Apache Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Apache HTTP Server (httpd)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Apache skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 79 118
Rank change year-on-year -37 +39 -3
Contract jobs citing Apache 4 16 13
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.23% 1.25% 0.66%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.63% 15.53% 11.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 2
10th Percentile - £366 £421
25th Percentile - £376 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £390 £508
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -23.15% +25.31%
75th Percentile - £456 £567
90th Percentile - £513 £600
South East median daily rate £560 £400 £530
% change year-on-year +40.00% -24.53% -9.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £82.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £82.00 - -

All Application Platform Skills
Berkshire

Apache 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 in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 152 103 114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 8.81% 8.03% 5.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 53 60
10th Percentile £375 £310 £324
25th Percentile £450 £385 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% +4.17% -0.78%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £607
90th Percentile £670 £599 £608
South East median daily rate £500 £485 £465
% change year-on-year +3.20% +4.20% -3.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 7
10th Percentile - - £25.25
25th Percentile £81.00 £41.25 £32.71
Median hourly rate £82.00 £63.15 £51.06
Median % change year-on-year +29.85% +23.69% -35.53%
75th Percentile £97.50 £64.73 £66.82
90th Percentile £102.20 - £68.63
South East median hourly rate £81.00 £62.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +29.60% +8.70% +10.05%

Apache
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Apache job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Apache
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Apache.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Apache

Apache
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Apache.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Apache

Apache
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Apache within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 26 February 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
Reading -8 3 £525 +34.62% 3
Wokingham -46 1 - -
Apache
South East

Apache
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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 2 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Big Data
1 2 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) Artifactory
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Data Scientist
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) NumPy
1 2 (50.00%) Pandas
1 2 (50.00%) scikit-learn
2 1 (25.00%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (25.00%) LAMP
2 1 (25.00%) MERN Stack
2 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
2 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (50.00%) Data Science
2 2 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (50.00%) Feature Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) Model Validation
2 2 (50.00%) Predictive Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Predictive Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Statistical Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Statistics
2 2 (50.00%) Time Series Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 2 (50.00%) Use Case
2 2 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) Perl
3 1 (25.00%) PHP
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat