Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Tomcat skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Tomcat over the 3 months to 17 March 2010 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.

LinkApache Tomcat
Location
3 months to
17 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank188279239
Rank change year-on-year
Up+91Down-40
Matching contract IT job ads401174505
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.829 %0.438 %0.618 %
As % of the Application Platforms category5.875 %3.070 %4.631 %
Daily rates quoted18262192
Average daily rate£365£350£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.280 %-12.50 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£250£226£288
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£525£450£525
UK excluding London average daily rate£348£313£350
% change year-on-year
+11.20 %-10.71 %
Hourly rates quoted4919
Average hourly rate£30.00£34.00£24.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.76 %+41.66 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£26.50£29.40£18.70
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£38.75£41.00£30.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£30.00£33.50£24.00
% change year-on-year
-10.44 %+39.58 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryAll Application Platforms
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
6825566810904
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK14.11 %14.26 %13.35 %
Daily rates quoted295017773136
Average daily rate£360£350£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.850 %-12.50 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£215£210£245
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£525£500£550
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£344£375
% change year-on-year
-5.380 %-8.400 %
Hourly rates quoted458452976
Average hourly rate£19.00£22.50£20.40
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-15.55 %+10.29 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£11.00£12.39£12.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£36.18£40.50£38.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£17.50£22.50£20.00
% change year-on-year
-22.22 %+12.50 %

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.

Tomcat
Demand Trend

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

Tomcat Demand Trend

Tomcat
Daily Rate Trend

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

Tomcat Daily Rate Trend

Tomcat
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Tomcat within the UK over the 3 months to 17 March 2010.

Tomcat Daily Rate Histogram

Tomcat
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Tomcat Hourly Rate Trend

Tomcat
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Tomcat within the UK over the 3 months to 17 March 2010.

Tomcat Hourly Rate Histogram

Tomcat
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 Tomcat within the UK over the 3 months to 17 March 2010. 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+91374£375+7.14 %
LondonUp+60264£388-3.12 %
City of LondonDown-484£438+2.94 %
South EastUp+134£388+3.33 %
South WestUp+3228£413-
ScotlandDown-525£354+31.01 %
BerkshireUp+2016£285-24.00 %
East of EnglandUp+1815£281-22.41 %
BristolNew entry-14£375-
North WestDown-1012£315+53.65 %
CambridgeshireUp+1010£250-16.66 %
GlasgowDown-510£345+50.00 %
ReadingUp+98£285-
CambridgeUp+58£275-8.33 %
West MidlandsUp+97£225-
East MidlandsUp+47£263-4.54 %
YorkshireDown-17£370+85.00 %
DevonNew entry-7£443-
ExeterNew entry-7£443-
Home CountiesNew entry-6--
SurreyDown-95£388-13.88 %
AberdeenNew entry-5£368-
West YorkshireNew entry-5£370-
EdinburghDown-144--
CroydonNew entry-4£230-
LeedsNew entry-4£370-
ManchesterDown-133£225+9.75 %
LeicestershireNew entry-3£263-
NottinghamshireNew entry-3--
South WalesUp+112£219-

Tomcat
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1553 (75.65 %)Java
2382 (52.26 %)Apache
3313 (42.82 %)Linux
4263 (35.98 %)Spring
5243 (33.24 %)SQL
6239 (32.69 %)UNIX
7215 (29.41 %)Hibernate
8188 (25.72 %)XML
8188 (25.72 %)JavaScript
9179 (24.49 %)Banking
10173 (23.67 %)HTML
11169 (23.12 %)Windows
12168 (22.98 %)J2EE
13159 (21.75 %)Oracle
14149 (20.38 %)AJAX
15146 (19.97 %)Subversion
16145 (19.84 %)Web Services
16145 (19.84 %)CSS
17137 (18.74 %)JUnit
18136 (18.60 %)JBoss
19132 (18.06 %)Maven
20130 (17.78 %)JSP
21128 (17.51 %)Ant
22113 (15.46 %)Red Hat Linux
23111 (15.18 %)Eclipse
24108 (14.77 %)MySQL
24108 (14.77 %)OO
25107 (14.64 %)Investment Banking
26105 (14.36 %)Perl
27102 (13.95 %)WebLogic

