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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 263 234
Rank change year-on-year -102 -29 +35
Contract jobs citing Apache 299 286 449
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.61% 0.99% 1.05%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.05% 8.89% 10.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 216 392
10th Percentile £368 £409 £405
25th Percentile £425 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £640 £688
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% -6.87% +14.58%
75th Percentile £588 £825 £850
90th Percentile £663 £875 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £525 £505
% change year-on-year -5.24% +3.96% -8.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 8
10th Percentile £63.80 £38.21 £32.24
25th Percentile £64.63 £64.24 £47.63
Median hourly rate £72.00 £79.35 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.26% +20.23% -15.38%
75th Percentile £81.25 £80.74 £74.58
90th Percentile £84.20 £82.07 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.00 £79.35 £66.00
% change year-on-year -9.26% +20.23% -15.38%

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 4,241 3,216 4,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.67% 11.16% 9.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,849 2,127 2,968
10th Percentile £313 £281 £259
25th Percentile £403 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £615
90th Percentile £675 £709 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +2.78% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 62 159
10th Percentile £16.01 £17.33 £13.20
25th Percentile £19.20 £26.45 £15.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £52.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.10% +75.00% -41.46%
75th Percentile £63.19 £69.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £54.24 £28.76
% change year-on-year -35.47% +88.62% -28.11%

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 4 June 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 4 June 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 4 June 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 -128 237 £525 -19.23% 127
UK excluding London -51 136 £498 -5.24% 86
London -108 132 £563 -22.41% 54
Work from Home -78 76 £512 -31.71% 57
North of England -46 45 £425 -10.53% 26
Scotland +25 36 £525 +13.51% 3
North East -4 25 £406 -37.50% 8
Midlands -51 22 £525 -8.70% 8
West Midlands -49 19 £538 -10.42% 5
North West -21 17 £525 +10.53% 15
South West -28 16 £450 -20.00% 19
South East -77 7 £513 -2.84% 18
East of England -35 5 £363 +3.00% 6
Wales -15 3 £509 - 6
Yorkshire -65 3 £463 -22.92% 3
Northern Ireland +5 2 £446 +8.84% 1
East Midlands -26 2 £548 +33.54% 3

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
1 145 (48.49%) Apache Spark
2 94 (31.44%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (10.37%) Tomcat
4 26 (8.70%) WebSphere
5 22 (7.36%) Apache Geronimo
5 22 (7.36%) Apache ServiceMix
5 22 (7.36%) Red Hat Fuse
6 20 (6.69%) Jupyter
7 10 (3.34%) IIS
8 8 (2.68%) nginx
9 5 (1.67%) Apache Superset
9 5 (1.67%) SharePoint
10 4 (1.34%) CloudStack
10 4 (1.34%) WebLogic
11 3 (1.00%) Confluence
11 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.67%) Apache Synapse
12 2 (0.67%) JBoss
12 2 (0.67%) Palantir Foundry
12 2 (0.67%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Magento
1 1 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.33%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 146 (48.83%) AWS
2 107 (35.79%) Azure
3 68 (22.74%) GCP
4 45 (15.05%) Amazon S3
5 38 (12.71%) Power Platform
6 29 (9.70%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (9.03%) Serverless
8 24 (8.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 23 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
10 22 (7.36%) Azure Data Factory
11 21 (7.02%) AWS CloudFormation
12 19 (6.35%) Snowflake
13 18 (6.02%) Amazon SQS
13 18 (6.02%) GitHub
14 15 (5.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 15 (5.02%) dbt
15 14 (4.68%) Amazon EMR
16 13 (4.35%) Collibra
16 13 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
