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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 267 299
Rank change year-on-year -83 +32 -10
Contract jobs citing Apache 278 279 314
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.67% 0.91% 0.71%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.83% 7.87% 7.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 207 247
10th Percentile £390 £401 £350
25th Percentile £450 £467 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £530
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +22.64% -11.67%
75th Percentile £600 £838 £750
90th Percentile £725 £875 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £510
% change year-on-year +5.26% -6.86% -12.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 7
10th Percentile £63.15 - £21.89
25th Percentile £64.00 - £22.00
Median hourly rate £75.00 £74.44 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.75% +144.07% -12.82%
75th Percentile £82.00 - £53.75
90th Percentile £84.20 - £63.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £74.44 £52.50
% change year-on-year +0.75% +41.79% +50.06%

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 4,071 3,546 4,283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.77% 11.59% 9.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,812 2,217 2,876
10th Percentile £304 £262 £250
25th Percentile £402 £383 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% -4.81%
75th Percentile £588 £610 £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 119 69 168
10th Percentile £15.00 £17.00 £13.97
25th Percentile £17.74 £22.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £27.21 £41.00 £26.39
Median % change year-on-year -33.63% +55.36% +19.09%
75th Percentile £69.44 £63.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £81.20 £66.00 £68.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.12 £48.16 £24.00
% change year-on-year -22.92% +100.66% +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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -111 223 £525 -22.22% 77
UK excluding London -30 137 £500 +5.26% 59
London -95 115 £575 -14.81% 28
Work from Home -86 58 £512 -31.76% 29
North of England -41 36 £473 -12.00% 17
Scotland +40 33 £525 +1.20% 7
Midlands -33 30 £550 +17.65% 5
North West -16 25 £475 - 9
West Midlands -29 25 £500 -14.89% 4
South West -21 17 £625 +5.26% 14
South East -51 12 £555 +38.75% 14
North East -7 7 £425 -34.62% 5
East of England -25 7 £363 +13.99% 3
East Midlands -19 5 £663 +84.67% 1
Yorkshire -66 4 £475 -11.63% 3
Northern Ireland -3 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
1 105 (37.77%) Apache Spark
2 68 (24.46%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (8.99%) Tomcat
3 25 (8.99%) WebSphere
4 20 (7.19%) Apache Geronimo
4 20 (7.19%) Apache ServiceMix
4 20 (7.19%) Red Hat Fuse
5 16 (5.76%) WebLogic
6 15 (5.40%) JBoss
7 12 (4.32%) IIS
8 7 (2.52%) Confluence
9 6 (2.16%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (1.80%) iPlanet
10 5 (1.80%) WebSphere Application Server
11 4 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (1.44%) nginx
11 4 (1.44%) SAS
12 3 (1.08%) Apache Superset
12 3 (1.08%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.72%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 3 (1.08%) 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
1 142 (51.08%) AWS
2 92 (33.09%) Azure
3 69 (24.82%) GCP
4 43 (15.47%) Serverless
5 42 (15.11%) Amazon S3
6 37 (13.31%) AWS CloudFormation
6 37 (13.31%) Power Platform
7 24 (8.63%) AWS Lambda
7 24 (8.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 23 (8.27%) Snowflake
9 18 (6.47%) Amazon SQS
9 18 (6.47%) Azure Data Factory
9 18 (6.47%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (6.12%) dbt
11 16 (5.76%) Collibra
12 12 (4.32%) AWS Step Functions
13 11 (3.96%) GitHub
14 9 (3.24%) Cloud Computing
