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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 375 281 191
Rank change year-on-year -94 -90 +110
Contract jobs citing Apache 332 297 501
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.61% 0.91% 1.33%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.03% 8.44% 12.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 218 419
10th Percentile £350 £371 £418
25th Percentile £408 £463 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £750
Median % change year-on-year -7.36% -26.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £609 £713 £850
90th Percentile £700 £825 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -11.63%
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 4,725 3,521 4,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.61% 10.77% 10.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,074 2,274 2,685
10th Percentile £286 £275 £263
25th Percentile £403 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -7.62% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £599 £650
90th Percentile £680 £700 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £460
% change year-on-year +2.78% -2.17% -3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 87 83
10th Percentile £14.76 £16.64 £17.26
25th Percentile £16.60 £21.63 £23.80
Median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% -6.67% -21.70%
75th Percentile £60.08 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £84.86 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £34.99 £48.56
% change year-on-year -7.12% -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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -83 283 £513 -6.82% 302
London -69 171 £550 -15.38% 190
UK excluding London -95 130 £425 -15.00% 157
Work from Home -76 98 £500 -33.33% 116
North of England -62 55 £413 -8.33% 33
North East -10 29 £385 -30.00% 5
Scotland -12 25 £409 -18.20% 25
South West -28 22 £460 -7.07% 34
Yorkshire -40 14 £475 - 8
South East -62 12 £450 -25.00% 29
Midlands -64 12 £425 -18.27% 14
North West -66 12 £530 +35.90% 20
West Midlands -54 10 £425 -20.41% 10
East of England -34 3 £456 -17.05% 11
Wales -11 2 £475 - 3
East Midlands -21 1 £495 +17.86% 4

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
1 177 (53.31%) Apache Spark
2 163 (49.10%) Apache Airflow
3 37 (11.14%) Jupyter
4 21 (6.33%) nginx
5 14 (4.22%) Confluence
6 13 (3.92%) Tomcat
7 8 (2.41%) Apache Superset
7 8 (2.41%) WebSphere
8 7 (2.11%) WebLogic
9 6 (1.81%) IIS
10 5 (1.51%) CloudStack
11 4 (1.20%) JBoss
11 4 (1.20%) SharePoint
12 2 (0.60%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.60%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.60%) WebLogic Portal
12 2 (0.60%) WebSphere Application Server
12 2 (0.60%) WebSphere Portal
13 1 (0.30%) Luigi
13 1 (0.30%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.60%) 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
1 194 (58.43%) AWS
2 114 (34.34%) Azure
3 87 (26.20%) GCP
4 67 (20.18%) Amazon S3
5 57 (17.17%) dbt
6 42 (12.65%) Snowflake
7 39 (11.75%) Serverless
8 34 (10.24%) Amazon EMR
8 34 (10.24%) AWS Lambda
9 29 (8.73%) Azure DevOps
10 28 (8.43%) Azure Data Factory
11 25 (7.53%) Power Platform
12 23 (6.93%) GitHub
13 21 (6.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 20 (6.02%) Amazon EC2
15 13 (3.92%) Azure Databricks
16 12 (3.61%) Amazon ECS
16 12 (3.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 12 (3.61%) Cloud Composer
16 12 (3.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.82%) DNS
2 12 (3.61%) Firewall
3 5 (1.51%) DHCP
3 5 (1.51%) HTTP
3 5 (1.51%) NAS
3 5 (1.51%) SAN
3 5 (1.51%) SSL
4 3 (0.90%) HTTPS
4 3 (0.90%) Network Security
4 3 (0.90%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (0.90%) Structured Cabling
