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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 302 253 299
Rank change year-on-year -49 +46 -13
Contract jobs citing Apache 301 364 349
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.84% 1.02% 0.77%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.90% 9.22% 7.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 274 271
10th Percentile £375 £393 £400
25th Percentile £433 £522 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £700 £575
Median % change year-on-year -23.71% +21.74% -10.16%
75th Percentile £688 £875 £700
90th Percentile £825 £888 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 7
10th Percentile £62.68 £57.35 £19.40
25th Percentile £67.06 - £22.00
Median hourly rate £76.75 £74.00 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.72% +142.62% -41.90%
75th Percentile £84.06 - £65.88
90th Percentile £87.03 £74.26 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.75 £74.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +3.72% +40.95% +50.06%

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 3,810 3,948 4,614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.59% 11.06% 10.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,578 2,423 3,070
10th Percentile £288 £256 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £507 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% +1.49% -4.76%
75th Percentile £595 £638 £625
90th Percentile £720 £775 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £463 £473
% change year-on-year +2.70% -2.12% -1.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 91 137
10th Percentile £16.06 £17.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.21 £21.25 £17.50
Median hourly rate £32.14 £37.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.31% +44.23% +33.33%
75th Percentile £68.19 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £70.00 £72.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £47.50 £23.13
% change year-on-year -26.32% +105.41% +32.14%

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 2 December 2025.

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 2 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Apache in the UK

Apache
Top 15 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 2 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
England -73 260 £550 -26.67% 66
London -69 138 £625 -21.88% 33
UK excluding London -2 136 £475 - 60
Work from Home -75 98 £625 -21.88% 34
North of England -21 48 £452 -7.38% 10
Midlands -6 36 £511 -16.46% 3
North West +2 34 £433 -15.51% 8
West Midlands -11 29 £511 -16.46% 1
Scotland +21 23 £500 +17.65%
South West -3 13 £435 -28.98% 14
South East -12 12 £600 +26.32% 27
Yorkshire -35 11 £475 -2.56% 2
East Midlands -10 7 £510 +41.67% 2
East of England -15 7 £516 +63.89% 3
North East - 3 £400 -

