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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 238 279
Rank change year-on-year -114 +41 +16
Contract jobs citing Apache 291 311 354
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.64% 1.06% 0.81%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.90% 9.26% 8.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 234 288
10th Percentile £400 £406 £350
25th Percentile £456 £464 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £575
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +17.39% -4.17%
75th Percentile £589 £838 £788
90th Percentile £673 £875 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 10
10th Percentile £62.20 £32.42 £21.97
25th Percentile £64.00 £49.78 £23.44
Median hourly rate £72.00 £78.70 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.51% +72.97% -37.67%
75th Percentile £82.25 £80.83 £64.44
90th Percentile £88.40 £82.11 £74.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.00 £78.70 £52.50
% change year-on-year -8.51% +49.90% -28.08%

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 4,217 3,358 4,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.22% 11.47% 9.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,898 2,241 2,854
10th Percentile £306 £274 £250
25th Percentile £404 £399 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% -3.04%
75th Percentile £588 £606 £600
90th Percentile £688 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 84 165
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.83 £13.35
25th Percentile £19.00 £23.48 £15.46
Median hourly rate £35.50 £42.50 £27.52
Median % change year-on-year -16.47% +54.46% +1.95%
75th Percentile £74.00 £64.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £81.50 £75.00 £66.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.61 £52.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -3.60% +118.75% +8.30%

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 14 April 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 14 April 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 14 April 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 -134 227 £525 -22.22% 86
UK excluding London -50 133 £525 +5.00% 56
London -124 125 £560 -25.33% 39
Work from Home -107 69 £525 -30.00% 46
Scotland +36 37 £525 +13.51% 5
North of England -59 34 £492 +3.58% 13
North West -18 24 £525 +10.53% 10
Midlands -55 24 £550 - 2
West Midlands -51 19 £538 -10.42% 2
South West -27 17 £450 -28.00% 21
South East -68 10 £555 +38.75% 10
North East -12 7 £425 -34.62% 2
East of England -27 7 £363 +15.08% 4
East Midlands -33 4 £663 +84.67%
Northern Ireland -2 3 £463 +12.80%
Wales -12 3 £509 - 1
Yorkshire -66 3 £469 -12.79% 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
1 127 (43.64%) Apache Spark
2 67 (23.02%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (9.62%) Tomcat
4 26 (8.93%) WebSphere
5 24 (8.25%) Apache Geronimo
5 24 (8.25%) Apache ServiceMix
5 24 (8.25%) Red Hat Fuse
6 9 (3.09%) WebLogic
7 7 (2.41%) IIS
8 5 (1.72%) Apache Superset
8 5 (1.72%) Confluence
8 5 (1.72%) JBoss
9 4 (1.37%) nginx
9 4 (1.37%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (1.03%) Apache Synapse
10 3 (1.03%) Jupyter
10 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (1.03%) SAS
11 2 (0.69%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.34%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.69%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Actimize
1 1 (0.34%) Magento
1 1 (0.34%) Maximo
1 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.34%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 144 (49.48%) AWS
2 104 (35.74%) Azure
3 73 (25.09%) GCP
4 51 (17.53%) Amazon S3
5 42 (14.43%) Power Platform
6 40 (13.75%) AWS CloudFormation
6 40 (13.75%) Serverless
7 29 (9.97%) AWS Lambda
7 29 (9.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 24 (8.25%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (7.56%) Amazon SQS
9 22 (7.56%) Azure Data Factory
10 19 (6.53%) Collibra
10 19 (6.53%) Snowflake
