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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 265 234
Rank change year-on-year -100 -31 +50
Contract jobs citing Apache 286 288 427
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.59% 0.99% 1.00%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.88% 8.91% 10.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 221 370
10th Percentile £396 £409 £405
25th Percentile £455 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £600 £838 £850
90th Percentile £673 £875 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £488 £510
% change year-on-year +7.69% -4.41% -7.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 8
10th Percentile £63.80 £38.21 £25.94
25th Percentile £64.63 £64.24 £34.50
Median hourly rate £72.00 £79.35 £57.25
Median % change year-on-year -9.26% +38.60% -26.60%
75th Percentile £81.25 £80.74 £74.44
90th Percentile £84.20 £82.07 £75.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.00 £79.35 £57.25
% change year-on-year -9.26% +38.60% -26.60%

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 4,160 3,231 4,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.62% 11.10% 9.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,815 2,148 2,912
10th Percentile £313 £280 £258
25th Percentile £404 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £675 £713 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +4.22% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 64 161
10th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.03 £24.57 £15.50
Median hourly rate £31.25 £52.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.48% +75.00% -35.14%
75th Percentile £63.81 £64.63 £46.18
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.34 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £54.24 £25.00
% change year-on-year -35.47% +116.97% -9.09%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -130 224 £525 -22.22% 83
London -95 132 £575 -23.33% 26
UK excluding London -63 121 £525 +7.69% 69
Work from Home -101 68 £525 -30.00% 38
Scotland +28 34 £525 +33.33% 2
North of England -56 32 £469 -1.32% 15
Midlands -48 21 £538 -6.52% 6
West Midlands -48 18 £550 -8.33% 6
South West -31 16 £450 -20.00% 19
North West -32 16 £525 +10.53% 9
North East -10 14 £393 -39.62% 5
South East -67 7 £538 +48.28% 19
East of England -25 5 £363 +13.93% 2
Northern Ireland -1 3 £463 +12.80%
Wales -9 3 £509 - 6
East Midlands -28 2 £548 +33.54%
Yorkshire -58 2 £469 -21.88% 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
1 137 (47.90%) Apache Spark
2 77 (26.92%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (10.14%) Tomcat
4 26 (9.09%) WebSphere
5 22 (7.69%) Apache Geronimo
5 22 (7.69%) Apache ServiceMix
5 22 (7.69%) Red Hat Fuse
6 9 (3.15%) Jupyter
7 8 (2.80%) IIS
8 6 (2.10%) nginx
9 5 (1.75%) Apache Superset
10 4 (1.40%) CloudStack
10 4 (1.40%) SharePoint
10 4 (1.40%) WebLogic
11 3 (1.05%) Confluence
11 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.70%) Apache Synapse
12 2 (0.70%) JBoss
12 2 (0.70%) Palantir Foundry
12 2 (0.70%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Magento
1 1 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.35%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 137 (47.90%) AWS
2 105 (36.71%) Azure
3 71 (24.83%) GCP
4 42 (14.69%) Amazon S3
5 40 (13.99%) Power Platform
6 29 (10.14%) AWS CloudFormation
7 27 (9.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 26 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (9.09%) Serverless
9 22 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
9 22 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
10 21 (7.34%) Amazon SQS
11 17 (5.94%) GitHub
11 17 (5.94%) Snowflake
12 16 (5.59%) Collibra
13 14 (4.90%) dbt
14 12 (4.20%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (3.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 9 (3.15%) AWS Step Functions
16 8 (2.80%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.85%) DNS
2 10 (3.50%) Firewall
3 7 (2.45%) SAN
4 6 (2.10%) HTTP
5 4 (1.40%) NAS
5 4 (1.40%) VLAN
