Apache Contract Job Trends

Apache HTTP Server (httpd)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Apache skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 270 319
Rank change year-on-year -68 +49 -47
Contract jobs citing Apache 270 279 306
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.70% 0.89% 0.69%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.96% 7.82% 7.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 208 237
10th Percentile £375 £359 £350
25th Percentile £430 £475 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £530
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +17.92% -15.20%
75th Percentile £614 £838 £700
90th Percentile £750 £888 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £510
% change year-on-year -2.63% -6.86% -11.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 6
10th Percentile £62.73 - £22.00
25th Percentile £67.75 - £23.44
Median hourly rate £77.00 £74.44 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.44% +79.37% -20.95%
75th Percentile £82.25 - £71.94
90th Percentile £84.80 - £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £77.00 £74.44 £65.25
% change year-on-year +3.44% +14.08% +86.51%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,878 3,570 4,332
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.03% 11.35% 9.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,684 2,188 2,905
10th Percentile £300 £250 £250
25th Percentile £400 £380 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £600
90th Percentile £695 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 72 163
10th Percentile £14.78 £17.08 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £21.81 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.28 £41.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.34% +49.09% +41.03%
75th Percentile £69.06 £63.75 £54.13
90th Percentile £82.10 £66.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.42 £53.00 £24.43
% change year-on-year -52.05% +116.95% +37.87%

Apache
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Apache job vacancy trend in the UK

Apache
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Apache

Apache
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache over the 6 months to 30 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Apache in the UK

Apache
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Apache

Apache
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Apache over the 6 months to 30 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Apache in the UK

Apache
Top 16 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 January 2026. 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
England -88 225 £525 -19.23% 155
UK excluding London -7 128 £463 -2.63% 158
London -84 114 £600 -11.11% 38
Work from Home -73 68 £525 -30.00% 113
North of England -33 41 £450 -12.20% 31
Midlands -19 35 £540 +29.73% 8
West Midlands -9 30 £525 - 5
North West -1 27 £450 -18.18% 13
Scotland +25 22 £500 -3.61% 27
South West -17 14 £625 +2.04% 25
South East -46 10 £643 +35.26% 38
Yorkshire -51 8 £475 +2.70% 9
North East -7 6 £413 -36.54% 9
East of England -23 6 £363 +14.53% 22
East Midlands -23 5 £663 +115.45% 3
Northern Ireland -3 3 £463 -2.63% 3

