The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Apache 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 over the 3 months to 16 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Platforms 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.

Apache HTTP Server
Location
3 months to
16 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank128139147
Rank change year-on-year
Up+11Up+8
Matching contract IT job ads869849692
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK1.468 %1.384 %1.257 %
As % of the Application Platforms category9.028 %8.283 %8.335 %
Number of daily rates quoted549459309
Average daily rate£350£375£338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66 %+11.11 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£250£290£215
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£500£500£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£350£313
% change year-on-year
-7.14 %+12.00 %
Number of hourly rates quoted102921
Average hourly rate£29.00£34.50£25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-15.94 %+38.00 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£22.15£24.39£16.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£50.25£47.60£37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£29.00£34.50£29.00
% change year-on-year
-15.94 %+18.96 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryAll Application Platforms
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
9626102508302
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK16.26 %16.70 %15.08 %
Number of daily rates quoted532254453765
Average daily rate£350£375£363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66 %+3.44 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£225£220
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£500£550£550
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£350£325
% change year-on-year
-7.14 %+7.69 %
Number of hourly rates quoted426561523
Average hourly rate£20.00£19.50£19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.56 %-
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£11.50£12.00£12.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£40.00£42.00£37.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate£19.57£19.50£19.00
% change year-on-year
+0.37 %+2.63 %

Apache
Demand Trend

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

Apache Demand Trend

Apache
Daily Rate Trend

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

Apache Daily Rate Trend

Apache
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Apache within the UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012.

Apache Daily Rate Histogram

Apache
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Apache Hourly Rate Trend

Apache
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Apache within the UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012.

Apache Hourly Rate Histogram

Apache
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandUp+14838£355-5.33 %
LondonUp+32540£375-6.25 %
City of LondonUp+30139£350-12.50 %
South EastDown-4988£350-
YorkshireUp+1156£280-10.40 %
South WestDown-651£383+2.00 %
North WestUp+839£331-8.30 %
East of EnglandDown-1530£425+37.65 %
West YorkshireDown-529£280+21.73 %
LeedsDown-427£280+23.07 %
West MidlandsDown-921£250-29.07 %
BerkshireDown-1220£358+2.14 %
OxfordshireDown-819£325+1.56 %
BirminghamNo change016£250-39.02 %
HertfordshireDown-616£450-10.00 %
GloucestershireNew entry-16£415-
CheshireUp+1115£350+3.70 %
ManchesterDown-1814£325-27.77 %
HampshireDown-1212£363-3.97 %
Canary WharfUp+1911£450-18.18 %
WiltshireUp+311£325-
SurreyDown-1411£350+20.68 %
ScotlandDown-3911£363+5.83 %
OxfordDown-1010£325+3.17 %
CambridgeDown-1110£369+22.91 %
CambridgeshireDown-1210£369+25.00 %
North YorkshireUp+99£255-34.61 %
DorsetDown-69£400+5.68 %
MiddlesexUp+88£363-9.37 %
East MidlandsDown-78£410+2.50 %

Apache
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1890 (54.80 %)Linux
2680 (41.87 %)Java
3632 (38.92 %)MySQL
4626 (38.55 %)Tomcat
5479 (29.50 %)UNIX
6459 (28.26 %)Oracle
7425 (26.17 %)PHP
8375 (23.09 %)JavaScript
9357 (21.98 %)SQL
10341 (21.00 %)HTML
11340 (20.94 %)Windows
12316 (19.46 %)Perl
13299 (18.41 %)XML
13299 (18.41 %)CSS
14297 (18.29 %)Red Hat
15263 (16.19 %)J2EE
16260 (16.01 %)JBoss
17252 (15.52 %)Web Services
18251 (15.46 %)Spring
19232 (14.29 %)Subversion
20213 (13.12 %)Maven
21207 (12.75 %)E-Commerce
22204 (12.56 %)LAMP
22204 (12.56 %)WebSphere
23200 (12.32 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
24193 (11.88 %)OO
25190 (11.70 %)SQL Server
26182 (11.21 %)IIS
27181 (11.15 %)Solaris
28180 (11.08 %)Agile Software Development

