Stirling - 3 £475 -
Renfrewshire - 2 £425 -
Apache
UK

Apache
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 41 (63.08%) Java
2 36 (55.38%) Tomcat
3 26 (40.00%) Linux
4 25 (38.46%) XML
5 24 (36.92%) SQL
6 21 (32.31%) Spring
7 19 (29.23%) SQL Server
7 19 (29.23%) Windows
8 17 (26.15%) Web Services
8 17 (26.15%) Oracle
9 16 (24.62%) Hibernate
10 15 (23.08%) Windows Server 2003
10 15 (23.08%) Windows Server 2008
11 14 (21.54%) CSS
11 14 (21.54%) JavaScript
12 13 (20.00%) Finance
13 12 (18.46%) MySQL
14 11 (16.92%) HTML
14 11 (16.92%) PHP
14 11 (16.92%) IIS
14 11 (16.92%) XML Schema
15 10 (15.38%) Microsoft
15 10 (15.38%) Internet
15 10 (15.38%) SOAP
15 10 (15.38%) JMS
15 10 (15.38%) SQL Server 2005
15 10 (15.38%) Subversion
16 9 (13.85%) Ruby on Rails
16 9 (13.85%) WebSphere
16 9 (13.85%) UNIX

Apache
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 25 (38.46%) XML
2 21 (32.31%) Spring
3 17 (26.15%) Web Services
4 16 (24.62%) Hibernate
5 14 (21.54%) CSS
6 11 (16.92%) HTML
6 11 (16.92%) XML Schema
7 10 (15.38%) SOAP
7 10 (15.38%) JMS
8 9 (13.85%) Ruby on Rails
8 9 (13.85%) WebSphere
8 9 (13.85%) .NET
9 8 (12.31%) Middleware
9 8 (12.31%) J2EE
10 7 (10.77%) Apache CXF
11 6 (9.231%) HTML5
12 4 (6.154%) jQuery
13 3 (4.615%) Ext JS
13 3 (4.615%) CSS3
13 3 (4.615%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 36 (55.38%) Tomcat
2 11 (16.92%) IIS
3 8 (12.31%) SharePoint
4 7 (10.77%) MS Exchange
4 7 (10.77%) WebSphere Application Server
5 6 (9.231%) ESB
6 5 (7.692%) WebSphere Transformation Extender
6 5 (7.692%) SharePoint Server
6 5 (7.692%) Oracle Coherence
6 5 (7.692%) WebSphere Message Broker
6 5 (7.692%) MQSeries
7 4 (6.154%) LiveLink
7 4 (6.154%) Drupal
8 3 (4.615%) nginx
8 3 (4.615%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (3.077%) WebLogic
9 2 (3.077%) WebSphere MQ
9 2 (3.077%) TeamSite
9 2 (3.077%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (3.077%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 3 (4.615%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.538%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.538%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 10 (15.38%) Internet
2 5 (7.692%) Intranet
3 4 (6.154%) TCP/IP
4 3 (4.615%) TACACS
4 3 (4.615%) SMTP
5 2 (3.077%) LDAP
5 2 (3.077%) DHCP
5 2 (3.077%) HTTP
5 2 (3.077%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (29.23%) SQL Server
2 12 (18.46%) MySQL
3 10 (15.38%) SQL Server 2005
4 6 (9.231%) Oracle 8/8i
4 6 (9.231%) RDBMS
5 5 (7.692%) SQL Server 2000
6 4 (6.154%) Oracle 10g
6 4 (6.154%) SQL Server 2008
7 3 (4.615%) GIS
8 2 (3.077%) NoSQL
9 1 (1.538%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (1.538%) Oracle 11g
9 1 (1.538%) KDB
9 1 (1.538%) TOAD
9 1 (1.538%) Oracle 9i
9 1 (1.538%) DB2
Development Applications
1 10 (15.38%) Subversion
2 4 (6.154%) Eclipse
2 4 (6.154%) Maven
3 3 (4.615%) TortoiseSVN
4 2 (3.077%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (3.077%) JIRA
5 1 (1.538%) FitNesse
5 1 (1.538%) Aptana Studio
5 1 (1.538%) Git (software)
5 1 (1.538%) Trac
5 1 (1.538%) NetBeans
5 1 (1.538%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.538%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (20.00%) Finance
2 4 (6.154%) Banking
3 2 (3.077%) Marketing
3 2 (3.077%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.538%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 37 (56.92%) Developer
2 22 (33.85%) Java Developer
