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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 252 245
Rank change year-on-year -102 -7 +54
Contract jobs citing Apache 289 295 414
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.61% 1.01% 0.97%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.92% 9.05% 9.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 226 355
10th Percentile £383 £410 £405
25th Percentile £460 £477 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £660 £615
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% +7.32% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £838 £850
90th Percentile £678 £875 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +5.00% -1.96% -7.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 8
10th Percentile £64.00 £32.42 £25.94
25th Percentile £65.25 £49.78 £34.50
Median hourly rate £75.00 £78.70 £57.25
Median % change year-on-year -4.70% +37.47% -26.60%
75th Percentile £82.50 £80.83 £74.44
90th Percentile £89.00 £82.11 £75.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £78.70 £57.25
% change year-on-year -4.70% +37.47% -26.60%

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 4,175 3,261 4,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.75% 11.22% 9.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,825 2,169 2,872
10th Percentile £313 £275 £258
25th Percentile £404 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £686 £713 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £468 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +3.89% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 69 159
10th Percentile £15.66 £16.65 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.20 £22.50 £15.43
Median hourly rate £32.50 £46.18 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.62% +62.04% -36.67%
75th Percentile £68.63 £64.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.22 £52.50 £24.47
% change year-on-year -32.91% +114.59% -11.04%

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 May 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 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Apache in the UK

Apache
Top 17 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 May 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 -146 224 £525 -22.22% 95
London -109 130 £575 -23.33% 40
UK excluding London -47 126 £525 +5.00% 64
Work from Home -81 69 £525 -30.00% 47
Scotland +36 37 £525 +13.51% 4
North of England -50 32 £484 +1.79% 16
Midlands -57 21 £550 -4.35% 7
North West -25 18 £525 +10.53% 8
South West -26 17 £450 -20.00% 18
West Midlands -53 17 £550 -8.33% 7
North East -8 12 £405 -37.69% 7
East of England -31 7 £363 +13.93%
South East -69 7 £550 +51.72% 17
Northern Ireland -1 3 £463 +12.80%
Wales -7 3 £509 - 2
East Midlands -28 3 £600 +46.34%
Yorkshire -63 2 £469 -21.88% 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
1 134 (46.37%) Apache Spark
2 77 (26.64%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (10.03%) Tomcat
4 27 (9.34%) WebSphere
5 24 (8.30%) Apache Geronimo
5 24 (8.30%) Apache ServiceMix
5 24 (8.30%) Red Hat Fuse
6 8 (2.77%) IIS
6 8 (2.77%) Jupyter
7 5 (1.73%) Apache Superset
7 5 (1.73%) nginx
8 4 (1.38%) Confluence
8 4 (1.38%) WebLogic
9 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (1.04%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (1.04%) SAS
10 2 (0.69%) Apache Synapse
10 2 (0.69%) JBoss
10 2 (0.69%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Actimize
1 1 (0.35%) Magento
1 1 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.35%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 137 (47.40%) AWS
2 101 (34.95%) Azure
3 71 (24.57%) GCP
4 44 (15.22%) Amazon S3
5 38 (13.15%) Power Platform
6 31 (10.73%) AWS CloudFormation
7 30 (10.38%) Serverless
8 27 (9.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 25 (8.65%) Azure DevOps
10 24 (8.30%) AWS Lambda
11 21 (7.27%) Amazon SQS
11 21 (7.27%) Azure Data Factory
12 17 (5.88%) Collibra
12 17 (5.88%) GitHub
13 16 (5.54%) Snowflake
14 14 (4.84%) dbt
15 12 (4.15%) GitHub Actions
16 11 (3.81%) AWS Step Functions
