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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 269 316
Rank change year-on-year -73 +47 -42
Contract jobs citing Apache 268 280 307
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.70% 0.89% 0.70%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.02% 7.93% 7.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 209 236
10th Percentile £375 £359 £350
25th Percentile £430 £488 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +13.64% -12.87%
75th Percentile £614 £838 £700
90th Percentile £750 £888 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £510
% change year-on-year -2.63% -6.86% -12.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 6
10th Percentile £62.30 £74.04 £22.00
25th Percentile £68.25 £74.11 £23.44
Median hourly rate £79.00 £74.22 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.44% +78.84% -20.95%
75th Percentile £82.50 £74.33 £71.94
90th Percentile £85.40 £74.40 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.00 £74.22 £65.25
% change year-on-year +6.44% +13.75% +86.51%

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 3,817 3,531 4,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.94% 11.28% 9.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,640 2,174 2,889
10th Percentile £290 £250 £250
25th Percentile £400 £380 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £600
90th Percentile £690 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 73 158
10th Percentile £14.60 £17.08 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £22.00 £16.94
Median hourly rate £25.15 £41.00 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year -38.66% +45.13% +44.87%
75th Percentile £69.25 £63.75 £54.88
90th Percentile £82.40 £66.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £54.00 £25.64
% change year-on-year -58.33% +110.61% +44.70%

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 January 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 January 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 January 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 -90 228 £525 -22.22% 154
UK excluding London -7 124 £463 -2.63% 155
London -80 117 £600 -11.11% 34
Work from Home -84 68 £525 -30.00% 117
North of England -27 41 £450 -12.20% 30
Midlands -17 35 £540 +2.86% 9
West Midlands -9 30 £525 -7.65% 5
North West -7 27 £450 -18.18% 14
Scotland +22 18 £463 -10.84% 22
South West -19 14 £625 +2.04% 26
South East -40 10 £643 +35.26% 39
Yorkshire -46 8 £475 +2.70% 8
North East -9 6 £413 -36.54% 8
East of England -16 6 £363 +14.53% 21
East Midlands -27 5 £663 +115.45% 4
Northern Ireland -5 3 £463 -2.63% 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 (40.30%) Apache Spark
2 77 (28.73%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (8.21%) IIS
4 21 (7.84%) JBoss
4 21 (7.84%) WebLogic
5 14 (5.22%) WebSphere
6 10 (3.73%) iPlanet
6 10 (3.73%) WebSphere Application Server
7 8 (2.99%) Tomcat
8 7 (2.61%) Confluence
9 5 (1.87%) nginx
10 4 (1.49%) Jupyter
11 3 (1.12%) Apache Geronimo
11 3 (1.12%) Apache ServiceMix
11 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (1.12%) Red Hat Fuse
11 3 (1.12%) SAS
12 2 (0.75%) Apache Synapse
12 2 (0.75%) Luigi
12 2 (0.75%) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications
1 3 (1.12%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.75%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Actimize
1 1 (0.37%) Maximo
1 1 (0.37%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.37%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 147 (54.85%) AWS
2 82 (30.60%) Azure
3 53 (19.78%) GCP
4 39 (14.55%) Amazon S3
5 37 (13.81%) Serverless
6 33 (12.31%) Power Platform
7 32 (11.94%) AWS CloudFormation
8 30 (11.19%) Snowflake
9 21 (7.84%) dbt
10 20 (7.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 19 (7.09%) AWS Lambda
12 17 (6.34%) Azure Data Factory
13 15 (5.60%) Azure DevOps
14 13 (4.85%) Amazon SQS
14 13 (4.85%) Collibra
15 10 (3.73%) OpenShift
