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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 266 199
Rank change year-on-year -103 -67 +94
Contract jobs citing Apache 306 301 519
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.60% 1.00% 1.19%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.91% 8.88% 11.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 227 447
10th Percentile £363 £384 £407
25th Percentile £425 £463 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £725
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -17.24% +20.83%
75th Percentile £588 £825 £850
90th Percentile £663 £875 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £538 £475
% change year-on-year -7.44% +13.16% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 10
10th Percentile £63.00 £38.21 £35.25
25th Percentile £64.00 £64.24 £47.50
Median hourly rate £66.50 £79.35 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% +20.23% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70.88 £80.74 £74.44
90th Percentile £83.25 £82.07 £75.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.50 £79.35 £66.00
% change year-on-year -16.19% +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 4,430 3,390 4,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.71% 11.21% 10.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,949 2,222 3,081
10th Percentile £313 £290 £262
25th Percentile £404 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -1.77%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £719 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 75 162
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.80 £13.50
25th Percentile £19.25 £26.45 £16.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £52.50 £31.91
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +64.51% -39.21%
75th Percentile £60.75 £70.75 £51.91
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.50 £73.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £54.24 £31.56
% change year-on-year -35.47% +71.88% -36.89%

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 26 June 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 -148 242 £524 -16.29% 63
UK excluding London -71 138 £498 -7.44% 41
London -101 133 £560 -25.33% 31
Work from Home -87 82 £513 -31.67% 29
North of England -38 54 £425 - 9
Scotland +20 35 £525 +13.51% 2
North East -1 31 £385 -40.77% 4
Midlands -54 21 £525 -8.70% 5
North West -39 20 £525 +46.65% 4
West Midlands -49 18 £528 -12.08% 4
South West -28 17 £450 -20.00% 13
South East -77 5 £500 -16.67% 12
Wales -13 3 £509 - 2
East of England -36 3 £381 -11.85% 1
Yorkshire -53 3 £463 -26.00% 1
East Midlands -10 2 £548 +33.54% 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
1 158 (51.63%) Apache Spark
2 105 (34.31%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (10.13%) Tomcat
4 28 (9.15%) Jupyter
5 26 (8.50%) WebSphere
6 22 (7.19%) Apache Geronimo
6 22 (7.19%) Apache ServiceMix
6 22 (7.19%) Red Hat Fuse
7 8 (2.61%) IIS
7 8 (2.61%) nginx
8 5 (1.63%) Apache Superset
8 5 (1.63%) CloudStack
8 5 (1.63%) Confluence
8 5 (1.63%) SharePoint
9 4 (1.31%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.65%) Apache Synapse
11 2 (0.65%) JBoss
12 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Magento
1 1 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.33%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 161 (52.61%) AWS
2 114 (37.25%) Azure
3 75 (24.51%) GCP
4 48 (15.69%) Amazon S3
5 37 (12.09%) Power Platform
6 30 (9.80%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (9.15%) Serverless
8 25 (8.17%) AWS Lambda
9 23 (7.52%) dbt
9 23 (7.52%) Snowflake
10 22 (7.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 21 (6.86%) Azure Data Factory
12 20 (6.54%) Amazon EMR
13 18 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
13 18 (5.88%) GitHub
14 15 (4.90%) Amazon SQS
15 14 (4.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 13 (4.25%) Collibra
17 12 (3.92%) GitHub Actions
18 9 (2.94%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.25%) DNS
2 10 (3.27%) Firewall
3 6 (1.96%) HTTP
3 6 (1.96%) SAN
4 5 (1.63%) NAS
5 3 (0.98%) Structured Cabling
