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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 265 296
Rank change year-on-year -87 +31 -6
Contract jobs citing Apache 285 290 318
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.66% 0.99% 0.72%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.91% 8.52% 7.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 211 255
10th Percentile £394 £402 £350
25th Percentile £456 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £550
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +22.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £838 £788
90th Percentile £688 £875 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £510
% change year-on-year +10.53% -6.86% -13.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 9
10th Percentile £62.20 £32.42 £21.95
25th Percentile £64.00 £49.78 £22.00
Median hourly rate £72.00 £78.70 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.51% +49.90% +7.69%
75th Percentile £82.25 £80.83 £68.00
90th Percentile £88.40 £82.11 £75.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.00 £78.70 £52.50
% change year-on-year -8.51% +49.90% -

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 4,123 3,403 4,219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.51% 11.62% 9.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,854 2,211 2,845
10th Percentile £304 £263 £250
25th Percentile £404 £390 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £498
Median % change year-on-year - +0.50% -3.02%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £600
90th Percentile £688 £713 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 70 170
10th Percentile £15.00 £17.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.69 £22.83 £15.50
Median hourly rate £27.61 £41.46 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.41% +56.43% +17.78%
75th Percentile £69.44 £64.31 £45.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £66.53 £68.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.12 £48.82 £23.22
% change year-on-year -23.96% +110.27% +5.52%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -120 226 £525 -22.22% 84
UK excluding London -31 137 £525 +10.53% 56
London -96 119 £560 -25.33% 43
Work from Home -96 63 £512 -33.92% 47
North of England -52 37 £492 +3.58% 11
Scotland +40 36 £525 +1.20% 3
North West -13 26 £525 +10.53% 8
Midlands -54 25 £550 +2.33% 5
West Midlands -46 20 £513 -10.87% 5
South West -15 18 £550 -7.37% 11
South East -67 12 £555 +42.31% 19
North East -2 7 £425 -34.62% 2
East of England -21 7 £363 +13.99% 7
East Midlands -34 5 £663 +84.67%
Yorkshire -63 4 £475 -11.63% 1
Northern Ireland -3 3 £463 -22.92%
Wales -10 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
1 123 (43.16%) Apache Spark
2 67 (23.51%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (9.82%) Tomcat
4 25 (8.77%) WebSphere
5 24 (8.42%) Apache Geronimo
5 24 (8.42%) Apache ServiceMix
5 24 (8.42%) Red Hat Fuse
6 8 (2.81%) IIS
6 8 (2.81%) WebLogic
7 6 (2.11%) Confluence
8 5 (1.75%) JBoss
8 5 (1.75%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (1.40%) Apache Superset
9 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (1.05%) Jupyter
10 3 (1.05%) nginx
10 3 (1.05%) SAS
11 2 (0.70%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.05%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Actimize
1 1 (0.35%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 142 (49.82%) AWS
2 105 (36.84%) Azure
3 73 (25.61%) GCP
4 46 (16.14%) Amazon S3
5 42 (14.74%) Power Platform
5 42 (14.74%) Serverless
6 41 (14.39%) AWS CloudFormation
7 28 (9.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 27 (9.47%) AWS Lambda
9 24 (8.42%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (7.72%) Azure Data Factory
10 22 (7.72%) Snowflake
11 21 (7.37%) Amazon SQS
12 19 (6.67%) Collibra
13 17 (5.96%) GitHub
14 14 (4.91%) AWS Step Functions
14 14 (4.91%) dbt
14 14 (4.91%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (2.81%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (2.81%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.56%) Firewall
