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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 270 192
Rank change year-on-year -94 -78 +112
Contract jobs citing Apache 324 313 523
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.61% 0.95% 1.34%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.98% 8.74% 12.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 231 441
10th Percentile £363 £375 £419
25th Percentile £413 £475 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £600 £750
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £600 £825 £875
90th Percentile £676 £838 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £510 £473
% change year-on-year -11.76% +7.94% -14.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 11
10th Percentile £62.00 £38.21 £36.75
25th Percentile £66.99 £64.24 £51.13
Median hourly rate £67.47 £79.35 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.97% +7.23% -5.13%
75th Percentile £74.38 £80.74 £74.44
90th Percentile £83.62 £82.07 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £79.35 £74.00
% change year-on-year -14.97% +7.23% -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 4,645 3,581 4,116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.71% 10.87% 10.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,067 2,346 2,832
10th Percentile £305 £280 £275
25th Percentile £404 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £483 £520
Median % change year-on-year +3.63% -7.21% +1.46%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £725 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £460
% change year-on-year +2.78% -2.17% -2.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 90 107
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.33 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.00 £21.49
Median hourly rate £32.50 £43.80 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.79% +34.75% -32.99%
75th Percentile £60.95 £65.25 £69.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.88 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £46.65 £41.75
% change year-on-year -30.33% +11.74% +51.82%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 -104 274 £510 -15.00% 174
London -93 163 £550 -26.67% 115
UK excluding London -82 130 £450 -11.76% 75
Work from Home -68 97 £513 -31.67% 59
North of England -37 56 £425 +18.72% 17
North East - 29 £385 - 4
Scotland +5 25 £525 +5.00% 13
South West -32 21 £450 -9.09% 16
North West -45 20 £528 +47.35% 8
Midlands -61 13 £495 -8.08% 9
South East -67 12 £460 -23.33% 15
West Midlands -50 10 £478 -11.57% 3
Yorkshire -43 7 £469 -18.48% 5
Wales -13 2 £475 - 2
East Midlands -18 2 £548 +33.54% 6
East of England -26 2 £400 -27.27% 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
1 176 (54.32%) Apache Spark
2 133 (41.05%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (9.57%) Jupyter
4 19 (5.86%) Tomcat
5 15 (4.63%) nginx
5 15 (4.63%) WebSphere
6 10 (3.09%) Apache Geronimo
6 10 (3.09%) Apache ServiceMix
6 10 (3.09%) Confluence
6 10 (3.09%) Red Hat Fuse
7 7 (2.16%) Apache Superset
7 7 (2.16%) IIS
8 5 (1.54%) CloudStack
8 5 (1.54%) SharePoint
9 4 (1.23%) JBoss
10 3 (0.93%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.31%) CMS
11 1 (0.31%) Luigi
11 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Magento
1 1 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.31%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 175 (54.01%) AWS
2 118 (36.42%) Azure
3 83 (25.62%) GCP
4 51 (15.74%) Amazon S3
5 42 (12.96%) dbt
6 36 (11.11%) Snowflake
7 34 (10.49%) Azure DevOps
8 33 (10.19%) Serverless
9 32 (9.88%) Azure Data Factory
10 31 (9.57%) Power Platform
11 29 (8.95%) Amazon EMR
11 29 (8.95%) AWS Lambda
12 25 (7.72%) GitHub
13 17 (5.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 15 (4.63%) GitHub Actions
15 14 (4.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 11 (3.40%) AWS CloudFormation
17 10 (3.09%) Amazon SQS
17 10 (3.09%) AWS Step Functions
17 10 (3.09%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.86%) DNS
2 15 (4.63%) Firewall
3 6 (1.85%) SAN
4 5 (1.54%) DHCP
4 5 (1.54%) NAS
