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

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 248 286
Rank change year-on-year -108 +38 +10
Contract jobs citing Apache 295 303 340
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.66% 1.03% 0.77%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.02% 8.87% 8.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 223 274
10th Percentile £396 £406 £350
25th Percentile £456 £488 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £575
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +17.39% -4.17%
75th Percentile £600 £838 £788
90th Percentile £688 £875 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +5.00% -1.96% -12.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 10
10th Percentile £62.20 £32.42 £21.97
25th Percentile £64.00 £49.78 £23.44
Median hourly rate £72.00 £78.70 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.51% +72.97% -41.67%
75th Percentile £82.25 £80.83 £64.44
90th Percentile £88.40 £82.11 £74.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.00 £78.70 £52.50
% change year-on-year -8.51% +49.90% -32.69%

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 4,202 3,416 4,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.43% 11.67% 9.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,912 2,262 2,861
10th Percentile £305 £263 £250
25th Percentile £404 £391 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £609 £600
90th Percentile £688 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £455 £450
% change year-on-year +4.40% +1.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 81 169
10th Percentile £15.00 £19.25 £13.50
25th Percentile £18.50 £24.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £46.18 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.21% +62.04% +24.92%
75th Percentile £73.75 £64.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £82.00 £75.00 £68.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.00 £53.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -22.64% +120.83% +9.09%

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 29 March 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 29 March 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 29 March 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 -130 235 £525 -22.22% 88
UK excluding London -50 137 £525 +5.00% 55
London -103 127 £560 -25.33% 50
Work from Home -84 67 £525 -32.26% 42
Scotland +40 36 £525 +20.00% 4
North of England -45 36 £492 +3.58% 11
North West -22 25 £525 +10.53% 9
Midlands -54 25 £550 - 4
West Midlands -44 20 £525 -12.50% 4
South West -24 19 £500 -18.37% 12
South East -62 12 £555 +38.75% 17
North East -5 7 £425 -34.62% 1
East of England -30 7 £363 +13.99% 5
East Midlands -29 5 £663 +84.67%
Yorkshire -66 4 £475 -11.63% 1
Northern Ireland -2 3 £463 -22.92%
Wales -12 1 £543 - 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
1 127 (43.05%) Apache Spark
2 70 (23.73%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (9.49%) Tomcat
4 25 (8.47%) WebSphere
5 24 (8.14%) Apache Geronimo
5 24 (8.14%) Apache ServiceMix
5 24 (8.14%) Red Hat Fuse
6 8 (2.71%) IIS
6 8 (2.71%) WebLogic
7 6 (2.03%) Confluence
8 5 (1.69%) Apache Superset
8 5 (1.69%) JBoss
8 5 (1.69%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (1.02%) Jupyter
10 3 (1.02%) nginx
10 3 (1.02%) SAS
11 2 (0.68%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Actimize
1 1 (0.34%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 147 (49.83%) AWS
2 107 (36.27%) Azure
3 76 (25.76%) GCP
4 48 (16.27%) Amazon S3
5 42 (14.24%) Power Platform
6 41 (13.90%) Serverless
7 40 (13.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 27 (9.15%) AWS Lambda
8 27 (9.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 25 (8.47%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (7.46%) Azure Data Factory
10 22 (7.46%) Snowflake
11 21 (7.12%) Amazon SQS
12 19 (6.44%) Collibra
13 17 (5.76%) GitHub
14 15 (5.08%) dbt
15 14 (4.75%) AWS Step Functions
15 14 (4.75%) GitHub Actions
