Apache Contracts in the UK excluding London

Apache HTTP Server (httpd)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 256 295 308
Rank change year-on-year +39 +13 +35
Contract jobs citing Apache 79 90 130
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.61% 0.44% 0.57%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.32% 5.23% 5.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 66 88
10th Percentile £319 £350 £375
25th Percentile £358 £405 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% -7.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £631
90th Percentile £675 £619 £741
UK median daily rate £650 £620 £600
% change year-on-year +4.84% +3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 7
10th Percentile £32.42 £25.94 £49.29
25th Percentile £49.78 £34.50 £70.50
Median hourly rate £78.70 £57.25 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.47% -26.60% +22.61%
75th Percentile £80.83 £74.44 -
90th Percentile £82.11 £75.36 £82.80
UK median hourly rate £78.70 £57.25 £78.00
% change year-on-year +37.47% -26.60% +42.32%

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,484 1,721 2,577
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.47% 8.48% 11.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,164 1,839
10th Percentile £230 £213 £203
25th Percentile £358 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £588
90th Percentile £625 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 125 101
10th Percentile £15.50 £13.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £20.55 £15.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +110.00% -9.09% +44.74%
75th Percentile £64.75 £51.91 £64.50
90th Percentile £78.22 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £30.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +58.33% -33.33% +91.49%

Apache
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Apache as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Apache in the UK excluding London

Apache
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Apache in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Apache in the UK excluding London

Apache
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apache in the UK excluding London

Apache
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Apache in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Apache in the UK excluding London

Apache
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Apache in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Apache in the UK excluding London

Apache
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Apache within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 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
South East +33 19 £363 -27.50% 64
North of England +12 19 £475 -6.86% 47
South West +41 13 £563 +5.53% 32
Midlands +23 12 £575 +39.39% 21
North West +13 10 £475 -6.86% 22
West Midlands +13 9 £600 +26.32% 11
Yorkshire +8 8 £600 +1.27% 16
East of England +20 6 £318 -9.09% 8
Scotland 0 4 £394 -21.25% 19
East Midlands +9 3 £410 +13.89% 9
Wales -1 3 - -
Northern Ireland - 3 £410 - 3
North East - 1 £650 - 10
Apache
UK

