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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 274 206
Rank change year-on-year -87 -68 +80
Contract jobs citing Apache 300 290 488
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.60% 0.98% 1.12%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.89% 8.74% 11.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 219 423
10th Percentile £363 £405 £405
25th Percentile £425 £472 £494
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 £481 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -12.50% +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 4,356 3,319 4,374
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.66% 11.18% 10.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,926 2,193 3,053
10th Percentile £313 £289 £262
25th Percentile £404 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -1.57%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £623
90th Percentile £675 £712 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 70 165
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.33 £13.50
25th Percentile £19.25 £26.35 £16.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £52.50 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -38.10% +65.56% -39.60%
75th Percentile £62.00 £69.00 £51.91
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.88 £72.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £53.61 £30.00
% change year-on-year -39.38% +78.70% -40.00%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -132 237 £525 -19.23% 180
UK excluding London -50 139 £481 -12.50% 183
London -107 129 £560 -24.07% 48
Work from Home -78 82 £512 -31.76% 159
North of England -38 53 £425 -10.53% 39
Scotland +22 36 £525 +13.51% 21
North East -2 31 £385 -40.77% 9
Midlands -48 21 £525 -8.70% 20
North West -33 19 £525 +26.05% 20
West Midlands -45 18 £528 -12.08% 9
South West -24 15 £450 -20.00% 17
East of England -31 5 £363 -5.23% 23
South East -75 5 £500 -13.04% 42
Wales -11 3 £509 - 13
Yorkshire -62 3 £463 -26.00% 10
East Midlands -21 2 £548 +33.54% 11
Northern Ireland +1 1 £430 +4.88% 12

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
1 153 (51.00%) Apache Spark
2 101 (33.67%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (10.33%) Tomcat
4 27 (9.00%) Jupyter
5 26 (8.67%) WebSphere
6 22 (7.33%) Apache Geronimo
6 22 (7.33%) Apache ServiceMix
6 22 (7.33%) Red Hat Fuse
7 10 (3.33%) IIS
8 8 (2.67%) nginx
9 5 (1.67%) Apache Superset
9 5 (1.67%) SharePoint
10 4 (1.33%) CloudStack
10 4 (1.33%) Confluence
10 4 (1.33%) WebLogic
11 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.67%) Apache Synapse
12 2 (0.67%) JBoss
13 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Magento
1 1 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.33%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 153 (51.00%) AWS
2 108 (36.00%) Azure
3 71 (23.67%) GCP
4 47 (15.67%) Amazon S3
5 37 (12.33%) Power Platform
6 29 (9.67%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (9.00%) Serverless
8 24 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
9 23 (7.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 21 (7.00%) Azure Data Factory
11 20 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
11 20 (6.67%) Snowflake
12 18 (6.00%) Amazon EMR
12 18 (6.00%) dbt
12 18 (6.00%) GitHub
13 17 (5.67%) Amazon SQS
14 15 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 14 (4.67%) Collibra
16 13 (4.33%) GitHub Actions
17 8 (2.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.67%) DNS
2 11 (3.67%) Firewall
3 6 (2.00%) HTTP
4 5 (1.67%) SAN
5 4 (1.33%) NAS
6 3 (1.00%) VLAN
7 2 (0.67%) BIG-IP
7 2 (0.67%) FTP
7 2 (0.67%) Network Security
7 2 (0.67%) Structured Cabling
7 2 (0.67%) VXLAN
8 1 (0.33%) 4G
8 1 (0.33%) 5G
8 1 (0.33%) DHCP
8 1 (0.33%) Intranet
8 1 (0.33%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.33%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.33%) SSH
8 1 (0.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (14.00%) Big Data
2 40 (13.33%) Data Lake
2 40 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
3 31 (10.33%) Amazon Athena
3 31 (10.33%) Power BI
4 29 (9.67%) BigQuery
5 28 (9.33%) SQL Server
6 26 (8.67%) Delta Lake
7 22 (7.33%) Flink
7 22 (7.33%) Hadoop
8 20 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
9 17 (5.67%) Metadata
9 17 (5.67%) NoSQL
10 16 (5.33%) MySQL
11 13 (4.33%) Amazon Redshift
11 13 (4.33%) Relational Database
12 12 (4.00%) Mixpanel
12 12 (4.00%) Tableau
13 11 (3.67%) OLAP
13 11 (3.67%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 56 (18.67%) Git
2 40 (13.33%) GitLab
3 21 (7.00%) JIRA
4 13 (4.33%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.67%) MLflow
6 6 (2.00%) Maven
6 6 (2.00%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.33%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.33%) Gradle
8 3 (1.00%) Selenium
9 2 (0.67%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.33%) Ant
10 1 (0.33%) Capybara
10 1 (0.33%) git-flow
10 1 (0.33%) minitest
10 1 (0.33%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.33%) RSpec
10 1 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 55 (18.33%) Finance
2 51 (17.00%) Social Skills
3 36 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 13 (4.33%) Banking
5 7 (2.33%) Billing
6 5 (1.67%) Marketing
7 4 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.33%) Front Office
7 4 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.33%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.00%) Publishing
9 2 (0.67%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.33%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.33%) Dutch Language
10 1 (0.33%) French Language
10 1 (0.33%) Law
10 1 (0.33%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.33%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.33%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 105 (35.00%) Data Engineer