Apache
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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
1 109 (40.37%) Apache Spark
2 81 (30.00%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (8.15%) IIS
4 21 (7.78%) JBoss
4 21 (7.78%) WebLogic
5 14 (5.19%) WebSphere
6 10 (3.70%) iPlanet
6 10 (3.70%) WebSphere Application Server
7 8 (2.96%) Tomcat
8 7 (2.59%) Confluence
9 6 (2.22%) nginx
9 6 (2.22%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (1.48%) Jupyter
11 3 (1.11%) Apache Geronimo
11 3 (1.11%) Apache ServiceMix
11 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (1.11%) Red Hat Fuse
11 3 (1.11%) SAS
12 2 (0.74%) Apache Pig
12 2 (0.74%) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications
1 3 (1.11%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Actimize
1 1 (0.37%) Maximo
1 1 (0.37%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.37%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 149 (55.19%) AWS
2 83 (30.74%) Azure
3 54 (20.00%) GCP
4 41 (15.19%) Amazon S3
5 39 (14.44%) Serverless
6 33 (12.22%) Power Platform
7 32 (11.85%) AWS CloudFormation
8 30 (11.11%) Snowflake
9 21 (7.78%) AWS Lambda
9 21 (7.78%) dbt
10 20 (7.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 17 (6.30%) Azure Data Factory
12 15 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
12 15 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (4.81%) Collibra
14 10 (3.70%) OpenShift
15 9 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
15 9 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 8 (2.96%) Amazon EKS
16 8 (2.96%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.81%) Firewall
2 11 (4.07%) HTTP
2 11 (4.07%) Kerberos
3 5 (1.85%) DNS
4 4 (1.48%) DHCP
4 4 (1.48%) Network Security
5 3 (1.11%) SSL
5 3 (1.11%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.74%) SAN
7 1 (0.37%) InfiniBand
7 1 (0.37%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.37%) LAN
7 1 (0.37%) Spanning Tree
7 1 (0.37%) SSH
7 1 (0.37%) VLAN
7 1 (0.37%) VPN
7 1 (0.37%) WAN
7 1 (0.37%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (18.52%) Data Lake
2 39 (14.44%) Big Data
3 38 (14.07%) Amazon Athena
4 34 (12.59%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (12.59%) Hadoop
5 31 (11.48%) Power BI
6 27 (10.00%) Delta Lake
7 22 (8.15%) BigQuery
8 18 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
8 18 (6.67%) Apache Iceberg
9 16 (5.93%) Apache Hive
9 16 (5.93%) NoSQL
9 16 (5.93%) PostgreSQL
10 15 (5.56%) Metadata
10 15 (5.56%) MongoDB
10 15 (5.56%) OLTP
11 13 (4.81%) Oracle Database
11 13 (4.81%) SQL Server
12 12 (4.44%) Mixpanel
13 11 (4.07%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 51 (18.89%) Git
2 21 (7.78%) GitLab
3 15 (5.56%) Jenkins
4 12 (4.44%) JIRA
4 12 (4.44%) JUnit
4 12 (4.44%) MLflow
5 11 (4.07%) Bitbucket Server
5 11 (4.07%) CA Release Automation
6 9 (3.33%) Artifactory
6 9 (3.33%) Eclipse
6 9 (3.33%) IntelliJ
6 9 (3.33%) Selenium
7 8 (2.96%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (1.85%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.85%) Maven
9 4 (1.48%) Mockito
10 3 (1.11%) Gradle
10 3 (1.11%) Liquibase
11 2 (0.74%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.74%) ERwin
General
1 64 (23.70%) Social Skills
2 58 (21.48%) Finance
3 27 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (8.52%) Banking
5 22 (8.15%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.07%) Front Office
6 11 (4.07%) Investment Banking
7 9 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.11%) Billing
9 3 (1.11%) Legal
10 2 (0.74%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.74%) Electronics
10 2 (0.74%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.74%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.74%) Marketing
10 2 (0.74%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.74%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.37%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 78 (28.89%) Data Engineer
2 49 (18.15%) Senior
3 32 (11.85%) Software Engineer
4 28 (10.37%) Developer
5 23 (8.52%) AWS Engineer
6 21 (7.78%) Python Engineer
7 19 (7.04%) Architect
8 17 (6.30%) DevOps Engineer
8 17 (6.30%) Lead
8 17 (6.30%) Senior Software Engineer
9 15 (5.56%) Java Engineer
10 14 (5.19%) Senior Data Engineer
11 12 (4.44%) Data Architect
12 11 (4.07%) AWS Software Engineer
12 11 (4.07%) Java Software Engineer
12 11 (4.07%) Principal Engineer
12 11 (4.07%) Python Software Engineer
13 10 (3.70%) Principal Data Engineer
13 10 (3.70%) Senior Java Engineer
13 10 (3.70%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (17.41%) Kafka
2 38 (14.07%) REST
3 35 (12.96%) Apache NiFi
4 31 (11.48%) PySpark
5 23 (8.52%) Pandas
6 21 (7.78%) NumPy
7 18 (6.67%) Spring
8 17 (6.30%) OAuth
9 13 (4.81%) JSON
9 13 (4.81%) Middleware
