The first table below looks at the demand for Apache skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Apache over the 3 months to 22 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 Platforms category for the West Midlands 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache HTTP Server
Rank 84 88 82
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -6
Contract jobs citing Apache 15 22 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.894% 0.963% 0.920%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.703% 6.027% 5.466%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 16 10
Average daily rate £260 £259 £376
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.48% -31.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £255 £225 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £360 £338 £432
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £57.50 £33.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+74.24% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.75 £25.00 £34.50
% change year-on-year
+15.00% -27.53%
All Application Platforms
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
263 365 311
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 15.68% 15.97% 16.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 163 159
Average daily rate £300 £325 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £135 £208 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 22 23
Average hourly rate £27.50 £17.50 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+57.14% +45.83%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.40 £11.00 £10.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.20 £30.00 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%
Apache
England

Apache
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands Apache Jobs Demand Trend

Apache
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Midlands Apache Daily Rate Trend

Apache
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Apache across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

West Midlands Apache Daily Rate Histogram

Apache
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Midlands Apache Hourly Rate Trend

Apache
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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 22 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
Worcestershire -9 2 £348 +6.92%
Coventry +2 1 - -
Birmingham -5 1 £400 +60.00%
Wolverhampton - 1 - -
Herefordshire - 1 £205 -
Staffordshire - 1 - -
Apache
England

Apache
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 14 (77.78%) Tomcat
2 9 (50.00%) Linux
2 9 (50.00%) HTML
2 9 (50.00%) CSS
3 7 (38.89%) Windows
3 7 (38.89%) Subversion
4 6 (33.33%) Maven
4 6 (33.33%) JSTL
4 6 (33.33%) jQuery
4 6 (33.33%) Eclipse
4 6 (33.33%) UNIX
4 6 (33.33%) JSP
4 6 (33.33%) Ant
4 6 (33.33%) Java
4 6 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 6 (33.33%) J2EE
5 5 (27.78%) SQL
5 5 (27.78%) QA
6 4 (22.22%) MySQL
6 4 (22.22%) Oracle
6 4 (22.22%) PHP
6 4 (22.22%) Shell Script
7 3 (16.67%) SAN
7 3 (16.67%) VPN
7 3 (16.67%) PL/SQL
7 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
7 3 (16.67%) T-SQL
7 3 (16.67%) JBoss
7 3 (16.67%) Northgate
7 3 (16.67%) WebSphere

Apache
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 9 (50.00%) HTML
1 9 (50.00%) CSS
2 6 (33.33%) JSTL
2 6 (33.33%) jQuery
2 6 (33.33%) JSP
2 6 (33.33%) J2EE
3 3 (16.67%) WebSphere
4 2 (11.11%) Java EE
4 2 (11.11%) CodeIgniter
4 2 (11.11%) SAML
5 1 (5.556%) LAMP
5 1 (5.556%) XML
5 1 (5.556%) XSLT
5 1 (5.556%) REST
5 1 (5.556%) Zend Framework
5 1 (5.556%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 14 (77.78%) Tomcat
2 2 (11.11%) WordPress
2 2 (11.11%) Drupal
3 1 (5.556%) CMS
3 1 (5.556%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (5.556%) MS Exchange
3 1 (5.556%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) ENOVIA
2 1 (5.556%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) SAN
1 3 (16.67%) VPN
2 2 (11.11%) NAS
2 2 (11.11%) LDAP
2 2 (11.11%) HTTP
2 2 (11.11%) LAN
2 2 (11.11%) WAN
3 1 (5.556%) NetScreen
3 1 (5.556%) Firewall
3 1 (5.556%) IPsec
3 1 (5.556%) Ethernet
3 1 (5.556%) FTP
3 1 (5.556%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) MySQL
2 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.556%) RDBMS
3 1 (5.556%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (5.556%) Oracle 9i
3 1 (5.556%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 7 (38.89%) Subversion
2 6 (33.33%) Maven
2 6 (33.33%) Eclipse
2 6 (33.33%) Ant
3 2 (11.11%) Dreamweaver
General
1 2 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (5.556%) Financial Institution
2 1 (5.556%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 13 (72.22%) Developer
2 6 (33.33%) Web Developer
2 6 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 5 (27.78%) Java/J2EE Developer
3 5 (27.78%) Java Web Developer
4 3 (16.67%) SQL Developer
5 2 (11.11%) PHP Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Drupal Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Architect
6 1 (5.556%) Oracle DBA
6 1 (5.556%) Oracle Developer
6 1 (5.556%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.556%) DBA
6 1 (5.556%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.556%) Administrator
6 1 (5.556%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (5.556%) WebSphere Engineer
6 1 (5.556%) PHP Web Developer
6 1 (5.556%) PL/SQL Developer
6 1 (5.556%) Infrastructure Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Clustering
2 1 (5.556%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (50.00%) Linux
2 7 (38.89%) Windows
3 6 (33.33%) UNIX
4 1 (5.556%) Solaris
4 1 (5.556%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (11.11%) Zachman Framework
1 2 (11.11%) TOGAF
1 2 (11.11%) Data Analysis
1 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (11.11%) Data Modelling
1 2 (11.11%) Project Management
1 2 (11.11%) PLM
2 1 (5.556%) Business Continuity
2 1 (5.556%) ITIL
2 1 (5.556%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (5.556%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (5.556%) Database Security
2 1 (5.556%) Load Balancing
2 1 (5.556%) Web Development
2 1 (5.556%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) Java
1 6 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 5 (27.78%) SQL
3 4 (22.22%) PHP
3 4 (22.22%) Shell Script
4 3 (16.67%) PL/SQL
4 3 (16.67%) T-SQL
5 1 (5.556%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 1 (5.556%) OCP
1 1 (5.556%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.556%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.556%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (5.556%) XenServer
1 1 (5.556%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1 (5.556%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Oracle
2 3 (16.67%) JBoss
2 3 (16.67%) Northgate
3 2 (11.11%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.556%) VMware
4 1 (5.556%) Cisco
4 1 (5.556%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.556%) HP
4 1 (5.556%) Citrix
4 1 (5.556%) Juniper
4 1 (5.556%) Zend
4 1 (5.556%) Alterian
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Rate: £300 - £350 per day + DOE
Posted: 21 May 2013
Hereford, West Midlands
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E-Resourcing
Rate: £195 - £215 per day + Year long contract!
Posted: 14 May 2013
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Rate: £400 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013