16 9 (3.05%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 8 (2.71%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.41%) Firewall
2 8 (2.71%) HTTP
3 6 (2.03%) DNS
4 5 (1.69%) Network Security
5 4 (1.36%) DHCP
6 3 (1.02%) SAN
6 3 (1.02%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.68%) FTP
7 2 (0.68%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.68%) SSH
7 2 (0.68%) VLAN
8 1 (0.34%) 4G
8 1 (0.34%) 5G
8 1 (0.34%) InfiniBand
8 1 (0.34%) Intranet
8 1 (0.34%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.34%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.34%) Spanning Tree
8 1 (0.34%) VPN
8 1 (0.34%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (17.97%) Data Lake
2 38 (12.88%) Big Data
3 37 (12.54%) Data Warehouse
3 37 (12.54%) Power BI
4 36 (12.20%) Amazon Athena
5 34 (11.53%) BigQuery
6 31 (10.51%) Delta Lake
7 25 (8.47%) Hadoop
8 19 (6.44%) PostgreSQL
8 19 (6.44%) SQL Server
9 18 (6.10%) Mixpanel
10 17 (5.76%) OLAP
10 17 (5.76%) OLTP
11 16 (5.42%) Amazon Redshift
11 16 (5.42%) Flink
11 16 (5.42%) Metadata
12 15 (5.08%) MySQL
12 15 (5.08%) NoSQL
13 12 (4.07%) Relational Database
14 10 (3.39%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 50 (16.95%) Git
2 27 (9.15%) GitLab
3 20 (6.78%) JIRA
4 13 (4.41%) MLflow
5 11 (3.73%) Artifactory
6 9 (3.05%) Jenkins
7 7 (2.37%) JUnit
8 6 (2.03%) Bitbucket
8 6 (2.03%) Maven
9 5 (1.69%) Selenium
10 4 (1.36%) Eclipse
10 4 (1.36%) Gradle
10 4 (1.36%) IntelliJ
10 4 (1.36%) Mockito
11 3 (1.02%) Liquibase
12 2 (0.68%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.68%) ERwin
13 1 (0.34%) PowerDesigner
13 1 (0.34%) SonarQube
13 1 (0.34%) Storybook
General
1 55 (18.64%) Social Skills
2 52 (17.63%) Finance
3 29 (9.83%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (7.12%) Public Sector
5 16 (5.42%) Banking
6 6 (2.03%) Investment Banking
7 5 (1.69%) Billing
7 5 (1.69%) Front Office
8 4 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.36%) Marketing
8 4 (1.36%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.02%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.68%) Electronics
10 2 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.68%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.34%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.34%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.34%) French Language
11 1 (0.34%) Law
Job Titles
1 97 (32.88%) Data Engineer
2 45 (15.25%) Senior
3 38 (12.88%) Developer
4 30 (10.17%) Lead
5 24 (8.14%) Software Engineer
6 20 (6.78%) Senior Data Engineer
7 19 (6.44%) Architect
7 19 (6.44%) Lead Data Engineer
8 18 (6.10%) AWS Engineer
8 18 (6.10%) Principal Engineer
9 17 (5.76%) Principal Data Engineer
10 16 (5.42%) Java Developer
11 14 (4.75%) DevOps Engineer
12 10 (3.39%) Data Architect
12 10 (3.39%) Python Engineer
13 8 (2.71%) AWS Data Engineer
13 8 (2.71%) Java Engineer
13 8 (2.71%) Platform Engineer
13 8 (2.71%) Principal Software Engineer
14 7 (2.37%) Data Analytics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (21.69%) Kafka
2 36 (12.20%) PySpark
3 33 (11.19%) REST
4 31 (10.51%) Apache NiFi
5 27 (9.15%) Middleware
6 24 (8.14%) Apache Axis
6 24 (8.14%) Apache Camel
7 20 (6.78%) Spring
8 19 (6.44%) Great Expectations
9 17 (5.76%) JSON
10 14 (4.75%) Pandas
11 12 (4.07%) NumPy
12 10 (3.39%) Apache Beam
12 10 (3.39%) AWS CDK
13 9 (3.05%) Spring Boot
14 8 (2.71%) React
14 8 (2.71%) SOAP
15 7 (2.37%) Hibernate
15 7 (2.37%) Node.js
15 7 (2.37%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (12.54%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.07%) Management Information System
3 11 (3.73%) Algorithms
4 10 (3.39%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.05%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (2.71%) Data Structures
6 8 (2.71%) Distributed Computing
6 8 (2.71%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (2.37%) Clustering
7 7 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.69%) Freedom of Information
9 5 (1.69%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.69%) Replication
10 4 (1.36%) Equities