11 15 (5.15%) AWS Step Functions
11 15 (5.15%) GitHub
12 12 (4.12%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (3.44%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 9 (3.09%) dbt
15 8 (2.75%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.47%) Firewall
2 9 (3.09%) DNS
2 9 (3.09%) HTTP
3 6 (2.06%) Network Security
4 4 (1.37%) DHCP
5 3 (1.03%) SAN
5 3 (1.03%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.69%) FTP
6 2 (0.69%) iSCSI
6 2 (0.69%) SSH
6 2 (0.69%) VLAN
7 1 (0.34%) 4G
7 1 (0.34%) 5G
7 1 (0.34%) InfiniBand
7 1 (0.34%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.34%) LAN
7 1 (0.34%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.34%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.34%) Spanning Tree
7 1 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (17.87%) Data Lake
2 41 (14.09%) Data Warehouse
3 36 (12.37%) Amazon Athena
3 36 (12.37%) Power BI
4 35 (12.03%) Big Data
5 34 (11.68%) BigQuery
6 32 (11.00%) Delta Lake
7 22 (7.56%) Hadoop
8 21 (7.22%) SQL Server
9 18 (6.19%) Amazon Redshift
9 18 (6.19%) Mixpanel
9 18 (6.19%) PostgreSQL
10 17 (5.84%) OLAP
10 17 (5.84%) OLTP
11 16 (5.50%) Flink
11 16 (5.50%) Metadata
12 15 (5.15%) MySQL
12 15 (5.15%) Relational Database
13 14 (4.81%) NoSQL
14 12 (4.12%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 53 (18.21%) Git
2 22 (7.56%) JIRA
3 21 (7.22%) GitLab
4 14 (4.81%) MLflow
5 9 (3.09%) Jenkins
6 8 (2.75%) Artifactory
7 7 (2.41%) JUnit
8 6 (2.06%) Bitbucket
8 6 (2.06%) Maven
8 6 (2.06%) Selenium
9 4 (1.37%) Eclipse
9 4 (1.37%) Gradle
9 4 (1.37%) IntelliJ
9 4 (1.37%) Mockito
10 3 (1.03%) Liquibase
11 2 (0.69%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.69%) ERwin
11 2 (0.69%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.34%) PHPUnit
12 1 (0.34%) RSpec
General
1 54 (18.56%) Social Skills
2 49 (16.84%) Finance
3 28 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (7.56%) Public Sector
5 14 (4.81%) Banking
6 5 (1.72%) Billing
6 5 (1.72%) Marketing
7 4 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (1.37%) Investment Banking
7 4 (1.37%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.03%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.03%) Front Office
9 2 (0.69%) Electronics
9 2 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.69%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.34%) Dutch Language
10 1 (0.34%) French Language
10 1 (0.34%) Prime Brokerage
10 1 (0.34%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 95 (32.65%) Data Engineer
2 46 (15.81%) Senior
3 43 (14.78%) Developer
4 29 (9.97%) Lead
5 21 (7.22%) Architect
5 21 (7.22%) Software Engineer
6 20 (6.87%) Senior Data Engineer
7 18 (6.19%) Java Developer
7 18 (6.19%) Principal Engineer
8 17 (5.84%) Lead Data Engineer
8 17 (5.84%) Principal Data Engineer
9 15 (5.15%) AWS Engineer
10 11 (3.78%) DevOps Engineer
11 10 (3.44%) Data Architect
12 8 (2.75%) Analyst
12 8 (2.75%) Platform Engineer
12 8 (2.75%) Principal Software Engineer
12 8 (2.75%) Python Engineer
13 7 (2.41%) AWS Data Engineer
13 7 (2.41%) Data Analytics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (22.68%) Kafka
2 34 (11.68%) PySpark
3 32 (11.00%) REST
4 29 (9.97%) Middleware
5 24 (8.25%) Apache Axis
5 24 (8.25%) Apache Camel
5 24 (8.25%) Apache NiFi
6 20 (6.87%) Spring
7 19 (6.53%) Great Expectations
7 19 (6.53%) JSON
8 12 (4.12%) Apache Beam
9 11 (3.78%) Pandas
10 10 (3.44%) SOAP
11 9 (3.09%) AWS CDK
11 9 (3.09%) NumPy
11 9 (3.09%) Spring Boot
12 7 (2.41%) Hibernate
12 7 (2.41%) HTML
12 7 (2.41%) XML
13 6 (2.06%) EJB
Miscellaneous
1 39 (13.40%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.12%) Management Information System
3 11 (3.78%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (3.78%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.44%) Algorithms
5 8 (2.75%) Data Structures
5 8 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.41%) Clustering
7 6 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.06%) Distributed Computing
7 6 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.06%) Replication
