Apache Contract Job Trends in the South East

Apache HTTP Server (httpd)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Apache skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 159 160
Rank change year-on-year -61 +1 +31
Contract jobs citing Apache 13 13 20
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.20% 0.37% 0.45%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.84% 3.64% 5.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 13
10th Percentile - £505 £283
25th Percentile £400 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +26.32% -11.63%
75th Percentile £455 - £545
90th Percentile £464 - £565
England median daily rate £513 £550 £750
% change year-on-year -6.82% -26.67% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £62.23 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £67.47 - -
75th Percentile £75.54 - -
90th Percentile £84.27 - -
England median hourly rate £67.47 £80.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year -15.66% +8.11% -5.13%

All Application Platform Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 457 357 383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 6.97% 10.04% 8.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 208 236
10th Percentile £277 £207 £259
25th Percentile £413 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £574 £600 £564
90th Percentile £675 £675 £634
England median daily rate £500 £492 £525
% change year-on-year +1.63% -6.29% +0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 11 27
10th Percentile £15.50 £13.25 £26.05
25th Percentile £20.63 £19.50 £30.21
Median hourly rate £38.11 £32.05 £63.15
Median % change year-on-year +18.91% -49.25% +7.78%
75th Percentile £66.38 £60.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £94.69 £71.50 -
England median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -17.14% -17.65% -

Apache
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Apache job vacancy trend in the South East

Apache
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

Apache
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

Apache
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Apache in the South East over the 6 months to 3 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Apache in the South East

Apache
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Apache within the South East region over the 6 months to 3 October 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
Hampshire -40 6 £425 -29.17% 9
Surrey - 5 - - 9
Berkshire -28 2 - - 4
Thames Valley -39 2 - - 6
Apache
England

Apache
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 8 (61.54%) nginx
2 5 (38.46%) Confluence
3 3 (23.08%) IIS
3 3 (23.08%) Tomcat
4 2 (15.38%) Apache Spark
4 2 (15.38%) Apache Superset
4 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) AWS
3 3 (23.08%) Cloudflare
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Batch
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) Entra ID
4 2 (15.38%) OpenShift
4 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (61.54%) DNS
1 8 (61.54%) Firewall
2 5 (38.46%) DHCP
3 2 (15.38%) BIG-IP
4 1 (7.69%) NAS
4 1 (7.69%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) MySQL
1 3 (23.08%) SQL Server
2 2 (15.38%) Power BI
3 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
3 1 (7.69%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (7.69%) Metadata
3 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 5 (38.46%) Bitbucket
1 5 (38.46%) JIRA
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Computer Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Lead
3 2 (15.38%) Technical Leader
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Developer
4 1 (7.69%) ETL Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (76.92%) Terraform
2 3 (23.08%) LAMP
2 3 (23.08%) LEMP Stack
2 3 (23.08%) YAML
3 1 (7.69%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (15.38%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (69.23%) Linux
2 8 (61.54%) Windows
3 5 (38.46%) Windows 10
4 3 (23.08%) CentOS
4 3 (23.08%) Ubuntu
5 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
5 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) BCP
1 5 (38.46%) Security Hardening
2 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
2 4 (30.77%) DevOps
2 4 (30.77%) DevSecOps
2 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (23.08%) Data Engineering
3 3 (23.08%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (15.38%) Agile
4 2 (15.38%) AI
4 2 (15.38%) Analytics
4 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (15.38%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (15.38%) FinOps
4 2 (15.38%) Identity Management
4 2 (15.38%) Machine Learning
4 2 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) PowerShell
1 12 (92.31%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) Bash
3 2 (15.38%) Bicep
3 2 (15.38%) Scala
4 1 (7.69%) Groovy
4 1 (7.69%) Java
4 1 (7.69%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 8 (61.54%) Active Directory
2 5 (38.46%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (23.08%) Dovecot
3 3 (23.08%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Ansible
1 5 (38.46%) Packer
1 5 (38.46%) vCenter Server
2 3 (23.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 3 (23.08%) HAProxy
3 2 (15.38%) Grafana
3 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) ServiceNow
1 5 (38.46%) Tanium
1 5 (38.46%) VMware
2 3 (23.08%) Cisco
2 3 (23.08%) F5
2 3 (23.08%) Juniper
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 3 (23.08%) Red Hat
3 2 (15.38%) Databricks