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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 304 247 306
Rank change year-on-year -57 +59 -25
Contract jobs citing Apache 298 357 341
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.82% 1.00% 0.75%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.82% 8.99% 7.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 265 265
10th Percentile £375 £381 £353
25th Percentile £447 £513 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £700 £575
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% +21.74% -10.16%
75th Percentile £675 £850 £700
90th Percentile £825 £888 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £479 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +0.79% -9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 7
10th Percentile £62.68 - £19.40
25th Percentile £67.06 - £22.00
Median hourly rate £76.75 £74.00 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.72% +142.62% -41.90%
75th Percentile £84.06 £74.11 £65.88
90th Percentile £87.03 £74.31 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.75 £74.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +3.72% +40.95% +50.06%

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 3,812 3,971 4,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.51% 11.12% 10.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,593 2,445 3,058
10th Percentile £288 £256 £250
25th Percentile £400 £393 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £631 £626
90th Percentile £720 £775 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £460 £475
% change year-on-year +3.26% -3.16% -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 90 137
10th Percentile £15.60 £17.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £19.75 £21.25 £17.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £37.25 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.46% +37.96% +38.46%
75th Percentile £65.25 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £70.00 £72.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £47.50 £23.95
% change year-on-year -26.32% +98.33% +36.00%

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 7 December 2025.

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 7 December 2025.

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 7 December 2025. 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 -76 255 £550 -25.68% 258
UK excluding London +2 137 £479 +0.79% 255
London -83 135 £625 -19.35% 30
Work from Home -79 93 £625 -21.88% 134
North of England -14 45 £453 -7.08% 36
Midlands -9 36 £511 -16.46% 61
North West +9 31 £450 -12.20% 19
West Midlands -8 29 £511 -16.46% 33
Scotland +22 24 £500 +23.08% 11
South East -26 14 £600 +26.32% 64
South West -14 13 £435 -28.98% 37
Yorkshire -41 11 £475 -2.56% 14
East Midlands -12 7 £510 +41.67% 23
East of England -15 7 £516 +63.89% 41
North East - 3 £400 - 3
Northern Ireland -11 1 £463 +1.37% 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
1 106 (35.57%) Apache Airflow
2 98 (32.89%) Apache Spark
3 26 (8.72%) WebLogic
4 25 (8.39%) IIS
5 24 (8.05%) JBoss
6 17 (5.70%) WebSphere
7 11 (3.69%) Confluence
8 10 (3.36%) iPlanet
8 10 (3.36%) Tomcat
8 10 (3.36%) WebSphere Application Server
9 4 (1.34%) Jupyter
9 4 (1.34%) nginx
10 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.67%) Apache Geronimo
11 2 (0.67%) Apache Pig
11 2 (0.67%) Apache ServiceMix
11 2 (0.67%) Luigi
11 2 (0.67%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.67%) Red Hat Fuse
11 2 (0.67%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (1.01%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.67%) Abaqus
2 2 (0.67%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.34%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (1.68%) Maximo
2 1 (0.34%) Actimize
2 1 (0.34%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.34%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 165 (55.37%) AWS
2 81 (27.18%) Azure
3 54 (18.12%) Snowflake
4 49 (16.44%) dbt
4 49 (16.44%) Serverless
5 44 (14.77%) GCP
6 36 (12.08%) Amazon S3
7 26 (8.72%) AWS CloudFormation
7 26 (8.72%) Power Platform