8 5 (1.72%) Freedom of Information
8 5 (1.72%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.37%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.03%) Distributed Applications
10 3 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.69%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.69%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 44 (15.12%) Linux
2 23 (7.90%) Unix
3 22 (7.56%) Windows
4 9 (3.09%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.06%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.72%) Debian
8 4 (1.37%) Rocky
9 3 (1.03%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.69%) Solaris
10 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.34%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (41.92%) CI/CD
2 97 (33.33%) Analytics
3 94 (32.30%) Data Pipeline
4 92 (31.62%) ETL
5 87 (29.90%) DevOps
6 86 (29.55%) Data Engineering
6 86 (29.55%) Data Modelling
7 69 (23.71%) Agile
8 64 (21.99%) Problem-Solving
9 63 (21.65%) AI
10 62 (21.31%) Data Governance
11 59 (20.27%) Infrastructure as Code
12 58 (19.93%) Machine Learning
13 46 (15.81%) Business Intelligence
13 46 (15.81%) Observability
14 45 (15.46%) Data Architecture
15 43 (14.78%) Software Engineering
16 33 (11.34%) Containerisation
16 33 (11.34%) Data Science
17 32 (11.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 173 (59.45%) SQL
2 160 (54.98%) Python
3 90 (30.93%) Java
4 30 (10.31%) Scala
5 21 (7.22%) C#
6 12 (4.12%) PowerShell
6 12 (4.12%) Shell Script
7 11 (3.78%) JavaScript
7 11 (3.78%) R
8 8 (2.75%) TypeScript
9 7 (2.41%) Bash
10 6 (2.06%) Perl
10 6 (2.06%) PHP
11 5 (1.72%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.03%) Go
12 3 (1.03%) Ruby
13 2 (0.69%) AWK
13 2 (0.69%) C++
13 2 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.34%) C
Qualifications
1 88 (30.24%) Security Cleared
2 71 (24.40%) SC Cleared
3 19 (6.53%) DV Cleared
4 18 (6.19%) Degree
5 13 (4.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.41%) AWS Certification
7 7 (2.41%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.03%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.03%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.34%) CCNA
10 1 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.34%) RHCE
10 1 (0.34%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (22.68%) Data Quality
2 27 (9.28%) GDPR
3 12 (4.12%) QA
4 7 (2.41%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.69%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.34%) IFRS
7 1 (0.34%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.34%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.34%) MiFID
7 1 (0.34%) SLA
7 1 (0.34%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 49 (16.84%) Docker
2 6 (2.06%) NFS
3 5 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.72%) Varnish
4 4 (1.37%) HDFS
4 4 (1.37%) Postfix
5 3 (1.03%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.03%) Samba
5 3 (1.03%) Sendmail
6 2 (0.69%) iptables
6 2 (0.69%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.34%) Ceph
7 1 (0.34%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.34%) KVM
7 1 (0.34%) Lustre
7 1 (0.34%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 65 (22.34%) Terraform
2 52 (17.87%) Kubernetes
3 25 (8.59%) Ansible
4 9 (3.09%) Grafana
5 5 (1.72%) HAProxy
5 5 (1.72%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.37%) Puppet
7 3 (1.03%) Kibana
7 3 (1.03%) SELinux
8 2 (0.69%) Apache Ranger
8 2 (0.69%) logstash
8 2 (0.69%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.69%) systemd
9 1 (0.34%) Rundeck
9 1 (0.34%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 62 (21.31%) Databricks
2 43 (14.78%) Oracle
3 37 (12.71%) Google
4 24 (8.25%) TIBCO
5 20 (6.87%) Microsoft
6 13 (4.47%) Red Hat
7 12 (4.12%) Cloudera
7 12 (4.12%) Informatica
8 8 (2.75%) Confluent
8 8 (2.75%) ServiceNow
8 8 (2.75%) Talend
9 7 (2.41%) Cisco
10 6 (2.06%) Guidewire
10 6 (2.06%) Splunk
11 5 (1.72%) IBM
11 5 (1.72%) Palo Alto
11 5 (1.72%) SolarWinds
12 4 (1.37%) Palantir
12 4 (1.37%) SAP
12 4 (1.37%) webMethods