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

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 327 280 310
Rank change year-on-year -47 +30 -27
Contract jobs citing Apache 285 289 312
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.77% 0.87% 0.73%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.54% 7.79% 7.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 214 238
10th Percentile £375 £377 £350
25th Percentile £431 £500 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +13.04% -9.80%
75th Percentile £638 £838 £700
90th Percentile £825 £888 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £471 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -0.84% -9.52% -4.55%
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 3,779 3,711 4,338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.20% 11.12% 10.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,609 2,287 2,879
10th Percentile £290 £255 £250
25th Percentile £400 £385 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £591 £625 £619
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £465
% change year-on-year +5.56% -3.22% -3.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 75 129
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.08 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.98 £21.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.42 £35.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.39% +40.00% +39.98%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.13 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £66.00 £71.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.21 £42.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -35.98% +93.18% +25.93%

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 31 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 31 December 2025.

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 31 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 -52 242 £537 -20.44% 305
UK excluding London +10 134 £471 -0.84% 255
London -63 127 £601 -19.83% 76
Work from Home -64 82 £560 -27.74% 151
Midlands -1 39 £520 -15.03% 32
North of England -25 39 £453 -11.61% 51
West Midlands -3 32 £520 -15.03% 16
North West 0 26 £452 -17.91% 28
Scotland +28 23 £500 +23.08% 11
South West +1 16 £344 -43.84% 52
South East -30 11 £643 +35.26% 68
Yorkshire -44 10 £475 - 16
East Midlands -9 7 £510 +65.85% 15
East of England -21 6 £363 +15.08% 35
Northern Ireland -9 3 £463 +1.37% 5
North East - 3 £400 - 7

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
1 101 (35.44%) Apache Airflow
1 101 (35.44%) Apache Spark
2 26 (9.12%) WebLogic
3 22 (7.72%) IIS
4 21 (7.37%) JBoss
5 14 (4.91%) WebSphere
6 10 (3.51%) iPlanet
6 10 (3.51%) WebSphere Application Server
7 9 (3.16%) Confluence
7 9 (3.16%) Tomcat
8 4 (1.40%) Jupyter
8 4 (1.40%) nginx
9 3 (1.05%) SAS
10 2 (0.70%) Apache Geronimo
10 2 (0.70%) Apache Pig
10 2 (0.70%) Apache ServiceMix
10 2 (0.70%) Luigi
10 2 (0.70%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.70%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.35%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 3 (1.05%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.70%) Abaqus
2 2 (0.70%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Maximo
2 1 (0.35%) Actimize
2 1 (0.35%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.35%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 156 (54.74%) AWS
2 82 (28.77%) Azure
3 46 (16.14%) Snowflake
4 45 (15.79%) Serverless
5 44 (15.44%) GCP
6 37 (12.98%) dbt
7 35 (12.28%) Amazon S3
8 30 (10.53%) Power Platform
9 27 (9.47%) AWS CloudFormation
10 22 (7.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 21 (7.37%) AWS Lambda
12 17 (5.96%) Azure Data Factory
12 17 (5.96%) Azure Monitor
13 13 (4.56%) Azure DevOps
14 10 (3.51%) Amazon SQS
14 10 (3.51%) OpenShift