Tomcat
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1263 (35.98 %)Spring
2215 (29.41 %)Hibernate
3188 (25.72 %)XML
4173 (23.67 %)HTML
5168 (22.98 %)J2EE
6149 (20.38 %)AJAX
7145 (19.84 %)Web Services
7145 (19.84 %)CSS
8130 (17.78 %)JSP
989 (12.18 %)Struts
1080 (10.94 %)Servlets
1163 (8.618 %)JDBC
1257 (7.798 %)WebSphere
1356 (7.661 %)SOAP
1356 (7.661 %)XSLT
1455 (7.524 %).NET
1550 (6.840 %)Middleware
1635 (4.788 %)JMS
1734 (4.651 %)Java EE
1734 (4.651 %)ASP
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1382 (52.26 %)Apache
2102 (13.95 %)WebLogic
368 (9.302 %)IIS
443 (5.882 %)CMS
530 (4.104 %)Drupal
629 (3.967 %)TIBCO EMS
721 (2.873 %)ESB
820 (2.736 %)Alfresco
918 (2.462 %)WebSphere Application Server
1016 (2.189 %)Jetty
1110 (1.368 %)Oracle Service Bus
1110 (1.368 %)WordPress
129 (1.231 %)Mule
137 (0.958 %)Oracle HTTP Server
137 (0.958 %)iPlanet
146 (0.821 %)GlassFish
146 (0.821 %)Documentum
154 (0.547 %)WebSphere Message Broker
154 (0.547 %)Liferay
154 (0.547 %)SharePoint
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
115 (2.052 %)MS Excel
28 (1.094 %)MS Visio
37 (0.958 %)MS PowerPoint
37 (0.958 %)MS Office
45 (0.684 %)Photoshop
54 (0.547 %)Fireworks
62 (0.274 %)MS Project
62 (0.274 %)Windchill
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
18 (1.094 %)TIBCO iProcess
18 (1.094 %)BusinessWorks
24 (0.547 %)Kondor+
33 (0.410 %)WebTrends
42 (0.274 %)Maximo
42 (0.274 %)Retail-J
51 (0.137 %)Oracle Applications
51 (0.137 %)Staffware
51 (0.137 %)Oracle EBS
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
180 (10.94 %)HTTP
267 (9.166 %)Internet
336 (4.925 %)Firewall
425 (3.420 %)DNS
523 (3.146 %)LDAP
621 (2.873 %)BIG-IP
716 (2.189 %)SSL
815 (2.052 %)TCP/IP
815 (2.052 %)SAN
911 (1.505 %)Intranet
109 (1.231 %)WAN
118 (1.094 %)LAN
126 (0.821 %)SMTP
135 (0.684 %)VLAN
135 (0.684 %)Broadband
135 (0.684 %)SNMP
135 (0.684 %)VPN
135 (0.684 %)FTP
144 (0.547 %)Cisco PIX
153 (0.410 %)Kerberos
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1108 (14.77 %)MySQL
279 (10.81 %)SQL Server
322 (3.010 %)SQL Server 2005
419 (2.599 %)RDBMS
517 (2.326 %)Oracle Reports
613 (1.778 %)PostgreSQL
712 (1.642 %)DB2
810 (1.368 %)SQLPlus
99 (1.231 %)BusinessObjects
99 (1.231 %)Oracle 10g
107 (0.958 %)Oracle 8/8i
116 (0.821 %)GIS
125 (0.684 %)Datawarehouse
133 (0.410 %)SQL Server 2000
133 (0.410 %)ETL
142 (0.274 %)SQL Server 2008
142 (0.274 %)Xcelsius
142 (0.274 %)BusinessObjects XI
142 (0.274 %)BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
142 (0.274 %)TOAD
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1146 (19.97 %)Subversion
2137 (18.74 %)JUnit
3132 (18.06 %)Maven
4128 (17.51 %)Ant
5111 (15.18 %)Eclipse
638 (5.198 %)IntelliJ
729 (3.967 %)Selenium
819 (2.599 %)CruiseControl
917 (2.326 %)NUnit
