The first table below looks at the demand for Apache skills in IT jobs advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Apache over the 3 months to 17 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 Chester region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache HTTP Server
Rank 47 25 17
Rank change year-on-year
-22 -8
Permanent jobs citing Apache 3 11 33
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 0.838% 6.790% 13.98%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.556% 25.58% 41.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2 7 33
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% -5.88%
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.66% +7.14%
All Application Platforms
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
54 43 80
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 15.08% 26.54% 33.90%
Number of salaries quoted 30 37 79
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +1.35%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,300 £22,807 £26,700
10% offered a salary of more than £41,750 £46,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
Apache
Cheshire

Apache
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester Apache Jobs Demand Trend

Apache
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Apache across the Chester region.

Chester Apache Salary Trend

Apache
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Apache.

1 6 (85.71%) XML
2 5 (71.43%) HTML
2 5 (71.43%) CSS
2 5 (71.43%) Ajax
3 3 (42.86%) Degree
3 3 (42.86%) Finance
3 3 (42.86%) Spring
3 3 (42.86%) Open Source
3 3 (42.86%) Java
3 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 3 (42.86%) PHP
3 3 (42.86%) Linux
3 3 (42.86%) MySQL
3 3 (42.86%) Oracle
3 3 (42.86%) LAMP
3 3 (42.86%) Hibernate
4 2 (28.57%) WSDL
4 2 (28.57%) JAX-RPC
4 2 (28.57%) XSLT
4 2 (28.57%) PL/SQL
4 2 (28.57%) SQL
4 2 (28.57%) JSP
4 2 (28.57%) Servlets
4 2 (28.57%) SOAP
4 2 (28.57%) Web Services
4 2 (28.57%) Unit Testing
4 2 (28.57%) System Testing
4 2 (28.57%) JSF
4 2 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (28.57%) Legal

Apache
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Apache. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (85.71%) XML
2 5 (71.43%) CSS
2 5 (71.43%) Ajax
2 5 (71.43%) HTML
3 3 (42.86%) LAMP
3 3 (42.86%) Hibernate
3 3 (42.86%) Spring
4 2 (28.57%) JSF
4 2 (28.57%) WebSphere
4 2 (28.57%) Java EE
4 2 (28.57%) Apache Axis
4 2 (28.57%) JSP
4 2 (28.57%) Servlets
4 2 (28.57%) SOAP
4 2 (28.57%) XSLT
4 2 (28.57%) WSDL
4 2 (28.57%) JAX-RPC
4 2 (28.57%) Web Services
5 1 (14.29%) J2EE
5 1 (14.29%) Struts
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) MySQL
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Java Developer
2 3 (42.86%) PHP Developer
3 1 (14.29%) J2EE Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Server Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Java/J2EE Developer
3 1 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) J2EE Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Server Support Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Server Support
3 1 (14.29%) Support Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) UNIX
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (28.57%) Unit Testing
1 2 (28.57%) System Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Pair Programming
2 1 (14.29%) MVC
2 1 (14.29%) Scrum
2 1 (14.29%) Extreme Programming
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Java
1 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
1 3 (42.86%) PHP
2 2 (28.57%) PL/SQL
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) XPath
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) JBoss