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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 268 196
Rank change year-on-year -87 -72 +93
Contract jobs citing Apache 304 295 500
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.60% 0.98% 1.15%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.89% 8.74% 11.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 222 434
10th Percentile £363 £380 £406
25th Percentile £425 £463 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £588 £825 £850
90th Percentile £663 £875 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £538 £475
% change year-on-year -7.44% +13.16% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 10
10th Percentile £63.00 £38.21 £35.25
25th Percentile £64.00 £64.24 £47.50
Median hourly rate £66.50 £79.35 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% +20.23% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70.88 £80.74 £74.44
90th Percentile £83.25 £82.07 £75.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.50 £79.35 £66.00
% change year-on-year -16.19% +20.23% -15.38%

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 4,414 3,377 4,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.67% 11.24% 10.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,953 2,224 3,062
10th Percentile £313 £289 £262
25th Percentile £404 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -1.77%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £713 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 74 165
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.68 £13.50
25th Percentile £19.25 £26.45 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £52.50 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +65.56% -39.60%
75th Percentile £60.75 £69.00 £51.91
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.63 £72.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £53.61 £30.91
% change year-on-year -34.71% +73.42% -38.18%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 24 June 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 -130 240 £525 -16.90% 57
UK excluding London -54 138 £498 -7.44% 40
London -110 131 £560 -25.33% 30
Work from Home -79 83 £512 -31.71% 27
North of England -51 54 £425 - 8
Scotland +16 35 £525 +13.51% 2
North East -5 31 £385 -40.77% 4
Midlands -44 21 £525 -8.70% 4
North West -44 20 £525 +46.65% 3
West Midlands -47 18 £528 -12.08% 3
South West -26 16 £450 -20.00% 9
South East -79 5 £500 -16.67% 14
East of England -33 4 £363 -16.18% 1
Wales -12 3 £509 - 2
Yorkshire -58 3 £463 -26.00% 1
East Midlands -18 2 £548 +33.54% 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
1 156 (51.32%) Apache Spark
2 104 (34.21%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (10.20%) Tomcat
4 28 (9.21%) Jupyter
5 26 (8.55%) WebSphere
6 22 (7.24%) Apache Geronimo
6 22 (7.24%) Apache ServiceMix
6 22 (7.24%) Red Hat Fuse
7 9 (2.96%) IIS
8 8 (2.63%) nginx
9 5 (1.64%) Apache Superset
9 5 (1.64%) Confluence
9 5 (1.64%) SharePoint
10 4 (1.32%) CloudStack
10 4 (1.32%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.66%) Apache Synapse
12 2 (0.66%) JBoss
13 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Magento
1 1 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.33%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 158 (51.97%) AWS
2 112 (36.84%) Azure
3 74 (24.34%) GCP
4 47 (15.46%) Amazon S3
5 37 (12.17%) Power Platform
6 30 (9.87%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (8.88%) Serverless
8 24 (7.89%) AWS Lambda
9 23 (7.57%) Snowflake
10 22 (7.24%) dbt
11 21 (6.91%) Azure Data Factory
11 21 (6.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 20 (6.58%) Amazon EMR
13 18 (5.92%) AWS CloudFormation
13 18 (5.92%) GitHub
14 15 (4.93%) Amazon SQS
15 14 (4.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 13 (4.28%) Collibra
17 12 (3.95%) GitHub Actions
18 8 (2.63%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.28%) DNS
2 10 (3.29%) Firewall
3 6 (1.97%) HTTP
4 5 (1.64%) SAN
5 4 (1.32%) NAS
6 3 (0.99%) VLAN
7 2 (0.66%) BIG-IP
7 2 (0.66%) FTP
7 2 (0.66%) Network Security
