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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 294 200
Rank change year-on-year -67 -94 +102
Contract jobs citing Apache 354 289 473
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.65% 0.87% 1.25%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.62% 8.05% 11.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 207 388
10th Percentile £350 £377 £413
25th Percentile £402 £463 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £750
Median % change year-on-year -8.27% -26.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £850
90th Percentile £714 £825 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £496 £475
% change year-on-year -14.31% +4.42% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 7
10th Percentile £57.48 - £57.50
25th Percentile £62.50 - £69.50
Median hourly rate £67.47 £80.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.66% +8.11% -5.13%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £74.44
90th Percentile £84.92 - £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 4,645 3,589 4,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.52% 10.82% 10.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,003 2,342 2,642
10th Percentile £286 £278 £263
25th Percentile £404 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -7.62% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £638
90th Percentile £680 £700 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £450 £460
% change year-on-year +4.22% -2.17% -3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 86 78
10th Percentile £14.78 £15.60 £17.72
25th Percentile £16.60 £20.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £28.40 £34.43 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -17.53% -7.57% +4.20%
75th Percentile £56.43 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.24 £72.50 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.00 £33.33 £55.00
% change year-on-year -18.98% -39.41% +83.33%

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 9 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 9 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Apache in the UK

Apache
Top 15 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 9 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 -75 305 £513 -6.82% 367
London -76 166 £575 -10.89% 250
UK excluding London -56 156 £425 -14.31% 147
Work from Home -65 103 £495 -32.88% 134
North of England -38 64 £413 -8.94% 37
South West -13 30 £525 +15.38% 31
North East -12 29 £385 -30.00% 6
Scotland -13 27 £409 -18.20% 24
Yorkshire -25 20 £480 +1.05% 9
Midlands -52 19 £495 -3.18% 15
West Midlands -51 18 £503 -4.29% 8
North West -61 15 £530 +18.83% 22
South East -59 14 £425 -29.17% 17
East of England -31 4 £456 -17.05% 12
East Midlands -21 1 £495 +17.86% 6

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
1 194 (54.80%) Apache Spark
2 173 (48.87%) Apache Airflow
3 37 (10.45%) Jupyter
4 23 (6.50%) nginx
5 19 (5.37%) Tomcat
6 16 (4.52%) Confluence
7 10 (2.82%) WebSphere
8 9 (2.54%) IIS
8 9 (2.54%) WebLogic
9 7 (1.98%) Apache Superset
10 5 (1.41%) CloudStack
10 5 (1.41%) IBM HTTP Server
10 5 (1.41%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 5 (1.41%) WebLogic Portal
10 5 (1.41%) WebSphere Application Server
10 5 (1.41%) WebSphere Portal
11 4 (1.13%) JBoss
12 3 (0.85%) SharePoint
13 1 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 200 (56.50%) AWS
2 118 (33.33%) Azure
3 87 (24.58%) GCP
4 76 (21.47%) Amazon S3
5 65 (18.36%) dbt
6 50 (14.12%) Snowflake
7 41 (11.58%) Serverless
8 37 (10.45%) Amazon EMR
9 36 (10.17%) AWS Lambda
10 31 (8.76%) Azure Data Factory
10 31 (8.76%) Power Platform
11 27 (7.63%) Azure DevOps
12 24 (6.78%) GitHub
13 21 (5.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 21 (5.93%) Amazon EC2
14 16 (4.52%) Azure Databricks
14 16 (4.52%) OpenShift
15 14 (3.95%) Cloud Composer
