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 24 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 274 319
Rank change year-on-year -53 +45 -61
Contract jobs citing Apache 277 277 305
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.73% 0.88% 0.69%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.27% 7.87% 7.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 206 235
10th Percentile £375 £358 £350
25th Percentile £430 £488 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +13.64% -13.73%
75th Percentile £614 £838 £700
90th Percentile £781 £888 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £467 £475 £511
% change year-on-year -1.74% -7.09% -12.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 6
10th Percentile £66.13 £74.04 £22.00
25th Percentile £74.13 £74.11 £23.44
Median hourly rate £80.50 £74.22 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.46% +78.84% -20.95%
75th Percentile £82.75 £74.33 £71.94
90th Percentile £86.00 £74.40 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.50 £74.22 £65.25
% change year-on-year +8.46% +13.75% +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 3,812 3,518 4,319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.03% 11.13% 9.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,642 2,160 2,897
10th Percentile £290 £250 £250
25th Percentile £400 £381 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £693 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 73 150
10th Percentile £14.55 £17.08 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £22.00 £16.42
Median hourly rate £25.08 £41.00 £25.75
Median % change year-on-year -38.84% +59.22% +35.53%
75th Percentile £69.25 £63.75 £54.31
90th Percentile £82.50 £66.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £54.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -58.33% +125.00% +35.44%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -68 237 £525 -20.75% 126
UK excluding London -10 131 £467 -1.74% 126
London -69 118 £600 -11.11% 29
Work from Home -82 71 £525 -30.00% 94
Midlands -7 43 £536 +2.00% 7
North of England -32 42 £450 -12.20% 26
West Midlands -15 36 £536 -5.80% 3
North West -11 27 £450 -18.18% 12
Scotland +15 17 £463 -10.84% 19
South West -16 13 £588 -4.08% 20
South East -43 10 £643 +35.26% 32
Yorkshire -54 9 £475 +2.70% 7
East Midlands -20 7 £510 +65.85% 4
North East -7 6 £413 -36.54% 7
East of England -20 6 £363 +14.53% 15
Northern Ireland -5 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
1 105 (37.91%) Apache Spark
2 80 (28.88%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (10.47%) WebLogic
4 22 (7.94%) IIS
5 21 (7.58%) JBoss
6 13 (4.69%) WebSphere
7 10 (3.61%) iPlanet
7 10 (3.61%) WebSphere Application Server
8 7 (2.53%) Confluence
8 7 (2.53%) Tomcat
9 5 (1.81%) nginx
10 4 (1.44%) Jupyter
11 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (1.08%) SAS
12 2 (0.72%) Apache Geronimo
12 2 (0.72%) Apache Pig
12 2 (0.72%) Apache ServiceMix
12 2 (0.72%) Luigi
12 2 (0.72%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.72%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 3 (1.08%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.72%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Actimize
1 1 (0.36%) Maximo
1 1 (0.36%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.36%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 152 (54.87%) AWS
2 88 (31.77%) Azure
3 47 (16.97%) GCP
4 39 (14.08%) Serverless
5 37 (13.36%) Amazon S3
6 32 (11.55%) Snowflake
7 31 (11.19%) Power Platform
8 29 (10.47%) AWS CloudFormation
9 23 (8.30%) dbt
10 19 (6.86%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (6.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 17 (6.14%) Azure Data Factory
12 17 (6.14%) Azure DevOps
13 16 (5.78%) Azure Monitor
14 11 (3.97%) Amazon SQS
14 11 (3.97%) Collibra
15 10 (3.61%) OpenShift
16 9 (3.25%) Cloud Computing
