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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 277 304
Rank change year-on-year -47 +27 -29
Contract jobs citing Apache 277 267 312
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.75% 0.84% 0.73%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.43% 7.64% 7.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 200 238
10th Percentile £373 £380 £350
25th Percentile £430 £500 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +8.70% -10.16%
75th Percentile £614 £838 £700
90th Percentile £800 £888 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% -10.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 6
10th Percentile £66.13 £74.04 £22.00
25th Percentile £74.13 £74.11 £23.44
Median hourly rate £80.50 £74.22 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.46% +78.84% -20.95%
75th Percentile £82.75 £74.33 £71.94
90th Percentile £86.00 £74.40 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.50 £74.22 £65.25
% change year-on-year +8.46% +13.75% +86.51%

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 3,728 3,493 4,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.08% 11.05% 9.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,584 2,150 2,833
10th Percentile £290 £250 £250
25th Percentile £400 £385 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £613
90th Percentile £690 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +5.56% -2.70% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 73 130
10th Percentile £14.90 £17.08 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £24.25
Median % change year-on-year -32.03% +52.58% +34.72%
75th Percentile £68.54 £62.50 £63.44
90th Percentile £81.60 £66.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.31 £47.50 £22.86
% change year-on-year -44.61% +107.81% +30.61%

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 January 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 14 January 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 14 January 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 -62 236 £540 -20.00% 98
UK excluding London +6 137 £475 - 77
London -77 118 £600 -11.11% 33
Work from Home -53 75 £545 -27.33% 50
Midlands -2 43 £536 -12.50% 4
North of England -29 39 £453 -4.63% 19
West Midlands -2 36 £536 -12.50% 1
North West -8 26 £452 -17.91% 6
Scotland +17 22 £500 +23.08% 3
South West -17 16 £253 -58.69% 17
South East -34 11 £643 +35.26% 26
Yorkshire -42 10 £475 +2.70% 7
East Midlands -17 7 £510 +65.85% 3
East of England -18 6 £363 +15.08% 7
Northern Ireland -5 3 £463 -2.63%
North East - 3 £400 - 6

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 98 (35.38%) Apache Spark
2 90 (32.49%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (10.47%) WebLogic
4 22 (7.94%) IIS
5 21 (7.58%) JBoss
6 13 (4.69%) WebSphere
7 10 (3.61%) iPlanet
7 10 (3.61%) WebSphere Application Server
8 9 (3.25%) Confluence
8 9 (3.25%) Tomcat
9 4 (1.44%) Jupyter
9 4 (1.44%) nginx
10 3 (1.08%) SAS
11 2 (0.72%) Apache Geronimo
11 2 (0.72%) Apache Pig
11 2 (0.72%) Apache ServiceMix
11 2 (0.72%) Luigi
11 2 (0.72%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.72%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.36%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 3 (1.08%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.72%) Abaqus
2 2 (0.72%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Actimize
1 1 (0.36%) Maximo
1 1 (0.36%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.36%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 152 (54.87%) AWS
2 81 (29.24%) Azure
3 44 (15.88%) Serverless
4 40 (14.44%) GCP
5 38 (13.72%) Snowflake
6 37 (13.36%) Amazon S3
7 31 (11.19%) Power Platform
8 28 (10.11%) AWS CloudFormation
9 27 (9.75%) dbt
10 20 (7.22%) AWS Lambda
10 20 (7.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 17 (6.14%) Azure Monitor
12 16 (5.78%) Azure Data Factory
13 13 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
