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 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 289 230 305
Rank change year-on-year -59 +75 -24
Contract jobs citing Apache 307 395 366
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.86% 1.08% 0.79%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.07% 9.71% 7.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 302 285
10th Percentile £375 £376 £400
25th Percentile £454 £524 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £730 £588
Median % change year-on-year -24.61% +24.17% -8.20%
75th Percentile £688 £850 £700
90th Percentile £825 £888 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +2.58% -9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 9
10th Percentile £61.78 £55.63 £20.70
25th Percentile £64.81 £67.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £72.25 £74.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% -5.13% +22.98%
75th Percentile £77.31 £74.33 -
90th Percentile £78.93 £74.72 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.25 £74.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -2.36% -5.13% +48.57%

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 3,805 4,069 4,773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.71% 11.09% 10.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,554 2,531 3,188
10th Percentile £285 £263 £256
25th Percentile £400 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £507 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +1.34% -4.76%
75th Percentile £594 £638 £631
90th Percentile £702 £792 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £460 £470
% change year-on-year +0.54% -2.13% -1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 82 143
10th Percentile £17.16 £18.16 £15.42
25th Percentile £20.50 £23.80 £18.39
Median hourly rate £34.99 £37.25 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.07% +28.45% +48.72%
75th Percentile £65.25 £64.73 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £73.60 £74.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £48.75 £24.00
% change year-on-year -28.21% +103.13% +37.14%

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 14 November 2025.

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 14 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Apache in the UK

Apache
Top 15 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 14 November 2025. 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 -79 272 £550 -26.67% 163
London -70 151 £625 -21.88% 85
UK excluding London -1 131 £487 +2.58% 98
Work from Home -80 102 £638 -20.25% 94
North of England -16 47 £452 -17.91% 25
Midlands -12 35 £508 -17.08% 4
North West +5 32 £446 -18.91% 17
West Midlands -16 29 £511 -16.46% 2
Scotland +7 18 £500 +17.65% 7
South East -12 14 £600 +26.32% 29
South West -3 12 £344 -43.84% 21
Yorkshire -37 12 £475 -5.00% 6
East of England -18 7 £550 +74.60% 7
East Midlands -11 6 £420 +36.59% 2
North East - 3 £400 - 2

