Apache Contracts in London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Apache skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Apache over the 3 months to 27 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 HTTP Server (httpd) England / London
Location	3 months to 27 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	168	141	171
Rank change year-on-year	-27	+30
Contract jobs citing Apache	315	393	312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London	1.51%	1.80%	1.35%
As % of the Application Platforms category	8.89%	9.70%	7.23%
Number of daily rates quoted	207	272	227
Median daily rate	£525	£500	£425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.00%	+17.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£400	£375	£306
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£630	£600	£565
UK excluding London median daily rate	£405	£400	£375
% change year-on-year	+1.25%	+6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted	4	0	0
Median hourly rate	£40.00	-	-
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£52.50	£28.00	£31.27
% change year-on-year	+87.50%	-10.45%

Apache 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 London with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract Application Platform Skills London
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills	3545	4051	4317
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London	17.03%	18.60%	18.74%
Number of daily rates quoted	2486	2924	2889
Median daily rate	£475	£450	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.55%	+12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£300	£295	£250
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£600	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£390	£350
% change year-on-year	+2.56%	+11.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted	37	43	96
Median hourly rate	£22.00	£17.50	£20.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+25.71%	-12.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.40	£12.50	£13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.50	£34.54	£39.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£27.50	£26.00	£21.00
% change year-on-year	+5.76%	+23.80%

Apache
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Apache
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate trend for Apache in London

Apache
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in London

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Apache in London over the 3 months to 27 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Apache in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate trend for Apache in London

Apache
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Apache within the London region over the 3 months to 27 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
City of London	+17	56	£550	+12.24%	26
Croydon	-4	10	-	-	2
Hammersmith	+2	8	£555	+5.71%	1
Canary Wharf	+2	2	£500	+33.33%
Docklands, London	+1	1	£550	-
Northwood	-	1	£650	-
Apache England

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Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in London

For the 6 months to 27 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Apache 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 London region with a requirement for Apache.

1	338 (53.40%)	Java
2	312 (49.29%)	Linux
3	235 (37.12%)	Agile Software Development
4	187 (29.54%)	Python
5	176 (27.80%)	DevOps
6	167 (26.38%)	Hadoop
7	158 (24.96%)	Apache Spark
8	152 (24.01%)	Tomcat
9	145 (22.91%)	Jenkins
10	144 (22.75%)	Big Data
11	143 (22.59%)	Amazon AWS
12	142 (22.43%)	MySQL
13	141 (22.27%)	SQL
14	137 (21.64%)	Git (software)
15	129 (20.38%)	Docker

16	125 (19.75%)	Finance
17	123 (19.43%)	Unix
18	117 (18.48%)	Puppet
19	114 (18.01%)	JavaScript
19	114 (18.01%)	Oracle
20	111 (17.54%)	Web Services
20	111 (17.54%)	HTTP
21	103 (16.27%)	Bash Shell
22	102 (16.11%)	nginx
22	102 (16.11%)	Ansible
23	101 (15.96%)	TDD
24	100 (15.80%)	Scala
25	96 (15.17%)	Banking
26	94 (14.85%)	Open Source
27	91 (14.38%)	Kafka

Apache
Co-occurring IT Skills in London 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	158 (24.96%)	Apache Spark
2	152 (24.01%)	Tomcat
3	102 (16.11%)	nginx
4	70 (11.06%)	Elasticsearch
5	67 (10.58%)	JBoss
6	58 (9.16%)	WebSphere
7	43 (6.79%)	IIS
8	41 (6.48%)	WebLogic
9	34 (5.37%)	Confluence
10	25 (3.95%)	Apache Solr
11	18 (2.84%)	Adobe Experience Manager
12	17 (2.69%)	Apache Pig
13	10 (1.58%)	CMS
13	10 (1.58%)	WebSphere Application Server
14	9 (1.42%)	Mule
14	9 (1.42%)	Oracle SOA Suite
15	8 (1.26%)	SAS
15	8 (1.26%)	WildFly
16	7 (1.11%)	IBM HTTP Server
16	7 (1.11%)	Oracle Service Bus

Applications
1	8 (1.26%)	SPSS
2	3 (0.47%)	Microsoft Office
2	3 (0.47%)	Photoshop
3	2 (0.32%)	Adobe Illustrator
4	1 (0.16%)	HipChat
4	1 (0.16%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
4	1 (0.16%)	MS Visio

