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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 368 265 219
Rank change year-on-year -103 -46 +68
Contract jobs citing Apache 293 291 471
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.59% 0.99% 1.08%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.87% 8.86% 10.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 219 410
10th Percentile £368 £405 £405
25th Percentile £425 £472 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £700
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% -10.71% +16.67%
75th Percentile £588 £825 £850
90th Percentile £663 £875 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +15.79% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 10
10th Percentile £63.00 £38.21 £35.25
25th Percentile £64.00 £64.24 £47.50
Median hourly rate £66.50 £79.35 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% +20.23% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70.88 £80.74 £74.44
90th Percentile £83.25 £82.07 £75.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.50 £79.35 £66.00
% change year-on-year -16.19% +20.23% -15.38%

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 4,265 3,285 4,359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.62% 11.18% 9.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,863 2,169 3,051
10th Percentile £313 £281 £263
25th Percentile £404 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -1.96%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £617
90th Percentile £675 £709 £765
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +2.78% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 64 163
10th Percentile £16.01 £17.33 £13.50
25th Percentile £19.14 £26.42 £15.83
Median hourly rate £32.50 £52.50 £30.83
Median % change year-on-year -38.10% +70.32% -41.29%
75th Percentile £57.92 £70.63 £51.91
90th Percentile £74.41 £79.63 £73.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £53.61 £30.00
% change year-on-year -39.38% +78.70% -38.14%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -139 230 £525 -19.23% 82
UK excluding London -48 132 £495 -10.00% 65
London -119 128 £563 -22.41% 29
Work from Home -75 78 £519 -30.83% 46
North of England -50 46 £425 -10.53% 18
Scotland +20 35 £525 +13.51% 3
North East +2 26 £400 -38.46% 7
Midlands -54 21 £525 -8.70% 5
West Midlands -43 18 £528 -12.08% 4
North West -34 17 £525 +46.65% 9
South West -19 15 £450 -20.00% 13
East of England -27 5 £363 +3.00% 2
South East -88 5 £500 -13.04% 20
Wales -13 3 £509 - 4
Yorkshire -60 3 £463 -22.92% 2
Northern Ireland +2 2 £446 +8.84% 1
East Midlands -28 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
1 146 (49.83%) Apache Spark
2 94 (32.08%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (10.58%) Tomcat
4 26 (8.87%) WebSphere
5 22 (7.51%) Apache Geronimo
5 22 (7.51%) Apache ServiceMix
5 22 (7.51%) Red Hat Fuse
6 21 (7.17%) Jupyter
7 10 (3.41%) IIS
8 8 (2.73%) nginx
9 5 (1.71%) Apache Superset
9 5 (1.71%) SharePoint
10 4 (1.37%) CloudStack
10 4 (1.37%) Confluence
10 4 (1.37%) WebLogic
11 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.68%) Apache Synapse
12 2 (0.68%) JBoss
13 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Magento
1 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.34%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 147 (50.17%) AWS
2 107 (36.52%) Azure
3 70 (23.89%) GCP
4 47 (16.04%) Amazon S3
5 39 (13.31%) Power Platform
6 29 (9.90%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (8.87%) Serverless
8 24 (8.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 23 (7.85%) AWS Lambda
10 22 (7.51%) Azure Data Factory
11 21 (7.17%) AWS CloudFormation
12 20 (6.83%) Snowflake
13 18 (6.14%) Amazon SQS
13 18 (6.14%) GitHub
14 17 (5.80%) Amazon EMR
14 17 (5.80%) dbt
15 15 (5.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 15 (5.12%) Collibra
16 13 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
17 8 (2.73%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.78%) DNS
2 11 (3.75%) Firewall
3 6 (2.05%) HTTP
4 5 (1.71%) SAN
5 4 (1.37%) NAS
