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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 272 189
Rank change year-on-year -97 -83 +120
Contract jobs citing Apache 325 307 541
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.62% 0.94% 1.30%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.06% 8.54% 12.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 232 461
10th Percentile £363 £401 £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 £581 £825 £850
90th Percentile £670 £873 £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 10 4 11
10th Percentile £61.24 £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 £70.88 £80.74 £74.44
90th Percentile £75.88 £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 4,601 3,596 4,382
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.72% 10.96% 10.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,038 2,349 3,034
10th Percentile £306 £289 £263
25th Percentile £404 £393 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £479 £503
Median % change year-on-year +4.49% -4.78% +0.50%
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 186 87 140
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.03 £13.62
25th Percentile £19.03 £26.02 £17.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £47.12 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.72% +44.98% -38.10%
75th Percentile £62.75 £66.00 £54.06
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.72 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £49.81 £33.00
% change year-on-year -29.73% +50.94% -22.35%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -122 255 £512 -18.11% 85
UK excluding London -63 145 £491 -10.68% 44
London -102 145 £539 -26.95% 49
Work from Home -69 91 £512 -31.76% 25
North of England -48 55 £438 +2.94% 12
Scotland +16 39 £525 +13.51% 2
North East -8 29 £385 -40.77% 5
South West -28 20 £450 -20.00% 7
North West -45 20 £525 +46.65% 5
Midlands -37 17 £498 -17.08% 5
West Midlands -55 14 £500 -16.67% 5
South East -81 10 £470 -21.67% 17
Yorkshire -56 6 £475 -24.00% 2
Wales -15 3 £509 -
East Midlands -14 2 £548 +33.54%
East of England -22 2 £400 -27.27% 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
1 168 (51.69%) Apache Spark
2 121 (37.23%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (10.15%) Tomcat
4 28 (8.62%) Jupyter
5 27 (8.31%) WebSphere
6 22 (6.77%) Apache Geronimo
6 22 (6.77%) Apache ServiceMix
6 22 (6.77%) Red Hat Fuse
7 13 (4.00%) nginx
8 7 (2.15%) Apache Superset
8 7 (2.15%) Confluence
8 7 (2.15%) IIS
9 5 (1.54%) CloudStack
9 5 (1.54%) SharePoint
10 4 (1.23%) JBoss
11 3 (0.92%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.62%) Apache Synapse
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
1 172 (52.92%) AWS
2 115 (35.38%) Azure
3 85 (26.15%) GCP
4 54 (16.62%) Amazon S3
5 37 (11.38%) Power Platform
6 34 (10.46%) dbt
7 31 (9.54%) Azure DevOps
7 31 (9.54%) Serverless
8 29 (8.92%) AWS Lambda
8 29 (8.92%) Snowflake
9 26 (8.00%) Amazon EMR
10 23 (7.08%) Azure Data Factory
11 21 (6.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 20 (6.15%) GitHub
13 17 (5.23%) AWS CloudFormation
14 16 (4.92%) Amazon SQS
15 14 (4.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 14 (4.31%) GitHub Actions
16 12 (3.69%) Collibra
17 9 (2.77%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.92%) DNS
2 13 (4.00%) Firewall
3 7 (2.15%) HTTP
4 6 (1.85%) SAN
5 5 (1.54%) NAS
6 3 (0.92%) DHCP
6 3 (0.92%) Structured Cabling
6 3 (0.92%) VLAN
7 2 (0.62%) BIG-IP
7 2 (0.62%) FTP
7 2 (0.62%) Network Security
7 2 (0.62%) SSL
7 2 (0.62%) 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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (16.92%) Data Warehouse
2 46 (14.15%) Data Lake
3 44 (13.54%) Big Data
4 33 (10.15%) BigQuery
5 32 (9.85%) Power BI
6 31 (9.54%) Delta Lake
7 30 (9.23%) Amazon Athena
8 28 (8.62%) Flink
8 28 (8.62%) Metadata
9 27 (8.31%) SQL Server
10 23 (7.08%) Hadoop
11 22 (6.77%) PostgreSQL
12 17 (5.23%) Amazon Redshift
12 17 (5.23%) MySQL
12 17 (5.23%) NoSQL
13 15 (4.62%) Relational Database
13 15 (4.62%) Tableau
14 13 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
15 12 (3.69%) Apache Iceberg
16 11 (3.38%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 53 (16.31%) Git
2 43 (13.23%) GitLab
3 20 (6.15%) JIRA
4 16 (4.92%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.15%) MLflow
5 7 (2.15%) SonarQube
6 5 (1.54%) Maven
7 4 (1.23%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.23%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.23%) Gradle
8 3 (0.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (0.92%) Selenium
9 1 (0.31%) Ant
9 1 (0.31%) Capybara
9 1 (0.31%) git-flow
9 1 (0.31%) JMeter
9 1 (0.31%) minitest
9 1 (0.31%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.31%) RSpec
9 1 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 62 (19.08%) Finance
2 59 (18.15%) Social Skills
3 39 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 38 (11.69%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (5.54%) Banking
6 7 (2.15%) Marketing
7 6 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.54%) Publishing
9 4 (1.23%) Billing
9 4 (1.23%) Front Office
9 4 (1.23%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.92%) Legal
11 2 (0.62%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.62%) Law
11 2 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.62%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.31%) International Banking
12 1 (0.31%) Retail
Job Titles
1 111 (34.15%) Data Engineer
2 52 (16.00%) Senior
3 46 (14.15%) Developer
4 43 (13.23%) Architect
5 26 (8.00%) Senior Data Engineer
