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 5 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 93 118
Rank change year-on-year -1 +25 +62
Contract jobs citing Apache 16 15 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.96% 0.80% 0.50%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.25% 9.09% 4.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 9 7
10th Percentile £513 £443 £468
25th Percentile £530 £575 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £612 £513
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +19.41% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £725 £591
90th Percentile £650 - £639
England median daily rate £600 £750 £600
% change year-on-year -20.00% +25.00% -4.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
England median hourly rate £79.35 £74.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +7.23% -5.13% +42.32%

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 194 165 234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.66% 8.85% 10.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 112 175
10th Percentile £277 £257 £263
25th Percentile £363 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.59% -5.56% -8.16%
75th Percentile £540 £612 £540
90th Percentile £599 £638 £594
England median daily rate £496 £525 £524
% change year-on-year -5.62% +0.19% +0.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile £34.10 £15.76 £17.65
25th Percentile £34.43 £15.91 £17.88
Median hourly rate £34.98 £35.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% +91.89% +10.45%
75th Percentile £47.80 £60.00 £19.25
90th Percentile £55.50 £69.00 £19.55
England median hourly rate £43.80 £32.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +34.75% -31.58% +115.91%

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 5 August 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

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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 5 August 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
Shropshire - 9 £537 - 5
Worcestershire 0 3 £600 +26.32%
Coventry - 1 - -
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 9 (56.25%) WebLogic
2 3 (18.75%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 13 (81.25%) Azure
2 10 (62.50%) AWS
3 9 (56.25%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (6.25%) Datadog
4 1 (6.25%) Serverless
4 1 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (6.25%) Big Data
2 1 (6.25%) Flink
2 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
1 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Legal
2 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Data Engineer
1 6 (37.50%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Monitoring Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Senior
2 3 (18.75%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Python Data Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Python Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Administrator
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) Apache NiFi
2 4 (25.00%) PySpark
3 2 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (6.25%) Kafka
4 1 (6.25%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 2 (12.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (56.25%) Linux
1 9 (56.25%) Unix
1 9 (56.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) Analytics
2 11 (68.75%) Visualisation
3 9 (56.25%) Business Intelligence
3 9 (56.25%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (56.25%) Full-Stack Development
3 9 (56.25%) Incident Management
3 9 (56.25%) Incident Response
3 9 (56.25%) Log Analytics
3 9 (56.25%) Observability
3 9 (56.25%) Performance Monitoring
3 9 (56.25%) Proactive Management
3 9 (56.25%) Service Management
3 9 (56.25%) Synthetic Monitoring
3 9 (56.25%) Test Strategy
4 6 (37.50%) Platform Engineering
5 5 (31.25%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 4 (25.00%) Decision-Making
7 3 (18.75%) Containerisation
7 3 (18.75%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) SQL
2 5 (31.25%) Python
3 1 (6.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 12 (75.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (18.75%) DV Cleared
4 2 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
5 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) Accessibility
2 2 (12.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 2 (12.50%) Kibana
2 2 (12.50%) logstash
3 1 (6.25%) Ansible
3 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) AppDynamics
1 9 (56.25%) Cisco
1 9 (56.25%) Dynatrace
1 9 (56.25%) Oracle
1 9 (56.25%) Splunk
2 1 (6.25%) Databricks
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft