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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 272 191
Rank change year-on-year -89 -81 +102
Contract jobs citing Apache 334 313 530
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.63% 0.96% 1.31%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.21% 8.76% 12.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 236 450
10th Percentile £363 £394 £413
25th Percentile £425 £463 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £750
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £588 £825 £850
90th Percentile £675 £863 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £491 £510 £475
% change year-on-year -3.68% +7.37% -13.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 11
10th Percentile £62.00 £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 £70.25 £80.74 £74.44
90th Percentile £73.75 £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 4,635 3,572 4,278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.75% 10.92% 10.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,063 2,330 2,955
10th Percentile £306 £288 £268
25th Percentile £404 £394 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £476 £511
Median % change year-on-year +4.99% -6.80% +2.20%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £725 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +2.78% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 87 127
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.03 £13.59
25th Percentile £19.03 £26.00 £17.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £43.09 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -18.77% +35.89% -39.60%
75th Percentile £62.00 £67.63 £56.25
90th Percentile £74.41 £79.25 £74.66
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £46.65 £30.00
% change year-on-year -24.97% +55.50% -25.00%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -116 267 £513 -16.33% 112
London -93 155 £550 -26.67% 60
UK excluding London -45 147 £491 -3.68% 59
Work from Home -87 97 £519 -30.83% 35
North of England -51 55 £425 - 17
Scotland +12 39 £525 +5.00% 3
North East - 28 £385 - 7
North West -47 21 £525 +46.65% 7
South West -28 19 £450 -12.62% 10
Midlands -48 18 £498 -9.55% 6
West Midlands -47 15 £500 -16.67% 5
South East -78 11 £470 -21.67% 20
Yorkshire -55 6 £475 -20.83% 3
Wales -15 3 £509 -
East of England -24 3 £400 -27.27% 4
East Midlands -17 2 £548 +33.54% 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
1 176 (52.69%) Apache Spark
2 126 (37.72%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (9.58%) Tomcat
4 29 (8.68%) Jupyter
5 27 (8.08%) WebSphere
6 22 (6.59%) Apache Geronimo
6 22 (6.59%) Apache ServiceMix
6 22 (6.59%) Red Hat Fuse
7 13 (3.89%) nginx
8 8 (2.40%) Confluence
9 7 (2.10%) Apache Superset
9 7 (2.10%) IIS
10 5 (1.50%) CloudStack
10 5 (1.50%) SharePoint
11 4 (1.20%) JBoss
12 3 (0.90%) WebLogic
13 2 (0.60%) Apache Synapse
14 1 (0.30%) Luigi
14 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
14 1 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Magento
1 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.30%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 176 (52.69%) AWS
2 120 (35.93%) Azure
3 86 (25.75%) GCP
4 57 (17.07%) Amazon S3
5 38 (11.38%) dbt
6 37 (11.08%) Power Platform
7 31 (9.28%) Serverless
7 31 (9.28%) Snowflake
8 30 (8.98%) Azure DevOps
9 29 (8.68%) AWS Lambda
10 28 (8.38%) Azure Data Factory
11 27 (8.08%) Amazon EMR
12 22 (6.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 21 (6.29%) GitHub
14 17 (5.09%) AWS CloudFormation
15 16 (4.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 16 (4.79%) Amazon SQS
16 15 (4.49%) GitHub Actions
17 12 (3.59%) Collibra
18 9 (2.69%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.09%) DNS
2 14 (4.19%) Firewall
3 6 (1.80%) HTTP
3 6 (1.80%) SAN
4 5 (1.50%) NAS
5 4 (1.20%) DHCP
6 3 (0.90%) Network Security
6 3 (0.90%) Structured Cabling
6 3 (0.90%) VLAN
