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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 284 189
Rank change year-on-year -90 -95 +111
Contract jobs citing Apache 323 312 509
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.59% 0.95% 1.32%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.86% 8.61% 12.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 230 430
10th Percentile £363 £362 £418
25th Percentile £410 £463 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £750
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -26.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £623 £738 £875
90th Percentile £700 £825 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 8
10th Percentile £66.16 £78.96 £43.40
25th Percentile £67.47 £79.35 £53.56
Median hourly rate £69.99 £80.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.52% +11.11% -7.69%
75th Percentile £81.46 £81.48 £74.11
90th Percentile £86.23 £82.37 £74.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £69.99 £80.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year -12.52% +11.11% -7.69%

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 4,709 3,624 4,151
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.63% 10.98% 10.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,086 2,347 2,754
10th Percentile £281 £278 £275
25th Percentile £402 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £483 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.63% -8.10% +2.94%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £713 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £450 £470
% change year-on-year +2.22% -4.26% -1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 94 88
10th Percentile £14.96 £17.53 £17.08
25th Percentile £17.31 £24.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £32.50 £39.28 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.26% +3.37% -29.63%
75th Percentile £62.72 £65.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.22 £77.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £41.26 £48.56
% change year-on-year -21.22% -15.04% +6.73%

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 12 September 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 12 September 2026.

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 12 September 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 -119 277 £513 -6.99% 242
London -73 168 £550 -21.43% 161
UK excluding London -100 124 £425 -15.00% 136
Work from Home -68 103 £500 -33.33% 164
North of England -60 51 £406 -6.72% 22
North East -17 29 £385 -30.00% 4
South West -35 23 £460 -10.68% 26
Scotland -19 21 £409 -18.20% 32
Midlands -61 13 £460 -13.86% 4
North West -61 13 £530 +48.04% 16
South East -59 12 £450 -25.00% 38
West Midlands -59 11 £478 -11.33% 3
Yorkshire -45 9 £469 -1.32% 2
East of England -26 3 £456 -17.05% 11
Wales -17 2 £475 - 1
East Midlands -19 1 £495 +17.86% 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
1 175 (54.18%) Apache Spark
2 158 (48.92%) Apache Airflow
3 35 (10.84%) Jupyter
4 17 (5.26%) nginx
5 13 (4.02%) Confluence
6 9 (2.79%) Apache Superset
7 8 (2.48%) Tomcat
8 6 (1.86%) IIS
9 5 (1.55%) CloudStack
10 4 (1.24%) SharePoint
10 4 (1.24%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.93%) JBoss
11 3 (0.93%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.31%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.31%) CMS
12 1 (0.31%) Luigi
12 1 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.31%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Magento
1 1 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.31%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 190 (58.82%) AWS
2 115 (35.60%) Azure
3 87 (26.93%) GCP
4 57 (17.65%) Amazon S3
5 55 (17.03%) dbt
6 40 (12.38%) Snowflake
7 35 (10.84%) Serverless
8 32 (9.91%) Azure DevOps
9 31 (9.60%) AWS Lambda
9 31 (9.60%) Azure Data Factory
10 30 (9.29%) Power Platform
11 28 (8.67%) Amazon EMR
12 22 (6.81%) GitHub
13 16 (4.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 15 (4.64%) Azure Databricks