Business Applications
1	8 (1.26%)	Payment Gateway
1	8 (1.26%)	SAP Hybris
2	3 (0.47%)	Oracle BPM
2	3 (0.47%)	SAP Oil and Gas
3	2 (0.32%)	Dynamics CRM
3	2 (0.32%)	NetSuite
3	2 (0.32%)	Oracle Applications
3	2 (0.32%)	Oracle EBS
3	2 (0.32%)	Oracle iProcurement

Cloud Services
1	143 (22.59%)	Amazon AWS
2	33 (5.21%)	Amazon EC2
3	27 (4.27%)	Microsoft Azure
4	26 (4.11%)	Amazon S3
5	21 (3.32%)	Cloud Computing
6	17 (2.69%)	Amazon CloudWatch
7	15 (2.37%)	Amazon ELB
8	14 (2.21%)	Virtual Private Cloud
9	11 (1.74%)	Google Cloud Platform
10	9 (1.42%)	Route 53
11	8 (1.26%)	Amazon SQS
11	8 (1.26%)	AWS CloudFormation
11	8 (1.26%)	AWS Lambda
11	8 (1.26%)	GitHub
12	6 (0.95%)	IaaS
12	6 (0.95%)	PaaS
12	6 (0.95%)	SaaS
13	5 (0.79%)	Twilio
14	4 (0.63%)	Amazon EMR
14	4 (0.63%)	Amazon Kinesis

Communications & Networking
1	111 (17.54%)	HTTP
2	82 (12.95%)	DNS
3	75 (11.85%)	Firewall
4	58 (9.16%)	SSL
5	54 (8.53%)	TCP/IP
6	34 (5.37%)	VPN
7	32 (5.06%)	LDAP
8	24 (3.79%)	Internet
9	22 (3.48%)	HTTPS
10	19 (3.00%)	SSH
11	16 (2.53%)	OpenLDAP
12	12 (1.90%)	SMTP
13	11 (1.74%)	OpenVPN
14	9 (1.42%)	IMAP
15	8 (1.26%)	Network Security
15	8 (1.26%)	SNMP
15	8 (1.26%)	WAN
16	7 (1.11%)	DHCP
16	7 (1.11%)	Kerberos
16	7 (1.11%)	SAN

Database & Business Intelligence
1	167 (26.38%)	Hadoop
2	144 (22.75%)	Big Data
3	142 (22.43%)	MySQL
4	82 (12.95%)	MongoDB
5	80 (12.64%)	SQL Server
6	78 (12.32%)	PostgreSQL
7	70 (11.06%)	Apache Cassandra
8	65 (10.27%)	NoSQL
9	54 (8.53%)	Apache Hive
10	39 (6.16%)	Relational Database
11	29 (4.58%)	Data Warehouse
12	24 (3.79%)	HBase
13	21 (3.32%)	Amazon RDS
14	20 (3.16%)	Oracle Database
15	19 (3.00%)	RDBMS
16	15 (2.37%)	MariaDB
17	14 (2.21%)	Sqoop
18	13 (2.05%)	Impala
19	12 (1.90%)	Amazon DynamoDB
20	11 (1.74%)	DataStax

Development Applications
1	145 (22.91%)	Jenkins
2	137 (21.64%)	Git (software)
3	74 (11.69%)	JIRA
4	69 (10.90%)	Maven
5	46 (7.27%)	JUnit
6	41 (6.48%)	Bitbucket
7	37 (5.85%)	Subversion
8	28 (4.42%)	Sonatype Nexus
9	20 (3.16%)	Ant
9	20 (3.16%)	Mockito
9	20 (3.16%)	TeamCity
10	19 (3.00%)	Artifactory
10	19 (3.00%)	Atlassian Bamboo
11	16 (2.53%)	Eclipse
12	15 (2.37%)	SonarQube
13	14 (2.21%)	Vagrant
14	12 (1.90%)	Hudson
15	11 (1.74%)	Gradle
15	11 (1.74%)	Liquibase
16	10 (1.58%)	gulp

General
1	125 (19.75%)	Finance
2	96 (15.17%)	Banking
3	33 (5.21%)	Investment Banking
4	26 (4.11%)	Retail
5	17 (2.69%)	Front Office
6	15 (2.37%)	Telecoms
7	11 (1.74%)	Marketing
8	8 (1.26%)	Retail Banking
9	7 (1.11%)	Financial Institution
9	7 (1.11%)	Publishing
10	5 (0.79%)	Legal
11	4 (0.63%)	Games
11	4 (0.63%)	Private Banking
12	3 (0.47%)	Electronics
12	3 (0.47%)	Law
12	3 (0.47%)	Manufacturing
13	2 (0.32%)	Back Office
13	2 (0.32%)	Billing
13	2 (0.32%)	Corporate Banking
14	1 (0.16%)	Local Government

