Apache Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Apache HTTP Server (httpd)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Apache skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 46 58
Rank change year-on-year -32 +12 +23
Contract jobs citing Apache 5 4 3
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.49% 0.74% 0.39%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.97% 7.84% 6.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile - £314 -
25th Percentile £600 £329 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £359 £550
Median % change year-on-year +84.67% -34.77% -8.33%
75th Percentile £738 £389 -
90th Percentile - £405 -
England median daily rate £525 £675 £550
% change year-on-year -22.22% +22.73% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £22.33
25th Percentile - - £23.24
Median hourly rate - - £26.12
75th Percentile - - £30.37
90th Percentile - - £32.10
England median hourly rate £77.00 £48.17 £30.50
% change year-on-year +59.85% +57.93% +74.59%

All Application Platform Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 126 51 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 12.45% 9.48% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 38 28
10th Percentile £148 £231 £145
25th Percentile £286 £308 £154
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £400 £313
Median % change year-on-year +3.25% +28.00% -19.35%
75th Percentile £475 £480 £406
90th Percentile £625 £541 £550
England median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.06% -5.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile - - £22.04
25th Percentile £16.25 - £22.50
Median hourly rate £19.25 - £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +41.08%
75th Percentile £24.03 - £28.75
90th Percentile £24.99 - £31.45
England median hourly rate £27.21 £42.50 £25.25
% change year-on-year -35.98% +68.32% +13.94%

Apache
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Apache job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Apache
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Apache.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Apache

Apache
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Apache.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Apache

Apache
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Apache within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 March 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
Leicestershire -5 3 £725 +135.77%
Nottinghamshire - 1 £600 -
Derbyshire - 1 - -
Apache
England

Apache
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (40.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Synapse
2 1 (20.00%) IIS
2 1 (20.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Spark SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (20.00%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Automation Tester
1 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (20.00%) PySpark
2 1 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Functional Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Test Planning
2 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (20.00%) ETL
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Inventory Management
3 1 (20.00%) Runbook
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle