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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 262 316
Rank change year-on-year -92 +54 -35
Contract jobs citing Apache 282 286 310
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.66% 0.97% 0.69%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.99% 8.30% 7.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 211 249
10th Percentile £394 £405 £350
25th Percentile £456 £488 £438
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 £790
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £510
% change year-on-year +10.53% -6.86% -13.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 8
10th Percentile £62.00 £26.21 £21.92
25th Percentile £64.00 £34.25 £22.00
Median hourly rate £69.00 £48.17 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +43.24% +16.07% -7.78%
75th Percentile £80.50 £61.57 £58.92
90th Percentile £83.00 £69.29 £75.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £69.00 £48.17 £52.50
% change year-on-year +43.24% -8.25% +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 4,037 3,445 4,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.51% 11.65% 9.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,797 2,211 2,852
10th Percentile £304 £256 £250
25th Percentile £404 £385 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% -4.12%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £713 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £455 £450
% change year-on-year +4.40% +1.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 69 180
10th Percentile £15.00 £17.00 £13.85
25th Percentile £17.50 £22.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £41.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +60.78% +14.20%
75th Percentile £69.44 £63.75 £45.30
90th Percentile £81.00 £66.00 £68.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.00 £42.50 £23.22
% change year-on-year -3.53% +83.07% +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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -117 222 £525 -22.22% 85
UK excluding London -25 142 £525 +10.53% 57
London -100 113 £575 -17.86% 34
Work from Home -97 61 £512 -31.76% 41
North of England -37 38 £492 -8.47% 9
Scotland +42 37 £525 +1.20% 4
Midlands -48 29 £538 +2.38% 4
North West -11 27 £492 +3.58% 6
West Midlands -43 24 £500 -16.67% 4
South West -21 17 £625 +5.26% 15
South East -57 12 £555 +42.31% 19
North East -7 7 £425 -34.62% 1
East of England -33 7 £363 +13.99% 5
East Midlands -30 5 £663 +84.67%
Yorkshire -61 4 £475 -11.63% 2
Northern Ireland -2 3 £463 -22.92%
Wales - 1 £543 - 3

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
1 112 (39.72%) Apache Spark
2 65 (23.05%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (9.93%) Tomcat
4 27 (9.57%) WebSphere
5 24 (8.51%) Apache Geronimo
5 24 (8.51%) Apache ServiceMix
5 24 (8.51%) Red Hat Fuse
6 13 (4.61%) WebLogic
7 12 (4.26%) JBoss
8 10 (3.55%) IIS
9 6 (2.13%) Confluence
10 5 (1.77%) Palantir Foundry
11 4 (1.42%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (1.42%) nginx
12 3 (1.06%) Apache Superset
12 3 (1.06%) Jupyter
12 3 (1.06%) SAS
13 2 (0.71%) Apache Synapse
13 2 (0.71%) iPlanet
13 2 (0.71%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (1.06%) 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
1 143 (50.71%) AWS
2 94 (33.33%) Azure
3 70 (24.82%) GCP
4 45 (15.96%) Amazon S3
5 44 (15.60%) Serverless
6 40 (14.18%) AWS CloudFormation
7 39 (13.83%) Power Platform
8 27 (9.57%) AWS Lambda
8 27 (9.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 23 (8.16%) Snowflake
10 20 (7.09%) Amazon SQS
11 19 (6.74%) Azure DevOps
12 18 (6.38%) Azure Data Factory
12 18 (6.38%) Collibra
13 16 (5.67%) dbt
14 13 (4.61%) AWS Step Functions
15 11 (3.90%) GitHub
16 9 (3.19%) Cloud Computing
16 9 (3.19%) GitHub Actions
17 8 (2.84%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.26%) Firewall
2 9 (3.19%) HTTP
3 6 (2.13%) DNS
4 5 (1.77%) Network Security
