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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 376 287 186
Rank change year-on-year -89 -101 +109
Contract jobs citing Apache 322 311 513
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.59% 0.94% 1.33%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.84% 8.58% 12.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 228 434
10th Percentile £363 £362 £419
25th Percentile £413 £463 £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £750
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -26.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £623 £740 £875
90th Percentile £700 £825 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 8
10th Percentile £66.16 £78.96 £43.40
25th Percentile £67.47 £79.35 £53.56
Median hourly rate £69.99 £80.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.52% +11.11% -7.69%
75th Percentile £81.46 £81.48 £74.11
90th Percentile £86.23 £82.37 £74.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £69.99 £80.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year -12.52% +11.11% -7.69%

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 4,707 3,623 4,152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.62% 10.97% 10.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,076 2,339 2,762
10th Percentile £281 £280 £275
25th Percentile £403 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +2.94%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £713 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £462 £450 £470
% change year-on-year +2.67% -4.26% -1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 95 88
10th Percentile £14.96 £17.59 £17.08
25th Percentile £17.38 £24.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £32.50 £41.06 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.85% +8.05% -29.63%
75th Percentile £62.34 £65.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.13 £77.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £41.26 £48.56
% change year-on-year -21.22% -15.04% +6.73%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -112 279 £513 -6.82% 228
London -72 170 £550 -21.43% 150
UK excluding London -96 120 £425 -15.00% 131
Work from Home -80 103 £513 -31.67% 79
North of England -58 50 £406 -6.72% 21
North East -18 29 £385 -30.00% 4
South West -39 23 £460 -7.07% 24
Scotland -13 18 £425 -15.00% 31
Midlands -59 13 £460 -13.86% 3
North West -56 12 £530 +48.04% 15
South East -59 12 £450 -25.00% 38
West Midlands -57 11 £478 -11.33% 2
Yorkshire -39 9 £469 -1.32% 2
East of England -37 3 £456 -17.05% 11
Wales -15 2 £475 - 1
East Midlands -15 1 £495 +17.86% 1

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
1 175 (54.35%) Apache Spark
2 155 (48.14%) Apache Airflow
3 35 (10.87%) Jupyter
4 17 (5.28%) nginx
5 14 (4.35%) Confluence
6 9 (2.80%) Apache Superset
7 8 (2.48%) Tomcat
8 6 (1.86%) IIS
9 5 (1.55%) CloudStack
10 4 (1.24%) SharePoint
10 4 (1.24%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.93%) JBoss
11 3 (0.93%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.31%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.31%) CMS
12 1 (0.31%) Luigi
12 1 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.31%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Magento
1 1 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.31%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 187 (58.07%) AWS
2 115 (35.71%) Azure
3 86 (26.71%) GCP
4 54 (16.77%) Amazon S3
4 54 (16.77%) dbt
5 40 (12.42%) Snowflake
6 34 (10.56%) Serverless
7 33 (10.25%) Azure DevOps
8 32 (9.94%) Azure Data Factory
9 30 (9.32%) AWS Lambda
10 29 (9.01%) Amazon EMR
10 29 (9.01%) Power Platform
11 24 (7.45%) GitHub
12 17 (5.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 16 (4.97%) Azure Databricks
14 13 (4.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 13 (4.04%) GitHub Actions
15 12 (3.73%) Amazon EC2
16 11 (3.42%) Cloud Composer
