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 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 213 309
Rank change year-on-year -87 +96 -23
Contract jobs citing Apache 286 451 366
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.86% 1.20% 0.76%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.00% 11.07% 7.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 368 279
10th Percentile £375 £402 £438
25th Percentile £459 £535 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £750 £600
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +25.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £706 £850 £738
90th Percentile £825 £888 £810
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +4.42% -13.64% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 9
10th Percentile - £55.63 £65.50
25th Percentile - £67.25 -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £74.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -5.13% +4.91%
75th Percentile - £74.33 £90.00
90th Percentile - £74.72 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £74.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +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 3,573 4,074 4,966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.73% 10.88% 10.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,356 2,561 3,299
10th Percentile £280 £263 £250
25th Percentile £384 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £523 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.22% +4.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £825 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £459 £470
% change year-on-year -1.91% -2.39% -1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 74 153
10th Percentile £16.64 £18.49 £16.16
25th Percentile £20.50 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £34.98 £36.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% +20.00% +42.86%
75th Percentile £63.75 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.00 £76.08
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.88 £56.13 £27.25
% change year-on-year -39.63% +105.96% +49.52%

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 18 October 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
Top 15 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 18 October 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 -85 254 £550 -26.67% 125
London -100 148 £626 -21.78% 51
UK excluding London +1 115 £496 +4.42% 92
Work from Home -77 103 £750 -6.25% 105
North of England -15 39 £450 -5.26% 22
Midlands -2 29 £511 -16.46% 5
North West +4 26 £420 -17.04% 13
West Midlands -5 25 £525 -14.22% 1
Scotland +11 15 £500 +21.21%
South West +15 13 £455 -14.63% 16
South East +2 13 £600 +26.32% 44
Yorkshire -28 11 £475 - 6
East of England -9 7 £550 +73.78% 7
East Midlands -9 4 £420 +36.59% 4
North East - 2 £475 - 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
1 105 (36.71%) Apache Airflow
2 82 (28.67%) Apache Spark
3 29 (10.14%) IIS
4 22 (7.69%) JBoss
5 21 (7.34%) WebLogic
6 19 (6.64%) WebSphere
7 18 (6.29%) Confluence
8 11 (3.85%) Tomcat
9 10 (3.50%) iPlanet
9 10 (3.50%) WebSphere Application Server
10 7 (2.45%) nginx
11 5 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
12 3 (1.05%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.70%) Alfresco
13 2 (0.70%) Apache Pig
13 2 (0.70%) Camunda
13 2 (0.70%) Luigi
13 2 (0.70%) Oracle HTTP Server
14 1 (0.35%) Apache Superset
14 1 (0.35%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (1.05%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.70%) Abaqus
2 2 (0.70%) Sketch
3 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (2.45%) Maximo
2 1 (0.35%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.35%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 156 (54.55%) AWS
2 74 (25.87%) Azure
3 66 (23.08%) dbt
4 64 (22.38%) Snowflake
5 35 (12.24%) GCP
6 32 (11.19%) Serverless
7 19 (6.64%) Amazon S3
8 17 (5.94%) Azure Monitor
9 15 (5.24%) Azure Data Factory
