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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 268 190
Rank change year-on-year -90 -78 +113
Contract jobs citing Apache 325 317 519
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.61% 0.96% 1.34%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.98% 8.74% 12.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 231 441
10th Percentile £363 £375 £420
25th Percentile £413 £475 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £750
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% -23.33% +25.00%
75th Percentile £600 £825 £875
90th Percentile £675 - £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £515 £475
% change year-on-year -12.62% +8.42% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 10
10th Percentile £62.00 £38.21 £45.30
25th Percentile £66.99 £64.24 £58.25
Median hourly rate £67.47 £79.35 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.97% +7.23% -5.13%
75th Percentile £74.38 £80.74 £74.44
90th Percentile £83.62 £82.07 £75.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £79.35 £74.00
% change year-on-year -14.97% +7.23% -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 4,655 3,627 4,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.70% 10.96% 10.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,071 2,368 2,834
10th Percentile £300 £281 £280
25th Percentile £404 £392 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £486 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% -7.38% +0.96%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £720 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £470
% change year-on-year +2.78% -4.26% -1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 89 104
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.33 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.63 £26.00 £21.19
Median hourly rate £32.50 £43.09 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -24.58% +31.57% -32.47%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.71 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -29.62% +2.62% +63.64%

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 August 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 August 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 17 August 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 -111 276 £511 -14.79% 155
London -86 164 £550 -24.14% 100
UK excluding London -79 130 £450 -12.62% 83
Work from Home -78 98 £509 -32.20% 47
North of England -45 57 £425 +18.72% 18
North East -14 29 £385 -30.00% 5
Scotland +1 24 £525 +5.00% 15
South West -36 21 £450 -9.09% 17
North West -40 20 £528 +47.35% 9
Midlands -52 13 £495 -8.08% 4
South East -67 12 £460 -23.33% 22
West Midlands -58 10 £478 -11.57% 1
Yorkshire -36 8 £475 -17.39% 4
Wales -15 2 £475 - 2
East Midlands -17 2 £548 +31.93% 3
East of England -26 2 £400 -27.27% 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
1 177 (54.46%) Apache Spark
2 134 (41.23%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (9.54%) Jupyter
4 18 (5.54%) Tomcat
5 15 (4.62%) nginx
6 14 (4.31%) WebSphere
7 10 (3.08%) Confluence
8 9 (2.77%) Apache Geronimo
8 9 (2.77%) Apache ServiceMix
8 9 (2.77%) Red Hat Fuse
9 8 (2.46%) Apache Superset
10 7 (2.15%) IIS
11 5 (1.54%) CloudStack
11 5 (1.54%) SharePoint
12 4 (1.23%) JBoss
13 3 (0.92%) WebLogic
14 1 (0.31%) CMS
14 1 (0.31%) Luigi
14 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
14 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Magento
1 1 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.31%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 176 (54.15%) AWS
2 119 (36.62%) Azure
3 85 (26.15%) GCP
4 50 (15.38%) Amazon S3
5 43 (13.23%) dbt
6 36 (11.08%) Snowflake
7 34 (10.46%) Azure DevOps
8 32 (9.85%) Azure Data Factory
8 32 (9.85%) Serverless
9 31 (9.54%) Power Platform
10 28 (8.62%) Amazon EMR
10 28 (8.62%) AWS Lambda
11 25 (7.69%) GitHub
12 17 (5.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 15 (4.62%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (4.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 10 (3.08%) Amazon SQS
15 10 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
