Apache Contracts in the West Midlands

Apache HTTP Server (httpd)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Apache skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Apache over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 110 119
Rank change year-on-year +21 +9 +40
Contract jobs citing Apache 8 1 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.59% 0.051% 0.84%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.93% 0.70% 6.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 11
10th Percentile £518 - -
25th Percentile £525 £463 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -13.64% +15.79%
75th Percentile £650 £488 £681
90th Percentile £665 - £700
England median daily rate £675 £610 £600
% change year-on-year +10.66% +1.67% -

All Application Platform Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 135 142 309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 10.04% 7.29% 12.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 105 229
10th Percentile £259 £213 £273
25th Percentile £381 £313 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +18.13% -20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £548 £550 £540
90th Percentile £625 £645 £600
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 3
10th Percentile £16.55 £14.24 £12.62
25th Percentile £16.88 £14.77 £13.55
Median hourly rate £18.00 £15.65 £15.97
Median % change year-on-year +15.02% -2.00% -7.42%
75th Percentile £20.24 £35.33 £17.80
90th Percentile £36.39 £47.13 £18.37
England median hourly rate £52.50 £27.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year +90.91% -12.00% +49.59%

Apache
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Apache as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Apache in the West Midlands

Apache
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Apache in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Apache in the West Midlands

Apache
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apache in the West Midlands

Apache
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Apache in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Apache in the West Midlands

Apache
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Apache within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Worcestershire +2 3 £600 +26.32% 3
Birmingham - 1 - - 3
Herefordshire - 1 £525 -
Apache
England

Apache
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (37.50%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Composer
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (12.50%) Big Data
2 1 (12.50%) BigQuery
2 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
2 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) Flink
2 1 (12.50%) Hadoop
2 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 1 (12.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Data Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Python Data Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Python Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Big Data Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) GCP Data Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) Apache NiFi
2 4 (50.00%) PySpark
3 2 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (25.00%) Kafka
4 1 (12.50%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (62.50%) Analytics
3 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 4 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 4 (50.00%) Decision-Making
4 3 (37.50%) Data Architecture
4 3 (37.50%) Data Integration
4 3 (37.50%) Data Modelling
4 3 (37.50%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (37.50%) Storage Management
4 3 (37.50%) Workflow
5 2 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
5 2 (25.00%) Data Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) Data Governance
5 2 (25.00%) Data Security
5 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (25.00%) ETL
5 2 (25.00%) High Availability
5 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) Scala
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) Accessibility
2 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (25.00%) Kibana
2 2 (25.00%) logstash
3 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Google