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

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 278 311
Rank change year-on-year -72 +33 -25
Contract jobs citing Apache 276 266 309
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.68% 0.87% 0.69%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.98% 7.56% 7.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 199 242
10th Percentile £388 £402 £350
25th Percentile £449 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £530
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +22.64% -11.67%
75th Percentile £600 £838 £738
90th Percentile £726 £875 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £510
% change year-on-year +3.58% -6.86% -9.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 6
10th Percentile £63.15 - £21.87
25th Percentile £64.00 - £22.00
Median hourly rate £75.00 £74.44 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year +0.75% +183.58% -24.97%
75th Percentile £82.00 - £48.63
90th Percentile £84.20 - £53.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £74.44 £41.50
% change year-on-year +0.75% +79.37% +18.62%

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 3,956 3,517 4,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.73% 11.52% 9.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,732 2,180 2,862
10th Percentile £304 £255 £250
25th Percentile £400 £380 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £493
Median % change year-on-year - +1.52% -5.65%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £600
90th Percentile £688 £713 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 69 165
10th Percentile £15.00 £17.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £22.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £26.31 £41.91 £26.78
Median % change year-on-year -37.22% +56.50% +20.85%
75th Percentile £69.44 £64.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £81.70 £66.00 £68.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.21 £48.82 £24.00
% change year-on-year -44.26% +103.40% +17.07%

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 February 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 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Apache in the UK

Apache
Top 17 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 February 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 -93 222 £525 -22.22% 81
UK excluding London -2 137 £492 +3.58% 74
London -88 113 £575 -16.36% 28
Work from Home -70 61 £512 -32.88% 38
North of England -26 36 £473 -0.42% 16
Scotland +40 32 £525 +1.20% 12
Midlands -27 32 £525 +12.30% 7
West Midlands -32 27 £500 -14.89% 6
North West -12 24 £475 - 8
South West -13 17 £625 +5.26% 12
South East -45 11 £560 +40.00% 24
North East -10 7 £425 -34.62% 5
East of England -30 7 £363 +13.99% 4
East Midlands -24 5 £663 +84.67% 1
Yorkshire -55 5 £475 - 3
Northern Ireland 0 3 £463 -22.92%
Wales - 1 £543 - 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
1 107 (38.77%) Apache Spark
2 70 (25.36%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (7.97%) Tomcat
3 22 (7.97%) WebSphere
4 18 (6.52%) WebLogic
5 17 (6.16%) Apache Geronimo
5 17 (6.16%) Apache ServiceMix
5 17 (6.16%) Red Hat Fuse
6 15 (5.43%) JBoss
7 12 (4.35%) IIS
8 7 (2.54%) Confluence
9 6 (2.17%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (1.81%) iPlanet
10 5 (1.81%) WebSphere Application Server
11 4 (1.45%) nginx
11 4 (1.45%) SAS
12 3 (1.09%) Apache Superset
12 3 (1.09%) Jupyter
12 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
13 2 (0.72%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 3 (1.09%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Actimize
1 1 (0.36%) Maximo
1 1 (0.36%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 146 (52.90%) AWS
2 92 (33.33%) Azure
3 68 (24.64%) GCP
4 43 (15.58%) Amazon S3
5 42 (15.22%) Serverless
6 38 (13.77%) AWS CloudFormation
6 38 (13.77%) Power Platform
7 25 (9.06%) Snowflake
8 24 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
