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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 302 251 300
Rank change year-on-year -51 +49 -16
Contract jobs citing Apache 301 364 337
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.82% 1.01% 0.75%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.82% 9.06% 7.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 273 261
10th Percentile £375 £383 £356
25th Percentile £432 £513 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £700 £575
Median % change year-on-year -23.07% +21.74% -10.16%
75th Percentile £678 £850 £700
90th Percentile £825 £888 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 7
10th Percentile £62.68 £57.35 £19.40
25th Percentile £67.06 - £22.00
Median hourly rate £76.75 £74.00 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.72% +142.62% -41.90%
75th Percentile £84.06 - £65.88
90th Percentile £87.03 £74.26 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.75 £74.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +3.72% +40.95% +50.06%

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 3,847 4,016 4,564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.54% 11.12% 10.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,619 2,474 3,034
10th Percentile £288 £262 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £506 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.16% +1.17% -4.76%
75th Percentile £595 £638 £626
90th Percentile £720 £775 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £463 £475
% change year-on-year +2.70% -2.63% -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 92 137
10th Percentile £15.99 £17.01 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.06 £21.25 £17.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £37.25 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.46% +37.96% +38.46%
75th Percentile £65.25 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £70.00 £72.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £47.50 £23.95
% change year-on-year -26.32% +98.33% +36.86%

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 5 December 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Apache over the 6 months to 5 December 2025.

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 5 December 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 -70 259 £550 -26.67% 55
UK excluding London -2 138 £475 - 49
London -82 136 £625 -20.63% 19
Work from Home -75 95 £625 -21.88% 30
North of England -14 48 £452 -7.38% 7
Midlands -6 36 £511 -16.46% 8
North West +6 34 £433 -15.51% 5
West Midlands -9 29 £511 -16.46% 5
Scotland +22 23 £500 +23.08% 2
South West -9 13 £435 -28.98% 13
South East -19 13 £600 +26.32% 16
Yorkshire -31 11 £475 -2.56% 2
East Midlands -8 7 £510 +41.67% 3
East of England -18 7 £516 +63.89% 3
North East - 3 £400 -
Northern Ireland -8 1 £463 +1.37%

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 (34.88%) Apache Airflow
2 98 (32.56%) Apache Spark
3 26 (8.64%) WebLogic
4 25 (8.31%) IIS
5 24 (7.97%) JBoss
6 17 (5.65%) WebSphere
7 14 (4.65%) Confluence
8 13 (4.32%) Tomcat
9 10 (3.32%) iPlanet
9 10 (3.32%) WebSphere Application Server
10 7 (2.33%) nginx
11 4 (1.33%) Jupyter
12 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
13 2 (0.66%) Apache Geronimo
13 2 (0.66%) Apache Pig
13 2 (0.66%) Apache ServiceMix
13 2 (0.66%) Luigi
13 2 (0.66%) Oracle HTTP Server
13 2 (0.66%) Red Hat Fuse
13 2 (0.66%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (1.00%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.66%) Abaqus
2 2 (0.66%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.33%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (1.66%) Maximo
2 1 (0.33%) Actimize
2 1 (0.33%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.33%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 165 (54.82%) AWS
2 83 (27.57%) Azure
3 53 (17.61%) Snowflake
4 49 (16.28%) dbt
4 49 (16.28%) Serverless
5 45 (14.95%) GCP
6 36 (11.96%) Amazon S3
7 26 (8.64%) AWS CloudFormation
8 25 (8.31%) Power Platform
9 22 (7.31%) AWS Lambda
