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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 284 192
Rank change year-on-year -87 -92 +120
Contract jobs citing Apache 338 290 502
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.62% 0.88% 1.31%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.16% 8.18% 12.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 213 419
10th Percentile £350 £363 £413
25th Percentile £406 £456 £536
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £750
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -26.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £600 £725 £850
90th Percentile £700 £825 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £483 £475
% change year-on-year -11.92% +1.58% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 8
10th Percentile £64.85 - £43.40
25th Percentile - - £60.31
Median hourly rate £67.47 £80.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.66% +8.11% -5.13%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £74.44
90th Percentile £83.94 - £74.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £80.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year -15.66% +8.11% -5.13%

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 4,722 3,545 4,164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.61% 10.72% 10.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,063 2,292 2,690
10th Percentile £283 £275 £263
25th Percentile £403 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £650
90th Percentile £680 £700 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +3.33% -2.70% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 88 83
10th Percentile £14.75 £16.81 £17.26
25th Percentile £16.60 £21.81 £23.80
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% -5.41% -22.75%
75th Percentile £56.11 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £84.03 £72.50 £74.89
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.00 £34.99 £48.56
% change year-on-year -17.12% -27.94% +5.57%

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -85 288 £511 -7.05% 349
London -66 170 £550 -15.38% 229
UK excluding London -77 134 £425 -11.92% 170
Work from Home -56 101 £495 -34.00% 123
North of England -54 56 £413 -8.33% 34
North East -11 29 £385 -30.00% 4
Scotland -13 25 £409 -18.20% 31
South West -28 22 £460 +1.10% 39
Yorkshire -35 15 £479 +0.84% 9
Midlands -57 14 £450 -12.62% 13
South East -68 13 £425 -29.17% 28
West Midlands -56 12 £450 -15.01% 8
North West -61 12 £530 +35.90% 21
East of England -39 3 £456 -17.05% 11
Wales - 2 £475 - 3
East Midlands -17 1 £495 +17.86% 5

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
1 182 (53.85%) Apache Spark
2 163 (48.22%) Apache Airflow
3 37 (10.95%) Jupyter
4 22 (6.51%) nginx
5 14 (4.14%) Confluence
5 14 (4.14%) Tomcat
6 9 (2.66%) WebSphere
7 8 (2.37%) Apache Superset
7 8 (2.37%) WebLogic
8 6 (1.78%) IIS
9 5 (1.48%) CloudStack
10 4 (1.18%) JBoss
10 4 (1.18%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.89%) IBM HTTP Server
11 3 (0.89%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 3 (0.89%) WebLogic Portal
11 3 (0.89%) WebSphere Application Server
11 3 (0.89%) WebSphere Portal
12 1 (0.30%) Luigi
12 1 (0.30%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Magento
1 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.30%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 195 (57.69%) AWS
2 114 (33.73%) Azure
3 87 (25.74%) GCP
4 69 (20.41%) Amazon S3
5 57 (16.86%) dbt
6 44 (13.02%) Snowflake
7 39 (11.54%) Serverless
8 35 (10.36%) Amazon EMR
9 34 (10.06%) AWS Lambda
10 30 (8.88%) Azure Data Factory
11 29 (8.58%) Azure DevOps
12 25 (7.40%) Power Platform
13 23 (6.80%) GitHub
14 21 (6.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 20 (5.92%) Amazon EC2
16 14 (4.14%) Azure Databricks
16 14 (4.14%) Cloud Composer
17 12 (3.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 12 (3.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 11 (3.25%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.73%) DNS
