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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 244 295
Rank change year-on-year -100 +51 -3
Contract jobs citing Apache 289 301 344
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.65% 1.04% 0.78%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.92% 8.89% 8.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 221 277
10th Percentile £395 £409 £350
25th Percentile £457 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £565
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +19.47% -5.83%
75th Percentile £600 £838 £788
90th Percentile £688 £875 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £503 £510
% change year-on-year +4.48% -1.47% -11.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 10
10th Percentile £62.20 £32.42 £21.97
25th Percentile £64.00 £49.78 £23.44
Median hourly rate £72.00 £78.70 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.51% +72.97% -41.67%
75th Percentile £82.25 £80.83 £64.44
90th Percentile £88.40 £82.11 £74.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.00 £78.70 £52.50
% change year-on-year -8.51% +49.90% -32.69%

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 4,178 3,385 4,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.38% 11.64% 9.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,896 2,246 2,873
10th Percentile £305 £263 £250
25th Percentile £404 £393 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £600
90th Percentile £688 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £455 £450
% change year-on-year +4.40% +1.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 79 169
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.80 £13.50
25th Percentile £18.63 £23.90 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.25 £46.18 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.67% +62.04% +25.94%
75th Percentile £73.94 £64.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £81.90 £75.50 £68.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.00 £53.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -22.64% +120.83% +9.09%

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 March 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 31 March 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 31 March 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 -138 231 £525 -22.22% 88
UK excluding London -56 132 £525 +4.48% 55
London -108 127 £560 -25.33% 50
Work from Home -99 66 £519 -33.06% 42
Scotland +37 35 £525 +20.00% 4
North of England -51 35 £492 +3.58% 11
North West -14 25 £525 +10.53% 9
Midlands -54 24 £550 - 4
South West -23 19 £450 -26.53% 12
West Midlands -45 19 £538 -10.42% 4
South East -72 10 £555 +38.75% 17
North East -6 7 £425 -34.62% 1
East of England -33 7 £363 +15.08% 5
East Midlands -36 5 £663 +84.67%
Northern Ireland 0 3 £463 -22.92%
Yorkshire -61 3 £475 -11.63% 1
Wales -12 1 £543 - 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
1 123 (42.56%) Apache Spark
2 68 (23.53%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (9.69%) Tomcat
4 25 (8.65%) WebSphere
5 24 (8.30%) Apache Geronimo
5 24 (8.30%) Apache ServiceMix
5 24 (8.30%) Red Hat Fuse
6 8 (2.77%) IIS
6 8 (2.77%) WebLogic
7 6 (2.08%) Apache Superset
7 6 (2.08%) Confluence
8 5 (1.73%) JBoss
8 5 (1.73%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (1.04%) Jupyter
10 3 (1.04%) nginx
10 3 (1.04%) SAS
11 2 (0.69%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.69%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Actimize
1 1 (0.35%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 143 (49.48%) AWS
2 103 (35.64%) Azure
3 73 (25.26%) GCP
4 48 (16.61%) Amazon S3
5 43 (14.88%) Power Platform
6 41 (14.19%) Serverless
7 39 (13.49%) AWS CloudFormation
8 27 (9.34%) AWS Lambda
9 26 (9.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 25 (8.65%) Azure DevOps
11 22 (7.61%) Azure Data Factory
12 21 (7.27%) Amazon SQS
12 21 (7.27%) Snowflake
13 19 (6.57%) Collibra
14 17 (5.88%) GitHub
15 15 (5.19%) dbt
16 14 (4.84%) AWS Step Functions
16 14 (4.84%) GitHub Actions
17 9 (3.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 8 (2.77%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.50%) Firewall
