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 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 520 508 553
Rank change year-on-year -12 +45 +11
Contract jobs citing Tomcat 41 55 87
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.15% 0.18%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.15% 1.34% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 38 54
10th Percentile £350 £316 £350
25th Percentile £358 £353 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.68% -9.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £518 £602 £600
90th Percentile £631 £660 £635
UK excluding London median daily rate £360 £375 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% -25.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £54.94
25th Percentile - - £58.59
Median hourly rate - - £73.71
75th Percentile - - £75.00
90th Percentile - - £75.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £66.15

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 3,576 4,092 4,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.77% 10.87% 10.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,358 2,580 3,257
10th Percentile £277 £263 £253
25th Percentile £382 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £643 £638
90th Percentile £700 £825 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £461 £473
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -0.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 75 148
10th Percentile £16.64 £18.00 £15.94
25th Percentile £20.50 £23.80 £19.81
Median hourly rate £33.88 £37.00 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.43% +20.33% +43.02%
75th Percentile £63.75 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.26 £76.23
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.33 £52.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -36.52% +75.00% +62.38%

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 15 October 2025.

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 15 October 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 -2 36 £370 -18.68% 12
UK excluding London -3 29 £360 -4.00% 13
North of England -4 17 £358 -20.44%
North West +1 15 £358 -20.44%
Work from Home +27 13 £450 -25.00% 17
London -7 11 £475 -2.06% 1
Scotland - 4 £479 -
South East +7 3 £550 -16.67% 1
East Midlands - 3 £359 - 2
Midlands - 3 £359 - 2
Yorkshire - 2 - -
South West +8 1 - - 5
East of England -11 1 £483 +40.88% 4

