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 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 161 192
Rank change year-on-year +7 +31 +31
Contract jobs citing Apache 13 19 22
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.36% 0.44% 0.40%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.68% 5.19% 3.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 11 18
10th Percentile £505 £263 £450
25th Percentile - £369 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -13.64% +5.77%
75th Percentile - £541 £597
90th Percentile - £565 £620
England median daily rate £550 £750 £600
% change year-on-year -26.67% +25.00% -4.00%

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 353 366 576
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 9.77% 8.57% 10.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 217 378
10th Percentile £207 £254 £207
25th Percentile £375 £375 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £458 £478
Median % change year-on-year +9.29% -4.19% +3.24%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £588
90th Percentile £675 £634 £678
England median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 29 42
10th Percentile £13.21 £30.00 £24.00
25th Percentile £13.25 £41.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £29.64 £63.15 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year -53.07% +8.79% +210.15%
75th Percentile £65.69 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £74.05 - £75.99
England median hourly rate £35.00 £42.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -17.65% +54.55% +34.15%

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 17 October 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 17 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
Hampshire +7 9 £600 +20.00% 8
Berkshire +11 4 £325 - 9
Thames Valley -3 4 £325 -18.75% 10
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 4 (30.77%) IIS
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (23.08%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
1 3 (23.08%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) DNS
1 5 (38.46%) SMTP
2 1 (7.69%) DHCP
2 1 (7.69%) FTP
2 1 (7.69%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.69%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Big Data
1 3 (23.08%) Hadoop
1 3 (23.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) MSI
1 4 (30.77%) Robot Framework
1 4 (30.77%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (23.08%) Git
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Integration Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Data Scientist
4 1 (7.69%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) YAML
2 3 (23.08%) NumPy
2 3 (23.08%) Pandas
2 3 (23.08%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 8 (61.54%) PKI
2 3 (23.08%) Algorithms
2 3 (23.08%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Linux
2 5 (38.46%) CentOS
2 5 (38.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (38.46%) Windows
3 4 (30.77%) Windows Server
3 4 (30.77%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Agile
2 9 (69.23%) DevOps
3 8 (61.54%) Prototyping
4 7 (53.85%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (38.46%) Batch Scripting
5 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (38.46%) Test Automation
6 4 (30.77%) Deployment Automation
6 4 (30.77%) Web Development
6 4 (30.77%) Workflow
7 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
7 3 (23.08%) Data Cleansing
7 3 (23.08%) Data Science
7 3 (23.08%) Data Visualisation
7 3 (23.08%) Machine Learning
7 3 (23.08%) Predictive Modelling
7 3 (23.08%) Statistical Modelling
7 3 (23.08%) Use Case
7 3 (23.08%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) PowerShell
2 7 (53.85%) Python
3 5 (38.46%) PHP
4 3 (23.08%) SQL
5 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (76.92%) Security Cleared
2 9 (69.23%) DV Cleared
3 3 (23.08%) Degree
3 3 (23.08%) Master's Degree
4 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 8 (61.54%) Active Directory
1 8 (61.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.69%) NFS
2 1 (7.69%) Samba
Systems Management
1 9 (69.23%) Ansible
2 4 (30.77%) Terraform
2 4 (30.77%) WMI
3 1 (7.69%) yum
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) VMware
2 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
3 3 (23.08%) Google