Tomcat Contracts

Apache Tomcat
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Tomcat skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Tomcat over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 472 538 588
Rank change year-on-year +66 +50 -17
Contract jobs citing Tomcat 47 62 125
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.14% 0.21%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.42% 1.48% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 49 80
10th Percentile £311 £313 £396
25th Percentile £337 £350 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £384 £415 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.36% -24.64% -
75th Percentile £493 £488 £659
90th Percentile £625 £538 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £384 £350 £563
% change year-on-year +9.71% -37.78% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 11
10th Percentile - £24.93 £55.00
25th Percentile £20.85 £29.31 £59.92
Median hourly rate £21.90 £37.25 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.21% -48.62% -
75th Percentile £22.95 £45.81 £74.38
90th Percentile - £50.58 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.90 £52.50 £63.25
% change year-on-year -58.29% -17.00% -

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 3,308 4,179 6,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.31% 9.59% 10.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,205 2,874 4,603
10th Percentile £275 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.97%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £713 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £453 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +0.72% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 161 147
10th Percentile £16.65 £13.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.25 £15.42 £18.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £27.52 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.01% -31.21% +81.82%
75th Percentile £64.13 £46.18 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.50 £68.00 £78.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.18 £23.75 £26.24
% change year-on-year +94.44% -9.49% +41.84%

Tomcat
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Tomcat as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Tomcat in the UK

Tomcat
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Tomcat.

Daily rate trend for Tomcat in the UK

Tomcat
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Tomcat over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Tomcat in the UK

Tomcat
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Tomcat.

Hourly rate trend for Tomcat in the UK

Tomcat
Top 13 Contract 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 30 April 2025. 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 +52 42 £384 -7.97% 21
UK excluding London +51 23 £384 +9.71% 18
London +25 20 £388 -13.89% 6
Work from Home +45 14 £433 -4.94% 18
North of England +31 10 £384 +9.71% 5
North West +14 10 £384 +9.71% 5
South East +48 6 £417 -20.57% 5
Midlands +24 2 £326 -34.90%
East Midlands +11 2 £326 -40.82%
Scotland +8 2 £454 -24.33% 1
East of England +21 1 - - 4
South West - 1 £280 - 2
Wales - 1 - - 1