9 23 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 18 (6.52%) Amazon SQS
11 17 (6.16%) Azure Data Factory
11 17 (6.16%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (6.16%) dbt
12 16 (5.80%) Collibra
13 12 (4.35%) AWS Step Functions
14 11 (3.99%) GitHub
15 9 (3.26%) Cloud Computing
15 9 (3.26%) GitHub Actions
16 8 (2.90%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.71%) Firewall
2 11 (3.99%) HTTP
3 6 (2.17%) Kerberos
4 5 (1.81%) DNS
5 4 (1.45%) DHCP
5 4 (1.45%) Network Security
6 3 (1.09%) SSL
6 3 (1.09%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.72%) SAN
8 1 (0.36%) 4G
8 1 (0.36%) 5G
8 1 (0.36%) InfiniBand
8 1 (0.36%) Intranet
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%) VPN
8 1 (0.36%) WAN
8 1 (0.36%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 40 (14.49%) Data Warehouse
3 38 (13.77%) Big Data
4 33 (11.96%) Amazon Athena
4 33 (11.96%) Power BI
5 29 (10.51%) BigQuery
6 28 (10.14%) Hadoop
7 22 (7.97%) Delta Lake
8 17 (6.16%) Metadata
8 17 (6.16%) PostgreSQL
9 16 (5.80%) MongoDB
9 16 (5.80%) NoSQL
9 16 (5.80%) SQL Server
10 15 (5.43%) Mixpanel
11 14 (5.07%) Amazon Redshift
11 14 (5.07%) OLAP
11 14 (5.07%) OLTP
12 13 (4.71%) MySQL
13 11 (3.99%) Relational Database
14 10 (3.62%) Flink
Development Applications
1 52 (18.84%) Git
2 24 (8.70%) GitLab
3 14 (5.07%) JIRA
4 13 (4.71%) Jenkins
5 12 (4.35%) JUnit
5 12 (4.35%) MLflow
6 10 (3.62%) Artifactory
6 10 (3.62%) Selenium
7 9 (3.26%) Eclipse
7 9 (3.26%) IntelliJ
8 6 (2.17%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.81%) Bitbucket Server
9 5 (1.81%) CA Release Automation
9 5 (1.81%) Maven
9 5 (1.81%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (1.45%) Mockito
11 3 (1.09%) Gradle
11 3 (1.09%) Liquibase
12 2 (0.72%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.72%) ERwin
General
1 60 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 48 (17.39%) Finance
3 28 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (7.25%) Public Sector
5 19 (6.88%) Banking
6 9 (3.26%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (2.90%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.54%) Front Office
9 5 (1.81%) Billing
10 4 (1.45%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.09%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.09%) Marketing
12 2 (0.72%) Electronics
12 2 (0.72%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.72%) Legal
12 2 (0.72%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.72%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.36%) Law
Job Titles
1 84 (30.43%) Data Engineer
2 47 (17.03%) Senior
3 33 (11.96%) Developer
4 28 (10.14%) Software Engineer
5 26 (9.42%) Lead
6 20 (7.25%) AWS Engineer
7 17 (6.16%) Architect
7 17 (6.16%) DevOps Engineer
7 17 (6.16%) Senior Data Engineer
8 15 (5.43%) Python Engineer
9 14 (5.07%) Lead Data Engineer
9 14 (5.07%) Principal Engineer
10 13 (4.71%) Principal Data Engineer
11 11 (3.99%) Senior Software Engineer
12 10 (3.62%) Data Architect
12 10 (3.62%) Java Developer
13 9 (3.26%) AWS Data Engineer
13 9 (3.26%) Java Engineer
14 8 (2.90%) Data Analytics Engineer
14 8 (2.90%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (21.38%) Kafka
2 39 (14.13%) REST
3 36 (13.04%) Apache NiFi
4 29 (10.51%) PySpark
5 23 (8.33%) Middleware
6 20 (7.25%) Spring
7 19 (6.88%) Pandas
8 17 (6.16%) Apache Axis
8 17 (6.16%) Apache Camel
9 16 (5.80%) NumPy
10 15 (5.43%) Great Expectations
11 13 (4.71%) JSON
11 13 (4.71%) SOAP
12 12 (4.35%) Hibernate
12 12 (4.35%) XML
13 11 (3.99%) EJB
13 11 (3.99%) React
14 10 (3.62%) HTML
14 10 (3.62%) OAuth
14 10 (3.62%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.78%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.35%) Algorithms
3 11 (3.99%) Management Information System
4 10 (3.62%) Data Structures
4 10 (3.62%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.90%) Distributed Computing
5 8 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (2.54%) Equities
7 6 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.81%) Clustering
