Apache Contracts in the Midlands

Apache HTTP Server (httpd)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Apache skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Apache over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 128 139
Rank change year-on-year +28 +11 +50
Contract jobs citing Apache 11 5 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.57% 0.18% 0.81%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.11% 2.44% 6.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 19
10th Percentile £459 £410 £480
25th Percentile £516 £416 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £425 £600
Median % change year-on-year +35.29% -29.17% +23.71%
75th Percentile £644 £456 £638
90th Percentile £663 £475 £690
England median daily rate £675 £610 £600
% change year-on-year +10.66% +1.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £26.12 -
England median hourly rate £78.70 £52.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year +49.90% -32.69% +42.32%

All Application Platform Skills
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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 180 205 442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 9.40% 7.44% 12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 144 323
10th Percentile £250 £147 £209
25th Percentile £363 £298 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £375 £455
Median % change year-on-year +22.67% -17.58% +1.56%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £540
90th Percentile £588 £638 £619
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 9
10th Percentile £16.60 £17.47 £14.48
25th Percentile £16.94 £22.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.50 £39.53 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -53.20% +113.68% -7.50%
75th Percentile £20.24 £51.91 £26.48
90th Percentile £32.36 - £34.93
England median hourly rate £52.50 £27.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year +90.91% -12.00% +49.59%

Apache
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Apache as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Apache in the Midlands

Apache
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Apache in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Apache in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apache in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Apache in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Apache in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
West Midlands +21 8 £600 +26.32% 8
East Midlands +9 3 £410 -2.09% 5
Apache
England

Apache
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (36.36%) Apache Spark
2 3 (27.27%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Composer
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Big Data
1 4 (36.36%) Hadoop
2 3 (27.27%) Data Lake
2 3 (27.27%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (27.27%) Flink
3 2 (18.18%) Apache Hudi
3 2 (18.18%) Apache Iceberg
3 2 (18.18%) Delta Lake
3 2 (18.18%) NoSQL
3 2 (18.18%) Parquet
4 1 (9.09%) Apache Hive
4 1 (9.09%) BigQuery
4 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (9.09%) HBase
4 1 (9.09%) Impala
4 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
4 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
General
1 2 (18.18%) Banking
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Data Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Senior
2 3 (27.27%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Big Data Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Python Data Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Python Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Scala Developer
4 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) GCP Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Scala Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) Apache NiFi
2 4 (36.36%) Kafka
2 4 (36.36%) PySpark
3 2 (18.18%) Apache Avro
3 2 (18.18%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (18.18%) JSON
4 1 (9.09%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
2 2 (18.18%) Replication
3 1 (9.09%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (45.45%) Analytics
2 5 (45.45%) ETL
3 4 (36.36%) Containerisation
3 4 (36.36%) Data Governance
3 4 (36.36%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 4 (36.36%) Decision-Making
3 4 (36.36%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 3 (27.27%) Data Architecture
4 3 (27.27%) Data Integration
4 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
4 3 (27.27%) Event-Driven
4 3 (27.27%) Storage Management
4 3 (27.27%) Workflow
5 2 (18.18%) Data Security
5 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (18.18%) Open Source
5 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) Scala
3 3 (27.27%) Java
3 3 (27.27%) SQL
4 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) DV Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) Accessibility
2 2 (18.18%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Kubernetes
2 3 (27.27%) Terraform
3 2 (18.18%) Kibana
3 2 (18.18%) logstash
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Databricks
2 1 (9.09%) Google