1016 (2.189 %)JMeter
1114 (1.915 %)FitNesse
1213 (1.778 %)TeamCity
1213 (1.778 %)WebDriver
1312 (1.642 %)HttpUnit
147 (0.958 %)JIRA
156 (0.821 %)LoadRunner
165 (0.684 %)Log4j
165 (0.684 %)WinRunner
165 (0.684 %)QuickTest Pro
165 (0.684 %)TestNG
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1179 (24.49 %)Banking
2107 (14.64 %)Investment Banking
394 (12.86 %)Finance
441 (5.609 %)Front Office
523 (3.146 %)Back Office
523 (3.146 %)Telecoms
622 (3.010 %)Government
712 (1.642 %)Insurance
89 (1.231 %)Games
97 (0.958 %)Retail
97 (0.958 %)Education
106 (0.821 %)Health
106 (0.821 %)Publishing
115 (0.684 %)Law
115 (0.684 %)Electronics
124 (0.547 %)Retail Banking
133 (0.410 %)Home Office
133 (0.410 %)Legal
133 (0.410 %)Automotive
133 (0.410 %)Pharmaceutical
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1418 (57.18 %)Developer
2319 (43.64 %)Java Developer
366 (9.029 %)Analyst
465 (8.892 %)Web Developer
548 (6.566 %)Senior Developer
645 (6.156 %)Java Web Developer
740 (5.472 %)Senior Java Developer
835 (4.788 %)J2EE Developer
835 (4.788 %)Java/J2EE Developer
930 (4.104 %)Administrator
1028 (3.830 %)Systems Administrator
1124 (3.283 %)Team Leader
1124 (3.283 %)Web Engineer
1222 (3.010 %)Consultant
1321 (2.873 %)Architect
1418 (2.462 %)Support Analyst
1517 (2.326 %)Linux Engineer
1517 (2.326 %)Support Engineer
1517 (2.326 %)Middleware Developer
1616 (2.189 %)Tester
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
142 (5.746 %)Open Source
228 (3.830 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
321 (2.873 %)Fixed Income
420 (2.736 %)Derivative
516 (2.189 %)Mathematics
614 (1.915 %)Social Network
614 (1.915 %)Clustering
712 (1.642 %)Client/Server
89 (1.231 %)Equities
98 (1.094 %)Computer Science
98 (1.094 %)N-Tier
98 (1.094 %)Web 2.0
107 (0.958 %)E-Learning
115 (0.684 %)Wiki
115 (0.684 %)Multithreading
124 (0.547 %)Visualisation
124 (0.547 %)Amazon EC2
133 (0.410 %)Interest Rate Derivative
133 (0.410 %)Equity Derivative
133 (0.410 %)BBC
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1313 (42.82 %)Linux
2239 (32.69 %)UNIX
3169 (23.12 %)Windows
4113 (15.46 %)Red Hat Linux
579 (10.81 %)Solaris
659 (8.071 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
727 (3.694 %)CentOS
823 (3.146 %)Windows Server 2003
916 (2.189 %)Windows XP
1012 (1.642 %)AIX
119 (1.231 %)Windows 2000
127 (0.958 %)Windows Server 2008
136 (0.821 %)HPUX
145 (0.684 %)Tru64
154 (0.547 %)Fedora
163 (0.410 %)Ubuntu
163 (0.410 %)Debian
163 (0.410 %)zOS
163 (0.410 %)Windows 2000 Server
172 (0.274 %)SUSE
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1108 (14.77 %)OO
297 (13.27 %)Agile Software Development
389 (12.18 %)MVC
472 (9.850 %)Scrum
472 (9.850 %)Web Development
552 (7.114 %)Continuous Integration
