The first table below looks at the demand for Apache skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Apache over the 3 months to 24 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 Yorkshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache HTTP Server
Rank 23 59 62
Rank change year-on-year
+36 +3
Contract jobs citing Apache 77 32 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 6.135% 2.045% 1.511%
As % of the Application Platforms category 27.21% 11.94% 6.464%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 20 10
Average daily rate £280 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £280 £222
10% offered a daily rate of more than £338 £350 £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £328 £350
% change year-on-year
-0.76% -6.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £17.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £34.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -27.53%
All Application Platforms
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
283 268 263
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 22.55% 17.12% 23.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 154 106
Average daily rate £275 £325 £326
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.38% -0.15%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £150 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £369 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 19
Average hourly rate £23.50 £15.00 £21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+56.66% -30.23%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.25 £11.00 £11.55
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.00 £30.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
Apache
Yorkshire

Apache
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Leeds +23 73 £275 -8.33%
Bradford +1 2 £285 -
Halifax +11 1 - -
Wakefield 0 1 £400 -
Huddersfield -1 1 - -
Apache
Yorkshire

Apache
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 81 (85.26%) Linux
2 68 (71.58%) PHP
3 65 (68.42%) MySQL
4 51 (53.68%) Web Services
5 47 (49.47%) Oracle
6 43 (45.26%) Java
7 42 (44.21%) DNS
7 42 (44.21%) Internet
7 42 (44.21%) Ruby
8 41 (43.16%) nginx
8 41 (43.16%) Python
8 41 (43.16%) C++
9 40 (42.11%) Amazon EC2
9 40 (42.11%) Amazon S3
9 40 (42.11%) Amazon AWS
9 40 (42.11%) Bash shell
9 40 (42.11%) MongoDB
9 40 (42.11%) Node.js
9 40 (42.11%) Route 53
10 39 (41.05%) Amazon RDS
10 39 (41.05%) Redis
10 39 (41.05%) Kanban
11 36 (37.89%) Configuration Management
12 34 (35.79%) Tomcat
13 33 (34.74%) Perl
14 32 (33.68%) Puppet
15 26 (27.37%) Test Automation
15 26 (27.37%) TDD
15 26 (27.37%) Client/Server
16 25 (26.32%) Telecoms