2 8 (2.77%) HTTP
3 6 (2.08%) DNS
4 5 (1.73%) Network Security
5 4 (1.38%) DHCP
6 3 (1.04%) SAN
6 3 (1.04%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.69%) FTP
7 2 (0.69%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.69%) SSH
7 2 (0.69%) VLAN
8 1 (0.35%) 4G
8 1 (0.35%) 5G
8 1 (0.35%) InfiniBand
8 1 (0.35%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.35%) LAN
8 1 (0.35%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.35%) Spanning Tree
8 1 (0.35%) VPN
8 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (17.99%) Data Lake
2 38 (13.15%) Power BI
3 37 (12.80%) Amazon Athena
4 35 (12.11%) Data Warehouse
5 34 (11.76%) Big Data
5 34 (11.76%) BigQuery
6 31 (10.73%) Delta Lake
7 21 (7.27%) Hadoop
8 19 (6.57%) PostgreSQL
8 19 (6.57%) SQL Server
9 18 (6.23%) Mixpanel
10 17 (5.88%) OLAP
10 17 (5.88%) OLTP
11 16 (5.54%) Amazon Redshift
11 16 (5.54%) Metadata
12 15 (5.19%) Flink
12 15 (5.19%) MySQL
13 14 (4.84%) NoSQL
14 11 (3.81%) Tableau
15 10 (3.46%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 48 (16.61%) Git
2 25 (8.65%) GitLab
3 20 (6.92%) JIRA
4 13 (4.50%) MLflow
5 10 (3.46%) Artifactory
6 9 (3.11%) Jenkins
7 7 (2.42%) JUnit
8 6 (2.08%) Bitbucket
8 6 (2.08%) Maven
9 5 (1.73%) Selenium
10 4 (1.38%) Eclipse
10 4 (1.38%) Gradle
10 4 (1.38%) IntelliJ
10 4 (1.38%) Mockito
11 3 (1.04%) Liquibase
12 2 (0.69%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.69%) ERwin
13 1 (0.35%) PowerDesigner
13 1 (0.35%) SonarQube
13 1 (0.35%) Storybook
General
1 51 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 50 (17.30%) Finance
3 28 (9.69%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (7.27%) Public Sector
5 14 (4.84%) Banking
6 6 (2.08%) Investment Banking
7 5 (1.73%) Billing
7 5 (1.73%) Front Office
8 4 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.38%) Marketing
8 4 (1.38%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.04%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.69%) Electronics
10 2 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.69%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.35%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.35%) French Language
11 1 (0.35%) Law
11 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 93 (32.18%) Data Engineer
2 43 (14.88%) Senior
3 38 (13.15%) Developer
4 28 (9.69%) Lead
5 24 (8.30%) Software Engineer
6 19 (6.57%) Architect
7 18 (6.23%) Principal Engineer
7 18 (6.23%) Senior Data Engineer
8 17 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
8 17 (5.88%) Lead Data Engineer
8 17 (5.88%) Principal Data Engineer
9 16 (5.54%) Java Developer
10 13 (4.50%) DevOps Engineer
11 10 (3.46%) Data Architect
12 9 (3.11%) Python Engineer
13 8 (2.77%) Java Engineer
13 8 (2.77%) Platform Engineer
13 8 (2.77%) Principal Software Engineer
14 7 (2.42%) Analyst
14 7 (2.42%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (22.15%) Kafka
2 34 (11.76%) PySpark
3 32 (11.07%) REST
4 29 (10.03%) Apache NiFi
5 27 (9.34%) Middleware
6 24 (8.30%) Apache Axis
6 24 (8.30%) Apache Camel
7 20 (6.92%) Spring
8 19 (6.57%) Great Expectations
9 17 (5.88%) JSON
10 12 (4.15%) Pandas
11 10 (3.46%) Apache Beam
11 10 (3.46%) NumPy
12 9 (3.11%) AWS CDK
12 9 (3.11%) Spring Boot
13 8 (2.77%) React
13 8 (2.77%) SOAP
14 7 (2.42%) Hibernate
14 7 (2.42%) Node.js
14 7 (2.42%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (12.80%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.15%) Management Information System
3 10 (3.46%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.11%) Algorithms
4 9 (3.11%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (2.77%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.42%) Clustering
6 7 (2.42%) Data Structures
6 7 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.08%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (1.73%) Freedom of Information
8 5 (1.73%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.73%) Replication
9 4 (1.38%) Equities
10 3 (1.04%) Distributed Applications
10 3 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.69%) Hedge funds
