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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 305 234 310
Rank change year-on-year -71 +76 -35
Contract jobs citing Apache 308 388 358
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.86% 1.07% 0.77%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.03% 9.69% 7.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 294 276
10th Percentile £375 £380 £378
25th Percentile £453 £524 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £736 £575
Median % change year-on-year -25.25% +27.96% -10.16%
75th Percentile £688 £850 £700
90th Percentile £825 £888 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £523
% change year-on-year +3.58% -9.09% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 10
10th Percentile £61.78 £55.63 £21.35
25th Percentile £64.81 £67.25 £29.31
Median hourly rate £72.25 £74.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% -5.13% +22.98%
75th Percentile £77.31 £74.33 -
90th Percentile £78.93 £74.72 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.25 £74.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -2.36% -5.13% +48.57%

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 3,837 4,004 4,715
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.75% 11.05% 10.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,581 2,481 3,136
10th Percentile £286 £260 £250
25th Percentile £400 £392 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £594 £638 £625
90th Percentile £713 £794 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £467
% change year-on-year +5.56% -3.69% -1.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 78 139
10th Percentile £17.38 £18.00 £15.32
25th Percentile £20.50 £23.80 £18.27
Median hourly rate £35.00 £38.25 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.50% +39.09% +40.27%
75th Percentile £69.25 £65.68 £65.50
90th Percentile £80.70 £74.00 £75.22
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.00 £48.75 £24.00
% change year-on-year -15.90% +103.13% +37.14%

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 19 November 2025.

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 19 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Apache in the UK

Apache
Top 15 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 19 November 2025. 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 -78 272 £550 -26.67% 158
London -85 146 £625 -21.88% 81
UK excluding London +3 137 £492 +3.58% 100
Work from Home -82 104 £626 -21.81% 90
North of England -9 48 £453 -13.71% 24
Midlands -15 36 £511 -16.46% 4
North West +3 33 £448 -18.55% 17
West Midlands -12 29 £511 -16.46% 2
Scotland +13 19 £500 +17.65% 9
South East -6 16 £600 +26.32% 29
South West +3 12 £344 -45.50% 23
Yorkshire -41 12 £475 -5.00% 6
East of England -18 9 £550 +74.60% 6
East Midlands -14 7 £510 +41.67% 2
North East - 3 £400 - 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
1 108 (35.06%) Apache Airflow
2 93 (30.19%) Apache Spark
3 30 (9.74%) IIS
4 26 (8.44%) WebLogic
5 25 (8.12%) JBoss
6 21 (6.82%) WebSphere
7 17 (5.52%) Confluence
8 13 (4.22%) Tomcat
9 10 (3.25%) iPlanet
9 10 (3.25%) WebSphere Application Server
10 7 (2.27%) nginx
11 5 (1.62%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (1.30%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.65%) Apache Geronimo
13 2 (0.65%) Apache Pig
13 2 (0.65%) Apache ServiceMix
13 2 (0.65%) Luigi
13 2 (0.65%) Oracle HTTP Server
13 2 (0.65%) Red Hat Fuse
14 1 (0.32%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 3 (0.97%) Chatbot
1 3 (0.97%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.65%) Abaqus
2 2 (0.65%) Sketch
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (2.60%) Maximo
2 1 (0.32%) Actimize
2 1 (0.32%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.32%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 165 (53.57%) AWS
2 87 (28.25%) Azure
3 60 (19.48%) dbt
3 60 (19.48%) Snowflake
4 44 (14.29%) GCP
5 42 (13.64%) Serverless
6 29 (9.42%) Amazon S3
7 20 (6.49%) Power Platform
8 19 (6.17%) Azure Data Factory
9 18 (5.84%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (5.84%) Azure Monitor
