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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 248 294
Rank change year-on-year -101 +46 +1
Contract jobs citing Apache 291 300 335
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.66% 1.03% 0.76%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.99% 8.85% 7.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 220 270
10th Percentile £394 £405 £350
25th Percentile £456 £488 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £575
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +17.39% -4.17%
75th Percentile £600 £838 £788
90th Percentile £688 £875 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +5.00% -1.96% -12.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 10
10th Percentile £62.20 £32.42 £21.97
25th Percentile £64.00 £49.78 £23.44
Median hourly rate £72.00 £78.70 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.51% +72.97% -30.27%
75th Percentile £82.25 £80.83 £64.44
90th Percentile £88.40 £82.11 £74.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.00 £78.70 £52.50
% change year-on-year -8.51% +49.90% -19.54%

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 4,165 3,390 4,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.44% 11.68% 9.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,882 2,247 2,859
10th Percentile £305 £263 £250
25th Percentile £404 £391 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £604 £600
90th Percentile £688 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £453 £450
% change year-on-year +4.86% +0.67% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 78 168
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.58 £13.50
25th Percentile £18.27 £23.80 £15.49
Median hourly rate £35.00 £42.50 £27.51
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +54.50% +21.55%
75th Percentile £73.75 £64.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £82.00 £75.75 £67.69
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.00 £54.88 £23.88
% change year-on-year -25.28% +129.84% +8.52%

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 27 March 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 27 March 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 27 March 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 -134 231 £525 -22.22% 88
UK excluding London -53 137 £525 +5.00% 55
London -115 123 £550 -26.67% 50
Work from Home -102 67 £525 -32.26% 42
Scotland +36 36 £525 +20.00% 4
North of England -49 36 £492 +3.58% 11
North West -14 25 £525 +10.53% 9
Midlands -54 25 £550 - 4
West Midlands -47 20 £525 -12.50% 4
South West -19 19 £500 -18.37% 12
South East -67 12 £555 +38.75% 17
North East -6 7 £425 -34.62% 1
East of England -31 7 £363 +13.99% 5
East Midlands -30 5 £663 +84.67%
Yorkshire -60 4 £475 -11.63% 1
Northern Ireland -2 3 £463 -22.92%
Wales -11 1 £543 - 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
1 124 (42.61%) Apache Spark
2 69 (23.71%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (9.62%) Tomcat
4 25 (8.59%) WebSphere
5 24 (8.25%) Apache Geronimo
5 24 (8.25%) Apache ServiceMix
5 24 (8.25%) Red Hat Fuse
6 8 (2.75%) IIS
6 8 (2.75%) WebLogic
7 6 (2.06%) Confluence
8 5 (1.72%) Apache Superset
8 5 (1.72%) JBoss
8 5 (1.72%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (1.03%) Jupyter
10 3 (1.03%) nginx
10 3 (1.03%) SAS
11 2 (0.69%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.69%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Actimize
1 1 (0.34%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 145 (49.83%) AWS
2 106 (36.43%) Azure
3 75 (25.77%) GCP
4 47 (16.15%) Amazon S3
5 42 (14.43%) Power Platform
6 41 (14.09%) Serverless
7 40 (13.75%) AWS CloudFormation
8 27 (9.28%) AWS Lambda
8 27 (9.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 25 (8.59%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (7.56%) Azure Data Factory
11 21 (7.22%) Amazon SQS
11 21 (7.22%) Snowflake
12 19 (6.53%) Collibra
13 17 (5.84%) GitHub
14 15 (5.15%) dbt
15 14 (4.81%) AWS Step Functions
15 14 (4.81%) GitHub Actions