16 9 (3.36%) Cloud Computing
16 9 (3.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 8 (2.99%) AWS Step Functions
17 8 (2.99%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.85%) Firewall
2 11 (4.10%) Kerberos
3 8 (2.99%) HTTP
4 5 (1.87%) DNS
5 4 (1.49%) DHCP
5 4 (1.49%) Network Security
6 3 (1.12%) SSL
6 3 (1.12%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.75%) SAN
8 1 (0.37%) InfiniBand
8 1 (0.37%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.37%) LAN
8 1 (0.37%) Spanning Tree
8 1 (0.37%) SSH
8 1 (0.37%) VLAN
8 1 (0.37%) VPN
8 1 (0.37%) WAN
8 1 (0.37%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (18.28%) Data Lake
2 38 (14.18%) Amazon Athena
2 38 (14.18%) Big Data
3 33 (12.31%) Hadoop
4 32 (11.94%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (11.57%) Power BI
6 27 (10.07%) Delta Lake
7 22 (8.21%) BigQuery
8 18 (6.72%) Amazon Redshift
8 18 (6.72%) Apache Iceberg
9 17 (6.34%) Apache Hive
10 16 (5.97%) NoSQL
11 15 (5.60%) MongoDB
11 15 (5.60%) OLTP
12 14 (5.22%) Metadata
12 14 (5.22%) Oracle Database
12 14 (5.22%) PostgreSQL
13 12 (4.48%) Mixpanel
14 11 (4.10%) Apache Ignite
14 11 (4.10%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 51 (19.03%) Git
2 21 (7.84%) GitLab
3 15 (5.60%) Jenkins
4 12 (4.48%) JIRA
4 12 (4.48%) JUnit
5 11 (4.10%) Bitbucket Server
5 11 (4.10%) CA Release Automation
6 10 (3.73%) MLflow
7 9 (3.36%) Artifactory
7 9 (3.36%) Eclipse
7 9 (3.36%) IntelliJ
7 9 (3.36%) Selenium
8 8 (2.99%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (1.87%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.87%) Maven
10 4 (1.49%) Mockito
11 3 (1.12%) Gradle
11 3 (1.12%) Liquibase
12 2 (0.75%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.75%) ERwin
General
1 62 (23.13%) Social Skills
2 58 (21.64%) Finance
3 27 (10.07%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (8.58%) Banking
5 21 (7.84%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.10%) Front Office
6 11 (4.10%) Investment Banking
7 9 (3.36%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.12%) Billing
8 3 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.12%) Legal
9 2 (0.75%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.75%) Electronics
9 2 (0.75%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.75%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.75%) Marketing
9 2 (0.75%) Tech for Good
9 2 (0.75%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.37%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 78 (29.10%) Data Engineer
2 49 (18.28%) Senior
3 32 (11.94%) Software Engineer
4 29 (10.82%) Developer
5 23 (8.58%) AWS Engineer
6 19 (7.09%) Python Engineer
7 18 (6.72%) DevOps Engineer
8 17 (6.34%) Architect
8 17 (6.34%) Lead
8 17 (6.34%) Senior Software Engineer
9 15 (5.60%) Java Engineer
10 14 (5.22%) Senior Data Engineer
11 11 (4.10%) AWS Software Engineer
11 11 (4.10%) Java Software Engineer
11 11 (4.10%) Principal Engineer
11 11 (4.10%) Python Software Engineer
12 10 (3.73%) Data Architect
12 10 (3.73%) Principal Data Engineer
12 10 (3.73%) Senior Java Engineer
12 10 (3.73%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (17.16%) Kafka
2 37 (13.81%) REST
3 36 (13.43%) Apache NiFi
4 31 (11.57%) PySpark
5 21 (7.84%) Pandas
6 19 (7.09%) NumPy
7 18 (6.72%) Spring
8 16 (5.97%) OAuth
9 14 (5.22%) JSON
10 13 (4.85%) Middleware
11 12 (4.48%) Great Expectations
11 12 (4.48%) Hibernate
11 12 (4.48%) OpenID
11 12 (4.48%) SOAP
11 12 (4.48%) XML
12 11 (4.10%) EJB
12 11 (4.10%) gRPC
12 11 (4.10%) Protocol Buffers
12 11 (4.10%) SAML
12 11 (4.10%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.58%) Cloud Native
2 13 (4.85%) Algorithms
2 13 (4.85%) Equities
3 11 (4.10%) Derivative
3 11 (4.10%) Fixed Income
3 11 (4.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 11 (4.10%) Hedge funds
3 11 (4.10%) Pricing Data
4 8 (2.99%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.61%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.24%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.24%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.24%) Distributed Computing