2 12 (3.55%) Firewall
3 6 (1.78%) HTTP
4 5 (1.48%) DHCP
4 5 (1.48%) NAS
4 5 (1.48%) SAN
4 5 (1.48%) SSL
5 3 (0.89%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.89%) Network Security
5 3 (0.89%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (0.89%) Structured Cabling
6 2 (0.59%) BIG-IP
6 2 (0.59%) Internet
6 2 (0.59%) VLAN
6 2 (0.59%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.30%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (21.89%) Data Warehouse
2 54 (15.98%) Data Lake
3 46 (13.61%) BigQuery
4 41 (12.13%) Big Data
5 40 (11.83%) Delta Lake
6 38 (11.24%) Flink
7 33 (9.76%) Metadata
8 30 (8.88%) PostgreSQL
9 29 (8.58%) Amazon Athena
10 24 (7.10%) Amazon Redshift
10 24 (7.10%) Power BI
11 23 (6.80%) Apache Iceberg
12 22 (6.51%) SQL Server
13 18 (5.33%) Relational Database
14 17 (5.03%) Elasticsearch
14 17 (5.03%) Hadoop
15 15 (4.44%) NoSQL
16 12 (3.55%) Tableau
17 11 (3.25%) DynamoDB
17 11 (3.25%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 59 (17.46%) GitLab
2 51 (15.09%) Git
3 19 (5.62%) Jenkins
3 19 (5.62%) JIRA
4 9 (2.66%) SonarQube
5 7 (2.07%) Maven
6 6 (1.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (1.48%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.48%) MLflow
8 4 (1.18%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.18%) Gradle
9 3 (0.89%) Selenium
10 2 (0.59%) Gerrit
10 2 (0.59%) JMeter
10 2 (0.59%) RStudio
10 2 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.59%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.30%) Ant
11 1 (0.30%) minitest
11 1 (0.30%) Newman
General
1 85 (25.15%) Social Skills
2 74 (21.89%) Finance
3 51 (15.09%) Public Sector
4 44 (13.02%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (10.36%) Banking
6 8 (2.37%) Publishing
7 7 (2.07%) Financial Institution
7 7 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.07%) Marketing
7 7 (2.07%) Military
8 5 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.18%) Billing
9 4 (1.18%) Retail
10 3 (0.89%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.89%) Law
10 3 (0.89%) Legal
11 2 (0.59%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.59%) Automotive
11 2 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 136 (40.24%) Data Engineer
2 58 (17.16%) Senior
3 46 (13.61%) Architect
4 43 (12.72%) Developer
5 34 (10.06%) Senior Data Engineer
6 28 (8.28%) DevOps Engineer
6 28 (8.28%) Lead
7 24 (7.10%) Data Architect
8 22 (6.51%) Java Developer
9 21 (6.21%) Databricks Engineer
10 15 (4.44%) Databricks Data Engineer
10 15 (4.44%) Python Engineer
11 12 (3.55%) Cloud Engineer
11 12 (3.55%) Python Data Engineer
12 10 (2.96%) AWS Engineer
12 10 (2.96%) Lead Data Engineer
12 10 (2.96%) Software Engineer
12 10 (2.96%) Technical Leader
13 9 (2.66%) GCP Engineer
14 8 (2.37%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (31.66%) Terraform
2 89 (26.33%) PySpark
3 72 (21.30%) Kafka
4 32 (9.47%) REST
5 31 (9.17%) Spring
6 30 (8.88%) Spring Boot
7 16 (4.73%) Apache Beam
8 15 (4.44%) Apache NiFi
8 15 (4.44%) JSON
9 14 (4.14%) SOAP
10 11 (3.25%) OAuth
10 11 (3.25%) Pandas
11 10 (2.96%) Middleware
12 9 (2.66%) Spark Streaming
13 8 (2.37%) Elastic Stack
13 8 (2.37%) YAML
14 6 (1.78%) AngularJS
14 6 (1.78%) Node.js
14 6 (1.78%) NumPy
14 6 (1.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 56 (16.57%) Cloud Native
2 25 (7.40%) Product Ownership
3 17 (5.03%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (4.73%) Data Structures
5 15 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (4.14%) Onboarding
7 11 (3.25%) Management Information System
8 9 (2.66%) Data Fabric
8 9 (2.66%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (2.37%) Public Cloud
10 7 (2.07%) Clustering
11 5 (1.48%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.48%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.48%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.48%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (1.48%) Replication
