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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 258 253
Rank change year-on-year -100 -5 +37
Contract jobs citing Apache 291 304 402
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.61% 1.04% 0.93%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.98% 9.25% 9.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 234 342
10th Percentile £383 £410 £400
25th Percentile £459 £470 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £605
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +11.57% +0.83%
75th Percentile £600 £838 £850
90th Percentile £679 £875 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £488 £510
% change year-on-year +7.69% -4.41% -7.27%
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% -26.60%

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 4,171 3,287 4,174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.78% 11.26% 9.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,834 2,189 2,889
10th Percentile £313 £276 £255
25th Percentile £404 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £686 £719 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +4.22% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 147 71 158
10th Percentile £15.57 £16.75 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.02 £22.50 £15.41
Median hourly rate £28.00 £46.18 £28.01
Median % change year-on-year -39.37% +64.88% -37.76%
75th Percentile £69.22 £64.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £78.10 £77.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £52.50 £24.47
% change year-on-year -33.33% +114.59% -21.08%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -154 226 £525 -22.22% 83
London -108 131 £575 -23.33% 37
UK excluding London -60 126 £525 +7.69% 57
Work from Home -103 70 £525 -30.00% 40
Scotland +33 37 £525 +13.51% 3
North of England -55 32 £484 +1.79% 16
Midlands -46 21 £550 -4.35% 5
North West -29 18 £525 +10.53% 10
West Midlands -56 17 £550 -8.33% 5
South West -29 16 £450 -20.00% 16
North East -7 12 £405 -37.69% 5
South East -67 8 £550 +51.72% 17
East of England -27 7 £363 +13.93%
Northern Ireland +5 3 £463 +12.80%
Wales -11 3 £509 -
East Midlands -33 3 £600 +46.34%
Yorkshire -61 2 £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
1 136 (46.74%) Apache Spark
2 76 (26.12%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (9.97%) Tomcat
4 27 (9.28%) WebSphere
5 24 (8.25%) Apache Geronimo
5 24 (8.25%) Apache ServiceMix
5 24 (8.25%) Red Hat Fuse
6 8 (2.75%) Jupyter
7 7 (2.41%) IIS
8 5 (1.72%) Apache Superset
8 5 (1.72%) nginx
9 4 (1.37%) Confluence
9 4 (1.37%) WebLogic
10 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (1.03%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (1.03%) SAS
11 2 (0.69%) Apache Synapse
11 2 (0.69%) JBoss
11 2 (0.69%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.34%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Actimize
1 1 (0.34%) Magento
1 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.34%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 138 (47.42%) AWS
2 103 (35.40%) Azure
3 71 (24.40%) GCP
4 45 (15.46%) Amazon S3
5 37 (12.71%) Power Platform
6 32 (11.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 32 (11.00%) Serverless
7 27 (9.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 26 (8.93%) Azure DevOps
9 25 (8.59%) AWS Lambda
10 22 (7.56%) Azure Data Factory
11 21 (7.22%) Amazon SQS
12 17 (5.84%) Collibra
12 17 (5.84%) GitHub
13 16 (5.50%) Snowflake
14 13 (4.47%) dbt
15 12 (4.12%) GitHub Actions
16 11 (3.78%) AWS Step Functions
17 9 (3.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 8 (2.75%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.78%) DNS
1 11 (3.78%) Firewall
2 7 (2.41%) HTTP
3 5 (1.72%) SAN
4 4 (1.37%) DHCP
5 3 (1.03%) Network Security
5 3 (1.03%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.69%) FTP
