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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 283 302
Rank change year-on-year -64 +19 -18
Contract jobs citing Apache 281 270 311
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.69% 0.88% 0.71%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.10% 7.57% 7.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 203 242
10th Percentile £384 £392 £350
25th Percentile £442 £464 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £640 £525
Median % change year-on-year -17.97% +21.90% -12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £838 £738
90th Percentile £729 £875 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £475 £510
% change year-on-year +1.32% -6.86% -11.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 8
10th Percentile £63.15 - £21.92
25th Percentile £64.00 - £22.00
Median hourly rate £75.00 £74.44 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.75% +79.37% +18.62%
75th Percentile £82.00 - £59.81
90th Percentile £84.20 - £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £74.44 £52.50
% change year-on-year +0.75% +41.79% +50.06%

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 3,956 3,567 4,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.72% 11.58% 9.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,737 2,207 2,824
10th Percentile £300 £255 £250
25th Percentile £400 £380 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% -6.70%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £600
90th Percentile £688 £713 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -5.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 71 167
10th Percentile £15.10 £17.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.98 £22.25 £15.58
Median hourly rate £25.42 £41.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.01% +49.09% +25.00%
75th Percentile £69.36 £64.13 £47.63
90th Percentile £81.00 £66.00 £69.18
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.21 £48.82 £23.88
% change year-on-year -44.26% +104.46% +29.05%

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 February 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 19 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Apache in the UK

Apache
Top 17 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 February 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 -82 228 £525 -22.22% 88
UK excluding London +10 138 £481 +1.32% 82
London -102 115 £575 -14.81% 27
Work from Home -88 62 £512 -31.76% 41
North of England -44 38 £473 -0.42% 21
Midlands -40 32 £525 +12.30% 8
Scotland +36 31 £525 +1.20% 15
West Midlands -35 27 £500 -14.89% 6
North West -8 24 £471 -0.84% 13
South West -13 17 £625 +5.26% 13
South East -45 11 £560 +40.00% 22
North East -8 7 £425 -34.62% 5
East of England -27 7 £363 +13.99% 4
Yorkshire -53 7 £475 - 3
East Midlands -23 5 £663 +84.67% 2
Northern Ireland 0 3 £463 -22.92%
Wales - 1 £543 - 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
1 113 (40.21%) Apache Spark
2 72 (25.62%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (7.83%) WebSphere
4 21 (7.47%) Tomcat
5 18 (6.41%) WebLogic
6 16 (5.69%) Apache Geronimo
6 16 (5.69%) Apache ServiceMix
6 16 (5.69%) JBoss
6 16 (5.69%) Red Hat Fuse
7 15 (5.34%) IIS
8 7 (2.49%) Confluence
9 6 (2.14%) iPlanet
9 6 (2.14%) Palantir Foundry
9 6 (2.14%) WebSphere Application Server
10 5 (1.78%) nginx
11 4 (1.42%) Jupyter
11 4 (1.42%) SAS
12 3 (1.07%) Apache Superset
12 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
13 2 (0.71%) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications
1 3 (1.07%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Actimize
1 1 (0.36%) Maximo
1 1 (0.36%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 147 (52.31%) AWS
2 91 (32.38%) Azure
3 67 (23.84%) GCP
4 43 (15.30%) Amazon S3
5 42 (14.95%) Serverless
6 38 (13.52%) Power Platform
7 37 (13.17%) AWS CloudFormation
8 26 (9.25%) Snowflake
9 24 (8.54%) AWS Lambda
10 23 (8.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 18 (6.41%) Azure Data Factory
11 18 (6.41%) dbt
12 17 (6.05%) Amazon SQS