17 8 (2.68%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.68%) DNS
2 11 (3.68%) Firewall
3 6 (2.01%) HTTP
3 6 (2.01%) SAN
4 4 (1.34%) NAS
5 3 (1.00%) VLAN
6 2 (0.67%) BIG-IP
6 2 (0.67%) FTP
6 2 (0.67%) Network Security
6 2 (0.67%) Structured Cabling
6 2 (0.67%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.33%) 4G
7 1 (0.33%) 5G
7 1 (0.33%) DHCP
7 1 (0.33%) Intranet
7 1 (0.33%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.33%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.33%) SSL
7 1 (0.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (13.71%) Big Data
2 40 (13.38%) Data Lake
2 40 (13.38%) Data Warehouse
3 32 (10.70%) Power BI
4 31 (10.37%) Amazon Athena
5 29 (9.70%) SQL Server
6 28 (9.36%) Delta Lake
7 27 (9.03%) BigQuery
8 25 (8.36%) Hadoop
9 21 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (6.69%) Flink
11 17 (5.69%) NoSQL
12 16 (5.35%) Metadata
12 16 (5.35%) MySQL
13 13 (4.35%) Mixpanel
13 13 (4.35%) Relational Database
14 12 (4.01%) OLAP
14 12 (4.01%) OLTP
15 11 (3.68%) Amazon Redshift
15 11 (3.68%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 57 (19.06%) Git
2 37 (12.37%) GitLab
3 20 (6.69%) JIRA
4 13 (4.35%) Jenkins
5 9 (3.01%) MLflow
6 8 (2.68%) Artifactory
7 6 (2.01%) Maven
7 6 (2.01%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.34%) Gradle
9 3 (1.00%) Selenium
10 2 (0.67%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.33%) Ant
11 1 (0.33%) Capybara
11 1 (0.33%) git-flow
11 1 (0.33%) minitest
11 1 (0.33%) Mockito
11 1 (0.33%) PHPUnit
11 1 (0.33%) RSpec
11 1 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.33%) Storybook
General
1 54 (18.06%) Finance
2 44 (14.72%) Social Skills
3 34 (11.37%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (11.04%) Public Sector
5 14 (4.68%) Banking
6 7 (2.34%) Billing
7 4 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.34%) Front Office
7 4 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.34%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.00%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.00%) Marketing
8 3 (1.00%) Publishing
9 2 (0.67%) Law
9 2 (0.67%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.33%) Dutch Language
10 1 (0.33%) French Language
10 1 (0.33%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.33%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.33%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 109 (36.45%) Data Engineer
2 46 (15.38%) Senior
3 41 (13.71%) Developer
4 29 (9.70%) Architect
5 26 (8.70%) Lead
6 24 (8.03%) Senior Data Engineer
7 20 (6.69%) DevOps Engineer
8 18 (6.02%) Java Developer
9 17 (5.69%) Lead Data Engineer
10 16 (5.35%) Software Engineer
11 14 (4.68%) Principal Engineer
12 13 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
12 13 (4.35%) Principal Data Engineer
13 12 (4.01%) Data Architect
14 9 (3.01%) Analyst
14 9 (3.01%) Python Engineer
15 8 (2.68%) AWS Data Engineer
15 8 (2.68%) Platform Engineer
15 8 (2.68%) Senior Developer
16 7 (2.34%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (22.41%) Kafka
2 46 (15.38%) PySpark
3 27 (9.03%) REST
4 25 (8.36%) Middleware
5 23 (7.69%) Spring
6 22 (7.36%) Apache Axis
6 22 (7.36%) Apache Camel
7 16 (5.35%) Spring Boot
8 15 (5.02%) Great Expectations
9 14 (4.68%) Apache Beam
9 14 (4.68%) JSON
10 12 (4.01%) Apache NiFi
11 10 (3.34%) SOAP
12 9 (3.01%) AWS CDK
12 9 (3.01%) Pandas
13 8 (2.68%) OAuth
14 7 (2.34%) LAMP
14 7 (2.34%) NumPy
15 6 (2.01%) Elastic Stack
15 6 (2.01%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 45 (15.05%) Cloud Native
2 15 (5.02%) Management Information System
3 14 (4.68%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.01%) Data Structures
5 11 (3.68%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (3.34%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (3.01%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.68%) Clustering
8 8 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (2.01%) Algorithms
9 6 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (2.01%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.67%) Freedom of Information
10 5 (1.67%) Replication
11 4 (1.34%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.34%) Data Fabric