6 2 (0.69%) iSCSI
6 2 (0.69%) NAS
6 2 (0.69%) SSH
6 2 (0.69%) VLAN
7 1 (0.34%) 4G
7 1 (0.34%) InfiniBand
7 1 (0.34%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.34%) LAN
7 1 (0.34%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.34%) SSL
7 1 (0.34%) Structured Cabling
7 1 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (15.81%) Data Lake
2 42 (14.43%) Big Data
3 38 (13.06%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (11.00%) BigQuery
5 31 (10.65%) Delta Lake
5 31 (10.65%) Power BI
6 30 (10.31%) Amazon Athena
7 23 (7.90%) Hadoop
7 23 (7.90%) SQL Server
8 20 (6.87%) Flink
8 20 (6.87%) PostgreSQL
9 16 (5.50%) Mixpanel
10 15 (5.15%) Metadata
10 15 (5.15%) NoSQL
10 15 (5.15%) OLAP
10 15 (5.15%) OLTP
11 14 (4.81%) MySQL
12 13 (4.47%) Relational Database
13 12 (4.12%) Amazon Redshift
13 12 (4.12%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 56 (19.24%) Git
2 27 (9.28%) GitLab
3 22 (7.56%) JIRA
4 14 (4.81%) MLflow
5 12 (4.12%) Jenkins
6 9 (3.09%) Artifactory
6 9 (3.09%) Maven
7 6 (2.06%) Gradle
8 5 (1.72%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.72%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.03%) Selenium
10 2 (0.69%) Mockito
11 1 (0.34%) Capybara
11 1 (0.34%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.34%) ER Studio
11 1 (0.34%) git-flow
11 1 (0.34%) minitest
11 1 (0.34%) PHPUnit
11 1 (0.34%) RSpec
11 1 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 56 (19.24%) Finance
2 43 (14.78%) Social Skills
3 32 (11.00%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (7.22%) Public Sector
5 15 (5.15%) Banking
6 7 (2.41%) Billing
7 4 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.37%) Front Office
7 4 (1.37%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.03%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.03%) Marketing
9 2 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.69%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.34%) Dutch Language
10 1 (0.34%) Financial Institution
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
Job Titles
1 99 (34.02%) Data Engineer
2 46 (15.81%) Senior
3 43 (14.78%) Developer
4 29 (9.97%) Lead
5 28 (9.62%) Architect
6 20 (6.87%) Java Developer
7 19 (6.53%) Senior Data Engineer
7 19 (6.53%) Software Engineer
8 17 (5.84%) Lead Data Engineer
9 16 (5.50%) Principal Engineer
10 15 (5.15%) Principal Data Engineer
11 13 (4.47%) DevOps Engineer
12 11 (3.78%) AWS Engineer
12 11 (3.78%) Data Architect
13 9 (3.09%) Analyst
13 9 (3.09%) Python Engineer
14 8 (2.75%) Platform Engineer
14 8 (2.75%) Senior Developer
15 6 (2.06%) Principal Software Engineer
15 6 (2.06%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (23.02%) Kafka
2 41 (14.09%) PySpark
3 27 (9.28%) Middleware
3 27 (9.28%) REST
4 24 (8.25%) Apache Axis
4 24 (8.25%) Apache Camel
4 24 (8.25%) Spring
5 19 (6.53%) Apache NiFi
6 18 (6.19%) Great Expectations
7 17 (5.84%) Spring Boot
8 14 (4.81%) JSON
9 13 (4.47%) Apache Beam
10 10 (3.44%) Pandas
11 9 (3.09%) AWS CDK
11 9 (3.09%) SOAP
12 8 (2.75%) NumPy
13 7 (2.41%) PyTorch
14 6 (2.06%) OAuth
15 5 (1.72%) Apache Tika
15 5 (1.72%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 38 (13.06%) Cloud Native
2 15 (5.15%) Management Information System
3 11 (3.78%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.44%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (3.44%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (3.09%) Algorithms
5 9 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.75%) Data Structures
7 7 (2.41%) Clustering
8 6 (2.06%) Distributed Computing
8 6 (2.06%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.72%) Freedom of Information
9 5 (1.72%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.72%) Replication
10 4 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.37%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.03%) Distributed Applications