14 11 (3.97%) Amazon SQS
15 10 (3.61%) Collibra
15 10 (3.61%) OpenShift
16 9 (3.25%) Cloud Computing
16 9 (3.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 8 (2.89%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.69%) Firewall
2 11 (3.97%) Kerberos
3 8 (2.89%) HTTP
4 5 (1.81%) DNS
5 4 (1.44%) DHCP
5 4 (1.44%) Network Security
6 3 (1.08%) SSL
6 3 (1.08%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.72%) SAN
8 1 (0.36%) InfiniBand
8 1 (0.36%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.36%) LAN
8 1 (0.36%) Spanning Tree
8 1 (0.36%) SSH
8 1 (0.36%) VLAN
8 1 (0.36%) VPN
8 1 (0.36%) WAN
8 1 (0.36%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (18.77%) Data Lake
2 41 (14.80%) Amazon Athena
2 41 (14.80%) Big Data
3 37 (13.36%) Hadoop
4 32 (11.55%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (11.19%) Power BI
6 25 (9.03%) Delta Lake
7 24 (8.66%) Apache Iceberg
8 19 (6.86%) Apache Hive
9 18 (6.50%) Amazon Redshift
9 18 (6.50%) BigQuery
10 17 (6.14%) Apache Arrow
10 17 (6.14%) Apache Ignite
10 17 (6.14%) Dremio
11 16 (5.78%) NoSQL
12 15 (5.42%) Oracle Database
13 14 (5.05%) Metadata
14 13 (4.69%) MongoDB
14 13 (4.69%) OLTP
14 13 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 54 (19.49%) Git
2 24 (8.66%) GitLab
3 16 (5.78%) JIRA
4 15 (5.42%) Jenkins
5 14 (5.05%) JUnit
6 11 (3.97%) Artifactory
6 11 (3.97%) Bitbucket Server
6 11 (3.97%) CA Release Automation
6 11 (3.97%) MLflow
7 9 (3.25%) Eclipse
7 9 (3.25%) IntelliJ
7 9 (3.25%) Selenium
8 8 (2.89%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (2.17%) Mockito
10 4 (1.44%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.44%) Liquibase
10 4 (1.44%) Maven
11 3 (1.08%) Gradle
12 2 (0.72%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.72%) Snakemake
General
1 73 (26.35%) Social Skills
2 59 (21.30%) Finance
3 29 (10.47%) Banking
4 23 (8.30%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (7.58%) Public Sector
6 17 (6.14%) Front Office
6 17 (6.14%) Investment Banking
7 9 (3.25%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.44%) Legal
9 3 (1.08%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.08%) Billing
9 3 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.72%) Electronics
10 2 (0.72%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.72%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.72%) Marketing
10 2 (0.72%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.72%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.36%) Games
Job Titles
1 77 (27.80%) Data Engineer
2 52 (18.77%) Senior
3 38 (13.72%) Software Engineer
4 33 (11.91%) Developer
5 29 (10.47%) AWS Engineer
6 28 (10.11%) Python Engineer
7 25 (9.03%) Senior Software Engineer
8 21 (7.58%) DevOps Engineer
8 21 (7.58%) Java Engineer
9 17 (6.14%) AWS Software Engineer
9 17 (6.14%) Java Software Engineer
9 17 (6.14%) Python Software Engineer
10 16 (5.78%) Lead
10 16 (5.78%) Senior Java Engineer
10 16 (5.78%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 15 (5.42%) Architect
12 13 (4.69%) Platform Engineer
13 12 (4.33%) Senior Data Engineer
14 10 (3.61%) Java Developer
15 8 (2.89%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (15.88%) Kafka
1 44 (15.88%) REST
2 41 (14.80%) Apache NiFi
3 32 (11.55%) PySpark
4 30 (10.83%) Pandas
5 27 (9.75%) NumPy
6 18 (6.50%) OAuth
7 17 (6.14%) gRPC
7 17 (6.14%) Protocol Buffers
7 17 (6.14%) SciPy
7 17 (6.14%) Spring
8 14 (5.05%) JSON
8 14 (5.05%) SOAP
9 13 (4.69%) XML
10 12 (4.33%) HTML
10 12 (4.33%) Middleware
10 12 (4.33%) OpenID
10 12 (4.33%) React
11 11 (3.97%) LDAP
11 11 (3.97%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.94%) Cloud Native
2 19 (6.86%) Equities
3 17 (6.14%) Derivative
3 17 (6.14%) Fixed Income
3 17 (6.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 17 (6.14%) Hedge funds
3 17 (6.14%) Pricing Data
4 15 (5.42%) Algorithms
5 8 (2.89%) Distributed Computing
6 7 (2.53%) Data Structures