7 5 (1.87%) Freedom of Information
7 5 (1.87%) Replication
7 5 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 57 (21.27%) Linux
2 42 (15.67%) Windows
3 34 (12.69%) Unix
4 16 (5.97%) Windows Server
5 9 (3.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.24%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.12%) CentOS
7 3 (1.12%) Debian
8 2 (0.75%) Solaris
9 1 (0.37%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.37%) Rocky
9 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (40.67%) CI/CD
2 87 (32.46%) DevOps
3 81 (30.22%) Agile
3 81 (30.22%) Data Pipeline
4 79 (29.48%) Analytics
4 79 (29.48%) ETL
5 71 (26.49%) Data Engineering
6 66 (24.63%) Data Modelling
7 62 (23.13%) Problem-Solving
8 55 (20.52%) Software Engineering
9 53 (19.78%) Data Governance
10 47 (17.54%) Machine Learning
11 46 (17.16%) Infrastructure as Code
12 44 (16.42%) Business Intelligence
13 39 (14.55%) AI
14 37 (13.81%) Observability
15 35 (13.06%) Data Architecture
16 34 (12.69%) Continuous Improvement
17 31 (11.57%) Microservices
18 30 (11.19%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 154 (57.46%) Python
2 114 (42.54%) SQL
3 71 (26.49%) Java
4 36 (13.43%) Scala
5 21 (7.84%) JavaScript
6 20 (7.46%) C#
7 17 (6.34%) Shell Script
8 13 (4.85%) PowerShell
8 13 (4.85%) TypeScript
9 11 (4.10%) Groovy
10 6 (2.24%) Bash
10 6 (2.24%) PL/SQL
11 5 (1.87%) C++
11 5 (1.87%) R
12 2 (0.75%) AWK
12 2 (0.75%) Go
12 2 (0.75%) SPARQL
13 1 (0.37%) Korn
13 1 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.37%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 75 (27.99%) Security Cleared
2 53 (19.78%) SC Cleared
3 32 (11.94%) DV Cleared
4 13 (4.85%) AWS Certification
5 12 (4.48%) Degree
6 9 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.49%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.75%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.75%) RHCE
9 2 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.37%) CCNA
10 1 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.37%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.37%) MCP
10 1 (0.37%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (18.28%) Data Quality
2 24 (8.96%) GDPR
3 12 (4.48%) QA
4 4 (1.49%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.12%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.37%) IFRS
7 1 (0.37%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.37%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.37%) MiFID
7 1 (0.37%) Solvency II
System Software
1 50 (18.66%) Docker
2 14 (5.22%) Active Directory
3 12 (4.48%) HDFS
4 8 (2.99%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 4 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.12%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.37%) Ceph
7 1 (0.37%) iptables
7 1 (0.37%) KVM
7 1 (0.37%) Lustre
7 1 (0.37%) NFS
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.37%) Samba
7 1 (0.37%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 51 (19.03%) Terraform
2 40 (14.93%) Kubernetes
3 31 (11.57%) Ansible
4 14 (5.22%) Puppet
5 11 (4.10%) CA Single Sign-On
6 10 (3.73%) CA Wily
6 10 (3.73%) Progress Chef
7 8 (2.99%) Hadoop YARN
7 8 (2.99%) Tivoli
8 6 (2.24%) Prometheus
8 6 (2.24%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.49%) Grafana
10 2 (0.75%) Kibana
10 2 (0.75%) logstash
10 2 (0.75%) Nagios
10 2 (0.75%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.37%) Oozie
11 1 (0.37%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.37%) SCCM
Vendors
1 47 (17.54%) Databricks
2 37 (13.81%) Oracle
3 25 (9.33%) Google
3 25 (9.33%) Splunk
4 23 (8.58%) Microsoft
5 17 (6.34%) AppDynamics
5 17 (6.34%) Red Hat
6 14 (5.22%) IBM
7 12 (4.48%) Cisco
8 11 (4.10%) Broadcom
9 10 (3.73%) Dynatrace
10 9 (3.36%) Cloudera
10 9 (3.36%) ServiceNow
10 9 (3.36%) webMethods
11 7 (2.61%) Informatica
12 6 (2.24%) Foundry
12 6 (2.24%) Palantir
13 5 (1.87%) Palo Alto
13 5 (1.87%) Salesforce
13 5 (1.87%) VMware