16 9 (3.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 8 (2.75%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.47%) Firewall
2 8 (2.75%) HTTP
3 6 (2.06%) DNS
4 5 (1.72%) Network Security
5 4 (1.37%) DHCP
6 3 (1.03%) SAN
6 3 (1.03%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.69%) FTP
7 2 (0.69%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.69%) SSH
7 2 (0.69%) VLAN
8 1 (0.34%) 4G
8 1 (0.34%) 5G
8 1 (0.34%) InfiniBand
8 1 (0.34%) Intranet
8 1 (0.34%) LAN
8 1 (0.34%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.34%) Spanning Tree
8 1 (0.34%) WAN
8 1 (0.34%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (18.21%) Data Lake
2 38 (13.06%) Big Data
3 37 (12.71%) Data Warehouse
3 37 (12.71%) Power BI
4 36 (12.37%) Amazon Athena
5 34 (11.68%) BigQuery
6 31 (10.65%) Delta Lake
7 25 (8.59%) Hadoop
8 19 (6.53%) PostgreSQL
9 18 (6.19%) Mixpanel
9 18 (6.19%) SQL Server
10 17 (5.84%) OLAP
10 17 (5.84%) OLTP
11 16 (5.50%) Amazon Redshift
11 16 (5.50%) Metadata
12 15 (5.15%) Flink
12 15 (5.15%) MySQL
12 15 (5.15%) NoSQL
13 12 (4.12%) Relational Database
14 10 (3.44%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 50 (17.18%) Git
2 27 (9.28%) GitLab
3 20 (6.87%) JIRA
4 13 (4.47%) MLflow
5 11 (3.78%) Artifactory
6 9 (3.09%) Jenkins
7 7 (2.41%) JUnit
8 6 (2.06%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.72%) Maven
9 5 (1.72%) Selenium
10 4 (1.37%) Eclipse
10 4 (1.37%) IntelliJ
10 4 (1.37%) Mockito
11 3 (1.03%) Gradle
11 3 (1.03%) Liquibase
12 2 (0.69%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.69%) ERwin
13 1 (0.34%) git-flow
13 1 (0.34%) PowerDesigner
13 1 (0.34%) Storybook
General
1 54 (18.56%) Social Skills
2 52 (17.87%) Finance
3 29 (9.97%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (7.22%) Public Sector
5 16 (5.50%) Banking
6 6 (2.06%) Investment Banking
7 5 (1.72%) Billing
7 5 (1.72%) Front Office
8 4 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.37%) Marketing
8 4 (1.37%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.03%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.69%) Electronics
10 2 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.69%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.34%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.34%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.34%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 95 (32.65%) Data Engineer
2 43 (14.78%) Senior
3 36 (12.37%) Developer
4 29 (9.97%) Lead
5 24 (8.25%) Software Engineer
6 20 (6.87%) Senior Data Engineer
7 19 (6.53%) Architect
8 18 (6.19%) AWS Engineer
8 18 (6.19%) Lead Data Engineer
8 18 (6.19%) Principal Engineer
9 17 (5.84%) Principal Data Engineer
10 14 (4.81%) DevOps Engineer
10 14 (4.81%) Java Developer
11 10 (3.44%) Data Architect
11 10 (3.44%) Python Engineer
12 8 (2.75%) AWS Data Engineer
12 8 (2.75%) Java Engineer
12 8 (2.75%) Platform Engineer
12 8 (2.75%) Principal Software Engineer
13 7 (2.41%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (21.99%) Kafka
2 36 (12.37%) PySpark
3 33 (11.34%) REST
4 31 (10.65%) Apache NiFi
5 27 (9.28%) Middleware
6 24 (8.25%) Apache Axis
6 24 (8.25%) Apache Camel
7 19 (6.53%) Great Expectations
7 19 (6.53%) Spring
8 16 (5.50%) JSON
9 14 (4.81%) Pandas
10 12 (4.12%) NumPy
11 10 (3.44%) Apache Beam
11 10 (3.44%) AWS CDK
12 8 (2.75%) React
12 8 (2.75%) SOAP
12 8 (2.75%) Spring Boot
13 7 (2.41%) Hibernate
13 7 (2.41%) Node.js
13 7 (2.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (12.71%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.12%) Management Information System
3 11 (3.78%) Algorithms
4 10 (3.44%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.09%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (2.75%) Data Structures
6 8 (2.75%) Distributed Computing
6 8 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (2.41%) Clustering
7 7 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.72%) Freedom of Information
9 5 (1.72%) Replication
10 4 (1.37%) Equities
10 4 (1.37%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.03%) Distributed Applications
11 3 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.69%) Hedge funds
