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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 275 193
Rank change year-on-year -79 -82 +110
Contract jobs citing Apache 326 309 540
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.62% 0.95% 1.26%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.07% 8.69% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 234 460
10th Percentile £363 £391 £413
25th Percentile £425 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £725
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -17.24% +20.83%
75th Percentile £588 £825 £850
90th Percentile £675 £868 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -13.64% +15.79% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 11
10th Percentile £60.47 £38.21 £36.75
25th Percentile £64.00 £64.24 £48.75
Median hourly rate £67.47 £79.35 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.97% +13.36% -10.26%
75th Percentile £71.50 £80.74 £74.44
90th Percentile £78.00 £82.07 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £79.35 £70.00
% change year-on-year -14.97% +13.36% -10.26%

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 4,613 3,557 4,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.77% 10.96% 10.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,048 2,322 3,099
10th Percentile £308 £290 £263
25th Percentile £404 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £725 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 86 153
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.92 £13.54
25th Percentile £19.14 £26.11 £16.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £47.12 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.72% +44.98% -38.10%
75th Percentile £62.50 £66.00 £51.91
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.73 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £49.81 £33.56
% change year-on-year -29.73% +48.43% -26.25%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -126 256 £512 -14.70% 151
London -95 145 £550 -25.42% 53
UK excluding London -60 144 £475 -13.64% 128
Work from Home -91 88 £512 -31.71% 108
North of England -42 57 £425 - 37
Scotland +24 39 £525 +3.70% 18
North East -9 31 £385 -40.77% 8
North West -39 21 £525 +46.65% 20
South West -25 19 £450 -20.00% 22
Midlands -50 17 £498 -13.48% 12
West Midlands -59 14 £500 -16.67% 6
South East -78 8 £485 -19.17% 26
Yorkshire -58 5 £475 -24.00% 9
Wales -11 3 £509 - 3
East Midlands -13 2 £548 +33.54% 6
East of England -31 2 £400 -22.52% 5

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
1 167 (51.23%) Apache Spark
2 119 (36.50%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (10.12%) Tomcat
4 28 (8.59%) Jupyter
5 27 (8.28%) WebSphere
6 22 (6.75%) Apache Geronimo
6 22 (6.75%) Apache ServiceMix
6 22 (6.75%) Red Hat Fuse
7 12 (3.68%) nginx
8 7 (2.15%) Apache Superset
8 7 (2.15%) IIS
9 6 (1.84%) Confluence
10 5 (1.53%) CloudStack
10 5 (1.53%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.92%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.61%) Apache Synapse
12 2 (0.61%) JBoss
12 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
13 1 (0.31%) Luigi
13 1 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (0.61%) 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
1 172 (52.76%) AWS
2 117 (35.89%) Azure
3 85 (26.07%) GCP
4 53 (16.26%) Amazon S3
5 39 (11.96%) Power Platform
6 32 (9.82%) Azure DevOps
6 32 (9.82%) dbt
7 31 (9.51%) Serverless
8 28 (8.59%) AWS Lambda
9 27 (8.28%) Snowflake
10 25 (7.67%) Amazon EMR
11 22 (6.75%) Azure Data Factory
11 22 (6.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 20 (6.13%) GitHub
13 18 (5.52%) AWS CloudFormation
14 16 (4.91%) Amazon SQS
15 14 (4.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 14 (4.29%) GitHub Actions
16 12 (3.68%) Collibra
17 9 (2.76%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.60%) DNS
2 12 (3.68%) Firewall
3 7 (2.15%) HTTP
4 6 (1.84%) SAN
5 5 (1.53%) NAS
6 3 (0.92%) Structured Cabling
6 3 (0.92%) VLAN
7 2 (0.61%) BIG-IP
7 2 (0.61%) DHCP
7 2 (0.61%) FTP
7 2 (0.61%) Network Security
7 2 (0.61%) VXLAN
8 1 (0.31%) 4G
8 1 (0.31%) 5G