7 2 (0.66%) Structured Cabling
7 2 (0.66%) VXLAN
8 1 (0.33%) 4G
8 1 (0.33%) 5G
8 1 (0.33%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.33%) Intranet
8 1 (0.33%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.33%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.33%) SSH
8 1 (0.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (14.47%) Data Warehouse
2 40 (13.16%) Big Data
3 39 (12.83%) Data Lake
4 31 (10.20%) Power BI
5 29 (9.54%) Amazon Athena
5 29 (9.54%) BigQuery
5 29 (9.54%) Delta Lake
6 28 (9.21%) SQL Server
7 23 (7.57%) Flink
8 22 (7.24%) Hadoop
9 21 (6.91%) PostgreSQL
10 17 (5.59%) Metadata
10 17 (5.59%) NoSQL
11 16 (5.26%) MySQL
12 15 (4.93%) Amazon Redshift
12 15 (4.93%) Relational Database
13 13 (4.28%) Tableau
14 11 (3.62%) MongoDB
15 10 (3.29%) Mixpanel
16 9 (2.96%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 56 (18.42%) Git
2 42 (13.82%) GitLab
3 22 (7.24%) JIRA
4 13 (4.28%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.63%) MLflow
6 6 (1.97%) Maven
6 6 (1.97%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.32%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.32%) Gradle
8 3 (0.99%) Selenium
9 2 (0.66%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.33%) Ant
10 1 (0.33%) Capybara
10 1 (0.33%) git-flow
10 1 (0.33%) JMeter
10 1 (0.33%) minitest
10 1 (0.33%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.33%) RSpec
10 1 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 58 (19.08%) Finance
2 54 (17.76%) Social Skills
3 38 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 37 (12.17%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (4.28%) Banking
6 7 (2.30%) Billing
7 6 (1.97%) Marketing
8 5 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.32%) Front Office
9 4 (1.32%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.32%) Publishing
10 2 (0.66%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.33%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.33%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.33%) French Language
11 1 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.33%) Prime Brokerage
11 1 (0.33%) Retail
11 1 (0.33%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 104 (34.21%) Data Engineer
2 48 (15.79%) Developer
3 42 (13.82%) Senior
4 31 (10.20%) Architect
5 26 (8.55%) Lead
6 23 (7.57%) Senior Data Engineer
7 22 (7.24%) Java Developer
8 19 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
9 17 (5.59%) Lead Data Engineer
10 13 (4.28%) Data Architect
11 12 (3.95%) Software Engineer
12 11 (3.62%) AWS Engineer
12 11 (3.62%) Principal Engineer
13 10 (3.29%) Principal Data Engineer
14 9 (2.96%) Python Developer
15 8 (2.63%) Analyst
15 8 (2.63%) Senior Developer
16 7 (2.30%) Platform Engineer
16 7 (2.30%) Python Engineer
16 7 (2.30%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (21.05%) Kafka
2 48 (15.79%) PySpark
3 27 (8.88%) Spring
4 25 (8.22%) Middleware
5 22 (7.24%) Apache Axis
5 22 (7.24%) Apache Camel
5 22 (7.24%) REST
6 20 (6.58%) Spring Boot
7 15 (4.93%) JSON
8 14 (4.61%) Apache Beam
9 12 (3.95%) Great Expectations
10 10 (3.29%) SOAP
11 9 (2.96%) AWS CDK
12 8 (2.63%) OAuth
12 8 (2.63%) Pandas
13 7 (2.30%) LAMP
13 7 (2.30%) NumPy
14 6 (1.97%) PyTorch
15 5 (1.64%) Apache NiFi
15 5 (1.64%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (14.47%) Cloud Native
2 19 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 16 (5.26%) Management Information System
4 13 (4.28%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (3.95%) Data Structures
6 10 (3.29%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (2.96%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.63%) Clustering
9 7 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.97%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.64%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.64%) Distributed Computing
11 5 (1.64%) Freedom of Information
12 4 (1.32%) Data Centre
12 4 (1.32%) Data Fabric
12 4 (1.32%) Private Cloud
12 4 (1.32%) Replication
12 4 (1.32%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.99%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 47 (15.46%) Linux
