Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 23 April 2018

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Apache skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Apache over the 6 months to 23 April 2018 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 > South East
6 months to
23 Apr 2018		 Same period 2017 Same period 2016
Rank 147 147 174
Rank change year-on-year 0 +27 -11
Contract jobs citing Apache 278 241 243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 1.65% 1.55% 1.35%
As % of the Application Platforms category 10.08% 9.59% 7.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 147 194
South East median daily rate £475 £450 £375
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +5.56% +20.00% -1.32%
10th Percentile £310 £306 £264
90th Percentile £588 £550 £509
England median daily rate £500 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
South East median hourly rate £80.73 - £11.00
England median hourly rate £76.62 £63.75 £44.50
% change year-on-year +20.18% +43.26% +17.11%

Apache is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for application platform skills.

All Application Platform Skills
South East
Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 2,758 2,514 3,175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.42% 16.17% 17.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,607 1,422 2,029
South East median daily rate £425 £413 £400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% +6.67%
10th Percentile £263 £243 £241
90th Percentile £575 £553 £550
England median daily rate £450 £425 £413
% change year-on-year +5.94% +3.03% +3.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 82 107
South East median hourly rate £19.50 £19.81 £17.77
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -1.58% +11.49% -3.95%
10th Percentile £12.00 £12.00 £11.54
90th Percentile £57.00 £53.43 £52.50
England median hourly rate £19.25 £20.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -6.10% +2.50% +6.95%

Apache
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Apache as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Apache in the South East

Apache
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Contractor daily rate trend for Apache in the South East

Apache
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Apache in the South East over the 6 months to 23 April 2018.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Apache in the South East

Apache
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Contractor hourly rate trend for Apache in the South East

Apache
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Apache within the South East region over the 6 months to 23 April 2018. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months		 Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Job
Vacancies
Hampshire +5 100 £475 +16.56% 9
Thames Valley +1 90 £463 +8.82% 33
Surrey -17 49 £500 +5.26% 13
Berkshire -4 41 £413 -2.94% 20
Buckinghamshire +8 34 £475 +46.15% 7
West Sussex -4 24 £553 +6.25% 5
East Sussex +20 19 £575 +109.09% 11
Oxfordshire -23 15 £425 +41.67% 6
Apache
England

For the 6 months to 23 April 2018, IT contractor jobs citing Apache also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South East region with a requirement for Apache.

1 179 (64.39%) Linux
2 163 (58.63%) Java
3 147 (52.88%) Agile Software Development
4 131 (47.12%) Unix
5 121 (43.53%) Spring
6 107 (38.49%) Jenkins
7 100 (35.97%) JSON
8 97 (34.89%) Git (software)
9 88 (31.65%) J2EE
10 85 (30.58%) Middleware
11 82 (29.50%) Kafka
12 77 (27.70%) Hadoop
13 76 (27.34%) REST
13 76 (27.34%) Tomcat
14 74 (26.62%) TDD
15 73 (26.26%) Big Data
16 69 (24.82%) Apache ZooKeeper
17 68 (24.46%) RabbitMQ
18 62 (22.30%) JBoss
19 61 (21.94%) Apache Spark
20 59 (21.22%) Hadoop YARN
20 59 (21.22%) Python
20 59 (21.22%) SQL
21 57 (20.50%) BDD
22 56 (20.14%) HBase
22 56 (20.14%) JavaScript
22 56 (20.14%) Finance
23 54 (19.42%) Amazon AWS
23 54 (19.42%) Continuous Integration
24 53 (19.06%) GitHub

