Tomcat Contract Job Trends

Apache Tomcat
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Tomcat skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 634 488 501
Rank change year-on-year -146 +13 +83
Contract jobs citing Tomcat 40 57 56
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.075% 0.17% 0.14%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.86% 1.58% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 46 40
10th Percentile £406 £323 £329
25th Percentile £464 £358 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £384 £450
Median % change year-on-year +36.72% -14.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £538 £544 £601
90th Percentile £575 £632 £660
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £358 £413
% change year-on-year +46.65% -13.21% -17.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £21.90 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £21.90 -

All Application Platform Skills
UK

Tomcat falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,649 3,601 4,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.68% 10.95% 10.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,065 2,349 2,832
10th Percentile £300 £281 £280
25th Percentile £404 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -7.14% +1.94%
75th Percentile £599 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £721 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £468
% change year-on-year +2.78% -3.90% -1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 88 104
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.33 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.88 £25.94 £21.19
Median hourly rate £32.50 £42.27 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -23.11% +29.07% -31.77%
75th Percentile £60.08 £65.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.86 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £44.64 £45.00
% change year-on-year -27.19% -0.81% +56.52%

Tomcat
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Tomcat relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Tomcat job vacancy trend in the UK

Tomcat
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Tomcat.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Tomcat

Tomcat
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Tomcat over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Tomcat in the UK

Tomcat
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Tomcat.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Tomcat

Tomcat
Top 13 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Tomcat within the UK over the 6 months to 18 August 2026. 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
Jobs
England -152 28 £525 +36.72% 5
UK excluding London -122 21 £525 +46.65% 2
London -70 14 £506 +1.25% 3
Work from Home -55 11 £500 +1.78% 4
Scotland -10 7 £525 +15.64%
North of England -97 7 £525 +46.65% 2
North West -64 6 £525 +46.65% 1
South East -75 3 £450 -
South West -41 2 £500 +78.57%
Wales -18 1 £475 -
East Midlands -19 1 £540 +50.42%
Yorkshire -45 1 - -
Midlands -53 1 £540 +50.42%

Tomcat
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 17 (42.50%) Apache
1 17 (42.50%) nginx
2 12 (30.00%) WebSphere
3 8 (20.00%) Apache Geronimo
3 8 (20.00%) Apache ServiceMix
3 8 (20.00%) Red Hat Fuse
3 8 (20.00%) WebLogic
4 6 (15.00%) IIS
5 5 (12.50%) SharePoint
6 2 (5.00%) Apache Solr
6 2 (5.00%) Documentum
7 1 (2.50%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 13 (32.50%) AWS
2 5 (12.50%) Azure
3 3 (7.50%) Cloudflare
3 3 (7.50%) MinIO
4 2 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.50%) GCP
5 1 (2.50%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 9 (22.50%) DNS
1 9 (22.50%) HTTP
2 4 (10.00%) Firewall
3 2 (5.00%) BIG-IP
3 2 (5.00%) NAS
3 2 (5.00%) SAN
4 1 (2.50%) DSL
4 1 (2.50%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (2.50%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (12.50%) GIS
3 4 (10.00%) MySQL
3 4 (10.00%) SQL Server
4 3 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (5.00%) Oracle Database
5 2 (5.00%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.50%) Metadata
6 1 (2.50%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.50%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.50%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 8 (20.00%) Git
2 6 (15.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (7.50%) JIRA
4 2 (5.00%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.50%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.50%) Maven
5 1 (2.50%) Rational Rhapsody
5 1 (2.50%) Subversion
5 1 (2.50%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (2.50%) VersionOne
General
1 8 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 8 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.50%) Finance
3 1 (2.50%) Aerospace
3 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.50%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 5 (12.50%) Developer
1 5 (12.50%) Lead
1 5 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (10.00%) Java Developer
2 4 (10.00%) Senior
3 3 (7.50%) Architect
3 3 (7.50%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (7.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) Consultant
4 2 (5.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) Documentum Specialist
4 2 (5.00%) Lead Software Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) Oracle Developer
4 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 2 (5.00%) Software Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.00%) WebLogic Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (27.50%) Middleware
2 8 (20.00%) Apache Axis
2 8 (20.00%) Apache Camel
3 7 (17.50%) Spring
4 6 (15.00%) EJB
5 5 (12.50%) Jakarta EE
5 5 (12.50%) Java SE
5 5 (12.50%) JSON
6 4 (10.00%) JSP
6 4 (10.00%) OpenLayers
7 3 (7.50%) LAMP
7 3 (7.50%) LDAP
7 3 (7.50%) LEMP Stack
7 3 (7.50%) OAuth
7 3 (7.50%) OpenID
7 3 (7.50%) SAML
7 3 (7.50%) Spring Boot
7 3 (7.50%) YAML
8 2 (5.00%) Hibernate
8 2 (5.00%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.00%) Legacy Applications
2 4 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (7.50%) PKI
4 2 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.00%) Data Centre
4 2 (5.00%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.50%) LIMS
5 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.50%) Replication
5 1 (2.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (45.00%) Linux
2 15 (37.50%) Windows
3 10 (25.00%) Solaris
4 9 (22.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (22.50%) Windows Server
4 9 (22.50%) Windows Server 2008
5 8 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (10.00%) CentOS
6 4 (10.00%) Ubuntu
6 4 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (2.50%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (27.50%) ETL
2 9 (22.50%) Master Data Management
3 8 (20.00%) DevOps
4 7 (17.50%) Refactoring
4 7 (17.50%) Test Automation
5 6 (15.00%) CI/CD
6 5 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
6 5 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (10.00%) Containerisation
7 4 (10.00%) Protective Monitoring
8 3 (7.50%) AI
8 3 (7.50%) Decision-Making
8 3 (7.50%) Identity Access Management
8 3 (7.50%) Identity Management
8 3 (7.50%) Kalman Filter
8 3 (7.50%) Migration
8 3 (7.50%) Roadmaps
8 3 (7.50%) Validation
9 2 (5.00%) Performance Optimisation
9 2 (5.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 30 (75.00%) Java
2 21 (52.50%) SQL
3 10 (25.00%) PL/SQL
4 9 (22.50%) Python
5 7 (17.50%) PowerShell
6 6 (15.00%) Bash
7 5 (12.50%) JavaScript
8 2 (5.00%) Shell Script
9 1 (2.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 23 (57.50%) Security Cleared
2 22 (55.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) Degree
3 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.50%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) QA
2 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (27.50%) Docker
2 8 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (17.50%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (12.50%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (10.00%) Active Directory
6 3 (7.50%) Dovecot
6 3 (7.50%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 10 (25.00%) Ansible
2 9 (22.50%) Terraform
3 5 (12.50%) Oracle RMAN
4 3 (7.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (7.50%) HAProxy
5 2 (5.00%) Kubernetes
6 1 (2.50%) Kibana
6 1 (2.50%) logstash
6 1 (2.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 25 (62.50%) Oracle
2 15 (37.50%) IBM
3 12 (30.00%) Red Hat
4 11 (27.50%) VMware
5 8 (20.00%) TIBCO
6 4 (10.00%) Microsoft
6 4 (10.00%) Okta
7 3 (7.50%) Cisco
7 3 (7.50%) F5
7 3 (7.50%) Juniper
8 2 (5.00%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (5.00%) OpenText
9 1 (2.50%) Google
9 1 (2.50%) Intel
9 1 (2.50%) NetApp
9 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow
9 1 (2.50%) Siebel