15 9 (3.16%) AWS Step Functions
15 9 (3.16%) Cloud Computing
15 9 (3.16%) Collibra
15 9 (3.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.21%) Firewall
2 11 (3.86%) Kerberos
3 8 (2.81%) HTTP
4 5 (1.75%) DNS
5 4 (1.40%) DHCP
5 4 (1.40%) Network Security
6 3 (1.05%) SSL
6 3 (1.05%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.70%) SAN
8 1 (0.35%) InfiniBand
8 1 (0.35%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.35%) LAN
8 1 (0.35%) Spanning Tree
8 1 (0.35%) SSH
8 1 (0.35%) VLAN
8 1 (0.35%) VPN
8 1 (0.35%) WAN
8 1 (0.35%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (19.65%) Data Lake
2 46 (16.14%) Amazon Athena
3 44 (15.44%) Big Data
4 38 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
4 38 (13.33%) Hadoop
5 30 (10.53%) Power BI
6 29 (10.18%) Apache Iceberg
7 26 (9.12%) Delta Lake
8 22 (7.72%) Amazon Redshift
8 22 (7.72%) Apache Arrow
8 22 (7.72%) Apache Ignite
8 22 (7.72%) Dremio
9 21 (7.37%) BigQuery
10 19 (6.67%) Apache Hive
11 17 (5.96%) NoSQL
12 15 (5.26%) Oracle Database
13 14 (4.91%) Metadata
14 12 (4.21%) Elasticsearch
14 12 (4.21%) MongoDB
14 12 (4.21%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 52 (18.25%) Git
2 23 (8.07%) GitLab
3 15 (5.26%) Jenkins
3 15 (5.26%) JIRA
4 14 (4.91%) JUnit
5 11 (3.86%) Artifactory
5 11 (3.86%) Bitbucket Server
5 11 (3.86%) CA Release Automation
5 11 (3.86%) MLflow
6 9 (3.16%) Eclipse
6 9 (3.16%) IntelliJ
6 9 (3.16%) Selenium
7 8 (2.81%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (2.11%) Mockito
9 4 (1.40%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.40%) Liquibase
9 4 (1.40%) Maven
10 3 (1.05%) Gradle
11 2 (0.70%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.70%) Oracle APEX
General
1 75 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 63 (22.11%) Finance
3 34 (11.93%) Banking
4 23 (8.07%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (7.72%) Front Office
5 22 (7.72%) Investment Banking
6 20 (7.02%) Public Sector
7 9 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.40%) Legal
9 3 (1.05%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.70%) Billing
10 2 (0.70%) Electronics
10 2 (0.70%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.70%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.70%) Marketing
10 2 (0.70%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.70%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.35%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 77 (27.02%) Data Engineer
2 61 (21.40%) Senior
3 41 (14.39%) Software Engineer
4 34 (11.93%) AWS Engineer
5 33 (11.58%) Python Engineer
6 31 (10.88%) Developer
7 30 (10.53%) Senior Software Engineer
8 26 (9.12%) Java Engineer
9 22 (7.72%) AWS Software Engineer
9 22 (7.72%) Java Software Engineer
9 22 (7.72%) Python Software Engineer
10 21 (7.37%) DevOps Engineer
10 21 (7.37%) Senior Java Engineer
10 21 (7.37%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 16 (5.61%) Lead
12 15 (5.26%) Architect
13 13 (4.56%) Platform Engineer
14 12 (4.21%) Senior Data Engineer
15 9 (3.16%) Java Developer
16 8 (2.81%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (16.49%) Kafka
2 43 (15.09%) REST
3 42 (14.74%) Apache NiFi
4 36 (12.63%) Pandas
5 32 (11.23%) NumPy
5 32 (11.23%) PySpark
6 22 (7.72%) gRPC
6 22 (7.72%) Protocol Buffers
6 22 (7.72%) SciPy
7 18 (6.32%) OAuth
8 17 (5.96%) Spring
9 14 (4.91%) JSON
9 14 (4.91%) SOAP
9 14 (4.91%) XML
10 12 (4.21%) HTML
10 12 (4.21%) Middleware
10 12 (4.21%) OpenID
10 12 (4.21%) React
11 11 (3.86%) LDAP
11 11 (3.86%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.42%) Equities
2 22 (7.72%) Derivative
2 22 (7.72%) Fixed Income
2 22 (7.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 22 (7.72%) Hedge funds
2 22 (7.72%) Pricing Data
3 21 (7.37%) Cloud Native
4 15 (5.26%) Algorithms
5 8 (2.81%) Distributed Computing
6 7 (2.46%) Data Structures
