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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 248 271
Rank change year-on-year -102 +23 +17
Contract jobs citing Apache 295 311 362
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.64% 1.06% 0.83%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.93% 9.23% 8.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 233 298
10th Percentile £398 £409 £350
25th Percentile £456 £469 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £575
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +17.39% -4.17%
75th Percentile £588 £838 £788
90th Percentile £671 £875 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -13.64%
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 4,259 3,369 4,209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.26% 11.48% 9.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,925 2,247 2,896
10th Percentile £309 £275 £250
25th Percentile £404 £400 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +0.96% -3.08%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £713 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £455 £450
% change year-on-year +4.40% +1.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 147 82 165
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.78 £13.10
25th Percentile £19.00 £22.83 £15.42
Median hourly rate £35.50 £42.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.47% +49.12% +3.64%
75th Percentile £73.88 £64.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £68.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.61 £52.50 £23.88
% change year-on-year -3.60% +119.90% +7.74%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -143 231 £525 -22.22% 86
UK excluding London -42 135 £525 +5.00% 58
London -124 127 £550 -26.67% 40
Work from Home -83 73 £525 -30.00% 46
Scotland +38 37 £525 +13.51% 7
North of England -56 34 £492 +3.58% 13
Midlands -59 25 £550 -4.35% 2
North West -20 24 £525 +10.53% 8
West Midlands -47 20 £525 -12.50% 2
South West -28 17 £450 -26.53% 21
South East -71 10 £555 +26.86% 10
East of England -25 8 £363 +15.08% 3
North East -12 7 £450 -30.77% 4
East Midlands -31 4 £663 +61.59%
Northern Ireland +1 3 £463 +12.80% 1
Wales -9 3 £509 - 1
Yorkshire -59 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
1 130 (44.07%) Apache Spark
2 68 (23.05%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (9.83%) Tomcat
4 26 (8.81%) WebSphere
5 24 (8.14%) Apache Geronimo
5 24 (8.14%) Apache ServiceMix
5 24 (8.14%) Red Hat Fuse
6 9 (3.05%) WebLogic
7 7 (2.37%) IIS
8 5 (1.69%) Apache Superset
8 5 (1.69%) Confluence
8 5 (1.69%) JBoss
8 5 (1.69%) nginx
9 4 (1.36%) Jupyter
9 4 (1.36%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (1.02%) Apache Synapse
10 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (1.02%) SAS
11 2 (0.68%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.68%) 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
1 145 (49.15%) AWS
2 107 (36.27%) Azure
3 72 (24.41%) GCP
4 53 (17.97%) Amazon S3
5 43 (14.58%) Power Platform
6 42 (14.24%) Serverless
7 40 (13.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 31 (10.51%) AWS Lambda
8 31 (10.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 27 (9.15%) Azure DevOps
10 24 (8.14%) Azure Data Factory
11 22 (7.46%) Amazon SQS
12 19 (6.44%) Collibra
12 19 (6.44%) Snowflake
13 15 (5.08%) AWS Step Functions
13 15 (5.08%) GitHub
14 12 (4.07%) GitHub Actions
15 10 (3.39%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 10 (3.39%) dbt
16 8 (2.71%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.41%) Firewall
2 10 (3.39%) DNS
3 9 (3.05%) HTTP
4 6 (2.03%) Network Security
5 4 (1.36%) DHCP
5 4 (1.36%) SAN
6 3 (1.02%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.68%) FTP
7 2 (0.68%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.68%) SSH
