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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 366 268 225
Rank change year-on-year -98 -43 +58
Contract jobs citing Apache 292 283 437
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.60% 0.99% 1.02%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.94% 8.92% 10.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 216 379
10th Percentile £399 £409 £405
25th Percentile £450 £486 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £597 £828 £850
90th Percentile £670 £875 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £515 £510
% change year-on-year -0.49% +0.98% -7.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 9
10th Percentile £63.80 £38.21 £26.55
25th Percentile £64.63 £64.24 £36.75
Median hourly rate £72.00 £79.35 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.26% +27.98% -20.51%
75th Percentile £81.25 £80.74 £74.44
90th Percentile £84.20 £82.07 £75.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.00 £79.35 £62.00
% change year-on-year -9.26% +27.98% -20.51%

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 4,205 3,174 4,192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.66% 11.10% 9.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,834 2,118 2,932
10th Percentile £313 £289 £258
25th Percentile £404 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.38%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £675 £713 £761
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 53 160
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.70 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.03 £26.45 £15.49
Median hourly rate £32.50 £52.50 £30.08
Median % change year-on-year -38.10% +74.53% -41.31%
75th Percentile £63.00 £66.00 £51.91
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.74 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £54.94 £27.52
% change year-on-year -36.29% +99.66% -24.10%

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -132 230 £525 -20.45% 114
London -104 134 £575 -23.33% 48
UK excluding London -72 125 £513 -0.49% 79
Work from Home -86 71 £525 -30.00% 46
Scotland +28 34 £525 +33.33% 2
North of England -57 34 £456 -3.95% 26
Midlands -53 21 £538 -6.52% 6
West Midlands -52 18 £550 -8.33% 5
South West -26 17 £450 -21.74% 18
North East -7 16 £406 -37.50% 11
North West -29 16 £525 +10.53% 14
South East -76 8 £525 +4.48% 18
East of England -39 5 £363 +3.00% 7
Northern Ireland +2 3 £463 +12.80%
Wales -11 3 £509 - 3
East Midlands -30 2 £548 +33.54% 1
Yorkshire -62 2 £469 -21.88% 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
1 137 (46.92%) Apache Spark
2 84 (28.77%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (10.62%) Tomcat
4 26 (8.90%) WebSphere
5 22 (7.53%) Apache Geronimo
5 22 (7.53%) Apache ServiceMix
5 22 (7.53%) Red Hat Fuse
6 11 (3.77%) Jupyter
7 10 (3.42%) IIS
8 8 (2.74%) nginx
9 5 (1.71%) Apache Superset
9 5 (1.71%) SharePoint
10 4 (1.37%) CloudStack
10 4 (1.37%) WebLogic
11 3 (1.03%) Confluence
11 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.68%) Apache Synapse
12 2 (0.68%) JBoss
12 2 (0.68%) Palantir Foundry
12 2 (0.68%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Magento
1 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.34%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 140 (47.95%) AWS
2 108 (36.99%) Azure
3 72 (24.66%) GCP
4 45 (15.41%) Amazon S3
5 40 (13.70%) Power Platform
6 27 (9.25%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (9.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 26 (8.90%) AWS CloudFormation
7 26 (8.90%) Serverless
8 22 (7.53%) AWS Lambda
8 22 (7.53%) Azure Data Factory
9 21 (7.19%) Amazon SQS
10 17 (5.82%) GitHub
10 17 (5.82%) Snowflake
11 16 (5.48%) Collibra
12 14 (4.79%) dbt
13 12 (4.11%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (3.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 9 (3.08%) Amazon EMR
16 8 (2.74%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.79%) DNS
2 11 (3.77%) Firewall
3 7 (2.40%) SAN
4 6 (2.05%) HTTP