6 3 (1.02%) VLAN
7 2 (0.68%) BIG-IP
7 2 (0.68%) FTP
7 2 (0.68%) Network Security
7 2 (0.68%) Structured Cabling
7 2 (0.68%) VXLAN
8 1 (0.34%) 4G
8 1 (0.34%) 5G
8 1 (0.34%) DHCP
8 1 (0.34%) Intranet
8 1 (0.34%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.34%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.34%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.34%) SSH
8 1 (0.34%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (13.99%) Data Lake
2 40 (13.65%) Big Data
2 40 (13.65%) Data Warehouse
3 33 (11.26%) Power BI
4 31 (10.58%) Amazon Athena
5 29 (9.90%) BigQuery
6 28 (9.56%) SQL Server
7 27 (9.22%) Delta Lake
8 22 (7.51%) Flink
8 22 (7.51%) Hadoop
9 20 (6.83%) PostgreSQL
10 17 (5.80%) NoSQL
11 16 (5.46%) Metadata
11 16 (5.46%) MySQL
12 13 (4.44%) Amazon Redshift
12 13 (4.44%) Mixpanel
12 13 (4.44%) Relational Database
12 13 (4.44%) Tableau
13 12 (4.10%) OLAP
13 12 (4.10%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 56 (19.11%) Git
2 34 (11.60%) GitLab
3 21 (7.17%) JIRA
4 13 (4.44%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.73%) MLflow
6 6 (2.05%) Maven
6 6 (2.05%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.37%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.37%) Gradle
8 3 (1.02%) Selenium
9 2 (0.68%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.34%) Ant
10 1 (0.34%) Capybara
10 1 (0.34%) git-flow
10 1 (0.34%) minitest
10 1 (0.34%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.34%) RSpec
10 1 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 55 (18.77%) Finance
2 45 (15.36%) Social Skills
3 35 (11.95%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (10.58%) Public Sector
5 14 (4.78%) Banking
6 7 (2.39%) Billing
7 5 (1.71%) Marketing
8 4 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.37%) Front Office
8 4 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.37%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.02%) Publishing
10 2 (0.68%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.34%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.34%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.34%) French Language
11 1 (0.34%) Law
11 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.34%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.34%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 104 (35.49%) Data Engineer
2 43 (14.68%) Developer
2 43 (14.68%) Senior
3 29 (9.90%) Architect
4 26 (8.87%) Lead
5 23 (7.85%) Senior Data Engineer
6 20 (6.83%) Java Developer
7 17 (5.80%) Lead Data Engineer
8 16 (5.46%) DevOps Engineer
9 14 (4.78%) Software Engineer
10 13 (4.44%) Principal Engineer
11 12 (4.10%) AWS Engineer
11 12 (4.10%) Data Architect
11 12 (4.10%) Principal Data Engineer
12 9 (3.07%) Analyst
12 9 (3.07%) Python Engineer
13 8 (2.73%) Senior Developer
14 7 (2.39%) AWS Data Engineer
14 7 (2.39%) Platform Engineer
14 7 (2.39%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (22.18%) Kafka
2 45 (15.36%) PySpark
3 25 (8.53%) Middleware
3 25 (8.53%) Spring
4 22 (7.51%) Apache Axis
4 22 (7.51%) Apache Camel
4 22 (7.51%) REST
5 18 (6.14%) Spring Boot
6 15 (5.12%) Great Expectations
7 14 (4.78%) Apache Beam
7 14 (4.78%) JSON
8 10 (3.41%) SOAP
9 9 (3.07%) AWS CDK
9 9 (3.07%) Pandas
10 8 (2.73%) OAuth
11 7 (2.39%) LAMP
11 7 (2.39%) NumPy
12 6 (2.05%) PyTorch
13 5 (1.71%) Apache NiFi
13 5 (1.71%) Apache Tika
Miscellaneous
1 45 (15.36%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.46%) Product Ownership
3 15 (5.12%) Management Information System
4 12 (4.10%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (3.75%) Data Structures
6 10 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (3.07%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.73%) Clustering
8 8 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (2.05%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.71%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.71%) Freedom of Information
11 4 (1.37%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.37%) Data Fabric
11 4 (1.37%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (1.37%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.37%) Virtual Team
