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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 267 187
Rank change year-on-year -91 -80 +108
Contract jobs citing Apache 322 304 543
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.61% 0.94% 1.27%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.00% 8.54% 12.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 228 463
10th Percentile £363 £404 £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 £670 £875 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £491 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -10.68% +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 4,600 3,560 4,465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.74% 10.96% 10.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,038 2,316 3,094
10th Percentile £308 £289 £263
25th Percentile £404 £395 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £486 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% -2.75% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £725 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +2.78% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 86 152
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.92 £13.53
25th Percentile £19.20 £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 £62.25 £66.00 £51.91
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.73 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £49.81 £32.12
% change year-on-year -29.73% +55.10% -29.42%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -120 253 £513 -18.00% 88
London -99 145 £541 -26.65% 47
UK excluding London -56 142 £491 -10.68% 49
Work from Home -93 88 £513 -31.67% 30
North of England -53 55 £438 +2.94% 13
Scotland +21 39 £525 +3.70% 2
North East -10 29 £385 -40.77% 5
North West -47 20 £525 +46.65% 6
South West -21 19 £450 -20.00% 8
Midlands -55 17 £498 -13.48% 7
West Midlands -51 14 £500 -16.67% 5
South East -75 8 £485 -19.17% 17
Yorkshire -55 6 £475 -24.00% 2
Wales -8 3 £509 - 1
East Midlands -12 2 £548 +33.54% 2
East of England -28 2 £400 -27.27%

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 (51.86%) Apache Spark
2 119 (36.96%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (10.25%) Tomcat
4 28 (8.70%) Jupyter
5 27 (8.39%) WebSphere
6 22 (6.83%) Apache Geronimo
6 22 (6.83%) Apache ServiceMix
6 22 (6.83%) Red Hat Fuse
7 12 (3.73%) nginx
8 7 (2.17%) Apache Superset
8 7 (2.17%) IIS
9 6 (1.86%) Confluence
10 5 (1.55%) CloudStack
10 5 (1.55%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.93%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.62%) Apache Synapse
12 2 (0.62%) JBoss
13 1 (0.31%) Luigi
13 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
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
1 170 (52.80%) AWS
2 115 (35.71%) Azure
3 83 (25.78%) GCP
4 54 (16.77%) Amazon S3
5 38 (11.80%) Power Platform
6 32 (9.94%) Azure DevOps
6 32 (9.94%) dbt
7 31 (9.63%) Serverless
8 28 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
8 28 (8.70%) Snowflake
9 26 (8.07%) Amazon EMR
10 22 (6.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 21 (6.52%) Azure Data Factory
12 20 (6.21%) GitHub
13 18 (5.59%) AWS CloudFormation
14 17 (5.28%) Amazon SQS
15 14 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 14 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
16 12 (3.73%) Collibra
17 9 (2.80%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.66%) DNS
2 12 (3.73%) Firewall
3 7 (2.17%) HTTP
4 6 (1.86%) SAN
5 5 (1.55%) NAS
6 3 (0.93%) Structured Cabling
6 3 (0.93%) VLAN
7 2 (0.62%) BIG-IP
7 2 (0.62%) DHCP
7 2 (0.62%) FTP
7 2 (0.62%) Network Security
7 2 (0.62%) VXLAN
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
8 1 (0.31%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (17.08%) Data Warehouse
2 47 (14.60%) Data Lake
3 44 (13.66%) Big Data
4 33 (10.25%) BigQuery
4 33 (10.25%) Power BI
5 31 (9.63%) Amazon Athena
5 31 (9.63%) Delta Lake
6 27 (8.39%) Flink
6 27 (8.39%) SQL Server
7 26 (8.07%) Metadata
8 23 (7.14%) Hadoop
8 23 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
9 17 (5.28%) Amazon Redshift
9 17 (5.28%) NoSQL
10 16 (4.97%) MySQL
11 15 (4.66%) Relational Database
11 15 (4.66%) Tableau
12 13 (4.04%) Apache Iceberg
12 13 (4.04%) Elasticsearch
13 11 (3.42%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 55 (17.08%) Git
2 42 (13.04%) GitLab
3 19 (5.90%) JIRA
4 16 (4.97%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.17%) MLflow
5 7 (2.17%) SonarQube
6 5 (1.55%) Maven
7 4 (1.24%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.24%) Gradle
8 3 (0.93%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.93%) Selenium
9 2 (0.62%) 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 (18.94%) Finance
2 58 (18.01%) Social Skills
3 39 (12.11%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (11.80%) Public Sector
5 17 (5.28%) Banking
6 7 (2.17%) Marketing
7 5 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.55%) Publishing
8 4 (1.24%) Billing
8 4 (1.24%) Front Office
8 4 (1.24%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.62%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.62%) Law
9 2 (0.62%) Legal
9 2 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.62%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.31%) Prime Brokerage
10 1 (0.31%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 113 (35.09%) Data Engineer
2 51 (15.84%) Senior
3 46 (14.29%) Developer
4 40 (12.42%) Architect
5 26 (8.07%) Lead
5 26 (8.07%) Senior Data Engineer
6 22 (6.83%) Java Developer
7 20 (6.21%) DevOps Engineer
8 18 (5.59%) Data Architect
9 17 (5.28%) Lead Data Engineer
10 12 (3.73%) AWS Engineer
11 10 (3.11%) Principal Engineer