Job Titles
1	252 (39.81%)	Developer
2	94 (14.85%)	DevOps Engineer
3	84 (13.27%)	Java Developer
4	69 (10.90%)	Architect
5	44 (6.95%)	Big Data Developer
6	42 (6.64%)	Data Engineer
7	35 (5.53%)	Administrator
7	35 (5.53%)	Scala Developer
8	33 (5.21%)	Linux Engineer
9	31 (4.90%)	Python Developer
10	30 (4.74%)	Senior Developer
11	27 (4.27%)	Big Data Engineer
12	26 (4.11%)	AWS Engineer
13	24 (3.79%)	Java Engineer
14	22 (3.48%)	Linux Administrator
15	20 (3.16%)	AWS DevOps
15	20 (3.16%)	AWS DevOps Engineer
16	19 (3.00%)	Analyst
16	19 (3.00%)	Hadoop Developer
17	18 (2.84%)	Software Engineer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	111 (17.54%)	Web Services
2	91 (14.38%)	Kafka
3	90 (14.22%)	Spring
4	83 (13.11%)	HTML
5	75 (11.85%)	XML
6	74 (11.69%)	CSS
6	74 (11.69%)	REST
7	69 (10.90%)	Elastic Stack
7	69 (10.90%)	SOAP
8	68 (10.74%)	LAMP
9	66 (10.43%)	RESTful
10	51 (8.06%)	Node.js
11	38 (6.00%)	.NET
11	38 (6.00%)	AngularJS
11	38 (6.00%)	JSON
12	34 (5.37%)	Hibernate
12	34 (5.37%)	Middleware
12	34 (5.37%)	XSLT
13	33 (5.21%)	HTML5
13	33 (5.21%)	jQuery

Miscellaneous
1	45 (7.11%)	Analytical Skills
2	38 (6.00%)	Algorithms
3	34 (5.37%)	Computer Science
4	29 (4.58%)	Data Centre
5	19 (3.00%)	Linux Command Line
5	19 (3.00%)	PKI
6	15 (2.37%)	Greenfield Project
7	13 (2.05%)	Clustering
7	13 (2.05%)	Private Cloud
8	12 (1.90%)	Data Structures
8	12 (1.90%)	Enterprise Software
8	12 (1.90%)	User Experience
9	10 (1.58%)	Grid Computing
9	10 (1.58%)	NHS
10	9 (1.42%)	Management Information System
11	8 (1.26%)	Fintech
12	7 (1.11%)	Client/Server
12	7 (1.11%)	Mobile App
13	6 (0.95%)	Distributed Denial-of-Service
13	6 (0.95%)	Equities

Operating Systems
1	312 (49.29%)	Linux
2	123 (19.43%)	Unix
3	72 (11.37%)	Windows
4	53 (8.37%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5	52 (8.21%)	CentOS
6	25 (3.95%)	Solaris
7	22 (3.48%)	Windows Server
8	15 (2.37%)	Apple iOS
9	14 (2.21%)	HPUX
10	13 (2.05%)	Ubuntu
11	9 (1.42%)	AIX
12	6 (0.95%)	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12	6 (0.95%)	Windows Server 2008
13	4 (0.63%)	Mac OS X
13	4 (0.63%)	Scientific Linux
13	4 (0.63%)	Windows Server 2003
14	3 (0.47%)	Android
14	3 (0.47%)	CoreOS
15	2 (0.32%)	Windows Server 2012
15	2 (0.32%)	zOS

Processes & Methodologies
1	235 (37.12%)	Agile Software Development
2	176 (27.80%)	DevOps
3	101 (15.96%)	TDD
4	94 (14.85%)	Open Source
5	89 (14.06%)	Continuous Integration
6	74 (11.69%)	Scrum
7	72 (11.37%)	Configuration Management
8	62 (9.79%)	Microservices
9	58 (9.16%)	Load Balancing
10	53 (8.37%)	ETL
11	44 (6.95%)	Continuous Delivery
12	42 (6.64%)	Test Automation
13	41 (6.48%)	E-Commerce
14	40 (6.32%)	Software Engineering
15	38 (6.00%)	BDD
16	37 (5.85%)	OO
17	36 (5.69%)	Analytics
18	34 (5.37%)	SOA
19	28 (4.42%)	SDLC
20	27 (4.27%)	Stakeholder Management