9 15 (5.24%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (5.24%) Power Platform
10 13 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 13 (4.55%) OpenShift
11 9 (3.15%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (3.15%) GitHub
12 8 (2.80%) Amazon EMR
13 7 (2.45%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (2.45%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (2.10%) Amazon EC2
15 5 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.50%) Kerberos
2 9 (3.15%) DNS
3 8 (2.80%) Firewall
4 6 (2.10%) SSL
5 5 (1.75%) SMTP
6 4 (1.40%) HTTP
7 3 (1.05%) DHCP
8 2 (0.70%) VPN
9 1 (0.35%) FTP
9 1 (0.35%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.35%) LAN
9 1 (0.35%) SSH
9 1 (0.35%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.35%) Telnet
9 1 (0.35%) WAN
9 1 (0.35%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (22.73%) Data Lake
2 49 (17.13%) Apache Iceberg
3 48 (16.78%) Amazon Athena
4 47 (16.43%) Big Data
5 42 (14.69%) Apache Arrow
5 42 (14.69%) Apache Ignite
5 42 (14.69%) Dremio
6 40 (13.99%) Hadoop
7 38 (13.29%) Data Warehouse
8 23 (8.04%) Delta Lake
9 21 (7.34%) Apache Hive
10 18 (6.29%) Amazon Redshift
10 18 (6.29%) Metadata
10 18 (6.29%) SQL Server
11 16 (5.59%) NoSQL
12 15 (5.24%) Power BI
13 14 (4.90%) Elasticsearch
13 14 (4.90%) Oracle Database
14 13 (4.55%) BigQuery
14 13 (4.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 48 (16.78%) Git
2 25 (8.74%) Jenkins
2 25 (8.74%) JIRA
3 14 (4.90%) Sonatype Nexus
4 12 (4.20%) GitLab
5 11 (3.85%) Bitbucket Server
5 11 (3.85%) CA Release Automation
6 9 (3.15%) JUnit
7 6 (2.10%) Artifactory
8 5 (1.75%) Eclipse
8 5 (1.75%) IntelliJ
8 5 (1.75%) Selenium
8 5 (1.75%) Subversion
9 4 (1.40%) ER Studio
9 4 (1.40%) ERwin
9 4 (1.40%) MLflow
9 4 (1.40%) MSI
9 4 (1.40%) Robot Framework
10 3 (1.05%) Mockito
10 3 (1.05%) Vagrant
General
1 71 (24.83%) Social Skills
2 69 (24.13%) Finance
3 52 (18.18%) Banking
4 43 (15.03%) Investment Banking
5 42 (14.69%) Front Office
6 20 (6.99%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (5.94%) Public Sector
8 5 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.40%) Legal
10 2 (0.70%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.70%) Marketing
10 2 (0.70%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.35%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.35%) Games
11 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.35%) Publishing
11 1 (0.35%) Retail
11 1 (0.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 77 (26.92%) Senior
2 67 (23.43%) Data Engineer
3 51 (17.83%) Python Engineer
3 51 (17.83%) Software Engineer
4 48 (16.78%) AWS Engineer
4 48 (16.78%) Senior Software Engineer
5 43 (15.03%) Java Engineer
6 42 (14.69%) AWS Software Engineer
6 42 (14.69%) Java Software Engineer
6 42 (14.69%) Python Software Engineer
7 41 (14.34%) Senior Java Engineer
7 41 (14.34%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 30 (10.49%) Developer
9 18 (6.29%) DevOps Engineer
10 17 (5.94%) Architect
11 13 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
12 12 (4.20%) Senior Data Engineer
13 11 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 10 (3.50%) Data Architect
15 9 (3.15%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (18.53%) Pandas
2 49 (17.13%) NumPy
3 43 (15.03%) Kafka
4 42 (14.69%) gRPC
4 42 (14.69%) Protocol Buffers
4 42 (14.69%) SciPy
5 41 (14.34%) Apache NiFi
6 26 (9.09%) REST
7 21 (7.34%) OAuth
8 20 (6.99%) PySpark
9 16 (5.59%) XML
10 15 (5.24%) React
11 14 (4.90%) SOAP
12 13 (4.55%) Spring
13 12 (4.20%) HTML
13 12 (4.20%) OpenID
14 11 (3.85%) JSON
14 11 (3.85%) RESTful
14 11 (3.85%) SAML
15 10 (3.50%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 42 (14.69%) Derivative
1 42 (14.69%) Equities
1 42 (14.69%) Fixed Income
1 42 (14.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 42 (14.69%) Hedge funds
1 42 (14.69%) Pricing Data
2 16 (5.59%) Cloud Native
3 12 (4.20%) PKI
4 10 (3.50%) Algorithms
5 9 (3.15%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (2.80%) Data Structures
