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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 159 188
Rank change year-on-year +11 +29 +26
Contract jobs citing Apache 12 21 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.35% 0.46% 0.37%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.38% 5.40% 3.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 14 17
10th Percentile £525 £257 £430
25th Percentile £563 £375 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -9.52% -
75th Percentile - £543 £613
90th Percentile - £565 £623
England median daily rate £550 £756 £600
% change year-on-year -27.27% +26.04% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £38.50 -
England median hourly rate £80.00 £74.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +8.11% -5.13% +4.91%

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 355 389 581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 10.31% 8.52% 10.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 246 388
10th Percentile £207 £262 £211
25th Percentile £357 £363 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £461
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -2.33% -3.00%
75th Percentile £600 £565 £588
90th Percentile £663 £638 £678
England median daily rate £500 £525 £523
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.48% -0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 26 38
10th Percentile £13.25 £25.06 £25.09
25th Percentile £25.75 £30.10 £51.56
Median hourly rate £32.77 £65.09 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year -49.65% +12.13% +190.23%
75th Percentile £57.50 £70.00 £69.06
90th Percentile £69.95 - £75.33
England median hourly rate £41.45 £47.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -12.74% +5.56% +109.30%

Apache
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Apache 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
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache in the South East over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apache in the South East

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
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 16 September 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
Hampshire +12 10 £600 +26.32% 6
Berkshire +15 2 £325 +18.18% 7
Thames Valley +7 2 £325 -23.53% 12
Apache
England

Apache
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (33.33%) IIS
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (8.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) DNS
1 5 (41.67%) SMTP
2 1 (8.33%) DHCP
2 1 (8.33%) FTP
2 1 (8.33%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (8.33%) Network Security
2 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (8.33%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Big Data
1 1 (8.33%) Hadoop
1 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) MSI
1 4 (33.33%) Robot Framework
1 4 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (8.33%) Git
General
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Data Scientist
3 1 (8.33%) Support Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Systems Integrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) YAML
2 1 (8.33%) NumPy
2 1 (8.33%) Pandas
2 1 (8.33%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) PKI
2 1 (8.33%) Algorithms
2 1 (8.33%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 7 (58.33%) Linux
2 6 (50.00%) CentOS
2 6 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (41.67%) Windows
4 4 (33.33%) Windows Server
4 4 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Agile
1 10 (83.33%) DevOps
2 8 (66.67%) Prototyping
3 7 (58.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (50.00%) Batch Scripting
4 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (41.67%) Test Automation
5 5 (41.67%) Web Development
6 4 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
6 4 (33.33%) Workflow
7 1 (8.33%) Data Pipeline
7 1 (8.33%) Data Science
7 1 (8.33%) Decision-Making
7 1 (8.33%) Feature Engineering
7 1 (8.33%) LLM
7 1 (8.33%) Model Validation
7 1 (8.33%) Statistics
7 1 (8.33%) Time Series Analysis
7 1 (8.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 6 (50.00%) PHP
3 5 (41.67%) Python
4 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
4 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (91.67%) Security Cleared
2 9 (75.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 1 (8.33%) Degree
4 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 8 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 8 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (8.33%) NFS
2 1 (8.33%) Samba
Systems Management
1 10 (83.33%) Ansible
2 4 (33.33%) Terraform
2 4 (33.33%) WMI
3 1 (8.33%) yum
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) VMware
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) Google