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

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 265 299
Rank change year-on-year -96 +34 -10
Contract jobs citing Apache 287 291 319
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.67% 0.98% 0.72%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.01% 8.45% 7.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 214 256
10th Percentile £394 £403 £350
25th Percentile £456 £478 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £550
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +22.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £838 £788
90th Percentile £690 £875 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £510
% change year-on-year +10.53% -6.86% -13.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 9
10th Percentile £62.00 £32.42 £21.95
25th Percentile £64.00 £49.78 £22.00
Median hourly rate £69.00 £78.70 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.33% +49.90% +7.69%
75th Percentile £80.50 £80.83 £68.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £82.11 £75.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £69.00 £78.70 £52.50
% change year-on-year -12.33% +49.90% -

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 4,095 3,442 4,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.50% 11.64% 9.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,827 2,237 2,854
10th Percentile £305 £263 £250
25th Percentile £404 £385 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £497
Median % change year-on-year - +0.70% -4.29%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £713 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 70 170
10th Percentile £15.00 £17.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.50 £22.83 £15.50
Median hourly rate £27.36 £41.46 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.01% +56.43% +17.78%
75th Percentile £69.44 £64.31 £45.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £66.53 £68.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.17 £48.82 £23.22
% change year-on-year -34.11% +110.27% +5.52%

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 March 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 March 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 16 March 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 -125 227 £525 -22.22% 102
UK excluding London -38 137 £525 +10.53% 85
London -105 120 £560 -24.07% 37
Work from Home -94 63 £512 -31.76% 35
Scotland +42 36 £525 +1.20% 4
North of England -40 35 £492 +3.58% 12
Midlands -41 28 £538 - 11
North West -22 24 £525 +10.53% 4
West Midlands -46 23 £500 -13.04% 6
South West -22 17 £550 -7.37% 18
South East -64 12 £555 +42.31% 27
North East -5 7 £425 -34.62% 2
East of England -31 7 £363 +13.99% 10
East Midlands -28 5 £663 +84.67% 5
Yorkshire -62 4 £475 -11.63% 6
Northern Ireland -1 3 £463 -22.92% 1
Wales - 1 £543 - 5

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
1 120 (41.81%) Apache Spark
2 66 (23.00%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (9.76%) Tomcat
4 25 (8.71%) WebSphere
5 24 (8.36%) Apache Geronimo
5 24 (8.36%) Apache ServiceMix
5 24 (8.36%) Red Hat Fuse
6 12 (4.18%) WebLogic
7 9 (3.14%) JBoss
8 8 (2.79%) IIS
9 7 (2.44%) Confluence
10 6 (2.09%) Palantir Foundry
11 4 (1.39%) Apache Superset
11 4 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
12 3 (1.05%) Jupyter
12 3 (1.05%) nginx
12 3 (1.05%) SAS
13 2 (0.70%) Apache Synapse
14 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
14 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.05%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Actimize
1 1 (0.35%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 140 (48.78%) AWS
2 100 (34.84%) Azure
3 72 (25.09%) GCP
4 45 (15.68%) Amazon S3
5 44 (15.33%) Serverless
6 40 (13.94%) AWS CloudFormation
6 40 (13.94%) Power Platform
7 27 (9.41%) AWS Lambda
7 27 (9.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 23 (8.01%) Snowflake
9 22 (7.67%) Azure Data Factory
9 22 (7.67%) Azure DevOps
10 20 (6.97%) Amazon SQS
