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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 219 309
Rank change year-on-year -91 +90 -37
Contract jobs citing Apache 300 412 364
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.86% 1.12% 0.78%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.99% 10.16% 7.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 321 288
10th Percentile £375 £381 £400
25th Percentile £456 £523 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £700 £600
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +16.67% -5.88%
75th Percentile £688 £850 £700
90th Percentile £825 £888 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +3.58% -9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 9
10th Percentile £61.78 £55.63 £20.70
25th Percentile £64.81 £67.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £72.25 £74.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% -5.13% +4.91%
75th Percentile £77.31 £74.33 -
90th Percentile £78.93 £74.72 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.25 £74.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -2.36% -5.13% -

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 3,753 4,056 4,820
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.74% 11.04% 10.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,510 2,519 3,222
10th Percentile £286 £263 £251
25th Percentile £400 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.84% +2.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £591 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £800 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £465 £470
% change year-on-year -0.54% -1.06% -1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 78 145
10th Percentile £15.95 £19.85 £15.80
25th Percentile £20.50 £24.18 £19.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £40.46 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.48% +39.50% +44.14%
75th Percentile £65.25 £66.77 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £74.00 £74.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -36.36% +103.70% +50.00%

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 7 November 2025.

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 7 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Apache in the UK

Apache
Top 15 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 7 November 2025. 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 -84 268 £550 -26.67% 292
London -89 151 £625 -21.88% 133
UK excluding London -20 125 £492 +3.58% 244
Work from Home -83 100 £700 -12.50% 183
North of England -10 44 £448 -14.67% 27
Midlands -5 35 £508 -17.08% 11
North West -5 29 £420 -17.04% 16
West Midlands -16 29 £511 -16.46% 4
Scotland +19 15 £500 +17.65% 26
South East -8 14 £600 +26.32% 113
South West 0 13 £435 -21.12% 39
Yorkshire -28 12 £475 -11.63% 8
East of England -15 6 £550 +74.60% 17
East Midlands -16 6 £420 +36.59% 6
North East - 3 £400 - 3

