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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 388 277 184
Rank change year-on-year -111 -93 +104
Contract jobs citing Apache 317 313 516
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.59% 0.95% 1.34%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.88% 8.69% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 229 439
10th Percentile £363 £362 £424
25th Percentile £413 £463 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £750
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -26.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £600 £775 £875
90th Percentile £677 £825 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £429 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -14.20% +5.26% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 8
10th Percentile £62.45 £38.21 £43.40
25th Percentile £67.23 £64.24 £53.56
Median hourly rate £68.24 £79.35 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.01% +10.21% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77.15 £80.74 £74.11
90th Percentile £85.09 £82.07 £74.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.24 £79.35 £72.00
% change year-on-year -14.01% +10.21% -7.69%

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 4,608 3,600 4,127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.55% 10.93% 10.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,022 2,336 2,791
10th Percentile £288 £276 £280
25th Percentile £404 £387 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £676 £713 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £470
% change year-on-year +2.78% -4.26% -1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 93 96
10th Percentile £16.23 £17.56 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £25.00 £21.81
Median hourly rate £32.50 £41.45 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year -21.59% +25.34% -38.76%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.25 £69.06
90th Percentile £75.15 £78.46 £74.72
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £43.09 £48.56
% change year-on-year -24.58% -11.26% +6.73%

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 29 August 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 29 August 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 29 August 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 -115 270 £505 -11.98% 261
London -84 160 £550 -21.43% 184
UK excluding London -88 124 £429 -14.20% 130
Work from Home -66 101 £513 -31.67% 83
North of England -49 55 £413 +5.77% 27
North East -10 29 £385 -30.00% 4
Scotland -14 21 £525 +5.00% 30
South West -33 21 £450 -9.09% 27
North West -65 17 £530 +48.04% 14
Midlands -62 12 £460 -14.10% 7
South East -70 12 £450 -25.00% 33
West Midlands -51 10 £478 -11.57% 2
Yorkshire -45 9 £469 -1.32% 9
Wales -16 2 £475 -
East of England -29 2 £400 -27.27% 5
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
1 177 (55.84%) Apache Spark
2 141 (44.48%) Apache Airflow
3 35 (11.04%) Jupyter
4 16 (5.05%) nginx
5 13 (4.10%) Tomcat
6 10 (3.15%) Confluence
7 9 (2.84%) Apache Superset
7 9 (2.84%) WebSphere
8 7 (2.21%) IIS
9 5 (1.58%) CloudStack
9 5 (1.58%) SharePoint
10 4 (1.26%) Apache Geronimo
10 4 (1.26%) Apache ServiceMix
10 4 (1.26%) JBoss
10 4 (1.26%) Red Hat Fuse
11 3 (0.95%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.32%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.32%) CMS
12 1 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.32%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Magento
1 1 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.32%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 179 (56.47%) AWS
2 116 (36.59%) Azure
3 81 (25.55%) GCP
4 54 (17.03%) Amazon S3
5 45 (14.20%) dbt
6 35 (11.04%) Snowflake
7 34 (10.73%) Azure DevOps
8 33 (10.41%) Serverless
9 31 (9.78%) Power Platform
10 30 (9.46%) Amazon EMR
10 30 (9.46%) Azure Data Factory
11 29 (9.15%) AWS Lambda
12 24 (7.57%) GitHub
13 16 (5.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 16 (5.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 14 (4.42%) GitHub Actions
