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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 368 296 197
Rank change year-on-year -72 -99 +113
Contract jobs citing Apache 351 293 483
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.64% 0.89% 1.28%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.41% 8.23% 11.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 213 402
10th Percentile £350 £363 £407
25th Percentile £406 £456 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £750
Median % change year-on-year -8.27% -26.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £603 £700 £850
90th Percentile £700 £825 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -10.53% - -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 7
10th Percentile £56.25 - £57.50
25th Percentile £64.94 - £69.50
Median hourly rate £67.47 £80.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.66% +8.11% -5.13%
75th Percentile £74.38 - £74.44
90th Percentile £83.62 - £74.66
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £80.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year -15.66% +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 4,734 3,559 4,132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.62% 10.77% 10.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,071 2,302 2,648
10th Percentile £288 £277 £263
25th Percentile £404 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £645
90th Percentile £680 £700 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £454
% change year-on-year +2.78% -0.77% -4.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 85 78
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.60 £17.08
25th Percentile £16.60 £20.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £28.40 £34.98 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.83% -2.83% -21.74%
75th Percentile £55.75 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £72.50 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.00 £33.33 £48.56
% change year-on-year -12.98% -31.37% +6.73%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -76 297 £513 -6.82% 378
London -62 168 £550 -15.38% 245
UK excluding London -66 149 £425 -10.53% 189
Work from Home -70 105 £498 -33.67% 151
North of England -54 59 £413 -8.33% 41
Scotland -8 29 £417 -16.60% 34
North East -9 29 £385 -30.00% 7
South West -18 29 £525 +15.38% 38
Yorkshire -34 16 £475 - 8
Midlands -61 16 £475 -7.09% 16
West Midlands -49 14 £475 -9.52% 9
North West -63 14 £530 +35.90% 26
South East -59 13 £425 -29.17% 32
East of England -30 3 £456 -17.05% 11
Wales - 2 £475 - 6
East Midlands -17 1 £495 +17.86% 7

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
1 187 (53.28%) Apache Spark
2 166 (47.29%) Apache Airflow
3 37 (10.54%) Jupyter
4 22 (6.27%) nginx
5 18 (5.13%) Tomcat
6 16 (4.56%) Confluence
7 10 (2.85%) IIS
8 9 (2.56%) WebSphere
9 8 (2.28%) WebLogic
10 7 (1.99%) Apache Superset
11 5 (1.42%) CloudStack
12 4 (1.14%) JBoss
12 4 (1.14%) SharePoint
13 3 (0.85%) IBM HTTP Server
13 3 (0.85%) Oracle HTTP Server
13 3 (0.85%) WebLogic Portal
13 3 (0.85%) WebSphere Application Server
13 3 (0.85%) WebSphere Portal
14 1 (0.28%) Apache Synapse
14 1 (0.28%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Magento
1 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.28%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 196 (55.84%) AWS
2 118 (33.62%) Azure
3 87 (24.79%) GCP
4 74 (21.08%) Amazon S3
5 62 (17.66%) dbt
6 49 (13.96%) Snowflake
7 39 (11.11%) Serverless
8 36 (10.26%) Amazon EMR
9 35 (9.97%) AWS Lambda
10 32 (9.12%) Azure Data Factory
11 28 (7.98%) Azure DevOps
12 27 (7.69%) Power Platform
13 23 (6.55%) GitHub
14 22 (6.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 21 (5.98%) Amazon EC2
16 15 (4.27%) OpenShift
17 14 (3.99%) Azure Databricks
17 14 (3.99%) Cloud Composer