7 6 (2.11%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.75%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.75%) Replication
9 4 (1.40%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 63 (22.11%) Linux
2 48 (16.84%) Windows
3 39 (13.68%) Unix
4 15 (5.26%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.75%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.05%) CentOS
8 2 (0.70%) Debian
9 1 (0.35%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.35%) Rocky
9 1 (0.35%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (35.79%) CI/CD
2 100 (35.09%) Agile
3 84 (29.47%) Data Pipeline
4 83 (29.12%) Analytics
5 82 (28.77%) DevOps
6 78 (27.37%) ETL
7 70 (24.56%) Software Engineering
8 66 (23.16%) Data Engineering
9 60 (21.05%) Data Modelling
9 60 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
10 52 (18.25%) Business Intelligence
11 48 (16.84%) Data Governance
12 42 (14.74%) Infrastructure as Code
13 40 (14.04%) Continuous Improvement
13 40 (14.04%) Visualisation
14 36 (12.63%) Machine Learning
15 35 (12.28%) Observability
16 33 (11.58%) Microservices
17 31 (10.88%) Data Science
18 29 (10.18%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 164 (57.54%) Python
2 111 (38.95%) SQL
3 77 (27.02%) Java
4 37 (12.98%) JavaScript
5 33 (11.58%) Scala
6 25 (8.77%) TypeScript
7 18 (6.32%) C#
8 17 (5.96%) Shell Script
9 15 (5.26%) PowerShell
10 11 (3.86%) Groovy
11 9 (3.16%) Bash
11 9 (3.16%) C++
12 7 (2.46%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.40%) R
14 2 (0.70%) AWK
14 2 (0.70%) Korn
14 2 (0.70%) SPARQL
14 2 (0.70%) Tcl
15 1 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.35%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 81 (28.42%) Security Cleared
2 56 (19.65%) SC Cleared
3 37 (12.98%) DV Cleared
4 14 (4.91%) AWS Certification
5 13 (4.56%) Degree
6 10 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.40%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.70%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.70%) RHCE
10 1 (0.35%) CCNA
10 1 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.35%) MCP
10 1 (0.35%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (15.79%) Data Quality
2 18 (6.32%) GDPR
3 16 (5.61%) QA
4 5 (1.75%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.05%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.35%) IFRS
6 1 (0.35%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.35%) MiFID
6 1 (0.35%) Solvency II
System Software
1 49 (17.19%) Docker
2 14 (4.91%) Active Directory
2 14 (4.91%) HDFS
3 8 (2.81%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 4 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.05%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.70%) KVM
7 1 (0.35%) Ceph
7 1 (0.35%) iptables
7 1 (0.35%) Lustre
7 1 (0.35%) NFS
7 1 (0.35%) Samba
7 1 (0.35%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 49 (17.19%) Terraform
2 39 (13.68%) Kubernetes
3 33 (11.58%) Ansible
4 14 (4.91%) Puppet
5 11 (3.86%) CA Single Sign-On
6 10 (3.51%) CA Wily
6 10 (3.51%) Hadoop YARN
6 10 (3.51%) Progress Chef
6 10 (3.51%) Prometheus
7 9 (3.16%) Grafana
8 8 (2.81%) Tivoli
9 6 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.05%) Kibana
10 3 (1.05%) logstash
10 3 (1.05%) Oozie
11 2 (0.70%) Nagios
11 2 (0.70%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.35%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.35%) SCCM
Vendors
1 51 (17.89%) Databricks
2 40 (14.04%) Oracle
3 33 (11.58%) Splunk
4 25 (8.77%) AppDynamics
5 22 (7.72%) Microsoft
6 20 (7.02%) Google
7 19 (6.67%) Cisco
7 19 (6.67%) Red Hat
8 15 (5.26%) Dynatrace
9 14 (4.91%) IBM
10 11 (3.86%) Broadcom
10 11 (3.86%) Cloudera
11 10 (3.51%) ServiceNow
12 9 (3.16%) webMethods
13 8 (2.81%) Foundry
13 8 (2.81%) Palantir
14 6 (2.11%) Informatica
15 5 (1.75%) Salesforce
15 5 (1.75%) VMware
16 4 (1.40%) Palo Alto