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

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 319 276 313
Rank change year-on-year -43 +37 -44
Contract jobs citing Apache 284 272 308
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.76% 0.86% 0.71%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.59% 7.74% 7.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 204 235
10th Percentile £372 £365 £350
25th Percentile £430 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £619 £565
Median % change year-on-year -15.15% +9.51% -11.37%
75th Percentile £614 £838 £700
90th Percentile £800 £888 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £467 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -1.74% -9.52% -10.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 6
10th Percentile £66.13 £74.04 £22.00
25th Percentile £74.13 £74.11 £23.44
Median hourly rate £80.50 £74.22 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.46% +78.84% -20.95%
75th Percentile £82.75 £74.33 £71.94
90th Percentile £86.00 £74.40 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.50 £74.22 £65.25
% change year-on-year +8.46% +13.75% +86.51%

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 3,744 3,516 4,292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.04% 11.05% 9.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,598 2,161 2,870
10th Percentile £290 £250 £250
25th Percentile £400 £385 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £624 £610
90th Percentile £693 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £451
% change year-on-year +5.56% -0.28% -5.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 73 138
10th Percentile £14.89 £17.08 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £24.47
Median % change year-on-year -32.03% +51.24% +36.98%
75th Percentile £68.90 £62.50 £61.75
90th Percentile £81.70 £66.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.96 £47.50 £23.22
% change year-on-year -49.56% +104.61% +32.66%

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 17 January 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 17 January 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 17 January 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 -65 241 £537 -20.44% 110
UK excluding London +13 138 £467 -1.74% 98
London -62 120 £600 -11.11% 29
Work from Home -53 76 £540 -28.00% 68
Midlands +1 43 £536 -12.50% 5
North of England -33 41 £452 -4.95% 18
West Midlands -3 36 £536 -12.50% 1
North West -6 27 £450 -18.18% 7
Scotland +22 22 £500 +23.08% 7
South West -12 16 £253 -58.69% 17
South East -30 10 £643 +35.26% 35
Yorkshire -47 9 £475 +2.70% 6
East Midlands -22 7 £510 +65.85% 4
East of England -24 6 £363 +15.08% 13
North East - 5 £400 - 5
Northern Ireland -3 3 £463 -2.63% 2

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
1 100 (35.21%) Apache Spark
2 90 (31.69%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (10.21%) WebLogic
4 22 (7.75%) IIS
5 21 (7.39%) JBoss
6 13 (4.58%) WebSphere
7 10 (3.52%) iPlanet
7 10 (3.52%) WebSphere Application Server
8 9 (3.17%) Tomcat
9 8 (2.82%) Confluence
10 4 (1.41%) Jupyter
10 4 (1.41%) nginx
11 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (1.06%) SAS
12 2 (0.70%) Apache Geronimo
12 2 (0.70%) Apache Pig
12 2 (0.70%) Apache ServiceMix
12 2 (0.70%) Luigi
12 2 (0.70%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.70%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 3 (1.06%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.70%) Abaqus
2 2 (0.70%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Actimize
1 1 (0.35%) Maximo
1 1 (0.35%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.35%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 156 (54.93%) AWS
2 82 (28.87%) Azure
3 43 (15.14%) GCP
4 41 (14.44%) Serverless
5 38 (13.38%) Snowflake
6 37 (13.03%) Amazon S3
7 31 (10.92%) Power Platform
8 28 (9.86%) AWS CloudFormation
9 27 (9.51%) dbt
