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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 285 312
Rank change year-on-year -61 +27 -32
Contract jobs citing Apache 277 266 311
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.68% 0.87% 0.70%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.98% 7.53% 7.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 199 244
10th Percentile £389 £402 £350
25th Percentile £445 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £529
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +22.87% -11.83%
75th Percentile £600 £838 £738
90th Percentile £725 £875 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £510
% change year-on-year +3.11% -6.86% -11.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 6
10th Percentile £63.15 - £21.87
25th Percentile £64.00 - £22.00
Median hourly rate £75.00 £74.44 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year +0.75% +183.58% -24.97%
75th Percentile £82.00 - £48.63
90th Percentile £84.20 - £53.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £74.44 £41.50
% change year-on-year +0.75% +79.37% +18.62%

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 3,967 3,533 4,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.73% 11.49% 9.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,739 2,190 2,865
10th Percentile £304 £256 £250
25th Percentile £400 £380 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% -6.22%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £600
90th Percentile £688 £713 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -5.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 69 166
10th Percentile £15.00 £17.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £22.50 £15.54
Median hourly rate £26.31 £41.91 £27.14
Median % change year-on-year -37.22% +54.42% +22.92%
75th Percentile £69.44 £64.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £81.70 £66.00 £68.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.21 £48.82 £24.00
% change year-on-year -44.26% +103.40% +26.32%

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 22 February 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 22 February 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 22 February 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 -85 223 £525 -22.22% 82
UK excluding London -13 137 £490 +3.11% 78
London -86 114 £575 -16.36% 28
Work from Home -81 61 £512 -32.88% 34
North of England -36 36 £462 -2.74% 17
Scotland +30 32 £525 +1.20% 15
Midlands -25 32 £525 +12.30% 7
West Midlands -37 27 £500 -14.89% 6
North West -8 24 £471 -0.84% 10
South West -18 17 £625 +5.26% 13
South East -44 11 £560 +40.00% 23
North East -14 7 £425 -34.62% 4
East of England -26 7 £363 +13.99% 4
East Midlands -25 5 £663 +84.67% 1
Yorkshire -59 5 £475 - 3
Northern Ireland -2 3 £463 -22.92%
Wales - 1 £543 - 1

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
1 108 (38.99%) Apache Spark
2 70 (25.27%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (7.94%) WebSphere
4 21 (7.58%) Tomcat
5 18 (6.50%) WebLogic
6 16 (5.78%) Apache Geronimo
6 16 (5.78%) Apache ServiceMix
6 16 (5.78%) JBoss
6 16 (5.78%) Red Hat Fuse
7 13 (4.69%) IIS
8 7 (2.53%) Confluence
9 6 (2.17%) iPlanet
9 6 (2.17%) Palantir Foundry
9 6 (2.17%) WebSphere Application Server
10 4 (1.44%) nginx
10 4 (1.44%) SAS
11 3 (1.08%) Apache Superset
11 3 (1.08%) Jupyter
11 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.72%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 3 (1.08%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Actimize
1 1 (0.36%) Maximo
1 1 (0.36%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 148 (53.43%) AWS
2 93 (33.57%) Azure
3 69 (24.91%) GCP
4 44 (15.88%) Amazon S3
5 42 (15.16%) Serverless
6 38 (13.72%) AWS CloudFormation
6 38 (13.72%) Power Platform
7 26 (9.39%) Snowflake
8 24 (8.66%) AWS Lambda
8 24 (8.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 18 (6.50%) Amazon SQS
9 18 (6.50%) Azure Data Factory
10 17 (6.14%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (6.14%) dbt
