Apache Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Apache HTTP Server (httpd)
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Apache skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 32 39
Rank change year-on-year -11 +7 -
Contract jobs citing Apache 3 3 5
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 0.71% 1.19% 1.41%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.50% 15.00% 16.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £468 - -
25th Percentile £475 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 - £513
75th Percentile £550 - £531
90th Percentile £563 - -
Wales median daily rate £509 - £513

All Application Platform Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 40 20 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 9.48% 7.94% 8.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 12 22
10th Percentile £275 £189 £307
25th Percentile £290 £209 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £350 £506
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -30.86% +3.85%
75th Percentile £488 £559 £625
90th Percentile £573 £648 -
Wales median daily rate £375 £375 £500
% change year-on-year - -25.00% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £34.92
25th Percentile - £20.12 £68.91
Median hourly rate - £20.24 £87.80
Median % change year-on-year - -76.95% +386.16%
75th Percentile - £20.35 £87.85
90th Percentile - - £87.94
Wales median hourly rate - £20.24 £87.80
% change year-on-year - -76.95% +257.93%

Apache
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Apache job vacancy trend in South Wales

Apache
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Apache

Apache
Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Apache

Apache
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 10 April 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
Cardiff -8 3 £509 - 1
Apache
Wales

Apache
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Functions
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (66.67%) Big Data
2 2 (66.67%) BigQuery
2 2 (66.67%) RDBMS
2 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Apache Beam
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) ETL Development
2 1 (33.33%) IT Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Software Deployment
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Guidewire
2 1 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft