South East Tomcat Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Apache Tomcat skills within the South East region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Tomcat over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Apache Tomcat
Location Alderley Edge Altrincham Barnstaple Bath Berkshire Bletchley Bootle Borehamwood Bracknell Brighton Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chippenham City of London Colchester Conwy Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnham Glasgow Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Hayes Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Llandudno London Macclesfield Manchester Marlow Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North Wales North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Poole Reading Rugby Scotland Sheffield Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Suffolk Surrey Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	219	200
Rank change on same period last year	-19
Matching contract IT job ads	47	98
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.062 %	0.104 %
As % of the category below	2.643 %	3.738 %
Daily rates quoted	18	21
Average minimum daily rate	£355	£352
Average daily rate	£362	£356
% change on same period last year	+1.51 %
Average maximum daily rate	£368	£360
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£345
% change on same period last year	+1.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	22
Average minimum hourly rate	£37.50	£38.73
Average hourly rate	£42.50	£40.52
% change on same period last year	+4.87 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£47.50	£42.32
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.36	£38.19
% change on same period last year	-7.41 %
Application Platforms South East
Matching contract IT job ads	1778	2622
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.345 %	2.781 %
Daily rates quoted	388	502
Average minimum daily rate	£345	£340
Average daily rate	£366	£361
% change on same period last year	+1.24 %
Average maximum daily rate	£386	£383
UK excluding London average daily rate	£359	£347
% change on same period last year	+3.68 %
Hourly rates quoted	286	323
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.63	£23.73
Average hourly rate	£25.37	£25.06
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.11	£26.39
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.43	£24.21
% change on same period last year	-3.23 %
Tomcat England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Tomcat
Demand Trend

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

Tomcat
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Tomcat across the South East region.

Tomcat
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Tomcat across the South East region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Tomcat across the South East region.

Tomcat
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Tomcat across the South East region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Tomcat within the South East region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Hampshire	+12	14	£425	-
Berkshire	+6	11	£245	-28.46 %
Buckinghamshire	+14	9	£313	-21.87 %
Surrey	-8	6	£255	-27.14 %
Thames Valley	+25	2	-	-
East Sussex	-	1	-	-

Tomcat England

Tomcat
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Tomcat 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 Tomcat.

1 59 (71.08 %) Apache 2 51 (61.45 %) Java 3 42 (50.60 %) Linux 4 35 (42.17 %) MySQL 5 33 (39.76 %) Red Hat 6 30 (36.14 %) XML 7 23 (27.71 %) PHP 8 22 (26.51 %) J2EE 9 21 (25.30 %) JavaScript 9 21 (25.30 %) JSP 10 20 (24.10 %) HTML 11 19 (22.89 %) Oracle 12 17 (20.48 %) SQL 12 17 (20.48 %) Unix 12 17 (20.48 %) Spring

13 15 (18.07 %) Hibernate 14 14 (16.87 %) VMware 14 14 (16.87 %) CMS 14 14 (16.87 %) JBoss 14 14 (16.87 %) Solaris 14 14 (16.87 %) Ant 14 14 (16.87 %) CSS 15 13 (15.66 %) XHTML 16 12 (14.46 %) XSLT 16 12 (14.46 %) WebServices 16 12 (14.46 %) Eclipse 17 11 (13.25 %) Servlets 18 10 (12.05 %) JUnit 18 10 (12.05 %) Microsoft 18 10 (12.05 %) LAMP

