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 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 244 286
Rank change year-on-year -110 +42 0
Contract jobs citing Apache 293 308 354
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.64% 1.05% 0.81%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.90% 9.18% 8.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 232 289
10th Percentile £397 £405 £350
25th Percentile £456 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £673 £575
Median % change year-on-year -21.93% +16.96% -4.17%
75th Percentile £588 £838 £788
90th Percentile £672 £875 £855
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -11.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 10
10th Percentile £62.20 £32.42 £21.97
25th Percentile £64.00 £49.78 £23.44
Median hourly rate £72.00 £78.70 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.51% +72.97% -41.67%
75th Percentile £82.25 £80.83 £64.44
90th Percentile £88.40 £82.11 £74.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.00 £78.70 £52.50
% change year-on-year -8.51% +49.90% -32.69%

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 4,244 3,356 4,204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.27% 11.48% 9.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,922 2,238 2,871
10th Percentile £306 £270 £250
25th Percentile £404 £395 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £498
Median % change year-on-year - +0.50% -2.45%
75th Percentile £588 £606 £600
90th Percentile £688 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 84 170
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.83 £13.48
25th Percentile £19.00 £23.48 £15.47
Median hourly rate £35.50 £42.50 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -16.47% +47.83% +12.75%
75th Percentile £73.94 £64.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £81.50 £75.00 £68.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.09 £52.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -10.30% +118.75% +9.09%

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 11 April 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 11 April 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 11 April 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 -128 229 £525 -22.22% 88
UK excluding London -51 135 £525 +5.00% 55
London -126 125 £560 -25.33% 50
Work from Home -95 70 £525 -30.00% 42
Scotland +40 37 £525 +13.51% 4
North of England -50 35 £484 +1.79% 11
North West -12 25 £525 +10.53% 9
Midlands -53 24 £550 - 4
West Midlands -52 19 £538 -10.42% 4
South West -25 18 £450 -28.00% 12
South East -71 10 £555 +38.75% 17
North East -10 7 £425 -34.62% 1
East of England -28 7 £363 +15.08% 5
East Midlands -40 4 £663 +84.67%
Northern Ireland -3 3 £463 +12.80%
Wales -8 3 £509 - 2
Yorkshire -57 3 £469 -12.79% 1

