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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 259 305
Rank change year-on-year -81 +46 -11
Contract jobs citing Apache 287 296 322
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.65% 1.02% 0.73%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.92% 8.68% 7.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 218 259
10th Percentile £397 £400 £350
25th Percentile £456 £464 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £563
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +20.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £600 £838 £788
90th Percentile £688 £875 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £510
% change year-on-year +10.53% -6.86% -12.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 9
10th Percentile £62.20 £32.42 £21.95
25th Percentile £64.00 £49.78 £22.00
Median hourly rate £72.00 £78.70 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.51% +49.90% -19.54%
75th Percentile £82.25 £80.83 £68.00
90th Percentile £88.40 £82.11 £75.05
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 4,145 3,409 4,204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.46% 11.70% 9.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,868 2,235 2,841
10th Percentile £305 £263 £250
25th Percentile £404 £391 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.82%
75th Percentile £588 £606 £600
90th Percentile £688 £713 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 76 167
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.13 £13.50
25th Percentile £18.44 £23.80 £15.48
Median hourly rate £31.94 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.85% +54.55% +21.52%
75th Percentile £71.75 £64.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £81.10 £76.25 £67.74
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.00 £53.94 £23.48
% change year-on-year -23.99% +129.69% +6.74%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -137 227 £525 -22.22% 81
UK excluding London -43 138 £525 +10.53% 56
London -112 119 £560 -25.33% 44
Work from Home -102 65 £513 -33.87% 42
Scotland +39 36 £525 +1.20% 4
North of England -51 36 £492 +3.58% 10
Midlands -52 26 £550 +2.33% 4
North West -17 25 £525 +10.53% 8
West Midlands -47 21 £525 -8.70% 4
South West -23 19 £500 -18.37% 10
South East -68 12 £555 +38.75% 21
North East -11 7 £425 -34.62% 1
East of England -28 7 £363 +13.99% 7
East Midlands -31 5 £663 +84.67%
Yorkshire -66 4 £475 -11.63% 1
Northern Ireland -3 3 £463 -22.92%
Wales -9 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
1 123 (42.86%) Apache Spark
2 67 (23.34%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (9.76%) Tomcat
4 25 (8.71%) WebSphere
5 24 (8.36%) Apache Geronimo
5 24 (8.36%) Apache ServiceMix
5 24 (8.36%) Red Hat Fuse
6 8 (2.79%) IIS
6 8 (2.79%) WebLogic
7 6 (2.09%) Confluence
8 5 (1.74%) Apache Superset
8 5 (1.74%) JBoss
8 5 (1.74%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (1.05%) Jupyter
10 3 (1.05%) nginx
10 3 (1.05%) SAS
11 2 (0.70%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Actimize
1 1 (0.35%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 143 (49.83%) AWS
2 104 (36.24%) Azure
3 73 (25.44%) GCP
4 45 (15.68%) Amazon S3
5 42 (14.63%) Power Platform
6 41 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
6 41 (14.29%) Serverless
7 27 (9.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 26 (9.06%) AWS Lambda
9 23 (8.01%) Azure DevOps
10 21 (7.32%) Amazon SQS
10 21 (7.32%) Azure Data Factory
10 21 (7.32%) Snowflake
11 19 (6.62%) Collibra
12 16 (5.57%) GitHub
13 14 (4.88%) AWS Step Functions
13 14 (4.88%) dbt
14 13 (4.53%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (2.79%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 7 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.53%) Firewall
2 8 (2.79%) HTTP
3 6 (2.09%) DNS
4 5 (1.74%) Network Security
5 4 (1.39%) DHCP
