South West Apache Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Apache HTTP Server skills within the South West 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 Apache over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Apache HTTP Server
Location Alderley Edge Aldershot Andover Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bletchley Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chippenham City of London Conwy Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Gateshead Glasgow Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ilford Ipswich Johnstone Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Llandudno London Loughborough Luton Macclesfield Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North Wales North West Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rugby Scotland Sheffield Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Staines Stockport Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	102	121
Rank change on same period last year	+19
Matching contract IT job ads	31	37
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.041 %	0.039 %
As % of the category below	5.794 %	6.208 %
Daily rates quoted	12	10
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£273
Average daily rate	£317	£288
% change on same period last year	+10.01 %
Average maximum daily rate	£334	£304
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£340
% change on same period last year	+4.83 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£40.00	£20.00
Average hourly rate	£40.00	£25.00
% change on same period last year	+60.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.79	£31.56
% change on same period last year	+10.24 %
Application Platforms South West
Matching contract IT job ads	535	596
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.705 %	0.632 %
Daily rates quoted	118	116
Average minimum daily rate	£325	£287
Average daily rate	£346	£306
% change on same period last year	+13.30 %
Average maximum daily rate	£368	£324
UK excluding London average daily rate	£359	£347
% change on same period last year	+3.68 %
Hourly rates quoted	87	72
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.03	£22.37
Average hourly rate	£24.70	£24.36
% change on same period last year	+1.39 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.37	£26.36
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.43	£24.21
% change on same period last year	-3.23 %
Apache 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.

Apache
Demand Trend

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

Apache
Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Apache across the South West 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 Apache across the South West region.

Apache
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Apache across the South West 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 Apache within the South West 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
Wiltshire	+16	9	£401	-
Somerset	+4	5	-	-
Bristol	0	5	£257	-11.88 %
Gloucestershire	+4	4	-	-
Dorset	+2	3	£250	-20.63 %

Apache England

Apache
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 34 (50.75 %) Linux 2 27 (40.30 %) SQL 3 25 (37.31 %) HTML 3 25 (37.31 %) JavaScript 4 23 (34.33 %) Unix 4 23 (34.33 %) Solaris 5 21 (31.34 %) Oracle 6 20 (29.85 %) PHP 7 19 (28.36 %) CSS 8 18 (26.87 %) Java 8 18 (26.87 %) Tomcat 9 17 (25.37 %) MySQL 9 17 (25.37 %) XML 10 16 (23.88 %) WebLogic 10 16 (23.88 %) Sun

10 16 (23.88 %) AJAX 11 15 (22.39 %) J2EE 12 14 (20.90 %) Windows 13 12 (17.91 %) WebServices 14 11 (16.42 %) PL/SQL 14 11 (16.42 %) XHTML 14 11 (16.42 %) PHP5 14 11 (16.42 %) PHP4 15 10 (14.93 %) Red Hat 16 9 (13.43 %) VERITAS 16 9 (13.43 %) Shell Script 16 9 (13.43 %) Telecoms 16 9 (13.43 %) Oracle 9i 16 9 (13.43 %) OO 16 9 (13.43 %) XSLT