15 12 (3.79%) Amazon EC2
16 9 (2.84%) Amazon SQS
16 9 (2.84%) IaaS
17 8 (2.52%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.68%) DNS
2 13 (4.10%) Firewall
3 5 (1.58%) DHCP
3 5 (1.58%) NAS
3 5 (1.58%) SAN
4 3 (0.95%) HTTP
4 3 (0.95%) HTTPS
4 3 (0.95%) SSL
4 3 (0.95%) Structured Cabling
4 3 (0.95%) VLAN
5 2 (0.63%) BIG-IP
5 2 (0.63%) Network Security
5 2 (0.63%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.63%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.32%) FTP
6 1 (0.32%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (19.87%) Data Warehouse
2 48 (15.14%) Data Lake
3 43 (13.56%) Delta Lake
4 40 (12.62%) BigQuery
5 37 (11.67%) Big Data
6 34 (10.73%) Flink
7 32 (10.09%) Amazon Athena
8 30 (9.46%) Power BI
9 27 (8.52%) Metadata
10 23 (7.26%) Amazon Redshift
11 21 (6.62%) SQL Server
12 20 (6.31%) PostgreSQL
13 18 (5.68%) Apache Iceberg
14 16 (5.05%) Elasticsearch
14 16 (5.05%) Hadoop
14 16 (5.05%) NoSQL
14 16 (5.05%) Relational Database
15 14 (4.42%) Tableau
16 9 (2.84%) DynamoDB
16 9 (2.84%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 53 (16.72%) GitLab
2 45 (14.20%) Git
3 20 (6.31%) JIRA
4 13 (4.10%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.52%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.89%) Maven
7 5 (1.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (1.58%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.58%) MLflow
8 4 (1.26%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.26%) Gradle
9 2 (0.63%) JMeter
9 2 (0.63%) RStudio
9 2 (0.63%) Selenium
9 2 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.63%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.32%) Ant
10 1 (0.32%) minitest
10 1 (0.32%) Newman
10 1 (0.32%) Postman
General
1 73 (23.03%) Finance
2 71 (22.40%) Social Skills
3 47 (14.83%) Public Sector
4 36 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (7.57%) Banking
6 7 (2.21%) Financial Institution
7 6 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (1.89%) Publishing
8 5 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.58%) Marketing
9 4 (1.26%) Billing
10 3 (0.95%) Law
10 3 (0.95%) Legal
10 3 (0.95%) Military
11 2 (0.63%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.32%) Front Office
12 1 (0.32%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.32%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.32%) Retail
Job Titles
1 124 (39.12%) Data Engineer
2 58 (18.30%) Senior
3 44 (13.88%) Architect
4 42 (13.25%) Developer
5 34 (10.73%) Senior Data Engineer
6 26 (8.20%) Lead
7 24 (7.57%) DevOps Engineer
8 20 (6.31%) Java Developer
9 19 (5.99%) Data Architect
10 13 (4.10%) Python Engineer
11 12 (3.79%) Lead Data Engineer
12 11 (3.47%) AWS Engineer
12 11 (3.47%) Cloud Engineer
13 10 (3.15%) Python Data Engineer
13 10 (3.15%) Software Engineer
14 9 (2.84%) Senior Developer
14 9 (2.84%) Technical Leader
15 8 (2.52%) Python Developer
15 8 (2.52%) Solutions Architect
16 7 (2.21%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (29.97%) Terraform
2 75 (23.66%) PySpark
3 68 (21.45%) Kafka
4 26 (8.20%) REST
5 25 (7.89%) Spring
5 25 (7.89%) Spring Boot
6 21 (6.62%) JSON
7 15 (4.73%) Apache Beam
8 11 (3.47%) Apache NiFi
9 9 (2.84%) Middleware
9 9 (2.84%) Spark Streaming
10 8 (2.52%) AWS CDK
10 8 (2.52%) OAuth
10 8 (2.52%) SOAP
10 8 (2.52%) YAML
11 7 (2.21%) Pandas
12 6 (1.89%) Apache Avro
12 6 (1.89%) Elastic Stack
12 6 (1.89%) Great Expectations
13 5 (1.58%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 53 (16.72%) Cloud Native
2 23 (7.26%) Product Ownership
3 15 (4.73%) Legacy Systems
4 14 (4.42%) Data Structures
5 13 (4.10%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (3.47%) Management Information System
7 10 (3.15%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (2.84%) Public Cloud
9 7 (2.21%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.89%) Data Fabric
11 5 (1.58%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.58%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.58%) Replication
11 5 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.26%) Distributed Architecture