12 2 (0.69%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.69%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 42 (14.43%) Linux
2 27 (9.28%) Windows
3 21 (7.22%) Unix
4 9 (3.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (3.09%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.41%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.72%) Debian
7 4 (1.37%) Rocky
8 3 (1.03%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.69%) Solaris
9 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.34%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.34%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (41.58%) CI/CD
2 95 (32.65%) Analytics
3 91 (31.27%) Data Pipeline
4 90 (30.93%) Data Engineering
4 90 (30.93%) DevOps
4 90 (30.93%) ETL
5 85 (29.21%) Data Modelling
6 70 (24.05%) Agile
7 64 (21.99%) Data Governance
7 64 (21.99%) Problem-Solving
8 59 (20.27%) Machine Learning
9 57 (19.59%) AI
10 55 (18.90%) Infrastructure as Code
11 46 (15.81%) Business Intelligence
11 46 (15.81%) Data Architecture
12 45 (15.46%) Software Engineering
13 43 (14.78%) Observability
14 34 (11.68%) Data Science
15 33 (11.34%) Workflow
16 31 (10.65%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 165 (56.70%) SQL
2 160 (54.98%) Python
3 87 (29.90%) Java
4 29 (9.97%) Scala
5 23 (7.90%) C#
6 16 (5.50%) PowerShell
7 13 (4.47%) JavaScript
8 11 (3.78%) TypeScript
9 9 (3.09%) R
9 9 (3.09%) Shell Script
10 7 (2.41%) Bash
11 6 (2.06%) Perl
12 5 (1.72%) PHP
12 5 (1.72%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.03%) C++
13 3 (1.03%) Go
14 2 (0.69%) AWK
14 2 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.34%) Korn
15 1 (0.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 85 (29.21%) Security Cleared
2 66 (22.68%) SC Cleared
3 25 (8.59%) DV Cleared
4 19 (6.53%) Degree
5 12 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.09%) Master's Degree
7 8 (2.75%) AWS Certification
8 7 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.03%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.69%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.34%) CCNA
11 1 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.34%) RHCE
11 1 (0.34%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (23.37%) Data Quality
2 27 (9.28%) GDPR
3 14 (4.81%) QA
4 4 (1.37%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.34%) IFRS
6 1 (0.34%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.34%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.34%) MiFID
6 1 (0.34%) Solvency II
System Software
1 47 (16.15%) Docker
2 6 (2.06%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.37%) HDFS
3 4 (1.37%) NFS
4 3 (1.03%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.03%) Samba
5 2 (0.69%) iptables
5 2 (0.69%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.69%) Postfix
5 2 (0.69%) Varnish
5 2 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.34%) Ceph
6 1 (0.34%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.34%) KVM
6 1 (0.34%) Lustre
6 1 (0.34%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.34%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 65 (22.34%) Terraform
2 53 (18.21%) Kubernetes
3 27 (9.28%) Ansible
4 7 (2.41%) Grafana
5 4 (1.37%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.37%) Puppet
6 3 (1.03%) HAProxy
7 2 (0.69%) Apache Ranger
7 2 (0.69%) Kibana
7 2 (0.69%) logstash
7 2 (0.69%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.69%) SELinux
8 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.34%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.34%) SCCM
8 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.34%) systemd
8 1 (0.34%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 61 (20.96%) Databricks
2 43 (14.78%) Oracle
3 41 (14.09%) Google
4 24 (8.25%) TIBCO
5 20 (6.87%) Microsoft
6 17 (5.84%) Red Hat
7 13 (4.47%) Cloudera
8 12 (4.12%) Informatica
9 8 (2.75%) Confluent
9 8 (2.75%) ServiceNow
10 7 (2.41%) Cisco
10 7 (2.41%) Talend
11 5 (1.72%) Foundry
11 5 (1.72%) Palantir
11 5 (1.72%) Palo Alto
11 5 (1.72%) SolarWinds
11 5 (1.72%) Splunk
12 4 (1.37%) Guidewire
12 4 (1.37%) VMware
12 4 (1.37%) webMethods