2 8 (2.81%) HTTP
3 6 (2.11%) DNS
4 5 (1.75%) Network Security
5 4 (1.40%) DHCP
6 3 (1.05%) SAN
6 3 (1.05%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.70%) FTP
7 2 (0.70%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.70%) SSH
7 2 (0.70%) VLAN
8 1 (0.35%) 4G
8 1 (0.35%) 5G
8 1 (0.35%) InfiniBand
8 1 (0.35%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.35%) LAN
8 1 (0.35%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.35%) Spanning Tree
8 1 (0.35%) VPN
8 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (19.30%) Data Lake
2 38 (13.33%) Big Data
2 38 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
3 37 (12.98%) Power BI
4 34 (11.93%) Amazon Athena
5 33 (11.58%) BigQuery
6 29 (10.18%) Delta Lake
7 26 (9.12%) Hadoop
8 19 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
9 18 (6.32%) Mixpanel
9 18 (6.32%) SQL Server
10 17 (5.96%) Metadata
10 17 (5.96%) OLAP
10 17 (5.96%) OLTP
11 16 (5.61%) Amazon Redshift
11 16 (5.61%) NoSQL
12 15 (5.26%) MySQL
13 14 (4.91%) Flink
14 12 (4.21%) Relational Database
15 10 (3.51%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 49 (17.19%) Git
2 26 (9.12%) GitLab
3 19 (6.67%) JIRA
4 12 (4.21%) MLflow
5 10 (3.51%) Artifactory
6 9 (3.16%) Jenkins
7 7 (2.46%) JUnit
8 6 (2.11%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.75%) Maven
9 5 (1.75%) Selenium
10 4 (1.40%) Eclipse
10 4 (1.40%) IntelliJ
10 4 (1.40%) Mockito
11 3 (1.05%) Gradle
11 3 (1.05%) Liquibase
12 2 (0.70%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.70%) ERwin
13 1 (0.35%) PowerDesigner
13 1 (0.35%) SonarQube
13 1 (0.35%) Storybook
General
1 52 (18.25%) Social Skills
2 51 (17.89%) Finance
3 28 (9.82%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (7.37%) Public Sector
5 17 (5.96%) Banking
6 6 (2.11%) Investment Banking
7 5 (1.75%) Billing
7 5 (1.75%) Front Office
8 4 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.40%) Marketing
8 4 (1.40%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.05%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.70%) Electronics
10 2 (0.70%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.70%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.70%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.35%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 91 (31.93%) Data Engineer
2 40 (14.04%) Senior
3 35 (12.28%) Developer
4 30 (10.53%) Lead
5 24 (8.42%) Software Engineer
6 18 (6.32%) AWS Engineer
6 18 (6.32%) Lead Data Engineer
6 18 (6.32%) Senior Data Engineer
7 17 (5.96%) Architect
7 17 (5.96%) Principal Engineer
8 16 (5.61%) Principal Data Engineer
9 14 (4.91%) DevOps Engineer
9 14 (4.91%) Java Developer
10 10 (3.51%) Python Engineer
11 9 (3.16%) Data Architect
12 8 (2.81%) AWS Data Engineer
12 8 (2.81%) Java Engineer
12 8 (2.81%) Platform Engineer
12 8 (2.81%) Principal Software Engineer
12 8 (2.81%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (21.40%) Kafka
2 35 (12.28%) PySpark
3 32 (11.23%) REST
4 31 (10.88%) Apache NiFi
5 27 (9.47%) Middleware
6 24 (8.42%) Apache Axis
6 24 (8.42%) Apache Camel
7 19 (6.67%) Spring
8 18 (6.32%) Great Expectations
9 15 (5.26%) JSON
9 15 (5.26%) Pandas
10 12 (4.21%) NumPy
11 11 (3.86%) AWS CDK
12 9 (3.16%) Apache Beam
13 8 (2.81%) Node.js
13 8 (2.81%) React
13 8 (2.81%) SOAP
13 8 (2.81%) Spring Boot
14 7 (2.46%) Hibernate
14 7 (2.46%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (11.93%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.21%) Management Information System
3 11 (3.86%) Algorithms
4 10 (3.51%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.16%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (2.81%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (2.81%) Data Structures
6 8 (2.81%) Distributed Computing
6 8 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.11%) Clustering
9 5 (1.75%) Freedom of Information
9 5 (1.75%) Replication
10 4 (1.40%) Equities
10 4 (1.40%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.70%) Derivative