11 2 (0.69%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.69%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 42 (14.53%) Linux
2 26 (9.00%) Windows
3 21 (7.27%) Unix
4 9 (3.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (3.11%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.42%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.73%) Debian
7 4 (1.38%) Rocky
8 3 (1.04%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.69%) Solaris
9 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.35%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.35%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (41.18%) CI/CD
2 96 (33.22%) Analytics
3 92 (31.83%) Data Pipeline
4 89 (30.80%) DevOps
5 88 (30.45%) ETL
6 86 (29.76%) Data Engineering
7 84 (29.07%) Data Modelling
8 68 (23.53%) Agile
9 63 (21.80%) Data Governance
10 61 (21.11%) Problem-Solving
11 59 (20.42%) AI
12 57 (19.72%) Machine Learning
13 56 (19.38%) Infrastructure as Code
14 47 (16.26%) Business Intelligence
14 47 (16.26%) Software Engineering
15 46 (15.92%) Data Architecture
16 43 (14.88%) Observability
17 33 (11.42%) Data Science
17 33 (11.42%) Workflow
18 31 (10.73%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 165 (57.09%) SQL
2 157 (54.33%) Python
3 88 (30.45%) Java
4 28 (9.69%) Scala
5 24 (8.30%) C#
6 15 (5.19%) PowerShell
7 13 (4.50%) JavaScript
8 11 (3.81%) R
8 11 (3.81%) TypeScript
9 9 (3.11%) Shell Script
10 7 (2.42%) Bash
11 6 (2.08%) Perl
12 5 (1.73%) PHP
12 5 (1.73%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.04%) C++
13 3 (1.04%) Go
14 2 (0.69%) AWK
14 2 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.35%) Ruby
15 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 86 (29.76%) Security Cleared
2 68 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 24 (8.30%) DV Cleared
4 18 (6.23%) Degree
5 13 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.42%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (2.42%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.04%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.69%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.35%) CCNA
9 1 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.35%) RHCE
9 1 (0.35%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (22.84%) Data Quality
2 27 (9.34%) GDPR
3 13 (4.50%) QA
4 4 (1.38%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.35%) IFRS
6 1 (0.35%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.35%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.35%) MiFID
6 1 (0.35%) Solvency II
System Software
1 48 (16.61%) Docker
2 6 (2.08%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.38%) HDFS
3 4 (1.38%) NFS
4 3 (1.04%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.04%) Samba
5 2 (0.69%) iptables
5 2 (0.69%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.69%) Postfix
5 2 (0.69%) Varnish
5 2 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.35%) Ceph
6 1 (0.35%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.35%) KVM
6 1 (0.35%) Lustre
6 1 (0.35%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.35%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 65 (22.49%) Terraform
2 54 (18.69%) Kubernetes
3 26 (9.00%) Ansible
4 7 (2.42%) Grafana
5 4 (1.38%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.38%) Puppet
6 3 (1.04%) HAProxy
7 2 (0.69%) Apache Ranger
7 2 (0.69%) Kibana
7 2 (0.69%) logstash
7 2 (0.69%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.69%) SELinux
8 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.35%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.35%) SCCM
8 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.35%) systemd
8 1 (0.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 60 (20.76%) Databricks
2 43 (14.88%) Oracle
3 38 (13.15%) Google
4 24 (8.30%) TIBCO
5 20 (6.92%) Microsoft
6 16 (5.54%) Red Hat
7 13 (4.50%) Cloudera
8 12 (4.15%) Informatica
9 8 (2.77%) Confluent
9 8 (2.77%) ServiceNow
10 7 (2.42%) Cisco
10 7 (2.42%) Talend
11 5 (1.73%) Foundry
11 5 (1.73%) Palantir
11 5 (1.73%) Palo Alto
11 5 (1.73%) SolarWinds
11 5 (1.73%) Splunk
12 4 (1.38%) Guidewire
12 4 (1.38%) VMware
12 4 (1.38%) webMethods