Programming Languages
1	338 (53.40%)	Java
2	187 (29.54%)	Python
3	141 (22.27%)	SQL
4	114 (18.01%)	JavaScript
5	103 (16.27%)	Bash Shell
6	100 (15.80%)	Scala
7	90 (14.22%)	Perl
8	59 (9.32%)	Ruby
9	54 (8.53%)	PHP
10	37 (5.85%)	Groovy
11	36 (5.69%)	Shell Script
12	31 (4.90%)	PowerShell
13	25 (3.95%)	C
14	23 (3.63%)	C#
15	22 (3.48%)	C++
16	16 (2.53%)	R
17	7 (1.11%)	TypeScript
18	5 (0.79%)	SPARQL
18	5 (0.79%)	VB
18	5 (0.79%)	VC++

Qualifications
1	69 (10.90%)	Security Cleared
2	58 (9.16%)	SC Cleared
3	56 (8.85%)	Degree
4	20 (3.16%)	Master's Degree
5	15 (2.37%)	Computer Science Degree
6	11 (1.74%)	RHCE
7	9 (1.42%)	RHCSA
8	8 (1.26%)	BPSS Clearance
8	8 (1.26%)	CISA
8	8 (1.26%)	CISSP
9	7 (1.11%)	DV Cleared
9	7 (1.11%)	Numerate Degree
10	6 (0.95%)	CISM
11	4 (0.63%)	MCSE
11	4 (0.63%)	Microsoft Certification
11	4 (0.63%)	PMI Certification
11	4 (0.63%)	PMP
12	2 (0.32%)	CCIE
12	2 (0.32%)	Cisco Certification
12	2 (0.32%)	EMC Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	19 (3.00%)	QA
2	7 (1.11%)	PCI DSS
3	5 (0.79%)	FedRAMP
3	5 (0.79%)	MiFID
4	4 (0.63%)	Dodd-Frank
5	1 (0.16%)	Data Quality
5	1 (0.16%)	EMIR
5	1 (0.16%)	ISO/IEC 27001

System Software
1	129 (20.38%)	Docker
2	20 (3.16%)	HDFS
2	20 (3.16%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	16 (2.53%)	Active Directory
3	16 (2.53%)	Apache Flume
3	16 (2.53%)	vCloud
4	15 (2.37%)	Postfix
5	14 (2.21%)	Squid
5	14 (2.21%)	Virtual Machines
6	10 (1.58%)	Apache ZooKeeper
6	10 (1.58%)	NFS
7	7 (1.11%)	Xen
8	4 (0.63%)	XenServer
9	3 (0.47%)	iptables
9	3 (0.47%)	Virtual Servers
10	2 (0.32%)	Corosync
10	2 (0.32%)	GridGain
10	2 (0.32%)	KVM
10	2 (0.32%)	VMware ESXi
10	2 (0.32%)	vSphere

Systems Management
1	117 (18.48%)	Puppet
2	102 (16.11%)	Ansible
3	58 (9.16%)	Kubernetes
4	48 (7.58%)	logstash
5	46 (7.27%)	Kibana
6	44 (6.95%)	Terraform
7	41 (6.48%)	Opscode Chef
8	40 (6.32%)	HAProxy
9	38 (6.00%)	ZABBIX
10	32 (5.06%)	Nagios
11	20 (3.16%)	Oozie
12	18 (2.84%)	Rsyslog
13	17 (2.69%)	Grafana
14	15 (2.37%)	Docker Swarm
14	15 (2.37%)	Graphite
14	15 (2.37%)	Rancher
15	13 (2.05%)	Sysdig
16	12 (1.90%)	Hadoop YARN
17	11 (1.74%)	Consul
17	11 (1.74%)	Packer

Vendors
1	114 (18.01%)	Oracle
2	77 (12.16%)	VMware
3	63 (9.95%)	Red Hat
4	46 (7.27%)	IBM
5	35 (5.53%)	Cloudera
5	35 (5.53%)	Microsoft
6	18 (2.84%)	Adobe
6	18 (2.84%)	AppDynamics
6	18 (2.84%)	Splunk
7	14 (2.21%)	Dynatrace
8	13 (2.05%)	Pega
9	12 (1.90%)	Google
10	11 (1.74%)	CA
10	11 (1.74%)	Cisco
10	11 (1.74%)	Hortonworks
10	11 (1.74%)	SAP
10	11 (1.74%)	Sonatype
10	11 (1.74%)	Tableau
11	10 (1.58%)	Atlassian
11	10 (1.58%)	Informatica