16 13 (3.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 12 (3.39%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.95%) DNS
2 13 (3.67%) Firewall
3 7 (1.98%) HTTP
4 5 (1.41%) DHCP
4 5 (1.41%) NAS
4 5 (1.41%) SAN
4 5 (1.41%) SSL
5 4 (1.13%) Network Security
6 3 (0.85%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.85%) Internet
6 3 (0.85%) Reverse Proxy
6 3 (0.85%) Structured Cabling
7 2 (0.56%) BIG-IP
7 2 (0.56%) VLAN
7 2 (0.56%) VXLAN
8 1 (0.28%) Broadband
8 1 (0.28%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (21.47%) Data Warehouse
2 56 (15.82%) Data Lake
3 45 (12.71%) Big Data
3 45 (12.71%) BigQuery
4 43 (12.15%) Delta Lake
5 38 (10.73%) Flink
5 38 (10.73%) Metadata
6 31 (8.76%) PostgreSQL
6 31 (8.76%) Power BI
7 29 (8.19%) Amazon Athena
8 28 (7.91%) Amazon Redshift
8 28 (7.91%) Apache Iceberg
9 21 (5.93%) Hadoop
10 19 (5.37%) SQL Server
11 15 (4.24%) NoSQL
11 15 (4.24%) Relational Database
12 14 (3.95%) Elasticsearch
12 14 (3.95%) MongoDB
13 12 (3.39%) DynamoDB
13 12 (3.39%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 70 (19.77%) GitLab
2 47 (13.28%) Git
3 18 (5.08%) Jenkins
3 18 (5.08%) JIRA
4 7 (1.98%) SonarQube
5 6 (1.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (1.69%) Maven
6 5 (1.41%) Artifactory
6 5 (1.41%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.85%) Gradle
7 3 (0.85%) MLflow
8 2 (0.56%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.56%) Gerrit
8 2 (0.56%) JMeter
8 2 (0.56%) RStudio
8 2 (0.56%) Selenium
8 2 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.56%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.28%) Ant
9 1 (0.28%) TeamCity
General
1 86 (24.29%) Social Skills
2 81 (22.88%) Finance
3 51 (14.41%) Public Sector
4 47 (13.28%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (10.45%) Banking
6 8 (2.26%) Financial Institution
6 8 (2.26%) Publishing
7 7 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.98%) Military
8 6 (1.69%) Marketing
9 5 (1.41%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.13%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.13%) Billing
10 4 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.13%) Retail
11 3 (0.85%) Automotive
11 3 (0.85%) Law
11 3 (0.85%) Legal
12 2 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 150 (42.37%) Data Engineer
2 60 (16.95%) Senior
3 46 (12.99%) Architect
4 41 (11.58%) Senior Data Engineer
5 36 (10.17%) Developer
6 28 (7.91%) DevOps Engineer
7 26 (7.34%) Lead
8 24 (6.78%) Data Architect
9 23 (6.50%) Databricks Engineer
10 18 (5.08%) Java Developer
11 17 (4.80%) Databricks Data Engineer
12 16 (4.52%) Python Engineer
13 14 (3.95%) AWS Engineer
13 14 (3.95%) Python Data Engineer
14 12 (3.39%) Cloud Engineer
15 11 (3.11%) AWS Data Engineer
15 11 (3.11%) Snowflake Engineer
16 10 (2.82%) GCP Engineer
16 10 (2.82%) Java Engineer
16 10 (2.82%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (31.07%) Terraform
2 101 (28.53%) PySpark
3 76 (21.47%) Kafka
4 37 (10.45%) REST
5 31 (8.76%) Spring
6 30 (8.47%) Spring Boot
7 20 (5.65%) Apache NiFi
8 14 (3.95%) Apache Beam
8 14 (3.95%) Middleware
9 13 (3.67%) JSON
10 12 (3.39%) SOAP
11 10 (2.82%) Pandas
12 9 (2.54%) OAuth
12 9 (2.54%) Spark Streaming
13 8 (2.26%) YAML
14 7 (1.98%) AngularJS
14 7 (1.98%) Elastic Stack
14 7 (1.98%) Node.js
14 7 (1.98%) Web Services
15 6 (1.69%) React
Miscellaneous
1 58 (16.38%) Cloud Native
2 25 (7.06%) Product Ownership
3 17 (4.80%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (4.24%) Data Structures
4 15 (4.24%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (3.67%) Onboarding
6 11 (3.11%) Management Information System
7 10 (2.82%) Algorithms
8 9 (2.54%) Data Fabric
9 8 (2.26%) Clustering
9 8 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.98%) AI Agents
11 6 (1.69%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.41%) Data Centre
12 5 (1.41%) Enterprise Cloud
12 5 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
13 4 (1.13%) Distributed Computing
