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 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 370 278 185
Rank change year-on-year -92 -93 +112
Contract jobs citing Apache 328 309 513
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.61% 0.95% 1.34%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.13% 8.69% 12.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 229 435
10th Percentile £363 £362 £419
25th Percentile £413 £463 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £750
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -26.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £600 £775 £875
90th Percentile £700 £825 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 8
10th Percentile £62.00 £38.21 £43.40
25th Percentile - £64.24 £53.56
Median hourly rate £67.47 £79.35 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.97% +10.21% -7.69%
75th Percentile £79.31 £80.74 £74.11
90th Percentile £85.25 £82.07 £74.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £79.35 £72.00
% change year-on-year -14.97% +10.21% -7.69%

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 4,598 3,557 4,099
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.57% 10.94% 10.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,021 2,313 2,770
10th Percentile £288 £278 £275
25th Percentile £404 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £483 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.63% -8.10% +2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £680 £719 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £462 £450 £470
% change year-on-year +2.67% -4.26% -1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 185 91 95
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.33 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £25.00 £21.63
Median hourly rate £32.50 £43.09 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year -24.58% +30.30% -38.76%
75th Percentile £61.57 £65.25 £69.38
90th Percentile £75.90 £78.70 £74.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £46.18 £48.56
% change year-on-year -29.62% -4.90% +7.91%

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 3 September 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 3 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Apache in the UK

Apache
Top 16 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 3 September 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 -113 282 £513 -8.89% 291
London -68 171 £550 -21.43% 212
UK excluding London -95 125 £425 -15.00% 144
Work from Home -51 105 £513 -31.67% 92
North of England -40 54 £413 -1.79% 27
North East -14 29 £385 -30.00% 3
South West -32 22 £450 -9.09% 29
Scotland -17 21 £475 -5.00% 35
North West -54 16 £530 +48.04% 17
Midlands -62 13 £460 -14.10% 6
South East -68 12 £450 -25.00% 37
West Midlands -60 11 £478 -11.57% 2
Yorkshire -41 9 £469 -1.32% 7
Wales -16 2 £475 -
East of England -27 2 £400 -27.27% 5
East Midlands -22 1 £495 +17.86% 4

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
1 179 (54.57%) Apache Spark
2 152 (46.34%) Apache Airflow
3 35 (10.67%) Jupyter
4 16 (4.88%) nginx
5 12 (3.66%) Confluence
6 11 (3.35%) Tomcat
7 9 (2.74%) Apache Superset
8 7 (2.13%) IIS
8 7 (2.13%) WebSphere
9 5 (1.52%) CloudStack
9 5 (1.52%) SharePoint
10 4 (1.22%) JBoss
11 3 (0.91%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.61%) Apache Geronimo
12 2 (0.61%) Apache ServiceMix
12 2 (0.61%) Red Hat Fuse
13 1 (0.30%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.30%) Luigi
13 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Magento
1 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.30%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 190 (57.93%) AWS
2 118 (35.98%) Azure
3 86 (26.22%) GCP
4 55 (16.77%) Amazon S3
5 51 (15.55%) dbt
6 40 (12.20%) Snowflake
7 34 (10.37%) Azure DevOps
7 34 (10.37%) Serverless
8 32 (9.76%) Azure Data Factory
9 30 (9.15%) Amazon EMR
9 30 (9.15%) AWS Lambda
9 30 (9.15%) Power Platform
10 24 (7.32%) GitHub
11 17 (5.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 16 (4.88%) Azure Databricks