6 3 (1.05%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.70%) DHCP
7 2 (0.70%) FTP
7 2 (0.70%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.70%) Network Security
7 2 (0.70%) SSH
7 2 (0.70%) Structured Cabling
7 2 (0.70%) VXLAN
8 1 (0.35%) BIG-IP
8 1 (0.35%) Intranet
8 1 (0.35%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.35%) LAN
8 1 (0.35%) SSL
8 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (15.03%) Data Lake
2 40 (13.99%) Big Data
3 38 (13.29%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (11.89%) Power BI
5 32 (11.19%) BigQuery
6 29 (10.14%) Delta Lake
7 28 (9.79%) Amazon Athena
8 26 (9.09%) SQL Server
9 24 (8.39%) Hadoop
10 21 (7.34%) PostgreSQL
11 20 (6.99%) Flink
12 16 (5.59%) Metadata
12 16 (5.59%) Mixpanel
12 16 (5.59%) MySQL
12 16 (5.59%) NoSQL
13 15 (5.24%) OLAP
13 15 (5.24%) OLTP
14 13 (4.55%) Relational Database
15 12 (4.20%) Amazon Redshift
15 12 (4.20%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 55 (19.23%) Git
2 25 (8.74%) GitLab
3 20 (6.99%) JIRA
4 12 (4.20%) MLflow
5 11 (3.85%) Jenkins
6 8 (2.80%) Artifactory
7 7 (2.45%) Maven
8 5 (1.75%) Gradle
8 5 (1.75%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.05%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.05%) Selenium
10 1 (0.35%) Ant
10 1 (0.35%) Capybara
10 1 (0.35%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.35%) ERwin
10 1 (0.35%) git-flow
10 1 (0.35%) Mockito
10 1 (0.35%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.35%) RSpec
10 1 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 54 (18.88%) Finance
2 40 (13.99%) Social Skills
3 32 (11.19%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (7.34%) Public Sector
5 13 (4.55%) Banking
6 7 (2.45%) Billing
7 4 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.40%) Front Office
7 4 (1.40%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.05%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.05%) Marketing
9 2 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.70%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.35%) Dutch Language
10 1 (0.35%) French Language
10 1 (0.35%) Law
10 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.35%) Prime Brokerage
10 1 (0.35%) Publishing
10 1 (0.35%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 102 (35.66%) Data Engineer
2 46 (16.08%) Senior
3 41 (14.34%) Developer
4 28 (9.79%) Architect
5 27 (9.44%) Lead
6 21 (7.34%) Senior Data Engineer
7 19 (6.64%) Java Developer
8 18 (6.29%) Software Engineer
9 17 (5.94%) Lead Data Engineer
10 16 (5.59%) Principal Engineer
11 15 (5.24%) Principal Data Engineer
12 14 (4.90%) DevOps Engineer
13 12 (4.20%) Data Architect
14 11 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
15 10 (3.50%) Analyst
16 9 (3.15%) Python Engineer
17 8 (2.80%) Platform Engineer
17 8 (2.80%) Senior Developer
18 7 (2.45%) Linux Engineer
19 6 (2.10%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (23.78%) Kafka
2 38 (13.29%) PySpark
3 26 (9.09%) REST
4 25 (8.74%) Middleware
5 23 (8.04%) Spring
6 22 (7.69%) Apache Axis
6 22 (7.69%) Apache Camel
7 18 (6.29%) Great Expectations
8 16 (5.59%) Spring Boot
9 14 (4.90%) Apache Beam
9 14 (4.90%) JSON
10 13 (4.55%) Apache NiFi
11 10 (3.50%) Pandas
11 10 (3.50%) SOAP
12 9 (3.15%) AWS CDK
13 8 (2.80%) NumPy
14 7 (2.45%) OAuth
15 6 (2.10%) Elastic Stack
15 6 (2.10%) LAMP
15 6 (2.10%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 38 (13.29%) Cloud Native
2 15 (5.24%) Management Information System
3 11 (3.85%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (3.15%) Data Structures
5 9 (3.15%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.80%) Public Cloud
6 8 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (2.45%) Algorithms
7 7 (2.45%) Clustering
8 6 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.10%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.75%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (1.75%) Freedom of Information
9 5 (1.75%) Replication
10 4 (1.40%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.40%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.40%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.05%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 49 (17.13%) Linux
