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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 266 193
Rank change year-on-year -99 -73 +105
Contract jobs citing Apache 312 307 536
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.60% 0.96% 1.24%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.91% 8.70% 11.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 231 461
10th Percentile £364 £388 £413
25th Percentile £425 £463 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £725
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -17.24% +20.83%
75th Percentile £588 £825 £850
90th Percentile £673 £875 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 11
10th Percentile £59.71 £38.21 £36.75
25th Percentile £63.50 £64.24 £48.75
Median hourly rate £66.50 £79.35 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% +13.36% -10.26%
75th Percentile £72.06 £80.74 £74.44
90th Percentile £80.13 £82.07 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.50 £79.35 £70.00
% change year-on-year -16.19% +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 4,515 3,527 4,476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.67% 11.08% 10.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,980 2,302 3,112
10th Percentile £312 £289 £263
25th Percentile £404 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £719 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 179 83 157
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.56 £13.51
25th Percentile £19.14 £26.39 £16.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £50.00 £32.12
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +55.69% -38.83%
75th Percentile £62.50 £66.00 £51.91
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.74 £74.18
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £52.50 £33.56
% change year-on-year -33.33% +56.45% -28.22%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 -130 247 £524 -16.23% 107
UK excluding London -70 140 £500 -9.09% 71
London -119 136 £560 -25.33% 48
Work from Home -87 83 £525 -30.00% 56
North of England -39 56 £425 - 20
Scotland +16 35 £525 +13.51% 4
North East -8 31 £385 -40.77% 4
North West -38 20 £525 +46.65% 10
Midlands -49 20 £500 -13.04% 6
South West -27 18 £450 -20.00% 18
West Midlands -52 17 £513 -14.58% 3
South East -82 6 £500 -16.67% 17
Yorkshire -52 5 £475 -24.00% 6
Wales -17 3 £509 - 1
East Midlands -16 2 £548 +33.54% 3
East of England -37 2 £400 -17.10% 2

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
1 164 (52.56%) Apache Spark
2 111 (35.58%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (9.94%) Tomcat
4 28 (8.97%) Jupyter
5 26 (8.33%) WebSphere
6 22 (7.05%) Apache Geronimo
6 22 (7.05%) Apache ServiceMix
6 22 (7.05%) Red Hat Fuse
7 9 (2.88%) nginx
8 7 (2.24%) Apache Superset
8 7 (2.24%) IIS
9 5 (1.60%) CloudStack
9 5 (1.60%) Confluence
9 5 (1.60%) SharePoint
10 4 (1.28%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.64%) Apache Synapse
12 2 (0.64%) JBoss
13 1 (0.32%) Luigi
13 1 (0.32%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Magento
1 1 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.32%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 168 (53.85%) AWS
2 120 (38.46%) Azure
3 80 (25.64%) GCP
4 49 (15.71%) Amazon S3
5 38 (12.18%) Power Platform
6 31 (9.94%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (8.97%) Serverless
8 25 (8.01%) AWS Lambda
8 25 (8.01%) dbt
9 23 (7.37%) Snowflake
10 22 (7.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 21 (6.73%) Azure Data Factory
12 20 (6.41%) Amazon EMR
13 19 (6.09%) GitHub
14 18 (5.77%) AWS CloudFormation
15 15 (4.81%) Amazon SQS
16 14 (4.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 13 (4.17%) Collibra
18 12 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
19 9 (2.88%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.49%) DNS
2 10 (3.21%) Firewall
3 6 (1.92%) HTTP
3 6 (1.92%) SAN
4 5 (1.60%) NAS
5 3 (0.96%) Structured Cabling
5 3 (0.96%) VLAN
6 2 (0.64%) BIG-IP
6 2 (0.64%) FTP
6 2 (0.64%) Network Security
6 2 (0.64%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.32%) 5G
7 1 (0.32%) DHCP