15 10 (3.08%) IaaS
16 9 (2.77%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.85%) DNS
2 15 (4.62%) Firewall
3 6 (1.85%) SAN
4 5 (1.54%) DHCP
4 5 (1.54%) NAS
5 3 (0.92%) HTTP
5 3 (0.92%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.92%) Network Security
5 3 (0.92%) SSL
5 3 (0.92%) Structured Cabling
5 3 (0.92%) VLAN
6 2 (0.62%) BIG-IP
6 2 (0.62%) FTP
6 2 (0.62%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.62%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.31%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.31%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.31%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (18.15%) Data Warehouse
2 47 (14.46%) Data Lake
3 41 (12.62%) Delta Lake
4 40 (12.31%) BigQuery
5 38 (11.69%) Big Data
6 37 (11.38%) Flink
7 30 (9.23%) Amazon Athena
8 28 (8.62%) Power BI
9 25 (7.69%) Metadata
10 22 (6.77%) Amazon Redshift
11 21 (6.46%) SQL Server
12 20 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
13 18 (5.54%) Apache Iceberg
13 18 (5.54%) Relational Database
14 17 (5.23%) NoSQL
15 16 (4.92%) Hadoop
16 15 (4.62%) Elasticsearch
17 12 (3.69%) Tableau
18 10 (3.08%) MongoDB
18 10 (3.08%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 50 (15.38%) Git
1 50 (15.38%) GitLab
2 22 (6.77%) JIRA
3 15 (4.62%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.46%) SonarQube
5 6 (1.85%) Bitbucket
5 6 (1.85%) Maven
6 5 (1.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (1.54%) MLflow
7 4 (1.23%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.23%) Gradle
8 2 (0.62%) JMeter
8 2 (0.62%) Selenium
8 2 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.31%) Ant
9 1 (0.31%) git-flow
9 1 (0.31%) minitest
9 1 (0.31%) Newman
9 1 (0.31%) Postman
9 1 (0.31%) RSpec
General
1 73 (22.46%) Finance
2 71 (21.85%) Social Skills
3 42 (12.92%) Public Sector
4 38 (11.69%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (8.31%) Banking
6 7 (2.15%) Financial Institution
7 6 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (1.85%) Marketing
7 6 (1.85%) Publishing
8 5 (1.54%) Billing
9 4 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.23%) Front Office
9 4 (1.23%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.92%) Law
10 3 (0.92%) Legal
11 2 (0.62%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.31%) Prime Brokerage
12 1 (0.31%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 126 (38.77%) Data Engineer
2 56 (17.23%) Senior
3 45 (13.85%) Architect
3 45 (13.85%) Developer
4 34 (10.46%) Senior Data Engineer
5 27 (8.31%) Lead
6 23 (7.08%) Java Developer
7 22 (6.77%) DevOps Engineer
8 19 (5.85%) Data Architect
9 14 (4.31%) Lead Data Engineer
10 12 (3.69%) AWS Engineer
10 12 (3.69%) Python Engineer
11 10 (3.08%) Software Engineer
12 9 (2.77%) Cloud Engineer
12 9 (2.77%) Python Data Engineer
12 9 (2.77%) Senior Developer
13 8 (2.46%) Analyst
13 8 (2.46%) Platform Engineer
13 8 (2.46%) Python Developer
13 8 (2.46%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (22.15%) Kafka
1 72 (22.15%) PySpark
2 28 (8.62%) Spring
3 27 (8.31%) REST
4 25 (7.69%) Spring Boot
5 19 (5.85%) JSON
6 16 (4.92%) Apache Beam
7 14 (4.31%) Middleware
8 11 (3.38%) Apache NiFi
9 9 (2.77%) Apache Axis
9 9 (2.77%) Apache Camel
9 9 (2.77%) SOAP
9 9 (2.77%) YAML
10 8 (2.46%) AWS CDK
10 8 (2.46%) OAuth
10 8 (2.46%) Spark Streaming
11 7 (2.15%) Great Expectations
11 7 (2.15%) Pandas
12 6 (1.85%) Apache Avro
12 6 (1.85%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 52 (16.00%) Cloud Native
2 23 (7.08%) Product Ownership
3 14 (4.31%) Data Structures
3 14 (4.31%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (4.00%) Management Information System
5 10 (3.08%) Public Cloud
6 9 (2.77%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (2.77%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.85%) Data Fabric
8 5 (1.54%) AI Agents
8 5 (1.54%) Clustering
8 5 (1.54%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.54%) Replication
8 5 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.23%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (1.23%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.23%) PKI