10 21 (6.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 19 (6.31%) Azure Data Factory
12 18 (5.98%) Azure Monitor
13 13 (4.32%) Azure DevOps
14 11 (3.65%) OpenShift
15 9 (2.99%) AWS Step Functions
15 9 (2.99%) Cloud Computing
15 9 (2.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 8 (2.66%) Amazon EMR
16 8 (2.66%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.65%) Firewall
2 11 (3.65%) Kerberos
3 8 (2.66%) HTTP
4 6 (1.99%) DNS
4 6 (1.99%) SSL
5 4 (1.33%) Network Security
6 3 (1.00%) DHCP
7 2 (0.66%) SMTP
7 2 (0.66%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.66%) VPN
8 1 (0.33%) InfiniBand
8 1 (0.33%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.33%) LAN
8 1 (0.33%) SAN
8 1 (0.33%) Spanning Tree
8 1 (0.33%) SSH
8 1 (0.33%) VLAN
8 1 (0.33%) WAN
8 1 (0.33%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (20.27%) Data Lake
2 47 (15.61%) Amazon Athena
2 47 (15.61%) Big Data
3 42 (13.95%) Data Warehouse
4 39 (12.96%) Hadoop
5 35 (11.63%) Apache Iceberg
6 28 (9.30%) Apache Arrow
6 28 (9.30%) Apache Ignite
6 28 (9.30%) Dremio
7 26 (8.64%) Delta Lake
8 25 (8.31%) Power BI
9 24 (7.97%) Amazon Redshift
10 20 (6.64%) BigQuery
11 18 (5.98%) Apache Hive
12 17 (5.65%) Metadata
12 17 (5.65%) NoSQL
13 16 (5.32%) Relational Database
14 14 (4.65%) Oracle Database
14 14 (4.65%) SQL Server
15 12 (3.99%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 53 (17.61%) Git
2 22 (7.31%) Jenkins
3 20 (6.64%) GitLab
4 18 (5.98%) JIRA
5 14 (4.65%) JUnit
6 11 (3.65%) Bitbucket Server
6 11 (3.65%) CA Release Automation
7 10 (3.32%) MLflow
7 10 (3.32%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (2.99%) Eclipse
8 9 (2.99%) IntelliJ
8 9 (2.99%) Selenium
9 7 (2.33%) Artifactory
10 6 (1.99%) Bitbucket
11 5 (1.66%) Mockito
11 5 (1.66%) Subversion
12 4 (1.33%) Liquibase
12 4 (1.33%) Maven
13 3 (1.00%) Gerrit
13 3 (1.00%) Vagrant
General
1 80 (26.58%) Social Skills
2 66 (21.93%) Finance
3 41 (13.62%) Banking
4 28 (9.30%) Front Office
4 28 (9.30%) Investment Banking
5 25 (8.31%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (6.64%) Public Sector
7 9 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.33%) Legal
9 3 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.66%) Electronics
10 2 (0.66%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.66%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.66%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.66%) Marketing
10 2 (0.66%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.66%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.33%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 72 (23.92%) Data Engineer
2 68 (22.59%) Senior
3 45 (14.95%) Software Engineer
4 38 (12.62%) AWS Engineer
5 37 (12.29%) Python Engineer
6 36 (11.96%) Senior Software Engineer
7 32 (10.63%) Java Engineer
8 31 (10.30%) Developer
9 28 (9.30%) AWS Software Engineer
9 28 (9.30%) Java Software Engineer
9 28 (9.30%) Python Software Engineer
10 27 (8.97%) Senior Java Engineer
10 27 (8.97%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 19 (6.31%) Architect
12 18 (5.98%) DevOps Engineer
13 16 (5.32%) Lead
14 13 (4.32%) Platform Engineer
15 12 (3.99%) Senior Data Engineer
16 11 (3.65%) Data Architect
17 9 (2.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (17.28%) Kafka
2 43 (14.29%) Apache NiFi
3 41 (13.62%) Pandas
4 38 (12.62%) NumPy
5 35 (11.63%) REST
6 29 (9.63%) PySpark
7 28 (9.30%) gRPC
7 28 (9.30%) Protocol Buffers
7 28 (9.30%) SciPy
8 18 (5.98%) OAuth
9 17 (5.65%) Spring
9 17 (5.65%) XML
10 16 (5.32%) React
11 15 (4.98%) HTML
11 15 (4.98%) SOAP
12 14 (4.65%) JSON
13 12 (3.99%) Middleware
13 12 (3.99%) OpenID
14 11 (3.65%) LDAP
14 11 (3.65%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (9.97%) Equities
2 28 (9.30%) Derivative
2 28 (9.30%) Fixed Income
2 28 (9.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 28 (9.30%) Hedge funds
2 28 (9.30%) Pricing Data
3 18 (5.98%) Cloud Native
4 14 (4.65%) Algorithms
5 10 (3.32%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (2.99%) Distributed Computing
7 8 (2.66%) PKI