Apache
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1341 (21.00 %)HTML
2299 (18.41 %)XML
2299 (18.41 %)CSS
3263 (16.19 %)J2EE
4252 (15.52 %)Web Services
5251 (15.46 %)Spring
6204 (12.56 %)LAMP
6204 (12.56 %)WebSphere
7178 (10.96 %)Hibernate
8147 (9.052 %)jQuery
9134 (8.251 %)SOAP
10132 (8.128 %)Ajax
11131 (8.067 %)JSP
12122 (7.512 %)XSLT
13102 (6.281 %)Middleware
1499 (6.096 %).NET
1575 (4.618 %)Servlets
1674 (4.557 %)REST
1773 (4.495 %)JSON
1865 (4.002 %)Java EE
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1626 (38.55 %)Tomcat
2182 (11.21 %)IIS
3179 (11.02 %)WebLogic
499 (6.096 %)WebSphere Application Server
598 (6.034 %)CMS
663 (3.879 %)Drupal
740 (2.463 %)Apache Solr
838 (2.340 %)IBM HTTP Server
936 (2.217 %)SharePoint
1030 (1.847 %)Amazon AWS
1128 (1.724 %)nginx
1225 (1.539 %)Alfresco
1323 (1.416 %)Adobe CQ
1323 (1.416 %)WebSphere MQ
1422 (1.355 %)WordPress
1422 (1.355 %)Confluence
1519 (1.170 %)MS Exchange
1617 (1.047 %)Oracle Application Server
1716 (0.985 %)Oracle HTTP Server
1716 (0.985 %)ESB
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
139 (2.401 %)MS Excel
225 (1.539 %)MS Visio
320 (1.232 %)MS Office
414 (0.862 %)Photoshop
512 (0.739 %)MS Project
610 (0.616 %)Fireworks
76 (0.369 %)MS PowerPoint
83 (0.185 %)MATLAB
92 (0.123 %)AutoCAD
92 (0.123 %)Office 365
101 (0.062 %)Acrobat
101 (0.062 %)Adobe Illustrator
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
116 (0.985 %)Oracle BPM
215 (0.924 %)BusinessWorks
312 (0.739 %)Oracle 11i
48 (0.493 %)WebTrends
54 (0.246 %)Oracle Applications
54 (0.246 %)Oracle EBS
54 (0.246 %)RMDS
54 (0.246 %)Google Analytics
63 (0.185 %)Oracle EBS R12
72 (0.123 %)FLEXCUBE
81 (0.062 %)SAP GRC
81 (0.062 %)Hyperion Planning
81 (0.062 %)SAP HR
81 (0.062 %)Tridion
81 (0.062 %)BASE24
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1154 (9.483 %)HTTP
2138 (8.498 %)Internet
3125 (7.697 %)TCP/IP
4123 (7.574 %)DNS
5121 (7.451 %)SAN
698 (6.034 %)Firewall
772 (4.433 %)LDAP
858 (3.571 %)SSL
957 (3.510 %)NAS
1038 (2.340 %)FTP
1131 (1.909 %)SNMP
1227 (1.663 %)DHCP
1322 (1.355 %)LAN
1421 (1.293 %)SMTP
1421 (1.293 %)WAN
1520 (1.232 %)Intranet
1614 (0.862 %)VPN
1614 (0.862 %)VLAN
1713 (0.800 %)SSH
1713 (0.800 %)Kerberos
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1632 (38.92 %)MySQL
2190 (11.70 %)SQL Server
348 (2.956 %)RDBMS
348 (2.956 %)PostgreSQL
438 (2.340 %)Oracle 10g
537 (2.278 %)Oracle 8/8i
635 (2.155 %)SQL Server 2005
734 (2.094 %)Oracle 11g
833 (2.032 %)NoSQL
932 (1.970 %)MongoDB
1024 (1.478 %)DB2
1118 (1.108 %)Oracle 9i
1118 (1.108 %)SQL Server 2008
1216 (0.985 %)Hadoop
1315 (0.924 %)SimpleDB
1315 (0.924 %)Redis
1411 (0.677 %)InterSystems Cache
1510 (0.616 %)OLTP
1510 (0.616 %)Oracle Reports
168 (0.493 %)SQL Server 2000
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1232 (14.29 %)Subversion
2213 (13.12 %)Maven
396 (5.911 %)Ant
494 (5.788 %)Eclipse
592 (5.665 %)JIRA
690 (5.542 %)JUnit
753 (3.264 %)Git (software)
852 (3.202 %)Hudson
934 (2.094 %)Selenium
1026 (1.601 %)Mercurial
1119 (1.170 %)NUnit