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 (37.31 %) HTML 2 19 (28.36 %) CSS 3 17 (25.37 %) XML 4 16 (23.88 %) AJAX 5 15 (22.39 %) J2EE 6 12 (17.91 %) WebServices 7 11 (16.42 %) XHTML 8 9 (13.43 %) XSLT 8 9 (13.43 %) WebSphere 9 6 (8.955 %) XForms 10 4 (5.970 %) LAMP 10 4 (5.970 %) Hibernate 10 4 (5.970 %) Spring 10 4 (5.970 %) Struts 10 4 (5.970 %) JSP 10 4 (5.970 %) Servlets 11 3 (4.478 %) SOAP 11 3 (4.478 %) JDBC 12 1 (1.493 %) Oracle ADF 12 1 (1.493 %) J2ME	Application Platforms 1 18 (26.87 %) Tomcat 2 16 (23.88 %) WebLogic 3 4 (5.970 %) IIS 4 3 (4.478 %) JBoss 4 3 (4.478 %) Oracle 9iAS 4 3 (4.478 %) Oracle HTTP Server 5 2 (2.985 %) CMS 5 2 (2.985 %) LiveLink 5 2 (2.985 %) MS Exchange 6 1 (1.493 %) Morello 6 1 (1.493 %) WebLogic Portal 6 1 (1.493 %) WebSphere Application Server
Applications 1 3 (4.478 %) MS Excel 2 2 (2.985 %) MS Office 3 1 (1.493 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 3 (4.478 %) Summit 2 1 (1.493 %) WebTrends
Communications & Networking 1 5 (7.463 %) LAN 1 5 (7.463 %) WAN 1 5 (7.463 %) SAN 1 5 (7.463 %) Internet 2 3 (4.478 %) HTTP 2 3 (4.478 %) LLU 3 2 (2.985 %) NGN 3 2 (2.985 %) Broadband 3 2 (2.985 %) DNS 4 1 (1.493 %) TCP/IP 4 1 (1.493 %) NetScreen 4 1 (1.493 %) Firewall 4 1 (1.493 %) BIG-IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 17 (25.37 %) MySQL 2 9 (13.43 %) Oracle 9i 3 5 (7.463 %) RDBMS 4 3 (4.478 %) SQL Server 5 2 (2.985 %) Oracle 8/8i 5 2 (2.985 %) Data Mining
Development Applications 1 4 (5.970 %) Subversion 2 3 (4.478 %) Ant 2 3 (4.478 %) JUnit 2 3 (4.478 %) Eclipse 2 3 (4.478 %) Oracle APEX 3 1 (1.493 %) JIRA	General 1 9 (13.43 %) Telecoms 2 5 (7.463 %) Marketing 3 3 (4.478 %) Pharmaceutical 3 3 (4.478 %) Finance 3 3 (4.478 %) Government 4 1 (1.493 %) Manufacturing 4 1 (1.493 %) Games 4 1 (1.493 %) Banking 4 1 (1.493 %) Education
Job Titles 1 31 (46.27 %) Developer 2 17 (25.37 %) Web Developer 3 13 (19.40 %) PHP Developer 4 6 (8.955 %) Support Engineer 5 5 (7.463 %) Java Developer 5 5 (7.463 %) Administrator 5 5 (7.463 %) UNIX Engineer 5 5 (7.463 %) PHP Web Developer 6 4 (5.970 %) Systems Support Engineer 6 4 (5.970 %) Systems Engineer 6 4 (5.970 %) Analyst 6 4 (5.970 %) Systems Support 7 3 (4.478 %) Technical Support 7 3 (4.478 %) DBA 7 3 (4.478 %) Systems Administrator 7 3 (4.478 %) Technical Support Engineer 7 3 (4.478 %) IT Support Engineer 7 3 (4.478 %) Technical Engineer 7 3 (4.478 %) JavaScript Developer 7 3 (4.478 %) MySQL Developer	Miscellaneous 1 5 (7.463 %) Clustering 2 4 (5.970 %) W3C 3 2 (2.985 %) NHS 3 2 (2.985 %) IPTV 3 2 (2.985 %) Statistics 4 1 (1.493 %) Taxonomies 4 1 (1.493 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 34 (50.75 %) Linux 2 23 (34.33 %) Unix 2 23 (34.33 %) Solaris 3 14 (20.90 %) Windows 4 2 (2.985 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (13.43 %) OO 2 8 (11.94 %) Security Cleared 3 7 (10.45 %) E-Commerce 4 6 (8.955 %) ITIL 4 6 (8.955 %) Web Development 4 6 (8.955 %) SC Cleared 5 5 (7.463 %) Validation 5 5 (7.463 %) Service Management 6 4 (5.970 %) TDD 6 4 (5.970 %) OOP 7 3 (4.478 %) UML 7 3 (4.478 %) B2B 7 3 (4.478 %) AOP 7 3 (4.478 %) SEO 7 3 (4.478 %) Load Testing 8 2 (2.985 %) Data Modelling 8 2 (2.985 %) Content Management 9 1 (1.493 %) Penetration Testing 9 1 (1.493 %) Data Analysis 9 1 (1.493 %) Service Delivery
Programming Languages 1 27 (40.30 %) SQL 2 25 (37.31 %) JavaScript 3 20 (29.85 %) PHP 4 18 (26.87 %) Java 5 11 (16.42 %) PHP5 5 11 (16.42 %) PHP4 5 11 (16.42 %) PL/SQL 6 9 (13.43 %) Shell Script 7 8 (11.94 %) Perl 8 6 (8.955 %) XQuery 9 2 (2.985 %) C 9 2 (2.985 %) C++ 10 1 (1.493 %) Transact-SQL 10 1 (1.493 %) Korn	Qualifications 1 1 (1.493 %) Degree 1 1 (1.493 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner
System Software 1 3 (4.478 %) NetBackup 2 2 (2.985 %) Backup Exec 2 2 (2.985 %) Active Directory 2 2 (2.985 %) MetaFrame 3 1 (1.493 %) ClearTrust	Systems Management 1 5 (7.463 %) Netcool 1 5 (7.463 %) Netcool/Proviso 2 4 (5.970 %) EMC Navisphere 3 3 (4.478 %) BMC PATROL
Vendors 1 21 (31.34 %) Oracle 2 16 (23.88 %) Sun 3 10 (14.93 %) Red Hat 4 9 (13.43 %) VERITAS 5 5 (7.463 %) BMC 5 5 (7.463 %) Remedy 5 5 (7.463 %) VMware 6 3 (4.478 %) Hummingbird 6 3 (4.478 %) Microsoft 7 2 (2.985 %) HP 7 2 (2.985 %) Ericsson 7 2 (2.985 %) Citrix 7 2 (2.985 %) Fujitsu 7 2 (2.985 %) BT 8 1 (1.493 %) Cramer 8 1 (1.493 %) Atlassian 8 1 (1.493 %) EMC