6 3 (1.05%) SAN
6 3 (1.05%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.70%) FTP
7 2 (0.70%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.70%) SSH
7 2 (0.70%) VLAN
8 1 (0.35%) 4G
8 1 (0.35%) 5G
8 1 (0.35%) InfiniBand
8 1 (0.35%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.35%) LAN
8 1 (0.35%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.35%) Spanning Tree
8 1 (0.35%) VPN
8 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (18.82%) Data Lake
2 38 (13.24%) Big Data
3 37 (12.89%) Data Warehouse
3 37 (12.89%) Power BI
4 35 (12.20%) Amazon Athena
5 33 (11.50%) BigQuery
6 30 (10.45%) Delta Lake
7 26 (9.06%) Hadoop
8 19 (6.62%) PostgreSQL
9 18 (6.27%) Mixpanel
9 18 (6.27%) SQL Server
10 17 (5.92%) Metadata
10 17 (5.92%) OLAP
10 17 (5.92%) OLTP
11 16 (5.57%) Amazon Redshift
12 15 (5.23%) MySQL
12 15 (5.23%) NoSQL
13 14 (4.88%) Flink
14 12 (4.18%) Relational Database
15 10 (3.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 49 (17.07%) Git
2 27 (9.41%) GitLab
3 19 (6.62%) JIRA
4 12 (4.18%) MLflow
5 11 (3.83%) Artifactory
6 9 (3.14%) Jenkins
7 7 (2.44%) JUnit
8 6 (2.09%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.74%) Maven
9 5 (1.74%) Selenium
10 4 (1.39%) Eclipse
10 4 (1.39%) IntelliJ
10 4 (1.39%) Mockito
11 3 (1.05%) Gradle
11 3 (1.05%) Liquibase
12 2 (0.70%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.70%) ERwin
13 1 (0.35%) ER Studio
13 1 (0.35%) git-flow
13 1 (0.35%) Storybook
General
1 52 (18.12%) Social Skills
2 51 (17.77%) Finance
3 28 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (7.32%) Public Sector
5 17 (5.92%) Banking
6 6 (2.09%) Investment Banking
7 5 (1.74%) Billing
7 5 (1.74%) Front Office
8 4 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.39%) Marketing
8 4 (1.39%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.05%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.05%) 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%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.35%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 92 (32.06%) Data Engineer
2 42 (14.63%) Senior
3 36 (12.54%) Developer
4 29 (10.10%) Lead
5 24 (8.36%) Software Engineer
6 19 (6.62%) Senior Data Engineer
7 18 (6.27%) AWS Engineer
7 18 (6.27%) Lead Data Engineer
8 17 (5.92%) Architect
8 17 (5.92%) Principal Engineer
9 16 (5.57%) Principal Data Engineer
10 14 (4.88%) DevOps Engineer
10 14 (4.88%) Java Developer
11 10 (3.48%) Python Engineer
12 9 (3.14%) Data Architect
13 8 (2.79%) AWS Data Engineer
13 8 (2.79%) Java Engineer
13 8 (2.79%) Platform Engineer
13 8 (2.79%) Principal Software Engineer
14 7 (2.44%) Data Analytics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (21.25%) Kafka
2 34 (11.85%) PySpark
3 33 (11.50%) REST
4 32 (11.15%) Apache NiFi
5 27 (9.41%) Middleware
6 24 (8.36%) Apache Axis
6 24 (8.36%) Apache Camel
7 19 (6.62%) Spring
8 18 (6.27%) Great Expectations
9 15 (5.23%) JSON
10 14 (4.88%) Pandas
11 12 (4.18%) NumPy
12 11 (3.83%) AWS CDK
13 9 (3.14%) Apache Beam
14 8 (2.79%) SOAP
14 8 (2.79%) Spring Boot
15 7 (2.44%) Hibernate
15 7 (2.44%) Node.js
15 7 (2.44%) React
15 7 (2.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (12.54%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.18%) Management Information System
3 11 (3.83%) Algorithms
4 10 (3.48%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.14%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (2.79%) Data Structures
6 8 (2.79%) Distributed Computing
6 8 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.09%) Clustering
9 5 (1.74%) Freedom of Information
9 5 (1.74%) Replication
10 4 (1.39%) Equities
10 4 (1.39%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.70%) Derivative
12 2 (0.70%) Fixed Income
12 2 (0.70%) Hedge funds
12 2 (0.70%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 42 (14.63%) Linux
2 27 (9.41%) Windows
3 21 (7.32%) Unix