7 1 (0.32%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.32%) Intranet
7 1 (0.32%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.32%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.32%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.32%) SSH
7 1 (0.32%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
2 43 (13.78%) Big Data
3 42 (13.46%) Data Lake
4 32 (10.26%) Power BI
5 31 (9.94%) BigQuery
6 30 (9.62%) Amazon Athena
6 30 (9.62%) Delta Lake
7 29 (9.29%) SQL Server
8 25 (8.01%) Flink
8 25 (8.01%) Hadoop
9 22 (7.05%) PostgreSQL
10 19 (6.09%) Metadata
10 19 (6.09%) NoSQL
11 17 (5.45%) MySQL
12 16 (5.13%) Amazon Redshift
12 16 (5.13%) Relational Database
13 13 (4.17%) MongoDB
13 13 (4.17%) Tableau
14 10 (3.21%) Mixpanel
15 9 (2.88%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 53 (16.99%) Git
2 42 (13.46%) GitLab
3 19 (6.09%) JIRA
4 13 (4.17%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.56%) MLflow
6 6 (1.92%) Maven
6 6 (1.92%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.28%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.28%) Gradle
8 3 (0.96%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.96%) Selenium
9 1 (0.32%) Ant
9 1 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.32%) Capybara
9 1 (0.32%) git-flow
9 1 (0.32%) JMeter
9 1 (0.32%) minitest
9 1 (0.32%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.32%) RSpec
9 1 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 59 (18.91%) Finance
2 55 (17.63%) Social Skills
3 39 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 38 (12.18%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (4.81%) Banking
6 6 (1.92%) Marketing
7 5 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.60%) Publishing
8 4 (1.28%) Billing
8 4 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.28%) Front Office
8 4 (1.28%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.64%) Legal
9 2 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.64%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.32%) Dutch Language
10 1 (0.32%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.32%) Prime Brokerage
10 1 (0.32%) Retail
10 1 (0.32%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 110 (35.26%) Data Engineer
2 48 (15.38%) Senior
3 44 (14.10%) Developer
4 35 (11.22%) Architect
5 27 (8.65%) Lead
5 27 (8.65%) Senior Data Engineer
6 21 (6.73%) Java Developer
7 19 (6.09%) DevOps Engineer
8 17 (5.45%) Lead Data Engineer
9 13 (4.17%) Data Architect
10 12 (3.85%) Software Engineer
11 11 (3.53%) AWS Engineer
11 11 (3.53%) Principal Engineer
12 10 (3.21%) Principal Data Engineer
13 9 (2.88%) Python Developer
14 8 (2.56%) Platform Engineer
14 8 (2.56%) Senior Developer
15 7 (2.24%) Python Engineer
15 7 (2.24%) Software Developer
16 6 (1.92%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (22.12%) Kafka
2 50 (16.03%) PySpark
3 29 (9.29%) Spring
4 25 (8.01%) Middleware
5 22 (7.05%) Apache Axis
5 22 (7.05%) Apache Camel
5 22 (7.05%) REST
5 22 (7.05%) Spring Boot
6 16 (5.13%) JSON
7 15 (4.81%) Apache Beam
8 12 (3.85%) Great Expectations
9 9 (2.88%) AWS CDK
9 9 (2.88%) OAuth
9 9 (2.88%) Pandas
10 7 (2.24%) LAMP
10 7 (2.24%) NumPy
10 7 (2.24%) PyTorch
10 7 (2.24%) SOAP
11 6 (1.92%) Apache NiFi
11 6 (1.92%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 45 (14.42%) Cloud Native
2 18 (5.77%) Product Ownership
3 14 (4.49%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (4.49%) Management Information System
4 12 (3.85%) Data Structures
4 12 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (3.21%) Public Cloud
6 8 (2.56%) Clustering
7 7 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.24%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.92%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.60%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.60%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (1.60%) Freedom of Information
9 5 (1.60%) Replication
9 5 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.28%) Data Fabric
11 3 (0.96%) Distributed Applications
11 3 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 49 (15.71%) Linux
2 18 (5.77%) Unix
2 18 (5.77%) Windows
3 16 (5.13%) Ubuntu