7 2 (0.68%) VLAN
8 1 (0.34%) 4G
8 1 (0.34%) 5G
8 1 (0.34%) InfiniBand
8 1 (0.34%) LAN
8 1 (0.34%) NAS
8 1 (0.34%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.34%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.34%) Spanning Tree
8 1 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (16.95%) Data Lake
2 40 (13.56%) Data Warehouse
3 37 (12.54%) Power BI
4 36 (12.20%) Amazon Athena
4 36 (12.20%) Big Data
5 35 (11.86%) BigQuery
6 34 (11.53%) Delta Lake
7 22 (7.46%) Hadoop
8 21 (7.12%) SQL Server
9 19 (6.44%) PostgreSQL
10 18 (6.10%) Amazon Redshift
10 18 (6.10%) Mixpanel
11 17 (5.76%) Metadata
11 17 (5.76%) OLAP
11 17 (5.76%) OLTP
12 16 (5.42%) Flink
13 15 (5.08%) MySQL
13 15 (5.08%) Relational Database
14 14 (4.75%) NoSQL
15 12 (4.07%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 57 (19.32%) Git
2 22 (7.46%) GitLab
2 22 (7.46%) JIRA
3 14 (4.75%) MLflow
4 10 (3.39%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.71%) Artifactory
6 7 (2.37%) JUnit
6 7 (2.37%) Selenium
7 6 (2.03%) Bitbucket
7 6 (2.03%) Maven
8 4 (1.36%) Eclipse
8 4 (1.36%) Gradle
8 4 (1.36%) IntelliJ
8 4 (1.36%) Mockito
9 3 (1.02%) Liquibase
10 2 (0.68%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.68%) ERwin
10 2 (0.68%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.34%) PHPUnit
11 1 (0.34%) RSpec
General
1 55 (18.64%) Social Skills
2 49 (16.61%) Finance
3 28 (9.49%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (7.80%) Public Sector
5 14 (4.75%) Banking
6 5 (1.69%) Billing
6 5 (1.69%) Marketing
7 4 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (1.36%) Investment Banking
7 4 (1.36%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.02%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.02%) Front Office
9 2 (0.68%) Electronics
9 2 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.68%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.34%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.34%) Prime Brokerage
10 1 (0.34%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 95 (32.20%) Data Engineer
2 46 (15.59%) Senior
3 44 (14.92%) Developer
4 30 (10.17%) Lead
5 23 (7.80%) Architect
6 21 (7.12%) Software Engineer
7 20 (6.78%) Senior Data Engineer
8 18 (6.10%) Java Developer
8 18 (6.10%) Principal Engineer
9 17 (5.76%) Lead Data Engineer
9 17 (5.76%) Principal Data Engineer
10 14 (4.75%) AWS Engineer
11 11 (3.73%) Data Architect
11 11 (3.73%) DevOps Engineer
12 9 (3.05%) Platform Engineer
13 8 (2.71%) Analyst
13 8 (2.71%) Principal Software Engineer
13 8 (2.71%) Python Engineer
14 7 (2.37%) Python Developer
14 7 (2.37%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (22.03%) Kafka
2 37 (12.54%) PySpark
3 32 (10.85%) REST
4 29 (9.83%) Middleware
5 24 (8.14%) Apache Axis
5 24 (8.14%) Apache Camel
5 24 (8.14%) Apache NiFi
6 20 (6.78%) Great Expectations
6 20 (6.78%) Spring
7 19 (6.44%) JSON
8 12 (4.07%) Apache Beam
8 12 (4.07%) Pandas
9 10 (3.39%) NumPy
9 10 (3.39%) SOAP
10 9 (3.05%) AWS CDK
10 9 (3.05%) Spring Boot
11 7 (2.37%) Hibernate
11 7 (2.37%) HTML
11 7 (2.37%) XML
12 6 (2.03%) EJB
Miscellaneous
1 39 (13.22%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.07%) Management Information System
3 11 (3.73%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (3.73%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.39%) Algorithms
5 8 (2.71%) Data Structures
5 8 (2.71%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.37%) Clustering
7 6 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.03%) Distributed Computing
7 6 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.03%) Replication
8 5 (1.69%) Freedom of Information
8 5 (1.69%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.36%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.02%) Distributed Applications
10 3 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.68%) PKI
