The first table below looks at the demand for Apache Axis skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Apache Axis 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 Development category.

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 Axis
Rank 528 556 550
Rank change year-on-year
+28 -6
Contract jobs citing Apache Axis 12 25 30
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.025% 0.043% 0.050%
As % of the Application Development category 0.093% 0.167% 0.182%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 14 26
Average daily rate £375 £325 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% -18.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £345 £265 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £383 £346 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 0
Average hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.50% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 -
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12893 14967 16509
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.31% 25.60% 27.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 8051 8793 9618
Average daily rate £375 £350 £390
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -10.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 384 385 569
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -9.72%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £15.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.15 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%

Apache Axis
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Apache Axis within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Apache Axis Jobs Demand Trend

Apache Axis
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Apache Axis within the UK.

Apache Axis Daily Rate Trend

Apache Axis
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Apache Axis within the UK.

Apache Axis Hourly Rate Trend

Apache Axis
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Apache Axis within the UK 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
England +36 12 £375 +15.38%
South East +19 4 - -
North West +14 4 £375 +15.38%
Cheshire +6 4 £375 +7.14%
Hampshire -14 4 - -
Basingstoke - 3 - -
Yorkshire - 3 £354 -
North Yorkshire - 3 £354 -
York - 3 £354 -
Chester -2 2 £375 +7.14%
South West - 1 £400 -
Bristol - 1 £400 -

Apache Axis
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Apache Axis 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 Axis.

1 37 (100.00%) Java
2 31 (83.78%) Web Services
3 23 (62.16%) JUnit
4 21 (56.76%) Oracle
5 20 (54.05%) TDD
5 20 (54.05%) Spring
6 19 (51.35%) Eclipse
6 19 (51.35%) J2EE
6 19 (51.35%) Apache
7 18 (48.65%) Linux
7 18 (48.65%) Subversion
8 17 (45.95%) ESB
9 16 (43.24%) Hibernate
9 16 (43.24%) Swing
10 15 (40.54%) SOAP
10 15 (40.54%) Finance
11 14 (37.84%) MVC
11 14 (37.84%) JMS
11 14 (37.84%) Spring MVC
12 12 (32.43%) Apache CXF
12 12 (32.43%) MySQL
13 11 (29.73%) EJB
13 11 (29.73%) J2SE
13 11 (29.73%) Struts
13 11 (29.73%) UNIX
13 11 (29.73%) N-Tier
13 11 (29.73%) Multithreading
14 9 (24.32%) RESTful
14 9 (24.32%) JSON
14 9 (24.32%) Workflow

Apache Axis
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Apache Axis 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 Axis. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 31 (83.78%) Web Services
2 20 (54.05%) Spring
3 19 (51.35%) J2EE
4 16 (43.24%) Hibernate
4 16 (43.24%) Swing
5 15 (40.54%) SOAP
6 14 (37.84%) JMS
6 14 (37.84%) Spring MVC
7 12 (32.43%) Apache CXF
8 11 (29.73%) EJB
8 11 (29.73%) J2SE
8 11 (29.73%) Struts
9 9 (24.32%) RESTful
9 9 (24.32%) JSON
9 9 (24.32%) CSS
10 7 (18.92%) WebSphere
10 7 (18.92%) XML
10 7 (18.92%) Java RMI
11 5 (13.51%) HTML
11 5 (13.51%) REST
Application Platforms
1 19 (51.35%) Apache
2 17 (45.95%) ESB
3 3 (8.108%) Tomcat
3 3 (8.108%) WebLogic
3 3 (8.108%) Jetty
4 1 (2.703%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.703%) Mule
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.703%) Internet
1 1 (2.703%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (32.43%) MySQL
2 5 (13.51%) MongoDB
3 3 (8.108%) JasperReports
4 1 (2.703%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 23 (62.16%) JUnit
2 19 (51.35%) Eclipse
3 18 (48.65%) Subversion
4 8 (21.62%) JIRA
5 4 (10.81%) Maven
6 3 (8.108%) Log4j
6 3 (8.108%) jMock
6 3 (8.108%) Subclipse
6 3 (8.108%) TestNG
6 3 (8.108%) EasyMock
6 3 (8.108%) Hudson
7 1 (2.703%) Ant
General
1 15 (40.54%) Finance
2 5 (13.51%) Banking
2 5 (13.51%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.703%) Dutch Language
3 1 (2.703%) French Language
Job Titles
1 36 (97.30%) Developer
2 34 (91.89%) Java Developer
3 14 (37.84%) Java Swing Developer
4 6 (16.22%) Senior Developer
4 6 (16.22%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (5.405%) Software Engineer
6 1 (2.703%) .NET Developer
6 1 (2.703%) Java Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (29.73%) N-Tier
2 4 (10.81%) Web 2.0
3 3 (8.108%) Open Source
3 3 (8.108%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.703%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 18 (48.65%) Linux
2 11 (29.73%) UNIX
3 7 (18.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (54.05%) TDD
2 14 (37.84%) MVC
3 11 (29.73%) Multithreading
4 9 (24.32%) Workflow
5 7 (18.92%) OO
5 7 (18.92%) OOD
6 4 (10.81%) Waterfall
6 4 (10.81%) Agile Software Development
7 3 (8.108%) Software Engineering
7 3 (8.108%) AOP
7 3 (8.108%) Content Management
7 3 (8.108%) Project Management
7 3 (8.108%) Integration Testing
7 3 (8.108%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 37 (100.00%) Java
2 9 (24.32%) JavaScript
3 5 (13.51%) C#
4 4 (10.81%) XPath
4 4 (10.81%) PL/SQL
4 4 (10.81%) SQL
5 1 (2.703%) VB6
5 1 (2.703%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (13.51%) Degree
Vendors
1 21 (56.76%) Oracle
2 7 (18.92%) webMethods
2 7 (18.92%) Software AG
3 3 (8.108%) Perforce
3 3 (8.108%) IBM
3 3 (8.108%) JBoss
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