7 6 (2.17%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.17%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.81%) Replication
8 5 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.44%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.08%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 66 (23.83%) Linux
2 51 (18.41%) Windows
3 42 (15.16%) Unix
4 15 (5.42%) Windows Server
5 9 (3.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.17%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.08%) CentOS
7 3 (1.08%) Debian
8 1 (0.36%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.36%) Rocky
8 1 (0.36%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (37.55%) CI/CD
2 97 (35.02%) Agile
3 81 (29.24%) DevOps
4 80 (28.88%) Data Pipeline
5 77 (27.80%) Analytics
6 73 (26.35%) ETL
7 66 (23.83%) Software Engineering
8 65 (23.47%) Data Engineering
9 60 (21.66%) Data Modelling
10 58 (20.94%) Problem-Solving
11 52 (18.77%) Business Intelligence
12 46 (16.61%) Data Governance
13 42 (15.16%) Continuous Improvement
13 42 (15.16%) Infrastructure as Code
14 39 (14.08%) Observability
14 39 (14.08%) Visualisation
15 36 (13.00%) Machine Learning
16 33 (11.91%) Microservices
17 30 (10.83%) Data Architecture
18 29 (10.47%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 155 (55.96%) Python
2 110 (39.71%) SQL
3 74 (26.71%) Java
4 32 (11.55%) JavaScript
4 32 (11.55%) Scala
5 20 (7.22%) TypeScript
6 19 (6.86%) C#
7 17 (6.14%) Shell Script
8 15 (5.42%) PowerShell
9 11 (3.97%) Groovy
10 9 (3.25%) C++
11 8 (2.89%) Bash
12 7 (2.53%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.44%) R
14 2 (0.72%) AWK
14 2 (0.72%) Go
14 2 (0.72%) SPARQL
14 2 (0.72%) Tcl
15 1 (0.36%) Korn
15 1 (0.36%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 83 (29.96%) Security Cleared
2 58 (20.94%) SC Cleared
3 36 (13.00%) DV Cleared
4 14 (5.05%) Degree
5 13 (4.69%) AWS Certification
6 11 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.44%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.72%) RHCE
9 2 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.36%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.36%) CCNA
10 1 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.36%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.36%) MCP
10 1 (0.36%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (16.61%) Data Quality
2 19 (6.86%) GDPR
3 13 (4.69%) QA
4 5 (1.81%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.08%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.36%) IFRS
6 1 (0.36%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.36%) MiFID
6 1 (0.36%) Solvency II
System Software
1 50 (18.05%) Docker
2 14 (5.05%) Active Directory
2 14 (5.05%) HDFS
3 8 (2.89%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 4 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.08%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.36%) Ceph
6 1 (0.36%) iptables
6 1 (0.36%) KVM
6 1 (0.36%) Lustre
6 1 (0.36%) NFS
6 1 (0.36%) Samba
6 1 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 48 (17.33%) Terraform
2 43 (15.52%) Kubernetes
3 33 (11.91%) Ansible
4 14 (5.05%) Puppet
5 11 (3.97%) CA Single Sign-On
6 10 (3.61%) CA Wily
6 10 (3.61%) Hadoop YARN
6 10 (3.61%) Progress Chef
7 9 (3.25%) Prometheus
8 8 (2.89%) Grafana
8 8 (2.89%) Tivoli
9 6 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.08%) Oozie
11 2 (0.72%) Kibana
11 2 (0.72%) logstash
11 2 (0.72%) Nagios
11 2 (0.72%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.36%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.36%) SCCM
Vendors
1 48 (17.33%) Databricks
2 43 (15.52%) Oracle
3 33 (11.91%) Splunk
4 25 (9.03%) AppDynamics
5 21 (7.58%) Microsoft
6 20 (7.22%) Cisco
7 19 (6.86%) Red Hat
8 18 (6.50%) Dynatrace
8 18 (6.50%) Google
9 13 (4.69%) IBM
10 11 (3.97%) Broadcom
10 11 (3.97%) Cloudera
10 11 (3.97%) ServiceNow
11 9 (3.25%) webMethods
12 8 (2.89%) Foundry
12 8 (2.89%) Palantir
13 5 (1.81%) Palo Alto
13 5 (1.81%) Salesforce
13 5 (1.81%) SolarWinds
14 4 (1.44%) Informatica