Apache
Co-occurring IT Skills in the South East 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
1 76 (27.34%) Tomcat
2 62 (22.30%) JBoss
3 61 (21.94%) Apache Spark
4 31 (11.15%) WebLogic
5 30 (10.79%) IIS
6 27 (9.71%) nginx
7 22 (7.91%) Cloud Foundry
8 19 (6.83%) WebSphere
9 18 (6.47%) GemFire
10 17 (6.12%) SharePoint
11 10 (3.60%) Jetty
11 10 (3.60%) MS Exchange
12 8 (2.88%) Apache Solr
12 8 (2.88%) SharePoint Server
13 7 (2.52%) Confluence
14 6 (2.16%) Apache Pig
15 5 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
15 5 (1.80%) Jupyter
15 5 (1.80%) OpenStack
16 3 (1.08%) Drupal
Applications
1 14 (5.04%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.08%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.72%) Pipeline Pilot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.08%) BusinessWorks
2 2 (0.72%) SAP Hybris
2 2 (0.72%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 54 (19.42%) Amazon AWS
2 53 (19.06%) GitHub
3 27 (9.71%) Microsoft Azure
4 14 (5.04%) PaaS
5 8 (2.88%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (2.52%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (2.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (2.16%) Google Analytics
8 5 (1.80%) Google Cloud Platform
8 5 (1.80%) SaaS
9 4 (1.44%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.08%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.08%) IaaS
11 2 (0.72%) Office 365
11 2 (0.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 1 (0.36%) Amazon Kinesis
12 1 (0.36%) npm
12 1 (0.36%) OpenShift
12 1 (0.36%) Route 53
12 1 (0.36%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 41 (14.75%) HTTP
2 30 (10.79%) TCP/IP
3 24 (8.63%) DNS
4 21 (7.55%) SSL
5 20 (7.19%) Firewall
6 14 (5.04%) SAN
7 11 (3.96%) Network Security
8 9 (3.24%) DHCP
8 9 (3.24%) Internet
8 9 (3.24%) Reverse Proxy
9 8 (2.88%) VPN
9 8 (2.88%) WAN
10 6 (2.16%) VoIP
11 5 (1.80%) Cisco ASA
11 5 (1.80%) DOCSIS
11 5 (1.80%) IP Telephony
11 5 (1.80%) SNMP
12 4 (1.44%) FTP
13 3 (1.08%) DMZ
13 3 (1.08%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (27.70%) Hadoop
2 73 (26.26%) Big Data
3 56 (20.14%) HBase
4 44 (15.83%) SQL Server
5 34 (12.23%) MongoDB
6 33 (11.87%) Parquet
7 29 (10.43%) MySQL
8 19 (6.83%) Apache Hive
9 12 (4.32%) NoSQL
10 9 (3.24%) Relational Database
11 8 (2.88%) SQL Server 2005
12 7 (2.52%) MariaDB
13 6 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
13 6 (2.16%) RDBMS
14 5 (1.80%) Apache Cassandra
14 5 (1.80%) GIS
14 5 (1.80%) Mahout
15 4 (1.44%) Oracle Database
15 4 (1.44%) Redis
15 4 (1.44%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 107 (38.49%) Jenkins
2 97 (34.89%) Git (software)
3 38 (13.67%) Eclipse
4 35 (12.59%) Gradle
5 31 (11.15%) IntelliJ
5 31 (11.15%) JUnit
6 27 (9.71%) JIRA
7 25 (8.99%) Selenium
8 17 (6.12%) Cucumber
9 14 (5.04%) Maven
10 13 (4.68%) Subversion
11 8 (2.88%) Vagrant
12 6 (2.16%) Gatling
12 6 (2.16%) gulp
13 5 (1.80%) git-flow
13 5 (1.80%) Grunt
13 5 (1.80%) Team Foundation Server
14 4 (1.44%) Ant
14 4 (1.44%) Karma Test Runner
14 4 (1.44%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 56 (20.14%) Finance
2 8 (2.88%) Banking
2 8 (2.88%) Telecoms
3 5 (1.80%) Marketing
4 3 (1.08%) Manufacturing
4 3 (1.08%) Military
4 3 (1.08%) Retail
5 2 (0.72%) Advertising
5 2 (0.72%) Publishing
6 1 (0.36%) Billing
6 1 (0.36%) Games
6 1 (0.36%) Legal
6 1 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (0.36%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 144 (51.80%) Developer
2 95 (34.17%) Java Developer
3 45 (16.19%) Big Data Developer
4 28 (10.07%) Architect
5 22 (7.91%) Scala Developer
6 19 (6.83%) Senior Developer
7 18 (6.47%) Linux Engineer
8 17 (6.12%) Hadoop Developer
8 17 (6.12%) Senior Java Developer
9 14 (5.04%) Solutions Architect
10 13 (4.68%) DevOps Engineer
11 11 (3.96%) HTML Developer
11 11 (3.96%) J2EE Developer
11 11 (3.96%) J2EE Team Leader
11 11 (3.96%) Java Team Leader
11 11 (3.96%) Java/J2EE Developer
11 11 (3.96%) Lead Developer
11 11 (3.96%) Senior J2EE Developer
11 11 (3.96%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
11 11 (3.96%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (43.53%) Spring
2 100 (35.97%) JSON
3 88 (31.65%) J2EE
4 85 (30.58%) Middleware
5 82 (29.50%) Kafka
6 76 (27.34%) REST
7 68 (24.46%) RabbitMQ
8 53 (19.06%) HTML
9 51 (18.35%) CSS
10 47 (16.91%) Hibernate
11 46 (16.55%) XML
12 45 (16.19%) RESTful
13 40 (14.39%) AngularJS
14 35 (12.59%) Web Services
15 34 (12.23%) SOAP
16 31 (11.15%) Apache Avro
17 26 (9.35%) HTML5
18 25 (8.99%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 22 (7.91%) LAMP