10 20 (7.04%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (6.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 16 (5.63%) Azure Monitor
13 15 (5.28%) Azure Data Factory
14 13 (4.58%) Azure DevOps
15 11 (3.87%) Amazon SQS
16 10 (3.52%) Collibra
16 10 (3.52%) OpenShift
17 9 (3.17%) Cloud Computing
17 9 (3.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 8 (2.82%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.58%) Firewall
2 11 (3.87%) Kerberos
3 8 (2.82%) HTTP
4 5 (1.76%) DNS
5 4 (1.41%) DHCP
5 4 (1.41%) Network Security
6 3 (1.06%) SSL
6 3 (1.06%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.70%) SAN
8 1 (0.35%) InfiniBand
8 1 (0.35%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.35%) LAN
8 1 (0.35%) Spanning Tree
8 1 (0.35%) SSH
8 1 (0.35%) VLAN
8 1 (0.35%) VPN
8 1 (0.35%) WAN
8 1 (0.35%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (17.96%) Data Lake
2 42 (14.79%) Big Data
3 41 (14.44%) Amazon Athena
4 37 (13.03%) Hadoop
5 33 (11.62%) Data Warehouse
6 30 (10.56%) Power BI
7 26 (9.15%) Delta Lake
8 25 (8.80%) Apache Iceberg
9 19 (6.69%) Apache Hive
9 19 (6.69%) BigQuery
10 18 (6.34%) NoSQL
11 17 (5.99%) Amazon Redshift
11 17 (5.99%) Apache Arrow
11 17 (5.99%) Apache Ignite
11 17 (5.99%) Dremio
12 16 (5.63%) PostgreSQL
13 15 (5.28%) MongoDB
13 15 (5.28%) Oracle Database
14 14 (4.93%) Metadata
15 13 (4.58%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 53 (18.66%) Git
2 24 (8.45%) GitLab
3 15 (5.28%) Jenkins
3 15 (5.28%) JIRA
4 14 (4.93%) JUnit
5 11 (3.87%) Artifactory
5 11 (3.87%) Bitbucket Server
5 11 (3.87%) CA Release Automation
5 11 (3.87%) MLflow
6 9 (3.17%) Eclipse
6 9 (3.17%) IntelliJ
6 9 (3.17%) Selenium
7 8 (2.82%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (2.11%) Mockito
9 5 (1.76%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.76%) Maven
10 4 (1.41%) Liquibase
11 3 (1.06%) Gradle
12 2 (0.70%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.70%) Oracle APEX
General
1 72 (25.35%) Social Skills
2 62 (21.83%) Finance
3 29 (10.21%) Banking
4 24 (8.45%) Public Sector
5 23 (8.10%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (5.99%) Front Office
6 17 (5.99%) Investment Banking
7 9 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.41%) Legal
9 3 (1.06%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.06%) Billing
9 3 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.70%) Electronics
10 2 (0.70%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.70%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.70%) Marketing
10 2 (0.70%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.70%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.35%) Games
Job Titles
1 79 (27.82%) Data Engineer
2 54 (19.01%) Senior
3 38 (13.38%) Software Engineer
4 36 (12.68%) Developer
5 29 (10.21%) AWS Engineer
6 28 (9.86%) Python Engineer
7 24 (8.45%) Senior Software Engineer
8 21 (7.39%) DevOps Engineer
8 21 (7.39%) Java Engineer
9 18 (6.34%) Lead
10 17 (5.99%) AWS Software Engineer
10 17 (5.99%) Java Software Engineer
10 17 (5.99%) Python Software Engineer
11 16 (5.63%) Senior Java Engineer
11 16 (5.63%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 15 (5.28%) Architect
13 14 (4.93%) Senior Data Engineer
14 13 (4.58%) Platform Engineer
15 11 (3.87%) Java Developer
16 8 (2.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (15.85%) Kafka
2 44 (15.49%) REST
3 40 (14.08%) Apache NiFi
4 32 (11.27%) PySpark
5 29 (10.21%) Pandas
6 26 (9.15%) NumPy
7 22 (7.75%) Spring
8 18 (6.34%) OAuth
9 17 (5.99%) gRPC
9 17 (5.99%) Protocol Buffers
9 17 (5.99%) SciPy
10 15 (5.28%) JSON
11 14 (4.93%) SOAP
11 14 (4.93%) XML
12 13 (4.58%) Hibernate
13 12 (4.23%) HTML
13 12 (4.23%) Middleware
13 12 (4.23%) OpenID
14 11 (3.87%) React
14 11 (3.87%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.75%) Cloud Native
2 19 (6.69%) Equities
3 17 (5.99%) Derivative
3 17 (5.99%) Fixed Income
3 17 (5.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 17 (5.99%) Hedge funds
3 17 (5.99%) Pricing Data
4 14 (4.93%) Algorithms
5 7 (2.46%) Data Structures
