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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 260 189
Rank change year-on-year -104 -71 +110
Contract jobs citing Apache 334 323 529
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.63% 0.98% 1.31%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.20% 8.96% 12.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 244 450
10th Percentile £363 £402 £413
25th Percentile £425 £463 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £750
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £588 £825 £850
90th Percentile £675 £846 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £491 £530 £475
% change year-on-year -7.22% +11.47% -13.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 11
10th Percentile £62.00 £38.21 £36.75
25th Percentile £64.00 £64.24 £48.75
Median hourly rate £67.47 £79.35 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.97% +13.36% -10.26%
75th Percentile £70.25 £80.74 £74.44
90th Percentile £73.75 £82.07 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £79.35 £70.00
% change year-on-year -14.97% +13.36% -10.26%

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 4,641 3,604 4,255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.75% 10.95% 10.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,064 2,359 2,939
10th Percentile £306 £287 £270
25th Percentile £404 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% +2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £725 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +2.78% - -4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 87 125
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.03 £13.57
25th Percentile £19.03 £26.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £43.09 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.77% +39.00% -39.51%
75th Percentile £61.89 £67.63 £57.50
90th Percentile £74.33 £79.25 £74.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £46.65 £30.00
% change year-on-year -24.97% +55.50% -14.29%

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 July 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 July 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 26 July 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 -124 267 £513 -14.58% 114
London -100 155 £550 -26.67% 62
UK excluding London -66 147 £491 -7.22% 58
Work from Home -76 97 £519 -30.83% 35
North of England -50 55 £425 - 17
Scotland +15 39 £525 +5.00% 3
North East - 28 £385 - 7
North West -42 21 £525 +46.65% 7
South West -33 19 £450 -12.62% 10
Midlands -52 18 £498 -7.36% 6
West Midlands -53 15 £500 -8.26% 5
South East -83 11 £470 -21.67% 19
Yorkshire -51 6 £475 -20.83% 3
Wales -15 3 £509 -
East of England -31 3 £400 -27.27% 4
East Midlands -16 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
1 175 (52.40%) Apache Spark
2 127 (38.02%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (9.58%) Tomcat
4 29 (8.68%) Jupyter
5 27 (8.08%) WebSphere
6 22 (6.59%) Apache Geronimo
6 22 (6.59%) Apache ServiceMix
6 22 (6.59%) Red Hat Fuse
7 13 (3.89%) nginx
8 8 (2.40%) Confluence
9 7 (2.10%) Apache Superset
9 7 (2.10%) IIS
10 5 (1.50%) CloudStack
10 5 (1.50%) SharePoint
11 4 (1.20%) JBoss
12 3 (0.90%) WebLogic
13 2 (0.60%) Apache Synapse
14 1 (0.30%) Luigi
14 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
14 1 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Magento
1 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.30%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 176 (52.69%) AWS
2 119 (35.63%) Azure
3 85 (25.45%) GCP
4 57 (17.07%) Amazon S3
5 38 (11.38%) dbt
6 37 (11.08%) Power Platform
7 32 (9.58%) Serverless
8 31 (9.28%) Snowflake
9 30 (8.98%) AWS Lambda
9 30 (8.98%) Azure DevOps
10 28 (8.38%) Amazon EMR
10 28 (8.38%) Azure Data Factory
11 22 (6.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 21 (6.29%) GitHub
13 17 (5.09%) AWS CloudFormation
14 16 (4.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 16 (4.79%) Amazon SQS
15 15 (4.49%) GitHub Actions
16 12 (3.59%) Collibra