8 22 (7.38%) AWS Lambda
9 20 (6.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 18 (6.04%) Azure Data Factory
10 18 (6.04%) Azure Monitor
11 13 (4.36%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (3.36%) OpenShift
13 9 (3.02%) AWS Step Functions
13 9 (3.02%) Cloud Computing
13 9 (3.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 8 (2.68%) Amazon EMR
15 7 (2.35%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.70%) Firewall
2 11 (3.69%) Kerberos
3 8 (2.68%) HTTP
4 6 (2.01%) DNS
4 6 (2.01%) SSL
5 4 (1.34%) Network Security
6 3 (1.01%) DHCP
6 3 (1.01%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.67%) SAN
7 2 (0.67%) SMTP
7 2 (0.67%) VPN
8 1 (0.34%) InfiniBand
8 1 (0.34%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.34%) LAN
8 1 (0.34%) Spanning Tree
8 1 (0.34%) SSH
8 1 (0.34%) VLAN
8 1 (0.34%) WAN
8 1 (0.34%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (20.13%) Data Lake
2 47 (15.77%) Amazon Athena
2 47 (15.77%) Big Data
3 42 (14.09%) Data Warehouse
4 39 (13.09%) Hadoop
5 35 (11.74%) Apache Iceberg
6 28 (9.40%) Apache Arrow
6 28 (9.40%) Apache Ignite
6 28 (9.40%) Dremio
7 26 (8.72%) Delta Lake
7 26 (8.72%) Power BI
8 24 (8.05%) Amazon Redshift
9 19 (6.38%) BigQuery
10 18 (6.04%) Apache Hive
11 17 (5.70%) Metadata
11 17 (5.70%) NoSQL
12 16 (5.37%) Relational Database
13 14 (4.70%) Oracle Database
13 14 (4.70%) SQL Server
14 12 (4.03%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 51 (17.11%) Git
2 20 (6.71%) GitLab
3 19 (6.38%) Jenkins
4 15 (5.03%) JIRA
5 14 (4.70%) JUnit
6 11 (3.69%) Bitbucket Server
6 11 (3.69%) CA Release Automation
7 10 (3.36%) MLflow
7 10 (3.36%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (3.02%) Eclipse
8 9 (3.02%) IntelliJ
8 9 (3.02%) Selenium
9 7 (2.35%) Artifactory
10 6 (2.01%) Bitbucket
11 5 (1.68%) Mockito
12 4 (1.34%) Liquibase
12 4 (1.34%) Maven
13 3 (1.01%) ERwin
13 3 (1.01%) Gradle
13 3 (1.01%) Vagrant
General
1 80 (26.85%) Social Skills
2 66 (22.15%) Finance
3 39 (13.09%) Banking
4 28 (9.40%) Front Office
4 28 (9.40%) Investment Banking
5 25 (8.39%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (6.71%) Public Sector
7 9 (3.02%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.34%) Legal
9 3 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.67%) Electronics
10 2 (0.67%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.67%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.67%) Marketing
10 2 (0.67%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.67%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.34%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.34%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.34%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 73 (24.50%) Data Engineer
2 67 (22.48%) Senior
3 45 (15.10%) Software Engineer
4 38 (12.75%) AWS Engineer
5 37 (12.42%) Python Engineer
6 36 (12.08%) Senior Software Engineer
7 32 (10.74%) Java Engineer
8 28 (9.40%) AWS Software Engineer
8 28 (9.40%) Developer
8 28 (9.40%) Java Software Engineer
8 28 (9.40%) Python Software Engineer
9 27 (9.06%) Senior Java Engineer
9 27 (9.06%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 18 (6.04%) DevOps Engineer
11 17 (5.70%) Architect
12 16 (5.37%) Lead
13 13 (4.36%) Platform Engineer
14 12 (4.03%) Senior Data Engineer
15 10 (3.36%) Data Architect
16 9 (3.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (17.45%) Kafka
2 43 (14.43%) Apache NiFi
3 41 (13.76%) Pandas
4 38 (12.75%) NumPy
5 36 (12.08%) REST
6 28 (9.40%) gRPC
6 28 (9.40%) Protocol Buffers
6 28 (9.40%) PySpark
6 28 (9.40%) SciPy
7 18 (6.04%) OAuth
8 17 (5.70%) Spring
8 17 (5.70%) XML
9 15 (5.03%) SOAP
10 14 (4.70%) JSON
11 13 (4.36%) React
12 12 (4.03%) HTML
12 12 (4.03%) Middleware
12 12 (4.03%) OpenID
13 11 (3.69%) LDAP
13 11 (3.69%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (10.07%) Equities
2 28 (9.40%) Derivative
2 28 (9.40%) Fixed Income
2 28 (9.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 28 (9.40%) Hedge funds
2 28 (9.40%) Pricing Data
3 18 (6.04%) Cloud Native
4 14 (4.70%) Algorithms
5 9 (3.02%) Distributed Computing