Tomcat
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Tomcat 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 Tomcat. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 30 (36.14 %) XML 2 22 (26.51 %) J2EE 3 21 (25.30 %) JSP 4 20 (24.10 %) HTML 5 17 (20.48 %) Spring 6 15 (18.07 %) Hibernate 7 14 (16.87 %) CSS 8 13 (15.66 %) XHTML 9 12 (14.46 %) XSLT 9 12 (14.46 %) WebServices 10 11 (13.25 %) Servlets 11 10 (12.05 %) LAMP 11 10 (12.05 %) AJAX 11 10 (12.05 %) Drupal 12 9 (10.84 %) JMS 13 8 (9.639 %) .NET 14 7 (8.434 %) JSF 15 6 (7.229 %) JSTL 15 6 (7.229 %) JDBC 15 6 (7.229 %) Struts	Application Platforms 1 59 (71.08 %) Apache 2 14 (16.87 %) CMS 2 14 (16.87 %) JBoss 3 8 (9.639 %) IIS 4 6 (7.229 %) WebLogic 5 3 (3.614 %) MS Exchange 6 1 (1.205 %) BizTalk Server 6 1 (1.205 %) Oracle Workflow
Applications 1 4 (4.819 %) MS Excel 2 2 (2.410 %) Acrobat 2 2 (2.410 %) Photoshop 3 1 (1.205 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 9 (10.84 %) LDAP 2 8 (9.639 %) Internet 3 5 (6.024 %) DHCP 3 5 (6.024 %) TCP/IP 3 5 (6.024 %) DNS 4 2 (2.410 %) Intranet 5 1 (1.205 %) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence 1 35 (42.17 %) MySQL 2 7 (8.434 %) SQL Server 3 5 (6.024 %) Oracle 9i 3 5 (6.024 %) Oracle 10g 4 4 (4.819 %) JasperReports 5 2 (2.410 %) RDBMS 5 2 (2.410 %) DB2 6 1 (1.205 %) Data Mining 6 1 (1.205 %) BusinessObjects 6 1 (1.205 %) SQL Server 2000	Development Applications 1 14 (16.87 %) Ant 2 12 (14.46 %) Eclipse 3 10 (12.05 %) JUnit 4 7 (8.434 %) Subversion 5 2 (2.410 %) TestPartner 5 2 (2.410 %) QADirector 5 2 (2.410 %) Visual Studio 5 2 (2.410 %) Log4j 6 1 (1.205 %) CruiseControl 6 1 (1.205 %) Dreamweaver 6 1 (1.205 %) Oracle Forms
General 1 9 (10.84 %) Finance 2 4 (4.819 %) Telecoms 2 4 (4.819 %) Games 3 3 (3.614 %) Publishing 4 2 (2.410 %) Government 4 2 (2.410 %) Financial Institution 4 2 (2.410 %) Banking 5 1 (1.205 %) Investment Banking 5 1 (1.205 %) Local Government 5 1 (1.205 %) Pharmaceutical 5 1 (1.205 %) Education 5 1 (1.205 %) Home Office	Job Titles 1 38 (45.78 %) Developer 2 17 (20.48 %) Java Developer 3 16 (19.28 %) Web Developer 3 16 (19.28 %) Administrator 4 14 (16.87 %) Systems Administrator 5 12 (14.46 %) Linux Administrator 5 12 (14.46 %) Linux Systems Administrator 6 7 (8.434 %) J2EE Developer 7 6 (7.229 %) Consultant 7 6 (7.229 %) Java/J2EE Developer 8 4 (4.819 %) Systems Engineer 8 4 (4.819 %) Tester 8 4 (4.819 %) Java Consultant 9 3 (3.614 %) PHP Web Developer 9 3 (3.614 %) PHP Developer 9 3 (3.614 %) Configuration Manager 9 3 (3.614 %) Senior Developer 9 3 (3.614 %) Data Centre Engineer 10 2 (2.410 %) Java Web Developer 10 2 (2.410 %) Linux Consultant
Miscellaneous 1 6 (7.229 %) Computer Science 2 3 (3.614 %) Clustering 3 2 (2.410 %) Web 2.0 3 2 (2.410 %) Mainframe	Operating Systems 1 42 (50.60 %) Linux 2 17 (20.48 %) Unix 3 14 (16.87 %) Solaris 4 7 (8.434 %) SUSE 4 7 (8.434 %) Windows 5 3 (3.614 %) Debian 6 1 (1.205 %) Windows 2000 6 1 (1.205 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (9.639 %) Content Management 2 7 (8.434 %) Migration 3 6 (7.229 %) MVC 4 5 (6.024 %) Time Management 5 4 (4.819 %) Data Migration 5 4 (4.819 %) UML 6 3 (3.614 %) E-Commerce 6 3 (3.614 %) Validation 6 3 (3.614 %) Security Cleared 7 2 (2.410 %) Test Scripting 7 2 (2.410 %) Manual Testing 7 2 (2.410 %) Automated Testing 7 2 (2.410 %) Software Engineering 7 2 (2.410 %) OOP 7 2 (2.410 %) PRINCE2 7 2 (2.410 %) SEO 7 2 (2.410 %) SSADM 7 2 (2.410 %) RUP 7 2 (2.410 %) Scrum 7 2 (2.410 %) Agile Software Development	Programming Languages 1 51 (61.45 %) Java 2 23 (27.71 %) PHP 3 21 (25.30 %) JavaScript 4 17 (20.48 %) SQL 5 8 (9.639 %) PHP5 5 8 (9.639 %) Perl 6 7 (8.434 %) Python 7 6 (7.229 %) PL/SQL 8 4 (4.819 %) Delphi 8 4 (4.819 %) FoxPro (VFP) 9 2 (2.410 %) VBScript 9 2 (2.410 %) VB 9 2 (2.410 %) C# 10 1 (1.205 %) C++ 10 1 (1.205 %) DHTML 10 1 (1.205 %) ActionScript 10 1 (1.205 %) C
Qualifications 1 10 (12.05 %) Degree 2 1 (1.205 %) HNC 2 1 (1.205 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 1 (1.205 %) Sun Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (6.024 %) ISO27001 2 2 (2.410 %) QA 2 2 (2.410 %) SLA 2 2 (2.410 %) BS7799 3 1 (1.205 %) ISO9000
Systems Management 1 1 (1.205 %) CA SiteMinder	Vendors 1 33 (39.76 %) Red Hat 2 19 (22.89 %) Oracle 3 14 (16.87 %) VMware 4 10 (12.05 %) Microsoft 5 7 (8.434 %) Intel 5 7 (8.434 %) IBM 6 5 (6.024 %) Sun 7 3 (3.614 %) HP 7 3 (3.614 %) Dell 7 3 (3.614 %) Citrix 8 2 (2.410 %) BEA 8 2 (2.410 %) Tridion 8 2 (2.410 %) Google 8 2 (2.410 %) Compuware 8 2 (2.410 %) Adobe 9 1 (1.205 %) Business Objects 9 1 (1.205 %) Symbian 9 1 (1.205 %) FormScape