10 12 (4.44%) EJB
10 12 (4.44%) Great Expectations
10 12 (4.44%) Hibernate
10 12 (4.44%) OpenID
10 12 (4.44%) SOAP
10 12 (4.44%) XML
11 11 (4.07%) gRPC
11 11 (4.07%) Protocol Buffers
11 11 (4.07%) SAML
11 11 (4.07%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.52%) Cloud Native
2 15 (5.56%) Algorithms
3 13 (4.81%) Equities
4 11 (4.07%) Derivative
4 11 (4.07%) Fixed Income
4 11 (4.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 11 (4.07%) Hedge funds
4 11 (4.07%) Pricing Data
5 10 (3.70%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.96%) Data Structures
6 8 (2.96%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.22%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.22%) Distributed Computing
7 6 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.85%) Freedom of Information
8 5 (1.85%) Replication
8 5 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 57 (21.11%) Linux
2 43 (15.93%) Windows
3 34 (12.59%) Unix
4 17 (6.30%) Windows Server
5 9 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.22%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.11%) CentOS
7 3 (1.11%) Debian
7 3 (1.11%) Solaris
8 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.37%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.37%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (40.74%) CI/CD
2 86 (31.85%) DevOps
3 84 (31.11%) ETL
4 83 (30.74%) Data Pipeline
5 81 (30.00%) Agile
5 81 (30.00%) Analytics
6 73 (27.04%) Data Engineering
7 67 (24.81%) Data Modelling
8 64 (23.70%) Problem-Solving
9 55 (20.37%) Data Governance
9 55 (20.37%) Software Engineering
10 51 (18.89%) Machine Learning
11 48 (17.78%) Infrastructure as Code
12 43 (15.93%) AI
12 43 (15.93%) Business Intelligence
13 37 (13.70%) Observability
14 36 (13.33%) Data Architecture
15 34 (12.59%) Continuous Improvement
16 32 (11.85%) Microservices
17 31 (11.48%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 157 (58.15%) Python
2 116 (42.96%) SQL
3 72 (26.67%) Java
4 36 (13.33%) Scala
5 20 (7.41%) C#
5 20 (7.41%) JavaScript
6 17 (6.30%) Shell Script
7 13 (4.81%) PowerShell
7 13 (4.81%) TypeScript
8 11 (4.07%) Groovy
9 6 (2.22%) Bash
9 6 (2.22%) PL/SQL
10 5 (1.85%) C++
10 5 (1.85%) R
11 2 (0.74%) AWK
11 2 (0.74%) Go
11 2 (0.74%) SPARQL
12 1 (0.37%) Korn
12 1 (0.37%) SAS Macro
12 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 75 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 54 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 30 (11.11%) DV Cleared
4 14 (5.19%) Degree
5 13 (4.81%) AWS Certification
6 9 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.22%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.74%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.74%) RHCE
8 2 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.37%) CCNA
9 1 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.37%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.37%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (18.89%) Data Quality
2 24 (8.89%) GDPR
3 11 (4.07%) QA
4 6 (2.22%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.11%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.74%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.37%) IFRS
7 1 (0.37%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.37%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.37%) MiFID
7 1 (0.37%) Solvency II
System Software
1 51 (18.89%) Docker
2 14 (5.19%) Active Directory
3 12 (4.44%) HDFS
4 8 (2.96%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 4 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.11%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.74%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.37%) Ceph
8 1 (0.37%) iptables
8 1 (0.37%) KVM
8 1 (0.37%) Lustre
8 1 (0.37%) NFS
8 1 (0.37%) Samba
8 1 (0.37%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 51 (18.89%) Terraform
2 42 (15.56%) Kubernetes
3 31 (11.48%) Ansible
4 14 (5.19%) Puppet
5 11 (4.07%) CA Single Sign-On
6 10 (3.70%) CA Wily
6 10 (3.70%) Progress Chef
7 8 (2.96%) Hadoop YARN
7 8 (2.96%) Tivoli
8 6 (2.22%) Grafana
8 6 (2.22%) Prometheus
8 6 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.74%) Kibana
9 2 (0.74%) logstash
9 2 (0.74%) Nagios
9 2 (0.74%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.74%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.37%) Oozie
10 1 (0.37%) SCCM
Vendors
1 47 (17.41%) Databricks
2 39 (14.44%) Oracle
3 25 (9.26%) Google
4 24 (8.89%) Splunk
5 23 (8.52%) Microsoft
6 17 (6.30%) AppDynamics
6 17 (6.30%) Red Hat
7 15 (5.56%) IBM
8 12 (4.44%) Cisco
9 11 (4.07%) Broadcom
10 10 (3.70%) Dynatrace
11 9 (3.33%) Cloudera
11 9 (3.33%) Informatica
11 9 (3.33%) ServiceNow
11 9 (3.33%) webMethods
12 6 (2.22%) Foundry
12 6 (2.22%) Palantir
12 6 (2.22%) VMware
13 5 (1.85%) Salesforce
13 5 (1.85%) Talend