5 3 (0.98%) VLAN
6 2 (0.65%) BIG-IP
6 2 (0.65%) FTP
6 2 (0.65%) Network Security
6 2 (0.65%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.33%) 4G
7 1 (0.33%) 5G
7 1 (0.33%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.33%) Intranet
7 1 (0.33%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.33%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.33%) SSH
7 1 (0.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (14.38%) Data Warehouse
2 40 (13.07%) Big Data
3 39 (12.75%) Data Lake
4 31 (10.13%) Power BI
5 30 (9.80%) BigQuery
6 29 (9.48%) Amazon Athena
6 29 (9.48%) Delta Lake
7 28 (9.15%) SQL Server
8 23 (7.52%) Flink
9 22 (7.19%) Hadoop
10 21 (6.86%) PostgreSQL
11 18 (5.88%) Metadata
12 17 (5.56%) NoSQL
13 16 (5.23%) MySQL
14 15 (4.90%) Amazon Redshift
14 15 (4.90%) Relational Database
15 13 (4.25%) Tableau
16 11 (3.59%) MongoDB
17 10 (3.27%) Mixpanel
18 9 (2.94%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 56 (18.30%) Git
2 42 (13.73%) GitLab
3 22 (7.19%) JIRA
4 13 (4.25%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.61%) MLflow
6 6 (1.96%) Maven
6 6 (1.96%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.31%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.31%) Gradle
8 3 (0.98%) Selenium
9 2 (0.65%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.33%) Ant
10 1 (0.33%) Capybara
10 1 (0.33%) git-flow
10 1 (0.33%) JMeter
10 1 (0.33%) minitest
10 1 (0.33%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.33%) RSpec
10 1 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 59 (19.28%) Finance
2 54 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 38 (12.42%) Public Sector
4 37 (12.09%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (4.25%) Banking
6 7 (2.29%) Billing
7 6 (1.96%) Marketing
8 5 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.31%) Front Office
9 4 (1.31%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.31%) Publishing
10 2 (0.65%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.33%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.33%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.33%) Law
11 1 (0.33%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.33%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 104 (33.99%) Data Engineer
2 48 (15.69%) Developer
3 43 (14.05%) Senior
4 32 (10.46%) Architect
5 26 (8.50%) Lead
6 23 (7.52%) Senior Data Engineer
7 22 (7.19%) Java Developer
8 19 (6.21%) DevOps Engineer
9 17 (5.56%) Lead Data Engineer
10 13 (4.25%) Data Architect
11 12 (3.92%) Software Engineer
12 11 (3.59%) AWS Engineer
12 11 (3.59%) Principal Engineer
13 10 (3.27%) Principal Data Engineer
14 9 (2.94%) Python Developer
15 8 (2.61%) Senior Developer
16 7 (2.29%) Analyst
16 7 (2.29%) Platform Engineer
16 7 (2.29%) Python Engineer
16 7 (2.29%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (21.24%) Kafka
2 48 (15.69%) PySpark
3 27 (8.82%) Spring
4 25 (8.17%) Middleware
5 23 (7.52%) REST
6 22 (7.19%) Apache Axis
6 22 (7.19%) Apache Camel
7 20 (6.54%) Spring Boot
8 16 (5.23%) JSON
9 14 (4.58%) Apache Beam
10 12 (3.92%) Great Expectations
11 10 (3.27%) SOAP
12 9 (2.94%) AWS CDK
13 8 (2.61%) OAuth
13 8 (2.61%) Pandas
14 7 (2.29%) LAMP
14 7 (2.29%) NumPy
15 6 (1.96%) PyTorch
16 5 (1.63%) Apache NiFi
16 5 (1.63%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 44 (14.38%) Cloud Native
2 19 (6.21%) Product Ownership
3 17 (5.56%) Management Information System
4 13 (4.25%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (3.92%) Data Structures
6 10 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (3.27%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.61%) Clustering
8 7 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.96%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.63%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.63%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.63%) Distributed Computing
10 5 (1.63%) Freedom of Information
11 4 (1.31%) Data Fabric
11 4 (1.31%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.31%) Replication
11 4 (1.31%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.98%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 48 (15.69%) Linux