18 13 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 12 (3.42%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.56%) DNS
2 12 (3.42%) Firewall
3 6 (1.71%) HTTP
4 5 (1.42%) DHCP
4 5 (1.42%) NAS
4 5 (1.42%) SAN
4 5 (1.42%) SSL
5 4 (1.14%) Network Security
6 3 (0.85%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.85%) Reverse Proxy
6 3 (0.85%) Structured Cabling
7 2 (0.57%) BIG-IP
7 2 (0.57%) Internet
7 2 (0.57%) VLAN
7 2 (0.57%) VXLAN
8 1 (0.28%) Broadband
8 1 (0.28%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (22.51%) Data Warehouse
2 55 (15.67%) Data Lake
3 47 (13.39%) Big Data
4 46 (13.11%) BigQuery
5 40 (11.40%) Delta Lake
6 38 (10.83%) Flink
7 37 (10.54%) Metadata
8 31 (8.83%) PostgreSQL
9 29 (8.26%) Amazon Athena
10 26 (7.41%) Amazon Redshift
10 26 (7.41%) Apache Iceberg
10 26 (7.41%) Power BI
11 23 (6.55%) Hadoop
12 21 (5.98%) SQL Server
13 19 (5.41%) Relational Database
14 16 (4.56%) Elasticsearch
15 15 (4.27%) NoSQL
16 12 (3.42%) DynamoDB
17 11 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
17 11 (3.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 66 (18.80%) GitLab
2 52 (14.81%) Git
3 21 (5.98%) JIRA
4 19 (5.41%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.28%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (1.71%) Maven
7 5 (1.42%) Artifactory
7 5 (1.42%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.14%) MLflow
9 3 (0.85%) Gradle
9 3 (0.85%) Selenium
10 2 (0.57%) Gerrit
10 2 (0.57%) JMeter
10 2 (0.57%) RStudio
10 2 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.57%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.28%) minitest
11 1 (0.28%) Newman
11 1 (0.28%) Postman
General
1 88 (25.07%) Social Skills
2 80 (22.79%) Finance
3 52 (14.81%) Public Sector
4 45 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (10.54%) Banking
6 8 (2.28%) Publishing
7 7 (1.99%) Financial Institution
7 7 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.99%) Marketing
7 7 (1.99%) Military
8 5 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.14%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.14%) Billing
9 4 (1.14%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.14%) Retail
10 3 (0.85%) Automotive
10 3 (0.85%) Law
10 3 (0.85%) Legal
11 2 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 143 (40.74%) Data Engineer
2 59 (16.81%) Senior
3 46 (13.11%) Architect
4 41 (11.68%) Developer
5 37 (10.54%) Senior Data Engineer
6 28 (7.98%) DevOps Engineer
7 27 (7.69%) Lead
8 24 (6.84%) Data Architect
9 23 (6.55%) Databricks Engineer
10 20 (5.70%) Java Developer
11 16 (4.56%) Databricks Data Engineer
12 15 (4.27%) Python Engineer
13 12 (3.42%) Cloud Engineer
13 12 (3.42%) Python Data Engineer
14 11 (3.13%) AWS Engineer
15 10 (2.85%) GCP Engineer
15 10 (2.85%) Snowflake Engineer
15 10 (2.85%) Software Engineer
15 10 (2.85%) Technical Leader
16 9 (2.56%) Senior Databricks Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (31.34%) Terraform
2 93 (26.50%) PySpark
3 76 (21.65%) Kafka
4 37 (10.54%) REST
5 31 (8.83%) Spring
6 30 (8.55%) Spring Boot
7 19 (5.41%) Apache NiFi
8 16 (4.56%) Apache Beam
9 15 (4.27%) JSON
10 14 (3.99%) Middleware
10 14 (3.99%) SOAP
11 11 (3.13%) OAuth
11 11 (3.13%) Pandas
12 8 (2.28%) Elastic Stack
12 8 (2.28%) Spark Streaming
12 8 (2.28%) Web Services
12 8 (2.28%) YAML
13 7 (1.99%) AngularJS
14 6 (1.71%) PyTorch
14 6 (1.71%) React
Miscellaneous
1 58 (16.52%) Cloud Native
2 25 (7.12%) Product Ownership
3 19 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (4.56%) Data Structures
5 15 (4.27%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (3.70%) Onboarding
7 11 (3.13%) Algorithms
7 11 (3.13%) Management Information System
8 9 (2.56%) Data Fabric
8 9 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (2.28%) Public Cloud
10 7 (1.99%) Clustering
11 6 (1.71%) AI Agents
11 6 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.42%) Data Centre
