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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 366 279 186
Rank change year-on-year -87 -93 +114
Contract jobs citing Apache 324 303 536
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.61% 0.93% 1.30%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.05% 8.49% 12.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 228 456
10th Percentile £363 £404 £413
25th Percentile £419 £463 £536
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £738
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -18.64% +22.92%
75th Percentile £584 £825 £850
90th Percentile £671 £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 4,595 3,571 4,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.72% 10.96% 10.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,031 2,329 3,010
10th Percentile £306 £289 £263
25th Percentile £404 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £479 £507
Median % change year-on-year +4.38% -5.52% +1.40%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £725 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +2.78% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 185 87 137
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.03 £13.79
25th Percentile £19.03 £26.02 £17.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £47.12 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.72% +44.98% -36.59%
75th Percentile £63.00 £66.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.72 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £49.81 £30.91
% change year-on-year -29.73% +61.13% -11.68%

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 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 21 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 21 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 -102 254 £510 -18.40% 118
UK excluding London -54 146 £491 -10.68% 58
London -100 143 £544 -26.17% 66
Work from Home -82 90 £508 -32.25% 43
North of England -45 55 £438 +2.94% 16
Scotland +16 39 £525 +13.51% 3
North East -14 29 £385 -40.77% 5
South West -29 20 £450 -20.00% 11
North West -43 20 £525 +46.65% 8
Midlands -40 18 £498 -17.08% 8
West Midlands -46 15 £500 -16.67% 6
South East -81 10 £470 -21.67% 19
Yorkshire -57 6 £475 -24.00% 3
Wales -15 3 £509 -
East Midlands -13 2 £548 +33.54% 2
East of England -29 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
1 167 (51.54%) Apache Spark
2 121 (37.35%) 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 13 (4.01%) nginx
8 7 (2.16%) Apache Superset
8 7 (2.16%) Confluence
8 7 (2.16%) IIS
9 5 (1.54%) CloudStack
9 5 (1.54%) SharePoint
10 4 (1.23%) JBoss
11 3 (0.93%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.62%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.31%) Luigi
13 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
13 1 (0.31%) SAS
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
1 172 (53.09%) AWS
2 113 (34.88%) Azure
3 85 (26.23%) GCP
4 54 (16.67%) Amazon S3
5 37 (11.42%) Power Platform
6 34 (10.49%) dbt
7 31 (9.57%) Serverless
8 29 (8.95%) AWS Lambda
8 29 (8.95%) Snowflake
9 28 (8.64%) Azure DevOps
10 26 (8.02%) Amazon EMR
11 24 (7.41%) Azure Data Factory
12 21 (6.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 20 (6.17%) GitHub
14 17 (5.25%) AWS CloudFormation
15 16 (4.94%) Amazon SQS
16 14 (4.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 14 (4.32%) GitHub Actions
17 12 (3.70%) Collibra
18 9 (2.78%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.94%) DNS
2 13 (4.01%) Firewall
3 7 (2.16%) HTTP
4 6 (1.85%) SAN
5 5 (1.54%) NAS
6 3 (0.93%) DHCP
6 3 (0.93%) Structured Cabling
6 3 (0.93%) VLAN
7 2 (0.62%) BIG-IP
7 2 (0.62%) FTP
7 2 (0.62%) Network Security
7 2 (0.62%) SSL
7 2 (0.62%) VXLAN
8 1 (0.31%) 4G
8 1 (0.31%) 5G
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 56 (17.28%) Data Warehouse
2 47 (14.51%) Data Lake
3 45 (13.89%) Big Data
4 33 (10.19%) BigQuery
5 32 (9.88%) Delta Lake
5 32 (9.88%) Power BI
6 30 (9.26%) Amazon Athena
7 28 (8.64%) Flink
7 28 (8.64%) Metadata
7 28 (8.64%) SQL Server
8 23 (7.10%) Hadoop
9 22 (6.79%) PostgreSQL
10 17 (5.25%) Amazon Redshift
10 17 (5.25%) MySQL
10 17 (5.25%) NoSQL
11 15 (4.63%) Relational Database
11 15 (4.63%) Tableau
12 13 (4.01%) Elasticsearch
13 12 (3.70%) Apache Iceberg
14 11 (3.40%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 50 (15.43%) Git
2 43 (13.27%) GitLab
3 20 (6.17%) JIRA
4 16 (4.94%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.16%) MLflow
5 7 (2.16%) SonarQube
6 5 (1.54%) Maven
7 4 (1.23%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.23%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.23%) Gradle
8 3 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (0.93%) 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 59 (18.21%) Finance
1 59 (18.21%) Social Skills
2 40 (12.35%) Public Sector
3 36 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (5.25%) Banking
5 7 (2.16%) Marketing
6 6 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.54%) Publishing
8 4 (1.23%) Billing
8 4 (1.23%) Front Office
8 4 (1.23%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.93%) Legal
10 2 (0.62%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.62%) Law
10 2 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.62%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.31%) Prime Brokerage
11 1 (0.31%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 112 (34.57%) Data Engineer
2 53 (16.36%) Senior
