Apache Contract Job Trends in England

Apache HTTP Server (httpd)
UK > England

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

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 247 293
Rank change year-on-year -54 +46 -2
Contract jobs citing Apache 250 285 283
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.79% 0.98% 0.76%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.50% 8.91% 7.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 214 218
10th Percentile £375 £383 £400
25th Percentile £448 £513 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £675 £575
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +17.39% -11.54%
75th Percentile £688 £850 £736
90th Percentile £825 £888 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £675 £575
% change year-on-year -22.22% +17.39% -10.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 7
10th Percentile £66.13 - £19.40
25th Percentile £74.13 - £22.00
Median hourly rate £80.50 £74.00 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.78% +142.62% -33.57%
75th Percentile £82.75 £74.22 £65.88
90th Percentile £86.00 £74.35 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £80.50 £74.00 £30.50
% change year-on-year +8.78% +142.62% -41.90%

All Application Platform Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,333 3,198 3,659
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.60% 11.04% 9.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,295 2,004 2,509
10th Percentile £290 £263 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £725 £775 £712
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 67 126
10th Percentile £15.60 £17.05 £14.02
25th Percentile £19.75 £21.63 £17.50
Median hourly rate £32.77 £41.91 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.81% +67.64% +37.17%
75th Percentile £69.36 £64.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.40 £70.50 £73.13
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £35.00 £26.39
% change year-on-year -22.26% +32.63% +42.84%

Apache
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Apache job vacancy trend in England

Apache
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Apache.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Apache

Apache
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache in England over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apache in England

Apache
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Apache.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Apache

Apache
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Apache in England over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Apache in England

Apache
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Apache within the England region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
London -68 133 £603 -19.67% 19
North of England -27 39 £453 -11.61% 8
Midlands -9 38 £515 -15.85% 3
West Midlands -7 31 £515 -15.85% 2
North West -8 26 £452 -17.91% 5
South West -5 16 £344 -43.84% 12
South East -37 12 £600 +26.32% 11
Yorkshire -40 10 £475 - 3
East Midlands -12 7 £510 +65.85% 1
East of England -23 6 £483 +53.17% 4
North East - 3 £400 -
Apache
UK

