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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 378 278 189
Rank change year-on-year -100 -89 +112
Contract jobs citing Apache 317 308 507
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.58% 0.94% 1.32%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.79% 8.57% 12.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 227 428
10th Percentile £363 £362 £417
25th Percentile £409 £463 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £750
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -26.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £625 £738 £875
90th Percentile £700 £825 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 8
10th Percentile £66.16 - £43.40
25th Percentile £67.47 - £53.56
Median hourly rate £69.99 £80.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.52% +11.11% -7.69%
75th Percentile £81.46 - £74.11
90th Percentile £86.23 - £74.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £69.99 £80.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year -12.52% +11.11% -7.69%

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 4,672 3,596 4,148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.59% 10.92% 10.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,059 2,331 2,746
10th Percentile £281 £278 £275
25th Percentile £402 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -7.62% +2.94%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £713 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £450 £470
% change year-on-year +2.22% -4.26% -1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 92 88
10th Percentile £14.96 £17.40 £17.08
25th Percentile £16.80 £24.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £32.50 £36.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.96% -3.95% -29.63%
75th Percentile £62.34 £65.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.22 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £38.03 £48.56
% change year-on-year -14.54% -21.68% +5.36%

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 13 September 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 13 September 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 13 September 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 -106 272 £513 -6.82% 266
London -87 164 £550 -17.91% 177
UK excluding London -90 123 £425 -15.00% 144
Work from Home -74 101 £500 -33.33% 229
North of England -56 51 £406 -4.41% 24
North East -13 29 £385 -30.00% 4
South West -34 22 £470 -8.74% 28
Scotland -19 21 £409 -18.20% 29
Midlands -54 13 £460 -13.86% 8
North West -70 13 £530 +48.04% 13
South East -63 12 £450 -25.00% 40
West Midlands -56 11 £478 -11.33% 3
Yorkshire -40 9 £469 -1.32% 7
East of England -26 3 £456 -17.05% 9
Wales -15 2 £475 - 1
East Midlands -18 1 £495 +17.86% 5

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
1 171 (53.94%) Apache Spark
2 156 (49.21%) Apache Airflow
3 35 (11.04%) Jupyter
4 17 (5.36%) nginx
5 13 (4.10%) Confluence
6 8 (2.52%) Apache Superset
6 8 (2.52%) Tomcat
7 6 (1.89%) IIS
8 5 (1.58%) CloudStack
9 4 (1.26%) SharePoint
9 4 (1.26%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.95%) JBoss
10 3 (0.95%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.32%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.32%) CMS
11 1 (0.32%) Luigi
11 1 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.32%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Magento
1 1 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.32%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 188 (59.31%) AWS
2 112 (35.33%) Azure
3 86 (27.13%) GCP
4 57 (17.98%) Amazon S3
5 55 (17.35%) dbt
6 40 (12.62%) Snowflake
7 35 (11.04%) Serverless
8 31 (9.78%) AWS Lambda
9 30 (9.46%) Azure DevOps
10 29 (9.15%) Azure Data Factory
10 29 (9.15%) Power Platform
11 28 (8.83%) Amazon EMR
12 20 (6.31%) GitHub
13 16 (5.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 13 (4.10%) Azure Databricks
14 13 (4.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 12 (3.79%) Amazon EC2
16 11 (3.47%) Amazon Kinesis