11 18 (6.27%) Collibra
12 16 (5.57%) dbt
12 16 (5.57%) GitHub
13 14 (4.88%) AWS Step Functions
13 14 (4.88%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (2.79%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (2.79%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.53%) Firewall
2 8 (2.79%) HTTP
3 6 (2.09%) DNS
4 5 (1.74%) Network Security
5 4 (1.39%) DHCP
6 3 (1.05%) SAN
6 3 (1.05%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.70%) FTP
7 2 (0.70%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.70%) SSH
7 2 (0.70%) VLAN
8 1 (0.35%) 4G
8 1 (0.35%) 5G
8 1 (0.35%) InfiniBand
8 1 (0.35%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.35%) LAN
8 1 (0.35%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.35%) Spanning Tree
8 1 (0.35%) WAN
8 1 (0.35%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (19.16%) Data Lake
2 39 (13.59%) Big Data
2 39 (13.59%) Data Warehouse
3 35 (12.20%) Power BI
4 34 (11.85%) Amazon Athena
5 33 (11.50%) BigQuery
6 28 (9.76%) Delta Lake
7 25 (8.71%) Hadoop
8 19 (6.62%) PostgreSQL
9 18 (6.27%) Metadata
9 18 (6.27%) SQL Server
10 17 (5.92%) Mixpanel
11 16 (5.57%) Amazon Redshift
11 16 (5.57%) OLAP
11 16 (5.57%) OLTP
12 15 (5.23%) MySQL
13 14 (4.88%) MongoDB
13 14 (4.88%) NoSQL
14 12 (4.18%) Flink
14 12 (4.18%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 49 (17.07%) Git
2 25 (8.71%) GitLab
3 16 (5.57%) JIRA
4 12 (4.18%) MLflow
5 11 (3.83%) JUnit
6 10 (3.48%) Artifactory
7 9 (3.14%) Jenkins
7 9 (3.14%) Selenium
8 8 (2.79%) Eclipse
8 8 (2.79%) IntelliJ
9 6 (2.09%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.74%) Maven
11 4 (1.39%) Mockito
12 3 (1.05%) Gradle
12 3 (1.05%) Liquibase
13 2 (0.70%) Cypress.io
13 2 (0.70%) ERwin
14 1 (0.35%) PowerDesigner
14 1 (0.35%) SonarQube
14 1 (0.35%) Storybook
General
1 55 (19.16%) Social Skills
2 51 (17.77%) Finance
3 29 (10.10%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (6.97%) Public Sector
5 18 (6.27%) Banking
6 8 (2.79%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (2.44%) Investment Banking
8 6 (2.09%) Front Office
9 5 (1.74%) Billing
10 4 (1.39%) Marketing
10 4 (1.39%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.05%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.70%) Electronics
12 2 (0.70%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.70%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.70%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.35%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.35%) Law
Job Titles
1 91 (31.71%) Data Engineer
2 42 (14.63%) Senior
3 35 (12.20%) Developer
4 29 (10.10%) Lead
5 26 (9.06%) Software Engineer
6 19 (6.62%) AWS Engineer
7 18 (6.27%) Senior Data Engineer
8 17 (5.92%) Architect
8 17 (5.92%) Lead Data Engineer
9 16 (5.57%) Principal Engineer
10 15 (5.23%) Java Developer
10 15 (5.23%) Principal Data Engineer
11 14 (4.88%) DevOps Engineer
12 11 (3.83%) Python Engineer
13 10 (3.48%) Java Engineer
14 9 (3.14%) Data Architect
15 8 (2.79%) Platform Engineer
15 8 (2.79%) Principal Software Engineer
15 8 (2.79%) Senior Software Engineer
15 8 (2.79%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (20.91%) Kafka
2 36 (12.54%) PySpark
2 36 (12.54%) REST
3 34 (11.85%) Apache NiFi
4 27 (9.41%) Middleware
5 24 (8.36%) Apache Axis
5 24 (8.36%) Apache Camel
6 23 (8.01%) Spring
7 17 (5.92%) Great Expectations
7 17 (5.92%) JSON
8 16 (5.57%) Pandas
9 13 (4.53%) NumPy
10 12 (4.18%) SOAP
11 11 (3.83%) Hibernate
11 11 (3.83%) XML
12 10 (3.48%) EJB
13 9 (3.14%) AWS CDK
13 9 (3.14%) HTML
13 9 (3.14%) Play Framework
13 9 (3.14%) React
Miscellaneous
1 32 (11.15%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.18%) Management Information System
3 11 (3.83%) Algorithms
4 9 (3.14%) Data Structures
4 9 (3.14%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (3.14%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.79%) Distributed Computing
5 8 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.09%) Clustering
8 5 (1.74%) Equities
8 5 (1.74%) Freedom of Information
8 5 (1.74%) Replication
