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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 246 264
Rank change year-on-year -102 +18 +25
Contract jobs citing Apache 293 311 376
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.62% 1.06% 0.87%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.00% 9.31% 9.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 240 314
10th Percentile £390 £410 £400
25th Percentile £456 £475 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £838 £850
90th Percentile £671 £875 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £488
% change year-on-year +5.00% +2.56% -11.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 9
10th Percentile £64.00 £32.42 £21.95
25th Percentile £65.25 £49.78 £27.75
Median hourly rate £75.00 £78.70 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.70% +49.90% -32.69%
75th Percentile £82.50 £80.83 £74.44
90th Percentile £89.00 £82.11 £75.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £78.70 £57.25
% change year-on-year -4.70% +37.47% -24.17%

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 4,183 3,340 4,168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.87% 11.40% 9.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,866 2,233 2,872
10th Percentile £313 £277 £250
25th Percentile £404 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £724 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £468 £455 £450
% change year-on-year +2.75% +1.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 77 160
10th Percentile £15.51 £16.55 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.06 £22.00 £15.42
Median hourly rate £29.44 £41.00 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.20% +54.72% -37.65%
75th Percentile £72.25 £64.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £78.85 £76.00 £68.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.06 £46.18 £23.50
% change year-on-year -21.91% +96.51% -11.25%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 4 May 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 -144 225 £525 -22.22% 82
UK excluding London -50 130 £525 +5.00% 52
London -109 128 £560 -25.33% 38
Work from Home -84 74 £519 -30.83% 43
Scotland +29 40 £525 +13.51% 5
North of England -48 33 £492 +3.58% 16
North West -25 22 £525 +10.53% 11
Midlands -63 20 £550 -4.35% 7
South West -33 16 £450 -26.53% 12
West Midlands -54 16 £550 -8.33% 6
North East -12 9 £425 -34.62% 3
East of England -34 8 £363 +13.93% 1
South East -67 8 £550 +31.34% 11
Northern Ireland +1 3 £463 +12.80%
Wales -12 3 £509 - 1
East Midlands -32 3 £600 +46.34% 1
Yorkshire -54 2 £469 -12.79% 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
1 133 (45.39%) Apache Spark
2 73 (24.91%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (9.90%) Tomcat
4 27 (9.22%) WebSphere
5 24 (8.19%) Apache Geronimo
5 24 (8.19%) Apache ServiceMix
5 24 (8.19%) Red Hat Fuse
6 7 (2.39%) IIS
7 6 (2.05%) Jupyter
8 5 (1.71%) Apache Superset
8 5 (1.71%) nginx
9 4 (1.37%) Confluence
9 4 (1.37%) WebLogic
10 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (1.02%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (1.02%) SAS
11 2 (0.68%) Apache Synapse
11 2 (0.68%) JBoss
11 2 (0.68%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.34%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Actimize
1 1 (0.34%) Magento
1 1 (0.34%) Maximo
1 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.34%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 137 (46.76%) AWS
2 104 (35.49%) Azure
3 68 (23.21%) GCP
4 49 (16.72%) Amazon S3
5 41 (13.99%) Power Platform
6 37 (12.63%) Serverless
7 35 (11.95%) AWS CloudFormation
8 28 (9.56%) AWS Lambda
8 28 (9.56%) Azure DevOps
8 28 (9.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 23 (7.85%) Azure Data Factory
10 21 (7.17%) Amazon SQS
11 19 (6.48%) Snowflake
12 18 (6.14%) GitHub
13 17 (5.80%) Collibra
14 13 (4.44%) AWS Step Functions
14 13 (4.44%) dbt
