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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 265 188
Rank change year-on-year -104 -77 +119
Contract jobs citing Apache 329 320 527
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.62% 0.98% 1.31%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.11% 8.95% 12.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 243 449
10th Percentile £363 £401 £419
25th Percentile £425 £463 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £750
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £588 £825 £850
90th Percentile £675 £848 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £530 £475
% change year-on-year -9.11% +11.47% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 11
10th Percentile £61.24 £38.21 £36.75
25th Percentile £64.63 £64.24 £48.75
Median hourly rate £67.47 £79.35 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.97% +13.36% -10.26%
75th Percentile £70.88 £80.74 £74.44
90th Percentile £75.88 £82.07 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £79.35 £70.00
% change year-on-year -14.97% +13.36% -10.26%

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 4,628 3,577 4,227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.75% 10.92% 10.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,058 2,341 2,920
10th Percentile £306 £288 £272
25th Percentile £405 £394 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% +2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £725 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -4.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 87 123
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.03 £13.54
25th Percentile £19.03 £26.00 £17.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £43.09 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.77% +39.00% -40.95%
75th Percentile £61.57 £67.63 £57.50
90th Percentile £74.41 £79.25 £74.89
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £46.65 £30.00
% change year-on-year -24.97% +55.50% -25.00%

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 28 July 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 28 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Apache in the UK

Apache
Top 16 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 28 July 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 -123 263 £513 -14.58% 115
London -97 153 £550 -26.67% 61
UK excluding London -56 144 £481 -9.11% 62
Work from Home -83 94 £509 -32.20% 37
North of England -45 55 £425 - 18
Scotland +12 38 £525 +5.00% 3
North East - 28 £385 - 6
North West -42 21 £525 +46.65% 8
South West -33 18 £450 -12.62% 12
Midlands -54 17 £495 -7.82% 6
West Midlands -53 14 £494 -9.40% 5
South East -75 11 £470 -21.67% 19
Yorkshire -46 6 £475 -20.83% 4
Wales -14 3 £509 - 2
East of England -26 3 £400 -27.27% 3
East Midlands -15 2 £548 +33.54% 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
1 171 (51.98%) Apache Spark
2 125 (37.99%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (9.42%) Tomcat
4 29 (8.81%) Jupyter
5 26 (7.90%) WebSphere
6 21 (6.38%) Apache Geronimo
6 21 (6.38%) Apache ServiceMix
6 21 (6.38%) Red Hat Fuse
7 13 (3.95%) nginx
8 8 (2.43%) Confluence
9 7 (2.13%) Apache Superset
9 7 (2.13%) IIS
10 5 (1.52%) CloudStack
10 5 (1.52%) SharePoint
11 4 (1.22%) JBoss
12 3 (0.91%) WebLogic
13 1 (0.30%) CMS
13 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
13 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.30%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Magento
1 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.30%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 172 (52.28%) AWS
2 115 (34.95%) Azure
3 81 (24.62%) GCP
4 55 (16.72%) Amazon S3
5 38 (11.55%) dbt
6 35 (10.64%) Power Platform
7 32 (9.73%) Serverless
8 31 (9.42%) Snowflake
9 30 (9.12%) AWS Lambda
9 30 (9.12%) Azure DevOps
10 28 (8.51%) Amazon EMR
10 28 (8.51%) Azure Data Factory
11 21 (6.38%) GitHub
12 20 (6.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 16 (4.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 15 (4.56%) GitHub Actions
15 14 (4.26%) Amazon SQS