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
1 108 (36.00%) Apache Airflow
2 90 (30.00%) Apache Spark
3 28 (9.33%) IIS
4 26 (8.67%) JBoss
4 26 (8.67%) WebLogic
5 19 (6.33%) WebSphere
6 18 (6.00%) Confluence
7 11 (3.67%) Tomcat
8 10 (3.33%) iPlanet
8 10 (3.33%) WebSphere Application Server
9 7 (2.33%) nginx
10 5 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (1.33%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.67%) Apache Pig
12 2 (0.67%) Luigi
12 2 (0.67%) Oracle HTTP Server
13 1 (0.33%) Apache Superset
13 1 (0.33%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.33%) CloudStack
13 1 (0.33%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (1.00%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.67%) Abaqus
2 2 (0.67%) Sketch
3 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (2.67%) Maximo
2 1 (0.33%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.33%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 165 (55.00%) AWS
2 84 (28.00%) Azure
3 61 (20.33%) dbt
4 59 (19.67%) Snowflake
5 43 (14.33%) GCP
6 39 (13.00%) Serverless
7 25 (8.33%) Amazon S3
8 19 (6.33%) Power Platform
9 18 (6.00%) Azure Data Factory
9 18 (6.00%) Azure Monitor
9 18 (6.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 17 (5.67%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (4.33%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (4.33%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (4.33%) OpenShift
12 9 (3.00%) Amazon EMR
12 9 (3.00%) Cloud Computing
12 9 (3.00%) GitHub
13 7 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.33%) Kerberos
2 7 (2.33%) DNS
2 7 (2.33%) Firewall
3 6 (2.00%) SSL
4 4 (1.33%) HTTP
4 4 (1.33%) SMTP
5 2 (0.67%) VPN
6 1 (0.33%) DHCP
6 1 (0.33%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.33%) LAN
6 1 (0.33%) WAN
6 1 (0.33%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (21.33%) Data Lake
2 47 (15.67%) Amazon Athena
3 46 (15.33%) Big Data
4 43 (14.33%) Apache Iceberg
4 43 (14.33%) Data Warehouse
5 40 (13.33%) Hadoop
6 36 (12.00%) Apache Arrow
6 36 (12.00%) Apache Ignite
6 36 (12.00%) Dremio
7 23 (7.67%) Amazon Redshift
7 23 (7.67%) Delta Lake
8 21 (7.00%) Metadata
9 19 (6.33%) Apache Hive
9 19 (6.33%) Power BI
10 18 (6.00%) NoSQL
10 18 (6.00%) Relational Database
11 17 (5.67%) BigQuery
11 17 (5.67%) SQL Server
12 14 (4.67%) Oracle Database
13 13 (4.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 52 (17.33%) Git
2 23 (7.67%) Jenkins
2 23 (7.67%) JIRA
3 14 (4.67%) Sonatype Nexus
4 13 (4.33%) GitLab
4 13 (4.33%) JUnit
5 11 (3.67%) Bitbucket Server
5 11 (3.67%) CA Release Automation
6 9 (3.00%) Eclipse
6 9 (3.00%) IntelliJ
6 9 (3.00%) Selenium
7 7 (2.33%) Artifactory
8 5 (1.67%) ERwin
8 5 (1.67%) Subversion
9 4 (1.33%) ER Studio
9 4 (1.33%) MLflow
9 4 (1.33%) Mockito
9 4 (1.33%) MSI
9 4 (1.33%) Robot Framework
10 3 (1.00%) Vagrant
General
1 78 (26.00%) Social Skills
2 63 (21.00%) Finance
3 46 (15.33%) Banking
4 37 (12.33%) Investment Banking
5 36 (12.00%) Front Office
6 19 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (6.33%) Public Sector
7 9 (3.00%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.33%) Legal
10 3 (1.00%) Marketing
11 2 (0.67%) Electronics
11 2 (0.67%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.67%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.67%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.67%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.33%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.33%) Games
12 1 (0.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 71 (23.67%) Data Engineer
1 71 (23.67%) Senior
2 48 (16.00%) Software Engineer
3 45 (15.00%) Python Engineer
4 44 (14.67%) AWS Engineer
5 43 (14.33%) Senior Software Engineer
6 40 (13.33%) Java Engineer
7 36 (12.00%) AWS Software Engineer
7 36 (12.00%) Java Software Engineer
7 36 (12.00%) Python Software Engineer
8 35 (11.67%) Senior Java Engineer
8 35 (11.67%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 32 (10.67%) Developer
10 21 (7.00%) DevOps Engineer
11 18 (6.00%) Architect
12 13 (4.33%) Platform Engineer
12 13 (4.33%) Senior Data Engineer
13 11 (3.67%) Lead
14 10 (3.33%) Data Architect
14 10 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (16.33%) Pandas
2 48 (16.00%) Kafka
3 45 (15.00%) NumPy
4 43 (14.33%) Apache NiFi
5 36 (12.00%) gRPC
5 36 (12.00%) Protocol Buffers
5 36 (12.00%) SciPy
6 33 (11.00%) REST
7 21 (7.00%) PySpark
8 20 (6.67%) XML
9 19 (6.33%) OAuth
10 18 (6.00%) SOAP
11 16 (5.33%) Spring
12 14 (4.67%) HTML
12 14 (4.67%) JSON
12 14 (4.67%) React
13 12 (4.00%) OpenID