16 11 (3.47%) Cloud Composer
17 10 (3.15%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.05%) DNS
2 13 (4.10%) Firewall
3 5 (1.58%) DHCP
3 5 (1.58%) NAS
3 5 (1.58%) SAN
3 5 (1.58%) SSL
4 3 (0.95%) HTTP
4 3 (0.95%) HTTPS
4 3 (0.95%) Network Security
4 3 (0.95%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (0.95%) Structured Cabling
5 2 (0.63%) BIG-IP
5 2 (0.63%) VLAN
5 2 (0.63%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.32%) FTP
6 1 (0.32%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (22.08%) Data Warehouse
2 48 (15.14%) Data Lake
3 44 (13.88%) BigQuery
4 41 (12.93%) Delta Lake
5 39 (12.30%) Big Data
6 35 (11.04%) Flink
7 31 (9.78%) Amazon Athena
8 30 (9.46%) Metadata
9 28 (8.83%) Power BI
10 25 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
11 23 (7.26%) Amazon Redshift
12 21 (6.62%) SQL Server
13 20 (6.31%) Apache Iceberg
14 19 (5.99%) Hadoop
15 18 (5.68%) Relational Database
16 17 (5.36%) Elasticsearch
16 17 (5.36%) NoSQL
17 13 (4.10%) Tableau
18 11 (3.47%) DynamoDB
18 11 (3.47%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 55 (17.35%) GitLab
2 49 (15.46%) Git
3 23 (7.26%) JIRA
4 14 (4.42%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.52%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (1.89%) Maven
7 5 (1.58%) Artifactory
7 5 (1.58%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.58%) MLflow
8 4 (1.26%) Gradle
9 2 (0.63%) JMeter
9 2 (0.63%) RStudio
9 2 (0.63%) Selenium
9 2 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.63%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.32%) Ant
10 1 (0.32%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.32%) RSpec
10 1 (0.32%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 75 (23.66%) Social Skills
2 68 (21.45%) Finance
3 49 (15.46%) Public Sector
4 41 (12.93%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (7.89%) Banking
6 8 (2.52%) Publishing
7 7 (2.21%) Financial Institution
7 7 (2.21%) Marketing
8 6 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.89%) Military
9 5 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.26%) Billing
11 3 (0.95%) Law
11 3 (0.95%) Legal
12 2 (0.63%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.63%) Retail
13 1 (0.32%) Automotive
13 1 (0.32%) Front Office
13 1 (0.32%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 129 (40.69%) Data Engineer
2 58 (18.30%) Senior
3 45 (14.20%) Architect
4 38 (11.99%) Developer
5 35 (11.04%) Senior Data Engineer
6 26 (8.20%) DevOps Engineer
7 25 (7.89%) Lead
8 22 (6.94%) Data Architect
9 20 (6.31%) Databricks Engineer
10 16 (5.05%) Java Developer
11 14 (4.42%) Databricks Data Engineer
11 14 (4.42%) Python Engineer
12 11 (3.47%) Cloud Engineer
12 11 (3.47%) Python Data Engineer
12 11 (3.47%) Software Engineer
13 10 (3.15%) Lead Data Engineer
14 9 (2.84%) AWS Engineer
14 9 (2.84%) Senior Developer
14 9 (2.84%) Technical Leader
15 8 (2.52%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (30.28%) Terraform
2 80 (25.24%) PySpark
3 70 (22.08%) Kafka
4 28 (8.83%) REST
5 22 (6.94%) Spring
5 22 (6.94%) Spring Boot
6 18 (5.68%) JSON
7 17 (5.36%) Apache Beam
8 16 (5.05%) Apache NiFi
9 10 (3.15%) SOAP
10 9 (2.84%) Spark Streaming
11 8 (2.52%) Apache Avro
11 8 (2.52%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (2.52%) Pandas
11 8 (2.52%) YAML
12 7 (2.21%) OAuth
13 6 (1.89%) LAMP
13 6 (1.89%) XML
14 5 (1.58%) Middleware
14 5 (1.58%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 51 (16.09%) Cloud Native
2 24 (7.57%) Product Ownership
3 16 (5.05%) Data Structures
4 12 (3.79%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (3.79%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (3.47%) Management Information System
5 11 (3.47%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.84%) Data Fabric
6 9 (2.84%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (2.52%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.89%) Clustering
9 5 (1.58%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.58%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.58%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.58%) Replication