12 5 (1.42%) Enterprise Cloud
12 5 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.42%) Replication
13 4 (1.14%) Distributed Architecture
14 3 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 48 (13.68%) Linux
2 21 (5.98%) Windows
3 15 (4.27%) Ubuntu
4 9 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.99%) Unix
6 6 (1.71%) Windows Server
7 5 (1.42%) Windows 10
8 4 (1.14%) CentOS
9 3 (0.85%) Rocky
10 2 (0.57%) Debian
10 2 (0.57%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.28%) Solaris
11 1 (0.28%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (52.71%) CI/CD
2 153 (43.59%) Data Pipeline
3 150 (42.74%) Data Engineering
4 121 (34.47%) DevOps
5 118 (33.62%) Analytics
6 116 (33.05%) ETL
7 107 (30.48%) Agile
8 103 (29.34%) Data Modelling
9 90 (25.64%) AI
10 86 (24.50%) Infrastructure as Code
11 73 (20.80%) Containerisation
12 65 (18.52%) Data Governance
12 65 (18.52%) Machine Learning
13 61 (17.38%) Migration
14 52 (14.81%) Lakehouse
15 49 (13.96%) Problem-Solving
16 47 (13.39%) Stakeholder Management
17 44 (12.54%) Data Science
18 42 (11.97%) Technical Leadership
18 42 (11.97%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 231 (65.81%) Python
2 178 (50.71%) SQL
3 73 (20.80%) Java
4 32 (9.12%) Scala
5 28 (7.98%) Bash
6 27 (7.69%) PowerShell
7 15 (4.27%) Shell Script
8 11 (3.13%) JavaScript
9 8 (2.28%) Go
10 7 (1.99%) PL/SQL
11 6 (1.71%) TypeScript
12 5 (1.42%) Bicep
12 5 (1.42%) Groovy
13 4 (1.14%) Perl
13 4 (1.14%) Ruby
14 3 (0.85%) Cypher
14 3 (0.85%) Gremlin
14 3 (0.85%) R
14 3 (0.85%) SPARQL
15 2 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 109 (31.05%) Security Cleared
2 88 (25.07%) SC Cleared
3 22 (6.27%) Degree
4 21 (5.98%) DV Cleared
5 14 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (3.42%) AWS Certification
7 7 (1.99%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.42%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.14%) CISSP
10 3 (0.85%) CCNP
10 3 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.85%) CSPO
10 3 (0.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.57%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.28%) PMP
12 1 (0.28%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (25.36%) Data Quality
2 14 (3.99%) QA
3 12 (3.42%) GDPR
4 9 (2.56%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.14%) Government Security Classifications
6 3 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.85%) NCSC
7 2 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.57%) SLA
7 2 (0.57%) WCAG
8 1 (0.28%) NIST
8 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 106 (30.20%) Docker
2 18 (5.13%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.99%) Postfix
4 5 (1.42%) NFS
4 5 (1.42%) Varnish
4 5 (1.42%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.85%) Dovecot
6 3 (0.85%) Sendmail
6 3 (0.85%) vSphere
7 2 (0.57%) Ceph
7 2 (0.57%) KVM
7 2 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 90 (25.64%) Kubernetes
2 28 (7.98%) Ansible
3 17 (4.84%) Grafana
4 12 (3.42%) Prometheus
5 9 (2.56%) HAProxy
6 5 (1.42%) Packer
6 5 (1.42%) Puppet
6 5 (1.42%) vCenter Server
7 4 (1.14%) Kibana
8 3 (0.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.85%) Check_MK
8 3 (0.85%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.85%) SELinux
9 2 (0.57%) Control-M
9 2 (0.57%) systemd
10 1 (0.28%) Apache Ranger
10 1 (0.28%) logstash
10 1 (0.28%) Podman
10 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 89 (25.36%) Databricks
2 40 (11.40%) Google
3 38 (10.83%) Microsoft
4 19 (5.41%) Oracle
5 17 (4.84%) Trend Micro
6 10 (2.85%) Red Hat
6 10 (2.85%) VMware
7 9 (2.56%) Informatica
7 9 (2.56%) ServiceNow
8 8 (2.28%) IBM
9 7 (1.99%) Cisco
9 7 (1.99%) Splunk
10 6 (1.71%) Guidewire
11 5 (1.42%) New Relic
11 5 (1.42%) Talend
11 5 (1.42%) Tanium
12 4 (1.14%) SAP
12 4 (1.14%) Teradata
12 4 (1.14%) webMethods
13 3 (0.85%) Juniper