11 16 (5.78%) Collibra
12 12 (4.33%) AWS Step Functions
13 11 (3.97%) GitHub
14 9 (3.25%) Cloud Computing
14 9 (3.25%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (2.89%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.69%) Firewall
2 11 (3.97%) HTTP
3 7 (2.53%) Kerberos
4 5 (1.81%) DNS
5 4 (1.44%) DHCP
5 4 (1.44%) Network Security
6 3 (1.08%) SSL
6 3 (1.08%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.72%) SAN
8 1 (0.36%) 4G
8 1 (0.36%) 5G
8 1 (0.36%) InfiniBand
8 1 (0.36%) Intranet
8 1 (0.36%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.36%) LAN
8 1 (0.36%) Spanning Tree
8 1 (0.36%) SSH
8 1 (0.36%) VPN
8 1 (0.36%) WAN
8 1 (0.36%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (16.97%) Data Lake
2 40 (14.44%) Data Warehouse
3 38 (13.72%) Big Data
4 33 (11.91%) Amazon Athena
4 33 (11.91%) Power BI
5 29 (10.47%) BigQuery
6 28 (10.11%) Hadoop
7 22 (7.94%) Delta Lake
8 17 (6.14%) Metadata
8 17 (6.14%) PostgreSQL
9 16 (5.78%) MongoDB
9 16 (5.78%) NoSQL
9 16 (5.78%) SQL Server
10 15 (5.42%) Amazon Redshift
10 15 (5.42%) Mixpanel
11 14 (5.05%) OLAP
11 14 (5.05%) OLTP
12 13 (4.69%) MySQL
13 11 (3.97%) Relational Database
14 10 (3.61%) Flink
Development Applications
1 53 (19.13%) Git
2 24 (8.66%) GitLab
3 14 (5.05%) Jenkins
3 14 (5.05%) JIRA
4 12 (4.33%) JUnit
4 12 (4.33%) MLflow
5 10 (3.61%) Artifactory
5 10 (3.61%) Selenium
6 9 (3.25%) Eclipse
6 9 (3.25%) IntelliJ
7 6 (2.17%) Bitbucket
7 6 (2.17%) Bitbucket Server
7 6 (2.17%) CA Release Automation
8 5 (1.81%) Maven
8 5 (1.81%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.44%) Mockito
10 3 (1.08%) Gradle
10 3 (1.08%) Liquibase
11 2 (0.72%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.72%) ERwin
General
1 61 (22.02%) Social Skills
2 49 (17.69%) Finance
3 29 (10.47%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (7.22%) Public Sector
5 19 (6.86%) Banking
6 9 (3.25%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (2.89%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.53%) Front Office
9 5 (1.81%) Billing
10 4 (1.44%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.08%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.08%) Marketing
12 2 (0.72%) Electronics
12 2 (0.72%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.72%) Legal
12 2 (0.72%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.72%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.36%) Games
Job Titles
1 84 (30.32%) Data Engineer
2 48 (17.33%) Senior
3 33 (11.91%) Developer
4 28 (10.11%) Software Engineer
5 26 (9.39%) Lead
6 20 (7.22%) AWS Engineer
7 17 (6.14%) Architect
7 17 (6.14%) DevOps Engineer
7 17 (6.14%) Senior Data Engineer
8 15 (5.42%) Python Engineer
9 14 (5.05%) Lead Data Engineer
9 14 (5.05%) Principal Engineer
10 13 (4.69%) Principal Data Engineer
11 11 (3.97%) Senior Software Engineer
12 10 (3.61%) Data Architect
12 10 (3.61%) Java Developer
13 9 (3.25%) AWS Data Engineer
13 9 (3.25%) Java Engineer
14 8 (2.89%) Data Analytics Engineer
14 8 (2.89%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (21.30%) Kafka
2 39 (14.08%) REST
3 36 (13.00%) Apache NiFi
4 29 (10.47%) PySpark
5 22 (7.94%) Middleware
6 20 (7.22%) Spring
7 19 (6.86%) Pandas
8 16 (5.78%) Apache Axis
8 16 (5.78%) Apache Camel
8 16 (5.78%) NumPy
9 15 (5.42%) Great Expectations
10 13 (4.69%) JSON
10 13 (4.69%) SOAP
11 12 (4.33%) Hibernate
11 12 (4.33%) XML
12 11 (3.97%) EJB
12 11 (3.97%) OAuth
12 11 (3.97%) React
13 10 (3.61%) HTML
13 10 (3.61%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.11%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.33%) Algorithms
3 11 (3.97%) Management Information System
4 10 (3.61%) Data Structures
4 10 (3.61%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.89%) Distributed Computing
5 8 (2.89%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (2.53%) Equities
7 6 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.81%) Clustering
8 5 (1.81%) Derivative
8 5 (1.81%) Fixed Income
8 5 (1.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (1.81%) Freedom of Information
8 5 (1.81%) Hedge funds