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
1 108 (35.88%) Apache Airflow
2 99 (32.89%) Apache Spark
3 26 (8.64%) WebLogic
4 25 (8.31%) IIS
5 24 (7.97%) JBoss
6 17 (5.65%) WebSphere
7 14 (4.65%) Confluence
8 13 (4.32%) Tomcat
9 10 (3.32%) iPlanet
9 10 (3.32%) WebSphere Application Server
10 7 (2.33%) nginx
11 4 (1.33%) Jupyter
12 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
13 2 (0.66%) Apache Geronimo
13 2 (0.66%) Apache Pig
13 2 (0.66%) Apache ServiceMix
13 2 (0.66%) Luigi
13 2 (0.66%) Oracle HTTP Server
13 2 (0.66%) Red Hat Fuse
13 2 (0.66%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (1.00%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.66%) Abaqus
2 2 (0.66%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.33%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (1.66%) Maximo
2 1 (0.33%) Actimize
2 1 (0.33%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.33%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 167 (55.48%) AWS
2 85 (28.24%) Azure
3 57 (18.94%) Snowflake
4 53 (17.61%) dbt
5 49 (16.28%) Serverless
6 46 (15.28%) GCP
7 36 (11.96%) Amazon S3
8 25 (8.31%) AWS CloudFormation
9 24 (7.97%) Power Platform
10 22 (7.31%) AWS Lambda
11 20 (6.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 19 (6.31%) Azure Data Factory
13 18 (5.98%) Azure Monitor
14 13 (4.32%) Azure DevOps
15 11 (3.65%) OpenShift
16 9 (2.99%) AWS Step Functions
16 9 (2.99%) Cloud Computing
16 9 (2.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 8 (2.66%) Amazon EMR
17 8 (2.66%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.65%) Firewall
2 11 (3.65%) Kerberos
3 8 (2.66%) HTTP
4 6 (1.99%) DNS
4 6 (1.99%) SSL
5 4 (1.33%) Network Security
6 3 (1.00%) DHCP
7 2 (0.66%) SMTP
7 2 (0.66%) VPN
8 1 (0.33%) InfiniBand
8 1 (0.33%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.33%) LAN
8 1 (0.33%) Spanning Tree
8 1 (0.33%) SSH
8 1 (0.33%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.33%) VLAN
8 1 (0.33%) WAN
8 1 (0.33%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (20.60%) Data Lake
2 48 (15.95%) Amazon Athena
3 47 (15.61%) Big Data
4 44 (14.62%) Data Warehouse
5 40 (13.29%) Hadoop
6 37 (12.29%) Apache Iceberg
7 30 (9.97%) Apache Arrow
7 30 (9.97%) Apache Ignite
7 30 (9.97%) Dremio
8 26 (8.64%) Amazon Redshift
8 26 (8.64%) Delta Lake
9 24 (7.97%) Power BI
10 21 (6.98%) BigQuery
11 19 (6.31%) NoSQL
12 17 (5.65%) Apache Hive
12 17 (5.65%) Metadata
13 16 (5.32%) Relational Database
14 14 (4.65%) Oracle Database
14 14 (4.65%) SQL Server
15 12 (3.99%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 53 (17.61%) Git
2 22 (7.31%) Jenkins
3 20 (6.64%) GitLab
4 18 (5.98%) JIRA
5 14 (4.65%) JUnit
6 11 (3.65%) Bitbucket Server
6 11 (3.65%) CA Release Automation
7 10 (3.32%) MLflow
7 10 (3.32%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (2.99%) Eclipse
8 9 (2.99%) IntelliJ
8 9 (2.99%) Selenium
9 7 (2.33%) Artifactory
10 6 (1.99%) Bitbucket
11 5 (1.66%) Mockito
11 5 (1.66%) Subversion
12 4 (1.33%) Liquibase
12 4 (1.33%) Maven
13 3 (1.00%) Gerrit
13 3 (1.00%) Gradle
General
1 83 (27.57%) Social Skills
2 67 (22.26%) Finance
3 42 (13.95%) Banking
4 30 (9.97%) Front Office
4 30 (9.97%) Investment Banking
5 26 (8.64%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (6.64%) Public Sector
7 9 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.33%) Legal
9 3 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.66%) Electronics
10 2 (0.66%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.66%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.66%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.66%) Marketing
10 2 (0.66%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.66%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.33%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 73 (24.25%) Data Engineer
2 72 (23.92%) Senior
3 46 (15.28%) Software Engineer
4 41 (13.62%) AWS Engineer
5 39 (12.96%) Python Engineer
6 38 (12.62%) Senior Software Engineer
7 34 (11.30%) Java Engineer
8 30 (9.97%) AWS Software Engineer
8 30 (9.97%) Developer
8 30 (9.97%) Java Software Engineer
8 30 (9.97%) Python Software Engineer
9 29 (9.63%) Senior Java Engineer
9 29 (9.63%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 19 (6.31%) Architect
11 18 (5.98%) DevOps Engineer
12 15 (4.98%) Lead
13 13 (4.32%) Platform Engineer
13 13 (4.32%) Senior Data Engineer
14 11 (3.65%) Data Architect
15 9 (2.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (16.94%) Kafka
2 43 (14.29%) Apache NiFi
3 42 (13.95%) Pandas
4 39 (12.96%) NumPy
5 35 (11.63%) REST
6 30 (9.97%) gRPC
6 30 (9.97%) Protocol Buffers
6 30 (9.97%) SciPy
7 29 (9.63%) PySpark
8 18 (5.98%) OAuth
9 17 (5.65%) Spring