17 9 (3.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 8 (2.77%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.81%) DNS
1 11 (3.81%) Firewall
2 7 (2.42%) HTTP
3 5 (1.73%) SAN
4 4 (1.38%) DHCP
5 3 (1.04%) Network Security
5 3 (1.04%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.69%) FTP
6 2 (0.69%) iSCSI
6 2 (0.69%) NAS
6 2 (0.69%) SSH
6 2 (0.69%) VLAN
7 1 (0.35%) 4G
7 1 (0.35%) Intranet
7 1 (0.35%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.35%) LAN
7 1 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.35%) SSL
7 1 (0.35%) Structured Cabling
7 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (15.22%) Data Lake
2 42 (14.53%) Big Data
3 40 (13.84%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (11.07%) BigQuery
4 32 (11.07%) Power BI
5 30 (10.38%) Amazon Athena
5 30 (10.38%) Delta Lake
6 24 (8.30%) SQL Server
7 23 (7.96%) Hadoop
8 21 (7.27%) PostgreSQL
9 20 (6.92%) Flink
10 16 (5.54%) Mixpanel
11 15 (5.19%) Metadata
11 15 (5.19%) MySQL
11 15 (5.19%) NoSQL
11 15 (5.19%) OLAP
11 15 (5.19%) OLTP
12 13 (4.50%) Relational Database
13 12 (4.15%) Amazon Redshift
13 12 (4.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 55 (19.03%) Git
2 27 (9.34%) GitLab
3 22 (7.61%) JIRA
4 14 (4.84%) MLflow
5 12 (4.15%) Jenkins
6 9 (3.11%) Artifactory
7 8 (2.77%) Maven
8 5 (1.73%) Gradle
8 5 (1.73%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.38%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.04%) Selenium
11 1 (0.35%) Capybara
11 1 (0.35%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.35%) ER Studio
11 1 (0.35%) git-flow
11 1 (0.35%) minitest
11 1 (0.35%) Mockito
11 1 (0.35%) PHPUnit
11 1 (0.35%) RSpec
11 1 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 54 (18.69%) Finance
2 41 (14.19%) Social Skills
3 32 (11.07%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (6.92%) Public Sector
5 13 (4.50%) Banking
6 7 (2.42%) Billing
7 4 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.38%) Front Office
7 4 (1.38%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.04%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.04%) Marketing
9 2 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.69%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.35%) Dutch Language
10 1 (0.35%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.35%) Law
10 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.35%) Prime Brokerage
10 1 (0.35%) Publishing
10 1 (0.35%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 100 (34.60%) Data Engineer
2 47 (16.26%) Senior
3 42 (14.53%) Developer
4 29 (10.03%) Lead
5 28 (9.69%) Architect
6 20 (6.92%) Senior Data Engineer
7 19 (6.57%) Java Developer
7 19 (6.57%) Software Engineer
8 17 (5.88%) Lead Data Engineer
9 16 (5.54%) Principal Engineer
10 15 (5.19%) Principal Data Engineer
11 13 (4.50%) DevOps Engineer
12 11 (3.81%) AWS Engineer
12 11 (3.81%) Data Architect
13 9 (3.11%) Analyst
13 9 (3.11%) Python Engineer
14 8 (2.77%) Platform Engineer
14 8 (2.77%) Senior Developer
15 7 (2.42%) Technical Leader
16 6 (2.08%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (23.53%) Kafka
2 39 (13.49%) PySpark
3 27 (9.34%) Middleware
4 26 (9.00%) REST
5 24 (8.30%) Apache Axis
5 24 (8.30%) Apache Camel
6 23 (7.96%) Spring
7 19 (6.57%) Apache NiFi
8 18 (6.23%) Great Expectations
9 16 (5.54%) Spring Boot
10 14 (4.84%) JSON
11 13 (4.50%) Apache Beam
12 10 (3.46%) Pandas
13 9 (3.11%) AWS CDK
13 9 (3.11%) SOAP
14 8 (2.77%) NumPy
15 6 (2.08%) OAuth
15 6 (2.08%) PyTorch
16 5 (1.73%) Apache Tika
16 5 (1.73%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 37 (12.80%) Cloud Native
2 15 (5.19%) Management Information System
3 11 (3.81%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.46%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (3.11%) Algorithms
5 9 (3.11%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.77%) Data Structures
7 7 (2.42%) Clustering
8 6 (2.08%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.73%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (1.73%) Freedom of Information
9 5 (1.73%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.73%) Replication
