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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 254 227
Rank change year-on-year -102 -27 +54
Contract jobs citing Apache 288 290 420
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.60% 0.99% 0.99%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.93% 8.91% 10.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 223 362
10th Percentile £390 £409 £405
25th Percentile £455 £472 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £620
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +4.84% +3.33%
75th Percentile £600 £838 £850
90th Percentile £674 £875 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £488 £510
% change year-on-year +7.69% -4.41% -7.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 8
10th Percentile £64.00 £32.42 £25.94
25th Percentile £65.25 £49.78 £34.50
Median hourly rate £75.00 £78.70 £57.25
Median % change year-on-year -4.70% +37.47% -26.60%
75th Percentile £82.50 £80.83 £74.44
90th Percentile £89.00 £82.11 £75.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £78.70 £57.25
% change year-on-year -4.70% +37.47% -26.60%

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 4,153 3,254 4,173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.64% 11.14% 9.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,812 2,164 2,898
10th Percentile £313 £281 £258
25th Percentile £404 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £681 £713 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £468 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +3.89% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 68 162
10th Percentile £15.61 £16.26 £13.03
25th Percentile £19.03 £22.38 £15.47
Median hourly rate £31.25 £47.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.21% +58.33% -33.33%
75th Percentile £64.00 £64.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £75.15 £77.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £52.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -33.33% +110.00% -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 19 May 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 19 May 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 19 May 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 -121 224 £525 -22.22% 102
London -105 132 £575 -23.33% 34
UK excluding London -61 123 £525 +7.69% 80
Work from Home -93 67 £525 -30.00% 51
Scotland +28 36 £525 +33.33% 4
North of England -54 32 £469 -1.32% 23
Midlands -53 21 £538 -6.52% 6
West Midlands -47 18 £550 -8.33% 6
South West -21 17 £450 -20.00% 21
North West -32 17 £525 +10.53% 12
North East -9 13 £385 -40.77% 10
South East -74 6 £538 +48.28% 19
East of England -29 5 £363 +13.93%
Northern Ireland -1 3 £463 +12.80%
Wales -11 3 £509 - 7
East Midlands -31 2 £548 +33.54%
Yorkshire -58 2 £469 -21.88% 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
1 137 (47.57%) Apache Spark
2 79 (27.43%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (9.72%) Tomcat
4 26 (9.03%) WebSphere
5 22 (7.64%) Apache Geronimo
5 22 (7.64%) Apache ServiceMix
5 22 (7.64%) Red Hat Fuse
6 9 (3.13%) Jupyter
7 7 (2.43%) IIS
8 5 (1.74%) Apache Superset
8 5 (1.74%) nginx
9 4 (1.39%) Confluence
9 4 (1.39%) WebLogic
10 3 (1.04%) CloudStack
10 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (1.04%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (1.04%) SAS
10 3 (1.04%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.69%) Apache Synapse
11 2 (0.69%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Magento
1 1 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.35%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 139 (48.26%) AWS
2 102 (35.42%) Azure
3 71 (24.65%) GCP
4 44 (15.28%) Amazon S3
5 39 (13.54%) Power Platform
6 31 (10.76%) AWS CloudFormation
7 30 (10.42%) Serverless
8 27 (9.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 26 (9.03%) Azure DevOps
10 24 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
11 22 (7.64%) Azure Data Factory
12 21 (7.29%) Amazon SQS
13 17 (5.90%) GitHub
14 16 (5.56%) Collibra
14 16 (5.56%) Snowflake
15 14 (4.86%) dbt
16 12 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