4 11 (3.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (2.56%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.60%) CentOS
6 5 (1.60%) Rocky
7 4 (1.28%) Debian
7 4 (1.28%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.64%) Solaris
9 2 (0.64%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.64%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.32%) VMS
10 1 (0.32%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (47.76%) CI/CD
2 119 (38.14%) Data Engineering
3 108 (34.62%) Analytics
4 103 (33.01%) Data Pipeline
5 99 (31.73%) DevOps
6 91 (29.17%) ETL
7 85 (27.24%) Data Modelling
8 74 (23.72%) Containerisation
9 72 (23.08%) AI
10 70 (22.44%) Infrastructure as Code
11 69 (22.12%) Agile
12 60 (19.23%) Data Governance
13 53 (16.99%) Machine Learning
14 51 (16.35%) Problem-Solving
15 40 (12.82%) Business Intelligence
15 40 (12.82%) Observability
16 37 (11.86%) Workflow
17 36 (11.54%) Data Science
18 35 (11.22%) Migration
19 34 (10.90%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 199 (63.78%) Python
2 178 (57.05%) SQL
3 92 (29.49%) Java
4 27 (8.65%) Scala
5 19 (6.09%) Bash
6 14 (4.49%) Shell Script
7 12 (3.85%) C#
7 12 (3.85%) PowerShell
8 11 (3.53%) R
9 10 (3.21%) Go
10 9 (2.88%) JavaScript
10 9 (2.88%) TypeScript
11 7 (2.24%) Perl
12 6 (1.92%) PHP
13 5 (1.60%) Ruby
14 4 (1.28%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.96%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.64%) Bicep
16 2 (0.64%) Cypher
16 2 (0.64%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 96 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 87 (27.88%) SC Cleared
3 23 (7.37%) Degree
4 17 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.56%) Master's Degree
6 7 (2.24%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.92%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.60%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.96%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.96%) CCNP
10 3 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.96%) CSPO
10 3 (0.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.64%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.32%) RHCE
12 1 (0.32%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (22.12%) Data Quality
2 23 (7.37%) GDPR
3 8 (2.56%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.56%) QA
4 5 (1.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.96%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.64%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (0.64%) WCAG
7 1 (0.32%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.32%) SLA
System Software
1 82 (26.28%) Docker
2 9 (2.88%) Postfix
3 8 (2.56%) NFS
4 7 (2.24%) Active Directory
4 7 (2.24%) Varnish
5 6 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.28%) Sendmail
7 3 (0.96%) Dovecot
7 3 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.96%) vSphere
8 2 (0.64%) Ceph
8 2 (0.64%) HDFS
8 2 (0.64%) KVM
8 2 (0.64%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.64%) Samba
9 1 (0.32%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.32%) iptables
Systems Management
1 80 (25.64%) Terraform
2 66 (21.15%) Kubernetes
3 22 (7.05%) Ansible
4 11 (3.53%) Grafana
5 9 (2.88%) HAProxy
6 6 (1.92%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.28%) SELinux
8 3 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.96%) Check_MK
9 2 (0.64%) Apache Ranger
9 2 (0.64%) Kibana
9 2 (0.64%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.64%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.64%) Puppet
9 2 (0.64%) systemd
10 1 (0.32%) logstash
10 1 (0.32%) Packer
10 1 (0.32%) Rundeck
10 1 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.32%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 62 (19.87%) Databricks
2 41 (13.14%) Oracle
3 35 (11.22%) Google
4 32 (10.26%) Microsoft
5 22 (7.05%) TIBCO
6 16 (5.13%) Trend Micro
7 11 (3.53%) Informatica
8 10 (3.21%) Red Hat
9 8 (2.56%) Cloudera
10 7 (2.24%) Cisco
10 7 (2.24%) VMware
11 6 (1.92%) Talend
12 5 (1.60%) Confluent
12 5 (1.60%) Guidewire
12 5 (1.60%) IBM
12 5 (1.60%) ServiceNow
13 4 (1.28%) Hortonworks
14 3 (0.96%) F5
14 3 (0.96%) Fortinet
14 3 (0.96%) Splunk