8 1 (0.31%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.31%) Intranet
8 1 (0.31%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.31%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.31%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.31%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (16.87%) Data Warehouse
2 46 (14.11%) Data Lake
3 45 (13.80%) Big Data
4 34 (10.43%) BigQuery
5 33 (10.12%) Power BI
6 32 (9.82%) Delta Lake
7 31 (9.51%) Amazon Athena
8 28 (8.59%) SQL Server
9 27 (8.28%) Flink
10 24 (7.36%) Hadoop
10 24 (7.36%) Metadata
11 23 (7.06%) PostgreSQL
12 18 (5.52%) NoSQL
13 17 (5.21%) Amazon Redshift
14 16 (4.91%) MySQL
14 16 (4.91%) Relational Database
15 15 (4.60%) Tableau
16 13 (3.99%) Elasticsearch
17 12 (3.68%) Apache Iceberg
17 12 (3.68%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 54 (16.56%) Git
2 42 (12.88%) GitLab
3 20 (6.13%) JIRA
4 17 (5.21%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.15%) MLflow
5 7 (2.15%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.84%) Maven
7 4 (1.23%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.23%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.23%) Gradle
8 3 (0.92%) Selenium
9 2 (0.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.31%) Ant
10 1 (0.31%) Capybara
10 1 (0.31%) git-flow
10 1 (0.31%) JMeter
10 1 (0.31%) minitest
10 1 (0.31%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.31%) RSpec
10 1 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 61 (18.71%) Finance
2 58 (17.79%) Social Skills
3 40 (12.27%) Public Sector
4 39 (11.96%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (5.21%) Banking
6 7 (2.15%) Marketing
7 5 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.53%) Publishing
8 4 (1.23%) Billing
8 4 (1.23%) Front Office
8 4 (1.23%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.61%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.61%) Law
9 2 (0.61%) Legal
9 2 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.61%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.31%) International Banking
10 1 (0.31%) Retail
Job Titles
1 114 (34.97%) Data Engineer
2 52 (15.95%) Senior
3 49 (15.03%) Developer
4 39 (11.96%) Architect
5 28 (8.59%) Senior Data Engineer
6 27 (8.28%) Lead
7 23 (7.06%) Java Developer
8 20 (6.13%) DevOps Engineer
9 17 (5.21%) Data Architect
9 17 (5.21%) Lead Data Engineer
10 12 (3.68%) AWS Engineer
11 11 (3.37%) Software Engineer
12 10 (3.07%) Principal Engineer
13 9 (2.76%) Platform Engineer
13 9 (2.76%) Principal Data Engineer
13 9 (2.76%) Python Developer
13 9 (2.76%) Senior Developer
14 8 (2.45%) Cloud Engineer
14 8 (2.45%) Python Engineer
15 7 (2.15%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (22.39%) Kafka
2 55 (16.87%) PySpark
3 31 (9.51%) Spring
4 27 (8.28%) Middleware
5 25 (7.67%) REST
6 24 (7.36%) Spring Boot
7 22 (6.75%) Apache Axis
7 22 (6.75%) Apache Camel
8 17 (5.21%) Apache Beam
9 16 (4.91%) JSON
10 11 (3.37%) Great Expectations
11 10 (3.07%) Apache NiFi
11 10 (3.07%) OAuth
12 9 (2.76%) AWS CDK
12 9 (2.76%) Pandas
13 7 (2.15%) LAMP
13 7 (2.15%) NumPy
13 7 (2.15%) PyTorch
13 7 (2.15%) SOAP
14 6 (1.84%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 52 (15.95%) Cloud Native
2 17 (5.21%) Product Ownership
3 16 (4.91%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (4.60%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (3.99%) Management Information System
6 12 (3.68%) Data Structures
7 10 (3.07%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.45%) Clustering
8 8 (2.45%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (2.45%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.84%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.84%) Distributed Computing
10 5 (1.53%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.53%) Replication
10 5 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.23%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.23%) Data Fabric
11 4 (1.23%) Freedom of Information
11 4 (1.23%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 50 (15.34%) Linux
2 16 (4.91%) Windows
3 15 (4.60%) Ubuntu
3 15 (4.60%) Unix