9 17 (5.65%) XML
10 16 (5.32%) React
11 15 (4.98%) SOAP
12 14 (4.65%) HTML
12 14 (4.65%) JSON
13 12 (3.99%) Middleware
13 12 (3.99%) OpenID
14 11 (3.65%) LDAP
14 11 (3.65%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (10.30%) Equities
2 30 (9.97%) Derivative
2 30 (9.97%) Fixed Income
2 30 (9.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 30 (9.97%) Hedge funds
2 30 (9.97%) Pricing Data
3 17 (5.65%) Cloud Native
4 14 (4.65%) Algorithms
5 10 (3.32%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (2.99%) Distributed Computing
7 8 (2.66%) PKI
8 6 (1.99%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.99%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.66%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.66%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.33%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 69 (22.92%) Linux
2 53 (17.61%) Windows
3 41 (13.62%) Unix
4 18 (5.98%) Windows Server
5 14 (4.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (2.99%) CentOS
7 6 (1.99%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.00%) Debian
9 2 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.33%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.33%) Rocky
10 1 (0.33%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (38.54%) Agile
2 102 (33.89%) CI/CD
3 89 (29.57%) DevOps
4 84 (27.91%) Data Pipeline
5 81 (26.91%) Analytics
6 80 (26.58%) ETL
7 72 (23.92%) Software Engineering
8 66 (21.93%) Data Engineering
9 61 (20.27%) Problem-Solving
10 57 (18.94%) Data Modelling
11 52 (17.28%) Data Governance
12 47 (15.61%) Business Intelligence
13 42 (13.95%) Continuous Improvement
14 41 (13.62%) Infrastructure as Code
15 36 (11.96%) Data Science
15 36 (11.96%) Microservices
16 33 (10.96%) Visualisation
17 32 (10.63%) Asset Management
17 32 (10.63%) Machine Learning
18 31 (10.30%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 177 (58.80%) Python
2 109 (36.21%) SQL
3 89 (29.57%) Java
4 54 (17.94%) JavaScript
5 39 (12.96%) Scala
6 32 (10.63%) TypeScript
7 16 (5.32%) C#
7 16 (5.32%) Shell Script
8 15 (4.98%) PowerShell
9 13 (4.32%) Bash
10 11 (3.65%) C++
10 11 (3.65%) Groovy
11 6 (1.99%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.33%) PHP
12 4 (1.33%) R
13 3 (1.00%) Perl
14 2 (0.66%) AWK
14 2 (0.66%) Korn
14 2 (0.66%) SPARQL
14 2 (0.66%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 86 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 60 (19.93%) SC Cleared
3 38 (12.62%) DV Cleared
4 14 (4.65%) AWS Certification
5 12 (3.99%) Degree
6 7 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.33%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.66%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.66%) MCP
9 2 (0.66%) RHCE
10 1 (0.33%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.33%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (13.29%) Data Quality
2 22 (7.31%) QA
3 14 (4.65%) GDPR
4 7 (2.33%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.00%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.33%) IFRS
6 1 (0.33%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.33%) MiFID
6 1 (0.33%) Section 508
6 1 (0.33%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 51 (16.94%) Docker
2 17 (5.65%) Active Directory
3 12 (3.99%) HDFS
4 8 (2.66%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 6 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.66%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.66%) KVM
7 2 (0.66%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.33%) Ceph
8 1 (0.33%) iptables
8 1 (0.33%) Lustre
8 1 (0.33%) NFS
8 1 (0.33%) Samba
8 1 (0.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 47 (15.61%) Terraform
2 37 (12.29%) Ansible
3 35 (11.63%) Kubernetes
4 18 (5.98%) Puppet
5 15 (4.98%) Progress Chef
6 11 (3.65%) CA Single Sign-On
7 10 (3.32%) CA Wily
7 10 (3.32%) Hadoop YARN
8 9 (2.99%) Prometheus
9 8 (2.66%) Grafana
9 8 (2.66%) Tivoli
10 6 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.33%) Nagios
12 3 (1.00%) Oozie
12 3 (1.00%) Salt
13 2 (0.66%) Icinga
13 2 (0.66%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.66%) WMI
14 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
14 1 (0.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 48 (15.95%) Databricks
2 43 (14.29%) Oracle
3 33 (10.96%) Splunk
4 31 (10.30%) Microsoft
5 25 (8.31%) AppDynamics
6 21 (6.98%) IBM
7 19 (6.31%) Google
8 16 (5.32%) Cisco
9 15 (4.98%) Dynatrace
10 13 (4.32%) Red Hat
11 12 (3.99%) Cloudera
12 11 (3.65%) Broadcom
12 11 (3.65%) Informatica
13 9 (2.99%) Foundry
13 9 (2.99%) Palantir
13 9 (2.99%) VMware
13 9 (2.99%) webMethods
14 7 (2.33%) ServiceNow
15 5 (1.66%) Talend
16 4 (1.33%) Salesforce