11 3 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.69%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 47 (16.15%) Linux
2 23 (7.90%) Windows
3 17 (5.84%) Unix
4 11 (3.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (3.44%) Ubuntu
5 10 (3.44%) Windows Server
6 6 (2.06%) Debian
7 5 (1.72%) Rocky
8 3 (1.03%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.69%) CentOS
9 2 (0.69%) Solaris
9 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (40.89%) CI/CD
2 93 (31.96%) Data Pipeline
3 91 (31.27%) Analytics
4 87 (29.90%) Data Engineering
5 86 (29.55%) ETL
6 85 (29.21%) Data Modelling
6 85 (29.21%) DevOps
7 68 (23.37%) AI
8 67 (23.02%) Agile
9 58 (19.93%) Data Governance
10 57 (19.59%) Machine Learning
11 56 (19.24%) Problem-Solving
12 52 (17.87%) Infrastructure as Code
13 47 (16.15%) Containerisation
14 43 (14.78%) Observability
15 40 (13.75%) Data Architecture
16 38 (13.06%) Software Engineering
17 37 (12.71%) Business Intelligence
18 36 (12.37%) Data Science
19 34 (11.68%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 172 (59.11%) SQL
2 167 (57.39%) Python
3 89 (30.58%) Java
4 24 (8.25%) Scala
5 18 (6.19%) C#
6 14 (4.81%) Shell Script
7 12 (4.12%) PowerShell
7 12 (4.12%) R
8 11 (3.78%) Bash
8 11 (3.78%) JavaScript
9 8 (2.75%) TypeScript
10 7 (2.41%) Perl
11 6 (2.06%) PHP
12 5 (1.72%) Go
12 5 (1.72%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.37%) Ruby
14 2 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.34%) Groovy
15 1 (0.34%) Korn
15 1 (0.34%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 85 (29.21%) Security Cleared
2 70 (24.05%) SC Cleared
3 22 (7.56%) Degree
4 17 (5.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (5.50%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.41%) Master's Degree
8 6 (2.06%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.37%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.03%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.34%) CCNA
12 1 (0.34%) CCNP
12 1 (0.34%) RHCE
12 1 (0.34%) RHCSA
12 1 (0.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (21.31%) Data Quality
2 24 (8.25%) GDPR
3 10 (3.44%) QA
4 6 (2.06%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.03%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.69%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.69%) 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 51 (17.53%) Docker
2 7 (2.41%) NFS
3 6 (2.06%) Varnish
4 5 (1.72%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.72%) Postfix
5 4 (1.37%) HDFS
5 4 (1.37%) Sendmail
5 4 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.03%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.03%) Samba
7 2 (0.69%) iptables
7 2 (0.69%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.34%) Ceph
8 1 (0.34%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.34%) KVM
8 1 (0.34%) Lustre
8 1 (0.34%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 64 (21.99%) Kubernetes
2 61 (20.96%) Terraform
3 27 (9.28%) Ansible
4 9 (3.09%) Grafana
5 6 (2.06%) HAProxy
6 4 (1.37%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.03%) Kibana
7 3 (1.03%) SELinux
8 2 (0.69%) Apache Ranger
8 2 (0.69%) logstash
8 2 (0.69%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.69%) Puppet
8 2 (0.69%) systemd
9 1 (0.34%) Check_MK
9 1 (0.34%) Podman
9 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.34%) Rundeck
9 1 (0.34%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 59 (20.27%) Databricks
2 41 (14.09%) Oracle
3 35 (12.03%) Google
4 24 (8.25%) TIBCO
5 23 (7.90%) Microsoft
6 14 (4.81%) Red Hat
7 11 (3.78%) Informatica
8 10 (3.44%) Cloudera
9 9 (3.09%) ServiceNow
10 8 (2.75%) Guidewire
11 7 (2.41%) Cisco
11 7 (2.41%) Talend
12 6 (2.06%) VMware
13 5 (1.72%) Confluent
13 5 (1.72%) Palo Alto
13 5 (1.72%) SolarWinds
14 4 (1.37%) Hortonworks
14 4 (1.37%) IBM
14 4 (1.37%) Trend Micro
15 3 (1.03%) Palantir