14 9 (3.24%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (2.88%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.04%) Firewall
2 11 (3.96%) HTTP
3 6 (2.16%) DNS
3 6 (2.16%) Kerberos
4 5 (1.80%) Network Security
5 4 (1.44%) DHCP
6 3 (1.08%) SAN
6 3 (1.08%) SSL
6 3 (1.08%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.72%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.36%) 4G
8 1 (0.36%) 5G
8 1 (0.36%) InfiniBand
8 1 (0.36%) Intranet
8 1 (0.36%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.36%) Spanning Tree
8 1 (0.36%) SSH
8 1 (0.36%) VLAN
8 1 (0.36%) VPN
8 1 (0.36%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (16.55%) Data Lake
2 40 (14.39%) Data Warehouse
3 38 (13.67%) Big Data
4 32 (11.51%) Power BI
5 31 (11.15%) Amazon Athena
6 30 (10.79%) BigQuery
7 26 (9.35%) Hadoop
8 21 (7.55%) Delta Lake
9 19 (6.83%) PostgreSQL
10 18 (6.47%) SQL Server
11 17 (6.12%) MongoDB
12 16 (5.76%) NoSQL
13 15 (5.40%) Metadata
13 15 (5.40%) Mixpanel
14 14 (5.04%) MySQL
14 14 (5.04%) OLAP
14 14 (5.04%) OLTP
15 13 (4.68%) Amazon Redshift
15 13 (4.68%) Relational Database
16 11 (3.96%) Flink
Development Applications
1 52 (18.71%) Git
2 24 (8.63%) GitLab
3 14 (5.04%) Jenkins
3 14 (5.04%) JIRA
4 12 (4.32%) JUnit
4 12 (4.32%) MLflow
5 10 (3.60%) Artifactory
5 10 (3.60%) Selenium
6 9 (3.24%) Eclipse
6 9 (3.24%) IntelliJ
7 6 (2.16%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.80%) Bitbucket Server
8 5 (1.80%) CA Release Automation
8 5 (1.80%) Maven
8 5 (1.80%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.44%) Mockito
10 3 (1.08%) Gradle
10 3 (1.08%) Liquibase
11 2 (0.72%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.72%) ERwin
General
1 58 (20.86%) Social Skills
2 47 (16.91%) Finance
3 29 (10.43%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (7.19%) Banking
4 20 (7.19%) Public Sector
5 9 (3.24%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (2.88%) Investment Banking
7 7 (2.52%) Front Office
8 5 (1.80%) Billing
9 4 (1.44%) Marketing
9 4 (1.44%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.08%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.72%) Electronics
11 2 (0.72%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.72%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.72%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.36%) Games
12 1 (0.36%) Law
Job Titles
1 86 (30.94%) Data Engineer
2 48 (17.27%) Senior
3 33 (11.87%) Developer
4 27 (9.71%) Software Engineer
5 26 (9.35%) Lead
6 19 (6.83%) AWS Engineer
7 18 (6.47%) Senior Data Engineer
8 17 (6.12%) Architect
8 17 (6.12%) DevOps Engineer
9 14 (5.04%) Lead Data Engineer
9 14 (5.04%) Principal Engineer
10 13 (4.68%) Principal Data Engineer
10 13 (4.68%) Python Engineer
11 11 (3.96%) Java Developer
12 10 (3.60%) Senior Software Engineer
13 9 (3.24%) AWS Data Engineer
13 9 (3.24%) Data Architect
14 8 (2.88%) Data Analytics Engineer
14 8 (2.88%) Java Engineer
14 8 (2.88%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (21.58%) Kafka
2 38 (13.67%) REST
3 36 (12.95%) Apache NiFi
4 30 (10.79%) PySpark
5 26 (9.35%) Middleware
6 21 (7.55%) Spring
7 20 (7.19%) Apache Axis
7 20 (7.19%) Apache Camel
8 18 (6.47%) Pandas
9 15 (5.40%) Great Expectations
9 15 (5.40%) NumPy
10 13 (4.68%) JSON
10 13 (4.68%) SOAP
11 12 (4.32%) Hibernate
11 12 (4.32%) XML
12 11 (3.96%) EJB
12 11 (3.96%) React
13 10 (3.60%) HTML
13 10 (3.60%) OAuth
13 10 (3.60%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.35%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.32%) Algorithms
2 12 (4.32%) Management Information System
3 10 (3.60%) Data Structures
3 10 (3.60%) Product Ownership
4 8 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (2.52%) Distributed Computing
6 6 (2.16%) Clustering
6 6 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.16%) Equities
7 5 (1.80%) Freedom of Information
7 5 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.80%) Replication
