Apache Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Apache HTTP Server (httpd)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Apache skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 116 129
Rank change year-on-year +1 +13 +35
Contract jobs citing Apache 4 10 10
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.23% 0.46% 0.37%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.95% 5.62% 4.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 8
10th Percentile - £259 £435
25th Percentile - £291 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% -27.27% +6.28%
75th Percentile - £533 -
90th Percentile - £565 £576
South East median daily rate £600 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +26.32% -13.64% +5.77%

All Application Platform Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 205 178 233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 11.82% 8.23% 8.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 108 161
10th Percentile £350 £263 £244
25th Percentile £406 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £454 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.68% +0.83% +2.27%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £649 £608 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £461 £475
% change year-on-year +8.40% -2.89% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 12
10th Percentile £13.25 £35.83 £21.53
25th Percentile £16.38 £41.25 £24.00
Median hourly rate £44.50 £52.83 £55.03
Median % change year-on-year -15.76% -4.00% +223.69%
75th Percentile £69.56 £64.73 £68.63
90th Percentile £75.75 - £71.66
South East median hourly rate £29.64 £63.15 £57.50
% change year-on-year -53.07% +9.83% +207.24%

Apache
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Apache job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Apache
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Apache.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Apache

Apache
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Apache.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Apache

Apache
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Apache within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 19 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
Berkshire +16 4 £325 - 9
Apache
South East

Apache
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (75.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) FTP
1 1 (25.00%) SMTP
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (25.00%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Big Data
1 3 (75.00%) Hadoop
1 3 (75.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) NumPy
1 3 (75.00%) Pandas
1 3 (75.00%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (75.00%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (75.00%) Data Cleansing
1 3 (75.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (75.00%) Data Science
1 3 (75.00%) Data Visualisation
1 3 (75.00%) Decision-Making
1 3 (75.00%) Feature Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (75.00%) Model Validation
1 3 (75.00%) Predictive Analysis
1 3 (75.00%) Predictive Modelling
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (75.00%) Statistical Modelling
1 3 (75.00%) Statistics
1 3 (75.00%) Time Series Analysis
1 3 (75.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 3 (75.00%) Use Case
1 3 (75.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
1 3 (75.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) NFS
1 1 (25.00%) Samba
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) yum
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Google