5 4 (1.37%) NAS
6 3 (1.03%) VLAN
7 2 (0.68%) BIG-IP
7 2 (0.68%) FTP
7 2 (0.68%) Network Security
7 2 (0.68%) Structured Cabling
7 2 (0.68%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.68%) VXLAN
8 1 (0.34%) 4G
8 1 (0.34%) 5G
8 1 (0.34%) DHCP
8 1 (0.34%) Intranet
8 1 (0.34%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.34%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.34%) SSH
8 1 (0.34%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (14.73%) Data Lake
2 40 (13.70%) Big Data
3 39 (13.36%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (11.64%) Power BI
5 32 (10.96%) Amazon Athena
5 32 (10.96%) BigQuery
6 30 (10.27%) SQL Server
7 28 (9.59%) Delta Lake
8 24 (8.22%) Hadoop
9 20 (6.85%) Flink
9 20 (6.85%) PostgreSQL
10 17 (5.82%) MySQL
11 16 (5.48%) Mixpanel
11 16 (5.48%) NoSQL
12 15 (5.14%) Metadata
12 15 (5.14%) OLAP
12 15 (5.14%) OLTP
13 13 (4.45%) Relational Database
14 12 (4.11%) Amazon Redshift
14 12 (4.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 56 (19.18%) Git
2 26 (8.90%) GitLab
3 20 (6.85%) JIRA
4 12 (4.11%) Jenkins
5 10 (3.42%) MLflow
6 8 (2.74%) Artifactory
7 6 (2.05%) Maven
8 5 (1.71%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.37%) Gradle
10 3 (1.03%) Selenium
11 2 (0.68%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.34%) Ant
12 1 (0.34%) Capybara
12 1 (0.34%) ER Studio
12 1 (0.34%) ERwin
12 1 (0.34%) git-flow
12 1 (0.34%) Mockito
12 1 (0.34%) PHPUnit
12 1 (0.34%) RSpec
12 1 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 53 (18.15%) Finance
2 41 (14.04%) Social Skills
3 33 (11.30%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (7.53%) Public Sector
5 13 (4.45%) Banking
6 7 (2.40%) Billing
7 4 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.37%) Front Office
7 4 (1.37%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.03%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.03%) Marketing
9 2 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.68%) Publishing
9 2 (0.68%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.34%) Dutch Language
10 1 (0.34%) French Language
10 1 (0.34%) Law
10 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.34%) Prime Brokerage
10 1 (0.34%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 108 (36.99%) Data Engineer
2 45 (15.41%) Senior
3 41 (14.04%) Developer
4 29 (9.93%) Architect
5 26 (8.90%) Lead
6 22 (7.53%) Senior Data Engineer
7 18 (6.16%) Java Developer
7 18 (6.16%) Software Engineer
8 17 (5.82%) Lead Data Engineer
9 16 (5.48%) Principal Engineer
10 15 (5.14%) Principal Data Engineer
11 14 (4.79%) AWS Engineer
11 14 (4.79%) DevOps Engineer
12 12 (4.11%) Data Architect
13 10 (3.42%) Analyst
14 9 (3.08%) Python Engineer
15 8 (2.74%) AWS Data Engineer
15 8 (2.74%) Cloud Engineer
15 8 (2.74%) Platform Engineer
15 8 (2.74%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (23.97%) Kafka
2 42 (14.38%) PySpark
3 27 (9.25%) REST
4 25 (8.56%) Middleware
5 22 (7.53%) Apache Axis
5 22 (7.53%) Apache Camel
5 22 (7.53%) Spring
6 18 (6.16%) Great Expectations
7 15 (5.14%) Apache Beam
7 15 (5.14%) Spring Boot
8 14 (4.79%) JSON
9 13 (4.45%) Apache NiFi
10 10 (3.42%) Pandas
10 10 (3.42%) SOAP
11 9 (3.08%) AWS CDK
12 8 (2.74%) NumPy
13 7 (2.40%) LAMP
13 7 (2.40%) OAuth
14 6 (2.05%) Elastic Stack
14 6 (2.05%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 43 (14.73%) Cloud Native
2 15 (5.14%) Management Information System
3 12 (4.11%) Product Ownership
4 11 (3.77%) Data Structures
5 10 (3.42%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (3.08%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.74%) Clustering
7 8 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (2.40%) Algorithms
9 6 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (2.05%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.71%) Distributed Computing
10 5 (1.71%) Freedom of Information
10 5 (1.71%) Replication
11 4 (1.37%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.37%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.37%) Virtual Team