17 10 (2.99%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.09%) DNS
2 14 (4.19%) Firewall
3 6 (1.80%) HTTP
3 6 (1.80%) SAN
4 5 (1.50%) NAS
5 4 (1.20%) DHCP
6 3 (0.90%) Network Security
6 3 (0.90%) Structured Cabling
6 3 (0.90%) VLAN
7 2 (0.60%) BIG-IP
7 2 (0.60%) FTP
7 2 (0.60%) SSL
7 2 (0.60%) VXLAN
8 1 (0.30%) 5G
8 1 (0.30%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.30%) Intranet
8 1 (0.30%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.30%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.30%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.30%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (17.07%) Data Warehouse
2 50 (14.97%) Data Lake
3 44 (13.17%) Big Data
4 36 (10.78%) BigQuery
5 35 (10.48%) Delta Lake
6 33 (9.88%) Power BI
7 32 (9.58%) Amazon Athena
8 30 (8.98%) Flink
9 29 (8.68%) Metadata
10 27 (8.08%) SQL Server
11 23 (6.89%) Hadoop
11 23 (6.89%) PostgreSQL
12 19 (5.69%) Amazon Redshift
13 17 (5.09%) MySQL
13 17 (5.09%) NoSQL
13 17 (5.09%) Relational Database
14 15 (4.49%) Tableau
15 13 (3.89%) Apache Iceberg
16 12 (3.59%) Elasticsearch
17 11 (3.29%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 49 (14.67%) Git
2 44 (13.17%) GitLab
3 21 (6.29%) JIRA
4 16 (4.79%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.10%) MLflow
5 7 (2.10%) SonarQube
6 5 (1.50%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.50%) Maven
7 4 (1.20%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (1.20%) Gradle
8 3 (0.90%) Selenium
9 1 (0.30%) Capybara
9 1 (0.30%) git-flow
9 1 (0.30%) minitest
9 1 (0.30%) Newman
9 1 (0.30%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.30%) Postman
9 1 (0.30%) RSpec
9 1 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 67 (20.06%) Social Skills
2 64 (19.16%) Finance
3 42 (12.57%) Public Sector
4 40 (11.98%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (6.89%) Banking
6 7 (2.10%) Marketing
7 6 (1.80%) Billing
7 6 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.50%) Publishing
9 4 (1.20%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.20%) Front Office
9 4 (1.20%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.90%) Law
10 3 (0.90%) Legal
11 2 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.60%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.30%) Prime Brokerage
12 1 (0.30%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 118 (35.33%) Data Engineer
2 53 (15.87%) Senior
3 47 (14.07%) Architect
4 46 (13.77%) Developer
5 29 (8.68%) Senior Data Engineer
6 28 (8.38%) Lead
7 23 (6.89%) Data Architect
8 22 (6.59%) Java Developer
9 21 (6.29%) DevOps Engineer
10 16 (4.79%) Lead Data Engineer
11 14 (4.19%) AWS Engineer
12 11 (3.29%) Python Engineer
13 10 (2.99%) Software Engineer
14 9 (2.69%) Cloud Engineer
14 9 (2.69%) Principal Engineer
14 9 (2.69%) Python Developer
14 9 (2.69%) Senior Developer
15 8 (2.40%) Analyst
15 8 (2.40%) AWS Data Engineer
15 8 (2.40%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (22.75%) Kafka
2 63 (18.86%) PySpark
3 29 (8.68%) REST
4 27 (8.08%) Middleware
4 27 (8.08%) Spring
5 23 (6.89%) Spring Boot
6 22 (6.59%) Apache Axis
6 22 (6.59%) Apache Camel
7 18 (5.39%) Apache Beam
8 17 (5.09%) JSON
9 11 (3.29%) Apache NiFi
9 11 (3.29%) Great Expectations
10 10 (2.99%) OAuth
10 10 (2.99%) Pandas
11 9 (2.69%) AWS CDK
11 9 (2.69%) SOAP
12 8 (2.40%) LAMP
13 7 (2.10%) NumPy
13 7 (2.10%) PyTorch
14 6 (1.80%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 54 (16.17%) Cloud Native
2 20 (5.99%) Product Ownership
3 17 (5.09%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (4.79%) Data Structures
5 15 (4.49%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (3.89%) Management Information System
7 10 (2.99%) Public Cloud
8 9 (2.69%) Onboarding
9 8 (2.40%) Clustering
9 8 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (2.10%) Distributed Computing
11 6 (1.80%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.50%) AI Agents
12 5 (1.50%) Data Centre
12 5 (1.50%) Replication
12 5 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (1.20%) Data Fabric
13 4 (1.20%) PKI
