Tomcat Contracts in England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Tomcat skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Tomcat over the 3 months to 23 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Apache Tomcat UK / England
Location	3 months to 23 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	223	190	212
Rank change year-on-year	-33	+22
Contract jobs citing Tomcat	451	680	572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England	1.05%	1.38%	1.12%
As % of the Application Platforms category	6.30%	7.68%	6.31%
Number of daily rates quoted	302	462	372
Median daily rate	£488	£470	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+3.72%	+17.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£350	£330	£290
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£575	£570	£525
UK excluding London median daily rate	£430	£450	£375
% change year-on-year	-4.44%	+20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1	6	18
Median hourly rate	£45.00	£44.75	£36.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+0.55%	+24.30%
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£45.00	£44.75	£32.54
% change year-on-year	+0.55%	+37.52%

Tomcat is in the application platform skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract Application Platform Skills England
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills	7160	8849	9069
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England	16.65%	17.91%	17.75%
Number of daily rates quoted	4614	6007	5779
Median daily rate	£438	£425	£375
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+2.94%	+13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£275	£270	£235
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£575	£575	£538
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£390	£350
% change year-on-year	+2.69%	+11.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted	185	200	306
Median hourly rate	£25.00	£19.44	£20.60
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+28.63%	-5.65%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.00	£12.20	£12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£44.50	£40.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£25.00	£23.00	£21.00
% change year-on-year	+8.69%	+9.52%

Tomcat
Job Vacancy Trend in England

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in England citing Tomcat as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Application Platforms category.

Tomcat
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Tomcat in England.

Contractor daily rate trend for Tomcat in England

Tomcat
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in England

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Tomcat in England over the 3 months to 23 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Tomcat in England

Tomcat
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Tomcat in England.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Tomcat in England

Tomcat
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Tomcat within the England region over the 3 months to 23 June 2017. 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	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
London	-48	234	£513	+2.50%	58
South East	-48	70	£494	+6.26%	30
Yorkshire	+23	46	£425	-14.78%	16
East of England	-7	25	£465	+16.25%	8
South West	+16	24	£383	-4.37%	7
North West	-31	21	£441	+3.82%	22
North East	+75	10	£323	-40.27%	5
West Midlands	-10	10	£413	-1.49%	4
East Midlands	-13	6	£413	+37.50%	6
Midlands	-	2	£363	-	10
Tomcat UK

Tomcat
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in England

For the 6 months to 23 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Tomcat also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the England region with a requirement for Tomcat.

1	665 (74.97%)	Java
2	486 (54.79%)	Linux
3	372 (41.94%)	Agile Software Development
4	362 (40.81%)	Apache
5	264 (29.76%)	Jenkins
6	260 (29.31%)	Spring
7	259 (29.20%)	DevOps
8	258 (29.09%)	Oracle
9	231 (26.04%)	JBoss
10	224 (25.25%)	Git (software)
11	218 (24.58%)	SQL
12	207 (23.34%)	Puppet
13	195 (21.98%)	JavaScript
14	194 (21.87%)	Python
15	187 (21.08%)	MySQL

16	186 (20.97%)	Unix
16	186 (20.97%)	Maven
16	186 (20.97%)	Continuous Integration
17	175 (19.73%)	Amazon AWS
18	172 (19.39%)	Perl
19	170 (19.17%)	WebLogic
19	170 (19.17%)	REST
20	168 (18.94%)	Finance
21	164 (18.49%)	HTML
22	163 (18.38%)	WebSphere
23	158 (17.81%)	Windows
24	157 (17.70%)	Web Services
25	152 (17.14%)	J2EE
26	150 (16.91%)	TDD
27	147 (16.57%)	Open Source

Tomcat
Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	362 (40.81%)	Apache
2	231 (26.04%)	JBoss
3	170 (19.17%)	WebLogic
4	163 (18.38%)	WebSphere
5	107 (12.06%)	nginx
6	74 (8.34%)	IIS
7	49 (5.52%)	Elasticsearch
8	47 (5.30%)	Jetty
9	40 (4.51%)	OpenStack
10	33 (3.72%)	Confluence
11	29 (3.27%)	WebSphere Application Server
12	24 (2.71%)	Mule
13	23 (2.59%)	Oracle SOA Suite
14	21 (2.37%)	GlassFish
15	18 (2.03%)	Mongrel
15	18 (2.03%)	Oracle Application Server
16	17 (1.92%)	Apache Spark
16	17 (1.92%)	iPlanet
17	16 (1.80%)	Apache Solr
18	14 (1.58%)	Apache TomEE