13 15 (4.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 14 (4.27%) GitHub Actions
15 13 (3.96%) Amazon EC2
16 10 (3.05%) Cloud Composer
17 9 (2.74%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.49%) DNS
2 13 (3.96%) Firewall
3 5 (1.52%) DHCP
3 5 (1.52%) NAS
3 5 (1.52%) SAN
4 4 (1.22%) SSL
5 3 (0.91%) HTTP
5 3 (0.91%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.91%) Network Security
5 3 (0.91%) Structured Cabling
5 3 (0.91%) VLAN
6 2 (0.61%) BIG-IP
6 2 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.61%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.30%) FTP
7 1 (0.30%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (20.43%) Data Warehouse
2 50 (15.24%) Data Lake
3 43 (13.11%) BigQuery
4 42 (12.80%) Delta Lake
5 41 (12.50%) Big Data
6 36 (10.98%) Flink
7 31 (9.45%) Amazon Athena
8 30 (9.15%) Metadata
9 29 (8.84%) Power BI
10 23 (7.01%) Amazon Redshift
10 23 (7.01%) SQL Server
11 22 (6.71%) PostgreSQL
12 19 (5.79%) Apache Iceberg
13 18 (5.49%) Hadoop
13 18 (5.49%) Relational Database
14 17 (5.18%) Elasticsearch
14 17 (5.18%) NoSQL
15 14 (4.27%) Tableau
16 11 (3.35%) MongoDB
17 10 (3.05%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 54 (16.46%) GitLab
2 48 (14.63%) Git
3 22 (6.71%) JIRA
4 13 (3.96%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.44%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.83%) Maven
7 5 (1.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (1.52%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.52%) MLflow
8 4 (1.22%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.22%) Gradle
9 2 (0.61%) JMeter
9 2 (0.61%) RStudio
9 2 (0.61%) Selenium
9 2 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.61%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.30%) Ant
10 1 (0.30%) Capybara
10 1 (0.30%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.30%) RSpec
General
1 76 (23.17%) Social Skills
2 73 (22.26%) Finance
3 50 (15.24%) Public Sector
4 41 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (7.62%) Banking
6 7 (2.13%) Financial Institution
6 7 (2.13%) Publishing
7 6 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (1.83%) Marketing
8 5 (1.52%) Military
9 4 (1.22%) Billing
10 3 (0.91%) Law
10 3 (0.91%) Legal
11 2 (0.61%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.30%) Front Office
12 1 (0.30%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.30%) Local Government
12 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 130 (39.63%) Data Engineer
2 59 (17.99%) Senior
3 46 (14.02%) Architect
4 42 (12.80%) Developer
5 35 (10.67%) Senior Data Engineer
6 27 (8.23%) Lead
7 24 (7.32%) DevOps Engineer
8 21 (6.40%) Data Architect
8 21 (6.40%) Databricks Engineer
9 20 (6.10%) Java Developer
10 15 (4.57%) Databricks Data Engineer
10 15 (4.57%) Python Engineer
11 12 (3.66%) Lead Data Engineer
11 12 (3.66%) Software Engineer
12 11 (3.35%) AWS Engineer
12 11 (3.35%) Cloud Engineer
12 11 (3.35%) Python Data Engineer
13 9 (2.74%) Senior Developer
13 9 (2.74%) Technical Leader
14 8 (2.44%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (29.57%) Terraform
2 78 (23.78%) PySpark
3 70 (21.34%) Kafka
4 28 (8.54%) REST
5 25 (7.62%) Spring
5 25 (7.62%) Spring Boot
6 22 (6.71%) JSON
7 17 (5.18%) Apache Beam
8 15 (4.57%) Apache NiFi
9 9 (2.74%) SOAP
9 9 (2.74%) Spark Streaming
10 8 (2.44%) AWS CDK
10 8 (2.44%) OAuth
10 8 (2.44%) YAML
11 7 (2.13%) Apache Avro
11 7 (2.13%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (2.13%) Middleware
11 7 (2.13%) Pandas
12 5 (1.52%) LAMP
12 5 (1.52%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 56 (17.07%) Cloud Native
2 24 (7.32%) Product Ownership
3 16 (4.88%) Data Structures
4 14 (4.27%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (3.66%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (3.35%) Management Information System
7 10 (3.05%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (2.74%) Onboarding
8 9 (2.74%) Public Cloud
9 8 (2.44%) Data Fabric
10 5 (1.52%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.52%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.52%) Clustering