11 10 (3.11%) Software Engineer
12 9 (2.80%) Platform Engineer
12 9 (2.80%) Principal Data Engineer
12 9 (2.80%) Python Developer
12 9 (2.80%) Senior Developer
13 8 (2.48%) Cloud Engineer
13 8 (2.48%) Python Engineer
14 7 (2.17%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (22.67%) Kafka
2 55 (17.08%) PySpark
3 27 (8.39%) Middleware
3 27 (8.39%) Spring
4 26 (8.07%) REST
5 23 (7.14%) Spring Boot
6 22 (6.83%) Apache Axis
6 22 (6.83%) Apache Camel
7 16 (4.97%) Apache Beam
8 15 (4.66%) JSON
9 11 (3.42%) Apache NiFi
9 11 (3.42%) Great Expectations
10 10 (3.11%) OAuth
11 9 (2.80%) AWS CDK
11 9 (2.80%) Pandas
12 7 (2.17%) LAMP
12 7 (2.17%) NumPy
12 7 (2.17%) PyTorch
12 7 (2.17%) SOAP
13 6 (1.86%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 54 (16.77%) Cloud Native
2 18 (5.59%) Product Ownership
3 17 (5.28%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (4.66%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (4.04%) Data Structures
6 12 (3.73%) Management Information System
7 10 (3.11%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.48%) Clustering
8 8 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (2.48%) Onboarding
9 7 (2.17%) Distributed Computing
10 6 (1.86%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.55%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.55%) Replication
11 5 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.24%) AI Agents
12 4 (1.24%) Data Fabric
12 4 (1.24%) PKI
12 4 (1.24%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 50 (15.53%) Linux
2 16 (4.97%) Windows
3 15 (4.66%) Ubuntu
3 15 (4.66%) Unix
4 10 (3.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (2.48%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.55%) CentOS
7 4 (1.24%) Rocky
7 4 (1.24%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.93%) Debian
8 3 (0.93%) Solaris
8 3 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.62%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.31%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (47.52%) CI/CD
2 125 (38.82%) Data Engineering
3 116 (36.02%) Data Pipeline
4 112 (34.78%) Analytics
5 103 (31.99%) DevOps
6 100 (31.06%) ETL
7 96 (29.81%) Data Modelling
8 77 (23.91%) Agile
9 76 (23.60%) AI
10 75 (23.29%) Containerisation
11 72 (22.36%) Infrastructure as Code
12 66 (20.50%) Data Governance
13 54 (16.77%) Machine Learning
14 50 (15.53%) Problem-Solving
15 43 (13.35%) Business Intelligence
16 42 (13.04%) Migration
17 39 (12.11%) Data Architecture
17 39 (12.11%) Data Science
17 39 (12.11%) Observability
18 38 (11.80%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 209 (64.91%) Python
2 187 (58.07%) SQL
3 94 (29.19%) Java
4 29 (9.01%) Scala
5 20 (6.21%) Bash
6 15 (4.66%) Shell Script
7 13 (4.04%) PowerShell
8 11 (3.42%) C#
8 11 (3.42%) R
9 10 (3.11%) TypeScript
10 9 (2.80%) Go
10 9 (2.80%) PL/SQL
11 8 (2.48%) JavaScript
11 8 (2.48%) Perl
12 6 (1.86%) PHP
13 5 (1.55%) Ruby
14 4 (1.24%) Groovy
15 3 (0.93%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.62%) Cypher
16 2 (0.62%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 94 (29.19%) Security Cleared
2 87 (27.02%) SC Cleared
3 25 (7.76%) Degree
4 18 (5.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.42%) Master's Degree
6 8 (2.48%) DV Cleared
7 7 (2.17%) AWS Certification
7 7 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.86%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.93%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.93%) CCNP
10 3 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.93%) CSPO
10 3 (0.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.62%) 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 76 (23.60%) Data Quality
2 22 (6.83%) GDPR
3 10 (3.11%) QA
4 8 (2.48%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.93%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.62%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.62%) WCAG
8 1 (0.31%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.31%) SLA
System Software
1 80 (24.84%) Docker
2 9 (2.80%) Postfix
3 8 (2.48%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.48%) NFS
4 7 (2.17%) Varnish
5 6 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.24%) Sendmail
6 4 (1.24%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.93%) Dovecot
7 3 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.93%) vSphere
8 2 (0.62%) Ceph
8 2 (0.62%) HDFS
8 2 (0.62%) KVM
8 2 (0.62%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.62%) Samba
9 1 (0.31%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.31%) iptables
Systems Management
1 84 (26.09%) Terraform
2 63 (19.57%) Kubernetes
3 23 (7.14%) Ansible
4 11 (3.42%) Grafana
5 9 (2.80%) HAProxy
6 6 (1.86%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.24%) SELinux
8 3 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.93%) Apache Ranger
8 3 (0.93%) Check_MK
8 3 (0.93%) Kibana
9 2 (0.62%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.62%) Packer
9 2 (0.62%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.62%) Puppet
9 2 (0.62%) systemd
9 2 (0.62%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.31%) logstash
10 1 (0.31%) Rundeck
10 1 (0.31%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 64 (19.88%) Databricks
2 41 (12.73%) Oracle
3 40 (12.42%) Google
4 33 (10.25%) Microsoft
5 22 (6.83%) TIBCO
6 16 (4.97%) Trend Micro
7 11 (3.42%) Informatica
8 10 (3.11%) Cloudera
8 10 (3.11%) Red Hat
9 9 (2.80%) VMware
10 7 (2.17%) Cisco
10 7 (2.17%) Talend
11 6 (1.86%) IBM
11 6 (1.86%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.55%) Confluent
12 5 (1.55%) Guidewire
13 4 (1.24%) Hortonworks
13 4 (1.24%) Okta
13 4 (1.24%) Splunk
14 3 (0.93%) F5