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

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 84 100
Rank change year-on-year -9 +16 +21
Contract jobs citing Apache 7 11 19
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.50% 0.76% 1.01%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.34% 6.08% 11.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 12
10th Percentile £424 - £350
25th Percentile £489 £213 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £317 £413
Median % change year-on-year +73.78% -23.27% -28.26%
75th Percentile £575 £320 £513
90th Percentile - £409 £573
England median daily rate £550 £750 £600
% change year-on-year -26.67% +25.00% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.50
Median hourly rate - - £16.00
75th Percentile - - £16.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £80.00 £74.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +8.11% -5.13% +4.91%

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 131 181 167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 9.40% 12.56% 8.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 116 106
10th Percentile £214 £220 £170
25th Percentile £389 £300 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £420 £470
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -10.64% -0.27%
75th Percentile £566 £554 £631
90th Percentile £624 £575 £704
England median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 17
10th Percentile £16.42 £20.40 £14.15
25th Percentile £17.33 £24.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £30.36 £30.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.20% +50.00% +46.41%
75th Percentile £64.74 £40.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £46.00 -
England median hourly rate £35.00 £42.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -17.65% +54.55% +34.15%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache in the East of England over the 6 months to 17 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apache in the East of England

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 17 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
Hertfordshire - 5 £550 - 3
Cambridgeshire +2 1 £383 -36.25% 2
Bedfordshire -8 1 £483 +28.67% 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 6 (85.71%) IIS
2 5 (71.43%) WebSphere
3 1 (14.29%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
1 1 (14.29%) GCP
1 1 (14.29%) IBM Cloud
1 1 (14.29%) Mimecast
1 1 (14.29%) Nutanix
1 1 (14.29%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) DHCP
2 1 (14.29%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (71.43%) DB2
1 5 (71.43%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) MySQL
General
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Consultant
1 5 (71.43%) Maximo Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) IT Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) IT Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Maximo Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Switch Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) SOAP
1 5 (71.43%) Web Services
1 5 (71.43%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
1 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Windows
1 6 (85.71%) Windows Server
2 1 (14.29%) CentOS
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) CAFM
2 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) Facilities Management
2 5 (71.43%) ITSM
2 5 (71.43%) Requirements Gathering
2 5 (71.43%) Service Design
2 5 (71.43%) Service Management
2 5 (71.43%) System Testing
2 5 (71.43%) Workflow
3 2 (28.57%) ITIL
4 1 (14.29%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
4 1 (14.29%) High Availability
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
4 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2
4 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) JavaScript
1 5 (71.43%) Python
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
1 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Progress Chef
1 1 (14.29%) Puppet
1 1 (14.29%) Salt
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) IBM
2 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto
3 1 (14.29%) SolarWinds
3 1 (14.29%) Vertica