2 18 (5.92%) Unix
2 18 (5.92%) Windows
3 15 (4.93%) Ubuntu
4 11 (3.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (2.96%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.64%) CentOS
6 5 (1.64%) Rocky
7 4 (1.32%) Debian
7 4 (1.32%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.99%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.66%) Solaris
9 2 (0.66%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (48.03%) CI/CD
2 112 (36.84%) Data Engineering
3 103 (33.88%) Analytics
4 96 (31.58%) Data Pipeline
4 96 (31.58%) DevOps
5 85 (27.96%) Data Modelling
5 85 (27.96%) ETL
6 70 (23.03%) Agile
6 70 (23.03%) Containerisation
7 67 (22.04%) AI
8 65 (21.38%) Infrastructure as Code
9 56 (18.42%) Data Governance
10 51 (16.78%) Machine Learning
10 51 (16.78%) Problem-Solving
11 39 (12.83%) Business Intelligence
12 38 (12.50%) Observability
13 37 (12.17%) Workflow
14 34 (11.18%) Data Science
15 33 (10.86%) Migration
16 32 (10.53%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 190 (62.50%) Python
2 177 (58.22%) SQL
3 93 (30.59%) Java
4 23 (7.57%) Scala
5 18 (5.92%) Bash
6 13 (4.28%) Shell Script
7 11 (3.62%) C#
7 11 (3.62%) PowerShell
7 11 (3.62%) R
8 9 (2.96%) JavaScript
9 8 (2.63%) Go
9 8 (2.63%) TypeScript
10 7 (2.30%) Perl
11 6 (1.97%) PHP
12 5 (1.64%) Ruby
13 4 (1.32%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.99%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.33%) Korn
15 1 (0.33%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 93 (30.59%) Security Cleared
2 85 (27.96%) SC Cleared
3 22 (7.24%) Degree
4 16 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.63%) Master's Degree
6 7 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.97%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.64%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.32%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.99%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.99%) CSPO
11 2 (0.66%) CCNP
11 2 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.66%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.33%) RHCE
12 1 (0.33%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (20.72%) Data Quality
2 22 (7.24%) GDPR
3 7 (2.30%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.30%) QA
4 5 (1.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.99%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.66%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (0.66%) WCAG
7 1 (0.33%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 76 (25.00%) Docker
2 9 (2.96%) Postfix
3 8 (2.63%) NFS
4 7 (2.30%) Varnish
5 6 (1.97%) Active Directory
6 5 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (1.32%) Sendmail
8 3 (0.99%) Dovecot
8 3 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.66%) Ceph
9 2 (0.66%) HDFS
9 2 (0.66%) KVM
9 2 (0.66%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.66%) Samba
9 2 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.66%) vSphere
10 1 (0.33%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.33%) iptables
Systems Management
1 75 (24.67%) Terraform
2 59 (19.41%) Kubernetes
3 22 (7.24%) Ansible
4 9 (2.96%) Grafana
4 9 (2.96%) HAProxy
5 4 (1.32%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.32%) SELinux
6 3 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.66%) Apache Ranger
7 2 (0.66%) Check_MK
7 2 (0.66%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.66%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.66%) Puppet
7 2 (0.66%) systemd
8 1 (0.33%) Kibana
8 1 (0.33%) Podman
8 1 (0.33%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 57 (18.75%) Databricks
2 42 (13.82%) Oracle
3 34 (11.18%) Google
4 30 (9.87%) Microsoft
5 22 (7.24%) TIBCO
6 16 (5.26%) Trend Micro
7 10 (3.29%) Informatica
7 10 (3.29%) Red Hat
8 8 (2.63%) Cisco
8 8 (2.63%) Cloudera
8 8 (2.63%) Guidewire
9 7 (2.30%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.97%) Talend
11 5 (1.64%) Confluent
11 5 (1.64%) IBM
11 5 (1.64%) VMware
12 4 (1.32%) Hortonworks
13 3 (0.99%) F5
13 3 (0.99%) Juniper
13 3 (0.99%) Splunk