Apache Contracts in the North West

Apache HTTP Server (httpd)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 13 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 116 144
Rank change year-on-year +5 +28 +42
Contract jobs citing Apache 21 8 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.95% 0.34% 0.23%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.17% 4.44% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 6 4
10th Percentile £305 £409 -
25th Percentile £350 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £469 £500
Median % change year-on-year -23.63% -6.25% +60.00%
75th Percentile £488 £546 £553
90th Percentile £575 £645 £581
England median daily rate £600 £750 £600
% change year-on-year -20.00% +25.00% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £47.50 -
England median hourly rate £79.35 £74.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +7.23% -5.13% +69.57%

All Application Platform Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 293 180 250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 13.26% 7.54% 8.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 124 176
10th Percentile £289 £238 £221
25th Percentile £350 £359 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £456 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.14% -3.95% +5.56%
75th Percentile £488 £545 £581
90th Percentile £604 £641 £681
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 8 12
10th Percentile £34.50 £24.76 -
25th Percentile £37.80 £28.45 £16.25
Median hourly rate £45.11 £40.00 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.76% +95.12% -67.96%
75th Percentile £71.09 £45.94 £23.40
90th Percentile £76.75 £54.75 £28.48
England median hourly rate £43.09 £33.07 £45.00
% change year-on-year +30.30% -26.51% +104.55%

Apache
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Apache in the North West

Apache
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Apache in the North West

Apache
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache in the North West over the 6 months to 13 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apache in the North West

Apache
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Apache in the North West

Apache
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Apache within the North West region over the 6 months to 13 August 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
Cheshire -6 13 £354 -23.46% 3
Manchester +2 6 £475 -13.64% 12
Lancashire - 2 £550 - 8
Apache
England

Apache
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 8 (38.10%) JBoss
2 7 (33.33%) Tomcat
2 7 (33.33%) WebSphere
3 6 (28.57%) IIS
3 6 (28.57%) nginx
4 4 (19.05%) Apache Spark
5 3 (14.29%) Confluence
5 3 (14.29%) iPlanet
5 3 (14.29%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (4.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (4.76%) CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 9 (42.86%) AWS
2 4 (19.05%) Azure
3 3 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 3 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (14.29%) AWS KMS
3 3 (14.29%) OpenShift
4 1 (4.76%) GCP
4 1 (4.76%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) Firewall
1 3 (14.29%) Kerberos
1 3 (14.29%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (38.10%) SQL Server
2 3 (14.29%) Delta Lake
2 3 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 3 (14.29%) Oracle Database
2 3 (14.29%) Relational Database
3 2 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (9.52%) Big Data
3 2 (9.52%) Data Lake
3 2 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (9.52%) DB2
3 2 (9.52%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (4.76%) Apache Hive
4 1 (4.76%) MySQL
4 1 (4.76%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 11 (52.38%) Jenkins
2 8 (38.10%) Git
3 4 (19.05%) Bitbucket Server
3 4 (19.05%) CA Release Automation
4 3 (14.29%) Gerrit
4 3 (14.29%) JIRA
4 3 (14.29%) Subversion
5 2 (9.52%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (4.76%) Hudson
General
1 6 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (9.52%) Banking
2 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Billing
3 1 (4.76%) Games
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Developer
3 3 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) UI Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Consultant
4 2 (9.52%) Maximo Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Applications Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Applications Support
5 1 (4.76%) Applications Support Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) React Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior
5 1 (4.76%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (33.33%) OAuth
2 4 (19.05%) CSS
2 4 (19.05%) HTML
2 4 (19.05%) jQuery
2 4 (19.05%) Kafka
2 4 (19.05%) OpenID
2 4 (19.05%) SAML
3 3 (14.29%) .NET
3 3 (14.29%) LDAP
3 3 (14.29%) lodash
3 3 (14.29%) React
3 3 (14.29%) React Native
3 3 (14.29%) SOAP
3 3 (14.29%) Web Services
4 2 (9.52%) CSS3
4 2 (9.52%) HTML5
4 2 (9.52%) XML
5 1 (4.76%) AngularJS
5 1 (4.76%) REST
5 1 (4.76%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Mobile App
1 3 (14.29%) PKI
2 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.76%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (47.62%) Linux
2 9 (42.86%) Windows
3 6 (28.57%) Windows Server
4 3 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (9.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) DevOps
2 8 (38.10%) CI/CD
3 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (14.29%) Blue-Green Deployment
4 3 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (14.29%) Data Transformation
4 3 (14.29%) ETL
4 3 (14.29%) High Availability
4 3 (14.29%) Secrets Management
4 3 (14.29%) Service Catalogue
5 2 (9.52%) CAFM
5 2 (9.52%) Containerisation
5 2 (9.52%) Data Governance
5 2 (9.52%) Facilities Management
5 2 (9.52%) ITSM
5 2 (9.52%) Problem Management
5 2 (9.52%) Service Management
5 2 (9.52%) System Testing
5 2 (9.52%) Test Automation
5 2 (9.52%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (38.10%) SQL
2 6 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 5 (23.81%) Python
4 4 (19.05%) Groovy
5 2 (9.52%) Scala
5 2 (9.52%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.76%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) AWS Certification
2 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) Data Quality
1 2 (9.52%) QA
2 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 3 (14.29%) Docker
2 2 (9.52%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) CA Single Sign-On
1 4 (19.05%) Progress Chef
2 3 (14.29%) Ansible
2 3 (14.29%) CA Wily
2 3 (14.29%) Kibana
2 3 (14.29%) Terraform
3 2 (9.52%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 9 (42.86%) IBM
2 8 (38.10%) Microsoft
3 6 (28.57%) AppDynamics
3 6 (28.57%) Oracle
4 4 (19.05%) Broadcom
4 4 (19.05%) Databricks
5 3 (14.29%) Splunk
6 1 (4.76%) Adobe
6 1 (4.76%) Cloudera