15 13 (4.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 12 (3.72%) Amazon EC2
17 11 (3.41%) Amazon Kinesis
17 11 (3.41%) Cloud Composer
17 11 (3.41%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.95%) DNS
2 13 (4.02%) Firewall
3 5 (1.55%) DHCP
3 5 (1.55%) NAS
3 5 (1.55%) SAN
3 5 (1.55%) SSL
4 3 (0.93%) HTTP
4 3 (0.93%) HTTPS
4 3 (0.93%) Network Security
4 3 (0.93%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (0.93%) Structured Cabling
5 2 (0.62%) BIG-IP
5 2 (0.62%) VLAN
5 2 (0.62%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.31%) FTP
6 1 (0.31%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (21.98%) Data Warehouse
2 51 (15.79%) Data Lake
3 44 (13.62%) BigQuery
4 43 (13.31%) Delta Lake
5 40 (12.38%) Big Data
6 36 (11.15%) Flink
7 32 (9.91%) Metadata
8 31 (9.60%) Amazon Athena
9 29 (8.98%) Power BI
10 25 (7.74%) PostgreSQL
11 23 (7.12%) Amazon Redshift
12 21 (6.50%) SQL Server
13 20 (6.19%) Apache Iceberg
14 19 (5.88%) Hadoop
15 18 (5.57%) Relational Database
16 17 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
16 17 (5.26%) NoSQL
17 14 (4.33%) Tableau
18 11 (3.41%) DynamoDB
18 11 (3.41%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 55 (17.03%) GitLab
2 49 (15.17%) Git
3 23 (7.12%) JIRA
4 14 (4.33%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.48%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (1.86%) Maven
7 5 (1.55%) Artifactory
7 5 (1.55%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.55%) MLflow
8 4 (1.24%) Gradle
9 2 (0.62%) JMeter
9 2 (0.62%) RStudio
9 2 (0.62%) Selenium
9 2 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.62%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.31%) Ant
10 1 (0.31%) Capybara
10 1 (0.31%) RSpec
10 1 (0.31%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 76 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 69 (21.36%) Finance
3 49 (15.17%) Public Sector
4 42 (13.00%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (7.74%) Banking
6 8 (2.48%) Publishing
7 7 (2.17%) Financial Institution
7 7 (2.17%) Marketing
8 6 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.86%) Military
9 5 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.24%) Billing
11 3 (0.93%) Law
11 3 (0.93%) Legal
12 2 (0.62%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.62%) Retail
13 1 (0.31%) Dutch Language
13 1 (0.31%) French Language
13 1 (0.31%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 132 (40.87%) Data Engineer
2 59 (18.27%) Senior
3 46 (14.24%) Architect
4 39 (12.07%) Developer
5 36 (11.15%) Senior Data Engineer
6 26 (8.05%) DevOps Engineer
7 25 (7.74%) Lead
8 22 (6.81%) Data Architect
9 20 (6.19%) Databricks Engineer
10 17 (5.26%) Java Developer
11 14 (4.33%) Databricks Data Engineer
11 14 (4.33%) Python Engineer
12 11 (3.41%) Cloud Engineer
12 11 (3.41%) Python Data Engineer
12 11 (3.41%) Software Engineer
13 10 (3.10%) Lead Data Engineer
14 9 (2.79%) AWS Engineer
14 9 (2.79%) Senior Developer
14 9 (2.79%) Technical Leader
15 8 (2.48%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (29.72%) Terraform
2 82 (25.39%) PySpark
3 71 (21.98%) Kafka
4 29 (8.98%) REST
5 22 (6.81%) Spring
5 22 (6.81%) Spring Boot
6 19 (5.88%) JSON
7 17 (5.26%) Apache Beam
8 16 (4.95%) Apache NiFi
9 10 (3.10%) SOAP
10 9 (2.79%) Spark Streaming
11 8 (2.48%) Apache Avro
11 8 (2.48%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (2.48%) Pandas
11 8 (2.48%) YAML
12 7 (2.17%) OAuth
13 6 (1.86%) LAMP
13 6 (1.86%) XML
14 5 (1.55%) Middleware
14 5 (1.55%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 54 (16.72%) Cloud Native
2 24 (7.43%) Product Ownership
3 16 (4.95%) Data Structures
4 13 (4.02%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (3.72%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (3.41%) Management Information System
6 11 (3.41%) Onboarding
7 9 (2.79%) Data Fabric
7 9 (2.79%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (2.48%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.86%) Clustering
