Apache Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Apache HTTP Server (httpd)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Apache skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 120 134
Rank change year-on-year -6 +14 +59
Contract jobs citing Apache 29 18 10
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 1.04% 0.67% 0.34%
As % of the Application Platforms category 9.06% 8.45% 3.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 12 8
10th Percentile £408 £304 £405
25th Percentile £424 £348 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £612 £556
Median % change year-on-year -16.46% +10.02% +23.61%
75th Percentile £538 £640 £688
90th Percentile £546 £725 -
England median daily rate £550 £750 £600
% change year-on-year -26.67% +25.00% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
England median hourly rate £80.00 £74.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +8.11% -5.13% +4.91%

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 320 213 289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 11.49% 7.96% 9.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 132 202
10th Percentile £270 £255 £190
25th Percentile £353 £361 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £435 £400
Median % change year-on-year +3.54% +8.65% -19.19%
75th Percentile £534 £525 £550
90th Percentile £588 £626 £661
England median daily rate £500 £525 £510
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 13
10th Percentile - £14.02 £12.89
25th Percentile - £14.76 £17.50
Median hourly rate £27.21 £16.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +70.06% -13.51% +12.46%
75th Percentile £33.88 £45.50 £19.75
90th Percentile £34.54 £63.20 £21.50
England median hourly rate £35.00 £42.50 £27.25
% change year-on-year -17.65% +55.96% +36.25%

Apache
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Apache job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Apache
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

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

Apache
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache in the Midlands over the 6 months to 19 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apache in the Midlands

Apache
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

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

Apache
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 19 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
West Midlands -1 25 £525 -14.22% 1
East Midlands -11 4 £420 +36.59% 4
Apache
England

Apache
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the 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 17 (58.62%) WebLogic
2 10 (34.48%) Apache Spark
3 9 (31.03%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (13.79%) JBoss
5 2 (6.90%) IIS
6 1 (3.45%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 20 (68.97%) AWS
2 15 (51.72%) Azure
3 13 (44.83%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (13.79%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (6.90%) GCP
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.45%) Datadog
6 1 (3.45%) Serverless
6 1 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (31.03%) Hadoop
2 7 (24.14%) Apache Hive
2 7 (24.14%) HBase
3 5 (17.24%) Big Data
3 5 (17.24%) NoSQL
4 4 (13.79%) MongoDB
5 3 (10.34%) Metadata
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (3.45%) Data Mining
6 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (3.45%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 8 (27.59%) Git
2 4 (13.79%) Eclipse
2 4 (13.79%) IntelliJ
2 4 (13.79%) JUnit
2 4 (13.79%) Selenium
3 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
General
1 22 (75.86%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (13.79%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Banking
3 3 (10.34%) Finance
4 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (24.14%) Monitoring Engineer
2 6 (20.69%) Developer
2 6 (20.69%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Hadoop Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Data Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Hadoop Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Scala Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Administrator
6 1 (3.45%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Java Developer
6 1 (3.45%) Java Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Open Source Developer
6 1 (3.45%) Open Source Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Operations Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Software Developer
6 1 (3.45%) Splunk Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) EJB
1 4 (13.79%) Hibernate
1 4 (13.79%) HTML
1 4 (13.79%) HTML5
1 4 (13.79%) J2EE
1 4 (13.79%) J2SE
1 4 (13.79%) JSON
1 4 (13.79%) Play Framework
1 4 (13.79%) REST
1 4 (13.79%) SOAP
1 4 (13.79%) Spark Streaming
1 4 (13.79%) Spring
1 4 (13.79%) XML
2 3 (10.34%) Kafka
3 2 (6.90%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (3.45%) Middleware
4 1 (3.45%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Data Centre
1 3 (10.34%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (3.45%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.45%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 17 (58.62%) Linux
1 17 (58.62%) Unix
2 14 (48.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (68.97%) Analytics
2 18 (62.07%) Continuous Improvement
3 14 (48.28%) Visualisation
4 13 (44.83%) Business Intelligence
4 13 (44.83%) Full-Stack Development
4 13 (44.83%) Incident Management
4 13 (44.83%) Incident Response
4 13 (44.83%) Log Analytics
4 13 (44.83%) Observability
4 13 (44.83%) Performance Monitoring
4 13 (44.83%) Proactive Management
4 13 (44.83%) Service Management
4 13 (44.83%) Synthetic Monitoring
4 13 (44.83%) Test Strategy
5 11 (37.93%) CI/CD
6 9 (31.03%) Data Engineering
6 9 (31.03%) Data Pipeline
6 9 (31.03%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (24.14%) DevOps
7 7 (24.14%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 20 (68.97%) SQL
2 11 (37.93%) Scala
3 8 (27.59%) Python
4 7 (24.14%) Java
5 4 (13.79%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (44.83%) SC Cleared
1 13 (44.83%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.90%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.24%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (24.14%) HDFS
2 4 (13.79%) Docker
3 1 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (24.14%) Hadoop YARN
1 7 (24.14%) Puppet
2 4 (13.79%) Ansible
3 3 (10.34%) Oozie
4 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (48.28%) Oracle
2 13 (44.83%) AppDynamics
2 13 (44.83%) Dynatrace
2 13 (44.83%) Splunk
3 12 (41.38%) Cisco
4 4 (13.79%) webMethods
5 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.45%) Databricks
6 1 (3.45%) Google