10 5 (1.52%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.22%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (1.22%) PKI
11 4 (1.22%) Replication
12 3 (0.91%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 50 (15.24%) Linux
2 18 (5.49%) Windows
3 16 (4.88%) Ubuntu
4 11 (3.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (3.35%) Unix
5 6 (1.83%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.52%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.22%) CentOS
7 4 (1.22%) Rocky
8 3 (0.91%) Debian
9 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.30%) Solaris
10 1 (0.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (49.70%) CI/CD
2 143 (43.60%) Data Pipeline
3 131 (39.94%) Data Engineering
4 114 (34.76%) Analytics
4 114 (34.76%) DevOps
5 105 (32.01%) ETL
6 104 (31.71%) Data Modelling
7 103 (31.40%) Agile
8 83 (25.30%) Infrastructure as Code
9 76 (23.17%) Containerisation
10 70 (21.34%) AI
11 64 (19.51%) Data Governance
12 51 (15.55%) Machine Learning
12 51 (15.55%) Migration
13 49 (14.94%) Lakehouse
14 43 (13.11%) Business Intelligence
15 42 (12.80%) Data Transformation
16 41 (12.50%) Data Architecture
16 41 (12.50%) Workflow
17 39 (11.89%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 225 (68.60%) Python
2 173 (52.74%) SQL
3 72 (21.95%) Java
4 28 (8.54%) Scala
5 24 (7.32%) Bash
5 24 (7.32%) PowerShell
6 18 (5.49%) Shell Script
7 11 (3.35%) R
8 10 (3.05%) TypeScript
9 9 (2.74%) Go
10 7 (2.13%) PL/SQL
11 5 (1.52%) JavaScript
11 5 (1.52%) Perl
12 4 (1.22%) Bicep
12 4 (1.22%) C#
12 4 (1.22%) Groovy
12 4 (1.22%) Ruby
13 3 (0.91%) Cypher
13 3 (0.91%) Gremlin
13 3 (0.91%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 106 (32.32%) Security Cleared
2 91 (27.74%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.79%) Degree
4 15 (4.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (4.27%) DV Cleared
6 9 (2.74%) AWS Certification
7 6 (1.83%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.52%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.91%) CCNP
10 3 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.91%) CSPO
10 3 (0.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.61%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.30%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.30%) PMP
12 1 (0.30%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 17 (5.18%) GDPR
3 10 (3.05%) QA
4 7 (2.13%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (1.22%) Government Security Classifications
7 3 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.61%) NCSC
8 2 (0.61%) SLA
8 2 (0.61%) WCAG
9 1 (0.30%) NIST
System Software
1 100 (30.49%) Docker
2 13 (3.96%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.44%) Postfix
4 7 (2.13%) NFS
5 6 (1.83%) Varnish
6 5 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
8 3 (0.91%) Dovecot
8 3 (0.91%) Sendmail
8 3 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.91%) vSphere
9 2 (0.61%) Ceph
9 2 (0.61%) KVM
10 1 (0.30%) iptables
10 1 (0.30%) Samba
Systems Management
1 83 (25.30%) Kubernetes
2 26 (7.93%) Ansible
3 14 (4.27%) Grafana
4 9 (2.74%) Prometheus
5 8 (2.44%) HAProxy
6 5 (1.52%) Packer
6 5 (1.52%) vCenter Server
7 4 (1.22%) Puppet
7 4 (1.22%) SELinux
8 3 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.91%) Apache Ranger
8 3 (0.91%) Check_MK
8 3 (0.91%) Kibana
8 3 (0.91%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.91%) systemd
9 2 (0.61%) Control-M
10 1 (0.30%) Podman
10 1 (0.30%) Rundeck
10 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.30%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 86 (26.22%) Databricks
2 40 (12.20%) Microsoft
3 37 (11.28%) Google
4 17 (5.18%) Trend Micro
5 13 (3.96%) Oracle
6 11 (3.35%) Red Hat
7 10 (3.05%) Cloudera
7 10 (3.05%) VMware
8 9 (2.74%) Informatica
8 9 (2.74%) ServiceNow
9 8 (2.44%) Splunk
10 7 (2.13%) Cisco
11 6 (1.83%) Guidewire
12 5 (1.52%) Confluent
12 5 (1.52%) IBM
12 5 (1.52%) New Relic
12 5 (1.52%) Talend
12 5 (1.52%) Tanium
13 4 (1.22%) Hortonworks
13 4 (1.22%) Teradata