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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 272 191
Rank change year-on-year -93 -81 +105
Contract jobs citing Apache 324 315 539
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.62% 0.97% 1.25%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.05% 8.88% 11.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 240 464
10th Percentile £363 £399 £413
25th Percentile £425 £463 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £725
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -17.24% +20.83%
75th Percentile £588 £825 £850
90th Percentile £674 £875 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -9.55% +15.79% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 11
10th Percentile £60.47 £38.21 £36.75
25th Percentile £64.00 £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 £71.50 £80.74 £74.44
90th Percentile £78.00 £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 4,596 3,546 4,507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.73% 10.96% 10.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,042 2,317 3,129
10th Percentile £309 £290 £263
25th Percentile £404 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £720 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 84 156
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.68 £13.58
25th Percentile £19.25 £26.25 £16.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £48.56 £32.31
Median % change year-on-year -27.92% +50.31% -38.46%
75th Percentile £62.75 £66.00 £51.91
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.74 £74.22
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £52.50 £32.12
% change year-on-year -33.33% +63.48% -31.30%

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 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 10 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 10 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 -124 256 £523 -16.32% 139
UK excluding London -74 144 £498 -9.55% 93
London -106 142 £563 -23.73% 64
Work from Home -82 86 £519 -30.83% 47
North of England -51 56 £425 - 23
Scotland +16 36 £525 +3.70% 4
North East -7 31 £385 -40.77% 5
South West -24 20 £450 -18.18% 43
North West -38 20 £525 +46.65% 14
Midlands -47 20 £500 -13.04% 6
West Midlands -58 17 £513 -14.58% 3
South East -73 8 £485 -19.17% 14
Yorkshire -52 5 £475 -24.00% 4
Wales -13 3 £509 - 2
East Midlands -15 2 £548 +33.54% 3
East of England -42 2 £400 -22.52%

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
1 166 (51.23%) Apache Spark
2 114 (35.19%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (10.19%) Tomcat
4 28 (8.64%) Jupyter
5 27 (8.33%) WebSphere
6 22 (6.79%) Apache Geronimo
6 22 (6.79%) Apache ServiceMix
6 22 (6.79%) Red Hat Fuse
7 12 (3.70%) nginx
8 7 (2.16%) Apache Superset
8 7 (2.16%) IIS
9 6 (1.85%) Confluence
9 6 (1.85%) WebLogic
10 5 (1.54%) CloudStack
10 5 (1.54%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.62%) Apache Synapse
12 2 (0.62%) JBoss
13 1 (0.31%) Luigi
13 1 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
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
1 175 (54.01%) AWS
2 123 (37.96%) Azure
3 85 (26.23%) GCP
4 51 (15.74%) Amazon S3
5 38 (11.73%) Power Platform
6 31 (9.57%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (8.64%) Serverless
8 26 (8.02%) dbt
9 25 (7.72%) AWS Lambda
10 23 (7.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 23 (7.10%) Snowflake
11 22 (6.79%) Amazon EMR
11 22 (6.79%) Azure Data Factory
12 20 (6.17%) GitHub
13 18 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
14 17 (5.25%) Amazon SQS
15 14 (4.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 13 (4.01%) Collibra
16 13 (4.01%) GitHub Actions
17 9 (2.78%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.63%) DNS
2 12 (3.70%) Firewall
3 7 (2.16%) HTTP
4 6 (1.85%) SAN
5 5 (1.54%) NAS
6 3 (0.93%) Structured Cabling
6 3 (0.93%) VLAN
7 2 (0.62%) BIG-IP
7 2 (0.62%) DHCP
7 2 (0.62%) FTP
7 2 (0.62%) Network Security
7 2 (0.62%) VXLAN
8 1 (0.31%) 4G
8 1 (0.31%) 5G
