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 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 128 187
Rank change year-on-year -47 +59 -6
Contract jobs citing Apache 11 31 23
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.24% 0.97% 0.42%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.85% 9.66% 4.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 11
10th Percentile £535 £351 £400
25th Percentile £550 £375 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £475 £530
Median % change year-on-year +17.89% -10.38% -4.07%
75th Percentile £738 £538 £548
90th Percentile - £562 £550
England median daily rate £525 £640 £530
% change year-on-year -17.97% +20.75% -15.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £82.00 - -
England median hourly rate £80.50 £74.44 £41.50
% change year-on-year +8.14% +79.37% -9.61%

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 386 321 470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 8.32% 10.08% 8.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 184 302
10th Percentile £256 £219 £203
25th Percentile £413 £386 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +2.16% -3.13%
75th Percentile £610 £550 £560
90th Percentile £675 £638 £628
England median daily rate £500 £500 £491
% change year-on-year - +1.78% -6.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 19 43
10th Percentile £61.39 £41.25 £22.81
25th Percentile £81.00 £55.00 £30.00
Median hourly rate £81.50 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.40% +4.17% +36.13%
75th Percentile £96.25 £64.73 £70.00
90th Percentile £101.65 £67.87 £74.40
England median hourly rate £25.42 £45.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -43.52% +76.47% +22.89%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache in the South East over the 6 months to 5 February 2026.

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 5 February 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
Thames Valley -31 6 £550 +25.71% 4
Hampshire -30 5 £725 +45.00% 2
Berkshire -23 4 £525 +34.62% 2
Buckinghamshire -6 2 £555 +0.91% 2
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 5 (45.45%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon S3
2 3 (27.27%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Serverless
3 2 (18.18%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) SAN
1 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Big Data
1 2 (18.18%) Hadoop
1 2 (18.18%) Relational Database
2 1 (9.09%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Git
2 3 (27.27%) Bitbucket
2 3 (27.27%) Gradle
2 3 (27.27%) Maven
3 2 (18.18%) Cypress.io
4 1 (9.09%) Artifactory
4 1 (9.09%) GitLab
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Java Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Automation Tester
3 2 (18.18%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Tester
4 1 (9.09%) Data Scientist
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) AngularJS
1 3 (27.27%) Apache NiFi
1 3 (27.27%) RESTful
1 3 (27.27%) Spring
1 3 (27.27%) Spring Boot
2 2 (18.18%) NumPy
2 2 (18.18%) Pandas
2 2 (18.18%) scikit-learn
3 1 (9.09%) LAMP
3 1 (9.09%) MERN Stack
3 1 (9.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Algorithms
1 2 (18.18%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
2 2 (18.18%) Debian
2 2 (18.18%) Ubuntu
3 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Agile
1 7 (63.64%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
2 4 (36.36%) DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) Computer Science
3 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
3 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (27.27%) Microservices
3 3 (27.27%) OO
3 3 (27.27%) OOP
4 2 (18.18%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (18.18%) Functional Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Incident Management
4 2 (18.18%) ITIL
4 2 (18.18%) Machine Learning
4 2 (18.18%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Predictive Modelling
4 2 (18.18%) Statistical Modelling
4 2 (18.18%) Statistics
4 2 (18.18%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Java
1 5 (45.45%) SQL
2 4 (36.36%) Python
3 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
4 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 1 (9.09%) Perl
4 1 (9.09%) PHP
4 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) DV Cleared
3 3 (27.27%) Degree
3 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
4 2 (18.18%) Master's Degree
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
5 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Ansible
1 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
1 4 (36.36%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Red Hat
2 2 (18.18%) Google
2 2 (18.18%) VMware