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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 280 189
Rank change year-on-year -77 -91 +118
Contract jobs citing Apache 328 311 536
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.62% 0.95% 1.30%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.12% 8.70% 12.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 234 456
10th Percentile £363 £391 £413
25th Percentile £425 £463 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £750
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £581 £825 £850
90th Percentile £669 £868 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +15.79% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 11
10th Percentile £61.24 £38.21 £36.75
25th Percentile £64.00 £64.24 £48.75
Median hourly rate £67.47 £79.35 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.97% +13.36% -10.26%
75th Percentile £70.88 £80.74 £74.44
90th Percentile £75.88 £82.07 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £79.35 £70.00
% change year-on-year -14.97% +13.36% -10.26%

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 4,606 3,573 4,345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.74% 10.94% 10.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,036 2,332 3,004
10th Percentile £306 £289 £265
25th Percentile £404 £399 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £479 £508
Median % change year-on-year +4.38% -5.71% +1.60%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £725 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +2.78% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 185 88 136
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.15 £13.76
25th Percentile £19.03 £26.03 £17.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £46.65 £32.11
Median % change year-on-year -24.97% +45.30% -38.85%
75th Percentile £62.00 £67.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £74.70 £79.13 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £47.12 £30.00
% change year-on-year -25.72% +57.07% -25.00%

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 23 July 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 23 July 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 23 July 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 -131 259 £511 -14.79% 112
London -101 148 £550 -24.14% 61
UK excluding London -47 146 £495 -10.00% 62
Work from Home -83 91 £500 -33.33% 37
North of England -43 54 £425 +8.56% 14
Scotland +25 39 £525 +5.00% 3
North East - 28 £385 - 4
South West -33 20 £450 -12.62% 16
North West -41 20 £525 +46.65% 7
Midlands -48 18 £498 -17.08% 5
West Midlands -53 15 £500 -16.67% 5
South East -77 10 £470 -21.67% 20
Yorkshire -53 6 £475 -24.00% 3
Wales -16 3 £509 -
East of England -31 3 £400 -27.27% 4
East Midlands -13 2 £548 +33.54%

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
1 170 (51.83%) Apache Spark
2 122 (37.20%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (9.76%) Tomcat
4 29 (8.84%) Jupyter
5 27 (8.23%) WebSphere
6 22 (6.71%) Apache Geronimo
6 22 (6.71%) Apache ServiceMix
6 22 (6.71%) Red Hat Fuse
7 12 (3.66%) nginx
8 7 (2.13%) Apache Superset
8 7 (2.13%) Confluence
8 7 (2.13%) IIS
9 5 (1.52%) CloudStack
9 5 (1.52%) SharePoint
10 4 (1.22%) JBoss
11 3 (0.91%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.61%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.30%) Luigi
13 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
13 1 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Magento
1 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.30%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 171 (52.13%) AWS
2 116 (35.37%) Azure
3 83 (25.30%) GCP
4 55 (16.77%) Amazon S3
5 37 (11.28%) Power Platform
6 34 (10.37%) dbt
7 31 (9.45%) Serverless
8 30 (9.15%) Azure DevOps
9 29 (8.84%) AWS Lambda
9 29 (8.84%) Snowflake
10 28 (8.54%) Azure Data Factory
11 27 (8.23%) Amazon EMR
12 21 (6.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 21 (6.40%) GitHub
13 17 (5.18%) AWS CloudFormation
14 16 (4.88%) Amazon SQS
15 15 (4.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 15 (4.57%) GitHub Actions
16 12 (3.66%) Collibra