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
1 127 (43.34%) Apache Spark
2 66 (22.53%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (9.56%) Tomcat
4 26 (8.87%) WebSphere
5 24 (8.19%) Apache Geronimo
5 24 (8.19%) Apache ServiceMix
5 24 (8.19%) Red Hat Fuse
6 9 (3.07%) WebLogic
7 8 (2.73%) IIS
8 5 (1.71%) Apache Superset
8 5 (1.71%) Confluence
8 5 (1.71%) JBoss
9 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (1.37%) nginx
9 4 (1.37%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (1.02%) Apache Synapse
10 3 (1.02%) Jupyter
10 3 (1.02%) SAS
11 2 (0.68%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.34%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
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
1 144 (49.15%) AWS
2 106 (36.18%) Azure
3 73 (24.91%) GCP
4 50 (17.06%) Amazon S3
5 43 (14.68%) Power Platform
6 39 (13.31%) AWS CloudFormation
6 39 (13.31%) Serverless
7 29 (9.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 28 (9.56%) AWS Lambda
9 24 (8.19%) Azure DevOps
10 23 (7.85%) Azure Data Factory
11 22 (7.51%) Amazon SQS
12 19 (6.48%) Collibra
12 19 (6.48%) Snowflake
13 15 (5.12%) GitHub
14 14 (4.78%) AWS Step Functions
15 12 (4.10%) GitHub Actions
16 10 (3.41%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 9 (3.07%) dbt
18 8 (2.73%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.44%) Firewall
2 9 (3.07%) DNS
2 9 (3.07%) HTTP
3 6 (2.05%) Network Security
4 4 (1.37%) DHCP
5 3 (1.02%) 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%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.34%) LAN
7 1 (0.34%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.34%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.34%) Spanning Tree
7 1 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (17.75%) Data Lake
2 40 (13.65%) Data Warehouse
3 37 (12.63%) Power BI
4 35 (11.95%) Amazon Athena
4 35 (11.95%) Big Data
5 34 (11.60%) BigQuery
6 32 (10.92%) Delta Lake
7 22 (7.51%) Hadoop
8 21 (7.17%) SQL Server
9 18 (6.14%) Mixpanel
9 18 (6.14%) PostgreSQL
10 17 (5.80%) Amazon Redshift
10 17 (5.80%) Metadata
10 17 (5.80%) OLAP
10 17 (5.80%) OLTP
11 16 (5.46%) Flink
12 15 (5.12%) MySQL
13 14 (4.78%) NoSQL
13 14 (4.78%) Relational Database
14 12 (4.10%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 52 (17.75%) Git
2 22 (7.51%) GitLab
2 22 (7.51%) JIRA
3 14 (4.78%) MLflow
4 9 (3.07%) Artifactory
4 9 (3.07%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.39%) JUnit
6 6 (2.05%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.05%) Maven
6 6 (2.05%) Selenium
7 4 (1.37%) Eclipse
7 4 (1.37%) Gradle
7 4 (1.37%) IntelliJ
7 4 (1.37%) Mockito
8 3 (1.02%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.68%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.68%) ERwin
9 2 (0.68%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.34%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.34%) RSpec
General
1 55 (18.77%) Social Skills
2 49 (16.72%) Finance
3 29 (9.90%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (7.51%) Public Sector
5 14 (4.78%) Banking
6 5 (1.71%) Billing
6 5 (1.71%) Marketing
7 4 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (1.37%) Investment Banking
7 4 (1.37%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.02%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.02%) Front Office
9 2 (0.68%) Electronics
9 2 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.68%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.34%) Dutch Language
10 1 (0.34%) French Language
10 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.34%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 95 (32.42%) Data Engineer
2 46 (15.70%) Senior
3 43 (14.68%) Developer
4 29 (9.90%) Lead
5 21 (7.17%) Architect
5 21 (7.17%) Software Engineer
6 20 (6.83%) Senior Data Engineer
7 18 (6.14%) Java Developer
7 18 (6.14%) Principal Engineer
8 17 (5.80%) Lead Data Engineer
8 17 (5.80%) Principal Data Engineer
9 15 (5.12%) AWS Engineer
10 11 (3.75%) DevOps Engineer
11 10 (3.41%) Data Architect
12 8 (2.73%) Analyst
12 8 (2.73%) Platform Engineer
12 8 (2.73%) Principal Software Engineer
12 8 (2.73%) Python Engineer
13 7 (2.39%) AWS Data Engineer
13 7 (2.39%) Data Analytics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (22.53%) Kafka
2 34 (11.60%) PySpark
3 33 (11.26%) REST
4 29 (9.90%) Middleware
5 25 (8.53%) Apache NiFi
6 24 (8.19%) Apache Axis
6 24 (8.19%) Apache Camel
7 20 (6.83%) Spring
8 19 (6.48%) Great Expectations
8 19 (6.48%) JSON
9 12 (4.10%) Apache Beam
10 11 (3.75%) Pandas
11 10 (3.41%) SOAP
12 9 (3.07%) AWS CDK
12 9 (3.07%) NumPy
12 9 (3.07%) Spring Boot
13 7 (2.39%) Hibernate
13 7 (2.39%) HTML
13 7 (2.39%) XML
14 6 (2.05%) EJB
Miscellaneous
1 38 (12.97%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.10%) Management Information System
3 11 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (3.75%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.41%) Algorithms
5 8 (2.73%) Data Structures
5 8 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.39%) Clustering
7 6 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.05%) Distributed Computing
7 6 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.05%) Replication
8 5 (1.71%) Freedom of Information
8 5 (1.71%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.37%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.02%) Distributed Applications
10 3 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.68%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.68%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 44 (15.02%) Linux
2 23 (7.85%) Unix
2 23 (7.85%) Windows
3 9 (3.07%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.05%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.71%) Debian
7 4 (1.37%) Rocky
8 3 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.68%) Solaris
9 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.34%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (41.64%) CI/CD
2 98 (33.45%) Analytics
3 94 (32.08%) Data Pipeline
4 91 (31.06%) ETL
5 87 (29.69%) Data Engineering
5 87 (29.69%) DevOps
6 86 (29.35%) Data Modelling
7 68 (23.21%) Agile
8 64 (21.84%) Problem-Solving
9 63 (21.50%) AI
9 63 (21.50%) Data Governance
10 58 (19.80%) Infrastructure as Code
10 58 (19.80%) Machine Learning
11 47 (16.04%) Business Intelligence
12 46 (15.70%) Data Architecture
12 46 (15.70%) Observability
13 43 (14.68%) Software Engineering
14 33 (11.26%) Data Science
15 32 (10.92%) Containerisation
15 32 (10.92%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 172 (58.70%) SQL
2 160 (54.61%) Python
3 90 (30.72%) Java
4 29 (9.90%) Scala
5 21 (7.17%) C#
6 13 (4.44%) PowerShell
7 12 (4.10%) Shell Script
8 11 (3.75%) JavaScript
8 11 (3.75%) R
9 8 (2.73%) TypeScript
10 7 (2.39%) Bash
11 6 (2.05%) Perl
11 6 (2.05%) PHP
12 5 (1.71%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.02%) Go
13 3 (1.02%) Ruby
14 2 (0.68%) AWK
14 2 (0.68%) C++
14 2 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.34%) C
Qualifications
1 88 (30.03%) Security Cleared
2 70 (23.89%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.83%) DV Cleared
4 18 (6.14%) Degree
5 13 (4.44%) 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 67 (22.87%) Data Quality
2 27 (9.22%) GDPR
3 13 (4.44%) QA
4 7 (2.39%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.68%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.34%) IFRS
7 1 (0.34%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.34%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.34%) MiFID
7 1 (0.34%) SLA
7 1 (0.34%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 48 (16.38%) Docker
2 6 (2.05%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.05%) NFS
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
6 2 (0.68%) iptables
6 2 (0.68%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
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 65 (22.18%) Terraform
2 53 (18.09%) Kubernetes
3 26 (8.87%) Ansible
4 9 (3.07%) Grafana
5 5 (1.71%) HAProxy
5 5 (1.71%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.37%) Puppet
7 3 (1.02%) Kibana
7 3 (1.02%) SELinux
8 2 (0.68%) Apache Ranger
8 2 (0.68%) logstash
8 2 (0.68%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.68%) systemd
9 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.34%) Rundeck
9 1 (0.34%) SCCM
9 1 (0.34%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 63 (21.50%) Databricks
2 43 (14.68%) Oracle
3 37 (12.63%) Google
4 24 (8.19%) TIBCO
5 21 (7.17%) Microsoft
6 14 (4.78%) Red Hat
7 12 (4.10%) Cloudera
7 12 (4.10%) Informatica
8 9 (3.07%) ServiceNow
9 8 (2.73%) Confluent
9 8 (2.73%) Talend
10 7 (2.39%) Cisco
11 6 (2.05%) Guidewire
11 6 (2.05%) Splunk
12 5 (1.71%) IBM
12 5 (1.71%) Palo Alto
12 5 (1.71%) SolarWinds
13 4 (1.37%) Palantir
13 4 (1.37%) SAP
13 4 (1.37%) webMethods