10 5 (1.55%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.55%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.55%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.55%) Replication
11 4 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.24%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.93%) Distributed Applications
12 3 (0.93%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 49 (15.17%) Linux
2 18 (5.57%) Windows
3 16 (4.95%) Ubuntu
4 11 (3.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (3.10%) Unix
6 6 (1.86%) Windows Server
7 5 (1.55%) Windows 10
8 4 (1.24%) CentOS
8 4 (1.24%) Rocky
9 3 (0.93%) Debian
10 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.31%) Solaris
11 1 (0.31%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (50.46%) CI/CD
2 142 (43.96%) Data Pipeline
3 134 (41.49%) Data Engineering
4 115 (35.60%) Analytics
5 112 (34.67%) DevOps
6 105 (32.51%) ETL
7 102 (31.58%) Data Modelling
8 100 (30.96%) Agile
9 83 (25.70%) Infrastructure as Code
10 75 (23.22%) AI
10 75 (23.22%) Containerisation
11 64 (19.81%) Data Governance
12 55 (17.03%) Machine Learning
13 53 (16.41%) Migration
14 51 (15.79%) Lakehouse
15 43 (13.31%) Business Intelligence
15 43 (13.31%) Problem-Solving
15 43 (13.31%) Workflow
16 40 (12.38%) Data Architecture
16 40 (12.38%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 223 (69.04%) Python
2 169 (52.32%) SQL
3 65 (20.12%) Java
4 30 (9.29%) Scala
5 24 (7.43%) Bash
6 23 (7.12%) PowerShell
7 17 (5.26%) Shell Script
8 9 (2.79%) Go
9 8 (2.48%) R
9 8 (2.48%) TypeScript
10 7 (2.17%) JavaScript
10 7 (2.17%) PL/SQL
11 5 (1.55%) Groovy
11 5 (1.55%) Perl
12 4 (1.24%) Bicep
12 4 (1.24%) Ruby
13 3 (0.93%) C#
13 3 (0.93%) Cypher
13 3 (0.93%) Gremlin
13 3 (0.93%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 104 (32.20%) Security Cleared
2 87 (26.93%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.88%) Degree
4 16 (4.95%) DV Cleared
5 15 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (3.10%) AWS Certification
7 6 (1.86%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.55%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.93%) CCNP
9 3 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.93%) CSPO
9 3 (0.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.62%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.31%) PMP
11 1 (0.31%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.31%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (26.63%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.02%) GDPR
3 10 (3.10%) QA
4 9 (2.79%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.24%) Government Security Classifications
6 3 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.93%) NCSC
7 2 (0.62%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.62%) SLA
7 2 (0.62%) WCAG
8 1 (0.31%) NIST
8 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 99 (30.65%) Docker
2 13 (4.02%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.17%) Postfix
4 5 (1.55%) NFS
4 5 (1.55%) Varnish
4 5 (1.55%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.93%) Dovecot
6 3 (0.93%) Sendmail
6 3 (0.93%) vSphere
7 2 (0.62%) Ceph
7 2 (0.62%) KVM
7 2 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 81 (25.08%) Kubernetes
2 26 (8.05%) Ansible
3 16 (4.95%) Grafana
4 12 (3.72%) Prometheus
5 9 (2.79%) HAProxy
6 5 (1.55%) Packer
6 5 (1.55%) Puppet
6 5 (1.55%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.93%) Apache Ranger
7 3 (0.93%) Check_MK
7 3 (0.93%) Kibana
7 3 (0.93%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.93%) SELinux
8 2 (0.62%) Control-M
8 2 (0.62%) systemd
9 1 (0.31%) logstash
9 1 (0.31%) Podman
9 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 88 (27.24%) Databricks
2 38 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 37 (11.46%) Google
4 17 (5.26%) Trend Micro
5 12 (3.72%) Oracle
6 11 (3.41%) Red Hat
7 10 (3.10%) VMware
8 9 (2.79%) Cloudera
8 9 (2.79%) Informatica
8 9 (2.79%) ServiceNow
9 8 (2.48%) Splunk
10 7 (2.17%) Cisco
11 6 (1.86%) Guidewire
12 5 (1.55%) Confluent
12 5 (1.55%) New Relic
12 5 (1.55%) Talend
12 5 (1.55%) Tanium
13 4 (1.24%) IBM
13 4 (1.24%) Teradata
14 3 (0.93%) SAP