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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 259 255
Rank change year-on-year -91 -4 +27
Contract jobs citing Apache 294 304 390
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.62% 1.04% 0.90%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.02% 9.26% 9.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 235 328
10th Percentile £392 £409 £400
25th Percentile £458 £472 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £613
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +10.20% +2.08%
75th Percentile £600 £838 £850
90th Percentile £674 £875 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%
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% -24.17%

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 4,187 3,283 4,174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.82% 11.28% 9.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,857 2,188 2,882
10th Percentile £313 £275 £250
25th Percentile £404 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +4.22% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 77 157
10th Percentile £15.52 £16.55 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.14 £22.50 £15.40
Median hourly rate £30.00 £43.09 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.38% +56.69% -38.89%
75th Percentile £72.00 £64.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £78.70 £76.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.06 £47.50 £23.75
% change year-on-year -24.08% +99.99% -13.64%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -141 226 £525 -22.22% 86
UK excluding London -46 130 £525 +5.00% 54
London -110 130 £575 -23.33% 42
Work from Home -89 71 £525 -30.00% 43
Scotland +30 40 £525 +13.51% 4
North of England -49 33 £484 +1.79% 16
North West -28 21 £525 +10.53% 10
Midlands -61 20 £550 -4.35% 5
South West -33 16 £450 -21.74% 15
West Midlands -49 16 £550 -8.33% 5
North East -7 10 £405 -37.69% 5
East of England -28 8 £363 +13.93%
South East -77 8 £550 +51.72% 13
Northern Ireland +4 3 £463 +12.80%
Wales -9 3 £509 - 1
East Midlands -28 3 £600 +46.34%
Yorkshire -55 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
1 135 (45.92%) Apache Spark
2 76 (25.85%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (9.86%) Tomcat
4 27 (9.18%) WebSphere
5 24 (8.16%) Apache Geronimo
5 24 (8.16%) Apache ServiceMix
5 24 (8.16%) Red Hat Fuse
6 7 (2.38%) IIS
7 6 (2.04%) Jupyter
8 5 (1.70%) Apache Superset
8 5 (1.70%) nginx
9 4 (1.36%) Confluence
9 4 (1.36%) WebLogic
10 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (1.02%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (1.02%) SAS
11 2 (0.68%) Apache Synapse
11 2 (0.68%) JBoss
11 2 (0.68%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.34%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Chatbot
2 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
1 137 (46.60%) AWS
2 101 (34.35%) Azure
3 69 (23.47%) GCP
4 48 (16.33%) Amazon S3
5 39 (13.27%) Power Platform
6 35 (11.90%) AWS CloudFormation
6 35 (11.90%) Serverless
7 28 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
8 27 (9.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 26 (8.84%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (7.48%) Azure Data Factory
11 21 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
12 19 (6.46%) Snowflake
13 18 (6.12%) GitHub
14 17 (5.78%) Collibra
15 13 (4.42%) AWS Step Functions
15 13 (4.42%) dbt
15 13 (4.42%) GitHub Actions
16 9 (3.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 9 (3.06%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.42%) Firewall
2 11 (3.74%) DNS
3 10 (3.40%) HTTP
4 6 (2.04%) Network Security
5 4 (1.36%) DHCP
5 4 (1.36%) SAN
6 3 (1.02%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.68%) FTP
7 2 (0.68%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.68%) SSH
7 2 (0.68%) VLAN
8 1 (0.34%) 4G
8 1 (0.34%) InfiniBand
8 1 (0.34%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.34%) LAN
8 1 (0.34%) NAS
8 1 (0.34%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.34%) Spanning Tree
8 1 (0.34%) SSL
8 1 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (15.99%) Data Lake
2 43 (14.63%) Big Data
3 39 (13.27%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (11.22%) Delta Lake
4 33 (11.22%) Power BI
5 32 (10.88%) Amazon Athena
5 32 (10.88%) BigQuery
6 24 (8.16%) Hadoop
7 23 (7.82%) SQL Server
8 20 (6.80%) Flink
8 20 (6.80%) PostgreSQL
9 16 (5.44%) Mixpanel
9 16 (5.44%) NoSQL
10 15 (5.10%) Metadata
10 15 (5.10%) OLAP
10 15 (5.10%) OLTP
11 14 (4.76%) MySQL
12 13 (4.42%) Amazon Redshift
12 13 (4.42%) Relational Database
13 12 (4.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 57 (19.39%) Git
2 27 (9.18%) GitLab
3 22 (7.48%) JIRA
4 16 (5.44%) MLflow
5 12 (4.08%) Jenkins
6 9 (3.06%) Artifactory
7 8 (2.72%) Maven
8 5 (1.70%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.70%) Gradle
9 4 (1.36%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.02%) Selenium
11 2 (0.68%) Mockito
12 1 (0.34%) Ant
12 1 (0.34%) Capybara
12 1 (0.34%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.34%) ERwin
12 1 (0.34%) git-flow
12 1 (0.34%) JUnit
12 1 (0.34%) PHPUnit
12 1 (0.34%) RSpec
General
1 61 (20.75%) Finance
2 47 (15.99%) Social Skills
3 35 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (6.80%) Public Sector
5 15 (5.10%) Banking
6 7 (2.38%) Billing
7 4 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.36%) Front Office
7 4 (1.36%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.02%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.02%) Marketing
9 2 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.68%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.34%) Dutch Language
10 1 (0.34%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.34%) Law