5 2 (0.60%) BIG-IP
5 2 (0.60%) Internet
5 2 (0.60%) VLAN
5 2 (0.60%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.30%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (21.69%) Data Warehouse
2 49 (14.76%) Data Lake
3 45 (13.55%) BigQuery
4 41 (12.35%) Big Data
5 40 (12.05%) Flink
6 38 (11.45%) Delta Lake
7 32 (9.64%) Metadata
8 30 (9.04%) Amazon Athena
8 30 (9.04%) PostgreSQL
9 24 (7.23%) Amazon Redshift
9 24 (7.23%) Power BI
10 22 (6.63%) SQL Server
11 20 (6.02%) Apache Iceberg
12 18 (5.42%) Relational Database
13 17 (5.12%) Elasticsearch
13 17 (5.12%) Hadoop
14 16 (4.82%) NoSQL
15 12 (3.61%) Tableau
16 11 (3.31%) DynamoDB
16 11 (3.31%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 58 (17.47%) GitLab
2 50 (15.06%) Git
3 20 (6.02%) JIRA
4 19 (5.72%) Jenkins
5 9 (2.71%) SonarQube
6 7 (2.11%) Maven
7 6 (1.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (1.51%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.20%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.20%) Gradle
9 4 (1.20%) MLflow
10 3 (0.90%) Selenium
11 2 (0.60%) Gerrit
11 2 (0.60%) JMeter
11 2 (0.60%) RStudio
11 2 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.60%) Terragrunt
12 1 (0.30%) Ant
12 1 (0.30%) minitest
12 1 (0.30%) Newman
General
1 85 (25.60%) Social Skills
2 74 (22.29%) Finance
3 49 (14.76%) Public Sector
4 43 (12.95%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (10.24%) Banking
6 8 (2.41%) Publishing
7 7 (2.11%) Financial Institution
7 7 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.11%) Marketing
8 6 (1.81%) Military
9 5 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.20%) Billing
11 3 (0.90%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.90%) Law
11 3 (0.90%) Legal
11 3 (0.90%) Retail
12 2 (0.60%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.60%) Automotive
12 2 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.30%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 133 (40.06%) Data Engineer
2 59 (17.77%) Senior
3 46 (13.86%) Architect
4 43 (12.95%) Developer
5 35 (10.54%) Senior Data Engineer
6 28 (8.43%) DevOps Engineer
7 25 (7.53%) Lead
8 23 (6.93%) Data Architect
9 22 (6.63%) Java Developer
10 19 (5.72%) Databricks Engineer
11 15 (4.52%) Python Engineer
12 14 (4.22%) Databricks Data Engineer
13 12 (3.61%) Cloud Engineer
13 12 (3.61%) Python Data Engineer
14 10 (3.01%) Software Engineer
14 10 (3.01%) Technical Leader
15 9 (2.71%) AWS Engineer
15 9 (2.71%) Lead Data Engineer
16 8 (2.41%) Python Developer
16 8 (2.41%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (30.72%) Terraform
2 85 (25.60%) PySpark
3 73 (21.99%) Kafka
4 32 (9.64%) REST
5 31 (9.34%) Spring
6 30 (9.04%) Spring Boot
7 17 (5.12%) Apache Beam
8 16 (4.82%) JSON
9 15 (4.52%) Apache NiFi
10 14 (4.22%) SOAP
11 11 (3.31%) OAuth
11 11 (3.31%) Pandas
12 9 (2.71%) Middleware
12 9 (2.71%) Spark Streaming
13 8 (2.41%) Elastic Stack
13 8 (2.41%) YAML
14 6 (1.81%) AngularJS
14 6 (1.81%) Apache Avro
14 6 (1.81%) NumPy
14 6 (1.81%) React
Miscellaneous
1 52 (15.66%) Cloud Native
2 24 (7.23%) Product Ownership
3 16 (4.82%) Data Structures
3 16 (4.82%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (4.52%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (3.92%) Onboarding
6 11 (3.31%) Management Information System
7 9 (2.71%) Data Fabric
7 9 (2.71%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (2.41%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.81%) Clustering
10 5 (1.51%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.51%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.51%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.51%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (1.51%) Replication
11 4 (1.20%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (0.90%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 44 (13.25%) Linux