12 2 (0.70%) Distributed Applications
12 2 (0.70%) Hedge funds
12 2 (0.70%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 41 (14.39%) Linux
2 26 (9.12%) Windows
3 21 (7.37%) Unix
4 9 (3.16%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (2.46%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.75%) Debian
8 4 (1.40%) Rocky
9 3 (1.05%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.70%) Solaris
10 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.35%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.35%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (41.75%) CI/CD
2 96 (33.68%) Analytics
3 91 (31.93%) Data Engineering
4 90 (31.58%) DevOps
5 89 (31.23%) Data Pipeline
6 87 (30.53%) ETL
7 81 (28.42%) Data Modelling
8 69 (24.21%) Agile
9 64 (22.46%) Problem-Solving
10 63 (22.11%) Data Governance
11 59 (20.70%) Machine Learning
12 57 (20.00%) AI
13 54 (18.95%) Infrastructure as Code
14 47 (16.49%) Data Architecture
15 46 (16.14%) Business Intelligence
16 44 (15.44%) Software Engineering
17 42 (14.74%) Observability
18 34 (11.93%) Data Science
19 32 (11.23%) Workflow
20 28 (9.82%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 161 (56.49%) SQL
2 155 (54.39%) Python
3 87 (30.53%) Java
4 29 (10.18%) Scala
5 23 (8.07%) C#
6 16 (5.61%) PowerShell
7 13 (4.56%) JavaScript
8 9 (3.16%) Shell Script
9 8 (2.81%) Bash
9 8 (2.81%) R
9 8 (2.81%) TypeScript
10 6 (2.11%) Perl
11 5 (1.75%) PHP
11 5 (1.75%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.05%) C++
12 3 (1.05%) Go
13 2 (0.70%) AWK
13 2 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.35%) Korn
14 1 (0.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 82 (28.77%) Security Cleared
2 63 (22.11%) SC Cleared
3 25 (8.77%) DV Cleared
4 19 (6.67%) Degree
5 12 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.16%) Master's Degree
7 8 (2.81%) AWS Certification
8 7 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.05%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.35%) CCNA
11 1 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.35%) RHCE
11 1 (0.35%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (23.86%) Data Quality
2 27 (9.47%) GDPR
3 14 (4.91%) QA
4 5 (1.75%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.35%) IFRS
7 1 (0.35%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.35%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.35%) MiFID
7 1 (0.35%) Solvency II
System Software
1 44 (15.44%) Docker
2 6 (2.11%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.40%) HDFS
3 4 (1.40%) NFS
4 3 (1.05%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.05%) Samba
5 2 (0.70%) iptables
5 2 (0.70%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.70%) Postfix
5 2 (0.70%) Varnish
5 2 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.35%) Ceph
6 1 (0.35%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.35%) KVM
6 1 (0.35%) Lustre
6 1 (0.35%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.35%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 64 (22.46%) Terraform
2 49 (17.19%) Kubernetes
3 25 (8.77%) Ansible
4 7 (2.46%) Grafana
5 4 (1.40%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.40%) Puppet
6 3 (1.05%) HAProxy
7 2 (0.70%) Apache Ranger
7 2 (0.70%) Kibana
7 2 (0.70%) logstash
7 2 (0.70%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.70%) SELinux
8 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.35%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.35%) SCCM
8 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.35%) systemd
8 1 (0.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 59 (20.70%) Databricks
2 43 (15.09%) Oracle
3 40 (14.04%) Google
4 24 (8.42%) TIBCO
5 19 (6.67%) Microsoft
6 16 (5.61%) Red Hat
7 12 (4.21%) Cloudera
7 12 (4.21%) Informatica
8 8 (2.81%) ServiceNow
9 7 (2.46%) Cisco
9 7 (2.46%) Talend
10 6 (2.11%) Confluent
11 5 (1.75%) Foundry
11 5 (1.75%) Palantir
11 5 (1.75%) Palo Alto
11 5 (1.75%) SolarWinds
11 5 (1.75%) Splunk
12 4 (1.40%) Dynatrace
12 4 (1.40%) Guidewire
12 4 (1.40%) VMware