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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 272 186
Rank change year-on-year -93 -86 +123
Contract jobs citing Apache 327 304 544
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.62% 0.93% 1.29%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.08% 8.51% 12.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 229 463
10th Percentile £363 £404 £413
25th Percentile £425 £463 £525
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 £673 £875 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £491 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -10.68% +15.79% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 11
10th Percentile £61.24 £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 £70.88 £80.74 £74.44
90th Percentile £75.88 £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 4,619 3,572 4,421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.73% 10.97% 10.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,055 2,331 3,061
10th Percentile £308 £289 £263
25th Percentile £404 £394 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £479 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.49% -4.30% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £725 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 87 142
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.03 £13.66
25th Percentile £19.14 £26.02 £16.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £47.12 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.72% +43.88% -37.62%
75th Percentile £62.50 £66.00 £53.56
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.72 £74.94
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £49.81 £38.50
% change year-on-year -29.73% +29.38% -15.38%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -128 257 £512 -18.11% 85
London -95 147 £540 -26.78% 48
UK excluding London -63 145 £491 -10.68% 45
Work from Home -80 92 £512 -31.76% 28
North of England -52 55 £438 +2.94% 13
Scotland +22 39 £525 +3.70% 2
North East -5 29 £385 -40.77% 6
South West -30 20 £450 -20.00% 8
North West -48 20 £525 +46.65% 5
Midlands -48 17 £498 -17.08% 4
West Midlands -53 14 £500 -16.67% 4
South East -68 10 £470 -21.67% 17
Yorkshire -46 6 £475 -24.00% 2
Wales -13 3 £509 -
East Midlands -13 2 £548 +33.54%
East of England -26 2 £400 -27.27% 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
1 171 (52.29%) Apache Spark
2 121 (37.00%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (10.09%) Tomcat
4 28 (8.56%) Jupyter
5 27 (8.26%) WebSphere
6 22 (6.73%) Apache Geronimo
6 22 (6.73%) Apache ServiceMix
6 22 (6.73%) Red Hat Fuse
7 13 (3.98%) nginx
8 7 (2.14%) Apache Superset
8 7 (2.14%) Confluence
8 7 (2.14%) IIS
9 5 (1.53%) CloudStack
9 5 (1.53%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.92%) JBoss
10 3 (0.92%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.61%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.31%) Luigi
12 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (0.61%) 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
1 173 (52.91%) AWS
2 118 (36.09%) Azure
3 86 (26.30%) GCP
4 55 (16.82%) Amazon S3
5 38 (11.62%) Power Platform
6 34 (10.40%) dbt
7 33 (10.09%) Azure DevOps
8 32 (9.79%) Serverless
9 29 (8.87%) AWS Lambda
9 29 (8.87%) Snowflake
10 26 (7.95%) Amazon EMR
11 24 (7.34%) Azure Data Factory
12 23 (7.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 20 (6.12%) GitHub
14 18 (5.50%) AWS CloudFormation
15 17 (5.20%) Amazon SQS
16 14 (4.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 14 (4.28%) GitHub Actions
17 13 (3.98%) Collibra
18 9 (2.75%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.89%) DNS
2 13 (3.98%) Firewall
3 7 (2.14%) HTTP
4 6 (1.83%) SAN
5 5 (1.53%) NAS
6 3 (0.92%) DHCP
6 3 (0.92%) Structured Cabling
6 3 (0.92%) VLAN
7 2 (0.61%) BIG-IP
7 2 (0.61%) FTP
7 2 (0.61%) Network Security
