Apache Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Apache HTTP Server (httpd)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Apache skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 72 92
Rank change year-on-year -24 +20 +25
Contract jobs citing Apache 7 11 20
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.40% 1.02% 1.08%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.05% 8.21% 15.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 12
10th Percentile - £213 -
25th Percentile £356 £238 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £317 £350
Median % change year-on-year +14.53% -9.57% -17.65%
75th Percentile £369 £320 -
90th Percentile - £349 £395
England median daily rate £525 £640 £530
% change year-on-year -17.97% +20.75% -15.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £80.50 £74.44 £41.50
% change year-on-year +8.14% +79.37% -9.61%

All Application Platform Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 87 134 132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 5.01% 12.44% 7.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 82 78
10th Percentile £220 £213 £204
25th Percentile £356 £300 £290
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £400 £375
Median % change year-on-year +17.33% +6.53% -25.00%
75th Percentile £575 £531 £475
90th Percentile £674 £658 £574
England median daily rate £500 £500 £491
% change year-on-year - +1.78% -6.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 19
10th Percentile - £45.40 £12.13
25th Percentile £15.00 £61.50 -
Median hourly rate £18.00 £63.00 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -71.43% +350.00% -3.45%
75th Percentile £23.00 £66.00 £15.50
90th Percentile - - £31.75
England median hourly rate £25.42 £45.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -43.52% +76.47% +22.89%

Apache
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Apache job vacancy trend in the East of England

Apache
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Apache
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Apache
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 5 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
Cambridgeshire +6 6 £363 -39.58%
Bedfordshire - 1 - - 1
Apache
England

Apache
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 5 (71.43%) IIS
2 2 (28.57%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Entra ID
2 3 (42.86%) Mimecast
2 3 (42.86%) Nutanix
3 2 (28.57%) AWS
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (14.29%) Azure
4 1 (14.29%) GCP
4 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 1 (14.29%) Serverless
4 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) Firewall
2 3 (42.86%) DHCP
2 3 (42.86%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (14.29%) Big Data
1 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
1 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
1 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
1 1 (14.29%) Metadata
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Network Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Switch Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Firewall Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Network Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Network Support
3 2 (28.57%) Network Support Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Network Support Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Support Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Support Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Data Architect
4 1 (14.29%) ETL Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Lead
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
1 1 (14.29%) Node.js
1 1 (14.29%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (42.86%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
1 5 (71.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (71.43%) ITIL
2 5 (71.43%) PRINCE2
2 5 (71.43%) Server Building
3 2 (28.57%) AI
3 2 (28.57%) Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) Data Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (28.57%) Data Security
3 2 (28.57%) ETL
3 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Data Governance
4 1 (14.29%) Metadata Management
4 1 (14.29%) Product Management
4 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) SysML
4 1 (14.29%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
1 3 (42.86%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Cisco
1 5 (71.43%) Palo Alto
1 5 (71.43%) SolarWinds
2 1 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Informatica
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Talend