2 18 (5.88%) Unix
2 18 (5.88%) Windows
3 16 (5.23%) Ubuntu
4 11 (3.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (2.94%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.63%) CentOS
6 5 (1.63%) Rocky
7 4 (1.31%) Debian
7 4 (1.31%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.98%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.65%) Solaris
9 2 (0.65%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (48.04%) CI/CD
2 113 (36.93%) Data Engineering
3 104 (33.99%) Analytics
4 98 (32.03%) Data Pipeline
5 97 (31.70%) DevOps
6 87 (28.43%) ETL
7 85 (27.78%) Data Modelling
8 70 (22.88%) Containerisation
9 69 (22.55%) Agile
10 68 (22.22%) AI
11 66 (21.57%) Infrastructure as Code
12 56 (18.30%) Data Governance
13 51 (16.67%) Machine Learning
13 51 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
14 39 (12.75%) Business Intelligence
14 39 (12.75%) Observability
15 38 (12.42%) Workflow
16 34 (11.11%) Data Science
16 34 (11.11%) Migration
17 32 (10.46%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 192 (62.75%) Python
2 178 (58.17%) SQL
3 93 (30.39%) Java
4 23 (7.52%) Scala
5 19 (6.21%) Bash
6 14 (4.58%) Shell Script
7 11 (3.59%) C#
7 11 (3.59%) PowerShell
7 11 (3.59%) R
8 9 (2.94%) JavaScript
9 8 (2.61%) Go
9 8 (2.61%) TypeScript
10 7 (2.29%) Perl
11 6 (1.96%) PHP
12 5 (1.63%) Ruby
13 4 (1.31%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.98%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.65%) Cypher
15 2 (0.65%) Gremlin
15 2 (0.65%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 93 (30.39%) Security Cleared
2 85 (27.78%) SC Cleared
3 22 (7.19%) Degree
4 16 (5.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.61%) Master's Degree
6 7 (2.29%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.96%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.31%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.98%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.98%) CCNP
9 3 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.98%) CSPO
9 3 (0.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.65%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.33%) RHCE
11 1 (0.33%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (21.24%) Data Quality
2 22 (7.19%) GDPR
3 8 (2.61%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.61%) QA
4 5 (1.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.98%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.65%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (0.65%) WCAG
7 1 (0.33%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 77 (25.16%) Docker
2 9 (2.94%) Postfix
3 8 (2.61%) NFS
4 7 (2.29%) Varnish
5 6 (1.96%) Active Directory
5 6 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.31%) Sendmail
7 3 (0.98%) Dovecot
7 3 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.98%) vSphere
8 2 (0.65%) Ceph
8 2 (0.65%) HDFS
8 2 (0.65%) KVM
8 2 (0.65%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.65%) Samba
8 2 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.33%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.33%) iptables
Systems Management
1 76 (24.84%) Terraform
2 61 (19.93%) Kubernetes
3 21 (6.86%) Ansible
4 10 (3.27%) Grafana
5 9 (2.94%) HAProxy
6 5 (1.63%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.31%) SELinux
8 3 (0.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.98%) Check_MK
9 2 (0.65%) Apache Ranger
9 2 (0.65%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.65%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.65%) Puppet
9 2 (0.65%) systemd
10 1 (0.33%) Kibana
10 1 (0.33%) Podman
10 1 (0.33%) Rundeck
10 1 (0.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 58 (18.95%) Databricks
2 42 (13.73%) Oracle
3 34 (11.11%) Google
4 31 (10.13%) Microsoft
5 22 (7.19%) TIBCO
6 16 (5.23%) Trend Micro
7 10 (3.27%) Informatica
7 10 (3.27%) Red Hat
8 8 (2.61%) Cisco
8 8 (2.61%) Cloudera
8 8 (2.61%) Guidewire
9 7 (2.29%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.96%) Talend
10 6 (1.96%) VMware
11 5 (1.63%) Confluent
11 5 (1.63%) IBM
12 4 (1.31%) Hortonworks
13 3 (0.98%) F5
13 3 (0.98%) Fortinet
13 3 (0.98%) Splunk