13 4 (1.13%) Replication
13 4 (1.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 44 (12.43%) Linux
2 22 (6.21%) Windows
3 15 (4.24%) Ubuntu
4 9 (2.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.69%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.41%) Unix
6 5 (1.41%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.13%) CentOS
8 3 (0.85%) Rocky
9 2 (0.56%) Debian
9 2 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.28%) Solaris
10 1 (0.28%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (52.54%) CI/CD
2 166 (46.89%) Data Pipeline
3 162 (45.76%) Data Engineering
4 125 (35.31%) DevOps
5 120 (33.90%) Analytics
6 119 (33.62%) ETL
7 110 (31.07%) Agile
8 107 (30.23%) Data Modelling
9 90 (25.42%) AI
10 86 (24.29%) Infrastructure as Code
11 70 (19.77%) Containerisation
12 69 (19.49%) Machine Learning
13 67 (18.93%) Data Governance
14 59 (16.67%) Lakehouse
14 59 (16.67%) Migration
15 49 (13.84%) Data Science
16 47 (13.28%) Problem-Solving
17 46 (12.99%) Data Ingestion
18 45 (12.71%) Stakeholder Management
19 43 (12.15%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 234 (66.10%) Python
2 179 (50.56%) SQL
3 71 (20.06%) Java
4 31 (8.76%) Scala
5 28 (7.91%) Bash
6 27 (7.63%) PowerShell
7 12 (3.39%) Shell Script
8 10 (2.82%) JavaScript
9 8 (2.26%) Go
10 7 (1.98%) PL/SQL
11 6 (1.69%) TypeScript
12 5 (1.41%) Bicep
12 5 (1.41%) Groovy
13 4 (1.13%) Gremlin
13 4 (1.13%) Perl
14 3 (0.85%) Cypher
14 3 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.85%) R
14 3 (0.85%) SPARQL
15 2 (0.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 107 (30.23%) Security Cleared
2 85 (24.01%) SC Cleared
3 23 (6.50%) Degree
3 23 (6.50%) DV Cleared
4 15 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.39%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.98%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.41%) CISSP
8 4 (1.13%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.85%) CCNP
9 3 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.85%) CSPO
9 3 (0.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.56%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.28%) FFIEC
11 1 (0.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.28%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (27.12%) Data Quality
2 13 (3.67%) QA
3 12 (3.39%) GDPR
4 6 (1.69%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.13%) Government Security Classifications
6 3 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.85%) NCSC
7 2 (0.56%) NIST
8 1 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.28%) GLBA
8 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.28%) SLA
8 1 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 105 (29.66%) Docker
2 19 (5.37%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.41%) Postfix
3 5 (1.41%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.85%) Dovecot
5 3 (0.85%) NFS
5 3 (0.85%) vSphere
6 2 (0.56%) Ceph
6 2 (0.56%) KVM
6 2 (0.56%) Varnish
7 1 (0.28%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 95 (26.84%) Kubernetes
2 26 (7.34%) Ansible
3 19 (5.37%) Grafana
4 15 (4.24%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.98%) HAProxy
6 5 (1.41%) Packer
6 5 (1.41%) Puppet
6 5 (1.41%) vCenter Server
7 4 (1.13%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.85%) Check_MK
8 3 (0.85%) Kibana
9 2 (0.56%) Control-M
9 2 (0.56%) SELinux
10 1 (0.28%) Apache Ranger
10 1 (0.28%) logstash
10 1 (0.28%) Podman
10 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.28%) systemd
Vendors
1 93 (26.27%) Databricks
2 40 (11.30%) Google
3 38 (10.73%) Microsoft
4 23 (6.50%) Oracle
5 17 (4.80%) Trend Micro
6 11 (3.11%) Red Hat
7 10 (2.82%) VMware
8 9 (2.54%) IBM
8 9 (2.54%) Informatica
9 8 (2.26%) ServiceNow
10 7 (1.98%) Cisco
10 7 (1.98%) SAP
11 6 (1.69%) Cloudera
11 6 (1.69%) Splunk
12 5 (1.41%) New Relic
12 5 (1.41%) Tanium
13 4 (1.13%) Guidewire
13 4 (1.13%) Talend
13 4 (1.13%) Teradata
13 4 (1.13%) webMethods