5 3 (0.93%) HTTP
5 3 (0.93%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.93%) Network Security
5 3 (0.93%) SSL
5 3 (0.93%) Structured Cabling
5 3 (0.93%) VLAN
6 2 (0.62%) BIG-IP
6 2 (0.62%) FTP
6 2 (0.62%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.62%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.31%) 4G
7 1 (0.31%) 5G
7 1 (0.31%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.31%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.31%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (18.21%) Data Warehouse
2 48 (14.81%) Data Lake
3 41 (12.65%) Delta Lake
4 39 (12.04%) BigQuery
5 37 (11.42%) Big Data
6 36 (11.11%) Flink
7 31 (9.57%) Amazon Athena
8 28 (8.64%) Power BI
9 26 (8.02%) Metadata
10 23 (7.10%) Amazon Redshift
11 21 (6.48%) SQL Server
12 20 (6.17%) PostgreSQL
13 18 (5.56%) Apache Iceberg
13 18 (5.56%) Relational Database
14 17 (5.25%) NoSQL
15 16 (4.94%) Hadoop
16 14 (4.32%) Elasticsearch
17 12 (3.70%) Tableau
18 10 (3.09%) MongoDB
18 10 (3.09%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 51 (15.74%) Git
2 50 (15.43%) GitLab
3 22 (6.79%) JIRA
4 15 (4.63%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.47%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.85%) Bitbucket
6 6 (1.85%) Maven
7 5 (1.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (1.54%) MLflow
8 4 (1.23%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.23%) Gradle
9 2 (0.62%) JMeter
9 2 (0.62%) Selenium
9 2 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.31%) Ant
10 1 (0.31%) git-flow
10 1 (0.31%) minitest
10 1 (0.31%) Newman
10 1 (0.31%) Postman
10 1 (0.31%) RSpec
General
1 73 (22.53%) Finance
2 71 (21.91%) Social Skills
3 42 (12.96%) Public Sector
4 39 (12.04%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (8.33%) Banking
6 7 (2.16%) Financial Institution
7 6 (1.85%) Billing
7 6 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (1.85%) Marketing
7 6 (1.85%) Publishing
8 4 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.23%) Front Office
8 4 (1.23%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.93%) Law
9 3 (0.93%) Legal
10 2 (0.62%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.31%) Prime Brokerage
11 1 (0.31%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 125 (38.58%) Data Engineer
2 55 (16.98%) Senior
3 45 (13.89%) Developer
4 44 (13.58%) Architect
5 33 (10.19%) Senior Data Engineer
6 27 (8.33%) Lead
7 23 (7.10%) Java Developer
8 22 (6.79%) DevOps Engineer
9 18 (5.56%) Data Architect
10 14 (4.32%) Lead Data Engineer
11 13 (4.01%) AWS Engineer
12 12 (3.70%) Python Engineer
13 10 (3.09%) Software Engineer
14 9 (2.78%) Cloud Engineer
14 9 (2.78%) Python Data Engineer
14 9 (2.78%) Senior Developer
15 8 (2.47%) AWS Data Engineer
15 8 (2.47%) Platform Engineer
15 8 (2.47%) Python Developer
15 8 (2.47%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (22.22%) Kafka
1 72 (22.22%) PySpark
2 28 (8.64%) Spring
3 27 (8.33%) REST
4 25 (7.72%) Spring Boot
5 19 (5.86%) JSON
6 16 (4.94%) Apache Beam
7 15 (4.63%) Middleware
8 11 (3.40%) Apache NiFi
9 10 (3.09%) Apache Axis
9 10 (3.09%) Apache Camel
10 9 (2.78%) SOAP
10 9 (2.78%) YAML
11 8 (2.47%) AWS CDK
11 8 (2.47%) OAuth
12 7 (2.16%) Great Expectations
12 7 (2.16%) Pandas
12 7 (2.16%) Spark Streaming
13 6 (1.85%) Apache Avro
13 6 (1.85%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 51 (15.74%) Cloud Native
2 23 (7.10%) Product Ownership
3 14 (4.32%) Data Structures
3 14 (4.32%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (4.01%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (4.01%) Management Information System
5 10 (3.09%) Public Cloud
6 9 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (2.78%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.85%) Data Fabric
8 5 (1.54%) AI Agents
8 5 (1.54%) Clustering
8 5 (1.54%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.54%) Replication
8 5 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.23%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.23%) PKI
9 4 (1.23%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.93%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 52 (16.05%) Linux