7 7 (2.45%) Distributed Computing
8 6 (2.10%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.10%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.75%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.40%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.40%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.05%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 69 (24.13%) Linux
2 53 (18.53%) Windows
3 31 (10.84%) Unix
4 21 (7.34%) Windows Server
5 19 (6.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (4.20%) CentOS
7 6 (2.10%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.40%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (1.05%) Debian
10 1 (0.35%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.35%) Rocky
10 1 (0.35%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (41.61%) Agile
2 92 (32.17%) DevOps
3 85 (29.72%) CI/CD
4 74 (25.87%) Software Engineering
5 69 (24.13%) Data Pipeline
6 67 (23.43%) Analytics
7 63 (22.03%) ETL
8 51 (17.83%) Data Engineering
9 45 (15.73%) Data Modelling
10 44 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
11 43 (15.03%) Asset Management
12 42 (14.69%) Data Governance
12 42 (14.69%) Investment Management
13 41 (14.34%) Continuous Improvement
14 33 (11.54%) Business Intelligence
15 32 (11.19%) Data Science
16 30 (10.49%) Workflow
17 29 (10.14%) Visualisation
18 27 (9.44%) Microservices
18 27 (9.44%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 170 (59.44%) Python
2 87 (30.42%) SQL
3 81 (28.32%) Java
4 68 (23.78%) JavaScript
5 45 (15.73%) TypeScript
6 29 (10.14%) Scala
7 17 (5.94%) Bash
7 17 (5.94%) Shell Script
8 16 (5.59%) PowerShell
9 13 (4.55%) Groovy
10 11 (3.85%) C#
11 10 (3.50%) C++
12 7 (2.45%) PHP
13 6 (2.10%) Go
14 4 (1.40%) PL/SQL
15 3 (1.05%) R
16 2 (0.70%) Korn
16 2 (0.70%) Perl
16 2 (0.70%) SPARQL
16 2 (0.70%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 87 (30.42%) Security Cleared
2 57 (19.93%) SC Cleared
3 42 (14.69%) DV Cleared
4 13 (4.55%) Degree
5 11 (3.85%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.05%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.70%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.70%) RHCE
10 1 (0.35%) CCNP
10 1 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.35%) MCP
10 1 (0.35%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (12.24%) Data Quality
2 23 (8.04%) QA
3 8 (2.80%) GDPR
4 6 (2.10%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.05%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.70%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.70%) Section 508
6 2 (0.70%) WCAG
7 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 41 (14.34%) Docker
2 20 (6.99%) Active Directory
3 12 (4.20%) HDFS
4 10 (3.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (2.80%) Tivoli Directory Server
6 4 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.70%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.70%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.35%) KVM
8 1 (0.35%) NFS
8 1 (0.35%) Samba
Systems Management
1 40 (13.99%) Ansible
2 35 (12.24%) Kubernetes
3 32 (11.19%) Terraform
4 15 (5.24%) Progress Chef
4 15 (5.24%) Puppet
5 11 (3.85%) CA Single Sign-On
5 11 (3.85%) Prometheus
6 10 (3.50%) CA Wily
6 10 (3.50%) Grafana
6 10 (3.50%) Hadoop YARN
7 8 (2.80%) Tivoli
8 6 (2.10%) Kibana
8 6 (2.10%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.40%) Nagios
9 4 (1.40%) WMI
10 3 (1.05%) logstash
10 3 (1.05%) Oozie
10 3 (1.05%) Salt
11 2 (0.70%) Icinga
11 2 (0.70%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 40 (13.99%) Oracle
2 38 (13.29%) Databricks
3 35 (12.24%) Microsoft
4 30 (10.49%) Splunk
5 24 (8.39%) AppDynamics
6 23 (8.04%) IBM
7 15 (5.24%) Cisco
7 15 (5.24%) Google
8 14 (4.90%) Dynatrace
9 13 (4.55%) VMware
10 11 (3.85%) Broadcom
10 11 (3.85%) Cloudera
10 11 (3.85%) Red Hat
11 10 (3.50%) Foundry
11 10 (3.50%) Palantir
12 8 (2.80%) Informatica
13 6 (2.10%) ServiceNow
14 5 (1.75%) webMethods
15 4 (1.40%) Talend
16 3 (1.05%) Rackspace