Apache
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 89 (35.60%) Apache Airflow
2 81 (32.40%) Apache Spark
3 24 (9.60%) WebLogic
4 21 (8.40%) IIS
5 20 (8.00%) JBoss
6 13 (5.20%) WebSphere
7 11 (4.40%) Confluence
8 10 (4.00%) iPlanet
8 10 (4.00%) WebSphere Application Server
9 6 (2.40%) Tomcat
10 4 (1.60%) Jupyter
11 3 (1.20%) nginx
11 3 (1.20%) SAS
12 2 (0.80%) Apache Pig
12 2 (0.80%) Luigi
12 2 (0.80%) Oracle HTTP Server
13 1 (0.40%) Apache Superset
13 1 (0.40%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (1.20%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.80%) Abaqus
2 2 (0.80%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.20%) Maximo
2 1 (0.40%) Actimize
2 1 (0.40%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 136 (54.40%) AWS
2 75 (30.00%) Azure
3 42 (16.80%) GCP
4 40 (16.00%) dbt
5 38 (15.20%) Snowflake
6 37 (14.80%) Serverless
7 22 (8.80%) Amazon S3
8 21 (8.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 21 (8.40%) Power Platform
9 17 (6.80%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (6.40%) Azure Data Factory
10 16 (6.40%) Azure Monitor
11 14 (5.60%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (4.40%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (4.00%) OpenShift
14 8 (3.20%) Cloud Computing
14 8 (3.20%) Collibra
15 7 (2.80%) Amazon SQS
16 6 (2.40%) GitHub
16 6 (2.40%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.40%) Firewall
1 11 (4.40%) Kerberos
2 6 (2.40%) HTTP
3 4 (1.60%) DNS
3 4 (1.60%) Network Security
4 3 (1.20%) DHCP
4 3 (1.20%) SSL
4 3 (1.20%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.80%) SAN
5 2 (0.80%) VPN
6 1 (0.40%) InfiniBand
6 1 (0.40%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.40%) LAN
6 1 (0.40%) Spanning Tree
6 1 (0.40%) SSH
6 1 (0.40%) VLAN
6 1 (0.40%) WAN
6 1 (0.40%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (21.60%) Data Lake
2 37 (14.80%) Amazon Athena
2 37 (14.80%) Big Data
3 32 (12.80%) Hadoop
4 28 (11.20%) Data Warehouse
5 27 (10.80%) Apache Iceberg
6 24 (9.60%) Apache Arrow
6 24 (9.60%) Apache Ignite
6 24 (9.60%) Dremio
7 21 (8.40%) Power BI
8 20 (8.00%) BigQuery
9 18 (7.20%) Amazon Redshift
10 17 (6.80%) Apache Hive
11 16 (6.40%) Delta Lake
11 16 (6.40%) NoSQL
12 14 (5.60%) Metadata
13 13 (5.20%) Oracle Database
14 12 (4.80%) Elasticsearch
15 11 (4.40%) MongoDB
15 11 (4.40%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 42 (16.80%) Git
2 18 (7.20%) Jenkins
3 15 (6.00%) GitLab
4 13 (5.20%) JIRA
5 12 (4.80%) JUnit
6 11 (4.40%) Artifactory
6 11 (4.40%) Bitbucket Server
6 11 (4.40%) CA Release Automation
7 9 (3.60%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (3.20%) Eclipse
8 8 (3.20%) IntelliJ
8 8 (3.20%) Selenium
9 6 (2.40%) Bitbucket
10 5 (2.00%) Mockito
11 4 (1.60%) Maven
12 3 (1.20%) Gradle
12 3 (1.20%) Liquibase
12 3 (1.20%) MLflow
12 3 (1.20%) Vagrant
13 2 (0.80%) Snakemake
General
1 73 (29.20%) Social Skills
2 51 (20.40%) Finance
3 32 (12.80%) Banking
4 24 (9.60%) Front Office
4 24 (9.60%) Investment Banking
5 22 (8.80%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (6.00%) Public Sector
7 8 (3.20%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.20%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.80%) Electronics
9 2 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.80%) Legal
9 2 (0.80%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.80%) Marketing
9 2 (0.80%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.40%) Games
10 1 (0.40%) Law
10 1 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.40%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 63 (25.20%) Data Engineer
2 53 (21.20%) Senior
3 43 (17.20%) Software Engineer
4 33 (13.20%) Senior Software Engineer
5 32 (12.80%) AWS Engineer
6 28 (11.20%) Java Engineer
7 26 (10.40%) Python Engineer
8 24 (9.60%) AWS Software Engineer
8 24 (9.60%) Developer
8 24 (9.60%) Java Software Engineer
8 24 (9.60%) Python Software Engineer
9 23 (9.20%) Senior Java Engineer
9 23 (9.20%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 21 (8.40%) DevOps Engineer
11 12 (4.80%) Platform Engineer
12 11 (4.40%) Lead
13 9 (3.60%) Architect
14 8 (3.20%) Hadoop Engineer
14 8 (3.20%) Monitoring Engineer
14 8 (3.20%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (18.00%) Kafka
2 44 (17.60%) Apache NiFi
3 33 (13.20%) Pandas
4 31 (12.40%) NumPy
5 28 (11.20%) REST
6 24 (9.60%) gRPC
6 24 (9.60%) Protocol Buffers
6 24 (9.60%) SciPy
7 20 (8.00%) PySpark
8 16 (6.40%) OAuth