9 4 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 52 (16.00%) Linux
2 17 (5.23%) Ubuntu
2 17 (5.23%) Windows
3 13 (4.00%) Unix
4 12 (3.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.54%) CentOS
5 5 (1.54%) Rocky
5 5 (1.54%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.54%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.23%) Debian
7 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.31%) Solaris
8 1 (0.31%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (48.00%) CI/CD
2 137 (42.15%) Data Pipeline
3 127 (39.08%) Data Engineering
4 114 (35.08%) Analytics
5 111 (34.15%) DevOps
6 98 (30.15%) Data Modelling
6 98 (30.15%) ETL
7 94 (28.92%) Agile
8 76 (23.38%) Infrastructure as Code
9 74 (22.77%) Containerisation
10 64 (19.69%) AI
11 59 (18.15%) Data Governance
12 47 (14.46%) Machine Learning
13 46 (14.15%) Migration
14 44 (13.54%) Business Intelligence
15 41 (12.62%) Data Architecture
15 41 (12.62%) Problem-Solving
16 39 (12.00%) Data Science
17 38 (11.69%) Data Transformation
17 38 (11.69%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 219 (67.38%) Python
2 177 (54.46%) SQL
3 83 (25.54%) Java
4 28 (8.62%) Scala
5 24 (7.38%) Bash
6 23 (7.08%) PowerShell
7 20 (6.15%) Shell Script
8 10 (3.08%) Go
8 10 (3.08%) R
8 10 (3.08%) TypeScript
9 7 (2.15%) PL/SQL
10 6 (1.85%) C#
10 6 (1.85%) Perl
11 5 (1.54%) JavaScript
11 5 (1.54%) Ruby
12 4 (1.23%) Bicep
12 4 (1.23%) Groovy
13 3 (0.92%) Cypher
13 3 (0.92%) Gremlin
13 3 (0.92%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 92 (28.31%) Security Cleared
2 82 (25.23%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.46%) Degree
4 17 (5.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.77%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.85%) AWS Certification
6 6 (1.85%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.54%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.92%) CCNP
9 3 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.92%) CSPO
9 3 (0.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.62%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.62%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.31%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.31%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.31%) PMP
11 1 (0.31%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (25.54%) Data Quality
2 17 (5.23%) GDPR
3 12 (3.69%) QA
4 7 (2.15%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (1.23%) Government Security Classifications
7 3 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.62%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.62%) SLA
8 2 (0.62%) WCAG
9 1 (0.31%) NIST
System Software
1 99 (30.46%) Docker
2 14 (4.31%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.77%) Postfix
4 8 (2.46%) NFS
5 7 (2.15%) Varnish
6 5 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.23%) Sendmail
7 4 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
8 3 (0.92%) Dovecot
8 3 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.92%) vSphere
9 2 (0.62%) Ceph
9 2 (0.62%) KVM
9 2 (0.62%) Samba
10 1 (0.31%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.31%) iptables
Systems Management
1 91 (28.00%) Terraform
2 83 (25.54%) Kubernetes
3 25 (7.69%) Ansible
4 12 (3.69%) Grafana
5 9 (2.77%) HAProxy
6 8 (2.46%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.54%) Packer
7 5 (1.54%) vCenter Server
8 4 (1.23%) Puppet
8 4 (1.23%) SELinux
9 3 (0.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.92%) Apache Ranger
9 3 (0.92%) Check_MK
9 3 (0.92%) Kibana
9 3 (0.92%) systemd
10 2 (0.62%) Control-M
10 2 (0.62%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.31%) logstash
11 1 (0.31%) Rundeck
11 1 (0.31%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 79 (24.31%) Databricks
2 39 (12.00%) Microsoft
3 36 (11.08%) Google
4 19 (5.85%) Oracle
5 17 (5.23%) Trend Micro
6 12 (3.69%) Red Hat
7 10 (3.08%) Cloudera
7 10 (3.08%) Informatica
7 10 (3.08%) TIBCO
7 10 (3.08%) VMware
8 9 (2.77%) ServiceNow
9 8 (2.46%) Splunk
10 7 (2.15%) Cisco
10 7 (2.15%) Guidewire
11 5 (1.54%) Confluent
11 5 (1.54%) IBM
11 5 (1.54%) New Relic
11 5 (1.54%) Tanium
12 4 (1.23%) Hortonworks
12 4 (1.23%) Talend