5 4 (1.42%) DHCP
6 3 (1.06%) Kerberos
6 3 (1.06%) SAN
6 3 (1.06%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.71%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.71%) SSH
7 2 (0.71%) VLAN
8 1 (0.35%) 4G
8 1 (0.35%) 5G
8 1 (0.35%) FTP
8 1 (0.35%) InfiniBand
8 1 (0.35%) Intranet
8 1 (0.35%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.35%) Spanning Tree
8 1 (0.35%) VPN
8 1 (0.35%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (17.38%) Data Lake
2 39 (13.83%) Data Warehouse
3 36 (12.77%) Big Data
4 34 (12.06%) Power BI
5 33 (11.70%) Amazon Athena
5 33 (11.70%) BigQuery
6 24 (8.51%) Delta Lake
6 24 (8.51%) Hadoop
7 19 (6.74%) PostgreSQL
8 18 (6.38%) SQL Server
9 17 (6.03%) Mixpanel
10 16 (5.67%) NoSQL
10 16 (5.67%) OLAP
10 16 (5.67%) OLTP
11 15 (5.32%) Amazon Redshift
11 15 (5.32%) Metadata
11 15 (5.32%) MongoDB
11 15 (5.32%) MySQL
12 12 (4.26%) Relational Database
13 11 (3.90%) Flink
Development Applications
1 52 (18.44%) Git
2 23 (8.16%) GitLab
3 14 (4.96%) JIRA
4 12 (4.26%) JUnit
4 12 (4.26%) MLflow
5 10 (3.55%) Artifactory
5 10 (3.55%) Jenkins
5 10 (3.55%) Selenium
6 9 (3.19%) Eclipse
6 9 (3.19%) IntelliJ
7 6 (2.13%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.77%) Maven
9 4 (1.42%) Mockito
10 3 (1.06%) Gradle
10 3 (1.06%) Liquibase
11 2 (0.71%) Bitbucket Server
11 2 (0.71%) CA Release Automation
11 2 (0.71%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.71%) ERwin
11 2 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 58 (20.57%) Social Skills
2 49 (17.38%) Finance
3 28 (9.93%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (7.80%) Public Sector
5 18 (6.38%) Banking
6 9 (3.19%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (2.48%) Investment Banking
8 6 (2.13%) Front Office
9 5 (1.77%) Billing
10 4 (1.42%) Marketing
10 4 (1.42%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.06%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.71%) Electronics
12 2 (0.71%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.71%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.71%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.35%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 88 (31.21%) Data Engineer
2 44 (15.60%) Senior
3 32 (11.35%) Developer
4 28 (9.93%) Lead
5 27 (9.57%) Software Engineer
6 18 (6.38%) AWS Engineer
6 18 (6.38%) Senior Data Engineer
7 17 (6.03%) Architect
8 16 (5.67%) DevOps Engineer
8 16 (5.67%) Lead Data Engineer
8 16 (5.67%) Principal Engineer
9 15 (5.32%) Principal Data Engineer
10 12 (4.26%) Python Engineer
11 11 (3.90%) Java Developer
12 10 (3.55%) Data Architect
12 10 (3.55%) Java Engineer
13 8 (2.84%) AWS Data Engineer
13 8 (2.84%) Data Analytics Engineer
13 8 (2.84%) Principal Software Engineer
13 8 (2.84%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (20.57%) Kafka
2 38 (13.48%) REST
3 34 (12.06%) Apache NiFi
4 31 (10.99%) PySpark
5 27 (9.57%) Middleware
6 24 (8.51%) Apache Axis
6 24 (8.51%) Apache Camel
6 24 (8.51%) Spring
7 17 (6.03%) Great Expectations
7 17 (6.03%) Pandas
8 14 (4.96%) JSON
8 14 (4.96%) NumPy
9 13 (4.61%) SOAP
10 12 (4.26%) Hibernate
10 12 (4.26%) XML
11 11 (3.90%) EJB
12 10 (3.55%) AWS CDK
12 10 (3.55%) HTML
12 10 (3.55%) Node.js
12 10 (3.55%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.57%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.26%) Algorithms
2 12 (4.26%) Management Information System
3 10 (3.55%) Data Structures
3 10 (3.55%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.19%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (2.84%) Distributed Computing
6 7 (2.48%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.13%) Clustering
7 6 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.77%) Equities
8 5 (1.77%) Freedom of Information
8 5 (1.77%) Replication
8 5 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.06%) Derivative