9 4 (1.39%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.05%) Derivative
10 3 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.05%) Fixed Income
10 3 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.05%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 40 (13.94%) Linux
2 26 (9.06%) Windows
3 25 (8.71%) Unix
4 9 (3.14%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.09%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.39%) Debian
8 3 (1.05%) Rocky
8 3 (1.05%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.70%) Solaris
9 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.35%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.35%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (41.11%) CI/CD
2 94 (32.75%) Analytics
3 90 (31.36%) Data Engineering
3 90 (31.36%) DevOps
4 88 (30.66%) Data Pipeline
5 87 (30.31%) ETL
6 79 (27.53%) Data Modelling
7 71 (24.74%) Agile
8 67 (23.34%) Problem-Solving
9 64 (22.30%) Data Governance
10 58 (20.21%) Machine Learning
11 57 (19.86%) Infrastructure as Code
12 56 (19.51%) AI
13 48 (16.72%) Software Engineering
14 46 (16.03%) Data Architecture
15 44 (15.33%) Business Intelligence
16 41 (14.29%) Observability
17 34 (11.85%) Data Science
18 31 (10.80%) Microservices
18 31 (10.80%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 163 (56.79%) SQL
2 155 (54.01%) Python
3 93 (32.40%) Java
4 33 (11.50%) Scala
5 23 (8.01%) C#
6 16 (5.57%) PowerShell
7 14 (4.88%) JavaScript
8 9 (3.14%) R
8 9 (3.14%) Shell Script
8 9 (3.14%) TypeScript
9 8 (2.79%) Bash
10 6 (2.09%) Perl
11 5 (1.74%) PHP
11 5 (1.74%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.39%) C++
13 2 (0.70%) AWK
13 2 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.70%) Go
14 1 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 84 (29.27%) Security Cleared
2 65 (22.65%) SC Cleared
3 28 (9.76%) DV Cleared
4 18 (6.27%) Degree
5 11 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.14%) Master's Degree
7 8 (2.79%) AWS Certification
7 8 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.05%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.35%) CCNA
10 1 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.35%) RHCE
10 1 (0.35%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (24.04%) Data Quality
2 27 (9.41%) GDPR
3 14 (4.88%) QA
4 5 (1.74%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.35%) IFRS
7 1 (0.35%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.35%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.35%) MiFID
7 1 (0.35%) Solvency II
System Software
1 44 (15.33%) Docker
2 6 (2.09%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.39%) HDFS
3 4 (1.39%) NFS
4 3 (1.05%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.05%) Samba
5 2 (0.70%) iptables
5 2 (0.70%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.70%) Postfix
5 2 (0.70%) Varnish
5 2 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.35%) Ceph
6 1 (0.35%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.35%) KVM
6 1 (0.35%) Lustre
6 1 (0.35%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.35%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 63 (21.95%) Terraform
2 45 (15.68%) Kubernetes
3 25 (8.71%) Ansible
4 8 (2.79%) Puppet
5 7 (2.44%) Grafana
6 4 (1.39%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.05%) HAProxy
8 2 (0.70%) Kibana
8 2 (0.70%) logstash
8 2 (0.70%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.70%) SELinux
9 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.35%) Rundeck
9 1 (0.35%) SCCM
9 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.35%) systemd
9 1 (0.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 58 (20.21%) Databricks
2 43 (14.98%) Oracle
3 39 (13.59%) Google
4 24 (8.36%) TIBCO
5 19 (6.62%) Microsoft
6 16 (5.57%) Red Hat
7 12 (4.18%) Informatica
8 11 (3.83%) Cloudera
9 8 (2.79%) ServiceNow
9 8 (2.79%) webMethods
10 7 (2.44%) Cisco
10 7 (2.44%) Talend
11 6 (2.09%) Foundry
11 6 (2.09%) Palantir
12 5 (1.74%) Palo Alto
12 5 (1.74%) SolarWinds
12 5 (1.74%) Splunk
13 4 (1.39%) Dynatrace
13 4 (1.39%) Guidewire
13 4 (1.39%) IBM