9 13 (5.20%) JSON
9 13 (5.20%) React
10 12 (4.80%) OpenID
10 12 (4.80%) Spring
10 12 (4.80%) XML
11 11 (4.40%) HTML
11 11 (4.40%) LDAP
11 11 (4.40%) SAML
12 10 (4.00%) Middleware
12 10 (4.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.40%) Equities
2 24 (9.60%) Derivative
2 24 (9.60%) Fixed Income
2 24 (9.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 24 (9.60%) Hedge funds
2 24 (9.60%) Pricing Data
3 17 (6.80%) Cloud Native
4 11 (4.40%) Algorithms
5 9 (3.60%) Distributed Computing
6 7 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (2.00%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.00%) Replication
9 4 (1.60%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.60%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.20%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.80%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.80%) Autonomous Agent
11 2 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 56 (22.40%) Linux
2 47 (18.80%) Windows
3 37 (14.80%) Unix
4 15 (6.00%) Windows Server
5 12 (4.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (3.20%) CentOS
6 8 (3.20%) Ubuntu
7 5 (2.00%) Debian
8 1 (0.40%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (36.40%) Agile
2 84 (33.60%) CI/CD
3 81 (32.40%) DevOps
4 80 (32.00%) Analytics
5 71 (28.40%) Software Engineering
6 66 (26.40%) Data Pipeline
7 65 (26.00%) ETL
8 53 (21.20%) Data Engineering
9 52 (20.80%) Problem-Solving
10 45 (18.00%) Data Governance
10 45 (18.00%) Data Modelling
11 42 (16.80%) Business Intelligence
12 36 (14.40%) Continuous Improvement
13 34 (13.60%) Infrastructure as Code
14 33 (13.20%) Observability
15 32 (12.80%) Machine Learning
15 32 (12.80%) Microservices
16 30 (12.00%) Visualisation
17 29 (11.60%) Data Science
18 28 (11.20%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 146 (58.40%) Python
2 95 (38.00%) SQL
3 71 (28.40%) Java
4 41 (16.40%) JavaScript
5 33 (13.20%) Scala
6 26 (10.40%) TypeScript
7 18 (7.20%) C#
7 18 (7.20%) Shell Script
8 15 (6.00%) PowerShell
9 11 (4.40%) Bash
9 11 (4.40%) Groovy
10 10 (4.00%) C++
11 4 (1.60%) R
12 3 (1.20%) Perl
12 3 (1.20%) PHP
13 2 (0.80%) AWK
13 2 (0.80%) Korn
13 2 (0.80%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.80%) SPARQL
13 2 (0.80%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 83 (33.20%) Security Cleared
2 59 (23.60%) SC Cleared
3 40 (16.00%) DV Cleared
4 13 (5.20%) Degree
5 11 (4.40%) AWS Certification
6 10 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.60%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.80%) MCP
9 2 (0.80%) RHCE
10 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.40%) CCNA
10 1 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.40%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.40%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (14.00%) Data Quality
2 20 (8.00%) QA
3 15 (6.00%) GDPR
4 3 (1.20%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.40%) IFRS
5 1 (0.40%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.40%) MiFID
5 1 (0.40%) Solvency II
System Software
1 45 (18.00%) Docker
2 14 (5.60%) Active Directory
3 12 (4.80%) HDFS
4 8 (3.20%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 4 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.80%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.80%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.40%) Ceph
8 1 (0.40%) iptables
8 1 (0.40%) KVM
8 1 (0.40%) Lustre
8 1 (0.40%) NFS
8 1 (0.40%) Samba
8 1 (0.40%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 49 (19.60%) Terraform
2 35 (14.00%) Ansible
3 33 (13.20%) Kubernetes
4 17 (6.80%) Puppet
5 14 (5.60%) Progress Chef
6 11 (4.40%) CA Single Sign-On
7 10 (4.00%) CA Wily
7 10 (4.00%) Hadoop YARN
8 8 (3.20%) Prometheus
8 8 (3.20%) Tivoli
9 6 (2.40%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (2.00%) Grafana
11 4 (1.60%) Nagios
12 3 (1.20%) Kibana
12 3 (1.20%) logstash
12 3 (1.20%) Oozie
12 3 (1.20%) Salt
13 2 (0.80%) Icinga
13 2 (0.80%) Red Hat Satellite
14 1 (0.40%) SELinux
Vendors
1 35 (14.00%) Databricks
1 35 (14.00%) Oracle
2 30 (12.00%) Splunk
3 24 (9.60%) AppDynamics
3 24 (9.60%) Microsoft
4 18 (7.20%) Google
4 18 (7.20%) Red Hat
5 16 (6.40%) Cisco
6 15 (6.00%) IBM
7 14 (5.60%) Dynatrace
8 11 (4.40%) Broadcom
9 10 (4.00%) Cloudera
10 9 (3.60%) Foundry
10 9 (3.60%) Palantir
11 8 (3.20%) webMethods
12 6 (2.40%) Informatica
12 6 (2.40%) VMware
13 3 (1.20%) Rackspace
13 3 (1.20%) Salesforce
13 3 (1.20%) SAP