13 4 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 52 (15.57%) Linux
2 18 (5.39%) Windows
3 15 (4.49%) Ubuntu
3 15 (4.49%) Unix
4 10 (2.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.10%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.50%) CentOS
7 4 (1.20%) Rocky
7 4 (1.20%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.90%) Debian
8 3 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.60%) Solaris
9 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.30%) VMS
10 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (46.41%) CI/CD
2 131 (39.22%) Data Engineering
3 129 (38.62%) Data Pipeline
4 120 (35.93%) Analytics
5 106 (31.74%) DevOps
6 105 (31.44%) Data Modelling
7 101 (30.24%) ETL
8 86 (25.75%) Agile
9 76 (22.75%) Infrastructure as Code
10 74 (22.16%) Containerisation
11 72 (21.56%) AI
12 70 (20.96%) Data Governance
13 50 (14.97%) Machine Learning
14 46 (13.77%) Business Intelligence
14 46 (13.77%) Problem-Solving
15 45 (13.47%) Data Architecture
16 44 (13.17%) Migration
17 42 (12.57%) Data Science
18 41 (12.28%) Workflow
19 35 (10.48%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 215 (64.37%) Python
2 193 (57.78%) SQL
3 94 (28.14%) Java
4 27 (8.08%) Scala
5 21 (6.29%) Bash
6 19 (5.69%) Shell Script
7 16 (4.79%) PowerShell
8 10 (2.99%) C#
8 10 (2.99%) R
8 10 (2.99%) TypeScript
9 9 (2.69%) Go
9 9 (2.69%) Perl
10 8 (2.40%) JavaScript
10 8 (2.40%) PL/SQL
11 6 (1.80%) PHP
12 5 (1.50%) Ruby
13 4 (1.20%) Groovy
14 3 (0.90%) Cypher
14 3 (0.90%) Gremlin
14 3 (0.90%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 99 (29.64%) Security Cleared
2 89 (26.65%) SC Cleared
3 24 (7.19%) Degree
4 17 (5.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.29%) Master's Degree
6 9 (2.69%) DV Cleared
7 8 (2.40%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.80%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.90%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.90%) CCNP
10 3 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.90%) CSPO
10 3 (0.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.60%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.60%) RHCSA
12 1 (0.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.30%) MBA
12 1 (0.30%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (26.35%) Data Quality
2 22 (6.59%) GDPR
3 13 (3.89%) QA
4 9 (2.69%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (1.20%) Government Security Classifications
7 3 (0.90%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.60%) SLA
8 2 (0.60%) WCAG
System Software
1 87 (26.05%) Docker
2 11 (3.29%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.69%) Postfix
4 8 (2.40%) NFS
5 7 (2.10%) Varnish
6 5 (1.50%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (1.20%) Sendmail
8 3 (0.90%) Dovecot
8 3 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.90%) vSphere
9 2 (0.60%) Ceph
9 2 (0.60%) HDFS
9 2 (0.60%) KVM
9 2 (0.60%) Samba
10 1 (0.30%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.30%) iptables
10 1 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 90 (26.95%) Terraform
2 70 (20.96%) Kubernetes
3 23 (6.89%) Ansible
4 11 (3.29%) Grafana
5 9 (2.69%) HAProxy
6 6 (1.80%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.20%) Packer
7 4 (1.20%) SELinux
7 4 (1.20%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.90%) Apache Ranger
8 3 (0.90%) Check_MK
8 3 (0.90%) Kibana
9 2 (0.60%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.60%) Puppet
9 2 (0.60%) systemd
10 1 (0.30%) logstash
10 1 (0.30%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.30%) Rundeck
10 1 (0.30%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 73 (21.86%) Databricks
2 40 (11.98%) Google
2 40 (11.98%) Oracle
3 35 (10.48%) Microsoft
4 23 (6.89%) TIBCO
5 16 (4.79%) Trend Micro
6 12 (3.59%) Informatica
7 11 (3.29%) Red Hat
8 10 (2.99%) Cloudera
8 10 (2.99%) VMware
9 8 (2.40%) ServiceNow
10 7 (2.10%) Cisco
10 7 (2.10%) Guidewire
10 7 (2.10%) Talend
11 6 (1.80%) IBM
11 6 (1.80%) Splunk
12 5 (1.50%) Confluent
13 4 (1.20%) Hortonworks
13 4 (1.20%) Okta
13 4 (1.20%) Tanium