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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 372 285 187
Rank change year-on-year -87 -98 +117
Contract jobs citing Apache 335 298 501
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.61% 0.90% 1.31%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.07% 8.39% 12.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 219 419
10th Percentile £350 £372 £418
25th Percentile £407 £462 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £550 £750
Median % change year-on-year -7.45% -26.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £600 £709 £850
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 9 1 8
10th Percentile £64.85 - £43.40
25th Percentile - - £60.31
Median hourly rate £67.47 £80.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.66% +8.11% -5.13%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £74.44
90th Percentile £83.94 - £74.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £80.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year -15.66% +8.11% -5.13%

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 4,741 3,550 4,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.64% 10.77% 10.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,085 2,292 2,696
10th Percentile £285 £275 £263
25th Percentile £404 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £483 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.63% -8.10% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £598 £650
90th Percentile £684 £700 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £460
% change year-on-year +2.78% -2.17% -3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 88 83
10th Percentile £14.75 £16.81 £17.26
25th Percentile £16.60 £21.81 £23.80
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% -6.67% -21.38%
75th Percentile £56.43 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.89 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £48.56
% change year-on-year -14.29% -27.92% +6.73%

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 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 24 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 24 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 -100 286 £513 -6.82% 336
London -70 171 £550 -15.38% 216
UK excluding London -81 133 £425 -15.00% 168
Work from Home -77 98 £500 -33.33% 120
North of England -48 56 £413 -8.33% 32
North East -16 29 £385 -30.00% 4
Scotland -15 25 £409 -18.20% 30
South West -29 22 £460 -7.07% 41
Yorkshire -28 15 £479 +0.84% 7
Midlands -60 13 £450 -13.46% 12
South East -61 13 £425 -29.17% 28
North West -68 12 £530 +35.90% 21
West Midlands -57 11 £450 -15.73% 8
East of England -35 3 £456 -17.05% 13
Wales -10 2 £475 - 3
East Midlands -20 1 £495 +17.86% 4

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
1 179 (53.43%) Apache Spark
2 163 (48.66%) Apache Airflow
3 37 (11.04%) Jupyter
4 22 (6.57%) nginx
5 14 (4.18%) Confluence
5 14 (4.18%) Tomcat
6 9 (2.69%) WebSphere
7 8 (2.39%) Apache Superset
7 8 (2.39%) WebLogic
8 6 (1.79%) IIS
9 5 (1.49%) CloudStack
10 4 (1.19%) JBoss
10 4 (1.19%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.90%) IBM HTTP Server
11 3 (0.90%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 3 (0.90%) WebLogic Portal
11 3 (0.90%) WebSphere Application Server
11 3 (0.90%) WebSphere Portal
12 1 (0.30%) CMS
12 1 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Magento
1 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.30%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 195 (58.21%) AWS
2 115 (34.33%) Azure
3 87 (25.97%) GCP
4 68 (20.30%) Amazon S3
5 57 (17.01%) dbt
6 43 (12.84%) Snowflake
7 39 (11.64%) Serverless
8 35 (10.45%) Amazon EMR
9 34 (10.15%) AWS Lambda
10 30 (8.96%) Azure DevOps
11 29 (8.66%) Azure Data Factory
12 25 (7.46%) Power Platform
13 23 (6.87%) GitHub
14 21 (6.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 20 (5.97%) Amazon EC2
16 13 (3.88%) Azure Databricks
17 12 (3.58%) Amazon ECS