14 13 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (3.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 9 (3.07%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.44%) Firewall
2 10 (3.41%) DNS
2 10 (3.41%) HTTP
3 6 (2.05%) Network Security
4 4 (1.37%) DHCP
4 4 (1.37%) SAN
5 3 (1.02%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.68%) FTP
6 2 (0.68%) iSCSI
6 2 (0.68%) SSH
6 2 (0.68%) VLAN
7 1 (0.34%) 4G
7 1 (0.34%) 5G
7 1 (0.34%) InfiniBand
7 1 (0.34%) LAN
7 1 (0.34%) NAS
7 1 (0.34%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.34%) Spanning Tree
7 1 (0.34%) SSL
7 1 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (16.38%) Data Lake
2 41 (13.99%) Big Data
3 38 (12.97%) Data Warehouse
4 35 (11.95%) Delta Lake
4 35 (11.95%) Power BI
5 32 (10.92%) Amazon Athena
5 32 (10.92%) BigQuery
6 23 (7.85%) Hadoop
7 22 (7.51%) SQL Server
8 20 (6.83%) PostgreSQL
9 18 (6.14%) Flink
10 16 (5.46%) Metadata
10 16 (5.46%) Mixpanel
11 15 (5.12%) NoSQL
11 15 (5.12%) OLAP
11 15 (5.12%) OLTP
12 14 (4.78%) Amazon Redshift
12 14 (4.78%) MySQL
13 13 (4.44%) Relational Database
14 12 (4.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 56 (19.11%) Git
2 26 (8.87%) GitLab
3 22 (7.51%) JIRA
4 16 (5.46%) MLflow
5 11 (3.75%) Jenkins
6 9 (3.07%) Artifactory
7 7 (2.39%) Maven
8 5 (1.71%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.37%) Gradle
9 4 (1.37%) Mockito
10 3 (1.02%) JUnit
10 3 (1.02%) Liquibase
10 3 (1.02%) Selenium
10 3 (1.02%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.34%) Ant
11 1 (0.34%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.34%) ERwin
11 1 (0.34%) PHPUnit
11 1 (0.34%) RSpec
11 1 (0.34%) Storybook
General
1 58 (19.80%) Finance
2 50 (17.06%) Social Skills
3 34 (11.60%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (7.17%) Public Sector
5 14 (4.78%) Banking
6 7 (2.39%) Billing
7 4 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.37%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.02%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.02%) Front Office
8 3 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.02%) Marketing
9 2 (0.68%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.34%) Dutch Language
10 1 (0.34%) French Language
10 1 (0.34%) Law
10 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.34%) Prime Brokerage
10 1 (0.34%) Publishing
10 1 (0.34%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 97 (33.11%) Data Engineer
2 46 (15.70%) Senior
3 40 (13.65%) Developer
4 32 (10.92%) Lead
5 28 (9.56%) Architect
6 19 (6.48%) Senior Data Engineer
6 19 (6.48%) Software Engineer
7 17 (5.80%) Java Developer
7 17 (5.80%) Lead Data Engineer
8 16 (5.46%) Principal Engineer
9 15 (5.12%) Principal Data Engineer
10 14 (4.78%) AWS Engineer
11 11 (3.75%) Data Architect
11 11 (3.75%) DevOps Engineer
12 9 (3.07%) Analyst
12 9 (3.07%) Python Engineer
13 8 (2.73%) Platform Engineer
14 7 (2.39%) Technical Leader
15 6 (2.05%) AWS Data Engineer
15 6 (2.05%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (22.18%) Kafka
2 43 (14.68%) PySpark
3 30 (10.24%) REST
4 29 (9.90%) Middleware
5 24 (8.19%) Apache Axis
5 24 (8.19%) Apache Camel
6 21 (7.17%) Spring
7 20 (6.83%) Apache NiFi
8 18 (6.14%) Great Expectations
9 15 (5.12%) JSON
10 14 (4.78%) Spring Boot
11 12 (4.10%) Apache Beam
12 11 (3.75%) Pandas
13 9 (3.07%) AWS CDK
13 9 (3.07%) NumPy
13 9 (3.07%) SOAP
14 7 (2.39%) PyTorch
15 6 (2.05%) Node.js
15 6 (2.05%) OAuth
16 5 (1.71%) React
Miscellaneous
1 40 (13.65%) Cloud Native
2 15 (5.12%) Management Information System
3 12 (4.10%) Product Ownership
4 11 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (3.07%) Algorithms
5 9 (3.07%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (2.73%) Data Structures
7 7 (2.39%) Clustering
8 6 (2.05%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.71%) Freedom of Information
9 5 (1.71%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.71%) Replication
10 4 (1.37%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.02%) Distributed Applications