9 18 (5.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 16 (5.19%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (5.19%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (3.90%) OpenShift
12 10 (3.25%) GitHub
13 9 (2.92%) Amazon EMR
13 9 (2.92%) Cloud Computing
14 8 (2.60%) GitHub Actions
15 7 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.22%) Firewall
2 10 (3.25%) Kerberos
3 9 (2.92%) DNS
4 8 (2.60%) HTTP
5 6 (1.95%) SSL
6 4 (1.30%) Network Security
6 4 (1.30%) SMTP
7 3 (0.97%) DHCP
8 2 (0.65%) VPN
9 1 (0.32%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.32%) LAN
9 1 (0.32%) WAN
9 1 (0.32%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (21.10%) Data Lake
2 47 (15.26%) Amazon Athena
3 46 (14.94%) Big Data
4 44 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
5 41 (13.31%) Apache Iceberg
6 40 (12.99%) Hadoop
7 34 (11.04%) Apache Arrow
7 34 (11.04%) Apache Ignite
7 34 (11.04%) Dremio
8 26 (8.44%) Delta Lake
9 25 (8.12%) Amazon Redshift
10 22 (7.14%) Metadata
11 20 (6.49%) Power BI
12 19 (6.17%) NoSQL
13 18 (5.84%) Apache Hive
13 18 (5.84%) Relational Database
14 17 (5.52%) BigQuery
14 17 (5.52%) SQL Server
15 14 (4.55%) Oracle Database
16 12 (3.90%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 53 (17.21%) Git
2 22 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 21 (6.82%) JIRA
4 14 (4.55%) GitLab
4 14 (4.55%) JUnit
5 13 (4.22%) Sonatype Nexus
6 11 (3.57%) Bitbucket Server
6 11 (3.57%) CA Release Automation
7 9 (2.92%) Eclipse
7 9 (2.92%) IntelliJ
7 9 (2.92%) Selenium
8 7 (2.27%) Artifactory
9 5 (1.62%) ERwin
9 5 (1.62%) MLflow
9 5 (1.62%) Mockito
9 5 (1.62%) Subversion
10 4 (1.30%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.30%) ER Studio
10 4 (1.30%) MSI
10 4 (1.30%) Robot Framework
General
1 86 (27.92%) Social Skills
2 69 (22.40%) Finance
3 47 (15.26%) Banking
4 35 (11.36%) Investment Banking
5 34 (11.04%) Front Office
6 22 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
7 20 (6.49%) Public Sector
8 9 (2.92%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.30%) Legal
11 2 (0.65%) Electronics
11 2 (0.65%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.65%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.65%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.65%) Marketing
11 2 (0.65%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.65%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.32%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.32%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 72 (23.38%) Senior
2 71 (23.05%) Data Engineer
3 46 (14.94%) Software Engineer
4 44 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
5 43 (13.96%) Python Engineer
6 41 (13.31%) Senior Software Engineer
7 38 (12.34%) Java Engineer
8 34 (11.04%) AWS Software Engineer
8 34 (11.04%) Java Software Engineer
8 34 (11.04%) Python Software Engineer
9 33 (10.71%) Senior Java Engineer
9 33 (10.71%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 31 (10.06%) Developer
11 19 (6.17%) DevOps Engineer
12 17 (5.52%) Architect
13 14 (4.55%) Senior Data Engineer
14 13 (4.22%) Platform Engineer
15 12 (3.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 12 (3.90%) Lead
16 10 (3.25%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (15.58%) Kafka
2 47 (15.26%) Pandas
3 44 (14.29%) NumPy
4 42 (13.64%) Apache NiFi
5 34 (11.04%) gRPC
5 34 (11.04%) Protocol Buffers
5 34 (11.04%) REST
5 34 (11.04%) SciPy
6 26 (8.44%) PySpark
7 20 (6.49%) XML
8 19 (6.17%) OAuth
9 18 (5.84%) SOAP
10 16 (5.19%) Spring
11 15 (4.87%) React
12 14 (4.55%) HTML
12 14 (4.55%) JSON
13 13 (4.22%) Middleware
14 12 (3.90%) OpenID
14 12 (3.90%) Web Services
15 11 (3.57%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (11.36%) Equities
2 34 (11.04%) Derivative
2 34 (11.04%) Fixed Income
2 34 (11.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 34 (11.04%) Hedge funds
2 34 (11.04%) Pricing Data
3 16 (5.19%) Cloud Native
4 12 (3.90%) PKI
5 11 (3.57%) Algorithms
6 10 (3.25%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (2.60%) Data Structures
7 8 (2.60%) Distributed Computing