Apache
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 51 (53.68%) Web Services
2 40 (42.11%) Node.js
3 20 (21.05%) J2EE
4 16 (16.84%) POSIX
5 15 (15.79%) CSS
6 12 (12.63%) LAMP
7 9 (9.474%) WebSphere
8 8 (8.421%) HTML5
8 8 (8.421%) CSS3
8 8 (8.421%) Spring
8 8 (8.421%) Hibernate
8 8 (8.421%) XML
8 8 (8.421%) SOAP
9 7 (7.368%) XHTML
9 7 (7.368%) jQuery
9 7 (7.368%) REST
10 6 (6.316%) XSLT
11 5 (5.263%) X-Windows
12 3 (3.158%) .NET
13 2 (2.105%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 41 (43.16%) nginx
2 40 (42.11%) Amazon EC2
2 40 (42.11%) Amazon S3
2 40 (42.11%) Amazon AWS
2 40 (42.11%) Route 53
3 34 (35.79%) Tomcat
4 9 (9.474%) Apache Solr
5 7 (7.368%) Adobe CQ
6 3 (3.158%) WebLogic
6 3 (3.158%) ATG Dynamo
7 2 (2.105%) IBM HTTP Server
7 2 (2.105%) IIS
7 2 (2.105%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (1.053%) Drupal
8 1 (1.053%) CloudFront
8 1 (1.053%) Amazon ELB
Applications
1 4 (4.211%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (13.68%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (3.158%) Oracle CRM
Communications & Networking
1 42 (44.21%) DNS
1 42 (44.21%) Internet
2 24 (25.26%) HTTP
3 18 (18.95%) TCP/IP
3 18 (18.95%) DHCP
4 17 (17.89%) SSL
5 14 (14.74%) Firewall
6 13 (13.68%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (2.105%) SSH
8 1 (1.053%) SMTP
8 1 (1.053%) FTP
8 1 (1.053%) NetScreen
8 1 (1.053%) DVB
8 1 (1.053%) SAN
8 1 (1.053%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (1.053%) Network Security
8 1 (1.053%) BIG-IP
8 1 (1.053%) RTSP
8 1 (1.053%) OpenLDAP
8 1 (1.053%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (68.42%) MySQL
2 40 (42.11%) MongoDB
3 39 (41.05%) Amazon RDS
3 39 (41.05%) Redis
4 22 (23.16%) SQL Server
5 17 (17.89%) NoSQL
6 16 (16.84%) SimpleDB
6 16 (16.84%) Couchbase
6 16 (16.84%) RDBMS
7 2 (2.105%) RavenDB
7 2 (2.105%) SQL Server 2005
7 2 (2.105%) SQL Server 2008
7 2 (2.105%) DB2
8 1 (1.053%) Data Mining
8 1 (1.053%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (10.53%) Git (software)
1 10 (10.53%) Maven
2 7 (7.368%) Introscope
2 7 (7.368%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.158%) Visual Studio
3 3 (3.158%) Ant
3 3 (3.158%) CruiseControl
3 3 (3.158%) Subversion
General
1 25 (26.32%) Telecoms
2 3 (3.158%) Games
2 3 (3.158%) Online Betting
3 2 (2.105%) Finance
Job Titles
1 18 (18.95%) Developer
2 17 (17.89%) Architect
2 17 (17.89%) Software Engineer
3 9 (9.474%) Operations Engineer
4 8 (8.421%) Infrastructure Architect
4 8 (8.421%) Java Developer
4 8 (8.421%) Analyst
5 5 (5.263%) PHP Developer
6 4 (4.211%) Test Analyst
6 4 (4.211%) Applications Support
6 4 (4.211%) Administrator
6 4 (4.211%) Support Analyst
6 4 (4.211%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (3.158%) Applications Support Analyst
7 3 (3.158%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.158%) Web Analyst
7 3 (3.158%) Linux Administrator
7 3 (3.158%) Release Engineer
7 3 (3.158%) Infrastructure Designer
7 3 (3.158%) Web Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 26 (27.37%) Client/Server
2 13 (13.68%) Open Source
3 5 (5.263%) RIA
4 3 (3.158%) Clustering
5 2 (2.105%) Computer Science
5 2 (2.105%) NHS
6 1 (1.053%) N-Tier
6 1 (1.053%) Firmware
6 1 (1.053%) IPTV
6 1 (1.053%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.053%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 81 (85.26%) Linux
2 24 (25.26%) UNIX
3 17 (17.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (16.84%) Windows
5 11 (11.58%) Solaris
6 8 (8.421%) HPUX
7 3 (3.158%) AIX
7 3 (3.158%) CentOS
8 2 (2.105%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.053%) Windows XP
9 1 (1.053%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (1.053%) SUSE
9 1 (1.053%) Debian
9 1 (1.053%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (41.05%) Kanban
2 36 (37.89%) Configuration Management
3 26 (27.37%) Test Automation
3 26 (27.37%) TDD
4 24 (25.26%) Scrum
5 22 (23.16%) Continuous Integration
6 19 (20.00%) Security Testing
7 18 (18.95%) Load Balancing
8 16 (16.84%) Capacity Management
8 16 (16.84%) Incident Management
9 12 (12.63%) E-Commerce
10 8 (8.421%) BDD
10 8 (8.421%) Agile Software Development
10 8 (8.421%) ITIL
11 7 (7.368%) SOA
11 7 (7.368%) Software Engineering
12 6 (6.316%) Performance Testing
13 5 (5.263%) B2C
13 5 (5.263%) OO
13 5 (5.263%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 68 (71.58%) PHP
2 43 (45.26%) Java
3 42 (44.21%) Ruby
4 41 (43.16%) Python
4 41 (43.16%) C++
5 40 (42.11%) Bash shell
6 33 (34.74%) Perl
7 15 (15.79%) JavaScript
8 13 (13.68%) SQL
9 8 (8.421%) Shell Script
10 3 (3.158%) C
10 3 (3.158%) C#
10 3 (3.158%) AWK
11 2 (2.105%) T-SQL
12 1 (1.053%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (4.211%) Degree
1 4 (4.211%) ISTQB
1 4 (4.211%) ISEB
2 1 (1.053%) MCSE
2 1 (1.053%) MCP
2 1 (1.053%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (1.053%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (1.053%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.053%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.211%) QA
System Software
1 9 (9.474%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.053%) NFS
2 1 (1.053%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.053%) Squid
2 1 (1.053%) XenServer
2 1 (1.053%) Sendmail
2 1 (1.053%) OpenSSO
2 1 (1.053%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (33.68%) Puppet
2 8 (8.421%) CA Wily
3 7 (7.368%) Splunk
4 1 (1.053%) PureDisk
Vendors
1 47 (49.47%) Oracle
2 23 (24.21%) Red Hat
3 18 (18.95%) Percona
4 14 (14.74%) JBoss
5 10 (10.53%) VMware
6 7 (7.368%) Adobe
6 7 (7.368%) hybris
7 5 (5.263%) Zend
7 5 (5.263%) Terracotta
8 4 (4.211%) IBM
9 3 (3.158%) ATG
10 2 (2.105%) Juniper
10 2 (2.105%) Cisco
11 1 (1.053%) McAfee
11 1 (1.053%) CA
11 1 (1.053%) NetApp
11 1 (1.053%) Citrix
11 1 (1.053%) Microsoft
11 1 (1.053%) Sun
11 1 (1.053%) Blue Coat
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