7 2 (0.61%) 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%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (16.82%) Data Warehouse
2 48 (14.68%) Data Lake
3 44 (13.46%) Big Data
4 34 (10.40%) BigQuery
5 33 (10.09%) Power BI
6 31 (9.48%) Amazon Athena
6 31 (9.48%) Delta Lake
7 28 (8.56%) Flink
7 28 (8.56%) Metadata
8 27 (8.26%) SQL Server
9 23 (7.03%) Hadoop
10 22 (6.73%) PostgreSQL
11 17 (5.20%) Amazon Redshift
11 17 (5.20%) NoSQL
12 16 (4.89%) MySQL
13 15 (4.59%) Relational Database
13 15 (4.59%) Tableau
14 13 (3.98%) Elasticsearch
15 12 (3.67%) Apache Iceberg
16 11 (3.36%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 54 (16.51%) Git
2 43 (13.15%) GitLab
3 20 (6.12%) JIRA
4 16 (4.89%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.14%) MLflow
5 7 (2.14%) SonarQube
6 5 (1.53%) Maven
7 4 (1.22%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.22%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.22%) Gradle
8 3 (0.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (0.92%) Selenium
9 1 (0.31%) Ant
9 1 (0.31%) Capybara
9 1 (0.31%) git-flow
9 1 (0.31%) JMeter
9 1 (0.31%) minitest
9 1 (0.31%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.31%) RSpec
9 1 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 62 (18.96%) Finance
2 59 (18.04%) Social Skills
3 39 (11.93%) Public Sector
4 38 (11.62%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (5.50%) Banking
6 7 (2.14%) Marketing
7 5 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.53%) Publishing
8 4 (1.22%) Billing
8 4 (1.22%) Front Office
8 4 (1.22%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.61%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.61%) Law
9 2 (0.61%) Legal
9 2 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.61%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.31%) Dutch Language
10 1 (0.31%) French Language
Job Titles
1 113 (34.56%) Data Engineer
2 52 (15.90%) Senior
3 46 (14.07%) Developer
4 43 (13.15%) Architect
5 26 (7.95%) Senior Data Engineer
6 25 (7.65%) Lead
7 22 (6.73%) Java Developer
8 21 (6.42%) DevOps Engineer
9 20 (6.12%) Data Architect
10 16 (4.89%) Lead Data Engineer
11 12 (3.67%) AWS Engineer
12 10 (3.06%) Principal Engineer
12 10 (3.06%) Software Engineer
13 9 (2.75%) Platform Engineer
13 9 (2.75%) Principal Data Engineer
13 9 (2.75%) Python Developer
13 9 (2.75%) Senior Developer
14 8 (2.45%) Cloud Engineer
14 8 (2.45%) Python Engineer
15 7 (2.14%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (22.94%) Kafka
2 56 (17.13%) PySpark
3 28 (8.56%) REST
4 27 (8.26%) Middleware
4 27 (8.26%) Spring
5 23 (7.03%) Spring Boot
6 22 (6.73%) Apache Axis
6 22 (6.73%) Apache Camel
7 17 (5.20%) Apache Beam
7 17 (5.20%) JSON
8 11 (3.36%) Apache NiFi
8 11 (3.36%) Great Expectations
9 10 (3.06%) OAuth
10 9 (2.75%) AWS CDK
10 9 (2.75%) Pandas
11 7 (2.14%) LAMP
11 7 (2.14%) NumPy
11 7 (2.14%) PyTorch
11 7 (2.14%) SOAP
12 6 (1.83%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 54 (16.51%) Cloud Native
2 18 (5.50%) Product Ownership
3 17 (5.20%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (4.59%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (3.98%) Data Structures
5 13 (3.98%) Management Information System
6 10 (3.06%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.45%) Clustering
7 8 (2.45%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (2.45%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.14%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (1.83%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.53%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.53%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.53%) Data Fabric
10 5 (1.53%) Replication
10 5 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.22%) PKI
11 4 (1.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 51 (15.60%) Linux
2 17 (5.20%) Windows
3 15 (4.59%) Ubuntu
3 15 (4.59%) Unix
4 10 (3.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (2.45%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.53%) CentOS