4 10 (3.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (2.45%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.53%) CentOS
7 4 (1.23%) Rocky
7 4 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.92%) Debian
8 3 (0.92%) Solaris
8 3 (0.92%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.61%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.31%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (46.93%) CI/CD
2 125 (38.34%) Data Engineering
3 116 (35.58%) Data Pipeline
4 112 (34.36%) Analytics
5 105 (32.21%) DevOps
6 99 (30.37%) ETL
7 94 (28.83%) Data Modelling
8 77 (23.62%) AI
9 76 (23.31%) Agile
10 75 (23.01%) Containerisation
11 71 (21.78%) Infrastructure as Code
12 64 (19.63%) Data Governance
13 55 (16.87%) Machine Learning
14 51 (15.64%) Problem-Solving
15 42 (12.88%) Business Intelligence
15 42 (12.88%) Migration
16 39 (11.96%) Data Science
16 39 (11.96%) Observability
17 38 (11.66%) Data Architecture
17 38 (11.66%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 210 (64.42%) Python
2 186 (57.06%) SQL
3 98 (30.06%) Java
4 28 (8.59%) Scala
5 20 (6.13%) Bash
6 15 (4.60%) Shell Script
7 13 (3.99%) PowerShell
8 11 (3.37%) C#
8 11 (3.37%) R
9 10 (3.07%) TypeScript
10 9 (2.76%) Go
11 8 (2.45%) JavaScript
11 8 (2.45%) Perl
11 8 (2.45%) PL/SQL
12 6 (1.84%) PHP
13 5 (1.53%) Ruby
14 3 (0.92%) Groovy
14 3 (0.92%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.61%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 97 (29.75%) Security Cleared
2 89 (27.30%) SC Cleared
3 25 (7.67%) Degree
4 18 (5.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.37%) Master's Degree
6 8 (2.45%) DV Cleared
7 7 (2.15%) AWS Certification
7 7 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.84%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.92%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.92%) CCNP
10 3 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.92%) CSPO
10 3 (0.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.61%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.31%) MBA
12 1 (0.31%) PhD
12 1 (0.31%) RHCE
12 1 (0.31%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (23.01%) Data Quality
2 22 (6.75%) GDPR
3 10 (3.07%) QA
4 8 (2.45%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.92%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.61%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.61%) WCAG
8 1 (0.31%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.31%) SLA
System Software
1 84 (25.77%) Docker
2 9 (2.76%) Postfix
3 8 (2.45%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.45%) NFS
4 7 (2.15%) Varnish
5 6 (1.84%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.23%) Sendmail
6 4 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.92%) Dovecot
7 3 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.92%) vSphere
8 2 (0.61%) Ceph
8 2 (0.61%) HDFS
8 2 (0.61%) KVM
8 2 (0.61%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.61%) Samba
9 1 (0.31%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.31%) iptables
Systems Management
1 84 (25.77%) Terraform
2 66 (20.25%) Kubernetes
3 23 (7.06%) Ansible
4 11 (3.37%) Grafana
5 9 (2.76%) HAProxy
6 6 (1.84%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.23%) SELinux
8 3 (0.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.92%) Apache Ranger
8 3 (0.92%) Check_MK
8 3 (0.92%) Kibana
9 2 (0.61%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.61%) Packer
9 2 (0.61%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.61%) Puppet
9 2 (0.61%) systemd
9 2 (0.61%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.31%) logstash
10 1 (0.31%) Rundeck
10 1 (0.31%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 64 (19.63%) Databricks
2 41 (12.58%) Oracle
3 40 (12.27%) Google
4 34 (10.43%) Microsoft
5 22 (6.75%) TIBCO
6 16 (4.91%) Trend Micro
7 12 (3.68%) Informatica
8 10 (3.07%) Red Hat
9 9 (2.76%) Cloudera
9 9 (2.76%) VMware
10 7 (2.15%) Cisco
10 7 (2.15%) Talend
11 6 (1.84%) IBM
11 6 (1.84%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.53%) Confluent
12 5 (1.53%) Guidewire
13 4 (1.23%) Hortonworks
13 4 (1.23%) Okta
13 4 (1.23%) Splunk
14 3 (0.92%) F5