Applications
1	12 (1.35%)	Microsoft Office
2	7 (0.79%)	MS Visio
3	2 (0.23%)	Microsoft Excel
4	1 (0.11%)	Microsoft Project

Business Applications
1	8 (0.90%)	SAP Hybris
2	7 (0.79%)	Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2	7 (0.79%)	Payment Gateway
2	7 (0.79%)	SAP Oil and Gas
3	4 (0.45%)	Oracle Cash Management
4	3 (0.34%)	Oracle BPM
5	1 (0.11%)	BASE24
5	1 (0.11%)	Dynamics AX
5	1 (0.11%)	Dynamics CRM
5	1 (0.11%)	Oracle Retail
5	1 (0.11%)	Primavera
5	1 (0.11%)	Remedy AR System
5	1 (0.11%)	Remedy ITSM

Cloud Services
1	175 (19.73%)	Amazon AWS
2	72 (8.12%)	Microsoft Azure
3	32 (3.61%)	Amazon EC2
4	26 (2.93%)	GitHub
5	24 (2.71%)	AWS CloudFormation
6	22 (2.48%)	OpenShift
7	21 (2.37%)	PaaS
8	19 (2.14%)	Google Cloud Platform
8	19 (2.14%)	IaaS
9	18 (2.03%)	Google Analytics
9	18 (2.03%)	Google App Engine
10	17 (1.92%)	Cloud Computing
11	15 (1.69%)	OpenDNS
12	13 (1.47%)	Amazon S3
13	11 (1.24%)	Amazon CloudWatch
13	11 (1.24%)	Amazon ELB
13	11 (1.24%)	Virtual Private Cloud
14	8 (0.90%)	SaaS
15	6 (0.68%)	Akamai
16	5 (0.56%)	Office 365

Communications & Networking
1	119 (13.42%)	HTTP
2	112 (12.63%)	TCP/IP
3	94 (10.60%)	SSL
4	84 (9.47%)	DNS
5	82 (9.24%)	Firewall
6	46 (5.19%)	LDAP
7	35 (3.95%)	DHCP
8	23 (2.59%)	FTP
9	22 (2.48%)	Internet
10	21 (2.37%)	SAN
10	21 (2.37%)	WAN
11	20 (2.25%)	IPsec
11	20 (2.25%)	LAN
12	19 (2.14%)	VPN
13	16 (1.80%)	SSH
14	13 (1.47%)	SMTP
15	12 (1.35%)	OpenLDAP
16	9 (1.01%)	IMAP
16	9 (1.01%)	Network Security
17	7 (0.79%)	Wireshark

Database & Business Intelligence
1	187 (21.08%)	MySQL
2	139 (15.67%)	PostgreSQL
3	107 (12.06%)	SQL Server
4	80 (9.02%)	NoSQL
5	74 (8.34%)	Relational Database
6	56 (6.31%)	MongoDB
7	50 (5.64%)	Oracle Database
8	47 (5.30%)	RDBMS
9	42 (4.74%)	Redis
10	33 (3.72%)	Hadoop
11	19 (2.14%)	Apache Cassandra
12	18 (2.03%)	Big Data
13	17 (1.92%)	DB2
14	15 (1.69%)	HBase
14	15 (1.69%)	Maltego
15	14 (1.58%)	MariaDB
16	13 (1.47%)	Amazon RDS
17	11 (1.24%)	Data Warehouse
17	11 (1.24%)	Oracle Database 11g
18	10 (1.13%)	Endeca

Development Applications
1	264 (29.76%)	Jenkins
2	224 (25.25%)	Git (software)
3	186 (20.97%)	Maven
4	141 (15.90%)	JUnit
5	100 (11.27%)	Subversion
6	86 (9.70%)	JIRA
7	74 (8.34%)	Cucumber
8	68 (7.67%)	Selenium
9	59 (6.65%)	Ant
10	51 (5.75%)	Mockito
11	46 (5.19%)	Eclipse
12	43 (4.85%)	Gradle
13	41 (4.62%)	Bitbucket
14	37 (4.17%)	Sonatype Nexus
15	35 (3.95%)	IntelliJ
16	31 (3.49%)	gulp
17	30 (3.38%)	Atlassian Bamboo
18	29 (3.27%)	NUnit
19	27 (3.04%)	Gatling
20	26 (2.93%)	TeamCity

General
1	168 (18.94%)	Finance
2	87 (9.81%)	Banking
3	38 (4.28%)	Retail
4	24 (2.71%)	Investment Banking
5	21 (2.37%)	Telecoms
6	15 (1.69%)	Games
7	12 (1.35%)	Front Office
8	11 (1.24%)	Marketing
9	9 (1.01%)	Manufacturing
10	7 (0.79%)	Electronics
11	6 (0.68%)	Publishing
12	5 (0.56%)	Advertising
12	5 (0.56%)	Retail Banking
13	4 (0.45%)	Financial Institution
13	4 (0.45%)	Pharmaceutical
14	3 (0.34%)	International Banking
14	3 (0.34%)	Military
15	2 (0.23%)	Billing
15	2 (0.23%)	Law
15	2 (0.23%)	Legal

