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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 286 299
Rank change year-on-year -38 +13 -29
Contract jobs citing Apache 271 264 317
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.75% 0.84% 0.74%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.40% 7.58% 7.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 195 242
10th Percentile £371 £377 £350
25th Percentile £430 £495 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +8.70% -9.80%
75th Percentile £614 £838 £700
90th Percentile £810 £888 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £467 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -1.74% -9.52% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 6
10th Percentile £66.13 £74.04 £22.00
25th Percentile £74.13 £74.11 £23.44
Median hourly rate £80.50 £74.22 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.46% +78.84% -20.95%
75th Percentile £82.75 £74.33 £71.94
90th Percentile £86.00 £74.40 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.50 £74.22 £65.25
% change year-on-year +8.46% +13.75% +86.51%

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 3,661 3,484 4,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.10% 11.06% 9.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,534 2,138 2,865
10th Percentile £290 £250 £250
25th Percentile £400 £385 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £613
90th Percentile £689 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +5.56% -2.70% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 73 131
10th Percentile £14.92 £17.08 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.28 £37.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.67% +54.17% +35.44%
75th Percentile £69.25 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £81.50 £66.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.21 £45.00 £22.25
% change year-on-year -39.53% +102.25% +27.36%

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 January 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 January 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 January 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 -62 230 £534 -20.89% 96
UK excluding London +11 133 £467 -1.74% 78
London -59 116 £600 -11.11% 29
Work from Home -62 74 £540 -29.18% 52
Midlands -9 40 £525 -14.22% 9
North of England -22 39 £453 -4.63% 20
West Midlands -5 33 £525 -14.22% 4
North West -12 26 £452 -17.91% 8
Scotland +22 22 £500 +23.08% 3
South West -15 15 £253 -58.69% 14
South East -31 11 £643 +35.26% 25
Yorkshire -34 10 £475 +2.70% 7
East Midlands -14 7 £510 +65.85% 5
East of England -22 6 £363 +15.08% 8
Northern Ireland -4 3 £463 +1.37%
North East - 3 £400 - 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 96 (35.42%) Apache Spark
2 90 (33.21%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (9.59%) WebLogic
4 22 (8.12%) IIS
5 21 (7.75%) JBoss
6 13 (4.80%) WebSphere
7 10 (3.69%) iPlanet
7 10 (3.69%) WebSphere Application Server
8 9 (3.32%) Confluence
8 9 (3.32%) Tomcat
9 4 (1.48%) Jupyter
9 4 (1.48%) nginx
10 3 (1.11%) SAS
11 2 (0.74%) Apache Geronimo
11 2 (0.74%) Apache Pig
11 2 (0.74%) Apache ServiceMix
11 2 (0.74%) Luigi
11 2 (0.74%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.74%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.37%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 3 (1.11%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.74%) Abaqus
2 2 (0.74%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Actimize
1 1 (0.37%) Maximo
1 1 (0.37%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.37%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 146 (53.87%) AWS
2 75 (27.68%) Azure
3 44 (16.24%) Serverless
4 38 (14.02%) GCP
5 37 (13.65%) Snowflake
6 35 (12.92%) Amazon S3
7 30 (11.07%) Power Platform
8 27 (9.96%) AWS CloudFormation
8 27 (9.96%) dbt
9 20 (7.38%) AWS Lambda