11 4 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.34%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (1.34%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.34%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 50 (16.72%) Linux
2 23 (7.69%) Windows
3 18 (6.02%) Unix
4 16 (5.35%) Ubuntu
5 11 (3.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (3.34%) Windows Server
7 5 (1.67%) CentOS
7 5 (1.67%) Debian
7 5 (1.67%) Rocky
8 4 (1.34%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.67%) Solaris
10 2 (0.67%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (45.48%) CI/CD
2 100 (33.44%) Data Engineering
3 98 (32.78%) Data Pipeline
4 97 (32.44%) DevOps
5 95 (31.77%) Analytics
6 89 (29.77%) Data Modelling
7 88 (29.43%) ETL
8 66 (22.07%) AI
9 65 (21.74%) Agile
10 61 (20.40%) Containerisation
10 61 (20.40%) Infrastructure as Code
11 58 (19.40%) Data Governance
12 53 (17.73%) Machine Learning
13 50 (16.72%) Problem-Solving
14 41 (13.71%) Observability
15 40 (13.38%) Business Intelligence
15 40 (13.38%) Workflow
16 37 (12.37%) Data Architecture
17 34 (11.37%) Software Engineering
18 33 (11.04%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 187 (62.54%) Python
2 179 (59.87%) SQL
3 85 (28.43%) Java
4 22 (7.36%) Scala
5 15 (5.02%) Bash
5 15 (5.02%) PowerShell
6 14 (4.68%) C#
7 13 (4.35%) Shell Script
8 11 (3.68%) R
9 9 (3.01%) JavaScript
9 9 (3.01%) TypeScript
10 8 (2.68%) Go
11 7 (2.34%) Perl
12 6 (2.01%) PHP
13 5 (1.67%) PL/SQL
13 5 (1.67%) Ruby
14 3 (1.00%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.33%) Groovy
16 1 (0.33%) Korn
Qualifications
1 93 (31.10%) Security Cleared
2 82 (27.42%) SC Cleared
3 24 (8.03%) Degree
4 18 (6.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (3.01%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.68%) Master's Degree
7 7 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (2.01%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.67%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.00%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.67%) CCNP
11 2 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.67%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.33%) RHCE
12 1 (0.33%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (21.74%) Data Quality
2 22 (7.36%) GDPR
3 10 (3.34%) QA
4 6 (2.01%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.00%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.67%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.67%) WCAG
8 1 (0.33%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 67 (22.41%) Docker
2 9 (3.01%) Postfix
3 8 (2.68%) NFS
4 7 (2.34%) Active Directory
4 7 (2.34%) Varnish
5 5 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.34%) Sendmail
7 3 (1.00%) Dovecot
7 3 (1.00%) HDFS
7 3 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.67%) Ceph
8 2 (0.67%) KVM
8 2 (0.67%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.67%) Samba
8 2 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.67%) vSphere
9 1 (0.33%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.33%) iptables
Systems Management
1 73 (24.41%) Terraform
2 62 (20.74%) Kubernetes
3 28 (9.36%) Ansible
4 10 (3.34%) Grafana
5 9 (3.01%) HAProxy
6 5 (1.67%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.34%) SELinux
8 3 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (1.00%) Kibana
9 2 (0.67%) Apache Ranger
9 2 (0.67%) Check_MK
9 2 (0.67%) logstash
9 2 (0.67%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.67%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.67%) Puppet
9 2 (0.67%) systemd
10 1 (0.33%) Podman
10 1 (0.33%) Rundeck
10 1 (0.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 55 (18.39%) Databricks
2 44 (14.72%) Oracle
3 34 (11.37%) Google
4 29 (9.70%) Microsoft
5 22 (7.36%) TIBCO
6 15 (5.02%) Red Hat
7 10 (3.34%) Trend Micro
8 9 (3.01%) Cisco
8 9 (3.01%) Cloudera
9 8 (2.68%) Guidewire
9 8 (2.68%) Informatica
9 8 (2.68%) ServiceNow
10 6 (2.01%) Talend
10 6 (2.01%) VMware
11 5 (1.67%) Confluent
11 5 (1.67%) IBM
12 4 (1.34%) Hortonworks
13 3 (1.00%) Dynatrace
13 3 (1.00%) Palo Alto
13 3 (1.00%) SolarWinds