17 11 (3.82%) AWS Step Functions
18 9 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 8 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.47%) DNS
2 9 (3.13%) Firewall
3 6 (2.08%) HTTP
3 6 (2.08%) SAN
4 3 (1.04%) NAS
4 3 (1.04%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.04%) VLAN
5 2 (0.69%) DHCP
5 2 (0.69%) FTP
5 2 (0.69%) iSCSI
5 2 (0.69%) Network Security
5 2 (0.69%) SSH
5 2 (0.69%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (0.35%) InfiniBand
6 1 (0.35%) Intranet
6 1 (0.35%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.35%) LAN
6 1 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.35%) SSL
6 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (15.28%) Data Lake
2 42 (14.58%) Big Data
3 41 (14.24%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (11.46%) Power BI
5 32 (11.11%) BigQuery
6 31 (10.76%) Delta Lake
7 30 (10.42%) Amazon Athena
8 25 (8.68%) SQL Server
9 23 (7.99%) Hadoop
10 21 (7.29%) PostgreSQL
11 20 (6.94%) Flink
12 16 (5.56%) Mixpanel
13 15 (5.21%) MySQL
13 15 (5.21%) NoSQL
13 15 (5.21%) OLAP
13 15 (5.21%) OLTP
14 14 (4.86%) Metadata
15 13 (4.51%) Relational Database
16 12 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
16 12 (4.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 56 (19.44%) Git
2 28 (9.72%) GitLab
3 22 (7.64%) JIRA
4 14 (4.86%) MLflow
5 12 (4.17%) Jenkins
6 9 (3.13%) Artifactory
7 8 (2.78%) Maven
8 5 (1.74%) Gradle
8 5 (1.74%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.39%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.04%) Selenium
11 1 (0.35%) Capybara
11 1 (0.35%) ER Studio
11 1 (0.35%) git-flow
11 1 (0.35%) minitest
11 1 (0.35%) Mockito
11 1 (0.35%) PHPUnit
11 1 (0.35%) RSpec
11 1 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.35%) Storybook
General
1 54 (18.75%) Finance
2 41 (14.24%) Social Skills
3 32 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (7.29%) Public Sector
5 13 (4.51%) Banking
6 7 (2.43%) Billing
7 4 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.39%) Front Office
7 4 (1.39%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.04%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.04%) Marketing
9 2 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.69%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.35%) Dutch Language
10 1 (0.35%) French Language
10 1 (0.35%) Law
10 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.35%) Prime Brokerage
10 1 (0.35%) Publishing
10 1 (0.35%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 102 (35.42%) Data Engineer
2 49 (17.01%) Senior
3 42 (14.58%) Developer
4 29 (10.07%) Lead
5 28 (9.72%) Architect
6 21 (7.29%) Senior Data Engineer
7 19 (6.60%) Java Developer
7 19 (6.60%) Software Engineer
8 17 (5.90%) Lead Data Engineer
9 16 (5.56%) Principal Engineer
10 15 (5.21%) Principal Data Engineer
11 14 (4.86%) DevOps Engineer
12 11 (3.82%) AWS Engineer
12 11 (3.82%) Data Architect
13 9 (3.13%) Analyst
13 9 (3.13%) Python Engineer
14 8 (2.78%) Platform Engineer
14 8 (2.78%) Senior Developer
15 7 (2.43%) Technical Leader
16 6 (2.08%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (23.96%) Kafka
2 40 (13.89%) PySpark
3 26 (9.03%) REST
4 25 (8.68%) Middleware
5 23 (7.99%) Spring
6 22 (7.64%) Apache Axis
6 22 (7.64%) Apache Camel
7 18 (6.25%) Great Expectations
8 17 (5.90%) Apache NiFi
9 16 (5.56%) Spring Boot
10 15 (5.21%) JSON
11 14 (4.86%) Apache Beam
12 10 (3.47%) Pandas
13 9 (3.13%) AWS CDK
13 9 (3.13%) SOAP
14 8 (2.78%) NumPy
15 7 (2.43%) OAuth
16 6 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
16 6 (2.08%) PyTorch
17 5 (1.74%) Apache Tika
Miscellaneous
1 38 (13.19%) Cloud Native
2 15 (5.21%) Management Information System
3 11 (3.82%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.13%) Algorithms
4 9 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (2.78%) Data Structures
5 8 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.43%) Clustering
6 7 (2.43%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.74%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (1.74%) Freedom of Information
8 5 (1.74%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.74%) Replication