10 19 (7.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 17 (6.27%) Azure Monitor
12 16 (5.90%) Azure Data Factory
13 13 (4.80%) Azure DevOps
14 10 (3.69%) Amazon SQS
14 10 (3.69%) OpenShift
15 9 (3.32%) Cloud Computing
15 9 (3.32%) Collibra
15 9 (3.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 8 (2.95%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.80%) Firewall
2 11 (4.06%) Kerberos
3 8 (2.95%) HTTP
4 5 (1.85%) DNS
5 4 (1.48%) DHCP
5 4 (1.48%) Network Security
6 3 (1.11%) SSL
6 3 (1.11%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.74%) SAN
8 1 (0.37%) InfiniBand
8 1 (0.37%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.37%) LAN
8 1 (0.37%) Spanning Tree
8 1 (0.37%) SSH
8 1 (0.37%) VLAN
8 1 (0.37%) VPN
8 1 (0.37%) WAN
8 1 (0.37%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (18.82%) Data Lake
2 41 (15.13%) Big Data
3 40 (14.76%) Amazon Athena
4 37 (13.65%) Hadoop
5 32 (11.81%) Data Warehouse
6 30 (11.07%) Power BI
7 25 (9.23%) Delta Lake
8 24 (8.86%) Apache Iceberg
9 19 (7.01%) Apache Hive
10 17 (6.27%) Amazon Redshift
10 17 (6.27%) Apache Arrow
10 17 (6.27%) Apache Ignite
10 17 (6.27%) Dremio
11 16 (5.90%) BigQuery
12 15 (5.54%) NoSQL
12 15 (5.54%) Oracle Database
13 14 (5.17%) Metadata
14 12 (4.43%) MongoDB
14 12 (4.43%) OLTP
14 12 (4.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 52 (19.19%) Git
2 23 (8.49%) GitLab
3 16 (5.90%) JIRA
4 15 (5.54%) Jenkins
5 14 (5.17%) JUnit
6 11 (4.06%) Artifactory
6 11 (4.06%) Bitbucket Server
6 11 (4.06%) CA Release Automation
7 10 (3.69%) MLflow
8 9 (3.32%) Eclipse
8 9 (3.32%) IntelliJ
8 9 (3.32%) Selenium
9 8 (2.95%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (2.21%) Mockito
11 4 (1.48%) Bitbucket
11 4 (1.48%) Liquibase
11 4 (1.48%) Maven
12 3 (1.11%) Gradle
13 2 (0.74%) ERwin
13 2 (0.74%) Subversion
General
1 73 (26.94%) Social Skills
2 59 (21.77%) Finance
3 29 (10.70%) Banking
4 23 (8.49%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (7.38%) Public Sector
6 17 (6.27%) Front Office
6 17 (6.27%) Investment Banking
7 9 (3.32%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.48%) Legal
9 3 (1.11%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.11%) Billing
9 3 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.74%) Electronics
10 2 (0.74%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.74%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.74%) Marketing
10 2 (0.74%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.74%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.37%) Games
Job Titles
1 76 (28.04%) Data Engineer
2 52 (19.19%) Senior
3 36 (13.28%) Software Engineer
4 33 (12.18%) Developer
5 29 (10.70%) AWS Engineer
6 28 (10.33%) Python Engineer
7 25 (9.23%) Senior Software Engineer
8 21 (7.75%) DevOps Engineer
8 21 (7.75%) Java Engineer
9 17 (6.27%) AWS Software Engineer
9 17 (6.27%) Java Software Engineer
9 17 (6.27%) Python Software Engineer
10 16 (5.90%) Lead
10 16 (5.90%) Senior Java Engineer
10 16 (5.90%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 13 (4.80%) Platform Engineer
12 12 (4.43%) Architect
12 12 (4.43%) Senior Data Engineer
13 10 (3.69%) Java Developer
14 8 (2.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (16.24%) REST
2 43 (15.87%) Kafka
3 41 (15.13%) Apache NiFi
4 31 (11.44%) PySpark
5 30 (11.07%) Pandas
6 27 (9.96%) NumPy
7 18 (6.64%) OAuth
8 17 (6.27%) gRPC
8 17 (6.27%) Protocol Buffers
8 17 (6.27%) SciPy
8 17 (6.27%) Spring
9 14 (5.17%) JSON
9 14 (5.17%) SOAP
10 13 (4.80%) XML
11 12 (4.43%) HTML
11 12 (4.43%) Middleware
11 12 (4.43%) OpenID
11 12 (4.43%) React
12 11 (4.06%) LDAP
12 11 (4.06%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.75%) Cloud Native
2 19 (7.01%) Equities
3 17 (6.27%) Derivative
3 17 (6.27%) Fixed Income
3 17 (6.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 17 (6.27%) Hedge funds
3 17 (6.27%) Pricing Data
4 15 (5.54%) Algorithms
5 8 (2.95%) Distributed Computing
6 7 (2.58%) Data Structures