Job Titles
1	373 (42.05%)	Developer
2	263 (29.65%)	Java Developer
3	118 (13.30%)	DevOps Engineer
4	75 (8.46%)	Architect
5	56 (6.31%)	Senior Developer
6	44 (4.96%)	Linux Engineer
7	41 (4.62%)	Analyst
8	39 (4.40%)	Administrator
8	39 (4.40%)	Consultant
9	35 (3.95%)	Software Engineer
10	33 (3.72%)	Linux/Unix DevOps
11	31 (3.49%)	Full Stack Developer
12	29 (3.27%)	Java Engineer
13	28 (3.16%)	Senior Java Developer
14	25 (2.82%)	Systems Administrator
15	24 (2.71%)	Linux DevOps Engineer
15	24 (2.71%)	Oracle Architect
16	23 (2.59%)	AWS Engineer
16	23 (2.59%)	Scala Developer
16	23 (2.59%)	Technical Architect

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	260 (29.31%)	Spring
2	170 (19.17%)	REST
3	164 (18.49%)	HTML
4	157 (17.70%)	Web Services
5	152 (17.14%)	J2EE
6	143 (16.12%)	XML
7	142 (16.01%)	SOAP
8	137 (15.45%)	Hibernate
9	122 (13.75%)	CSS
10	100 (11.27%)	JSON
11	96 (10.82%)	RESTful
12	92 (10.37%)	AngularJS
13	89 (10.03%)	Middleware
14	82 (9.24%)	Java EE
15	71 (8.00%)	Servlets
16	70 (7.89%)	Elastic Stack
17	66 (7.44%)	jQuery
17	66 (7.44%)	Node.js
18	62 (6.99%)	JMS
18	62 (6.99%)	JSP

Miscellaneous
1	60 (6.76%)	Analytical Skills
1	60 (6.76%)	Computer Science
2	43 (4.85%)	Clustering
3	21 (2.37%)	Data Centre
3	21 (2.37%)	Linux Command Line
3	21 (2.37%)	Management Information System
4	20 (2.25%)	Client/Server
5	18 (2.03%)	Enterprise Software
6	17 (1.92%)	Data Structures
6	17 (1.92%)	User Experience
7	11 (1.24%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
8	10 (1.13%)	iPad
9	9 (1.01%)	Private Cloud
10	8 (0.90%)	PKI
11	7 (0.79%)	Distributed Denial-of-Service
11	7 (0.79%)	Fintech
12	6 (0.68%)	Cyberthreat
12	6 (0.68%)	Fixed Income
12	6 (0.68%)	Greenfield Project
12	6 (0.68%)	Public Cloud

Operating Systems
1	486 (54.79%)	Linux
2	186 (20.97%)	Unix
3	158 (17.81%)	Windows
4	113 (12.74%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5	74 (8.34%)	CentOS
6	58 (6.54%)	Solaris
7	43 (4.85%)	AIX
8	41 (4.62%)	Ubuntu
9	37 (4.17%)	Windows Server
10	31 (3.49%)	HPUX
11	27 (3.04%)	Windows Server 2012
12	21 (2.37%)	SUSE
13	16 (1.80%)	Windows Server 2008
14	8 (0.90%)	Android
15	6 (0.68%)	Apple iOS
15	6 (0.68%)	Debian
15	6 (0.68%)	Oracle Linux
15	6 (0.68%)	Windows Server 2003
16	3 (0.34%)	CoreOS
16	3 (0.34%)	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

Processes & Methodologies
1	372 (41.94%)	Agile Software Development
2	259 (29.20%)	DevOps
3	186 (20.97%)	Continuous Integration
4	150 (16.91%)	TDD
5	147 (16.57%)	Open Source
6	134 (15.11%)	Scrum
7	132 (14.88%)	Configuration Management
8	106 (11.95%)	OO
8	106 (11.95%)	Test Automation
9	72 (8.12%)	Load Balancing
10	67 (7.55%)	E-Commerce
11	66 (7.44%)	Continuous Delivery
11	66 (7.44%)	Microservices
12	62 (6.99%)	Software Engineering
13	56 (6.31%)	Unit Testing
14	54 (6.09%)	BDD
15	52 (5.86%)	Web Development
16	50 (5.64%)	SDLC
17	49 (5.52%)	High Availability
17	49 (5.52%)	Performance Tuning