8 5 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.81%) Pricing Data
8 5 (1.81%) Replication
8 5 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 48 (17.33%) Linux
2 36 (13.00%) Windows
3 30 (10.83%) Unix
4 13 (4.69%) Windows Server
5 9 (3.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (2.53%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.44%) Debian
8 3 (1.08%) CentOS
8 3 (1.08%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.72%) Rocky
9 2 (0.72%) Solaris
9 2 (0.72%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.36%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (42.24%) CI/CD
2 89 (32.13%) DevOps
3 87 (31.41%) Analytics
4 83 (29.96%) Data Engineering
5 82 (29.60%) Data Pipeline
5 82 (29.60%) ETL
6 74 (26.71%) Agile
7 70 (25.27%) Data Modelling
8 68 (24.55%) Problem-Solving
9 58 (20.94%) Data Governance
10 56 (20.22%) Machine Learning
11 54 (19.49%) AI
12 53 (19.13%) Infrastructure as Code
13 52 (18.77%) Software Engineering
14 43 (15.52%) Business Intelligence
15 40 (14.44%) Observability
16 38 (13.72%) Data Architecture
17 34 (12.27%) Microservices
18 33 (11.91%) Data Science
19 31 (11.19%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 148 (53.43%) Python
2 138 (49.82%) SQL
3 81 (29.24%) Java
4 33 (11.91%) Scala
5 23 (8.30%) C#
6 18 (6.50%) JavaScript
7 14 (5.05%) PowerShell
8 11 (3.97%) Shell Script
9 8 (2.89%) TypeScript
10 6 (2.17%) Bash
10 6 (2.17%) Groovy
11 5 (1.81%) C++
11 5 (1.81%) PL/SQL
11 5 (1.81%) R
12 4 (1.44%) Perl
13 3 (1.08%) Go
13 3 (1.08%) PHP
14 2 (0.72%) AWK
14 2 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.72%) Korn
Qualifications
1 76 (27.44%) Security Cleared
2 56 (20.22%) SC Cleared
3 30 (10.83%) DV Cleared
4 18 (6.50%) Degree
5 11 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (3.61%) AWS Certification
7 9 (3.25%) Master's Degree
8 7 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.08%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.72%) RHCE
10 2 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.36%) CCNA
11 1 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.36%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.36%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (23.10%) Data Quality
2 25 (9.03%) GDPR
3 13 (4.69%) QA
4 6 (2.17%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.72%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.72%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.36%) IFRS
6 1 (0.36%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.36%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.36%) MiFID
6 1 (0.36%) Solvency II
System Software
1 46 (16.61%) Docker
2 11 (3.97%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.53%) HDFS
4 5 (1.81%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 3 (1.08%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.72%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.36%) Ceph
7 1 (0.36%) iptables
7 1 (0.36%) KVM
7 1 (0.36%) Lustre
7 1 (0.36%) NFS
7 1 (0.36%) Samba
7 1 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 59 (21.30%) Terraform
2 43 (15.52%) Kubernetes
3 29 (10.47%) Ansible
4 10 (3.61%) Puppet
5 6 (2.17%) CA Single Sign-On
5 6 (2.17%) CA Wily
5 6 (2.17%) Grafana
5 6 (2.17%) Progress Chef
5 6 (2.17%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (1.81%) Tivoli
7 2 (0.72%) Hadoop YARN
7 2 (0.72%) Kibana
7 2 (0.72%) logstash
7 2 (0.72%) Nagios
7 2 (0.72%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.72%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.36%) Argo
8 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.36%) SELinux
Vendors
1 51 (18.41%) Databricks
2 49 (17.69%) Oracle
3 35 (12.64%) Google
4 22 (7.94%) Microsoft
5 17 (6.14%) Red Hat
6 16 (5.78%) TIBCO
7 15 (5.42%) Splunk
8 11 (3.97%) Informatica
9 10 (3.61%) AppDynamics
9 10 (3.61%) Cisco
9 10 (3.61%) IBM
10 9 (3.25%) ServiceNow
10 9 (3.25%) webMethods
11 8 (2.89%) Cloudera
12 7 (2.53%) Dynatrace
12 7 (2.53%) Talend
13 6 (2.17%) Broadcom
13 6 (2.17%) Foundry
13 6 (2.17%) Palantir
14 5 (1.81%) VMware