3 6 (9.231%) Senior Developer
3 6 (9.231%) Senior Java Developer
4 5 (7.692%) WebSphere Developer
4 5 (7.692%) Linux Engineer
4 5 (7.692%) Systems Support
5 4 (6.154%) Administrator
5 4 (6.154%) Team Leader
5 4 (6.154%) PHP Developer
5 4 (6.154%) Support Team Leader
6 3 (4.615%) Drupal Developer
6 3 (4.615%) Systems Engineer
6 3 (4.615%) Applications Support
6 3 (4.615%) Consultant
7 2 (3.077%) Architect
7 2 (3.077%) Systems Administrator
7 2 (3.077%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.077%) Security Engineer
7 2 (3.077%) WebSphere Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.692%) Computer Science
2 2 (3.077%) Blackberry
2 2 (3.077%) Handset
3 1 (1.538%) RIA
3 1 (1.538%) Mathematics
3 1 (1.538%) Ergonomics
3 1 (1.538%) Open Source
3 1 (1.538%) Semantic Web
3 1 (1.538%) Telematics
3 1 (1.538%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.538%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 26 (40.00%) Linux
2 19 (29.23%) Windows
3 15 (23.08%) Windows Server 2003
3 15 (23.08%) Windows Server 2008
4 9 (13.85%) UNIX
5 5 (7.692%) Solaris
6 4 (6.154%) Windows 7
7 3 (4.615%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (3.077%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (12.31%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (10.77%) Capacity Planning
2 7 (10.77%) Content Management
2 7 (10.77%) SOA
3 6 (9.231%) OO
3 6 (9.231%) TDD
4 5 (7.692%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (7.692%) Software Testing
5 4 (6.154%) Scrum
5 4 (6.154%) Document Management
6 3 (4.615%) OOP
7 2 (3.077%) ITIL
7 2 (3.077%) PRINCE2
7 2 (3.077%) E-Commerce
7 2 (3.077%) Migration
7 2 (3.077%) Infrastructure Management
7 2 (3.077%) Investment Management
7 2 (3.077%) Asset Management
7 2 (3.077%) Software Engineering
8 1 (1.538%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 41 (63.08%) Java
2 24 (36.92%) SQL
3 14 (21.54%) JavaScript
4 11 (16.92%) PHP
5 6 (9.231%) Ruby
6 3 (4.615%) Python
6 3 (4.615%) PL/SQL
7 2 (3.077%) C#
7 2 (3.077%) PHP5
8 1 (1.538%) Korn
8 1 (1.538%) XPath
8 1 (1.538%) Bash shell
8 1 (1.538%) XQuery
8 1 (1.538%) Perl
8 1 (1.538%) VB
8 1 (1.538%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 6 (9.231%) Degree
2 5 (7.692%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.615%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.077%) MCSA
4 2 (3.077%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (3.077%) MCITP
5 1 (1.538%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.538%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.538%) MCSE
System Software
1 8 (12.31%) vSphere
2 5 (7.692%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.077%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.538%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 5 (7.692%) McAfee ePO
1 5 (7.692%) OpenView Configuration Management
2 2 (3.077%) Backup Exec
2 2 (3.077%) ZABBIX
2 2 (3.077%) Puppet
2 2 (3.077%) WSUS
Vendors
1 17 (26.15%) Oracle
2 10 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 9 (13.85%) JBoss
3 9 (13.85%) Citrix
4 5 (7.692%) Lumension
4 5 (7.692%) IBM
4 5 (7.692%) McAfee
4 5 (7.692%) Informatica
5 4 (6.154%) Kofax
5 4 (6.154%) VMware
5 4 (6.154%) Open Text
6 3 (4.615%) CommVault
6 3 (4.615%) HP
6 3 (4.615%) Red Hat
6 3 (4.615%) TIBCO
6 3 (4.615%) Cognos
7 2 (3.077%) Nortel
7 2 (3.077%) Veeam
8 1 (1.538%) Google
8 1 (1.538%) Alterian
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