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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 264 229
Rank change year-on-year -97 -35 +46
Contract jobs citing Apache 298 281 449
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.61% 0.98% 1.05%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.00% 8.81% 10.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 213 393
10th Percentile £396 £406 £405
25th Percentile £443 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £641 £625
Median % change year-on-year -18.03% +2.48% +4.17%
75th Percentile £588 £825 £850
90th Percentile £667 £875 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £510 £505
% change year-on-year -1.96% +0.99% -8.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 8
10th Percentile £63.80 £38.21 £32.24
25th Percentile £64.63 £64.24 £47.63
Median hourly rate £72.00 £79.35 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.26% +20.23% -15.38%
75th Percentile £81.25 £80.74 £74.58
90th Percentile £84.20 £82.07 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.00 £79.35 £66.00
% change year-on-year -9.26% +20.23% -15.38%

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 4,255 3,190 4,235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.70% 11.09% 9.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,867 2,125 2,972
10th Percentile £313 £284 £260
25th Percentile £404 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.52% -1.50% -3.38%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £615
90th Percentile £675 £704 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +2.78% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 57 161
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.40 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.14 £26.45 £15.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £52.50 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year -38.10% +74.07% -42.55%
75th Percentile £62.50 £66.00 £51.91
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.72 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.75 £54.88 £27.52
% change year-on-year -38.50% +99.44% -24.10%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -132 236 £525 -19.23% 92
London -106 136 £575 -20.69% 35
UK excluding London -57 131 £500 -1.96% 71
Work from Home -69 74 £519 -30.83% 33
North of England -52 40 £463 -2.63% 25
Scotland +27 35 £525 +33.33% 3
North East -7 21 £406 -37.50% 10
Midlands -49 21 £538 -6.52% 4
West Midlands -51 18 £550 -8.33% 2
North West -25 17 £525 +10.53% 13
South West -27 16 £450 -21.74% 14
South East -65 8 £525 +4.48% 16
East of England -31 5 £363 +3.00% 5
Northern Ireland +3 3 £463 +12.80%
Wales -12 3 £509 - 5
East Midlands -27 2 £548 +33.54% 2
Yorkshire -61 2 £469 -10.71% 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
1 141 (47.32%) Apache Spark
2 88 (29.53%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (10.40%) Tomcat
4 26 (8.72%) WebSphere
5 22 (7.38%) Apache Geronimo
5 22 (7.38%) Apache ServiceMix
5 22 (7.38%) Red Hat Fuse
6 13 (4.36%) Jupyter
7 10 (3.36%) IIS
8 8 (2.68%) nginx
9 5 (1.68%) Apache Superset
9 5 (1.68%) SharePoint
10 4 (1.34%) CloudStack
10 4 (1.34%) WebLogic
11 3 (1.01%) Confluence
11 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.67%) Apache Synapse
12 2 (0.67%) JBoss
12 2 (0.67%) Palantir Foundry
12 2 (0.67%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Magento
1 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.34%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 142 (47.65%) AWS
2 109 (36.58%) Azure
3 71 (23.83%) GCP
4 45 (15.10%) Amazon S3
5 40 (13.42%) Power Platform
6 29 (9.73%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (9.06%) Serverless
8 26 (8.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 23 (7.72%) AWS CloudFormation
9 23 (7.72%) AWS Lambda
10 22 (7.38%) Azure Data Factory
11 20 (6.71%) Amazon SQS
12 18 (6.04%) GitHub
12 18 (6.04%) Snowflake
13 15 (5.03%) Collibra
13 15 (5.03%) dbt
14 13 (4.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 13 (4.36%) GitHub Actions
15 12 (4.03%) Amazon EMR