5 7 (2.46%) Distributed Computing
6 6 (2.11%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.11%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.76%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.76%) Replication
7 5 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.41%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 67 (23.59%) Linux
2 51 (17.96%) Windows
3 42 (14.79%) Unix
4 15 (5.28%) Windows Server
5 9 (3.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.11%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.06%) CentOS
7 3 (1.06%) Debian
8 1 (0.35%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.35%) Rocky
8 1 (0.35%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (37.68%) CI/CD
2 94 (33.10%) Agile
3 84 (29.58%) DevOps
4 82 (28.87%) Data Pipeline
5 79 (27.82%) Analytics
6 75 (26.41%) ETL
7 68 (23.94%) Data Engineering
8 65 (22.89%) Software Engineering
9 61 (21.48%) Data Modelling
10 59 (20.77%) Problem-Solving
11 52 (18.31%) Business Intelligence
12 47 (16.55%) Data Governance
13 42 (14.79%) Continuous Improvement
13 42 (14.79%) Infrastructure as Code
14 39 (13.73%) Observability
14 39 (13.73%) Visualisation
15 37 (13.03%) Machine Learning
16 34 (11.97%) Microservices
17 31 (10.92%) Data Architecture
18 28 (9.86%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 156 (54.93%) Python
2 112 (39.44%) SQL
3 79 (27.82%) Java
4 33 (11.62%) Scala
5 31 (10.92%) JavaScript
6 20 (7.04%) TypeScript
7 18 (6.34%) C#
8 17 (5.99%) Shell Script
9 15 (5.28%) PowerShell
10 11 (3.87%) Groovy
11 8 (2.82%) Bash
11 8 (2.82%) C++
12 7 (2.46%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.41%) R
14 2 (0.70%) AWK
14 2 (0.70%) Go
14 2 (0.70%) SPARQL
14 2 (0.70%) Tcl
15 1 (0.35%) Korn
15 1 (0.35%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 85 (29.93%) Security Cleared
2 59 (20.77%) SC Cleared
3 35 (12.32%) DV Cleared
4 13 (4.58%) AWS Certification
4 13 (4.58%) Degree
5 11 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.06%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.70%) RHCE
8 2 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.35%) CCNA
9 1 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.35%) MCP
9 1 (0.35%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (16.55%) Data Quality
2 19 (6.69%) GDPR
3 13 (4.58%) QA
4 5 (1.76%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.06%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.35%) IFRS
6 1 (0.35%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.35%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.35%) MiFID
6 1 (0.35%) Solvency II
System Software
1 54 (19.01%) Docker
2 14 (4.93%) Active Directory
2 14 (4.93%) HDFS
3 8 (2.82%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 4 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.06%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.35%) Ceph
6 1 (0.35%) iptables
6 1 (0.35%) KVM
6 1 (0.35%) Lustre
6 1 (0.35%) NFS
6 1 (0.35%) Samba
6 1 (0.35%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 48 (16.90%) Terraform
2 47 (16.55%) Kubernetes
3 33 (11.62%) Ansible
4 14 (4.93%) Puppet
5 11 (3.87%) CA Single Sign-On
6 10 (3.52%) CA Wily
6 10 (3.52%) Hadoop YARN
6 10 (3.52%) Progress Chef
7 8 (2.82%) Prometheus
7 8 (2.82%) Tivoli
8 7 (2.46%) Grafana
9 6 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.06%) Oozie
11 2 (0.70%) Kibana
11 2 (0.70%) logstash
11 2 (0.70%) Nagios
11 2 (0.70%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.35%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.35%) SCCM
Vendors
1 48 (16.90%) Databricks
2 43 (15.14%) Oracle
3 33 (11.62%) Splunk
4 25 (8.80%) AppDynamics
5 23 (8.10%) Microsoft
6 20 (7.04%) Cisco
7 19 (6.69%) Red Hat
8 18 (6.34%) Dynatrace
8 18 (6.34%) Google
9 13 (4.58%) IBM
10 11 (3.87%) Broadcom
10 11 (3.87%) ServiceNow
11 10 (3.52%) Cloudera
12 9 (3.17%) webMethods
13 7 (2.46%) Foundry
13 7 (2.46%) Palantir
14 6 (2.11%) Informatica
15 5 (1.76%) Palo Alto
15 5 (1.76%) Salesforce
15 5 (1.76%) SolarWinds