Tomcat contracts in the West Midlands, contractor rates and trends for Apache Tomcat skills

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Tomcat skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Tomcat over the 6 months to 24 October 2020 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 Tomcat England > West Midlands
Location	6 months to 24 Oct 2020	Same period 2019	Same period 2018
Rank	-	159	174
Contract jobs citing Tomcat	0	8	42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands	-	0.21%	0.82%
As % of the Application Platforms category	-	1.45%	5.01%
Number of daily rates quoted	0	5	14
Median daily rate	-	£625	£383
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-	+63.19%	+7.51%
England median daily rate	£500	£475	£500
% change year-on-year	+5.26%	-5.00%	+5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	0	0
Median hourly rate	-	-	-
England median hourly rate	-	£42.00	£42.50
% change year-on-year	-	-1.18%	-0.58%

Tomcat 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 West Midlands with a requirement for application platform skills.

All Application Platform Skills West Midlands
Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills	243	553	839
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands	18.41%	14.18%	16.44%
Number of daily rates quoted	174	367	476
Median daily rate	£425	£425	£425
10th Percentile	£275	£224	£250
90th Percentile	£538	£570	£563
England median daily rate	£468	£463	£465
% change year-on-year	+1.08%	-0.54%	+3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted	2	17	40
Median hourly rate	£38.75	£20.00	£15.75
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+93.75%	+26.98%	-12.50%
10th Percentile	£35.63	£11.70	£11.23
90th Percentile	£42.88	£47.00	£23.43
Median hourly rate	£30.00	£20.86	£21.25
% change year-on-year	+43.82%	-1.84%	+6.25%