7 5 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.44%) Derivative
8 4 (1.44%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.44%) Hedge funds
8 4 (1.44%) Pricing Data
9 3 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 45 (16.19%) Linux
2 33 (11.87%) Windows
3 29 (10.43%) Unix
4 12 (4.32%) Windows Server
5 10 (3.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (2.52%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.44%) CentOS
7 4 (1.44%) Debian
8 3 (1.08%) 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
1 115 (41.37%) CI/CD
2 91 (32.73%) DevOps
3 87 (31.29%) Analytics
4 83 (29.86%) ETL
5 82 (29.50%) Data Engineering
5 82 (29.50%) Data Pipeline
6 72 (25.90%) Agile
7 70 (25.18%) Data Modelling
8 67 (24.10%) Problem-Solving
9 58 (20.86%) Data Governance
10 56 (20.14%) Machine Learning
11 54 (19.42%) AI
12 52 (18.71%) Infrastructure as Code
12 52 (18.71%) Software Engineering
13 41 (14.75%) Business Intelligence
14 39 (14.03%) Data Architecture
15 38 (13.67%) Observability
16 34 (12.23%) Microservices
17 32 (11.51%) Data Science
18 31 (11.15%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 147 (52.88%) Python
2 141 (50.72%) SQL
3 86 (30.94%) Java
4 32 (11.51%) Scala
5 23 (8.27%) C#
6 17 (6.12%) JavaScript
7 15 (5.40%) PowerShell
8 12 (4.32%) Shell Script
9 8 (2.88%) Bash
10 7 (2.52%) TypeScript
11 5 (1.80%) C++
11 5 (1.80%) Groovy
11 5 (1.80%) PL/SQL
11 5 (1.80%) R
12 4 (1.44%) Perl
13 3 (1.08%) Go
13 3 (1.08%) PHP
14 2 (0.72%) AWK
14 2 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.36%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 75 (26.98%) Security Cleared
2 55 (19.78%) SC Cleared
3 30 (10.79%) DV Cleared
4 18 (6.47%) Degree
5 11 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.24%) AWS Certification
6 9 (3.24%) Master's Degree
7 8 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.08%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.08%) RHCE
9 2 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.36%) CCNA
10 1 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.36%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.36%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (23.74%) Data Quality
2 24 (8.63%) GDPR
3 13 (4.68%) QA
4 6 (2.16%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.72%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
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 47 (16.91%) Docker
2 11 (3.96%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.80%) HDFS
3 5 (1.80%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 3 (1.08%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.72%) NFS
5 2 (0.72%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.72%) Samba
5 2 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.36%) Ceph
6 1 (0.36%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.36%) iptables
6 1 (0.36%) KVM
6 1 (0.36%) Lustre
6 1 (0.36%) Postfix
6 1 (0.36%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.36%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 59 (21.22%) Terraform
2 44 (15.83%) Kubernetes
3 29 (10.43%) Ansible
4 9 (3.24%) Puppet
5 6 (2.16%) Grafana
5 6 (2.16%) Progress Chef
5 6 (2.16%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.16%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (1.80%) CA Single Sign-On
6 5 (1.80%) CA Wily
6 5 (1.80%) Tivoli
7 2 (0.72%) HAProxy
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%) Argo
8 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.36%) SELinux
Vendors
1 51 (18.35%) Databricks
2 50 (17.99%) Oracle
3 36 (12.95%) Google
4 22 (7.91%) Microsoft
5 20 (7.19%) TIBCO
6 18 (6.47%) Red Hat
7 12 (4.32%) Informatica
7 12 (4.32%) Splunk
8 9 (3.24%) IBM
8 9 (3.24%) webMethods
9 8 (2.88%) Cisco
9 8 (2.88%) Cloudera
9 8 (2.88%) ServiceNow
10 7 (2.52%) AppDynamics
10 7 (2.52%) Talend
11 6 (2.16%) Foundry
11 6 (2.16%) Palantir
12 5 (1.80%) Broadcom
12 5 (1.80%) SolarWinds
12 5 (1.80%) VMware