12 3 (1.03%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 51 (17.47%) Linux
2 23 (7.88%) Windows
3 17 (5.82%) Ubuntu
3 17 (5.82%) Unix
4 11 (3.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (3.42%) Windows Server
6 6 (2.05%) Debian
7 5 (1.71%) CentOS
7 5 (1.71%) Rocky
8 4 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (1.03%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.68%) Solaris
10 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (41.44%) CI/CD
2 97 (33.22%) Data Pipeline
3 93 (31.85%) Analytics
4 92 (31.51%) Data Engineering
5 90 (30.82%) ETL
6 89 (30.48%) Data Modelling
6 89 (30.48%) DevOps
7 70 (23.97%) AI
8 61 (20.89%) Agile
8 61 (20.89%) Data Governance
9 55 (18.84%) Machine Learning
10 54 (18.49%) Infrastructure as Code
11 50 (17.12%) Problem-Solving
12 49 (16.78%) Containerisation
13 43 (14.73%) Observability
14 41 (14.04%) Business Intelligence
15 39 (13.36%) Data Architecture
15 39 (13.36%) Workflow
16 36 (12.33%) Software Engineering
17 32 (10.96%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 178 (60.96%) Python
2 176 (60.27%) SQL
3 83 (28.42%) Java
4 23 (7.88%) Scala
5 17 (5.82%) C#
6 15 (5.14%) Bash
6 15 (5.14%) PowerShell
7 14 (4.79%) Shell Script
8 11 (3.77%) R
9 10 (3.42%) JavaScript
10 8 (2.74%) TypeScript
11 7 (2.40%) Go
11 7 (2.40%) Perl
12 6 (2.05%) PHP
13 5 (1.71%) Ruby
14 4 (1.37%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.68%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.34%) Groovy
16 1 (0.34%) Korn
Qualifications
1 84 (28.77%) Security Cleared
2 72 (24.66%) SC Cleared
3 23 (7.88%) Degree
4 17 (5.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.77%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.74%) Master's Degree
7 7 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (2.05%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.71%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.03%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.68%) CCNP
11 2 (0.68%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.34%) CCNA
12 1 (0.34%) RHCE
12 1 (0.34%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (22.26%) Data Quality
2 25 (8.56%) GDPR
3 10 (3.42%) QA
4 6 (2.05%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.03%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.68%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.68%) WCAG
8 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.34%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.34%) SLA
System Software
1 53 (18.15%) Docker
2 9 (3.08%) Postfix
3 8 (2.74%) NFS
4 7 (2.40%) Active Directory
4 7 (2.40%) Varnish
5 5 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.37%) HDFS
6 4 (1.37%) Sendmail
7 3 (1.03%) Dovecot
7 3 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.68%) Ceph
8 2 (0.68%) KVM
8 2 (0.68%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.68%) Samba
8 2 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.68%) vSphere
9 1 (0.34%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.34%) iptables
Systems Management
1 65 (22.26%) Terraform
2 62 (21.23%) Kubernetes
3 28 (9.59%) Ansible
4 10 (3.42%) Grafana
5 9 (3.08%) HAProxy
6 5 (1.71%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.37%) SELinux
8 3 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (1.03%) Kibana
9 2 (0.68%) Apache Ranger
9 2 (0.68%) Check_MK
9 2 (0.68%) logstash
9 2 (0.68%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.68%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.68%) Puppet
9 2 (0.68%) systemd
10 1 (0.34%) Podman
10 1 (0.34%) Rundeck
10 1 (0.34%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 56 (19.18%) Databricks
2 41 (14.04%) Oracle
3 37 (12.67%) Google
4 27 (9.25%) Microsoft
5 22 (7.53%) TIBCO
6 16 (5.48%) Red Hat
7 10 (3.42%) Cisco
8 9 (3.08%) Cloudera
8 9 (3.08%) Informatica
9 8 (2.74%) Guidewire
9 8 (2.74%) ServiceNow
10 7 (2.40%) Talend
10 7 (2.40%) VMware
11 5 (1.71%) Confluent
11 5 (1.71%) IBM
12 4 (1.37%) Hortonworks
12 4 (1.37%) Trend Micro
13 3 (1.03%) F5
13 3 (1.03%) SolarWinds
13 3 (1.03%) Splunk