10 4 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.26%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (0.95%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (0.95%) Taxonomies
11 3 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 47 (14.83%) Linux
2 18 (5.68%) Windows
3 16 (5.05%) Ubuntu
4 11 (3.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (2.52%) Unix
6 6 (1.89%) Windows Server
7 5 (1.58%) Windows 10
8 4 (1.26%) CentOS
8 4 (1.26%) Rocky
9 3 (0.95%) Debian
10 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.32%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.32%) Solaris
11 1 (0.32%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (50.47%) CI/CD
2 138 (43.53%) Data Pipeline
3 131 (41.32%) Data Engineering
4 113 (35.65%) Analytics
5 109 (34.38%) DevOps
6 105 (33.12%) ETL
7 99 (31.23%) Data Modelling
8 98 (30.91%) Agile
9 83 (26.18%) Infrastructure as Code
10 75 (23.66%) AI
10 75 (23.66%) Containerisation
11 64 (20.19%) Data Governance
12 55 (17.35%) Machine Learning
13 50 (15.77%) Lakehouse
13 50 (15.77%) Migration
14 42 (13.25%) Problem-Solving
14 42 (13.25%) Workflow
15 41 (12.93%) Business Intelligence
16 39 (12.30%) Data Transformation
16 39 (12.30%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 217 (68.45%) Python
2 164 (51.74%) SQL
3 63 (19.87%) Java
4 29 (9.15%) Scala
5 24 (7.57%) Bash
6 23 (7.26%) PowerShell
7 15 (4.73%) Shell Script
8 9 (2.84%) Go
9 8 (2.52%) TypeScript
10 7 (2.21%) JavaScript
10 7 (2.21%) PL/SQL
11 6 (1.89%) R
12 5 (1.58%) Groovy
12 5 (1.58%) Perl
13 4 (1.26%) Bicep
13 4 (1.26%) Ruby
14 3 (0.95%) C#
14 3 (0.95%) Cypher
14 3 (0.95%) Gremlin
14 3 (0.95%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 100 (31.55%) Security Cleared
2 83 (26.18%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.99%) Degree
4 16 (5.05%) DV Cleared
5 15 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (3.15%) AWS Certification
7 6 (1.89%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.58%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.95%) CCNP
9 3 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.95%) CSPO
9 3 (0.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.63%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.32%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.32%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (26.81%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.10%) GDPR
3 10 (3.15%) QA
4 9 (2.84%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.26%) Government Security Classifications
6 3 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.95%) NCSC
7 2 (0.63%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.63%) SLA
7 2 (0.63%) WCAG
8 1 (0.32%) NIST
8 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 98 (30.91%) Docker
2 13 (4.10%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.21%) Postfix
4 5 (1.58%) NFS
4 5 (1.58%) Varnish
4 5 (1.58%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.95%) Dovecot
6 3 (0.95%) Sendmail
6 3 (0.95%) vSphere
7 2 (0.63%) Ceph
7 2 (0.63%) KVM
7 2 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 80 (25.24%) Kubernetes
2 26 (8.20%) Ansible
3 15 (4.73%) Grafana
4 11 (3.47%) Prometheus
5 9 (2.84%) HAProxy
6 5 (1.58%) Packer
6 5 (1.58%) Puppet
6 5 (1.58%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.95%) Apache Ranger
7 3 (0.95%) Check_MK
7 3 (0.95%) Kibana
7 3 (0.95%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.95%) SELinux
8 2 (0.63%) Control-M
8 2 (0.63%) systemd
9 1 (0.32%) logstash
9 1 (0.32%) Podman
9 1 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 85 (26.81%) Databricks
2 38 (11.99%) Microsoft
3 37 (11.67%) Google
4 17 (5.36%) Trend Micro
5 12 (3.79%) Oracle
6 11 (3.47%) Red Hat
7 10 (3.15%) VMware
8 9 (2.84%) Informatica
8 9 (2.84%) ServiceNow
9 7 (2.21%) Cisco
9 7 (2.21%) Splunk
10 6 (1.89%) Cloudera
10 6 (1.89%) Guidewire
11 5 (1.58%) New Relic
11 5 (1.58%) Talend
11 5 (1.58%) Tanium
12 4 (1.26%) Confluent
12 4 (1.26%) IBM
12 4 (1.26%) Teradata
13 3 (0.95%) SAP