10 4 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.38%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.04%) Distributed Applications
11 3 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.69%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 48 (16.61%) Linux
2 24 (8.30%) Windows
3 18 (6.23%) Unix
4 11 (3.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (3.46%) Ubuntu
5 10 (3.46%) Windows Server
6 6 (2.08%) Debian
7 5 (1.73%) Rocky
8 3 (1.04%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.69%) CentOS
9 2 (0.69%) Solaris
9 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (40.48%) CI/CD
2 93 (32.18%) Data Pipeline
3 91 (31.49%) Analytics
4 87 (30.10%) Data Engineering
5 86 (29.76%) Data Modelling
6 85 (29.41%) DevOps
6 85 (29.41%) ETL
7 67 (23.18%) AI
8 65 (22.49%) Agile
9 58 (20.07%) Data Governance
10 56 (19.38%) Problem-Solving
11 55 (19.03%) Machine Learning
12 52 (17.99%) Infrastructure as Code
13 47 (16.26%) Containerisation
14 43 (14.88%) Observability
15 40 (13.84%) Data Architecture
16 38 (13.15%) Business Intelligence
16 38 (13.15%) Software Engineering
17 36 (12.46%) Data Science
17 36 (12.46%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 171 (59.17%) SQL
2 169 (58.48%) Python
3 87 (30.10%) Java
4 23 (7.96%) Scala
5 18 (6.23%) C#
6 14 (4.84%) Shell Script
7 13 (4.50%) PowerShell
8 12 (4.15%) Bash
8 12 (4.15%) R
9 11 (3.81%) JavaScript
10 8 (2.77%) TypeScript
11 7 (2.42%) Perl
12 6 (2.08%) PHP
12 6 (2.08%) PL/SQL
13 5 (1.73%) Go
14 4 (1.38%) Ruby
15 2 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.69%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.35%) C++
16 1 (0.35%) Korn
Qualifications
1 83 (28.72%) Security Cleared
2 68 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 23 (7.96%) Degree
4 17 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (5.54%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.77%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (2.77%) Master's Degree
7 6 (2.08%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.38%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.04%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.35%) CCNA
11 1 (0.35%) CCNP
11 1 (0.35%) RHCE
11 1 (0.35%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (21.45%) Data Quality
2 25 (8.65%) GDPR
3 10 (3.46%) QA
4 6 (2.08%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.04%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.69%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.69%) WCAG
8 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.35%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.35%) MiFID
8 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 51 (17.65%) Docker
2 7 (2.42%) NFS
3 6 (2.08%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.08%) Varnish
4 5 (1.73%) Postfix
5 4 (1.38%) HDFS
5 4 (1.38%) Sendmail
5 4 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.04%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.04%) Samba
7 2 (0.69%) iptables
7 2 (0.69%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.35%) Ceph
8 1 (0.35%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.35%) KVM
8 1 (0.35%) Lustre
8 1 (0.35%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 63 (21.80%) Kubernetes
2 59 (20.42%) Terraform
3 26 (9.00%) Ansible
4 9 (3.11%) Grafana
5 6 (2.08%) HAProxy
6 4 (1.38%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.04%) Kibana
7 3 (1.04%) SELinux
8 2 (0.69%) Apache Ranger
8 2 (0.69%) logstash
8 2 (0.69%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.69%) Puppet
8 2 (0.69%) systemd
9 1 (0.35%) Check_MK
9 1 (0.35%) Podman
9 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.35%) Rundeck
9 1 (0.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 58 (20.07%) Databricks
2 42 (14.53%) Oracle
3 35 (12.11%) Google
4 24 (8.30%) Microsoft
4 24 (8.30%) TIBCO
5 14 (4.84%) Red Hat
6 10 (3.46%) Cloudera
6 10 (3.46%) Informatica
7 9 (3.11%) ServiceNow
8 8 (2.77%) Guidewire
9 7 (2.42%) Cisco
9 7 (2.42%) Talend
10 6 (2.08%) VMware
11 5 (1.73%) Confluent
11 5 (1.73%) Palo Alto
11 5 (1.73%) SolarWinds
12 4 (1.38%) Hortonworks
12 4 (1.38%) IBM
12 4 (1.38%) Trend Micro
13 3 (1.04%) Palantir