15 14 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
16 10 (3.04%) AWS Step Functions
16 10 (3.04%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.17%) DNS
2 14 (4.26%) Firewall
3 6 (1.82%) HTTP
3 6 (1.82%) SAN
4 5 (1.52%) NAS
5 4 (1.22%) DHCP
6 3 (0.91%) Network Security
6 3 (0.91%) Structured Cabling
6 3 (0.91%) VLAN
7 2 (0.61%) BIG-IP
7 2 (0.61%) FTP
7 2 (0.61%) SSL
7 2 (0.61%) VXLAN
8 1 (0.30%) 5G
8 1 (0.30%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.30%) Intranet
8 1 (0.30%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.30%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.30%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.30%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (16.72%) Data Warehouse
2 47 (14.29%) Data Lake
3 43 (13.07%) Big Data
4 35 (10.64%) Delta Lake
5 34 (10.33%) BigQuery
6 31 (9.42%) Power BI
7 30 (9.12%) Amazon Athena
7 30 (9.12%) Flink
8 27 (8.21%) Metadata
9 26 (7.90%) SQL Server
10 22 (6.69%) Hadoop
10 22 (6.69%) PostgreSQL
11 18 (5.47%) Amazon Redshift
12 17 (5.17%) NoSQL
12 17 (5.17%) Relational Database
13 16 (4.86%) MySQL
14 15 (4.56%) Tableau
15 13 (3.95%) Apache Iceberg
16 12 (3.65%) Elasticsearch
17 11 (3.34%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 48 (14.59%) Git
2 44 (13.37%) GitLab
3 21 (6.38%) JIRA
4 16 (4.86%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.13%) MLflow
5 7 (2.13%) SonarQube
6 5 (1.52%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.52%) Maven
7 4 (1.22%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (1.22%) Gradle
8 3 (0.91%) Selenium
9 1 (0.30%) Capybara
9 1 (0.30%) git-flow
9 1 (0.30%) minitest
9 1 (0.30%) Newman
9 1 (0.30%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.30%) Postman
9 1 (0.30%) RSpec
9 1 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 66 (20.06%) Social Skills
2 64 (19.45%) Finance
3 42 (12.77%) Public Sector
4 39 (11.85%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (6.99%) Banking
6 7 (2.13%) Marketing
7 6 (1.82%) Billing
7 6 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.52%) Publishing
9 4 (1.22%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.22%) Front Office
9 4 (1.22%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.91%) Law
10 3 (0.91%) Legal
11 2 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.61%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.30%) International Banking
12 1 (0.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 116 (35.26%) Data Engineer
2 53 (16.11%) Senior
3 46 (13.98%) Architect
3 46 (13.98%) Developer
4 29 (8.81%) Senior Data Engineer
5 27 (8.21%) Lead
6 22 (6.69%) Data Architect
6 22 (6.69%) Java Developer
7 21 (6.38%) DevOps Engineer
8 15 (4.56%) Lead Data Engineer
9 13 (3.95%) AWS Engineer
10 11 (3.34%) Python Engineer
11 9 (2.74%) Cloud Engineer
11 9 (2.74%) Python Developer
11 9 (2.74%) Senior Developer
11 9 (2.74%) Software Engineer
12 8 (2.43%) Analyst
12 8 (2.43%) AWS Data Engineer
12 8 (2.43%) Platform Engineer
13 7 (2.13%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (21.88%) Kafka
2 63 (19.15%) PySpark
3 29 (8.81%) REST
4 27 (8.21%) Spring
5 26 (7.90%) Middleware
6 23 (6.99%) Spring Boot
7 21 (6.38%) Apache Axis
7 21 (6.38%) Apache Camel
8 18 (5.47%) Apache Beam
9 17 (5.17%) JSON
10 11 (3.34%) Apache NiFi
11 10 (3.04%) OAuth
11 10 (3.04%) Pandas
12 9 (2.74%) AWS CDK
12 9 (2.74%) Great Expectations
12 9 (2.74%) SOAP
13 8 (2.43%) LAMP
14 7 (2.13%) NumPy
14 7 (2.13%) PyTorch
15 6 (1.82%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 52 (15.81%) Cloud Native
2 19 (5.78%) Product Ownership
3 17 (5.17%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (4.86%) Data Structures
5 15 (4.56%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (3.95%) Management Information System
7 10 (3.04%) Public Cloud
8 9 (2.74%) Onboarding
9 8 (2.43%) Clustering
9 8 (2.43%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.82%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.82%) Distributed Computing
11 5 (1.52%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.52%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.52%) Replication