8 1 (0.31%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.31%) Intranet
8 1 (0.31%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.31%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.31%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.31%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (15.12%) Data Warehouse
2 45 (13.89%) Big Data
3 43 (13.27%) Data Lake
4 32 (9.88%) BigQuery
4 32 (9.88%) Power BI
5 30 (9.26%) Amazon Athena
5 30 (9.26%) Delta Lake
6 29 (8.95%) SQL Server
7 26 (8.02%) Flink
8 25 (7.72%) Hadoop
8 25 (7.72%) PostgreSQL
9 21 (6.48%) Metadata
10 19 (5.86%) NoSQL
11 17 (5.25%) MySQL
12 16 (4.94%) Amazon Redshift
12 16 (4.94%) Relational Database
13 14 (4.32%) MongoDB
14 13 (4.01%) Elasticsearch
14 13 (4.01%) Tableau
15 10 (3.09%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 54 (16.67%) Git
2 42 (12.96%) GitLab
3 20 (6.17%) JIRA
4 15 (4.63%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.47%) MLflow
6 6 (1.85%) Maven
6 6 (1.85%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.23%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.23%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.23%) Gradle
8 3 (0.93%) Selenium
9 2 (0.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.31%) Ant
10 1 (0.31%) Capybara
10 1 (0.31%) git-flow
10 1 (0.31%) JMeter
10 1 (0.31%) minitest
10 1 (0.31%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.31%) RSpec
10 1 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 61 (18.83%) Finance
2 56 (17.28%) Social Skills
3 41 (12.65%) Public Sector
4 39 (12.04%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (4.94%) Banking
6 6 (1.85%) Marketing
7 5 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.54%) Publishing
8 4 (1.23%) Billing
8 4 (1.23%) Front Office
8 4 (1.23%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.62%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.62%) Law
9 2 (0.62%) Legal
9 2 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.62%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.31%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.31%) International Banking
10 1 (0.31%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 112 (34.57%) Data Engineer
2 52 (16.05%) Senior
3 49 (15.12%) Developer
4 37 (11.42%) Architect
5 28 (8.64%) Senior Data Engineer
6 27 (8.33%) Lead
7 23 (7.10%) Java Developer
8 20 (6.17%) DevOps Engineer
9 17 (5.25%) Lead Data Engineer
10 13 (4.01%) Data Architect
10 13 (4.01%) Software Engineer
11 11 (3.40%) AWS Engineer
11 11 (3.40%) Principal Engineer
12 10 (3.09%) Principal Data Engineer
13 9 (2.78%) Python Developer
13 9 (2.78%) Senior Developer
14 8 (2.47%) Platform Engineer
15 7 (2.16%) Python Engineer
15 7 (2.16%) Senior Java Developer
15 7 (2.16%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (22.53%) Kafka
2 52 (16.05%) PySpark
3 31 (9.57%) Spring
4 27 (8.33%) Middleware
5 24 (7.41%) Spring Boot
6 22 (6.79%) Apache Axis
6 22 (6.79%) Apache Camel
6 22 (6.79%) REST
7 16 (4.94%) Apache Beam
7 16 (4.94%) JSON
8 12 (3.70%) Great Expectations
9 10 (3.09%) OAuth
10 9 (2.78%) Apache NiFi
10 9 (2.78%) AWS CDK
10 9 (2.78%) Pandas
11 8 (2.47%) PyTorch
12 7 (2.16%) LAMP
12 7 (2.16%) NumPy
12 7 (2.16%) SOAP
13 6 (1.85%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 49 (15.12%) Cloud Native
2 18 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 15 (4.63%) Legacy Systems
4 14 (4.32%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.32%) Management Information System
5 12 (3.70%) Data Structures
6 10 (3.09%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.47%) Clustering
7 8 (2.47%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.85%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.54%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.54%) Distributed Computing
10 5 (1.54%) Freedom of Information
10 5 (1.54%) Replication
10 5 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.23%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.23%) Data Fabric
11 4 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 54 (16.67%) Linux
2 19 (5.86%) Windows
3 18 (5.56%) Unix