16 9 (3.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 8 (2.89%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.69%) Firewall
2 11 (3.97%) Kerberos
3 8 (2.89%) HTTP
4 5 (1.81%) DNS
5 4 (1.44%) DHCP
5 4 (1.44%) Network Security
6 3 (1.08%) SSL
6 3 (1.08%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.72%) SAN
8 1 (0.36%) InfiniBand
8 1 (0.36%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.36%) LAN
8 1 (0.36%) Spanning Tree
8 1 (0.36%) SSH
8 1 (0.36%) VLAN
8 1 (0.36%) VPN
8 1 (0.36%) WAN
8 1 (0.36%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (17.69%) Data Lake
2 39 (14.08%) Amazon Athena
3 38 (13.72%) Big Data
4 34 (12.27%) Hadoop
5 31 (11.19%) Data Warehouse
6 29 (10.47%) Power BI
7 27 (9.75%) Delta Lake
8 21 (7.58%) Apache Iceberg
9 20 (7.22%) BigQuery
10 19 (6.86%) Apache Hive
11 18 (6.50%) NoSQL
12 17 (6.14%) Amazon Redshift
13 15 (5.42%) MongoDB
13 15 (5.42%) PostgreSQL
14 14 (5.05%) Apache Arrow
14 14 (5.05%) Apache Ignite
14 14 (5.05%) Dremio
14 14 (5.05%) Metadata
14 14 (5.05%) OLTP
14 14 (5.05%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 54 (19.49%) Git
2 21 (7.58%) GitLab
3 15 (5.42%) Jenkins
4 14 (5.05%) JUnit
5 12 (4.33%) JIRA
6 11 (3.97%) Bitbucket Server
6 11 (3.97%) CA Release Automation
7 10 (3.61%) MLflow
8 9 (3.25%) Artifactory
8 9 (3.25%) Eclipse
8 9 (3.25%) IntelliJ
8 9 (3.25%) Selenium
9 8 (2.89%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (2.17%) Mockito
11 5 (1.81%) Bitbucket
11 5 (1.81%) Maven
12 4 (1.44%) Liquibase
13 3 (1.08%) Gradle
14 2 (0.72%) Cypress.io
14 2 (0.72%) ERwin
General
1 72 (25.99%) Social Skills
2 62 (22.38%) Finance
3 28 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (9.75%) Banking
5 22 (7.94%) Public Sector
6 14 (5.05%) Front Office
6 14 (5.05%) Investment Banking
7 9 (3.25%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.44%) Legal
9 3 (1.08%) Billing
9 3 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.72%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.72%) Electronics
10 2 (0.72%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.72%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.72%) Marketing
10 2 (0.72%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.72%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.36%) Law
Job Titles
1 77 (27.80%) Data Engineer
2 52 (18.77%) Senior
3 34 (12.27%) Software Engineer
4 33 (11.91%) Developer
5 25 (9.03%) AWS Engineer
6 22 (7.94%) Python Engineer
7 20 (7.22%) Senior Software Engineer
8 19 (6.86%) DevOps Engineer
9 18 (6.50%) Java Engineer
10 17 (6.14%) Lead
11 15 (5.42%) Architect
12 14 (5.05%) AWS Software Engineer
12 14 (5.05%) Java Software Engineer
12 14 (5.05%) Platform Engineer
12 14 (5.05%) Python Software Engineer
12 14 (5.05%) Senior Data Engineer
13 13 (4.69%) Senior Java Engineer
13 13 (4.69%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 11 (3.97%) Java Developer
15 9 (3.25%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (15.88%) Kafka
2 39 (14.08%) REST
3 36 (13.00%) Apache NiFi
4 31 (11.19%) PySpark
5 24 (8.66%) Pandas
6 22 (7.94%) NumPy
7 20 (7.22%) Spring
8 16 (5.78%) OAuth
9 14 (5.05%) gRPC
9 14 (5.05%) JSON
9 14 (5.05%) Protocol Buffers
9 14 (5.05%) SciPy
10 13 (4.69%) Hibernate
11 12 (4.33%) Middleware
11 12 (4.33%) OpenID
11 12 (4.33%) SOAP
11 12 (4.33%) XML
12 11 (3.97%) EJB
12 11 (3.97%) LDAP
12 11 (3.97%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.30%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.78%) Equities
3 14 (5.05%) Derivative
3 14 (5.05%) Fixed Income
3 14 (5.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 14 (5.05%) Hedge funds
3 14 (5.05%) Pricing Data
4 13 (4.69%) Algorithms
5 7 (2.53%) Distributed Computing
5 7 (2.53%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.17%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.17%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.17%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.81%) Replication
7 5 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.44%) Freedom of Information