19 22 (7.91%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 43 (15.47%) Linux Command Line
1 43 (15.47%) Virtual Team
2 19 (6.83%) User Experience
3 14 (5.04%) Greenfield Project
4 13 (4.68%) Computer Science
4 13 (4.68%) Data Structures
5 11 (3.96%) PKI
6 8 (2.88%) Data Centre
7 7 (2.52%) CMDB
8 6 (2.16%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.80%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.44%) Clustering
10 4 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.08%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.08%) Replication
11 3 (1.08%) Smart Meter
12 2 (0.72%) DataPower
12 2 (0.72%) W3C
13 1 (0.36%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 179 (64.39%) Linux
2 131 (47.12%) Unix
3 48 (17.27%) Windows
4 35 (12.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (7.55%) Windows Server
6 20 (7.19%) Ubuntu
7 16 (5.76%) Debian
8 11 (3.96%) Solaris
9 9 (3.24%) CentOS
9 9 (3.24%) Windows 7
9 9 (3.24%) Windows Server 2008
9 9 (3.24%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (1.08%) Android
10 3 (1.08%) Apple iOS
10 3 (1.08%) SUSE
10 3 (1.08%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (0.72%) AIX
11 2 (0.72%) Check Point GAiA
11 2 (0.72%) DC/OS
11 2 (0.72%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (52.88%) Agile Software Development
2 74 (26.62%) TDD
3 57 (20.50%) BDD
4 54 (19.42%) Continuous Integration
5 53 (19.06%) DevOps
6 45 (16.19%) Scrum
7 44 (15.83%) Unit Testing
8 41 (14.75%) Microservices
9 36 (12.95%) System Testing
10 33 (11.87%) Benchmarking
11 32 (11.51%) ITIL
12 26 (9.35%) Software Engineering
13 24 (8.63%) Open Source
13 24 (8.63%) Test Automation
14 19 (6.83%) Problem-Solving
15 18 (6.47%) CRM
16 17 (6.12%) Software Deployment
17 16 (5.76%) Configuration Management
17 16 (5.76%) Validation
18 14 (5.04%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 163 (58.63%) Java
2 59 (21.22%) Python
2 59 (21.22%) SQL
3 56 (20.14%) JavaScript
4 45 (16.19%) Shell Script
5 39 (14.03%) Scala
6 26 (9.35%) Bash Shell
7 24 (8.63%) Perl
7 24 (8.63%) PHP
8 14 (5.04%) Ruby
9 13 (4.68%) C#
10 8 (2.88%) Groovy
10 8 (2.88%) PL/SQL
10 8 (2.88%) PowerShell
11 6 (2.16%) Java 8
12 5 (1.80%) Haskell
13 4 (1.44%) R
14 3 (1.08%) C
14 3 (1.08%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.72%) C++
Qualifications
1 45 (16.19%) Degree
2 20 (7.19%) Security Cleared
3 13 (4.68%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.44%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.08%) OCA
6 3 (1.08%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (0.72%) CCNA
7 2 (0.72%) CCSE
7 2 (0.72%) CCSP
7 2 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.72%) CISSP
7 2 (0.72%) MCITP
7 2 (0.72%) MCSE
7 2 (0.72%) RHCE
7 2 (0.72%) RHCSA
7 2 (0.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.36%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.36%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.12%) QA
2 7 (2.52%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.44%) SLA
4 2 (0.72%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.72%) GDPR
5 1 (0.36%) ECSS
5 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 69 (24.82%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 50 (17.99%) HDFS
3 39 (14.03%) Docker
4 27 (9.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 26 (9.35%) Active Directory
6 8 (2.88%) Hyper-V
6 8 (2.88%) vSphere
7 4 (1.44%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.72%) Corosync
8 2 (0.72%) NFS
9 1 (0.36%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.36%) iptables
9 1 (0.36%) Samba
9 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 59 (21.22%) Hadoop YARN
2 48 (17.27%) Puppet
3 23 (8.27%) Ansible
4 21 (7.55%) Kibana
5 15 (5.40%) Grafana
6 13 (4.68%) Opscode Chef
6 13 (4.68%) Terraform
7 12 (4.32%) SCOM
7 12 (4.32%) SELinux
8 11 (3.96%) HAProxy
9 10 (3.60%) Red Hat Satellite
10 8 (2.88%) McAfee ePO
11 7 (2.52%) WSUS
12 6 (2.16%) Galera Cluster
13 4 (1.44%) logstash
13 4 (1.44%) OpenNebula
13 4 (1.44%) Packer
13 4 (1.44%) SCCM
14 3 (1.08%) Kubernetes
14 3 (1.08%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 37 (13.31%) Oracle
1 37 (13.31%) Red Hat
2 30 (10.79%) Microsoft
2 30 (10.79%) VMware
3 23 (8.27%) IBM
4 21 (7.55%) webMethods
5 18 (6.47%) Google
6 11 (3.96%) ServiceNow
7 9 (3.24%) SAP
8 8 (2.88%) Cisco
8 8 (2.88%) HP
8 8 (2.88%) McAfee
9 6 (2.16%) ATG
10 5 (1.80%) Adobe
10 5 (1.80%) Cloudera
10 5 (1.80%) Talend
11 4 (1.44%) Citrix
11 4 (1.44%) MapR
11 4 (1.44%) TIBCO
12 3 (1.08%) NetApp