16 8 (2.68%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.70%) DNS
2 11 (3.69%) Firewall
3 7 (2.35%) SAN
4 6 (2.01%) HTTP
5 4 (1.34%) NAS
6 3 (1.01%) VLAN
7 2 (0.67%) BIG-IP
7 2 (0.67%) FTP
7 2 (0.67%) Network Security
7 2 (0.67%) Structured Cabling
7 2 (0.67%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.67%) VXLAN
8 1 (0.34%) 4G
8 1 (0.34%) 5G
8 1 (0.34%) DHCP
8 1 (0.34%) Intranet
8 1 (0.34%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.34%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.34%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.34%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (14.43%) Data Lake
2 41 (13.76%) Big Data
3 38 (12.75%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (11.41%) Power BI
5 31 (10.40%) Amazon Athena
5 31 (10.40%) BigQuery
6 30 (10.07%) SQL Server
7 28 (9.40%) Delta Lake
8 25 (8.39%) Hadoop
9 21 (7.05%) Flink
9 21 (7.05%) PostgreSQL
10 17 (5.70%) MySQL
10 17 (5.70%) NoSQL
11 16 (5.37%) Metadata
12 15 (5.03%) Mixpanel
13 14 (4.70%) OLAP
13 14 (4.70%) OLTP
14 13 (4.36%) Relational Database
15 12 (4.03%) Tableau
16 11 (3.69%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 56 (18.79%) Git
2 30 (10.07%) GitLab
3 20 (6.71%) JIRA
4 13 (4.36%) Jenkins
5 9 (3.02%) MLflow
6 8 (2.68%) Artifactory
7 6 (2.01%) Maven
7 6 (2.01%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.34%) Gradle
9 3 (1.01%) Selenium
10 2 (0.67%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.34%) Ant
11 1 (0.34%) Capybara
11 1 (0.34%) git-flow
11 1 (0.34%) minitest
11 1 (0.34%) Mockito
11 1 (0.34%) PHPUnit
11 1 (0.34%) RSpec
11 1 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.34%) Storybook
General
1 55 (18.46%) Finance
2 43 (14.43%) Social Skills
3 33 (11.07%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (9.06%) Public Sector
5 14 (4.70%) Banking
6 7 (2.35%) Billing
7 4 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.34%) Front Office
7 4 (1.34%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.01%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.01%) Marketing
9 2 (0.67%) Publishing
9 2 (0.67%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.34%) Dutch Language
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%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 110 (36.91%) Data Engineer
2 45 (15.10%) Senior
3 40 (13.42%) Developer
4 29 (9.73%) Architect
5 27 (9.06%) Lead
6 23 (7.72%) Senior Data Engineer
7 18 (6.04%) Java Developer
7 18 (6.04%) Software Engineer
8 17 (5.70%) Lead Data Engineer
9 16 (5.37%) DevOps Engineer
10 15 (5.03%) Principal Engineer
11 14 (4.70%) Principal Data Engineer
12 13 (4.36%) AWS Engineer
13 12 (4.03%) Data Architect
14 10 (3.36%) Analyst
14 10 (3.36%) Python Engineer
15 8 (2.68%) AWS Data Engineer
15 8 (2.68%) Cloud Engineer
15 8 (2.68%) Platform Engineer
15 8 (2.68%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (23.15%) Kafka
2 44 (14.77%) PySpark
3 27 (9.06%) REST
4 25 (8.39%) Middleware
5 23 (7.72%) Spring
6 22 (7.38%) Apache Axis
6 22 (7.38%) Apache Camel
7 17 (5.70%) Great Expectations
8 16 (5.37%) Spring Boot
9 15 (5.03%) Apache Beam
10 14 (4.70%) JSON
11 12 (4.03%) Apache NiFi
12 10 (3.36%) Pandas
12 10 (3.36%) SOAP
13 9 (3.02%) AWS CDK
14 8 (2.68%) NumPy
14 8 (2.68%) OAuth
15 7 (2.35%) LAMP
16 6 (2.01%) Elastic Stack
16 6 (2.01%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 45 (15.10%) Cloud Native
2 15 (5.03%) Management Information System
3 13 (4.36%) Product Ownership
4 11 (3.69%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (3.36%) Data Structures
5 10 (3.36%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (3.02%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.68%) Clustering
7 8 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (2.01%) Algorithms
8 6 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.01%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.68%) Freedom of Information
9 5 (1.68%) Replication
10 4 (1.34%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.34%) Data Fabric
10 4 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.34%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.34%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.34%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 52 (17.45%) Linux