8 6 (1.99%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.99%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.66%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.66%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.00%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.00%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 71 (23.59%) Linux
2 53 (17.61%) Windows
3 41 (13.62%) Unix
4 18 (5.98%) Windows Server
5 14 (4.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (2.99%) CentOS
7 7 (2.33%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.33%) Debian
9 2 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.33%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.33%) Rocky
10 1 (0.33%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (38.21%) Agile
2 101 (33.55%) CI/CD
3 90 (29.90%) DevOps
4 82 (27.24%) Data Pipeline
5 81 (26.91%) Analytics
6 79 (26.25%) ETL
7 72 (23.92%) Software Engineering
8 66 (21.93%) Data Engineering
9 59 (19.60%) Problem-Solving
10 57 (18.94%) Data Modelling
11 50 (16.61%) Data Governance
12 48 (15.95%) Business Intelligence
13 43 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
14 42 (13.95%) Infrastructure as Code
15 36 (11.96%) Microservices
16 34 (11.30%) Data Science
16 34 (11.30%) Visualisation
17 33 (10.96%) Machine Learning
18 32 (10.63%) Observability
19 30 (9.97%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 175 (58.14%) Python
2 109 (36.21%) SQL
3 87 (28.90%) Java
4 53 (17.61%) JavaScript
5 39 (12.96%) Scala
6 30 (9.97%) TypeScript
7 17 (5.65%) C#
7 17 (5.65%) Shell Script
8 15 (4.98%) PowerShell
9 14 (4.65%) Bash
10 11 (3.65%) C++
10 11 (3.65%) Groovy
11 6 (1.99%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.33%) PHP
12 4 (1.33%) R
13 3 (1.00%) Perl
14 2 (0.66%) AWK
14 2 (0.66%) Korn
14 2 (0.66%) SPARQL
14 2 (0.66%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 88 (29.24%) Security Cleared
2 61 (20.27%) SC Cleared
3 40 (13.29%) DV Cleared
4 14 (4.65%) AWS Certification
5 12 (3.99%) Degree
6 7 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.33%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.66%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.66%) MCP
9 2 (0.66%) RHCE
10 1 (0.33%) CCNA
10 1 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.33%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.33%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (13.95%) Data Quality
2 20 (6.64%) QA
3 15 (4.98%) GDPR
4 7 (2.33%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.00%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.33%) IFRS
6 1 (0.33%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.33%) MiFID
6 1 (0.33%) Section 508
6 1 (0.33%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 51 (16.94%) Docker
2 17 (5.65%) Active Directory
3 13 (4.32%) HDFS
4 8 (2.66%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 6 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.66%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.66%) KVM
7 2 (0.66%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.33%) Ceph
8 1 (0.33%) iptables
8 1 (0.33%) Lustre
8 1 (0.33%) NFS
8 1 (0.33%) Samba
8 1 (0.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 48 (15.95%) Terraform
2 37 (12.29%) Ansible
3 35 (11.63%) Kubernetes
4 18 (5.98%) Puppet
5 15 (4.98%) Progress Chef
6 11 (3.65%) CA Single Sign-On
7 10 (3.32%) CA Wily
7 10 (3.32%) Hadoop YARN
8 9 (2.99%) Prometheus
9 8 (2.66%) Grafana
9 8 (2.66%) Tivoli
10 6 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.33%) Nagios
12 3 (1.00%) Oozie
12 3 (1.00%) Salt
13 2 (0.66%) Icinga
13 2 (0.66%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.66%) WMI
14 1 (0.33%) Data Guard
14 1 (0.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 48 (15.95%) Databricks
2 43 (14.29%) Oracle
3 33 (10.96%) Splunk
4 31 (10.30%) Microsoft
5 25 (8.31%) AppDynamics
6 21 (6.98%) IBM
7 20 (6.64%) Google
8 17 (5.65%) Cisco
9 15 (4.98%) Dynatrace
10 14 (4.65%) Red Hat
11 12 (3.99%) Cloudera
12 11 (3.65%) Broadcom
12 11 (3.65%) Informatica
13 10 (3.32%) VMware
14 9 (2.99%) Foundry
14 9 (2.99%) Palantir
14 9 (2.99%) webMethods
15 7 (2.33%) ServiceNow
16 5 (1.66%) Talend
17 4 (1.33%) Salesforce