7 2 (0.60%) BIG-IP
7 2 (0.60%) FTP
7 2 (0.60%) SSL
7 2 (0.60%) VXLAN
8 1 (0.30%) 5G
8 1 (0.30%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.30%) Intranet
8 1 (0.30%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.30%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.30%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.30%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (17.07%) Data Warehouse
2 50 (14.97%) Data Lake
3 45 (13.47%) Big Data
4 36 (10.78%) BigQuery
5 35 (10.48%) Delta Lake
6 33 (9.88%) Power BI
7 31 (9.28%) Amazon Athena
8 30 (8.98%) Flink
9 28 (8.38%) Metadata
10 27 (8.08%) SQL Server
11 23 (6.89%) Hadoop
12 22 (6.59%) PostgreSQL
13 19 (5.69%) Amazon Redshift
14 18 (5.39%) NoSQL
15 17 (5.09%) MySQL
16 16 (4.79%) Relational Database
17 15 (4.49%) Tableau
18 12 (3.59%) Apache Iceberg
18 12 (3.59%) Elasticsearch
19 11 (3.29%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 49 (14.67%) Git
2 44 (13.17%) GitLab
3 21 (6.29%) JIRA
4 16 (4.79%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.10%) MLflow
5 7 (2.10%) SonarQube
6 5 (1.50%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.50%) Maven
7 4 (1.20%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (1.20%) Gradle
8 3 (0.90%) Selenium
9 1 (0.30%) Capybara
9 1 (0.30%) git-flow
9 1 (0.30%) minitest
9 1 (0.30%) Newman
9 1 (0.30%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.30%) Postman
9 1 (0.30%) RSpec
9 1 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 67 (20.06%) Social Skills
2 63 (18.86%) Finance
3 42 (12.57%) Public Sector
4 39 (11.68%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (6.59%) Banking
6 7 (2.10%) Marketing
7 6 (1.80%) Billing
7 6 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.50%) Publishing
9 4 (1.20%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.20%) Front Office
9 4 (1.20%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.90%) Law
10 3 (0.90%) Legal
11 2 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.60%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.30%) Prime Brokerage
12 1 (0.30%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 117 (35.03%) Data Engineer
2 52 (15.57%) Senior
3 48 (14.37%) Architect
4 46 (13.77%) Developer
5 28 (8.38%) Lead
5 28 (8.38%) Senior Data Engineer
6 24 (7.19%) Data Architect
7 22 (6.59%) Java Developer
8 21 (6.29%) DevOps Engineer
9 16 (4.79%) Lead Data Engineer
10 13 (3.89%) AWS Engineer
11 10 (2.99%) Python Engineer
11 10 (2.99%) Software Engineer
12 9 (2.69%) Cloud Engineer
12 9 (2.69%) Principal Engineer
12 9 (2.69%) Python Developer
12 9 (2.69%) Senior Developer
13 8 (2.40%) Analyst
13 8 (2.40%) Platform Engineer
13 8 (2.40%) Principal Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (22.75%) Kafka
2 63 (18.86%) PySpark
3 29 (8.68%) REST
4 27 (8.08%) Middleware
4 27 (8.08%) Spring
5 23 (6.89%) Spring Boot
6 22 (6.59%) Apache Axis
6 22 (6.59%) Apache Camel
7 18 (5.39%) Apache Beam
8 17 (5.09%) JSON
9 11 (3.29%) Apache NiFi
9 11 (3.29%) Great Expectations
10 10 (2.99%) OAuth
10 10 (2.99%) Pandas
11 9 (2.69%) AWS CDK
11 9 (2.69%) SOAP
12 8 (2.40%) LAMP
13 7 (2.10%) NumPy
13 7 (2.10%) PyTorch
14 6 (1.80%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 54 (16.17%) Cloud Native
2 20 (5.99%) Product Ownership
3 17 (5.09%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (4.79%) Data Structures
5 15 (4.49%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (3.89%) Management Information System
7 10 (2.99%) Public Cloud
8 9 (2.69%) Onboarding
9 8 (2.40%) Clustering
9 8 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (2.10%) Distributed Computing
11 6 (1.80%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.50%) AI Agents
12 5 (1.50%) Data Centre
12 5 (1.50%) Data Fabric
12 5 (1.50%) Replication
12 5 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (1.20%) PKI
13 4 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 52 (15.57%) Linux
2 18 (5.39%) Windows
3 15 (4.49%) Ubuntu