17 9 (2.80%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.97%) DNS
2 13 (4.04%) Firewall
3 5 (1.55%) DHCP
3 5 (1.55%) NAS
3 5 (1.55%) SAN
3 5 (1.55%) SSL
4 3 (0.93%) HTTP
4 3 (0.93%) HTTPS
4 3 (0.93%) Network Security
4 3 (0.93%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (0.93%) Structured Cabling
5 2 (0.62%) BIG-IP
5 2 (0.62%) VLAN
5 2 (0.62%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.31%) FTP
6 1 (0.31%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
2 49 (15.22%) Data Lake
3 43 (13.35%) BigQuery
4 41 (12.73%) Delta Lake
5 40 (12.42%) Big Data
6 36 (11.18%) Flink
7 31 (9.63%) Metadata
8 30 (9.32%) Amazon Athena
9 28 (8.70%) Power BI
10 24 (7.45%) Amazon Redshift
10 24 (7.45%) PostgreSQL
11 21 (6.52%) SQL Server
12 20 (6.21%) Apache Iceberg
13 19 (5.90%) Hadoop
14 18 (5.59%) Relational Database
15 17 (5.28%) Elasticsearch
15 17 (5.28%) NoSQL
16 14 (4.35%) Tableau
17 11 (3.42%) DynamoDB
17 11 (3.42%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 53 (16.46%) GitLab
2 48 (14.91%) Git
3 24 (7.45%) JIRA
4 14 (4.35%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.48%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (1.86%) Maven
7 5 (1.55%) Artifactory
7 5 (1.55%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.55%) MLflow
8 4 (1.24%) Gradle
9 2 (0.62%) JMeter
9 2 (0.62%) RStudio
9 2 (0.62%) Selenium
9 2 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.62%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.31%) minitest
10 1 (0.31%) Newman
10 1 (0.31%) Postman
10 1 (0.31%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 74 (22.98%) Social Skills
2 68 (21.12%) Finance
3 48 (14.91%) Public Sector
4 42 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (7.76%) Banking
6 7 (2.17%) Financial Institution
6 7 (2.17%) Marketing
6 7 (2.17%) Publishing
7 6 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.55%) Military
9 4 (1.24%) Billing
10 3 (0.93%) Law
10 3 (0.93%) Legal
11 2 (0.62%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.62%) Retail
12 1 (0.31%) International Banking
12 1 (0.31%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.31%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 130 (40.37%) Data Engineer
2 59 (18.32%) Senior
3 46 (14.29%) Architect
4 41 (12.73%) Developer
5 36 (11.18%) Senior Data Engineer
6 26 (8.07%) DevOps Engineer
7 25 (7.76%) Lead
8 22 (6.83%) Data Architect
9 20 (6.21%) Databricks Engineer
10 19 (5.90%) Java Developer
11 14 (4.35%) Databricks Data Engineer
11 14 (4.35%) Python Engineer
12 11 (3.42%) Cloud Engineer
12 11 (3.42%) Python Data Engineer
13 10 (3.11%) AWS Engineer
13 10 (3.11%) Lead Data Engineer
13 10 (3.11%) Software Engineer
14 9 (2.80%) Senior Developer
14 9 (2.80%) Technical Leader
15 8 (2.48%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (30.12%) Terraform
2 79 (24.53%) PySpark
3 69 (21.43%) Kafka
4 29 (9.01%) REST
5 22 (6.83%) Spring
5 22 (6.83%) Spring Boot
6 21 (6.52%) JSON
7 17 (5.28%) Apache Beam
8 16 (4.97%) Apache NiFi
9 10 (3.11%) SOAP
10 9 (2.80%) Spark Streaming
10 9 (2.80%) YAML
11 8 (2.48%) Apache Avro
11 8 (2.48%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (2.48%) Pandas
12 7 (2.17%) OAuth
13 6 (1.86%) LAMP
13 6 (1.86%) XML
14 5 (1.55%) Middleware
14 5 (1.55%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 55 (17.08%) Cloud Native
2 24 (7.45%) Product Ownership
3 16 (4.97%) Data Structures
4 14 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (3.73%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (3.42%) Management Information System
6 11 (3.42%) Onboarding
7 9 (2.80%) Data Fabric
7 9 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (2.48%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.86%) Clustering
10 5 (1.55%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.55%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.55%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.55%) Replication
10 5 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.24%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (0.93%) PKI