9 4 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.39%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.04%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.04%) Distributed Applications
10 3 (1.04%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 47 (16.32%) Linux
2 21 (7.29%) Windows
3 17 (5.90%) Unix
4 12 (4.17%) Ubuntu
5 11 (3.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (3.13%) Windows Server
7 6 (2.08%) Debian
8 5 (1.74%) Rocky
9 3 (1.04%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.69%) CentOS
10 2 (0.69%) Solaris
10 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (41.32%) CI/CD
2 94 (32.64%) Data Pipeline
3 92 (31.94%) Analytics
4 88 (30.56%) Data Engineering
4 88 (30.56%) DevOps
5 86 (29.86%) Data Modelling
6 85 (29.51%) ETL
7 67 (23.26%) AI
8 63 (21.88%) Agile
9 58 (20.14%) Data Governance
10 55 (19.10%) Machine Learning
11 54 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
12 53 (18.40%) Infrastructure as Code
13 48 (16.67%) Containerisation
14 43 (14.93%) Observability
15 39 (13.54%) Business Intelligence
15 39 (13.54%) Data Architecture
16 38 (13.19%) Software Engineering
17 37 (12.85%) Workflow
18 36 (12.50%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 172 (59.72%) Python
2 170 (59.03%) SQL
3 85 (29.51%) Java
4 23 (7.99%) Scala
5 18 (6.25%) C#
6 14 (4.86%) Shell Script
7 13 (4.51%) PowerShell
8 12 (4.17%) Bash
8 12 (4.17%) R
9 11 (3.82%) JavaScript
10 8 (2.78%) TypeScript
11 7 (2.43%) Perl
12 6 (2.08%) Go
12 6 (2.08%) PHP
13 4 (1.39%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.39%) Ruby
14 2 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.69%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.35%) Korn
15 1 (0.35%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 83 (28.82%) Security Cleared
2 69 (23.96%) SC Cleared
3 23 (7.99%) Degree
4 17 (5.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (5.21%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (2.78%) Master's Degree
7 7 (2.43%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.74%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.04%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.69%) CCNP
10 2 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.35%) CCNA
11 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.35%) RHCE
11 1 (0.35%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (21.53%) Data Quality
2 24 (8.33%) GDPR
3 10 (3.47%) QA
4 6 (2.08%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.04%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.69%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.69%) WCAG
8 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.35%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 52 (18.06%) Docker
2 8 (2.78%) NFS
3 6 (2.08%) Varnish
4 5 (1.74%) Postfix
4 5 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.39%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.39%) HDFS
5 4 (1.39%) Sendmail
6 3 (1.04%) Samba
7 2 (0.69%) Ceph
7 2 (0.69%) iptables
7 2 (0.69%) KVM
7 2 (0.69%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.69%) vSphere
8 1 (0.35%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.35%) Lustre
8 1 (0.35%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 64 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 62 (21.53%) Terraform
3 26 (9.03%) Ansible
4 10 (3.47%) Grafana
5 6 (2.08%) HAProxy
6 5 (1.74%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.39%) SELinux
8 3 (1.04%) Kibana
9 2 (0.69%) Apache Ranger
9 2 (0.69%) Check_MK
9 2 (0.69%) logstash
9 2 (0.69%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.69%) Puppet
9 2 (0.69%) systemd
10 1 (0.35%) Podman
10 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.35%) Rundeck
10 1 (0.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 59 (20.49%) Databricks
2 40 (13.89%) Oracle
3 36 (12.50%) Google
4 25 (8.68%) Microsoft
5 22 (7.64%) TIBCO
6 14 (4.86%) Red Hat
7 10 (3.47%) Cloudera
8 9 (3.13%) Informatica
8 9 (3.13%) ServiceNow
9 8 (2.78%) Guidewire
10 7 (2.43%) Talend
10 7 (2.43%) VMware
11 6 (2.08%) Cisco
12 5 (1.74%) Confluent
12 5 (1.74%) IBM
13 4 (1.39%) Hortonworks
13 4 (1.39%) Trend Micro
14 3 (1.04%) Foundry
14 3 (1.04%) SolarWinds
14 3 (1.04%) Splunk