4 9 (3.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (3.14%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.44%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.74%) Debian
7 4 (1.39%) Rocky
8 3 (1.05%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.70%) Solaris
9 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.35%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.35%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (41.46%) CI/CD
2 95 (33.10%) Analytics
3 90 (31.36%) Data Engineering
4 89 (31.01%) DevOps
5 88 (30.66%) Data Pipeline
6 87 (30.31%) ETL
7 82 (28.57%) Data Modelling
8 69 (24.04%) Agile
9 64 (22.30%) Problem-Solving
10 62 (21.60%) Data Governance
11 58 (20.21%) Machine Learning
12 56 (19.51%) AI
13 54 (18.82%) Infrastructure as Code
14 46 (16.03%) Business Intelligence
14 46 (16.03%) Data Architecture
15 44 (15.33%) Software Engineering
16 42 (14.63%) Observability
17 35 (12.20%) Data Science
18 33 (11.50%) Workflow
19 29 (10.10%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 162 (56.45%) SQL
2 157 (54.70%) Python
3 87 (30.31%) Java
4 29 (10.10%) Scala
5 23 (8.01%) C#
6 16 (5.57%) PowerShell
7 13 (4.53%) JavaScript
8 9 (3.14%) R
8 9 (3.14%) Shell Script
8 9 (3.14%) TypeScript
9 7 (2.44%) Bash
10 6 (2.09%) Perl
11 5 (1.74%) PHP
11 5 (1.74%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.05%) C++
12 3 (1.05%) Go
13 2 (0.70%) AWK
13 2 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.35%) Korn
14 1 (0.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 85 (29.62%) Security Cleared
2 65 (22.65%) SC Cleared
3 26 (9.06%) DV Cleared
4 19 (6.62%) Degree
5 12 (4.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.14%) AWS Certification
6 9 (3.14%) Master's Degree
7 7 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.05%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.70%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.35%) CCNA
10 1 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.35%) RHCE
10 1 (0.35%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (23.69%) Data Quality
2 27 (9.41%) GDPR
3 14 (4.88%) QA
4 4 (1.39%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.35%) IFRS
6 1 (0.35%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.35%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.35%) MiFID
6 1 (0.35%) Solvency II
System Software
1 43 (14.98%) Docker
2 6 (2.09%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.39%) HDFS
3 4 (1.39%) NFS
4 3 (1.05%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.05%) Samba
5 2 (0.70%) iptables
5 2 (0.70%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.70%) Postfix
5 2 (0.70%) Varnish
5 2 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.35%) Ceph
6 1 (0.35%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.35%) KVM
6 1 (0.35%) Lustre
6 1 (0.35%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.35%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 64 (22.30%) Terraform
2 50 (17.42%) Kubernetes
3 26 (9.06%) Ansible
4 7 (2.44%) Grafana
5 4 (1.39%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.39%) Puppet
6 3 (1.05%) HAProxy
7 2 (0.70%) Apache Ranger
7 2 (0.70%) Kibana
7 2 (0.70%) logstash
7 2 (0.70%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.70%) SELinux
8 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.35%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.35%) SCCM
8 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.35%) systemd
8 1 (0.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 59 (20.56%) Databricks
2 43 (14.98%) Oracle
3 40 (13.94%) Google
4 24 (8.36%) TIBCO
5 19 (6.62%) Microsoft
6 17 (5.92%) Red Hat
7 12 (4.18%) Cloudera
7 12 (4.18%) Informatica
8 8 (2.79%) ServiceNow
9 7 (2.44%) Cisco
9 7 (2.44%) Talend
10 6 (2.09%) Confluent
11 5 (1.74%) Foundry
11 5 (1.74%) Palantir
11 5 (1.74%) Palo Alto
11 5 (1.74%) SolarWinds
11 5 (1.74%) Splunk
12 4 (1.39%) Dynatrace
12 4 (1.39%) Guidewire
12 4 (1.39%) VMware