7 4 (1.22%) Rocky
7 4 (1.22%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.92%) Debian
8 3 (0.92%) Solaris
8 3 (0.92%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.92%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.31%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (48.01%) CI/CD
2 126 (38.53%) Data Engineering
3 119 (36.39%) Data Pipeline
4 114 (34.86%) Analytics
5 106 (32.42%) DevOps
6 102 (31.19%) ETL
7 98 (29.97%) Data Modelling
8 79 (24.16%) Agile
9 77 (23.55%) AI
10 75 (22.94%) Containerisation
10 75 (22.94%) Infrastructure as Code
11 68 (20.80%) Data Governance
12 54 (16.51%) Machine Learning
13 49 (14.98%) Problem-Solving
14 43 (13.15%) Business Intelligence
15 42 (12.84%) Migration
16 41 (12.54%) Data Science
17 40 (12.23%) Data Architecture
18 39 (11.93%) Observability
18 39 (11.93%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 213 (65.14%) Python
2 190 (58.10%) SQL
3 95 (29.05%) Java
4 30 (9.17%) Scala
5 21 (6.42%) Bash
6 17 (5.20%) Shell Script
7 15 (4.59%) PowerShell
8 11 (3.36%) C#
8 11 (3.36%) R
9 10 (3.06%) TypeScript
10 9 (2.75%) Go
10 9 (2.75%) PL/SQL
11 8 (2.45%) JavaScript
11 8 (2.45%) Perl
12 6 (1.83%) PHP
13 5 (1.53%) Ruby
14 4 (1.22%) Groovy
15 3 (0.92%) Cypher
15 3 (0.92%) SPARQL
15 3 (0.92%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 97 (29.66%) Security Cleared
2 88 (26.91%) SC Cleared
3 25 (7.65%) Degree
4 18 (5.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.36%) Master's Degree
6 9 (2.75%) DV Cleared
7 7 (2.14%) AWS Certification
7 7 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.83%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.92%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.92%) CCNP
10 3 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.92%) CSPO
10 3 (0.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.61%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.31%) MBA
12 1 (0.31%) PhD
12 1 (0.31%) RHCE
12 1 (0.31%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (24.16%) Data Quality
2 22 (6.73%) GDPR
3 10 (3.06%) QA
4 9 (2.75%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.92%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.61%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.61%) WCAG
8 1 (0.31%) SLA
System Software
1 84 (25.69%) Docker
2 9 (2.75%) Active Directory
2 9 (2.75%) Postfix
3 8 (2.45%) NFS
4 7 (2.14%) Varnish
5 6 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (1.53%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.22%) Sendmail
8 3 (0.92%) Dovecot
8 3 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.92%) vSphere
9 2 (0.61%) Ceph
9 2 (0.61%) HDFS
9 2 (0.61%) KVM
9 2 (0.61%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.61%) Samba
10 1 (0.31%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.31%) iptables
Systems Management
1 88 (26.91%) Terraform
2 66 (20.18%) Kubernetes
3 23 (7.03%) Ansible
4 11 (3.36%) Grafana
5 9 (2.75%) HAProxy
6 6 (1.83%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.22%) SELinux
8 3 (0.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.92%) Apache Ranger
8 3 (0.92%) Check_MK
8 3 (0.92%) Kibana
8 3 (0.92%) Packer
8 3 (0.92%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.61%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.61%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.61%) Puppet
9 2 (0.61%) systemd
10 1 (0.31%) logstash
10 1 (0.31%) Rundeck
10 1 (0.31%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 66 (20.18%) Databricks
2 42 (12.84%) Google
3 41 (12.54%) Oracle
4 34 (10.40%) Microsoft
5 23 (7.03%) TIBCO
6 16 (4.89%) Trend Micro
7 12 (3.67%) Informatica
8 11 (3.36%) Red Hat
9 10 (3.06%) Cloudera
9 10 (3.06%) VMware
10 7 (2.14%) Cisco
10 7 (2.14%) IBM
10 7 (2.14%) ServiceNow
10 7 (2.14%) Talend
11 5 (1.53%) Confluent
11 5 (1.53%) Guidewire
11 5 (1.53%) Splunk
12 4 (1.22%) Hortonworks
12 4 (1.22%) Okta
13 3 (0.92%) F5