12 17 (6.05%) Azure DevOps
13 15 (5.34%) Collibra
14 12 (4.27%) AWS Step Functions
15 11 (3.91%) GitHub
16 9 (3.20%) Cloud Computing
16 9 (3.20%) GitHub Actions
17 8 (2.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.63%) Firewall
2 11 (3.91%) HTTP
3 7 (2.49%) Kerberos
4 5 (1.78%) DNS
5 4 (1.42%) DHCP
5 4 (1.42%) Network Security
6 3 (1.07%) SSL
6 3 (1.07%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.71%) SAN
8 1 (0.36%) 4G
8 1 (0.36%) 5G
8 1 (0.36%) InfiniBand
8 1 (0.36%) Intranet
8 1 (0.36%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.36%) LAN
8 1 (0.36%) Spanning Tree
8 1 (0.36%) SSH
8 1 (0.36%) VLAN
8 1 (0.36%) VPN
8 1 (0.36%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (16.73%) Data Lake
2 43 (15.30%) Big Data
3 39 (13.88%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (12.10%) Power BI
5 33 (11.74%) Amazon Athena
6 32 (11.39%) Hadoop
7 28 (9.96%) BigQuery
8 22 (7.83%) Delta Lake
9 18 (6.41%) PostgreSQL
10 17 (6.05%) Metadata
10 17 (6.05%) SQL Server
11 16 (5.69%) MongoDB
11 16 (5.69%) NoSQL
12 15 (5.34%) Amazon Redshift
12 15 (5.34%) OLTP
13 14 (4.98%) Mixpanel
14 13 (4.63%) MySQL
14 13 (4.63%) OLAP
15 11 (3.91%) Apache Hive
15 11 (3.91%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 52 (18.51%) Git
2 24 (8.54%) GitLab
3 14 (4.98%) Jenkins
3 14 (4.98%) JIRA
4 12 (4.27%) JUnit
4 12 (4.27%) MLflow
5 10 (3.56%) Artifactory
5 10 (3.56%) Selenium
6 9 (3.20%) Eclipse
6 9 (3.20%) IntelliJ
7 6 (2.14%) Bitbucket
7 6 (2.14%) Bitbucket Server
7 6 (2.14%) CA Release Automation
8 5 (1.78%) Maven
8 5 (1.78%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.42%) Mockito
10 3 (1.07%) Gradle
10 3 (1.07%) Liquibase
11 2 (0.71%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.71%) ERwin
General
1 61 (21.71%) Social Skills
2 50 (17.79%) Finance
3 28 (9.96%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (7.12%) Public Sector
5 18 (6.41%) Banking
6 9 (3.20%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (2.49%) Investment Banking
8 6 (2.14%) Front Office
9 5 (1.78%) Billing
10 4 (1.42%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.07%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.07%) Marketing
12 2 (0.71%) Electronics
12 2 (0.71%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.71%) Legal
12 2 (0.71%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.71%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.36%) Law
Job Titles
1 86 (30.60%) Data Engineer
2 49 (17.44%) Senior
3 31 (11.03%) Developer
4 29 (10.32%) Software Engineer
5 25 (8.90%) Lead
6 21 (7.47%) AWS Engineer
7 17 (6.05%) Architect
7 17 (6.05%) DevOps Engineer
7 17 (6.05%) Senior Data Engineer
8 16 (5.69%) Python Engineer
9 13 (4.63%) Lead Data Engineer
9 13 (4.63%) Principal Engineer
10 12 (4.27%) Principal Data Engineer
10 12 (4.27%) Senior Software Engineer
11 10 (3.56%) Data Architect
11 10 (3.56%) Java Engineer
12 9 (3.20%) AWS Data Engineer
13 8 (2.85%) Data Analytics Engineer
13 8 (2.85%) Principal Software Engineer
13 8 (2.85%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (20.64%) Kafka
2 39 (13.88%) REST
3 36 (12.81%) Apache NiFi
4 29 (10.32%) PySpark
5 24 (8.54%) Middleware
6 20 (7.12%) Pandas
7 18 (6.41%) Spring
8 17 (6.05%) NumPy
9 16 (5.69%) Apache Axis
9 16 (5.69%) Apache Camel
10 14 (4.98%) Great Expectations
11 13 (4.63%) JSON
11 13 (4.63%) SOAP
12 12 (4.27%) Hibernate
12 12 (4.27%) XML
13 11 (3.91%) EJB
13 11 (3.91%) OAuth
13 11 (3.91%) React
14 10 (3.56%) HTML
14 10 (3.56%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.25%) Cloud Native
2 14 (4.98%) Algorithms
3 11 (3.91%) Management Information System
4 10 (3.56%) Data Structures
4 10 (3.56%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.85%) Distributed Computing
5 8 (2.85%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (2.85%) Equities
6 6 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.14%) Derivative
6 6 (2.14%) Fixed Income
6 6 (2.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (2.14%) Hedge funds
6 6 (2.14%) Pricing Data
7 5 (1.78%) Freedom of Information