17 9 (2.74%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.88%) DNS
2 13 (3.96%) Firewall
3 6 (1.83%) HTTP
3 6 (1.83%) SAN
4 5 (1.52%) NAS
5 3 (0.91%) DHCP
5 3 (0.91%) Structured Cabling
5 3 (0.91%) VLAN
6 2 (0.61%) BIG-IP
6 2 (0.61%) FTP
6 2 (0.61%) Network Security
6 2 (0.61%) SSL
6 2 (0.61%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.30%) 4G
7 1 (0.30%) 5G
7 1 (0.30%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.30%) Intranet
7 1 (0.30%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.30%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.30%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (16.77%) Data Warehouse
2 49 (14.94%) Data Lake
3 45 (13.72%) Big Data
4 33 (10.06%) BigQuery
4 33 (10.06%) Power BI
5 31 (9.45%) Amazon Athena
5 31 (9.45%) Delta Lake
6 28 (8.54%) Flink
6 28 (8.54%) Metadata
6 28 (8.54%) SQL Server
7 23 (7.01%) Hadoop
8 22 (6.71%) PostgreSQL
9 17 (5.18%) Amazon Redshift
9 17 (5.18%) MySQL
9 17 (5.18%) NoSQL
10 15 (4.57%) Relational Database
10 15 (4.57%) Tableau
11 12 (3.66%) Apache Iceberg
11 12 (3.66%) Elasticsearch
12 11 (3.35%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 49 (14.94%) Git
2 44 (13.41%) GitLab
3 20 (6.10%) JIRA
4 16 (4.88%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.13%) MLflow
5 7 (2.13%) SonarQube
6 5 (1.52%) Maven
7 4 (1.22%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.22%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.22%) Gradle
8 3 (0.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (0.91%) Selenium
9 1 (0.30%) Ant
9 1 (0.30%) Capybara
9 1 (0.30%) git-flow
9 1 (0.30%) JMeter
9 1 (0.30%) minitest
9 1 (0.30%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.30%) RSpec
9 1 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 64 (19.51%) Social Skills
2 61 (18.60%) Finance
3 40 (12.20%) Public Sector
4 38 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (6.10%) Banking
6 7 (2.13%) Marketing
7 6 (1.83%) Billing
7 6 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.52%) Publishing
9 4 (1.22%) Front Office
9 4 (1.22%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.91%) Legal
11 2 (0.61%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.61%) Law
11 2 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.61%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.30%) Prime Brokerage
12 1 (0.30%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 113 (34.45%) Data Engineer
2 52 (15.85%) Senior
3 46 (14.02%) Developer
4 45 (13.72%) Architect
5 27 (8.23%) Senior Data Engineer
6 26 (7.93%) Lead
7 22 (6.71%) Data Architect
7 22 (6.71%) Java Developer
8 21 (6.40%) DevOps Engineer
9 15 (4.57%) Lead Data Engineer
10 12 (3.66%) AWS Engineer
11 10 (3.05%) Software Engineer
12 9 (2.74%) Principal Engineer
12 9 (2.74%) Python Developer
12 9 (2.74%) Python Engineer
12 9 (2.74%) Senior Developer
13 8 (2.44%) Analyst
13 8 (2.44%) Cloud Engineer
13 8 (2.44%) Platform Engineer
13 8 (2.44%) Principal Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (22.26%) Kafka
2 60 (18.29%) PySpark
3 30 (9.15%) REST
4 27 (8.23%) Middleware
4 27 (8.23%) Spring
5 23 (7.01%) Spring Boot
6 22 (6.71%) Apache Axis
6 22 (6.71%) Apache Camel
7 17 (5.18%) Apache Beam
7 17 (5.18%) JSON
8 11 (3.35%) Apache NiFi
8 11 (3.35%) Great Expectations
9 10 (3.05%) OAuth
9 10 (3.05%) Pandas
10 9 (2.74%) AWS CDK
10 9 (2.74%) SOAP
11 8 (2.44%) LAMP
12 7 (2.13%) NumPy
12 7 (2.13%) PyTorch
13 6 (1.83%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 53 (16.16%) Cloud Native
2 19 (5.79%) Product Ownership
3 17 (5.18%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (4.88%) Data Structures
5 15 (4.57%) Legacy Systems
5 15 (4.57%) Management Information System
6 10 (3.05%) Public Cloud
7 9 (2.74%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.44%) Clustering
8 8 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (2.13%) Distributed Computing
10 6 (1.83%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.52%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.52%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.52%) Data Fabric
11 5 (1.52%) Replication
11 5 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.22%) PKI