2 21 (7.34%) Windows
3 17 (5.94%) Unix
4 15 (5.24%) Ubuntu
5 11 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.80%) Windows Server
7 6 (2.10%) Debian
8 5 (1.75%) Rocky
9 3 (1.05%) CentOS
9 3 (1.05%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.70%) Solaris
10 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (41.96%) CI/CD
2 93 (32.52%) Data Pipeline
3 91 (31.82%) Analytics
4 88 (30.77%) Data Engineering
5 87 (30.42%) Data Modelling
5 87 (30.42%) DevOps
6 86 (30.07%) ETL
7 68 (23.78%) AI
8 60 (20.98%) Agile
9 58 (20.28%) Data Governance
10 54 (18.88%) Machine Learning
11 53 (18.53%) Infrastructure as Code
12 51 (17.83%) Problem-Solving
13 48 (16.78%) Containerisation
14 43 (15.03%) Observability
15 41 (14.34%) Business Intelligence
16 40 (13.99%) Data Architecture
17 37 (12.94%) Workflow
18 36 (12.59%) Software Engineering
19 33 (11.54%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 171 (59.79%) Python
2 170 (59.44%) SQL
3 84 (29.37%) Java
4 23 (8.04%) Scala
5 17 (5.94%) C#
6 14 (4.90%) Shell Script
7 13 (4.55%) Bash
7 13 (4.55%) PowerShell
8 11 (3.85%) R
9 10 (3.50%) JavaScript
10 8 (2.80%) TypeScript
11 7 (2.45%) Perl
12 6 (2.10%) Go
12 6 (2.10%) PHP
13 4 (1.40%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.40%) Ruby
14 2 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.70%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.35%) Groovy
15 1 (0.35%) Korn
Qualifications
1 80 (27.97%) Security Cleared
2 69 (24.13%) SC Cleared
3 22 (7.69%) Degree
4 16 (5.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.85%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.80%) Master's Degree
7 7 (2.45%) AWS Certification
7 7 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.75%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.05%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.70%) CCNP
10 2 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.35%) CCNA
11 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.35%) RHCE
11 1 (0.35%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (22.03%) Data Quality
2 25 (8.74%) GDPR
3 10 (3.50%) QA
4 6 (2.10%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.05%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.70%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.70%) WCAG
8 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.35%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 52 (18.18%) Docker
2 9 (3.15%) NFS
3 6 (2.10%) Postfix
3 6 (2.10%) Varnish
4 5 (1.75%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.40%) HDFS
5 4 (1.40%) Sendmail
6 3 (1.05%) Ceph
6 3 (1.05%) KVM
6 3 (1.05%) Samba
6 3 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.70%) iptables
7 2 (0.70%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.70%) vSphere
8 1 (0.35%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.35%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.35%) Lustre
8 1 (0.35%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 63 (22.03%) Kubernetes
1 63 (22.03%) Terraform
2 27 (9.44%) Ansible
3 10 (3.50%) Grafana
4 7 (2.45%) HAProxy
5 5 (1.75%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.75%) SELinux
6 3 (1.05%) Kibana
7 2 (0.70%) Apache Ranger
7 2 (0.70%) Check_MK
7 2 (0.70%) logstash
7 2 (0.70%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.70%) Puppet
7 2 (0.70%) systemd
8 1 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.35%) Podman
8 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.35%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 58 (20.28%) Databricks
2 41 (14.34%) Oracle
3 36 (12.59%) Google
4 26 (9.09%) Microsoft
5 22 (7.69%) TIBCO
6 14 (4.90%) Red Hat
7 9 (3.15%) Cloudera
7 9 (3.15%) Informatica
7 9 (3.15%) ServiceNow
8 8 (2.80%) Cisco
8 8 (2.80%) Guidewire
9 7 (2.45%) Talend
9 7 (2.45%) VMware
10 5 (1.75%) Confluent
10 5 (1.75%) IBM
11 4 (1.40%) Hortonworks
11 4 (1.40%) Trend Micro
12 3 (1.05%) Dynatrace
12 3 (1.05%) SolarWinds
12 3 (1.05%) Splunk