Tomcat
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 16 (34.04%) JBoss
2 14 (29.79%) Apache
3 13 (27.66%) WebSphere
4 10 (21.28%) nginx
5 9 (19.15%) WebLogic
6 4 (8.51%) IIS
7 3 (6.38%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (4.26%) CMS
9 1 (2.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (2.13%) Apache Spark
9 1 (2.13%) Confluence
9 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (2.13%) WebLogic Portal
9 1 (2.13%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (4.26%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 27 (57.45%) AWS
2 9 (19.15%) Azure
3 7 (14.89%) Amazon ECS
4 6 (12.77%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (12.77%) Amazon S3
5 5 (10.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (10.64%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (8.51%) AWS KMS
6 4 (8.51%) Cloudflare
6 4 (8.51%) GCP
7 2 (4.26%) GitHub
8 1 (2.13%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (2.13%) AWS Direct Connect
8 1 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.13%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.13%) IaaS
8 1 (2.13%) Nutanix
8 1 (2.13%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.13%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.64%) DNS
1 5 (10.64%) SSL
2 4 (8.51%) SMTP
3 3 (6.38%) HTTP
4 2 (4.26%) Firewall
4 2 (4.26%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.13%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (23.40%) SQL Server
2 9 (19.15%) DB2
3 6 (12.77%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (12.77%) MongoDB
4 5 (10.64%) Oracle Database
5 4 (8.51%) MySQL
5 4 (8.51%) Relational Database
6 3 (6.38%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (6.38%) Neo4j
6 3 (6.38%) Oracle Database 10g
6 3 (6.38%) Oracle Database 11g
6 3 (6.38%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (4.26%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (4.26%) SQLite
8 1 (2.13%) Big Data
8 1 (2.13%) Hadoop
8 1 (2.13%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 14 (29.79%) Git
2 8 (17.02%) Jenkins
3 6 (12.77%) Bitbucket
3 6 (12.77%) JIRA
4 4 (8.51%) JUnit
5 3 (6.38%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (6.38%) Selenium
5 3 (6.38%) SonarQube
6 2 (4.26%) Introscope
6 2 (4.26%) LoadRunner
7 1 (2.13%) Cucumber
7 1 (2.13%) Eclipse
7 1 (2.13%) GitLab
7 1 (2.13%) Hudson
7 1 (2.13%) Maven
7 1 (2.13%) ScalaTest
7 1 (2.13%) WebDriver
General
1 16 (34.04%) Social Skills
2 9 (19.15%) Finance
3 4 (8.51%) Banking
3 4 (8.51%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.26%) Korean Language
6 1 (2.13%) Billing
6 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.13%) Health Technology
6 1 (2.13%) Military
6 1 (2.13%) Tech for Good
6 1 (2.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (25.53%) Developer
2 6 (12.77%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (12.77%) Scrum Master
2 6 (12.77%) Support Engineer
3 5 (10.64%) AWS DevOps
3 5 (10.64%) Lead
4 4 (8.51%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 4 (8.51%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (8.51%) Java Developer
4 4 (8.51%) Lead Developer
4 4 (8.51%) Lead Java Developer
4 4 (8.51%) Oracle Developer
5 3 (6.38%) Agile Scrum Master
5 3 (6.38%) Applications Developer
5 3 (6.38%) Applications Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) Applications Support
5 3 (6.38%) Applications Support Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) Oracle Applications Developer
5 3 (6.38%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 2 (4.26%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (27.66%) Web Services
2 11 (23.40%) REST
3 10 (21.28%) JSP
4 9 (19.15%) .NET
5 8 (17.02%) Spring Boot
6 7 (14.89%) HTML
6 7 (14.89%) J2EE
6 7 (14.89%) SOAP
6 7 (14.89%) Spring
7 6 (12.77%) Middleware
7 6 (12.77%) RAML
7 6 (12.77%) Servlets
7 6 (12.77%) WSDL
8 5 (10.64%) AngularJS
8 5 (10.64%) CSS
8 5 (10.64%) OAuth
9 4 (8.51%) EJB
9 4 (8.51%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (8.51%) Struts
10 3 (6.38%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.89%) Private Cloud
2 6 (12.77%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.26%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.26%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (2.13%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.13%) IVR
4 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 24 (51.06%) Linux
2 18 (38.30%) Windows
3 11 (23.40%) Windows Server
4 10 (21.28%) Unix
5 6 (12.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (6.38%) AIX
6 3 (6.38%) Solaris
7 2 (4.26%) CentOS
8 1 (2.13%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (2.13%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (2.13%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (40.43%) Agile
2 14 (29.79%) DevOps
2 14 (29.79%) Scrum
3 12 (25.53%) CI/CD
4 8 (17.02%) SDLC
5 6 (12.77%) API Development
5 6 (12.77%) Backlog Management
5 6 (12.77%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 6 (12.77%) Budget Control
5 6 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (10.64%) Conflict Resolution
6 5 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (10.64%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (10.64%) Microservices
6 5 (10.64%) Migration
6 5 (10.64%) Servant Leadership
6 5 (10.64%) Situational Awareness
7 4 (8.51%) Blue-Green Deployment
7 4 (8.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (8.51%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (57.45%) SQL
2 20 (42.55%) Java
3 11 (23.40%) JavaScript
4 7 (14.89%) PL/SQL
4 7 (14.89%) Python
5 6 (12.77%) PHP
6 3 (6.38%) Bash
7 2 (4.26%) C
7 2 (4.26%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.13%) Perl
8 1 (2.13%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.13%) Scala
8 1 (2.13%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.13%) VB
8 1 (2.13%) VB6
Qualifications
1 10 (21.28%) Security Cleared
2 9 (19.15%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.51%) Degree
4 1 (2.13%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.51%) QA
2 2 (4.26%) SLA
3 1 (2.13%) ISO 20022
3 1 (2.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (10.64%) Active Directory
2 4 (8.51%) Docker
3 3 (6.38%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (6.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.13%) LXC
4 1 (2.13%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 10 (21.28%) Terraform
2 5 (10.64%) Ansible
3 4 (8.51%) Kibana
3 4 (8.51%) SCCM
4 3 (6.38%) Kubernetes
4 3 (6.38%) SCOM
4 3 (6.38%) SCSM
5 2 (4.26%) CA Wily
5 2 (4.26%) Nagios
5 2 (4.26%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (2.13%) HAProxy
6 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.13%) Oracle Identity Management
6 1 (2.13%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 18 (38.30%) Oracle
2 14 (29.79%) Microsoft
3 6 (12.77%) AppDynamics
4 5 (10.64%) VMware
5 4 (8.51%) F5
5 4 (8.51%) Red Hat
6 2 (4.26%) Google
6 2 (4.26%) IBM
6 2 (4.26%) SolarWinds
6 2 (4.26%) Splunk
7 1 (2.13%) Actifio
7 1 (2.13%) Adobe
7 1 (2.13%) Avaya
7 1 (2.13%) Citrix
7 1 (2.13%) HP
7 1 (2.13%) MKS
7 1 (2.13%) Verint