7 5 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.78%) Replication
7 5 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.42%) Clustering
9 3 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 49 (17.44%) Linux
2 36 (12.81%) Windows
3 30 (10.68%) Unix
4 13 (4.63%) Windows Server
5 9 (3.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (2.49%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.42%) Debian
8 3 (1.07%) CentOS
8 3 (1.07%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.71%) Rocky
9 2 (0.71%) Solaris
9 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.36%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (41.28%) CI/CD
2 89 (31.67%) Analytics
2 89 (31.67%) DevOps
3 84 (29.89%) Data Pipeline
3 84 (29.89%) ETL
4 83 (29.54%) Data Engineering
5 75 (26.69%) Agile
6 71 (25.27%) Data Modelling
7 66 (23.49%) Problem-Solving
8 59 (21.00%) Machine Learning
9 56 (19.93%) Data Governance
10 53 (18.86%) AI
10 53 (18.86%) Software Engineering
11 51 (18.15%) Infrastructure as Code
12 43 (15.30%) Business Intelligence
13 39 (13.88%) Data Architecture
13 39 (13.88%) Observability
14 35 (12.46%) Data Science
15 34 (12.10%) Microservices
16 32 (11.39%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 155 (55.16%) Python
2 138 (49.11%) SQL
3 83 (29.54%) Java
4 36 (12.81%) Scala
5 22 (7.83%) C#
6 19 (6.76%) JavaScript
7 14 (4.98%) PowerShell
8 12 (4.27%) Shell Script
9 9 (3.20%) TypeScript
10 6 (2.14%) Bash
10 6 (2.14%) Groovy
10 6 (2.14%) R
11 5 (1.78%) C++
11 5 (1.78%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.42%) Perl
13 3 (1.07%) Go
13 3 (1.07%) PHP
14 2 (0.71%) AWK
14 2 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.71%) Korn
Qualifications
1 76 (27.05%) Security Cleared
2 56 (19.93%) SC Cleared
3 30 (10.68%) DV Cleared
4 18 (6.41%) Degree
5 11 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (3.56%) AWS Certification
7 9 (3.20%) Master's Degree
8 7 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.07%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.71%) RHCE
10 2 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.36%) CCNA
11 1 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.36%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.36%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (22.06%) Data Quality
2 24 (8.54%) GDPR
3 13 (4.63%) QA
4 6 (2.14%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.71%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.71%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.36%) IFRS
6 1 (0.36%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.36%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.36%) MiFID
6 1 (0.36%) Solvency II
System Software
1 46 (16.37%) Docker
2 11 (3.91%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.20%) HDFS
4 5 (1.78%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 3 (1.07%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.71%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.36%) Ceph
7 1 (0.36%) iptables
7 1 (0.36%) KVM
7 1 (0.36%) Lustre
7 1 (0.36%) NFS
7 1 (0.36%) Samba
7 1 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 58 (20.64%) Terraform
2 43 (15.30%) Kubernetes
3 30 (10.68%) Ansible
4 11 (3.91%) Puppet
5 6 (2.14%) CA Single Sign-On
5 6 (2.14%) CA Wily
5 6 (2.14%) Grafana
5 6 (2.14%) Progress Chef
5 6 (2.14%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.14%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (1.78%) Tivoli
7 4 (1.42%) Hadoop YARN
8 2 (0.71%) Kibana
8 2 (0.71%) logstash
8 2 (0.71%) Nagios
8 2 (0.71%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.71%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.36%) Oozie
9 1 (0.36%) SCCM
Vendors
1 50 (17.79%) Databricks
2 48 (17.08%) Oracle
3 33 (11.74%) Google
4 21 (7.47%) Microsoft
5 17 (6.05%) Red Hat
5 17 (6.05%) Splunk
6 16 (5.69%) TIBCO
7 11 (3.91%) Informatica
8 10 (3.56%) AppDynamics
8 10 (3.56%) Cisco
8 10 (3.56%) IBM
9 9 (3.20%) ServiceNow
9 9 (3.20%) webMethods
10 8 (2.85%) Cloudera
11 7 (2.49%) Dynatrace
11 7 (2.49%) Talend
12 6 (2.14%) Broadcom
12 6 (2.14%) Foundry
12 6 (2.14%) Palantir
13 5 (1.78%) VMware