12 3 (1.02%) Distributed Applications
12 3 (1.02%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 48 (16.38%) Linux
2 19 (6.48%) Windows
3 18 (6.14%) Unix
4 15 (5.12%) Ubuntu
5 11 (3.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (3.41%) Windows Server
7 5 (1.71%) CentOS
7 5 (1.71%) Rocky
8 4 (1.37%) Debian
8 4 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.68%) Solaris
10 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (46.08%) CI/CD
2 103 (35.15%) Data Engineering
3 96 (32.76%) Analytics
4 93 (31.74%) Data Pipeline
5 92 (31.40%) DevOps
6 86 (29.35%) Data Modelling
7 84 (28.67%) ETL
8 66 (22.53%) AI
9 65 (22.18%) Agile
10 61 (20.82%) Containerisation
10 61 (20.82%) Infrastructure as Code
11 57 (19.45%) Data Governance
12 51 (17.41%) Machine Learning
13 48 (16.38%) Problem-Solving
14 41 (13.99%) Business Intelligence
14 41 (13.99%) Observability
15 36 (12.29%) Workflow
16 34 (11.60%) Data Architecture
17 33 (11.26%) Migration
18 31 (10.58%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 183 (62.46%) Python
2 178 (60.75%) SQL
3 88 (30.03%) Java
4 21 (7.17%) Scala
5 16 (5.46%) Bash
6 14 (4.78%) C#
7 12 (4.10%) Shell Script
8 11 (3.75%) PowerShell
8 11 (3.75%) R
9 9 (3.07%) JavaScript
10 8 (2.73%) Go
10 8 (2.73%) TypeScript
11 7 (2.39%) Perl
12 6 (2.05%) PHP
13 5 (1.71%) Ruby
14 4 (1.37%) PL/SQL
15 3 (1.02%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 1 (0.34%) Groovy
17 1 (0.34%) Korn
Qualifications
1 86 (29.35%) Security Cleared
2 78 (26.62%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.17%) Degree
4 15 (5.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.73%) Master's Degree
6 7 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.05%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.71%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.37%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.02%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.68%) CCNP
11 2 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.68%) CSPO
11 2 (0.68%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.34%) RHCE
12 1 (0.34%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (21.50%) Data Quality
2 24 (8.19%) GDPR
3 7 (2.39%) QA
4 6 (2.05%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.02%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.68%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.68%) WCAG
8 1 (0.34%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.34%) SLA
System Software
1 66 (22.53%) Docker
2 9 (3.07%) Postfix
3 8 (2.73%) NFS
4 7 (2.39%) Active Directory
4 7 (2.39%) Varnish
5 5 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.37%) Sendmail
7 3 (1.02%) Dovecot
7 3 (1.02%) HDFS
7 3 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.68%) Ceph
8 2 (0.68%) KVM
8 2 (0.68%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.68%) Samba
8 2 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.68%) vSphere
9 1 (0.34%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.34%) iptables
Systems Management
1 69 (23.55%) Terraform
2 56 (19.11%) Kubernetes
3 23 (7.85%) Ansible
4 9 (3.07%) Grafana
4 9 (3.07%) HAProxy
5 4 (1.37%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.37%) SELinux
6 3 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.68%) Apache Ranger
7 2 (0.68%) Check_MK
7 2 (0.68%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.68%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.68%) Puppet
7 2 (0.68%) systemd
8 1 (0.34%) Kibana
8 1 (0.34%) Podman
8 1 (0.34%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.34%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 56 (19.11%) Databricks
2 43 (14.68%) Oracle
3 36 (12.29%) Google
4 29 (9.90%) Microsoft
5 22 (7.51%) TIBCO
6 10 (3.41%) Red Hat
6 10 (3.41%) Trend Micro
7 9 (3.07%) Cisco
8 8 (2.73%) Cloudera
8 8 (2.73%) Guidewire
8 8 (2.73%) Informatica
9 7 (2.39%) ServiceNow
10 6 (2.05%) Talend
11 5 (1.71%) Confluent
11 5 (1.71%) IBM
11 5 (1.71%) VMware
12 4 (1.37%) Hortonworks
13 3 (1.02%) Dynatrace
13 3 (1.02%) F5
13 3 (1.02%) Splunk