14 11 (3.67%) Middleware
14 11 (3.67%) SAML
15 10 (3.33%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 37 (12.33%) Equities
2 36 (12.00%) Derivative
2 36 (12.00%) Fixed Income
2 36 (12.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 36 (12.00%) Hedge funds
2 36 (12.00%) Pricing Data
3 17 (5.67%) Cloud Native
4 12 (4.00%) PKI
5 11 (3.67%) Algorithms
6 10 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (2.67%) Data Structures
8 7 (2.33%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (2.00%) Data Centre
9 6 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.67%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.33%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.33%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.33%) Replication
11 4 (1.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 66 (22.00%) Linux
2 53 (17.67%) Windows
3 36 (12.00%) Unix
4 20 (6.67%) Windows Server
5 19 (6.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (4.00%) CentOS
7 6 (2.00%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.33%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (1.00%) Debian
10 1 (0.33%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.33%) Rocky
10 1 (0.33%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (40.33%) Agile
2 101 (33.67%) DevOps
3 98 (32.67%) CI/CD
4 75 (25.00%) Analytics
4 75 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
4 75 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 73 (24.33%) ETL
6 55 (18.33%) Data Engineering
7 54 (18.00%) Data Modelling
8 49 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
9 47 (15.67%) Data Governance
10 46 (15.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 42 (14.00%) Business Intelligence
12 38 (12.67%) Asset Management
13 36 (12.00%) Investment Management
14 35 (11.67%) Infrastructure as Code
15 34 (11.33%) Workflow
16 33 (11.00%) Microservices
17 31 (10.33%) Scrum
17 31 (10.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 176 (58.67%) Python
2 101 (33.67%) SQL
3 86 (28.67%) Java
4 62 (20.67%) JavaScript
5 38 (12.67%) TypeScript
6 37 (12.33%) Scala
7 17 (5.67%) PowerShell
8 16 (5.33%) Shell Script
9 15 (5.00%) Bash
10 14 (4.67%) C#
11 13 (4.33%) Groovy
12 11 (3.67%) C++
13 7 (2.33%) PHP
14 4 (1.33%) Go
14 4 (1.33%) PL/SQL
15 3 (1.00%) R
16 2 (0.67%) AWK
16 2 (0.67%) Korn
16 2 (0.67%) SPARQL
16 2 (0.67%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 94 (31.33%) Security Cleared
2 62 (20.67%) SC Cleared
3 44 (14.67%) DV Cleared
4 13 (4.33%) Degree
5 11 (3.67%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.33%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.67%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.67%) RHCE
10 1 (0.33%) CCNP
10 1 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.33%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.33%) MCP
10 1 (0.33%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (13.33%) Data Quality
2 25 (8.33%) QA
3 9 (3.00%) GDPR
4 7 (2.33%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.33%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.67%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.67%) Section 508
6 2 (0.67%) WCAG
7 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.33%) IFRS
7 1 (0.33%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 50 (16.67%) Docker
2 19 (6.33%) Active Directory
3 12 (4.00%) HDFS
4 10 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (2.67%) Tivoli Directory Server
6 4 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.67%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.33%) KVM
Systems Management
1 42 (14.00%) Terraform
2 40 (13.33%) Ansible
3 37 (12.33%) Kubernetes
4 19 (6.33%) Puppet
5 15 (5.00%) Progress Chef
6 11 (3.67%) CA Single Sign-On
6 11 (3.67%) Prometheus
7 10 (3.33%) CA Wily
7 10 (3.33%) Grafana
7 10 (3.33%) Hadoop YARN
8 8 (2.67%) Tivoli
9 6 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.33%) Nagios
10 4 (1.33%) WMI
11 3 (1.00%) Kibana
11 3 (1.00%) Oozie
11 3 (1.00%) Salt
12 2 (0.67%) Icinga
12 2 (0.67%) logstash
12 2 (0.67%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 42 (14.00%) Oracle
2 39 (13.00%) Databricks
3 34 (11.33%) Microsoft
4 33 (11.00%) Splunk
5 25 (8.33%) AppDynamics
6 24 (8.00%) IBM
7 18 (6.00%) Google
8 15 (5.00%) Cisco
8 15 (5.00%) Dynatrace
9 13 (4.33%) Cloudera
9 13 (4.33%) VMware
10 12 (4.00%) Red Hat
11 11 (3.67%) Broadcom
12 10 (3.33%) Foundry
12 10 (3.33%) Palantir
13 9 (3.00%) Informatica
13 9 (3.00%) webMethods
14 7 (2.33%) ServiceNow
15 5 (1.67%) Talend
16 3 (1.00%) Rackspace