Apache
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 24 (30.38%) Apache Spark
2 19 (24.05%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (11.39%) nginx
3 9 (11.39%) Tomcat
4 5 (6.33%) CMS
4 5 (6.33%) IIS
5 4 (5.06%) Confluence
5 4 (5.06%) Drupal
5 4 (5.06%) JBoss
5 4 (5.06%) WebSphere
5 4 (5.06%) WordPress
6 3 (3.80%) WebLogic
6 3 (3.80%) WebLogic Portal
7 2 (2.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (1.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (1.27%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 20 (25.32%) Azure
2 19 (24.05%) AWS
3 17 (21.52%) GCP
4 8 (10.13%) Amazon S3
5 7 (8.86%) OpenShift
6 5 (6.33%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (6.33%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (6.33%) GitHub
7 4 (5.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (5.06%) Power Platform
7 4 (5.06%) Snowflake
8 3 (3.80%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (3.80%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (3.80%) AWS KMS
8 3 (3.80%) dbt
8 3 (3.80%) Vertex AI
9 1 (1.27%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (1.27%) Cloud Composer
9 1 (1.27%) Nutanix
9 1 (1.27%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.13%) DNS
2 7 (8.86%) DHCP
3 6 (7.59%) FTP
3 6 (7.59%) SMTP
3 6 (7.59%) Telnet
4 4 (5.06%) Internet
5 3 (3.80%) Firewall
5 3 (3.80%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.53%) tcpdump
7 1 (1.27%) HTTP
7 1 (1.27%) Network Security
7 1 (1.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (20.25%) Big Data
2 15 (18.99%) Hadoop
3 11 (13.92%) Flink
4 10 (12.66%) SQL Server
5 9 (11.39%) MySQL
6 7 (8.86%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (8.86%) Delta Lake
6 7 (8.86%) Relational Database
7 6 (7.59%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (7.59%) MongoDB
8 5 (6.33%) BigQuery
8 5 (6.33%) Data Lake
8 5 (6.33%) NoSQL
8 5 (6.33%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (6.33%) Tableau
9 4 (5.06%) Apache Hive
9 4 (5.06%) HBase
9 4 (5.06%) Power BI
10 3 (3.80%) Impala
10 3 (3.80%) Looker
Development Applications
1 12 (15.19%) Git
2 11 (13.92%) Jenkins
3 7 (8.86%) GitLab
4 5 (6.33%) JIRA
5 4 (5.06%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (3.80%) Eclipse
7 2 (2.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (2.53%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.53%) Maven
7 2 (2.53%) Selenium
8 1 (1.27%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.27%) Hudson
8 1 (1.27%) SonarQube
General
1 19 (24.05%) Social Skills
2 9 (11.39%) Finance
3 7 (8.86%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.59%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.33%) Banking
6 2 (2.53%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.53%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.53%) Korean Language
6 2 (2.53%) Law
7 1 (1.27%) Billing
7 1 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.27%) Games
7 1 (1.27%) Legal
7 1 (1.27%) Military
7 1 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (37.97%) Data Engineer
2 11 (13.92%) Senior
3 10 (12.66%) Senior Data Engineer
4 9 (11.39%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (8.86%) Developer
5 7 (8.86%) Software Engineer
6 5 (6.33%) Administrator
7 4 (5.06%) Lead
7 4 (5.06%) PHP Software Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) Python Data Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) Python Engineer
8 3 (3.80%) AWS DevOps
8 3 (3.80%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.80%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (3.80%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
8 3 (3.80%) GCP Data Engineer
8 3 (3.80%) GCP Engineer
8 3 (3.80%) Infrastructure Support
8 3 (3.80%) Java Developer
8 3 (3.80%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (20.25%) Apache NiFi
2 15 (18.99%) Kafka
3 14 (17.72%) PySpark
4 12 (15.19%) AngularJS
5 8 (10.13%) LAMP
6 7 (8.86%) CSS
6 7 (8.86%) HTML
7 6 (7.59%) .NET
7 6 (7.59%) Ajax
7 6 (7.59%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (7.59%) Pandas
7 6 (7.59%) SOAP
8 5 (6.33%) jQuery
8 5 (6.33%) JSON
8 5 (6.33%) NumPy
8 5 (6.33%) React
8 5 (6.33%) Web Services
9 4 (5.06%) CodeIgniter
9 4 (5.06%) JDBC
9 4 (5.06%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.33%) Cloud Native
1 5 (6.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (5.06%) Algorithms
2 4 (5.06%) Distributed Computing
2 4 (5.06%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (5.06%) Legacy Code
2 4 (5.06%) Replication
3 3 (3.80%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.80%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.53%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.53%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.27%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.27%) PKI
5 1 (1.27%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.27%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (36.71%) Linux
2 9 (11.39%) Windows
3 8 (10.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (8.86%) Unix
5 1 (1.27%) AIX
5 1 (1.27%) CentOS
5 1 (1.27%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (1.27%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (34.18%) CI/CD
2 25 (31.65%) Data Pipeline
3 24 (30.38%) ETL
3 24 (30.38%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (24.05%) Agile
5 17 (21.52%) Analytics
6 16 (20.25%) Visualisation
6 16 (20.25%) Workflow
7 15 (18.99%) Containerisation
7 15 (18.99%) DevOps
8 14 (17.72%) Data Engineering
9 12 (15.19%) Data Ingestion
9 12 (15.19%) Decision-Making
9 12 (15.19%) Software Engineering
10 11 (13.92%) Data Governance
10 11 (13.92%) Data Modelling
10 11 (13.92%) Data Security
10 11 (13.92%) Performance Tuning
11 10 (12.66%) Workflow Management
12 9 (11.39%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (41.77%) Python
1 33 (41.77%) SQL
2 25 (31.65%) Java
3 9 (11.39%) PHP
4 8 (10.13%) JavaScript
5 6 (7.59%) Scala
6 1 (1.27%) Bash
6 1 (1.27%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.27%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.27%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.27%) VB
6 1 (1.27%) VB6
Qualifications
1 29 (36.71%) Security Cleared
2 16 (20.25%) DV Cleared
2 16 (20.25%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.86%) Degree
4 5 (6.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.53%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.27%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.27%) CSPO
7 1 (1.27%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.27%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (17.72%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.33%) Accessibility
2 5 (6.33%) GDPR
2 5 (6.33%) QA
3 1 (1.27%) NCSC
3 1 (1.27%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (26.58%) Docker
2 6 (7.59%) NFS
2 6 (7.59%) Samba
3 3 (3.80%) LXC
4 2 (2.53%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.53%) HDFS
4 2 (2.53%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (29.11%) Kubernetes
2 16 (20.25%) Terraform
3 15 (18.99%) Ansible
4 7 (8.86%) Kibana
5 6 (7.59%) yum
6 4 (5.06%) Grafana
6 4 (5.06%) logstash
6 4 (5.06%) Prometheus
7 2 (2.53%) HAProxy
8 1 (1.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.27%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (1.27%) Oracle Identity Management
8 1 (1.27%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (13.92%) Google
2 8 (10.13%) Databricks
3 7 (8.86%) Oracle
3 7 (8.86%) Red Hat
4 4 (5.06%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.06%) VMware
4 4 (5.06%) Zend
5 3 (3.80%) AppDynamics
6 2 (2.53%) HP
6 2 (2.53%) IBM
7 1 (1.27%) Adobe
7 1 (1.27%) Checkmarx
7 1 (1.27%) Cisco
7 1 (1.27%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.27%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.27%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.27%) SolarWinds