2 17 (5.12%) Windows
3 15 (4.52%) Ubuntu
4 9 (2.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.11%) Unix
6 6 (1.81%) Windows Server
7 5 (1.51%) Windows 10
8 4 (1.20%) CentOS
9 3 (0.90%) Rocky
10 2 (0.60%) Debian
10 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.30%) Solaris
11 1 (0.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (50.90%) CI/CD
2 142 (42.77%) Data Pipeline
3 138 (41.57%) Data Engineering
4 116 (34.94%) Analytics
5 113 (34.04%) DevOps
6 110 (33.13%) ETL
7 100 (30.12%) Agile
8 98 (29.52%) Data Modelling
9 85 (25.60%) Infrastructure as Code
10 79 (23.80%) AI
11 74 (22.29%) Containerisation
12 63 (18.98%) Data Governance
13 56 (16.87%) Machine Learning
13 56 (16.87%) Migration
14 49 (14.76%) Lakehouse
15 44 (13.25%) Stakeholder Management
16 42 (12.65%) Problem-Solving
17 41 (12.35%) Technical Leadership
18 40 (12.05%) Data Science
18 40 (12.05%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 223 (67.17%) Python
2 170 (51.20%) SQL
3 72 (21.69%) Java
4 29 (8.73%) Scala
5 24 (7.23%) Bash
6 22 (6.63%) PowerShell
7 15 (4.52%) Shell Script
8 9 (2.71%) JavaScript
9 8 (2.41%) Go
9 8 (2.41%) TypeScript
10 7 (2.11%) PL/SQL
11 5 (1.51%) Groovy
11 5 (1.51%) R
12 4 (1.20%) Bicep
12 4 (1.20%) Perl
12 4 (1.20%) Ruby
13 3 (0.90%) Cypher
13 3 (0.90%) Gremlin
13 3 (0.90%) SPARQL
14 2 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 100 (30.12%) Security Cleared
2 84 (25.30%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.72%) Degree
4 15 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (4.52%) DV Cleared
5 12 (3.61%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.11%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.51%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.20%) CISSP
9 3 (0.90%) CCNP
9 3 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.90%) CSPO
9 3 (0.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.60%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.30%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.30%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (26.20%) Data Quality
2 13 (3.92%) QA
3 12 (3.61%) GDPR
4 9 (2.71%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.20%) Government Security Classifications
6 3 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.90%) NCSC
7 2 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.60%) SLA
7 2 (0.60%) WCAG
8 1 (0.30%) NIST
8 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 104 (31.33%) Docker
2 13 (3.92%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.11%) Postfix
4 5 (1.51%) NFS
4 5 (1.51%) Varnish
4 5 (1.51%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.90%) Dovecot
6 3 (0.90%) Sendmail
6 3 (0.90%) vSphere
7 2 (0.60%) Ceph
7 2 (0.60%) KVM
7 2 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 85 (25.60%) Kubernetes
2 25 (7.53%) Ansible
3 16 (4.82%) Grafana
4 11 (3.31%) Prometheus
5 9 (2.71%) HAProxy
6 5 (1.51%) Packer
6 5 (1.51%) Puppet
6 5 (1.51%) vCenter Server
7 4 (1.20%) Kibana
8 3 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.90%) Check_MK
8 3 (0.90%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.90%) SELinux
9 2 (0.60%) Control-M
9 2 (0.60%) 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 84 (25.30%) Databricks
2 39 (11.75%) Microsoft
3 38 (11.45%) Google
4 17 (5.12%) Oracle
4 17 (5.12%) Trend Micro
5 10 (3.01%) Red Hat
5 10 (3.01%) VMware
6 9 (2.71%) Informatica
6 9 (2.71%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.11%) Cisco
7 7 (2.11%) IBM
7 7 (2.11%) Splunk
8 6 (1.81%) Guidewire
9 5 (1.51%) New Relic
9 5 (1.51%) Talend
9 5 (1.51%) Tanium
10 4 (1.20%) Cloudera
10 4 (1.20%) Teradata
11 3 (0.90%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.90%) webMethods