12 4 (1.18%) Distributed Architecture
13 3 (0.89%) Distributed Computing
13 3 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 44 (13.02%) Linux
2 17 (5.03%) Windows
3 15 (4.44%) Ubuntu
4 9 (2.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.07%) Unix
6 6 (1.78%) Windows Server
7 5 (1.48%) Windows 10
8 4 (1.18%) CentOS
9 3 (0.89%) Rocky
10 2 (0.59%) Debian
10 2 (0.59%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.30%) Solaris
11 1 (0.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (50.59%) CI/CD
2 147 (43.49%) Data Pipeline
3 140 (41.42%) Data Engineering
4 119 (35.21%) Analytics
5 113 (33.43%) DevOps
6 108 (31.95%) ETL
7 100 (29.59%) Agile
8 97 (28.70%) Data Modelling
9 86 (25.44%) Infrastructure as Code
10 82 (24.26%) AI
11 71 (21.01%) Containerisation
12 64 (18.93%) Data Governance
13 58 (17.16%) Machine Learning
13 58 (17.16%) Migration
14 53 (15.68%) Lakehouse
15 46 (13.61%) Stakeholder Management
16 44 (13.02%) Problem-Solving
17 42 (12.43%) Data Science
17 42 (12.43%) Technical Leadership
18 41 (12.13%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 228 (67.46%) Python
2 173 (51.18%) SQL
3 72 (21.30%) Java
4 30 (8.88%) Scala
5 24 (7.10%) Bash
6 23 (6.80%) PowerShell
7 15 (4.44%) Shell Script
8 10 (2.96%) JavaScript
9 8 (2.37%) Go
10 7 (2.07%) PL/SQL
11 6 (1.78%) TypeScript
12 5 (1.48%) Bicep
12 5 (1.48%) Groovy
12 5 (1.48%) R
13 4 (1.18%) Perl
13 4 (1.18%) Ruby
14 3 (0.89%) Cypher
14 3 (0.89%) Gremlin
14 3 (0.89%) SPARQL
15 2 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 104 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 87 (25.74%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.62%) Degree
4 15 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (4.44%) DV Cleared
5 12 (3.55%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.07%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.48%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.18%) CISSP
9 3 (0.89%) CCNP
9 3 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.89%) CSPO
9 3 (0.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.59%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.30%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.30%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (26.63%) Data Quality
2 14 (4.14%) QA
3 12 (3.55%) GDPR
4 9 (2.66%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.18%) Government Security Classifications
6 3 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.89%) NCSC
7 2 (0.59%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.59%) SLA
7 2 (0.59%) WCAG
8 1 (0.30%) NIST
8 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 100 (29.59%) Docker
2 14 (4.14%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.07%) Postfix
4 5 (1.48%) NFS
4 5 (1.48%) Varnish
4 5 (1.48%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.89%) Dovecot
6 3 (0.89%) Sendmail
6 3 (0.89%) vSphere
7 2 (0.59%) Ceph
7 2 (0.59%) KVM
7 2 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 82 (24.26%) Kubernetes
2 24 (7.10%) Ansible
3 16 (4.73%) Grafana
4 11 (3.25%) Prometheus
5 9 (2.66%) HAProxy
6 5 (1.48%) Packer
6 5 (1.48%) Puppet
6 5 (1.48%) vCenter Server
7 4 (1.18%) Kibana
8 3 (0.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.89%) Check_MK
8 3 (0.89%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.89%) SELinux
9 2 (0.59%) Control-M
9 2 (0.59%) systemd
10 1 (0.30%) Apache Ranger
10 1 (0.30%) logstash
10 1 (0.30%) Podman
10 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 88 (26.04%) Databricks
2 39 (11.54%) Google
2 39 (11.54%) Microsoft
3 18 (5.33%) Oracle
4 17 (5.03%) Trend Micro
5 10 (2.96%) Red Hat
5 10 (2.96%) VMware
6 9 (2.66%) Informatica
6 9 (2.66%) ServiceNow
7 8 (2.37%) IBM
8 7 (2.07%) Cisco
8 7 (2.07%) Splunk
9 6 (1.78%) Guidewire
10 5 (1.48%) New Relic
10 5 (1.48%) Talend
10 5 (1.48%) Tanium
11 4 (1.18%) Teradata
12 3 (0.89%) Fortinet
12 3 (0.89%) Veeam
12 3 (0.89%) webMethods