Programming Languages
1	665 (74.97%)	Java
2	218 (24.58%)	SQL
3	195 (21.98%)	JavaScript
4	194 (21.87%)	Python
5	172 (19.39%)	Perl
6	143 (16.12%)	Bash Shell
7	114 (12.85%)	Ruby
8	74 (8.34%)	Shell Script
9	67 (7.55%)	Groovy
10	54 (6.09%)	PHP
11	51 (5.75%)	C#
12	48 (5.41%)	C
13	46 (5.19%)	Scala
14	33 (3.72%)	PowerShell
15	23 (2.59%)	C++
16	20 (2.25%)	Haskell
17	19 (2.14%)	PL/SQL
18	16 (1.80%)	TypeScript
19	13 (1.47%)	VB
20	10 (1.13%)	Assembly Language

Qualifications
1	114 (12.85%)	Security Cleared
2	94 (10.60%)	SC Cleared
3	69 (7.78%)	Degree
4	33 (3.72%)	RHCE
5	30 (3.38%)	CISSP
6	25 (2.82%)	Computer Science Degree
7	24 (2.71%)	RHCSA
8	9 (1.01%)	Cisco Certification
8	9 (1.01%)	DV Cleared
9	8 (0.90%)	CISA
10	7 (0.79%)	Master's Degree
11	6 (0.68%)	CISM
12	5 (0.56%)	CCNA
13	4 (0.45%)	CCNP
13	4 (0.45%)	ISEB
13	4 (0.45%)	ISTQB
13	4 (0.45%)	SANS
14	3 (0.34%)	CCIE
14	3 (0.34%)	EMC Certification
14	3 (0.34%)	Microsoft Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	35 (3.95%)	QA
2	19 (2.14%)	PCI DSS
3	7 (0.79%)	MiFID
4	6 (0.68%)	Disclosure Scotland
5	5 (0.56%)	FedRAMP
6	4 (0.45%)	PMO
7	3 (0.34%)	ISO/IEC 27001
7	3 (0.34%)	SEPA
8	2 (0.23%)	SLA

System Software
1	139 (15.67%)	Docker
2	75 (8.46%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	37 (4.17%)	Active Directory
4	32 (3.61%)	Xen
5	27 (3.04%)	Virtual Machines
6	16 (1.80%)	Hyper-V
6	16 (1.80%)	Veritas Volume Manager
7	12 (1.35%)	HDFS
7	12 (1.35%)	KVM
8	11 (1.24%)	Squid
8	11 (1.24%)	vCloud
8	11 (1.24%)	vSphere
9	8 (0.90%)	Apache Flume
9	8 (0.90%)	Postfix
10	5 (0.56%)	Apache ZooKeeper
10	5 (0.56%)	NFS
10	5 (0.56%)	Virtual Servers
10	5 (0.56%)	XenServer
11	4 (0.45%)	Microsoft Virtual Server
11	4 (0.45%)	Oracle RAC

Systems Management
1	207 (23.34%)	Puppet
2	130 (14.66%)	Ansible
3	111 (12.51%)	Opscode Chef
4	56 (6.31%)	Kibana
5	43 (4.85%)	Kubernetes
6	36 (4.06%)	Grafana
7	33 (3.72%)	Nagios
8	32 (3.61%)	Terraform
9	28 (3.16%)	logstash
10	27 (3.04%)	ZABBIX
11	15 (1.69%)	Rancher
12	14 (1.58%)	Prometheus
13	13 (1.47%)	Salt
14	12 (1.35%)	Graphite
15	10 (1.13%)	Sysdig
16	9 (1.01%)	Packer
17	8 (0.90%)	Hadoop YARN
17	8 (0.90%)	Rundeck
18	7 (0.79%)	Docker Swarm
18	7 (0.79%)	Rsyslog

Vendors
1	258 (29.09%)	Oracle
2	132 (14.88%)	Red Hat
3	108 (12.18%)	VMware
4	68 (7.67%)	IBM
5	56 (6.31%)	Microsoft
6	39 (4.40%)	Google
7	37 (4.17%)	Splunk
8	36 (4.06%)	Cisco
9	35 (3.95%)	HP
10	32 (3.61%)	F5
10	32 (3.61%)	SAP
11	24 (2.71%)	Sun
12	18 (2.03%)	hybris
12	18 (2.03%)	MuleSoft
12	18 (2.03%)	Veritas
13	17 (1.92%)	Adobe
14	16 (1.80%)	TIBCO
15	14 (1.58%)	Perforce
16	13 (1.47%)	Atlassian
16	13 (1.47%)	CA Agile Central