642 (5.746 %)E-Commerce
741 (5.609 %)Unit Testing
836 (4.925 %)TDD
933 (4.514 %)OOD
933 (4.514 %)Content Management
1032 (4.378 %)UML
1032 (4.378 %)User Acceptance Testing
1129 (3.967 %)SOA
1225 (3.420 %)Migration
1323 (3.146 %)Configuration Management
1422 (3.010 %)Load Balancing
1521 (2.873 %)ITIL
1619 (2.599 %)Automated Testing
1718 (2.462 %)Workflow
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1553 (75.65 %)Java
2243 (33.24 %)SQL
3188 (25.72 %)JavaScript
4105 (14.36 %)Perl
569 (9.439 %)PHP
667 (9.166 %)Shell Script
744 (6.019 %)C#
843 (5.882 %)Python
935 (4.788 %)PL/SQL
1029 (3.967 %)C
1127 (3.694 %)C++
1223 (3.146 %)Groovy
1322 (3.010 %)VB
1322 (3.010 %)Bash shell
1416 (2.189 %)Ruby
1513 (1.778 %)VB.NET
1612 (1.642 %)PHP5
1612 (1.642 %)VBA
179 (1.231 %)Korn
179 (1.231 %)XPath
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
143 (5.882 %)Security Cleared
232 (4.378 %)Degree
326 (3.557 %)SC Cleared
413 (1.778 %)DV Cleared
54 (0.547 %)BC Cleared
54 (0.547 %)Sun Certification
62 (0.274 %)MCSE
62 (0.274 %)ISEB
62 (0.274 %)Microsoft Certification
62 (0.274 %)PRINCE2 Certification
71 (0.137 %)OCP
71 (0.137 %)Oracle Certification
71 (0.137 %)CTC Cleared
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
131 (4.241 %)QA
28 (1.094 %)SLA
35 (0.684 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
42 (0.274 %)PCI DSS
42 (0.274 %)GAMP
42 (0.274 %)ISO9001
42 (0.274 %)GxP
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
118 (2.462 %)VMware ESX
215 (2.052 %)VMware Infrastructure
314 (1.915 %)Active Directory
410 (1.368 %)Squid
56 (0.821 %)NFS
64 (0.547 %)Oracle RAC
73 (0.410 %)XenServer
82 (0.274 %)Sendmail
91 (0.137 %)Xen
91 (0.137 %)Samba
91 (0.137 %)ISA Server
91 (0.137 %)Veritas Cluster Server
91 (0.137 %)XenApp
91 (0.137 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
91 (0.137 %)Citrix Presentation Server
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
119 (2.599 %)Nagios
218 (2.462 %)AutoSys
36 (0.821 %)CA SiteMinder
45 (0.684 %)OVSD
45 (0.684 %)Tivoli
45 (0.684 %)OpenView
54 (0.547 %)Cacti
54 (0.547 %)MOM
62 (0.274 %)Zenoss
62 (0.274 %)NetBackup
71 (0.137 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
71 (0.137 %)HP Quality Center
71 (0.137 %)ZABBIX
71 (0.137 %)Sun Identity Manager
71 (0.137 %)YUM
71 (0.137 %)ServiceCenter
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1159 (21.75 %)Oracle
2136 (18.60 %)JBoss
385 (11.63 %)Sybase
480 (10.94 %)Red Hat
549 (6.703 %)VMware
645 (6.156 %)TIBCO
736 (4.925 %)IBM
736 (4.925 %)Sun
827 (3.694 %)Microsoft
919 (2.599 %)HP
1018 (2.462 %)BEA
1114 (1.915 %)Google
1212 (1.642 %)Cisco
1212 (1.642 %)ILOG
1311 (1.505 %)DataSynapse
1410 (1.368 %)Citrix
1410 (1.368 %)Alterian
159 (1.231 %)Business Objects
168 (1.094 %)Adobe
177 (0.958 %)CA