9 3 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.06%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.06%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.06%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.06%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 39 (13.83%) Linux
2 28 (9.93%) Windows
3 24 (8.51%) Unix
4 11 (3.90%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.13%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.42%) Debian
8 3 (1.06%) Rocky
8 3 (1.06%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.71%) Solaris
9 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.35%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.35%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (40.78%) CI/CD
2 91 (32.27%) Analytics
3 89 (31.56%) DevOps
4 88 (31.21%) ETL
5 84 (29.79%) Data Engineering
5 84 (29.79%) Data Pipeline
6 74 (26.24%) Data Modelling
7 70 (24.82%) Agile
8 68 (24.11%) Problem-Solving
9 62 (21.99%) Data Governance
10 58 (20.57%) Machine Learning
11 57 (20.21%) AI
12 56 (19.86%) Infrastructure as Code
13 51 (18.09%) Software Engineering
14 43 (15.25%) Data Architecture
15 42 (14.89%) Business Intelligence
16 39 (13.83%) Observability
17 32 (11.35%) Data Science
17 32 (11.35%) Microservices
17 32 (11.35%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 154 (54.61%) SQL
2 147 (52.13%) Python
3 91 (32.27%) Java
4 32 (11.35%) Scala
5 23 (8.16%) C#
6 16 (5.67%) PowerShell
7 14 (4.96%) JavaScript
8 9 (3.19%) TypeScript
9 8 (2.84%) Shell Script
10 7 (2.48%) Bash
11 5 (1.77%) Perl
11 5 (1.77%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.42%) C++
12 4 (1.42%) PHP
12 4 (1.42%) R
13 2 (0.71%) AWK
13 2 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.71%) Go
13 2 (0.71%) Groovy
14 1 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 74 (26.24%) Security Cleared
2 55 (19.50%) SC Cleared
3 27 (9.57%) DV Cleared
4 18 (6.38%) Degree
5 11 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.19%) Master's Degree
7 8 (2.84%) AWS Certification
7 8 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.06%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.35%) CCNA
10 1 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.35%) RHCE
10 1 (0.35%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (23.76%) Data Quality
2 29 (10.28%) GDPR
3 14 (4.96%) QA
4 6 (2.13%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.71%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
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 (15.60%) Docker
2 8 (2.84%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.42%) HDFS
3 4 (1.42%) NFS
4 3 (1.06%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.06%) Samba
5 2 (0.71%) iptables
5 2 (0.71%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.71%) Postfix
5 2 (0.71%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 2 (0.71%) Varnish
5 2 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.71%) 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 60 (21.28%) Terraform
2 44 (15.60%) Kubernetes
3 26 (9.22%) Ansible
4 9 (3.19%) Puppet
5 7 (2.48%) Grafana
6 3 (1.06%) HAProxy
6 3 (1.06%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.71%) CA Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.71%) CA Wily
7 2 (0.71%) Kibana
7 2 (0.71%) logstash
7 2 (0.71%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.71%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.71%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (0.71%) SELinux
7 2 (0.71%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.35%) SCCM
8 1 (0.35%) systemd
8 1 (0.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 54 (19.15%) Databricks
2 45 (15.96%) Oracle
3 38 (13.48%) Google
4 24 (8.51%) TIBCO
5 20 (7.09%) Microsoft
6 17 (6.03%) Red Hat
7 12 (4.26%) Informatica
8 9 (3.19%) webMethods
9 8 (2.84%) ServiceNow
10 7 (2.48%) Cisco
10 7 (2.48%) Cloudera
10 7 (2.48%) Talend
11 6 (2.13%) IBM
11 6 (2.13%) Splunk
12 5 (1.77%) Foundry
12 5 (1.77%) Palantir
12 5 (1.77%) Palo Alto
12 5 (1.77%) SolarWinds
13 4 (1.42%) Dynatrace
13 4 (1.42%) Guidewire