12 3 (0.93%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 50 (15.53%) Linux
2 18 (5.59%) Windows
3 16 (4.97%) Ubuntu
4 11 (3.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (3.42%) Unix
5 6 (1.86%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.55%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.24%) CentOS
7 4 (1.24%) Rocky
8 3 (0.93%) Debian
9 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.31%) Solaris
10 1 (0.31%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 140 (43.48%) Data Pipeline
3 133 (41.30%) Data Engineering
4 113 (35.09%) Analytics
5 111 (34.47%) DevOps
6 103 (31.99%) ETL
7 102 (31.68%) Agile
7 102 (31.68%) Data Modelling
8 81 (25.16%) Infrastructure as Code
9 76 (23.60%) Containerisation
10 72 (22.36%) AI
11 63 (19.57%) Data Governance
12 53 (16.46%) Machine Learning
13 52 (16.15%) Migration
14 50 (15.53%) Lakehouse
15 42 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
15 42 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
15 42 (13.04%) Workflow
16 41 (12.73%) Data Architecture
17 40 (12.42%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 222 (68.94%) Python
2 168 (52.17%) SQL
3 66 (20.50%) Java
4 29 (9.01%) Scala
5 24 (7.45%) Bash
6 23 (7.14%) PowerShell
7 18 (5.59%) Shell Script
8 10 (3.11%) R
9 9 (2.80%) Go
10 8 (2.48%) TypeScript
11 7 (2.17%) PL/SQL
12 6 (1.86%) JavaScript
13 5 (1.55%) Groovy
13 5 (1.55%) Perl
14 4 (1.24%) Bicep
14 4 (1.24%) Ruby
15 3 (0.93%) C#
15 3 (0.93%) Cypher
15 3 (0.93%) Gremlin
15 3 (0.93%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 107 (33.23%) Security Cleared
2 90 (27.95%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.90%) Degree
4 16 (4.97%) DV Cleared
5 15 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (3.11%) AWS Certification
7 6 (1.86%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.55%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.93%) CCNP
9 3 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.93%) CSPO
9 3 (0.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.62%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.31%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.31%) PMP
11 1 (0.31%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (26.09%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.04%) GDPR
3 10 (3.11%) QA
4 7 (2.17%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.24%) Government Security Classifications
6 3 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.93%) NCSC
7 2 (0.62%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.62%) SLA
7 2 (0.62%) WCAG
8 1 (0.31%) NIST
8 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 99 (30.75%) Docker
2 13 (4.04%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.17%) Postfix
4 5 (1.55%) NFS
4 5 (1.55%) Varnish
4 5 (1.55%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.93%) Dovecot
6 3 (0.93%) Sendmail
6 3 (0.93%) vSphere
7 2 (0.62%) Ceph
7 2 (0.62%) KVM
7 2 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 80 (24.84%) Kubernetes
2 26 (8.07%) Ansible
3 16 (4.97%) Grafana
4 12 (3.73%) Prometheus
5 9 (2.80%) HAProxy
6 5 (1.55%) Packer
6 5 (1.55%) Puppet
6 5 (1.55%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.93%) Apache Ranger
7 3 (0.93%) Check_MK
7 3 (0.93%) Kibana
7 3 (0.93%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.93%) SELinux
8 2 (0.62%) Control-M
8 2 (0.62%) systemd
9 1 (0.31%) logstash
9 1 (0.31%) Podman
9 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 86 (26.71%) Databricks
2 37 (11.49%) Microsoft
3 36 (11.18%) Google
4 17 (5.28%) Trend Micro
5 12 (3.73%) Oracle
6 11 (3.42%) Red Hat
7 10 (3.11%) Cloudera
7 10 (3.11%) VMware
8 9 (2.80%) Informatica
8 9 (2.80%) ServiceNow
9 8 (2.48%) Splunk
10 7 (2.17%) Cisco
11 6 (1.86%) Guidewire
12 5 (1.55%) Confluent
12 5 (1.55%) New Relic
12 5 (1.55%) Talend
12 5 (1.55%) Tanium
13 4 (1.24%) Hortonworks
13 4 (1.24%) IBM
13 4 (1.24%) Teradata