10 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.34%) Prime Brokerage
10 1 (0.34%) Publishing
10 1 (0.34%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 99 (33.67%) Data Engineer
2 46 (15.65%) Senior
3 41 (13.95%) Developer
4 30 (10.20%) Lead
5 28 (9.52%) Architect
6 19 (6.46%) Java Developer
6 19 (6.46%) Software Engineer
7 18 (6.12%) Senior Data Engineer
8 17 (5.78%) Lead Data Engineer
9 16 (5.44%) Principal Engineer
10 15 (5.10%) Principal Data Engineer
11 13 (4.42%) AWS Engineer
12 12 (4.08%) DevOps Engineer
13 11 (3.74%) Data Architect
14 9 (3.06%) Analyst
14 9 (3.06%) Python Engineer
15 8 (2.72%) Platform Engineer
16 7 (2.38%) Senior Developer
16 7 (2.38%) Technical Leader
17 6 (2.04%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (22.79%) Kafka
2 44 (14.97%) PySpark
3 28 (9.52%) REST
4 27 (9.18%) Middleware
5 24 (8.16%) Apache Axis
5 24 (8.16%) Apache Camel
6 23 (7.82%) Spring
7 19 (6.46%) Apache NiFi
8 18 (6.12%) Great Expectations
9 16 (5.44%) Spring Boot
10 14 (4.76%) JSON
11 12 (4.08%) Apache Beam
12 11 (3.74%) Pandas
13 9 (3.06%) AWS CDK
13 9 (3.06%) NumPy
13 9 (3.06%) SOAP
14 7 (2.38%) PyTorch
15 6 (2.04%) Node.js
15 6 (2.04%) OAuth
16 5 (1.70%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 38 (12.93%) Cloud Native
2 15 (5.10%) Management Information System
3 11 (3.74%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.40%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (3.40%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (3.06%) Algorithms
5 9 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.72%) Data Structures
7 7 (2.38%) Clustering
8 6 (2.04%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.70%) Freedom of Information
9 5 (1.70%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.70%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.70%) Replication
10 4 (1.36%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.02%) Distributed Applications
11 3 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
12 2 (0.68%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 50 (17.01%) Linux
2 22 (7.48%) Windows
3 20 (6.80%) Unix
4 11 (3.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (3.06%) Ubuntu
5 9 (3.06%) Windows Server
6 6 (2.04%) Debian
7 5 (1.70%) Rocky
8 3 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.68%) CentOS
9 2 (0.68%) Solaris
9 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (41.16%) CI/CD
2 96 (32.65%) Data Pipeline
3 94 (31.97%) Analytics
4 89 (30.27%) Data Engineering
4 89 (30.27%) ETL
5 85 (28.91%) Data Modelling
6 84 (28.57%) DevOps
7 69 (23.47%) Agile
8 68 (23.13%) AI
9 62 (21.09%) Problem-Solving
10 60 (20.41%) Data Governance
11 58 (19.73%) Machine Learning
12 54 (18.37%) Infrastructure as Code
13 46 (15.65%) Containerisation
13 46 (15.65%) Observability
14 41 (13.95%) Data Architecture
15 39 (13.27%) Business Intelligence
16 38 (12.93%) Software Engineering
17 36 (12.24%) Data Science
18 34 (11.56%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 172 (58.50%) SQL
2 169 (57.48%) Python
3 88 (29.93%) Java
4 24 (8.16%) Scala
5 18 (6.12%) C#
6 14 (4.76%) Shell Script
7 12 (4.08%) PowerShell
7 12 (4.08%) R
8 11 (3.74%) Bash
8 11 (3.74%) JavaScript
9 8 (2.72%) TypeScript
10 7 (2.38%) Perl
11 6 (2.04%) PHP
12 5 (1.70%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.36%) Go
13 4 (1.36%) Ruby
14 2 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.34%) Korn
15 1 (0.34%) SAS Macro
15 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 83 (28.23%) Security Cleared
2 68 (23.13%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.14%) Degree
4 16 (5.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (5.44%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (2.38%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.38%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.02%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (1.02%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.34%) CCNA
9 1 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.34%) RHCE
9 1 (0.34%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (21.77%) Data Quality
2 24 (8.16%) GDPR
3 11 (3.74%) QA
4 7 (2.38%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.02%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.68%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.68%) 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 48 (16.33%) Docker
2 7 (2.38%) NFS
3 6 (2.04%) Varnish
4 5 (1.70%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.70%) Postfix
5 4 (1.36%) HDFS
5 4 (1.36%) Sendmail
6 3 (1.02%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.02%) Samba
6 3 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.68%) iptables
7 2 (0.68%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.68%) 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
Systems Management
1 62 (21.09%) Kubernetes
2 60 (20.41%) Terraform
3 27 (9.18%) Ansible
4 8 (2.72%) Grafana
5 6 (2.04%) HAProxy
6 3 (1.02%) Kibana
6 3 (1.02%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.02%) SELinux
7 2 (0.68%) Apache Ranger
7 2 (0.68%) logstash
7 2 (0.68%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.68%) Puppet
7 2 (0.68%) systemd
8 1 (0.34%) Podman
8 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.34%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.34%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 62 (21.09%) Databricks
2 41 (13.95%) Oracle
3 34 (11.56%) Google
4 24 (8.16%) TIBCO
5 23 (7.82%) Microsoft
6 14 (4.76%) Red Hat
7 11 (3.74%) Informatica
8 10 (3.40%) Cloudera
9 9 (3.06%) ServiceNow
10 8 (2.72%) Guidewire
11 7 (2.38%) Talend
12 6 (2.04%) Cisco
12 6 (2.04%) Confluent
13 5 (1.70%) Palo Alto
13 5 (1.70%) SolarWinds
13 5 (1.70%) VMware
14 4 (1.36%) Hortonworks
14 4 (1.36%) IBM
14 4 (1.36%) Splunk
15 3 (1.02%) Foundry