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
1 109 (35.50%) Apache Airflow
2 95 (30.94%) Apache Spark
3 28 (9.12%) IIS
4 26 (8.47%) JBoss
4 26 (8.47%) WebLogic
5 19 (6.19%) WebSphere
6 17 (5.54%) Confluence
7 11 (3.58%) Tomcat
8 10 (3.26%) iPlanet
8 10 (3.26%) WebSphere Application Server
9 7 (2.28%) nginx
10 5 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (1.30%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.65%) Apache Pig
12 2 (0.65%) Luigi
12 2 (0.65%) Oracle HTTP Server
13 1 (0.33%) Apache Superset
13 1 (0.33%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.33%) CloudStack
13 1 (0.33%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (0.98%) Chatbot
1 3 (0.98%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.65%) Abaqus
2 2 (0.65%) Sketch
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (2.61%) Maximo
2 1 (0.33%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.33%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 166 (54.07%) AWS
2 87 (28.34%) Azure
3 60 (19.54%) dbt
3 60 (19.54%) Snowflake
4 44 (14.33%) GCP
5 42 (13.68%) Serverless
6 29 (9.45%) Amazon S3
7 21 (6.84%) Power Platform
8 19 (6.19%) Azure Data Factory
9 18 (5.86%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (5.86%) Azure Monitor
9 18 (5.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 16 (5.21%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (5.21%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (4.23%) OpenShift
12 10 (3.26%) GitHub
13 9 (2.93%) Amazon EMR
13 9 (2.93%) Cloud Computing
14 8 (2.61%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (2.61%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.26%) Firewall
1 10 (3.26%) Kerberos
2 7 (2.28%) DNS
2 7 (2.28%) HTTP
3 6 (1.95%) SSL
4 4 (1.30%) SMTP
5 3 (0.98%) Network Security
6 2 (0.65%) VPN
7 1 (0.33%) DHCP
7 1 (0.33%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.33%) LAN
7 1 (0.33%) WAN
7 1 (0.33%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (21.17%) Data Lake
2 47 (15.31%) Amazon Athena
3 46 (14.98%) Big Data
4 44 (14.33%) Data Warehouse
5 41 (13.36%) Apache Iceberg
6 40 (13.03%) Hadoop
7 34 (11.07%) Apache Arrow
7 34 (11.07%) Apache Ignite
7 34 (11.07%) Dremio
8 26 (8.47%) Delta Lake
9 25 (8.14%) Amazon Redshift
10 21 (6.84%) Metadata
10 21 (6.84%) Power BI
11 19 (6.19%) NoSQL
12 18 (5.86%) Apache Hive
12 18 (5.86%) Relational Database
13 17 (5.54%) BigQuery
13 17 (5.54%) SQL Server
14 14 (4.56%) Oracle Database
15 12 (3.91%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 53 (17.26%) Git
2 23 (7.49%) Jenkins
3 22 (7.17%) JIRA
4 14 (4.56%) GitLab
4 14 (4.56%) JUnit
4 14 (4.56%) Sonatype Nexus
5 11 (3.58%) Bitbucket Server
5 11 (3.58%) CA Release Automation
6 9 (2.93%) Eclipse
6 9 (2.93%) IntelliJ
6 9 (2.93%) Selenium
7 7 (2.28%) Artifactory
8 5 (1.63%) ERwin
8 5 (1.63%) MLflow
8 5 (1.63%) Mockito
8 5 (1.63%) Subversion
9 4 (1.30%) ER Studio
9 4 (1.30%) Liquibase
9 4 (1.30%) MSI
9 4 (1.30%) Robot Framework
General
1 84 (27.36%) Social Skills
2 68 (22.15%) Finance
3 46 (14.98%) Banking
4 35 (11.40%) Investment Banking
5 34 (11.07%) Front Office
6 22 (7.17%) Analytical Skills
7 20 (6.51%) Public Sector
8 9 (2.93%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.30%) Legal
11 3 (0.98%) Marketing
12 2 (0.65%) Electronics
12 2 (0.65%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.65%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.65%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.65%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.33%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.33%) Games
13 1 (0.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 73 (23.78%) Data Engineer
2 72 (23.45%) Senior
3 46 (14.98%) Software Engineer
4 44 (14.33%) AWS Engineer
5 43 (14.01%) Python Engineer
6 41 (13.36%) Senior Software Engineer
7 38 (12.38%) Java Engineer
8 34 (11.07%) AWS Software Engineer
8 34 (11.07%) Java Software Engineer
8 34 (11.07%) Python Software Engineer
9 33 (10.75%) Senior Java Engineer
9 33 (10.75%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 32 (10.42%) Developer
11 20 (6.51%) DevOps Engineer
12 18 (5.86%) Architect
13 14 (4.56%) Senior Data Engineer
14 13 (4.23%) Lead
14 13 (4.23%) Platform Engineer
15 10 (3.26%) Data Architect
15 10 (3.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (15.64%) Kafka
1 48 (15.64%) Pandas
2 44 (14.33%) NumPy
3 41 (13.36%) Apache NiFi
4 35 (11.40%) REST
5 34 (11.07%) gRPC
5 34 (11.07%) Protocol Buffers
5 34 (11.07%) SciPy
6 26 (8.47%) PySpark
7 20 (6.51%) XML
8 19 (6.19%) OAuth
9 18 (5.86%) SOAP
10 16 (5.21%) Spring