1215 (0.924 %)TeamCity
1215 (0.924 %)FishEye
1314 (0.862 %)Mockito
1413 (0.800 %)NetBeans
1512 (0.739 %)JMeter
1611 (0.677 %)Firebug
1611 (0.677 %)ClearCase
179 (0.554 %)PHPUnit
179 (0.554 %)Cucumber
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1154 (9.483 %)Finance
2103 (6.342 %)Banking
340 (2.463 %)Investment Banking
431 (1.909 %)Telecoms
526 (1.601 %)Publishing
623 (1.416 %)Front Office
623 (1.416 %)Retail
717 (1.047 %)Marketing
814 (0.862 %)Back Office
912 (0.739 %)Financial Institution
912 (0.739 %)Advertising
1011 (0.677 %)Billing
1011 (0.677 %)Music
116 (0.369 %)Games
116 (0.369 %)Pharmaceutical
123 (0.185 %)German Language
123 (0.185 %)Manufacturing
132 (0.123 %)Automotive
132 (0.123 %)Dutch Language
141 (0.062 %)Online Betting
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1669 (41.19 %)Developer
2284 (17.49 %)Administrator
3271 (16.69 %)Java Developer
4221 (13.61 %)Systems Administrator
5149 (9.175 %)PHP Developer
6143 (8.805 %)Linux Administrator
7123 (7.574 %)Linux Systems Administrator
888 (5.419 %)Senior Developer
973 (4.495 %)Analyst
1070 (4.310 %)Web Developer
1169 (4.249 %)Linux Engineer
1266 (4.064 %)Consultant
1361 (3.756 %)Architect
1452 (3.202 %)Senior Java Developer
1551 (3.140 %)UNIX Administrator
1642 (2.586 %)Systems Engineer
1736 (2.217 %)Drupal Developer
1835 (2.155 %)Support Engineer
1835 (2.155 %)Software Engineer
1931 (1.909 %)Applications Support
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1127 (7.820 %)Open Source
279 (4.865 %)Clustering
343 (2.648 %)Client/Server
433 (2.032 %)Computer Science
530 (1.847 %)Digital Media
530 (1.847 %)Mathematics
628 (1.724 %)Cloud Computing
723 (1.416 %)Management Information System
818 (1.108 %)Derivative
917 (1.047 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
917 (1.047 %)Replication
1010 (0.616 %)Credit Risk
119 (0.554 %)DataPower
119 (0.554 %)RIA
128 (0.493 %)Data Protection Act
128 (0.493 %)PKI
128 (0.493 %)Social Media
128 (0.493 %)Video on Demand
137 (0.431 %)SaaS
137 (0.431 %)iPad
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1890 (54.80 %)Linux
2479 (29.50 %)UNIX
3340 (20.94 %)Windows
4200 (12.32 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5181 (11.15 %)Solaris
668 (4.187 %)Windows Server 2003
762 (3.818 %)Windows Server 2008
861 (3.756 %)CentOS
940 (2.463 %)AIX
1033 (2.032 %)Debian
1033 (2.032 %)HPUX
1132 (1.970 %)Ubuntu
1229 (1.786 %)Windows XP
1325 (1.539 %)Mac OS X
1418 (1.108 %)SUSE
1418 (1.108 %)Windows NT
1514 (0.862 %)Windows 7
1613 (0.800 %)Android
1613 (0.800 %)Windows 2000
1710 (0.616 %)Apple iOS
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1207 (12.75 %)E-Commerce
2193 (11.88 %)OO
3180 (11.08 %)Agile Software Development
4137 (8.436 %)TDD
5109 (6.712 %)MVC
6108 (6.650 %)Scrum
7104 (6.404 %)ITIL
884 (5.172 %)Continuous Integration
972 (4.433 %)Web Development
1071 (4.372 %)Content Management
1170 (4.310 %)Configuration Management
1269 (4.249 %)Project Management
1368 (4.187 %)Load Balancing
1368 (4.187 %)Change Management