12 4 (1.26%) Distributed Computing
12 4 (1.26%) PKI
13 3 (0.95%) Distributed Applications
13 3 (0.95%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 50 (15.77%) Linux
2 17 (5.36%) Windows
3 16 (5.05%) Ubuntu
4 11 (3.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (3.47%) Unix
5 5 (1.58%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.58%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.26%) CentOS
6 4 (1.26%) Rocky
7 3 (0.95%) Debian
8 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.32%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.32%) Solaris
9 1 (0.32%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (49.84%) CI/CD
2 137 (43.22%) Data Pipeline
3 126 (39.75%) Data Engineering
4 113 (35.65%) Analytics
4 113 (35.65%) DevOps
5 98 (30.91%) Agile
5 98 (30.91%) Data Modelling
5 98 (30.91%) ETL
6 82 (25.87%) Infrastructure as Code
7 74 (23.34%) Containerisation
8 66 (20.82%) AI
9 59 (18.61%) Data Governance
10 49 (15.46%) Machine Learning
11 47 (14.83%) Migration
12 44 (13.88%) Business Intelligence
13 41 (12.93%) Data Architecture
14 39 (12.30%) Data Transformation
14 39 (12.30%) Workflow
15 38 (11.99%) Problem-Solving
16 37 (11.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 220 (69.40%) Python
2 171 (53.94%) SQL
3 72 (22.71%) Java
4 27 (8.52%) Scala
5 24 (7.57%) PowerShell
6 23 (7.26%) Bash
7 18 (5.68%) Shell Script
8 11 (3.47%) R
9 10 (3.15%) TypeScript
10 9 (2.84%) Go
11 7 (2.21%) PL/SQL
12 5 (1.58%) C#
12 5 (1.58%) Perl
13 4 (1.26%) Bicep
13 4 (1.26%) Groovy
13 4 (1.26%) JavaScript
13 4 (1.26%) Ruby
14 3 (0.95%) Cypher
14 3 (0.95%) Gremlin
14 3 (0.95%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 99 (31.23%) Security Cleared
2 88 (27.76%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.99%) Degree
4 15 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.15%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.89%) AWS Certification
6 6 (1.89%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.58%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.95%) CCNP
9 3 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.95%) CSPO
9 3 (0.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.63%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.32%) MBA
11 1 (0.32%) PhD
11 1 (0.32%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.32%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (24.61%) Data Quality
2 16 (5.05%) GDPR
3 11 (3.47%) QA
4 7 (2.21%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (1.26%) Government Security Classifications
7 3 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.63%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.63%) SLA
8 2 (0.63%) WCAG
9 1 (0.32%) NIST
System Software
1 100 (31.55%) Docker
2 13 (4.10%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.52%) Postfix
4 7 (2.21%) NFS
5 6 (1.89%) Varnish
6 5 (1.58%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
8 3 (0.95%) Dovecot
8 3 (0.95%) Sendmail
8 3 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.95%) vSphere
9 2 (0.63%) Ceph
9 2 (0.63%) KVM
10 1 (0.32%) iptables
10 1 (0.32%) Samba
Systems Management
1 83 (26.18%) Kubernetes
2 26 (8.20%) Ansible
3 14 (4.42%) Grafana
4 9 (2.84%) Prometheus
5 8 (2.52%) HAProxy
6 5 (1.58%) Packer
6 5 (1.58%) vCenter Server
7 4 (1.26%) Puppet
7 4 (1.26%) SELinux
8 3 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.95%) Apache Ranger
8 3 (0.95%) Check_MK
8 3 (0.95%) Kibana
8 3 (0.95%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.95%) systemd
9 2 (0.63%) Control-M
10 1 (0.32%) logstash
10 1 (0.32%) Podman
10 1 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.32%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 82 (25.87%) Databricks
2 38 (11.99%) Microsoft
3 33 (10.41%) Google
4 17 (5.36%) Trend Micro
5 14 (4.42%) Oracle
6 11 (3.47%) Red Hat
7 10 (3.15%) Cloudera
7 10 (3.15%) VMware
8 9 (2.84%) Informatica
9 8 (2.52%) ServiceNow
9 8 (2.52%) Splunk
10 7 (2.21%) Cisco
11 6 (1.89%) Guidewire
12 5 (1.58%) Confluent
12 5 (1.58%) IBM
12 5 (1.58%) New Relic
12 5 (1.58%) Tanium
12 5 (1.58%) TIBCO
13 4 (1.26%) Hortonworks
13 4 (1.26%) Talend