17 12 (3.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 12 (3.58%) Cloud Composer
17 12 (3.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.78%) DNS
2 12 (3.58%) Firewall
3 6 (1.79%) HTTP
4 5 (1.49%) DHCP
4 5 (1.49%) NAS
4 5 (1.49%) SAN
4 5 (1.49%) SSL
5 3 (0.90%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.90%) Network Security
5 3 (0.90%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (0.90%) Structured Cabling
6 2 (0.60%) BIG-IP
6 2 (0.60%) Internet
6 2 (0.60%) VLAN
6 2 (0.60%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.30%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (21.49%) Data Warehouse
2 51 (15.22%) Data Lake
3 45 (13.43%) BigQuery
4 41 (12.24%) Big Data
5 40 (11.94%) Flink
6 38 (11.34%) Delta Lake
7 32 (9.55%) Metadata
8 30 (8.96%) Amazon Athena
8 30 (8.96%) PostgreSQL
9 24 (7.16%) Amazon Redshift
9 24 (7.16%) Power BI
10 22 (6.57%) SQL Server
11 20 (5.97%) Apache Iceberg
12 18 (5.37%) Relational Database
13 17 (5.07%) Elasticsearch
13 17 (5.07%) Hadoop
14 16 (4.78%) NoSQL
15 12 (3.58%) Tableau
16 11 (3.28%) DynamoDB
16 11 (3.28%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 58 (17.31%) GitLab
2 50 (14.93%) Git
3 20 (5.97%) JIRA
4 19 (5.67%) Jenkins
5 9 (2.69%) SonarQube
6 7 (2.09%) Maven
7 6 (1.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (1.49%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.19%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.19%) Gradle
9 4 (1.19%) MLflow
10 3 (0.90%) Selenium
11 2 (0.60%) Gerrit
11 2 (0.60%) JMeter
11 2 (0.60%) RStudio
11 2 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.60%) Terragrunt
12 1 (0.30%) minitest
12 1 (0.30%) Newman
12 1 (0.30%) Postman
General
1 85 (25.37%) Social Skills
2 75 (22.39%) Finance
3 49 (14.63%) Public Sector
4 43 (12.84%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (10.15%) Banking
6 8 (2.39%) Publishing
7 7 (2.09%) Financial Institution
7 7 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.09%) Marketing
8 6 (1.79%) Military
9 5 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.19%) Billing
11 3 (0.90%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.90%) Law
11 3 (0.90%) Legal
11 3 (0.90%) Retail
12 2 (0.60%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.60%) Automotive
12 2 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.30%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 135 (40.30%) Data Engineer
2 60 (17.91%) Senior
3 46 (13.73%) Architect
4 43 (12.84%) Developer
5 36 (10.75%) Senior Data Engineer
6 28 (8.36%) DevOps Engineer
7 26 (7.76%) Lead
8 23 (6.87%) Data Architect
9 22 (6.57%) Java Developer
10 20 (5.97%) Databricks Engineer
11 15 (4.48%) Databricks Data Engineer
11 15 (4.48%) Python Engineer
12 12 (3.58%) Cloud Engineer
12 12 (3.58%) Python Data Engineer
13 10 (2.99%) AWS Engineer
13 10 (2.99%) Software Engineer
13 10 (2.99%) Technical Leader
14 9 (2.69%) Lead Data Engineer
15 8 (2.39%) Senior Databricks Data Engineer
15 8 (2.39%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (30.45%) Terraform
2 85 (25.37%) PySpark
3 73 (21.79%) Kafka
4 32 (9.55%) REST
5 31 (9.25%) Spring
6 30 (8.96%) Spring Boot
7 17 (5.07%) Apache Beam
8 16 (4.78%) JSON
9 15 (4.48%) Apache NiFi
10 14 (4.18%) SOAP
11 11 (3.28%) OAuth
11 11 (3.28%) Pandas
12 10 (2.99%) Middleware
13 9 (2.69%) Spark Streaming
14 8 (2.39%) Elastic Stack
14 8 (2.39%) YAML
15 6 (1.79%) AngularJS
15 6 (1.79%) Apache Avro
15 6 (1.79%) React
15 6 (1.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 53 (15.82%) Cloud Native
2 24 (7.16%) Product Ownership
3 17 (5.07%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (4.78%) Data Structures
5 15 (4.48%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (3.88%) Onboarding
7 11 (3.28%) Management Information System
8 9 (2.69%) Data Fabric
8 9 (2.69%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (2.39%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.79%) Clustering