11 3 (1.02%) Distributed Applications
11 3 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 42 (14.24%) Linux
2 27 (9.15%) Windows
3 21 (7.12%) Unix
4 9 (3.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (3.05%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.37%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.69%) Debian
7 4 (1.36%) Rocky
8 3 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.68%) Solaris
9 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.34%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.34%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (41.36%) CI/CD
2 97 (32.88%) Analytics
3 95 (32.20%) Data Pipeline
4 91 (30.85%) Data Engineering
4 91 (30.85%) DevOps
5 90 (30.51%) ETL
6 86 (29.15%) Data Modelling
7 70 (23.73%) Agile
8 64 (21.69%) Data Governance
8 64 (21.69%) Problem-Solving
9 60 (20.34%) Machine Learning
10 59 (20.00%) AI
11 56 (18.98%) Infrastructure as Code
12 47 (15.93%) Software Engineering
13 46 (15.59%) Business Intelligence
13 46 (15.59%) Data Architecture
14 43 (14.58%) Observability
15 35 (11.86%) Data Science
16 33 (11.19%) Workflow
17 32 (10.85%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 168 (56.95%) SQL
2 163 (55.25%) Python
3 89 (30.17%) Java
4 29 (9.83%) Scala
5 24 (8.14%) C#
6 16 (5.42%) PowerShell
7 13 (4.41%) JavaScript
8 11 (3.73%) TypeScript
9 10 (3.39%) R
10 9 (3.05%) Shell Script
11 7 (2.37%) Bash
12 6 (2.03%) Perl
13 5 (1.69%) PHP
13 5 (1.69%) PL/SQL
14 3 (1.02%) C++
14 3 (1.02%) Go
15 2 (0.68%) AWK
15 2 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.34%) Korn
16 1 (0.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 86 (29.15%) Security Cleared
2 67 (22.71%) SC Cleared
3 25 (8.47%) DV Cleared
4 20 (6.78%) Degree
5 13 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.05%) Master's Degree
7 8 (2.71%) AWS Certification
8 7 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.02%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.68%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.34%) CCNA
11 1 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.34%) RHCE
11 1 (0.34%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (23.39%) Data Quality
2 27 (9.15%) GDPR
3 14 (4.75%) QA
4 4 (1.36%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.34%) IFRS
6 1 (0.34%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.34%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.34%) MiFID
6 1 (0.34%) Solvency II
System Software
1 48 (16.27%) Docker
2 6 (2.03%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.36%) HDFS
3 4 (1.36%) NFS
4 3 (1.02%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.02%) Samba
5 2 (0.68%) iptables
5 2 (0.68%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.68%) Postfix
5 2 (0.68%) Varnish
5 2 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.34%) Ceph
6 1 (0.34%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.34%) KVM
6 1 (0.34%) Lustre
6 1 (0.34%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.34%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 66 (22.37%) Terraform
2 55 (18.64%) Kubernetes
3 27 (9.15%) Ansible
4 7 (2.37%) Grafana
5 4 (1.36%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.36%) Puppet
6 3 (1.02%) HAProxy
7 2 (0.68%) Apache Ranger
7 2 (0.68%) Kibana
7 2 (0.68%) logstash
7 2 (0.68%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.68%) SELinux
8 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.34%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.34%) SCCM
8 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.34%) systemd
8 1 (0.34%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 61 (20.68%) Databricks
2 43 (14.58%) Oracle
3 41 (13.90%) Google
4 24 (8.14%) TIBCO
5 20 (6.78%) Microsoft
6 17 (5.76%) Red Hat
7 13 (4.41%) Cloudera
8 12 (4.07%) Informatica
9 8 (2.71%) Confluent
9 8 (2.71%) ServiceNow
10 7 (2.37%) Cisco
10 7 (2.37%) Talend
11 5 (1.69%) Foundry
11 5 (1.69%) Palantir
11 5 (1.69%) Palo Alto
11 5 (1.69%) SolarWinds
11 5 (1.69%) Splunk
12 4 (1.36%) Guidewire
12 4 (1.36%) VMware
12 4 (1.36%) webMethods