1453 (3.264 %)OOP
1549 (3.017 %)SOA
1646 (2.833 %)Workflow
1646 (2.833 %)Unit Testing
1736 (2.217 %)Migration
1736 (2.217 %)Disaster Recovery
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1680 (41.87 %)Java
2425 (26.17 %)PHP
3375 (23.09 %)JavaScript
4357 (21.98 %)SQL
5316 (19.46 %)Perl
6171 (10.53 %)Shell Script
7117 (7.204 %)Python
895 (5.850 %)PHP5
990 (5.542 %)Bash shell
1060 (3.695 %)Ruby
1157 (3.510 %)C
1252 (3.202 %)C++
1348 (2.956 %)C#
1441 (2.525 %)PL/SQL
1517 (1.047 %)VB
1616 (0.985 %)PHP4
1715 (0.924 %)Groovy
1715 (0.924 %)AWK
1814 (0.862 %)R
1814 (0.862 %)XPath
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
199 (6.096 %)Security Cleared
291 (5.603 %)Degree
366 (4.064 %)SC Cleared
442 (2.586 %)DV Cleared
526 (1.601 %)CISSP
622 (1.355 %)RHCE
717 (1.047 %)CISM
813 (0.800 %)Microsoft Certification
910 (0.616 %)RHCT
109 (0.554 %)MCSE
118 (0.493 %)Cisco Certification
127 (0.431 %)CCNA
136 (0.369 %)Oracle Certification
136 (0.369 %)CISMP
145 (0.308 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
145 (0.308 %)Sun Certification
153 (0.185 %)GWAPT
153 (0.185 %)BC Cleared
153 (0.185 %)CCNP
153 (0.185 %)ISEB
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
158 (3.571 %)QA
255 (3.387 %)SLA
313 (0.800 %)PCI DSS
47 (0.431 %)COBIT
55 (0.308 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
62 (0.123 %)ISO/IEC 27001
71 (0.062 %)HIPAA
71 (0.062 %)ISO 9001
71 (0.062 %)Basel II
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
197 (5.973 %)VMware Infrastructure
268 (4.187 %)Active Directory
351 (3.140 %)VMware ESX
440 (2.463 %)vSphere
529 (1.786 %)Varnish
619 (1.170 %)XenApp
717 (1.047 %)Squid
717 (1.047 %)NFS
816 (0.985 %)Xen
913 (0.800 %)Hyper-V
913 (0.800 %)Citrix Presentation Server
1011 (0.677 %)Postfix
1110 (0.616 %)Oracle RAC
1110 (0.616 %)Sendmail
128 (0.493 %)Samba
128 (0.493 %)VMware ESXi
137 (0.431 %)XenDesktop
146 (0.369 %)Veritas Cluster Server
153 (0.185 %)Tivoli Directory Server
153 (0.185 %)Oracle RMAN
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
196 (5.911 %)Nagios
277 (4.741 %)Puppet
337 (2.278 %)Zenoss
337 (2.278 %)Cobbler
434 (2.094 %)NetBackup
518 (1.108 %)ZABBIX
617 (1.047 %)Tivoli
715 (0.924 %)OpenView
715 (0.924 %)Backup Exec
715 (0.924 %)CA Wily
812 (0.739 %)SCOM
910 (0.616 %)Legato
910 (0.616 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
910 (0.616 %)OpenView Configuration Management
109 (0.554 %)Cacti
118 (0.493 %)Control-M
127 (0.431 %)SCCM
127 (0.431 %)BladeLogic
136 (0.369 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
145 (0.308 %)OVSD
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1459 (28.26 %)Oracle
2297 (18.29 %)Red Hat
3260 (16.01 %)JBoss
4175 (10.78 %)VMware
5124 (7.635 %)Microsoft
699 (6.096 %)IBM
775 (4.618 %)HP
867 (4.126 %)Sun
961 (3.756 %)Cisco
1053 (3.264 %)Zend
1148 (2.956 %)Citrix
1233 (2.032 %)NetApp
1233 (2.032 %)Veritas
1331 (1.909 %)Remedy
1429 (1.786 %)TIBCO
1525 (1.539 %)EMC
1624 (1.478 %)Sybase
1624 (1.478 %)Adobe
1722 (1.355 %)Endeca
1821 (1.293 %)FatWire