11 5 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.22%) Data Fabric
12 4 (1.22%) PKI
12 4 (1.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 52 (15.81%) Linux
2 18 (5.47%) Windows
3 15 (4.56%) Ubuntu
3 15 (4.56%) Unix
4 10 (3.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.13%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.52%) CentOS
7 4 (1.22%) Rocky
7 4 (1.22%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.91%) Debian
8 3 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.61%) Solaris
9 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.30%) VMS
10 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (46.50%) CI/CD
2 127 (38.60%) Data Engineering
2 127 (38.60%) Data Pipeline
3 116 (35.26%) Analytics
4 103 (31.31%) DevOps
5 101 (30.70%) Data Modelling
6 99 (30.09%) ETL
7 85 (25.84%) Agile
8 74 (22.49%) Containerisation
9 73 (22.19%) Infrastructure as Code
10 68 (20.67%) AI
11 66 (20.06%) Data Governance
12 47 (14.29%) Machine Learning
13 45 (13.68%) Problem-Solving
14 44 (13.37%) Business Intelligence
15 43 (13.07%) Migration
16 42 (12.77%) Data Architecture
17 41 (12.46%) Workflow
18 40 (12.16%) Data Science
19 34 (10.33%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 212 (64.44%) Python
2 188 (57.14%) SQL
3 93 (28.27%) Java
4 27 (8.21%) Scala
5 21 (6.38%) Bash
6 19 (5.78%) Shell Script
7 16 (4.86%) PowerShell
8 10 (3.04%) R
8 10 (3.04%) TypeScript
9 9 (2.74%) Go
9 9 (2.74%) Perl
10 8 (2.43%) C#
10 8 (2.43%) JavaScript
10 8 (2.43%) PL/SQL
11 6 (1.82%) PHP
12 5 (1.52%) Ruby
13 4 (1.22%) Groovy
14 3 (0.91%) Cypher
14 3 (0.91%) Gremlin
14 3 (0.91%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 98 (29.79%) Security Cleared
2 88 (26.75%) SC Cleared
3 23 (6.99%) Degree
4 17 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.04%) Master's Degree
6 9 (2.74%) DV Cleared
7 8 (2.43%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.82%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.91%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.91%) CCNP
10 3 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.91%) CSPO
10 3 (0.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.61%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.61%) RHCSA
12 1 (0.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.30%) MBA
12 1 (0.30%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (25.84%) Data Quality
2 19 (5.78%) GDPR
3 12 (3.65%) QA
4 9 (2.74%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (1.22%) Government Security Classifications
7 3 (0.91%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.61%) SLA
8 2 (0.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 87 (26.44%) Docker
2 11 (3.34%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.74%) Postfix
4 8 (2.43%) NFS
5 7 (2.13%) Varnish
6 5 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (1.22%) Sendmail
8 3 (0.91%) Dovecot
8 3 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.91%) vSphere
9 2 (0.61%) Ceph
9 2 (0.61%) HDFS
9 2 (0.61%) KVM
9 2 (0.61%) Samba
10 1 (0.30%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.30%) iptables
10 1 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 87 (26.44%) Terraform
2 70 (21.28%) Kubernetes
3 23 (6.99%) Ansible
4 11 (3.34%) Grafana
5 9 (2.74%) HAProxy
6 6 (1.82%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.22%) Packer
7 4 (1.22%) SELinux
7 4 (1.22%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.91%) Apache Ranger
8 3 (0.91%) Check_MK
8 3 (0.91%) Kibana
9 2 (0.61%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.61%) Puppet
9 2 (0.61%) systemd
10 1 (0.30%) logstash
10 1 (0.30%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.30%) Rundeck
10 1 (0.30%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 71 (21.58%) Databricks
2 38 (11.55%) Oracle
3 37 (11.25%) Google
4 35 (10.64%) Microsoft
5 22 (6.69%) TIBCO
6 16 (4.86%) Trend Micro
7 11 (3.34%) Informatica
7 11 (3.34%) Red Hat
8 10 (3.04%) Cloudera
8 10 (3.04%) VMware
9 8 (2.43%) ServiceNow
10 7 (2.13%) Cisco
10 7 (2.13%) Guidewire
11 6 (1.82%) IBM
11 6 (1.82%) Splunk
11 6 (1.82%) Talend
12 5 (1.52%) Confluent
13 4 (1.22%) Hortonworks
13 4 (1.22%) Okta
13 4 (1.22%) Tanium