5 9 (3.02%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (2.68%) PKI
7 6 (2.01%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.01%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.68%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.68%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.01%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.01%) Replication
10 2 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 73 (24.50%) Linux
2 53 (17.79%) Windows
3 41 (13.76%) Unix
4 18 (6.04%) Windows Server
5 14 (4.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (3.02%) CentOS
7 8 (2.68%) Ubuntu
8 5 (1.68%) Debian
9 2 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.34%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.34%) Rocky
10 1 (0.34%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (38.93%) Agile
2 100 (33.56%) CI/CD
3 89 (29.87%) DevOps
4 82 (27.52%) Data Pipeline
5 81 (27.18%) Analytics
6 79 (26.51%) ETL
7 72 (24.16%) Software Engineering
8 65 (21.81%) Data Engineering
9 61 (20.47%) Problem-Solving
10 56 (18.79%) Data Modelling
11 49 (16.44%) Business Intelligence
11 49 (16.44%) Data Governance
12 43 (14.43%) Continuous Improvement
13 42 (14.09%) Infrastructure as Code
14 36 (12.08%) Microservices
15 35 (11.74%) Visualisation
16 34 (11.41%) Data Science
17 33 (11.07%) Machine Learning
18 32 (10.74%) Observability
19 30 (10.07%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 175 (58.72%) Python
2 109 (36.58%) SQL
3 87 (29.19%) Java
4 50 (16.78%) JavaScript
5 38 (12.75%) Scala
6 30 (10.07%) TypeScript
7 18 (6.04%) Shell Script
8 17 (5.70%) C#
9 15 (5.03%) PowerShell
10 14 (4.70%) Bash
11 11 (3.69%) C++
11 11 (3.69%) Groovy
12 6 (2.01%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.34%) PHP
13 4 (1.34%) R
14 3 (1.01%) Perl
15 2 (0.67%) AWK
15 2 (0.67%) Korn
15 2 (0.67%) SPARQL
15 2 (0.67%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 88 (29.53%) Security Cleared
2 62 (20.81%) SC Cleared
3 41 (13.76%) DV Cleared
4 14 (4.70%) AWS Certification
5 12 (4.03%) Degree
6 7 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.34%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.67%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.67%) MCP
9 2 (0.67%) RHCE
10 1 (0.34%) CCNA
10 1 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.34%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (13.76%) Data Quality
2 20 (6.71%) QA
3 15 (5.03%) GDPR
4 6 (2.01%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.01%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.34%) IFRS
6 1 (0.34%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.34%) MiFID
6 1 (0.34%) Section 508
6 1 (0.34%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 51 (17.11%) Docker
2 17 (5.70%) Active Directory
3 13 (4.36%) HDFS
4 8 (2.68%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 6 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.67%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.67%) KVM
7 2 (0.67%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.34%) Ceph
8 1 (0.34%) iptables
8 1 (0.34%) Lustre
8 1 (0.34%) NFS
8 1 (0.34%) Samba
8 1 (0.34%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 48 (16.11%) Terraform
2 37 (12.42%) Ansible
3 34 (11.41%) Kubernetes
4 18 (6.04%) Puppet
5 15 (5.03%) Progress Chef
6 11 (3.69%) CA Single Sign-On
7 10 (3.36%) CA Wily
7 10 (3.36%) Hadoop YARN
8 9 (3.02%) Prometheus
9 8 (2.68%) Grafana
9 8 (2.68%) Tivoli
10 6 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.34%) Nagios
12 3 (1.01%) Oozie
12 3 (1.01%) Salt
13 2 (0.67%) Icinga
13 2 (0.67%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.67%) WMI
14 1 (0.34%) HAProxy
14 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 48 (16.11%) Databricks
2 43 (14.43%) Oracle
3 33 (11.07%) Splunk
4 30 (10.07%) Microsoft
5 25 (8.39%) AppDynamics
6 21 (7.05%) IBM
7 19 (6.38%) Google
8 17 (5.70%) Cisco
9 15 (5.03%) Dynatrace
9 15 (5.03%) Red Hat
10 12 (4.03%) Cloudera
11 11 (3.69%) Broadcom
11 11 (3.69%) Informatica
11 11 (3.69%) VMware
12 9 (3.02%) Foundry
12 9 (3.02%) Palantir
12 9 (3.02%) webMethods
13 8 (2.68%) ServiceNow
14 5 (1.68%) Talend
15 4 (1.34%) Salesforce