4 16 (4.94%) Ubuntu
5 11 (3.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.47%) Windows Server
7 5 (1.54%) CentOS
7 5 (1.54%) Rocky
8 4 (1.23%) Debian
8 4 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.93%) Solaris
9 3 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.62%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.31%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (47.84%) CI/CD
2 122 (37.65%) Data Engineering
3 110 (33.95%) Analytics
4 109 (33.64%) Data Pipeline
5 104 (32.10%) DevOps
6 97 (29.94%) ETL
7 88 (27.16%) Data Modelling
8 78 (24.07%) Containerisation
9 75 (23.15%) AI
10 73 (22.53%) Agile
11 71 (21.91%) Infrastructure as Code
12 62 (19.14%) Data Governance
13 55 (16.98%) Machine Learning
14 52 (16.05%) Problem-Solving
15 41 (12.65%) Business Intelligence
15 41 (12.65%) Observability
16 38 (11.73%) Data Science
16 38 (11.73%) Workflow
17 37 (11.42%) Migration
18 36 (11.11%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 205 (63.27%) Python
2 183 (56.48%) SQL
3 97 (29.94%) Java
4 27 (8.33%) Scala
5 20 (6.17%) Bash
6 14 (4.32%) Shell Script
7 13 (4.01%) PowerShell
8 12 (3.70%) C#
9 11 (3.40%) R
10 10 (3.09%) Go
10 10 (3.09%) TypeScript
11 9 (2.78%) JavaScript
12 8 (2.47%) Perl
12 8 (2.47%) PL/SQL
13 6 (1.85%) PHP
14 5 (1.54%) Ruby
15 3 (0.93%) Groovy
15 3 (0.93%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.62%) Cypher
16 2 (0.62%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 101 (31.17%) Security Cleared
2 92 (28.40%) SC Cleared
3 26 (8.02%) Degree
4 19 (5.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.40%) Master's Degree
6 8 (2.47%) DV Cleared
7 7 (2.16%) AWS Certification
7 7 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.85%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.93%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.93%) CCNP
10 3 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.93%) CSPO
10 3 (0.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.62%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.31%) MBA
12 1 (0.31%) RHCE
12 1 (0.31%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (21.91%) Data Quality
2 23 (7.10%) GDPR
3 9 (2.78%) QA
4 8 (2.47%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.93%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.62%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.62%) WCAG
8 1 (0.31%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.31%) SLA
System Software
1 86 (26.54%) Docker
2 9 (2.78%) Postfix
3 8 (2.47%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.47%) NFS
4 7 (2.16%) Varnish
5 6 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.23%) Sendmail
6 4 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.93%) Dovecot
7 3 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.93%) vSphere
8 2 (0.62%) Ceph
8 2 (0.62%) HDFS
8 2 (0.62%) KVM
8 2 (0.62%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.62%) Samba
9 1 (0.31%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.31%) iptables
Systems Management
1 83 (25.62%) Terraform
2 70 (21.60%) Kubernetes
3 23 (7.10%) Ansible
4 11 (3.40%) Grafana
5 9 (2.78%) HAProxy
6 6 (1.85%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.23%) SELinux
8 3 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.93%) Check_MK
8 3 (0.93%) Kibana
9 2 (0.62%) Apache Ranger
9 2 (0.62%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.62%) Packer
9 2 (0.62%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.62%) Puppet
9 2 (0.62%) systemd
9 2 (0.62%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.31%) logstash
10 1 (0.31%) Rundeck
10 1 (0.31%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 64 (19.75%) Databricks
2 44 (13.58%) Oracle
3 38 (11.73%) Google
4 35 (10.80%) Microsoft
5 22 (6.79%) TIBCO
6 16 (4.94%) Trend Micro
7 11 (3.40%) Informatica
8 10 (3.09%) Red Hat
9 9 (2.78%) VMware
10 8 (2.47%) Cloudera
11 7 (2.16%) Cisco
12 6 (1.85%) IBM
12 6 (1.85%) ServiceNow
12 6 (1.85%) Talend
13 5 (1.54%) Confluent
13 5 (1.54%) Guidewire
14 4 (1.23%) Hortonworks
14 4 (1.23%) Okta
15 3 (0.93%) F5
15 3 (0.93%) Splunk