11 3 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.02%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.68%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 49 (16.72%) Linux
2 22 (7.51%) Windows
3 19 (6.48%) Unix
4 11 (3.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (3.07%) Ubuntu
5 9 (3.07%) Windows Server
6 6 (2.05%) Debian
7 5 (1.71%) Rocky
8 3 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.68%) CentOS
9 2 (0.68%) Solaris
9 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (41.98%) CI/CD
2 97 (33.11%) Data Pipeline
3 96 (32.76%) Analytics
4 89 (30.38%) ETL
5 87 (29.69%) Data Engineering
5 87 (29.69%) Data Modelling
6 86 (29.35%) DevOps
7 70 (23.89%) Agile
8 67 (22.87%) AI
9 62 (21.16%) Data Governance
9 62 (21.16%) Problem-Solving
10 59 (20.14%) Machine Learning
11 54 (18.43%) Infrastructure as Code
12 46 (15.70%) Observability
13 43 (14.68%) Data Architecture
14 42 (14.33%) Containerisation
15 41 (13.99%) Business Intelligence
16 38 (12.97%) Software Engineering
17 36 (12.29%) Data Science
18 33 (11.26%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 172 (58.70%) SQL
2 167 (57.00%) Python
3 86 (29.35%) Java
4 23 (7.85%) Scala
5 18 (6.14%) C#
6 13 (4.44%) Shell Script
7 12 (4.10%) PowerShell
7 12 (4.10%) R
8 11 (3.75%) JavaScript
9 10 (3.41%) Bash
10 8 (2.73%) TypeScript
11 6 (2.05%) Perl
11 6 (2.05%) PHP
12 5 (1.71%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.37%) Go
14 3 (1.02%) Ruby
15 2 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.34%) AWK
16 1 (0.34%) Korn
16 1 (0.34%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 85 (29.01%) Security Cleared
2 69 (23.55%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.83%) Degree
4 16 (5.46%) DV Cleared
5 15 (5.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.39%) AWS Certification
7 7 (2.39%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.02%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.02%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.34%) CCNA
10 1 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.34%) RHCE
10 1 (0.34%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (21.50%) Data Quality
2 24 (8.19%) GDPR
3 11 (3.75%) QA
4 7 (2.39%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.02%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.68%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.68%) WCAG
8 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.34%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.34%) MiFID
8 1 (0.34%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (15.70%) Docker
2 6 (2.05%) NFS
3 5 (1.71%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.71%) Varnish
4 4 (1.37%) HDFS
4 4 (1.37%) Postfix
5 3 (1.02%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.02%) Samba
5 3 (1.02%) Sendmail
5 3 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.68%) iptables
6 2 (0.68%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.34%) Ceph
7 1 (0.34%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.34%) KVM
7 1 (0.34%) Lustre
7 1 (0.34%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 61 (20.82%) Terraform
2 60 (20.48%) Kubernetes
3 26 (8.87%) Ansible
4 8 (2.73%) Grafana
5 5 (1.71%) HAProxy
6 3 (1.02%) Kibana
6 3 (1.02%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.02%) SELinux
7 2 (0.68%) Apache Ranger
7 2 (0.68%) logstash
7 2 (0.68%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.68%) Puppet
7 2 (0.68%) systemd
8 1 (0.34%) Podman
8 1 (0.34%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.34%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 64 (21.84%) Databricks
2 41 (13.99%) Oracle
3 34 (11.60%) Google
4 24 (8.19%) Microsoft
4 24 (8.19%) TIBCO
5 14 (4.78%) Red Hat
6 12 (4.10%) Informatica
7 10 (3.41%) Cloudera
8 9 (3.07%) ServiceNow
9 8 (2.73%) Guidewire
9 8 (2.73%) Talend
10 6 (2.05%) Cisco
10 6 (2.05%) Confluent
11 5 (1.71%) IBM
11 5 (1.71%) Palo Alto
11 5 (1.71%) SolarWinds
11 5 (1.71%) VMware
12 4 (1.37%) Hortonworks
12 4 (1.37%) Splunk
13 3 (1.02%) Foundry