8 4 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.44%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 65 (23.47%) Linux
2 50 (18.05%) Windows
3 42 (15.16%) Unix
4 16 (5.78%) Windows Server
5 9 (3.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.17%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.08%) CentOS
7 3 (1.08%) Debian
8 2 (0.72%) Solaris
9 1 (0.36%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.36%) Rocky
9 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (40.07%) CI/CD
2 87 (31.41%) DevOps
3 84 (30.32%) Agile
4 82 (29.60%) Analytics
5 81 (29.24%) Data Pipeline
6 77 (27.80%) ETL
7 69 (24.91%) Data Engineering
8 65 (23.47%) Problem-Solving
9 61 (22.02%) Data Modelling
10 57 (20.58%) Software Engineering
11 50 (18.05%) Business Intelligence
12 49 (17.69%) Data Governance
13 43 (15.52%) Infrastructure as Code
13 43 (15.52%) Machine Learning
13 43 (15.52%) Observability
14 42 (15.16%) Continuous Improvement
15 37 (13.36%) Visualisation
16 34 (12.27%) AI
17 32 (11.55%) Microservices
18 31 (11.19%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 153 (55.23%) Python
2 119 (42.96%) SQL
3 74 (26.71%) Java
4 38 (13.72%) Scala
5 24 (8.66%) JavaScript
6 18 (6.50%) C#
7 17 (6.14%) Shell Script
8 16 (5.78%) TypeScript
9 13 (4.69%) PowerShell
10 11 (3.97%) Groovy
11 8 (2.89%) Bash
12 6 (2.17%) PL/SQL
13 5 (1.81%) C++
14 4 (1.44%) R
15 2 (0.72%) AWK
15 2 (0.72%) Go
15 2 (0.72%) SPARQL
16 1 (0.36%) Korn
16 1 (0.36%) Perl
16 1 (0.36%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 82 (29.60%) Security Cleared
2 58 (20.94%) SC Cleared
3 32 (11.55%) DV Cleared
4 13 (4.69%) AWS Certification
5 11 (3.97%) Degree
6 9 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.08%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.72%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.72%) RHCE
9 2 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.36%) CCNA
10 1 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.36%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.36%) MCP
10 1 (0.36%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (17.69%) Data Quality
2 20 (7.22%) GDPR
3 11 (3.97%) QA
4 4 (1.44%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.08%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.36%) IFRS
6 1 (0.36%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.36%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.36%) MiFID
6 1 (0.36%) Solvency II
System Software
1 52 (18.77%) Docker
2 14 (5.05%) Active Directory
2 14 (5.05%) HDFS
3 8 (2.89%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 4 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.08%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.36%) Ceph
6 1 (0.36%) iptables
6 1 (0.36%) KVM
6 1 (0.36%) Lustre
6 1 (0.36%) NFS
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.36%) Samba
6 1 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 48 (17.33%) Terraform
2 42 (15.16%) Kubernetes
3 31 (11.19%) Ansible
4 14 (5.05%) Puppet
5 11 (3.97%) CA Single Sign-On
6 10 (3.61%) CA Wily
6 10 (3.61%) Hadoop YARN
6 10 (3.61%) Progress Chef
7 8 (2.89%) Tivoli
8 6 (2.17%) Prometheus
8 6 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.44%) Grafana
10 3 (1.08%) Oozie
11 2 (0.72%) Kibana
11 2 (0.72%) logstash
11 2 (0.72%) Nagios
11 2 (0.72%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.36%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.36%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 46 (16.61%) Databricks
2 43 (15.52%) Oracle
3 33 (11.91%) Splunk
4 26 (9.39%) Microsoft
5 25 (9.03%) AppDynamics
6 21 (7.58%) Google
7 20 (7.22%) Cisco
8 18 (6.50%) Dynatrace
9 17 (6.14%) Red Hat
10 14 (5.05%) IBM
11 11 (3.97%) Broadcom
12 9 (3.25%) Cloudera
12 9 (3.25%) ServiceNow
12 9 (3.25%) webMethods
13 6 (2.17%) Foundry
13 6 (2.17%) Informatica
13 6 (2.17%) Palantir
14 5 (1.81%) Palo Alto
14 5 (1.81%) Salesforce
14 5 (1.81%) VMware