7 6 (2.21%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.85%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.85%) Replication
8 5 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.48%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.11%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 62 (22.88%) Linux
2 48 (17.71%) Windows
3 39 (14.39%) Unix
4 15 (5.54%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.85%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.11%) CentOS
8 2 (0.74%) Debian
9 1 (0.37%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.37%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (36.53%) CI/CD
2 96 (35.42%) Agile
3 80 (29.52%) Data Pipeline
3 80 (29.52%) DevOps
4 76 (28.04%) Analytics
5 72 (26.57%) ETL
6 64 (23.62%) Data Engineering
6 64 (23.62%) Software Engineering
7 59 (21.77%) Data Modelling
8 57 (21.03%) Problem-Solving
9 51 (18.82%) Business Intelligence
10 45 (16.61%) Data Governance
11 41 (15.13%) Infrastructure as Code
12 40 (14.76%) Continuous Improvement
13 39 (14.39%) Visualisation
14 35 (12.92%) Observability
15 34 (12.55%) Machine Learning
16 33 (12.18%) Microservices
17 29 (10.70%) Data Architecture
17 29 (10.70%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 153 (56.46%) Python
2 105 (38.75%) SQL
3 74 (27.31%) Java
4 32 (11.81%) Scala
5 31 (11.44%) JavaScript
6 20 (7.38%) TypeScript
7 18 (6.64%) C#
8 17 (6.27%) Shell Script
9 15 (5.54%) PowerShell
10 11 (4.06%) Groovy
11 9 (3.32%) C++
12 8 (2.95%) Bash
13 7 (2.58%) PL/SQL
14 4 (1.48%) R
15 2 (0.74%) AWK
15 2 (0.74%) SPARQL
15 2 (0.74%) Tcl
16 1 (0.37%) Korn
16 1 (0.37%) Perl
16 1 (0.37%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 79 (29.15%) Security Cleared
2 55 (20.30%) SC Cleared
3 36 (13.28%) DV Cleared
4 13 (4.80%) AWS Certification
4 13 (4.80%) Degree
5 10 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.48%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.74%) RHCE
9 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.37%) CCNA
9 1 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.37%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.37%) MCP
9 1 (0.37%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (16.61%) Data Quality
2 18 (6.64%) GDPR
3 13 (4.80%) QA
4 5 (1.85%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.11%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.37%) IFRS
6 1 (0.37%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.37%) MiFID
6 1 (0.37%) Solvency II
System Software
1 48 (17.71%) Docker
2 14 (5.17%) Active Directory
2 14 (5.17%) HDFS
3 8 (2.95%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 4 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.11%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.37%) Ceph
6 1 (0.37%) iptables
6 1 (0.37%) KVM
6 1 (0.37%) Lustre
6 1 (0.37%) NFS
6 1 (0.37%) Samba
6 1 (0.37%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 47 (17.34%) Terraform
2 38 (14.02%) Kubernetes
3 33 (12.18%) Ansible
4 14 (5.17%) Puppet
5 11 (4.06%) CA Single Sign-On
6 10 (3.69%) CA Wily
6 10 (3.69%) Hadoop YARN
6 10 (3.69%) Progress Chef
7 9 (3.32%) Prometheus
8 8 (2.95%) Grafana
8 8 (2.95%) Tivoli
9 6 (2.21%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.11%) Oozie
11 2 (0.74%) Kibana
11 2 (0.74%) logstash
11 2 (0.74%) Nagios
11 2 (0.74%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.37%) Argo
12 1 (0.37%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.37%) SCCM
Vendors
1 47 (17.34%) Databricks
2 40 (14.76%) Oracle
3 33 (12.18%) Splunk
4 25 (9.23%) AppDynamics
5 21 (7.75%) Microsoft
6 20 (7.38%) Cisco
7 19 (7.01%) Red Hat
8 17 (6.27%) Google
9 15 (5.54%) Dynatrace
10 13 (4.80%) IBM
11 11 (4.06%) Broadcom
11 11 (4.06%) Cloudera
11 11 (4.06%) ServiceNow
12 9 (3.32%) webMethods
13 8 (2.95%) Foundry
13 8 (2.95%) Palantir
14 5 (1.85%) Palo Alto
14 5 (1.85%) Salesforce
14 5 (1.85%) SolarWinds
15 4 (1.48%) Informatica