2 46 (15.33%) Developer
3 41 (13.67%) Senior
4 30 (10.00%) Architect
5 25 (8.33%) Lead
6 22 (7.33%) Senior Data Engineer
7 21 (7.00%) Java Developer
8 19 (6.33%) DevOps Engineer
9 17 (5.67%) Lead Data Engineer
10 14 (4.67%) Software Engineer
11 13 (4.33%) Principal Engineer
12 12 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
12 12 (4.00%) Data Architect
12 12 (4.00%) Principal Data Engineer
13 9 (3.00%) Python Developer
14 8 (2.67%) Analyst
14 8 (2.67%) Python Engineer
14 8 (2.67%) Senior Developer
15 7 (2.33%) AWS Data Engineer
15 7 (2.33%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (21.67%) Kafka
2 46 (15.33%) PySpark
3 25 (8.33%) Middleware
3 25 (8.33%) Spring
4 23 (7.67%) REST
5 22 (7.33%) Apache Axis
5 22 (7.33%) Apache Camel
6 18 (6.00%) Spring Boot
7 15 (5.00%) JSON
8 14 (4.67%) Apache Beam
8 14 (4.67%) Great Expectations
9 10 (3.33%) SOAP
10 9 (3.00%) AWS CDK
11 8 (2.67%) OAuth
11 8 (2.67%) Pandas
12 7 (2.33%) LAMP
12 7 (2.33%) NumPy
13 6 (2.00%) PyTorch
14 5 (1.67%) Apache NiFi
14 5 (1.67%) Apache Tika
Miscellaneous
1 46 (15.33%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.33%) Management Information System
2 16 (5.33%) Product Ownership
3 13 (4.33%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (3.67%) Data Structures
5 10 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (3.00%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.67%) Clustering
7 8 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.00%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.67%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.67%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (1.67%) Freedom of Information
10 4 (1.33%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.33%) Data Fabric
10 4 (1.33%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.33%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.00%) Distributed Applications
11 3 (1.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 48 (16.00%) Linux
2 19 (6.33%) Windows
3 18 (6.00%) Unix
4 15 (5.00%) Ubuntu
5 11 (3.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (3.33%) Windows Server
7 5 (1.67%) CentOS
7 5 (1.67%) Rocky
8 4 (1.33%) Debian
8 4 (1.33%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.67%) Solaris
10 2 (0.67%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (47.33%) CI/CD
2 109 (36.33%) Data Engineering
3 100 (33.33%) Analytics
4 95 (31.67%) DevOps
5 93 (31.00%) Data Pipeline
6 86 (28.67%) Data Modelling
7 84 (28.00%) ETL
8 68 (22.67%) Agile
9 67 (22.33%) AI
9 67 (22.33%) Containerisation
9 67 (22.33%) Infrastructure as Code
10 56 (18.67%) Data Governance
11 51 (17.00%) Machine Learning
11 51 (17.00%) Problem-Solving
12 40 (13.33%) Observability
13 39 (13.00%) Business Intelligence
14 37 (12.33%) Workflow
15 33 (11.00%) Migration
16 32 (10.67%) Data Architecture
16 32 (10.67%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 189 (63.00%) Python
2 177 (59.00%) SQL
3 90 (30.00%) Java
4 22 (7.33%) Scala
5 18 (6.00%) Bash
6 13 (4.33%) C#
6 13 (4.33%) Shell Script
7 11 (3.67%) PowerShell
7 11 (3.67%) R
8 9 (3.00%) JavaScript
9 8 (2.67%) Go
9 8 (2.67%) TypeScript
10 7 (2.33%) Perl
11 6 (2.00%) PHP
12 5 (1.67%) Ruby
13 4 (1.33%) PL/SQL
14 3 (1.00%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.33%) Groovy
15 1 (0.33%) Korn
Qualifications
1 92 (30.67%) Security Cleared
2 84 (28.00%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.00%) Degree
4 15 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.67%) Master's Degree
6 7 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.00%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.67%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.33%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.00%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.67%) CCNP
11 2 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.67%) CSPO
11 2 (0.67%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.33%) RHCE
12 1 (0.33%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (20.67%) Data Quality
2 23 (7.67%) GDPR
3 7 (2.33%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.33%) QA
4 5 (1.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.00%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.67%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (0.67%) WCAG
7 1 (0.33%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 73 (24.33%) Docker
2 9 (3.00%) Postfix
3 8 (2.67%) NFS
4 7 (2.33%) Active Directory
4 7 (2.33%) Varnish
5 5 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.33%) Sendmail
7 3 (1.00%) Dovecot
7 3 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.67%) Ceph
8 2 (0.67%) HDFS
8 2 (0.67%) KVM
8 2 (0.67%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.67%) Samba
8 2 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.67%) vSphere
9 1 (0.33%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.33%) iptables
Systems Management
1 75 (25.00%) Terraform
2 57 (19.00%) Kubernetes
3 23 (7.67%) Ansible
4 9 (3.00%) Grafana
4 9 (3.00%) HAProxy
5 4 (1.33%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.33%) SELinux
6 3 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.67%) Apache Ranger
7 2 (0.67%) Check_MK
7 2 (0.67%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.67%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.67%) Puppet
7 2 (0.67%) systemd
8 1 (0.33%) Kibana
8 1 (0.33%) Podman
8 1 (0.33%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 56 (18.67%) Databricks
2 43 (14.33%) Oracle
3 35 (11.67%) Google
4 29 (9.67%) Microsoft
5 22 (7.33%) TIBCO
6 15 (5.00%) Trend Micro
7 10 (3.33%) Red Hat
8 9 (3.00%) Cisco
9 8 (2.67%) Cloudera
9 8 (2.67%) Guidewire
9 8 (2.67%) Informatica
10 7 (2.33%) ServiceNow
11 6 (2.00%) Talend
12 5 (1.67%) Confluent
12 5 (1.67%) IBM
12 5 (1.67%) VMware
13 4 (1.33%) Hortonworks
14 3 (1.00%) Dynatrace
14 3 (1.00%) F5
14 3 (1.00%) Splunk