12 4 (1.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 51 (15.55%) Linux
2 17 (5.18%) Windows
3 15 (4.57%) Ubuntu
3 15 (4.57%) Unix
4 10 (3.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.13%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.52%) CentOS
7 4 (1.22%) Rocky
8 3 (0.91%) Debian
8 3 (0.91%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.61%) Solaris
9 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.30%) VMS
10 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (45.73%) CI/CD
2 127 (38.72%) Data Engineering
3 122 (37.20%) Data Pipeline
4 116 (35.37%) Analytics
5 104 (31.71%) DevOps
6 102 (31.10%) Data Modelling
7 98 (29.88%) ETL
8 86 (26.22%) Agile
9 74 (22.56%) Containerisation
10 73 (22.26%) Infrastructure as Code
11 72 (21.95%) AI
12 70 (21.34%) Data Governance
13 46 (14.02%) Business Intelligence
13 46 (14.02%) Machine Learning
14 45 (13.72%) Problem-Solving
15 42 (12.80%) Data Architecture
15 42 (12.80%) Migration
16 39 (11.89%) Data Science
16 39 (11.89%) Workflow
17 33 (10.06%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 211 (64.33%) Python
2 189 (57.62%) SQL
3 94 (28.66%) Java
4 26 (7.93%) Scala
5 21 (6.40%) Bash
6 18 (5.49%) Shell Script
7 15 (4.57%) PowerShell
8 11 (3.35%) R
9 10 (3.05%) C#
9 10 (3.05%) TypeScript
10 9 (2.74%) Go
10 9 (2.74%) Perl
11 8 (2.44%) JavaScript
11 8 (2.44%) PL/SQL
12 6 (1.83%) PHP
13 5 (1.52%) Ruby
14 4 (1.22%) Groovy
15 3 (0.91%) Cypher
15 3 (0.91%) Gremlin
15 3 (0.91%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 97 (29.57%) Security Cleared
2 87 (26.52%) SC Cleared
3 25 (7.62%) Degree
4 18 (5.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.35%) Master's Degree
6 9 (2.74%) DV Cleared
7 7 (2.13%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.52%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.91%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.91%) CCNP
10 3 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.91%) CSPO
10 3 (0.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.61%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.61%) RHCSA
12 1 (0.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.30%) MBA
12 1 (0.30%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 21 (6.40%) GDPR
3 13 (3.96%) QA
4 9 (2.74%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.91%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.61%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.61%) SLA
7 2 (0.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 83 (25.30%) Docker
2 10 (3.05%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.74%) Postfix
4 8 (2.44%) NFS
5 7 (2.13%) Varnish
6 5 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (1.22%) Sendmail
7 4 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.91%) Dovecot
8 3 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.91%) vSphere
9 2 (0.61%) Ceph
9 2 (0.61%) HDFS
9 2 (0.61%) KVM
9 2 (0.61%) Samba
10 1 (0.30%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.30%) iptables
10 1 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 86 (26.22%) Terraform
2 66 (20.12%) Kubernetes
3 23 (7.01%) Ansible
4 11 (3.35%) Grafana
5 9 (2.74%) HAProxy
6 6 (1.83%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.22%) SELinux
8 3 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.91%) Apache Ranger
8 3 (0.91%) Check_MK
8 3 (0.91%) Kibana
8 3 (0.91%) Packer
8 3 (0.91%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.61%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.61%) Puppet
9 2 (0.61%) systemd
10 1 (0.30%) logstash
10 1 (0.30%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.30%) Rundeck
10 1 (0.30%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 67 (20.43%) Databricks
2 40 (12.20%) Google
2 40 (12.20%) Oracle
3 38 (11.59%) Microsoft
4 23 (7.01%) TIBCO
5 16 (4.88%) Trend Micro
6 12 (3.66%) Informatica
7 11 (3.35%) Red Hat
8 10 (3.05%) Cloudera
9 9 (2.74%) VMware
10 7 (2.13%) Cisco
10 7 (2.13%) Guidewire
10 7 (2.13%) ServiceNow
10 7 (2.13%) Talend
11 6 (1.83%) IBM
12 5 (1.52%) Confluent
12 5 (1.52%) Splunk
13 4 (1.22%) Hortonworks
13 4 (1.22%) Okta
14 3 (0.91%) F5