2 17 (5.25%) Ubuntu
2 17 (5.25%) Windows
3 13 (4.01%) Unix
4 12 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.54%) CentOS
5 5 (1.54%) Rocky
5 5 (1.54%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.54%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.23%) Debian
7 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.31%) Solaris
8 1 (0.31%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (48.15%) CI/CD
2 136 (41.98%) Data Pipeline
3 127 (39.20%) Data Engineering
4 113 (34.88%) Analytics
5 112 (34.57%) DevOps
6 99 (30.56%) ETL
7 98 (30.25%) Data Modelling
8 94 (29.01%) Agile
9 75 (23.15%) Infrastructure as Code
10 74 (22.84%) Containerisation
11 61 (18.83%) AI
12 60 (18.52%) Data Governance
13 46 (14.20%) Machine Learning
14 45 (13.89%) Migration
15 44 (13.58%) Business Intelligence
16 42 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
17 41 (12.65%) Data Architecture
18 38 (11.73%) Workflow
19 37 (11.42%) Data Transformation
19 37 (11.42%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 220 (67.90%) Python
2 179 (55.25%) SQL
3 84 (25.93%) Java
4 28 (8.64%) Scala
5 24 (7.41%) Bash
6 23 (7.10%) PowerShell
7 20 (6.17%) Shell Script
8 10 (3.09%) Go
8 10 (3.09%) R
8 10 (3.09%) TypeScript
9 7 (2.16%) PL/SQL
10 6 (1.85%) C#
10 6 (1.85%) Perl
11 5 (1.54%) JavaScript
11 5 (1.54%) Ruby
12 4 (1.23%) Bicep
12 4 (1.23%) Groovy
13 3 (0.93%) Cypher
13 3 (0.93%) Gremlin
13 3 (0.93%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 92 (28.40%) Security Cleared
2 82 (25.31%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.48%) Degree
4 17 (5.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.78%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.85%) AWS Certification
6 6 (1.85%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.54%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.93%) CCNP
9 3 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.93%) CSPO
9 3 (0.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.62%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.62%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.31%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.31%) PMP
11 1 (0.31%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (25.93%) Data Quality
2 17 (5.25%) GDPR
3 12 (3.70%) QA
4 7 (2.16%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (1.23%) Government Security Classifications
7 3 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.62%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.62%) SLA
8 2 (0.62%) WCAG
9 1 (0.31%) NIST
System Software
1 99 (30.56%) Docker
2 14 (4.32%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.78%) Postfix
4 8 (2.47%) NFS
5 7 (2.16%) Varnish
6 5 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.23%) Sendmail
7 4 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
8 3 (0.93%) Dovecot
8 3 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.93%) vSphere
9 2 (0.62%) Ceph
9 2 (0.62%) KVM
9 2 (0.62%) Samba
10 1 (0.31%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.31%) iptables
Systems Management
1 92 (28.40%) Terraform
2 82 (25.31%) Kubernetes
3 25 (7.72%) Ansible
4 12 (3.70%) Grafana
5 9 (2.78%) HAProxy
6 8 (2.47%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.54%) Packer
7 5 (1.54%) vCenter Server
8 4 (1.23%) Puppet
8 4 (1.23%) SELinux
9 3 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.93%) Apache Ranger
9 3 (0.93%) Check_MK
9 3 (0.93%) Kibana
9 3 (0.93%) systemd
10 2 (0.62%) Control-M
10 2 (0.62%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.31%) logstash
11 1 (0.31%) Podman
11 1 (0.31%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 78 (24.07%) Databricks
2 39 (12.04%) Microsoft
3 36 (11.11%) Google
4 20 (6.17%) Oracle
5 17 (5.25%) Trend Micro
6 12 (3.70%) Red Hat
7 11 (3.40%) TIBCO
8 10 (3.09%) Cloudera
8 10 (3.09%) Informatica
8 10 (3.09%) VMware
9 9 (2.78%) ServiceNow
10 8 (2.47%) Splunk
11 7 (2.16%) Cisco
11 7 (2.16%) Guidewire
12 5 (1.54%) Confluent
12 5 (1.54%) IBM
12 5 (1.54%) New Relic
12 5 (1.54%) Tanium
13 4 (1.23%) Hortonworks
13 4 (1.23%) Talend