2 23 (7.72%) Windows
3 18 (6.04%) Unix
4 17 (5.70%) Ubuntu
5 11 (3.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (3.36%) Windows Server
7 6 (2.01%) Debian
8 5 (1.68%) CentOS
8 5 (1.68%) Rocky
9 4 (1.34%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (1.01%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.67%) Solaris
11 2 (0.67%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (43.62%) CI/CD
2 97 (32.55%) Data Pipeline
3 96 (32.21%) Data Engineering
4 94 (31.54%) Analytics
5 93 (31.21%) DevOps
6 92 (30.87%) ETL
7 90 (30.20%) Data Modelling
8 67 (22.48%) AI
9 64 (21.48%) Agile
10 59 (19.80%) Data Governance
11 56 (18.79%) Infrastructure as Code
12 54 (18.12%) Containerisation
12 54 (18.12%) Machine Learning
13 51 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
14 43 (14.43%) Observability
15 41 (13.76%) Business Intelligence
16 39 (13.09%) Data Architecture
16 39 (13.09%) Workflow
17 37 (12.42%) Software Engineering
18 32 (10.74%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 183 (61.41%) Python
2 180 (60.40%) SQL
3 87 (29.19%) Java
4 23 (7.72%) Scala
5 16 (5.37%) Bash
5 16 (5.37%) C#
6 15 (5.03%) PowerShell
7 14 (4.70%) Shell Script
8 11 (3.69%) R
9 10 (3.36%) JavaScript
10 9 (3.02%) TypeScript
11 7 (2.35%) Go
11 7 (2.35%) Perl
12 6 (2.01%) PHP
13 5 (1.68%) PL/SQL
13 5 (1.68%) Ruby
14 3 (1.01%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.34%) Groovy
16 1 (0.34%) Korn
Qualifications
1 88 (29.53%) Security Cleared
2 76 (25.50%) SC Cleared
3 24 (8.05%) Degree
4 18 (6.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.69%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.68%) Master's Degree
7 7 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (2.01%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.68%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.01%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.67%) CCNP
11 2 (0.67%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.34%) CCNA
12 1 (0.34%) RHCE
12 1 (0.34%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (22.15%) Data Quality
2 25 (8.39%) GDPR
3 10 (3.36%) QA
4 6 (2.01%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.01%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.67%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.67%) WCAG
8 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.34%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.34%) SLA
System Software
1 60 (20.13%) Docker
2 9 (3.02%) Postfix
3 8 (2.68%) NFS
4 7 (2.35%) Active Directory
4 7 (2.35%) Varnish
5 5 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.34%) HDFS
6 4 (1.34%) Sendmail
7 3 (1.01%) Dovecot
7 3 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.67%) Ceph
8 2 (0.67%) KVM
8 2 (0.67%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.67%) Samba
8 2 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.67%) vSphere
9 1 (0.34%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.34%) iptables
Systems Management
1 68 (22.82%) Terraform
2 63 (21.14%) Kubernetes
3 28 (9.40%) Ansible
4 10 (3.36%) Grafana
5 9 (3.02%) HAProxy
6 5 (1.68%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.34%) SELinux
8 3 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (1.01%) Kibana
9 2 (0.67%) Apache Ranger
9 2 (0.67%) Check_MK
9 2 (0.67%) logstash
9 2 (0.67%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.67%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.67%) Puppet
9 2 (0.67%) systemd
10 1 (0.34%) Podman
10 1 (0.34%) Rundeck
10 1 (0.34%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 57 (19.13%) Databricks
2 43 (14.43%) Oracle
3 35 (11.74%) Google
4 29 (9.73%) Microsoft
5 22 (7.38%) TIBCO
6 16 (5.37%) Red Hat
7 10 (3.36%) Cisco
8 9 (3.02%) Cloudera
9 8 (2.68%) Guidewire
9 8 (2.68%) Informatica
9 8 (2.68%) ServiceNow
10 7 (2.35%) VMware
11 6 (2.01%) Talend
12 5 (1.68%) Confluent
12 5 (1.68%) IBM
12 5 (1.68%) Trend Micro
13 4 (1.34%) Hortonworks
14 3 (1.01%) Dynatrace
14 3 (1.01%) F5
14 3 (1.01%) Palo Alto