8 5 (1.81%) Derivative
8 5 (1.81%) Fixed Income
8 5 (1.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (1.81%) Freedom of Information
8 5 (1.81%) Hedge funds
8 5 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.81%) Pricing Data
8 5 (1.81%) Replication
8 5 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 47 (17.03%) Linux
2 35 (12.68%) Windows
3 30 (10.87%) Unix
4 12 (4.35%) Windows Server
5 9 (3.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (2.54%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.45%) Debian
8 3 (1.09%) CentOS
8 3 (1.09%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.72%) Rocky
9 2 (0.72%) Solaris
9 2 (0.72%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.36%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (42.03%) CI/CD
2 89 (32.25%) DevOps
3 87 (31.52%) Analytics
4 82 (29.71%) Data Engineering
4 82 (29.71%) Data Pipeline
4 82 (29.71%) ETL
5 74 (26.81%) Agile
6 70 (25.36%) Data Modelling
7 67 (24.28%) Problem-Solving
8 57 (20.65%) Data Governance
9 56 (20.29%) Machine Learning
10 54 (19.57%) AI
11 53 (19.20%) Infrastructure as Code
12 52 (18.84%) Software Engineering
13 43 (15.58%) Business Intelligence
14 40 (14.49%) Observability
15 38 (13.77%) Data Architecture
16 34 (12.32%) Microservices
17 33 (11.96%) Data Science
18 31 (11.23%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 147 (53.26%) Python
2 138 (50.00%) SQL
3 82 (29.71%) Java
4 33 (11.96%) Scala
5 23 (8.33%) C#
6 18 (6.52%) JavaScript
7 14 (5.07%) PowerShell
8 11 (3.99%) Shell Script
9 8 (2.90%) TypeScript
10 6 (2.17%) Bash
11 5 (1.81%) C++
11 5 (1.81%) Groovy
11 5 (1.81%) PL/SQL
11 5 (1.81%) R
12 4 (1.45%) Perl
13 3 (1.09%) Go
13 3 (1.09%) PHP
14 2 (0.72%) AWK
14 2 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.36%) Korn
Qualifications
1 76 (27.54%) Security Cleared
2 56 (20.29%) SC Cleared
3 30 (10.87%) DV Cleared
4 18 (6.52%) Degree
5 11 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.26%) AWS Certification
6 9 (3.26%) Master's Degree
7 7 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.09%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
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
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (23.19%) Data Quality
2 25 (9.06%) GDPR
3 13 (4.71%) QA
4 6 (2.17%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.72%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.72%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.36%) IFRS
6 1 (0.36%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.36%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.36%) MiFID
6 1 (0.36%) Solvency II
System Software
1 46 (16.67%) Docker
2 10 (3.62%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.54%) HDFS
4 5 (1.81%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 3 (1.09%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.72%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.36%) Ceph
7 1 (0.36%) iptables
7 1 (0.36%) KVM
7 1 (0.36%) Lustre
7 1 (0.36%) NFS
7 1 (0.36%) Samba
7 1 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 59 (21.38%) Terraform
2 43 (15.58%) Kubernetes
3 29 (10.51%) Ansible
4 10 (3.62%) Puppet
5 6 (2.17%) Grafana
5 6 (2.17%) Progress Chef
5 6 (2.17%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (1.81%) CA Single Sign-On
6 5 (1.81%) CA Wily
6 5 (1.81%) Tivoli
7 2 (0.72%) Hadoop YARN
7 2 (0.72%) Kibana
7 2 (0.72%) logstash
7 2 (0.72%) Nagios
7 2 (0.72%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.72%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.36%) Oozie
8 1 (0.36%) SCCM
Vendors
1 51 (18.48%) Databricks
2 49 (17.75%) Oracle
3 35 (12.68%) Google
4 21 (7.61%) Microsoft
5 17 (6.16%) Red Hat
5 17 (6.16%) TIBCO
6 14 (5.07%) Splunk
7 11 (3.99%) Informatica
8 10 (3.62%) Cisco
9 9 (3.26%) AppDynamics
9 9 (3.26%) IBM
9 9 (3.26%) ServiceNow
9 9 (3.26%) webMethods
10 8 (2.90%) Cloudera
11 7 (2.54%) Dynatrace
11 7 (2.54%) Talend
12 6 (2.17%) Foundry
12 6 (2.17%) Palantir
13 5 (1.81%) Broadcom
13 5 (1.81%) VMware