3 46 (14.20%) Developer
4 43 (13.27%) Architect
5 27 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
6 24 (7.41%) Lead
7 22 (6.79%) Java Developer
8 21 (6.48%) DevOps Engineer
9 20 (6.17%) Data Architect
10 15 (4.63%) Lead Data Engineer
11 12 (3.70%) AWS Engineer
12 10 (3.09%) Software Engineer
13 9 (2.78%) Platform Engineer
13 9 (2.78%) Principal Engineer
13 9 (2.78%) Python Developer
13 9 (2.78%) Senior Developer
14 8 (2.47%) Analyst
14 8 (2.47%) Cloud Engineer
14 8 (2.47%) Principal Data Engineer
14 8 (2.47%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (22.84%) Kafka
2 57 (17.59%) PySpark
3 28 (8.64%) REST
4 27 (8.33%) Middleware
4 27 (8.33%) Spring
5 23 (7.10%) Spring Boot
6 22 (6.79%) Apache Axis
6 22 (6.79%) Apache Camel
7 17 (5.25%) Apache Beam
7 17 (5.25%) JSON
8 11 (3.40%) Apache NiFi
9 10 (3.09%) Great Expectations
9 10 (3.09%) OAuth
10 9 (2.78%) AWS CDK
10 9 (2.78%) Pandas
11 8 (2.47%) LAMP
12 7 (2.16%) NumPy
12 7 (2.16%) PyTorch
12 7 (2.16%) SOAP
13 6 (1.85%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 53 (16.36%) Cloud Native
2 19 (5.86%) Product Ownership
3 17 (5.25%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (4.94%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (4.01%) Data Structures
5 13 (4.01%) Management Information System
6 10 (3.09%) Public Cloud
7 9 (2.78%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.47%) Clustering
8 8 (2.47%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (2.16%) Distributed Computing
10 6 (1.85%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.54%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.54%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.54%) Data Fabric
11 5 (1.54%) Replication
11 5 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.23%) PKI
12 4 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 52 (16.05%) Linux
2 18 (5.56%) Windows
3 15 (4.63%) Ubuntu
3 15 (4.63%) Unix
4 11 (3.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (2.47%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.54%) CentOS
7 4 (1.23%) Rocky
7 4 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.93%) Debian
8 3 (0.93%) Solaris
8 3 (0.93%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.31%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (46.60%) CI/CD
2 127 (39.20%) Data Engineering
3 120 (37.04%) Data Pipeline
4 112 (34.57%) Analytics
5 100 (30.86%) DevOps
5 100 (30.86%) ETL
6 98 (30.25%) Data Modelling
7 81 (25.00%) Agile
8 75 (23.15%) Containerisation
9 73 (22.53%) Infrastructure as Code
10 72 (22.22%) AI
11 68 (20.99%) Data Governance
12 48 (14.81%) Machine Learning
13 46 (14.20%) Problem-Solving
14 42 (12.96%) Business Intelligence
14 42 (12.96%) Migration
15 40 (12.35%) Data Science
16 39 (12.04%) Data Architecture
16 39 (12.04%) Workflow
17 34 (10.49%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 210 (64.81%) Python
2 186 (57.41%) SQL
3 95 (29.32%) Java
4 27 (8.33%) Scala
5 21 (6.48%) Bash
6 18 (5.56%) Shell Script
7 15 (4.63%) PowerShell
8 11 (3.40%) R
9 10 (3.09%) C#
9 10 (3.09%) TypeScript
10 9 (2.78%) Go
10 9 (2.78%) Perl
10 9 (2.78%) PL/SQL
11 8 (2.47%) JavaScript
12 6 (1.85%) PHP
13 5 (1.54%) Ruby
14 4 (1.23%) Groovy
15 3 (0.93%) Bicep
15 3 (0.93%) Cypher
15 3 (0.93%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 98 (30.25%) Security Cleared
2 88 (27.16%) SC Cleared
3 25 (7.72%) Degree
4 18 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.40%) Master's Degree
6 9 (2.78%) DV Cleared
7 7 (2.16%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.54%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
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%) RHCSA
12 1 (0.31%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.31%) MBA
12 1 (0.31%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (24.38%) Data Quality
2 21 (6.48%) GDPR
3 10 (3.09%) QA
4 9 (2.78%) 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%) SLA
7 2 (0.62%) WCAG
System Software
1 84 (25.93%) Docker
2 10 (3.09%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.78%) Postfix
4 8 (2.47%) NFS
5 7 (2.16%) Varnish
6 6 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
7 5 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (1.23%) Sendmail
9 3 (0.93%) Dovecot
9 3 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.93%) vSphere
10 2 (0.62%) Ceph
10 2 (0.62%) HDFS
10 2 (0.62%) KVM
10 2 (0.62%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.62%) Samba
11 1 (0.31%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.31%) iptables
Systems Management
1 86 (26.54%) Terraform
2 66 (20.37%) 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%) Apache Ranger
8 3 (0.93%) Check_MK
8 3 (0.93%) Kibana
8 3 (0.93%) Packer
8 3 (0.93%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.62%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.62%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.62%) Puppet
9 2 (0.62%) systemd
10 1 (0.31%) logstash
10 1 (0.31%) Rundeck
10 1 (0.31%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 66 (20.37%) Databricks
2 41 (12.65%) Google
2 41 (12.65%) Oracle
3 35 (10.80%) Microsoft
4 23 (7.10%) TIBCO
5 16 (4.94%) Trend Micro
6 12 (3.70%) Informatica
6 12 (3.70%) Red Hat
7 10 (3.09%) Cloudera
7 10 (3.09%) VMware
8 7 (2.16%) Cisco
8 7 (2.16%) IBM
8 7 (2.16%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.16%) Talend
9 5 (1.54%) Confluent
9 5 (1.54%) Guidewire
9 5 (1.54%) Splunk
10 4 (1.23%) Hortonworks
10 4 (1.23%) Okta
11 3 (0.93%) F5