11 2 (0.68%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 45 (15.25%) Linux
2 23 (7.80%) Unix
3 22 (7.46%) Windows
4 9 (3.05%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (2.37%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.69%) Debian
8 4 (1.36%) Rocky
9 3 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.68%) CentOS
10 2 (0.68%) Solaris
10 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (42.37%) CI/CD
2 99 (33.56%) Analytics
3 98 (33.22%) Data Pipeline
4 93 (31.53%) ETL
5 91 (30.85%) DevOps
6 87 (29.49%) Data Engineering
7 86 (29.15%) Data Modelling
8 71 (24.07%) Agile
9 65 (22.03%) AI
9 65 (22.03%) Problem-Solving
10 64 (21.69%) Data Governance
11 61 (20.68%) Infrastructure as Code
12 60 (20.34%) Machine Learning
13 47 (15.93%) Business Intelligence
14 46 (15.59%) Data Architecture
14 46 (15.59%) Observability
15 43 (14.58%) Software Engineering
16 34 (11.53%) Containerisation
17 33 (11.19%) Data Science
18 32 (10.85%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 177 (60.00%) SQL
2 163 (55.25%) Python
3 90 (30.51%) Java
4 29 (9.83%) Scala
5 21 (7.12%) C#
6 12 (4.07%) PowerShell
6 12 (4.07%) Shell Script
7 11 (3.73%) JavaScript
7 11 (3.73%) R
8 8 (2.71%) Bash
8 8 (2.71%) TypeScript
9 6 (2.03%) Perl
9 6 (2.03%) PHP
10 5 (1.69%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.02%) Go
11 3 (1.02%) Ruby
12 2 (0.68%) AWK
12 2 (0.68%) C++
12 2 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.34%) C
Qualifications
1 90 (30.51%) Security Cleared
2 73 (24.75%) SC Cleared
3 19 (6.44%) Degree
3 19 (6.44%) DV Cleared
4 14 (4.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.71%) Master's Degree
6 7 (2.37%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.02%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (1.02%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.34%) CCNA
9 1 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.34%) RHCE
9 1 (0.34%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (22.71%) Data Quality
2 27 (9.15%) GDPR
3 12 (4.07%) QA
4 8 (2.71%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.68%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.68%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.68%) WCAG
8 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.34%) IFRS
8 1 (0.34%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.34%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.34%) MiFID
8 1 (0.34%) SLA
8 1 (0.34%) Solvency II
System Software
1 50 (16.95%) Docker
2 6 (2.03%) NFS
3 5 (1.69%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.69%) Varnish
4 4 (1.36%) HDFS
4 4 (1.36%) Postfix
5 3 (1.02%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.02%) Samba
5 3 (1.02%) Sendmail
5 3 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.68%) iptables
6 2 (0.68%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
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 67 (22.71%) Terraform
2 53 (17.97%) Kubernetes
3 26 (8.81%) Ansible
4 9 (3.05%) Grafana
5 5 (1.69%) HAProxy
5 5 (1.69%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.69%) Puppet
6 3 (1.02%) Kibana
6 3 (1.02%) SELinux
7 2 (0.68%) Apache Ranger
7 2 (0.68%) logstash
7 2 (0.68%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.68%) systemd
8 1 (0.34%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.34%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 65 (22.03%) Databricks
2 43 (14.58%) Oracle
3 37 (12.54%) Google
4 24 (8.14%) TIBCO
5 23 (7.80%) Microsoft
6 14 (4.75%) Red Hat
7 12 (4.07%) Cloudera
7 12 (4.07%) Informatica
8 8 (2.71%) Confluent
8 8 (2.71%) ServiceNow
8 8 (2.71%) Talend
9 7 (2.37%) Cisco
10 6 (2.03%) Guidewire
10 6 (2.03%) Splunk
11 5 (1.69%) IBM
11 5 (1.69%) Palo Alto
11 5 (1.69%) SolarWinds
11 5 (1.69%) VMware
12 4 (1.36%) Foundry
12 4 (1.36%) SAP