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 (41.46%) JBoss
2 11 (26.83%) Apache
3 10 (24.39%) WebLogic
3 10 (24.39%) WebSphere
4 4 (9.76%) Confluence
4 4 (9.76%) nginx
5 2 (4.88%) CICS
5 2 (4.88%) IIS
5 2 (4.88%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 1 (2.44%) MQSeries
6 1 (2.44%) Mule
6 1 (2.44%) Mule ESB
6 1 (2.44%) OpenStack
6 1 (2.44%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Finacle
1 1 (2.44%) Oracle BRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (58.54%) AWS
2 10 (24.39%) OpenShift
3 6 (14.63%) Azure
3 6 (14.63%) GCP
4 2 (4.88%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (4.88%) GitHub
5 1 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.44%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.44%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (2.44%) IBM Cloud
5 1 (2.44%) MinIO
5 1 (2.44%) OCI
5 1 (2.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (17.07%) Firewall
2 3 (7.32%) DNS
3 2 (4.88%) HTTP
3 2 (4.88%) SSL
3 2 (4.88%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.88%) VPN
4 1 (2.44%) Broadband
4 1 (2.44%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (2.44%) FCoE
4 1 (2.44%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (2.44%) GPRS
4 1 (2.44%) GSM
4 1 (2.44%) iSCSI
4 1 (2.44%) LAN
4 1 (2.44%) Multicast
4 1 (2.44%) NAS
4 1 (2.44%) SAN
4 1 (2.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (19.51%) DB2
2 5 (12.20%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (9.76%) SQL Server
4 3 (7.32%) Oracle Database
5 2 (4.88%) MySQL
5 2 (4.88%) NoSQL
5 2 (4.88%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 2 (4.88%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.44%) GIS
6 1 (2.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (51.22%) Git
2 16 (39.02%) JIRA
3 15 (36.59%) Jenkins
4 9 (21.95%) Gradle
4 9 (21.95%) JUnit
4 9 (21.95%) Maven
4 9 (21.95%) Sonatype Nexus
5 7 (17.07%) Bitbucket
6 5 (12.20%) Subversion
7 3 (7.32%) Gerrit
8 2 (4.88%) Artifactory
8 2 (4.88%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (4.88%) SonarQube
9 1 (2.44%) Cucumber
9 1 (2.44%) Eclipse
9 1 (2.44%) GitLab
General
1 12 (29.27%) Finance
2 11 (26.83%) Banking
3 9 (21.95%) Social Skills
4 6 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.32%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.44%) Billing
6 1 (2.44%) Front Office
6 1 (2.44%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.44%) Military
6 1 (2.44%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (43.90%) Developer
2 9 (21.95%) Java Developer
3 7 (17.07%) Scrum Master
4 5 (12.20%) Lead
5 4 (9.76%) Architect
5 4 (9.76%) AWS Developer
5 4 (9.76%) Infrastructure Architect
5 4 (9.76%) Lead Developer
5 4 (9.76%) Software Developer
6 3 (7.32%) Applications Specialist
6 3 (7.32%) UI Developer
7 2 (4.88%) 3D Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (4.88%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (4.88%) Lead Java Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Lead Software Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Oracle Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Re-Platforming Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (48.78%) REST
2 18 (43.90%) SOAP
3 14 (34.15%) Spring
4 13 (31.71%) Spring Boot
5 10 (24.39%) Web Services
6 7 (17.07%) Middleware
6 7 (17.07%) RAML
6 7 (17.07%) Spring Cloud
6 7 (17.07%) WSDL
7 6 (14.63%) CSS
7 6 (14.63%) HTML
7 6 (14.63%) jQuery
8 5 (12.20%) JSON
8 5 (12.20%) RESTful
9 4 (9.76%) XML
10 3 (7.32%) Ajax
10 3 (7.32%) EJB
10 3 (7.32%) J2EE
10 3 (7.32%) JSP
10 3 (7.32%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.51%) Private Cloud
2 7 (17.07%) Product Ownership
3 5 (12.20%) Mobile App
4 3 (7.32%) Cloud Native
4 3 (7.32%) Data Centre
5 2 (4.88%) Clustering
5 2 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (4.88%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (4.88%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (4.88%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (4.88%) Mainframe
5 2 (4.88%) Onboarding
5 2 (4.88%) Replication
6 1 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.44%) Derivative
6 1 (2.44%) Equities
6 1 (2.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (2.44%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (2.44%) IPTV
6 1 (2.44%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 19 (46.34%) Linux
2 14 (34.15%) Unix
3 8 (19.51%) Windows
4 6 (14.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (7.32%) CentOS
5 3 (7.32%) Solaris
5 3 (7.32%) Windows Server
6 2 (4.88%) Android
6 2 (4.88%) Apple iOS
6 2 (4.88%) Ubuntu
6 2 (4.88%) zOS
7 1 (2.44%) Mac OS
7 1 (2.44%) MVS
7 1 (2.44%) Windows 10
7 1 (2.44%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (2.44%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (2.44%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (36.59%) Agile
2 10 (24.39%) Microservices
3 9 (21.95%) CI/CD
3 9 (21.95%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (21.95%) Scrum
3 9 (21.95%) SDLC
4 8 (19.51%) Design Patterns
4 8 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (17.07%) API Development
5 7 (17.07%) Architectural Patterns
5 7 (17.07%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 7 (17.07%) Budget Control
5 7 (17.07%) Conflict Resolution
5 7 (17.07%) Servant Leadership
5 7 (17.07%) Situational Awareness
6 6 (14.63%) Backlog Management
6 6 (14.63%) DevOps
7 4 (9.76%) Containerisation
7 4 (9.76%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (9.76%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 24 (58.54%) Java
2 21 (51.22%) SQL
3 11 (26.83%) JavaScript
3 11 (26.83%) Shell Script
4 8 (19.51%) PL/SQL
5 5 (12.20%) Bash
6 4 (9.76%) Python
7 3 (7.32%) PowerShell
8 2 (4.88%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (12.20%) SC Cleared
1 5 (12.20%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.76%) Degree
3 2 (4.88%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.88%) RHCE
4 1 (2.44%) A+ Certification
4 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.44%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.44%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.44%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.32%) SLA
2 1 (2.44%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (7.32%) Docker
1 3 (7.32%) Hyper-V
2 2 (4.88%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.88%) KVM
2 2 (4.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.44%) NFS
3 1 (2.44%) SRDF
3 1 (2.44%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (2.44%) Xen
Systems Management
1 7 (17.07%) Kubernetes
2 6 (14.63%) Terraform
3 5 (12.20%) Ansible
4 2 (4.88%) Nagios
4 2 (4.88%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.88%) Puppet
5 1 (2.44%) Grafana
5 1 (2.44%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.44%) Salt
5 1 (2.44%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 33 (80.49%) Oracle
2 11 (26.83%) Microsoft
3 5 (12.20%) Splunk
4 4 (9.76%) Red Hat
5 3 (7.32%) Dynatrace
5 3 (7.32%) Google
5 3 (7.32%) IBM
5 3 (7.32%) VMware
6 2 (4.88%) AppDynamics
6 2 (4.88%) Apple
6 2 (4.88%) Checkmarx
6 2 (4.88%) Cisco
6 2 (4.88%) EMC
6 2 (4.88%) F5
6 2 (4.88%) NetApp
7 1 (2.44%) Bloomberg
7 1 (2.44%) Calypso
7 1 (2.44%) Murex
7 1 (2.44%) Reuters
7 1 (2.44%) Vertica