6 24 (7.38%) Lead
7 22 (6.77%) Java Developer
8 21 (6.46%) DevOps Engineer
9 20 (6.15%) Data Architect
10 15 (4.62%) Lead Data Engineer
11 12 (3.69%) AWS Engineer
12 10 (3.08%) Software Engineer
13 9 (2.77%) Principal Engineer
13 9 (2.77%) Python Developer
13 9 (2.77%) Senior Developer
14 8 (2.46%) Analyst
14 8 (2.46%) Cloud Engineer
14 8 (2.46%) Platform Engineer
14 8 (2.46%) Principal Data Engineer
14 8 (2.46%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (22.77%) Kafka
2 56 (17.23%) PySpark
3 28 (8.62%) REST
4 27 (8.31%) Middleware
4 27 (8.31%) Spring
5 23 (7.08%) Spring Boot
6 22 (6.77%) Apache Axis
6 22 (6.77%) Apache Camel
7 17 (5.23%) Apache Beam
7 17 (5.23%) JSON
8 11 (3.38%) Apache NiFi
9 10 (3.08%) Great Expectations
9 10 (3.08%) OAuth
10 9 (2.77%) AWS CDK
10 9 (2.77%) Pandas
11 8 (2.46%) LAMP
12 7 (2.15%) NumPy
12 7 (2.15%) PyTorch
12 7 (2.15%) SOAP
13 6 (1.85%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 53 (16.31%) Cloud Native
2 18 (5.54%) Product Ownership
3 17 (5.23%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (4.62%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (4.00%) Data Structures
5 13 (4.00%) Management Information System
6 10 (3.08%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.46%) Clustering
7 8 (2.46%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (2.46%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.15%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (1.85%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.54%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.54%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.54%) Data Fabric
10 5 (1.54%) Replication
10 5 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.23%) PKI
11 4 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 52 (16.00%) Linux
2 18 (5.54%) Windows
3 15 (4.62%) Ubuntu
3 15 (4.62%) Unix
4 11 (3.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (2.46%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.54%) 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 10
8 3 (0.92%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.31%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (47.38%) CI/CD
2 125 (38.46%) Data Engineering
3 119 (36.62%) Data Pipeline
4 112 (34.46%) Analytics
5 103 (31.69%) DevOps
6 100 (30.77%) ETL
7 97 (29.85%) Data Modelling
8 79 (24.31%) Agile
9 75 (23.08%) AI
9 75 (23.08%) Containerisation
10 73 (22.46%) Infrastructure as Code
11 67 (20.62%) Data Governance
12 51 (15.69%) Machine Learning
13 48 (14.77%) Problem-Solving
14 42 (12.92%) Business Intelligence
15 41 (12.62%) Data Science
15 41 (12.62%) Migration
16 39 (12.00%) Data Architecture
16 39 (12.00%) Workflow
17 37 (11.38%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 211 (64.92%) Python
2 188 (57.85%) SQL
3 95 (29.23%) Java
4 29 (8.92%) Scala
5 21 (6.46%) Bash
6 18 (5.54%) Shell Script
7 15 (4.62%) PowerShell
8 11 (3.38%) R
9 10 (3.08%) C#
9 10 (3.08%) TypeScript
10 9 (2.77%) Go
10 9 (2.77%) Perl
10 9 (2.77%) PL/SQL
11 8 (2.46%) JavaScript
12 6 (1.85%) PHP
13 5 (1.54%) Ruby
14 4 (1.23%) Groovy
15 3 (0.92%) Bicep
15 3 (0.92%) Cypher
15 3 (0.92%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 97 (29.85%) Security Cleared
2 88 (27.08%) SC Cleared
3 25 (7.69%) Degree
4 18 (5.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.38%) Master's Degree
6 9 (2.77%) DV Cleared
7 7 (2.15%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.54%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.92%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.92%) CCNP
11 3 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.92%) CSPO
11 3 (0.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (0.62%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.62%) RHCSA
13 1 (0.31%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.31%) MBA
13 1 (0.31%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (24.00%) Data Quality
2 21 (6.46%) GDPR
3 10 (3.08%) QA
4 9 (2.77%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.92%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.62%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.62%) SLA
7 2 (0.62%) WCAG
System Software
1 84 (25.85%) Docker
2 9 (2.77%) Active Directory
2 9 (2.77%) Postfix
3 8 (2.46%) NFS
4 7 (2.15%) Varnish
5 6 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.23%) Sendmail
8 3 (0.92%) Dovecot
8 3 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.92%) vSphere
9 2 (0.62%) Ceph
9 2 (0.62%) HDFS
9 2 (0.62%) KVM
9 2 (0.62%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.62%) Samba
10 1 (0.31%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.31%) iptables
Systems Management
1 86 (26.46%) Terraform
2 66 (20.31%) Kubernetes
3 23 (7.08%) Ansible
4 11 (3.38%) Grafana
5 9 (2.77%) HAProxy
6 6 (1.85%) 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
8 3 (0.92%) Packer
8 3 (0.92%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.62%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.62%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.62%) Puppet
9 2 (0.62%) systemd
10 1 (0.31%) logstash
10 1 (0.31%) Rundeck
10 1 (0.31%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 65 (20.00%) Databricks
2 41 (12.62%) Google
2 41 (12.62%) Oracle
3 35 (10.77%) Microsoft
4 23 (7.08%) TIBCO
5 16 (4.92%) Trend Micro
6 12 (3.69%) Informatica
6 12 (3.69%) Red Hat
7 10 (3.08%) Cloudera
7 10 (3.08%) VMware
8 7 (2.15%) Cisco
8 7 (2.15%) IBM
8 7 (2.15%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.15%) Talend
9 5 (1.54%) Confluent
9 5 (1.54%) Guidewire
9 5 (1.54%) Splunk
10 4 (1.23%) Hortonworks
10 4 (1.23%) Okta
11 3 (0.92%) F5