11 15 (4.89%) React
12 14 (4.56%) HTML
12 14 (4.56%) JSON
13 12 (3.91%) Middleware
13 12 (3.91%) OpenID
14 11 (3.58%) SAML
15 10 (3.26%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 35 (11.40%) Equities
2 34 (11.07%) Derivative
2 34 (11.07%) Fixed Income
2 34 (11.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 34 (11.07%) Hedge funds
2 34 (11.07%) Pricing Data
3 18 (5.86%) Cloud Native
4 12 (3.91%) PKI
5 11 (3.58%) Algorithms
5 11 (3.58%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (2.61%) Data Structures
6 8 (2.61%) Distributed Computing
7 6 (1.95%) Data Centre
7 6 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.63%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.63%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.30%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.30%) Replication
9 4 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 70 (22.80%) Linux
2 53 (17.26%) Windows
3 39 (12.70%) Unix
4 20 (6.51%) Windows Server
5 19 (6.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (3.91%) CentOS
7 6 (1.95%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.30%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.98%) Debian
10 1 (0.33%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.33%) Rocky
10 1 (0.33%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (39.74%) Agile
2 103 (33.55%) CI/CD
3 102 (33.22%) DevOps
4 82 (26.71%) Data Pipeline
5 81 (26.38%) Analytics
6 78 (25.41%) ETL
7 74 (24.10%) Software Engineering
8 60 (19.54%) Data Engineering
9 56 (18.24%) Data Modelling
10 55 (17.92%) Problem-Solving
11 50 (16.29%) Data Governance
12 45 (14.66%) Continuous Improvement
13 44 (14.33%) Business Intelligence
14 37 (12.05%) Infrastructure as Code
15 36 (11.73%) Asset Management
16 35 (11.40%) Workflow
17 34 (11.07%) Investment Management
18 33 (10.75%) Microservices
18 33 (10.75%) Visualisation
19 32 (10.42%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 181 (58.96%) Python
2 106 (34.53%) SQL
3 85 (27.69%) Java
4 60 (19.54%) JavaScript
5 38 (12.38%) Scala
6 36 (11.73%) TypeScript
7 17 (5.54%) PowerShell
8 16 (5.21%) Shell Script
9 15 (4.89%) Bash
10 14 (4.56%) C#
11 13 (4.23%) Groovy
12 11 (3.58%) C++
13 7 (2.28%) PHP
14 4 (1.30%) Go
14 4 (1.30%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.98%) R
16 2 (0.65%) AWK
16 2 (0.65%) Korn
16 2 (0.65%) SPARQL
16 2 (0.65%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 93 (30.29%) Security Cleared
2 63 (20.52%) SC Cleared
3 41 (13.36%) DV Cleared
4 13 (4.23%) AWS Certification
4 13 (4.23%) Degree
5 8 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.30%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.65%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.65%) MCP
8 2 (0.65%) RHCE
9 1 (0.33%) CCNP
9 1 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.33%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.33%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (13.68%) Data Quality
2 26 (8.47%) QA
3 9 (2.93%) GDPR
4 8 (2.61%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.30%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.65%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.65%) Section 508
6 2 (0.65%) WCAG
7 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.33%) IFRS
7 1 (0.33%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 50 (16.29%) Docker
2 19 (6.19%) Active Directory
3 12 (3.91%) HDFS
4 10 (3.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (2.61%) Tivoli Directory Server
6 4 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.65%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.33%) KVM
Systems Management
1 43 (14.01%) Terraform
2 39 (12.70%) Ansible
3 36 (11.73%) Kubernetes
4 19 (6.19%) Puppet
5 15 (4.89%) Progress Chef
6 11 (3.58%) CA Single Sign-On
6 11 (3.58%) Prometheus
7 10 (3.26%) CA Wily
7 10 (3.26%) Grafana
7 10 (3.26%) Hadoop YARN
8 8 (2.61%) Tivoli
9 6 (1.95%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.30%) Nagios
10 4 (1.30%) WMI
11 3 (0.98%) Kibana
11 3 (0.98%) Oozie
11 3 (0.98%) Salt
12 2 (0.65%) Icinga
12 2 (0.65%) logstash
12 2 (0.65%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 43 (14.01%) Databricks
2 42 (13.68%) Oracle
3 36 (11.73%) Microsoft
4 34 (11.07%) Splunk
5 25 (8.14%) AppDynamics
6 24 (7.82%) IBM
7 18 (5.86%) Google
8 15 (4.89%) Cisco
8 15 (4.89%) Dynatrace
9 13 (4.23%) VMware
10 12 (3.91%) Cloudera
10 12 (3.91%) Red Hat
11 11 (3.58%) Broadcom
12 10 (3.26%) Informatica
13 9 (2.93%) Foundry
13 9 (2.93%) Palantir
13 9 (2.93%) webMethods
14 7 (2.28%) ServiceNow
15 5 (1.63%) Talend
16 3 (0.98%) Guidewire