The first table below looks at the demand for Tomcat skills in IT contracts advertised for the Southampton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Tomcat over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Southampton 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Tomcat
Rank 32 32 27
Rank change year-on-year
0 -5
Contract jobs citing Tomcat 5 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 1.493% 0.389% 0.535%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.929% 2.439% 2.703%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
Average daily rate £355 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.23% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £355 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
+1.42% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.00 £23.75 £22.25
% change year-on-year
+43.15% +6.74%
All Application Platforms
Southampton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
56 41 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 16.72% 15.95% 19.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 17 17
Average daily rate £375 £320 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.18% -1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £265 £125
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 3
Average hourly rate £17.50 £37.50 £22.43
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-53.33% +67.18%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.75 £15.99 £21.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £131.00 £27.49
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +5.26%
Tomcat
Hampshire

Tomcat
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton Tomcat Jobs Demand Trend

Tomcat
Daily Rate Trend

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

Southampton Tomcat Daily Rate Trend

Tomcat
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Southampton Tomcat Hourly Rate Trend

Tomcat
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 12 (92.31%) Java
2 10 (76.92%) UNIX
2 10 (76.92%) Java EE
2 10 (76.92%) FitNesse
3 9 (69.23%) JavaScript
4 8 (61.54%) Apache
4 8 (61.54%) Continuous Integration
4 8 (61.54%) TDD
5 7 (53.85%) Automated Testing
5 7 (53.85%) Selenium
6 5 (38.46%) Spring
6 5 (38.46%) Jasmine
7 3 (23.08%) Log4j
7 3 (23.08%) Hibernate
7 3 (23.08%) Oracle
7 3 (23.08%) JUnit
7 3 (23.08%) WebLogic
7 3 (23.08%) CSS
7 3 (23.08%) JDBC
7 3 (23.08%) JSP
7 3 (23.08%) Servlets
7 3 (23.08%) SOAP
7 3 (23.08%) Web Services
7 3 (23.08%) XML
7 3 (23.08%) JPA
7 3 (23.08%) HTML
7 3 (23.08%) Agile Software Development
8 2 (15.38%) HttpUnit
8 2 (15.38%) Windows Azure
8 2 (15.38%) WebDriver

Tomcat
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 10 (76.92%) Java EE
2 5 (38.46%) Spring
3 3 (23.08%) Hibernate
3 3 (23.08%) CSS
3 3 (23.08%) JDBC
3 3 (23.08%) JSP
3 3 (23.08%) Servlets
3 3 (23.08%) SOAP
3 3 (23.08%) Web Services
3 3 (23.08%) XML
3 3 (23.08%) JPA
3 3 (23.08%) HTML
4 1 (7.692%) J2EE
4 1 (7.692%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 8 (61.54%) Apache
2 3 (23.08%) WebLogic
3 2 (15.38%) Windows Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.692%) GIS
Development Applications
1 10 (76.92%) FitNesse
2 7 (53.85%) Selenium
3 5 (38.46%) Jasmine
4 3 (23.08%) Log4j
4 3 (23.08%) JUnit
5 2 (15.38%) HttpUnit
5 2 (15.38%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (7.692%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 11 (84.62%) Developer
2 5 (38.46%) JavaScript Developer
2 5 (38.46%) Java Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Agile Java Developer
4 1 (7.692%) Software Developer
4 1 (7.692%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.692%) Web Developer
4 1 (7.692%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (7.692%) Senior Software Developer
4 1 (7.692%) GIS Developer
4 1 (7.692%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (7.692%) Windows Systems Engineer
4 1 (7.692%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 1 (7.692%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.692%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 10 (76.92%) UNIX
2 1 (7.692%) Windows
2 1 (7.692%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Continuous Integration
1 8 (61.54%) TDD
2 7 (53.85%) Automated Testing
3 3 (23.08%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (7.692%) Scrum
4 1 (7.692%) UML
4 1 (7.692%) BDD
4 1 (7.692%) ATDD
4 1 (7.692%) Refactoring
4 1 (7.692%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) Java
2 9 (69.23%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.692%) Shell Script
3 1 (7.692%) Python
3 1 (7.692%) PHP
3 1 (7.692%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (7.692%) Squid
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.692%) VMware