8 6 (1.95%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.62%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.30%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.30%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.30%) Replication
10 4 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 72 (23.38%) Linux
2 57 (18.51%) Windows
3 40 (12.99%) Unix
4 22 (7.14%) Windows Server
5 18 (5.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (3.90%) CentOS
7 6 (1.95%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.30%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.97%) Debian
10 1 (0.32%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.32%) Rocky
10 1 (0.32%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (39.61%) Agile
2 102 (33.12%) CI/CD
3 100 (32.47%) DevOps
4 82 (26.62%) Data Pipeline
5 79 (25.65%) Analytics
5 79 (25.65%) ETL
6 72 (23.38%) Software Engineering
7 61 (19.81%) Data Engineering
8 58 (18.83%) Problem-Solving
9 57 (18.51%) Data Modelling
10 51 (16.56%) Data Governance
11 45 (14.61%) Continuous Improvement
12 44 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
13 36 (11.69%) Asset Management
13 36 (11.69%) Infrastructure as Code
14 35 (11.36%) Workflow
15 34 (11.04%) Investment Management
15 34 (11.04%) Microservices
16 33 (10.71%) Visualisation
17 32 (10.39%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 178 (57.79%) Python
2 109 (35.39%) SQL
3 88 (28.57%) Java
4 60 (19.48%) JavaScript
5 38 (12.34%) Scala
6 36 (11.69%) TypeScript
7 18 (5.84%) PowerShell
8 16 (5.19%) Shell Script
9 14 (4.55%) Bash
9 14 (4.55%) C#
10 12 (3.90%) Groovy
11 11 (3.57%) C++
12 7 (2.27%) PHP
13 6 (1.95%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.97%) Go
14 3 (0.97%) R
15 2 (0.65%) AWK
15 2 (0.65%) Korn
15 2 (0.65%) Perl
15 2 (0.65%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 90 (29.22%) Security Cleared
2 60 (19.48%) SC Cleared
3 41 (13.31%) DV Cleared
4 13 (4.22%) AWS Certification
5 11 (3.57%) Degree
6 6 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.30%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.65%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.65%) MCP
9 2 (0.65%) RHCE
10 1 (0.32%) CCNP
10 1 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.32%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.32%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (13.64%) Data Quality
2 26 (8.44%) QA
3 10 (3.25%) GDPR
4 8 (2.60%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.30%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.65%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.65%) Section 508
6 2 (0.65%) WCAG
7 1 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.32%) IFRS
7 1 (0.32%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.32%) MiFID
System Software
1 50 (16.23%) Docker
2 21 (6.82%) Active Directory
3 12 (3.90%) HDFS
4 10 (3.25%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (2.60%) Tivoli Directory Server
6 4 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.65%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.65%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.32%) KVM
Systems Management
1 42 (13.64%) Terraform
2 41 (13.31%) Ansible
3 35 (11.36%) Kubernetes
4 19 (6.17%) Puppet
5 15 (4.87%) Progress Chef
6 11 (3.57%) CA Single Sign-On
6 11 (3.57%) Prometheus
7 10 (3.25%) CA Wily
7 10 (3.25%) Grafana
7 10 (3.25%) Hadoop YARN
8 8 (2.60%) Tivoli
9 6 (1.95%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.30%) Nagios
10 4 (1.30%) WMI
11 3 (0.97%) Kibana
11 3 (0.97%) Oozie
11 3 (0.97%) Salt
12 2 (0.65%) Icinga
12 2 (0.65%) logstash
12 2 (0.65%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 44 (14.29%) Oracle
2 42 (13.64%) Databricks
3 36 (11.69%) Microsoft
4 33 (10.71%) Splunk
5 25 (8.12%) AppDynamics
6 24 (7.79%) IBM
7 17 (5.52%) Cisco
7 17 (5.52%) Google
8 15 (4.87%) Dynatrace
9 13 (4.22%) VMware
10 12 (3.90%) Cloudera
10 12 (3.90%) Red Hat
11 11 (3.57%) Broadcom
11 11 (3.57%) Informatica
12 9 (2.92%) Foundry
12 9 (2.92%) Palantir
12 9 (2.92%) webMethods
13 7 (2.27%) ServiceNow
14 5 (1.62%) Talend
15 3 (0.97%) Rackspace