11 5 (1.49%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.49%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.49%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (1.49%) Replication
12 4 (1.19%) Distributed Architecture
13 3 (0.90%) Distributed Computing
13 3 (0.90%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 44 (13.13%) Linux
2 17 (5.07%) Windows
3 15 (4.48%) Ubuntu
4 9 (2.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.09%) Unix
6 6 (1.79%) Windows Server
7 5 (1.49%) Windows 10
8 4 (1.19%) CentOS
9 3 (0.90%) Rocky
10 2 (0.60%) Debian
10 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.30%) Solaris
11 1 (0.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (50.45%) CI/CD
2 144 (42.99%) Data Pipeline
3 139 (41.49%) Data Engineering
4 117 (34.93%) Analytics
5 114 (34.03%) DevOps
6 111 (33.13%) ETL
7 100 (29.85%) Agile
8 98 (29.25%) Data Modelling
9 86 (25.67%) Infrastructure as Code
10 80 (23.88%) AI
11 74 (22.09%) Containerisation
12 63 (18.81%) Data Governance
13 57 (17.01%) Machine Learning
14 56 (16.72%) Migration
15 50 (14.93%) Lakehouse
16 44 (13.13%) Stakeholder Management
17 42 (12.54%) Problem-Solving
18 41 (12.24%) Technical Leadership
19 40 (11.94%) Data Science
19 40 (11.94%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 224 (66.87%) Python
2 171 (51.04%) SQL
3 73 (21.79%) Java
4 31 (9.25%) Scala
5 24 (7.16%) Bash
6 23 (6.87%) PowerShell
7 15 (4.48%) Shell Script
8 10 (2.99%) JavaScript
9 8 (2.39%) Go
9 8 (2.39%) TypeScript
10 7 (2.09%) PL/SQL
11 5 (1.49%) Bicep
11 5 (1.49%) Groovy
11 5 (1.49%) R
12 4 (1.19%) Perl
12 4 (1.19%) Ruby
13 3 (0.90%) Cypher
13 3 (0.90%) Gremlin
13 3 (0.90%) SPARQL
14 2 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 100 (29.85%) Security Cleared
2 84 (25.07%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.67%) Degree
4 15 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (4.48%) DV Cleared
5 12 (3.58%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.09%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.49%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.19%) CISSP
9 3 (0.90%) CCNP
9 3 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.90%) CSPO
9 3 (0.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.60%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.30%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.30%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (26.27%) Data Quality
2 13 (3.88%) QA
3 12 (3.58%) GDPR
4 9 (2.69%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.19%) Government Security Classifications
6 3 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.90%) NCSC
7 2 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.60%) SLA
7 2 (0.60%) WCAG
8 1 (0.30%) NIST
8 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 104 (31.04%) Docker
2 13 (3.88%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.09%) Postfix
4 5 (1.49%) NFS
4 5 (1.49%) Varnish
4 5 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.90%) Dovecot
6 3 (0.90%) Sendmail
6 3 (0.90%) vSphere
7 2 (0.60%) Ceph
7 2 (0.60%) KVM
7 2 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 85 (25.37%) Kubernetes
2 25 (7.46%) Ansible
3 16 (4.78%) Grafana
4 11 (3.28%) Prometheus
5 9 (2.69%) HAProxy
6 5 (1.49%) Packer
6 5 (1.49%) Puppet
6 5 (1.49%) vCenter Server
7 4 (1.19%) Kibana
8 3 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.90%) Check_MK
8 3 (0.90%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.90%) SELinux
9 2 (0.60%) Control-M
9 2 (0.60%) systemd
10 1 (0.30%) Apache Ranger
10 1 (0.30%) logstash
10 1 (0.30%) Podman
10 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 86 (25.67%) Databricks
2 39 (11.64%) Microsoft
3 38 (11.34%) Google
4 18 (5.37%) Oracle
5 17 (5.07%) Trend Micro
6 10 (2.99%) Red Hat
6 10 (2.99%) VMware
7 9 (2.69%) Informatica
7 9 (2.69%) ServiceNow
8 8 (2.39%) IBM
9 7 (2.09%) Cisco
9 7 (2.09%) Splunk
10 6 (1.79%) Guidewire
11 5 (1.49%) New Relic
11 5 (1.49%) Talend
11 5 (1.49%) Tanium
12 4 (1.19%) Cloudera
12 4 (1.19%) Teradata
13 3 (0.90%) Fortinet
13 3 (0.90%) webMethods