3 15 (4.49%) Unix
4 10 (2.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.10%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.50%) CentOS
7 4 (1.20%) Rocky
7 4 (1.20%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.90%) Debian
8 3 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.60%) Solaris
9 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.30%) VMS
10 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (46.41%) CI/CD
2 132 (39.52%) Data Engineering
3 128 (38.32%) Data Pipeline
4 120 (35.93%) Analytics
5 107 (32.04%) DevOps
6 106 (31.74%) Data Modelling
7 102 (30.54%) ETL
8 87 (26.05%) Agile
9 76 (22.75%) Infrastructure as Code
10 74 (22.16%) Containerisation
11 73 (21.86%) AI
12 71 (21.26%) Data Governance
13 51 (15.27%) Machine Learning
14 46 (13.77%) Business Intelligence
14 46 (13.77%) Data Architecture
14 46 (13.77%) Problem-Solving
15 44 (13.17%) Migration
16 42 (12.57%) Data Science
17 40 (11.98%) Workflow
18 35 (10.48%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 215 (64.37%) Python
2 194 (58.08%) SQL
3 95 (28.44%) Java
4 27 (8.08%) Scala
5 21 (6.29%) Bash
6 19 (5.69%) Shell Script
7 16 (4.79%) PowerShell
8 11 (3.29%) R
9 10 (2.99%) C#
9 10 (2.99%) TypeScript
10 9 (2.69%) Go
10 9 (2.69%) Perl
11 8 (2.40%) JavaScript
11 8 (2.40%) PL/SQL
12 6 (1.80%) PHP
13 5 (1.50%) Ruby
14 4 (1.20%) Groovy
15 3 (0.90%) Bicep
15 3 (0.90%) Cypher
15 3 (0.90%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 99 (29.64%) Security Cleared
2 89 (26.65%) SC Cleared
3 24 (7.19%) Degree
4 17 (5.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.29%) Master's Degree
6 9 (2.69%) DV Cleared
7 8 (2.40%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.80%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.90%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.90%) CCNP
10 3 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.90%) CSPO
10 3 (0.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.60%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.60%) RHCSA
12 1 (0.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.30%) MBA
12 1 (0.30%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (26.05%) Data Quality
2 23 (6.89%) GDPR
3 13 (3.89%) QA
4 9 (2.69%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (1.20%) Government Security Classifications
7 3 (0.90%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.60%) SLA
8 2 (0.60%) WCAG
System Software
1 87 (26.05%) Docker
2 11 (3.29%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.69%) Postfix
4 8 (2.40%) NFS
5 7 (2.10%) Varnish
6 5 (1.50%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (1.20%) Sendmail
8 3 (0.90%) Dovecot
8 3 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.90%) vSphere
9 2 (0.60%) Ceph
9 2 (0.60%) HDFS
9 2 (0.60%) KVM
9 2 (0.60%) Samba
10 1 (0.30%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.30%) iptables
10 1 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 90 (26.95%) Terraform
2 70 (20.96%) Kubernetes
3 23 (6.89%) Ansible
4 11 (3.29%) Grafana
5 9 (2.69%) HAProxy
6 6 (1.80%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.20%) Packer
7 4 (1.20%) SELinux
7 4 (1.20%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.90%) Apache Ranger
8 3 (0.90%) Check_MK
8 3 (0.90%) Kibana
9 2 (0.60%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.60%) Puppet
9 2 (0.60%) systemd
10 1 (0.30%) logstash
10 1 (0.30%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.30%) Podman
10 1 (0.30%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 73 (21.86%) Databricks
2 40 (11.98%) Google
2 40 (11.98%) Oracle
3 35 (10.48%) Microsoft
4 23 (6.89%) TIBCO
5 16 (4.79%) Trend Micro
6 12 (3.59%) Informatica
7 11 (3.29%) Red Hat
8 10 (2.99%) Cloudera
8 10 (2.99%) VMware
9 8 (2.40%) ServiceNow
10 7 (2.10%) Cisco
10 7 (2.10%) Guidewire
10 7 (2.10%) Talend
11 6 (1.80%) IBM
11 6 (1.80%) Splunk
12 5 (1.50%) Confluent
13 4 (1.20%) Hortonworks
13 4 (1.20%) Okta
13 4 (1.20%) Tanium