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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 258 297
Rank change year-on-year -100 +39 -10
Contract jobs citing Apache 286 290 319
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.66% 0.99% 0.72%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.97% 8.48% 7.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 213 256
10th Percentile £394 £403 £350
25th Percentile £457 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £550
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +22.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £838 £788
90th Percentile £688 £875 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £510
% change year-on-year +10.53% -6.86% -13.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 9
10th Percentile £62.20 £32.42 £21.95
25th Percentile £64.00 £49.78 £22.00
Median hourly rate £72.00 £78.70 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.51% +49.90% +7.69%
75th Percentile £82.25 £80.83 £68.00
90th Percentile £88.40 £82.11 £75.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.00 £78.70 £52.50
% change year-on-year -8.51% +49.90% -

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 4,103 3,420 4,230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.50% 11.65% 9.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,836 2,218 2,855
10th Percentile £305 £263 £250
25th Percentile £404 £385 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £496
Median % change year-on-year - +0.91% -3.69%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £713 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 70 170
10th Percentile £15.00 £17.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.50 £22.83 £15.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £41.46 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.66% +56.43% +17.78%
75th Percentile £69.45 £64.31 £45.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £66.53 £68.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.12 £48.82 £23.22
% change year-on-year -23.96% +110.27% +5.52%

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 17 March 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 17 March 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 17 March 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 -127 227 £525 -22.22% 113
UK excluding London -45 136 £525 +10.53% 91
London -100 121 £555 -25.38% 44
Work from Home -96 63 £512 -32.83% 45
North of England -47 37 £492 +3.58% 14
Scotland +44 36 £525 +1.20% 4
North West -13 26 £525 +10.53% 5
Midlands -42 25 £550 +2.33% 10
West Midlands -52 20 £513 -10.87% 5
South West -20 17 £550 -7.37% 20
South East -60 12 £555 +42.31% 29
North East -5 7 £425 -34.62% 3
East of England -30 7 £363 +13.99% 11
East Midlands -30 5 £663 +84.67% 5
Yorkshire -59 4 £475 -11.63% 6
Northern Ireland -5 3 £463 -22.92% 1
Wales - 1 £543 - 5

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
1 123 (43.01%) Apache Spark
2 67 (23.43%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (9.79%) Tomcat
4 25 (8.74%) WebSphere
5 24 (8.39%) Apache Geronimo
5 24 (8.39%) Apache ServiceMix
5 24 (8.39%) Red Hat Fuse
6 8 (2.80%) IIS
6 8 (2.80%) WebLogic
7 7 (2.45%) Confluence
8 6 (2.10%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (1.75%) JBoss
10 4 (1.40%) Apache Superset
10 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (1.05%) Jupyter
11 3 (1.05%) nginx
11 3 (1.05%) SAS
12 2 (0.70%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.05%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Actimize
1 1 (0.35%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 140 (48.95%) AWS
2 103 (36.01%) Azure
3 73 (25.52%) GCP
4 46 (16.08%) Amazon S3
5 44 (15.38%) Serverless
6 43 (15.03%) Power Platform
7 41 (14.34%) AWS CloudFormation
8 28 (9.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 27 (9.44%) AWS Lambda
10 24 (8.39%) Azure DevOps
11 22 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
11 22 (7.69%) Snowflake
12 21 (7.34%) Amazon SQS
13 19 (6.64%) Collibra
14 16 (5.59%) GitHub
15 15 (5.24%) dbt
16 14 (4.90%) AWS Step Functions
16 14 (4.90%) GitHub Actions
17 8 (2.80%) Amazon EKS
17 8 (2.80%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.55%) Firewall
2 8 (2.80%) HTTP
3 6 (2.10%) DNS
4 5 (1.75%) Network Security
5 4 (1.40%) DHCP
6 3 (1.05%) SAN
6 3 (1.05%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.70%) FTP
7 2 (0.70%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.70%) SSH
7 2 (0.70%) VLAN
8 1 (0.35%) 4G
8 1 (0.35%) 5G
8 1 (0.35%) InfiniBand
8 1 (0.35%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.35%) LAN
8 1 (0.35%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.35%) Spanning Tree
8 1 (0.35%) WAN
8 1 (0.35%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (19.23%) Data Lake
2 39 (13.64%) Big Data
2 39 (13.64%) Data Warehouse
3 38 (13.29%) Power BI
4 34 (11.89%) Amazon Athena
4 34 (11.89%) BigQuery
5 28 (9.79%) Delta Lake
6 27 (9.44%) Hadoop
7 19 (6.64%) PostgreSQL
8 18 (6.29%) Metadata
8 18 (6.29%) Mixpanel
8 18 (6.29%) SQL Server
9 17 (5.94%) OLAP
9 17 (5.94%) OLTP
10 16 (5.59%) Amazon Redshift
10 16 (5.59%) NoSQL
11 15 (5.24%) MySQL
12 14 (4.90%) Flink
13 12 (4.20%) Relational Database
14 10 (3.50%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 49 (17.13%) Git
2 25 (8.74%) GitLab
3 20 (6.99%) JIRA
4 12 (4.20%) MLflow
5 10 (3.50%) Artifactory
6 9 (3.15%) Jenkins
7 7 (2.45%) JUnit
8 6 (2.10%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.75%) Maven
9 5 (1.75%) Selenium
10 4 (1.40%) Eclipse
10 4 (1.40%) IntelliJ
10 4 (1.40%) Mockito
11 3 (1.05%) Gradle
11 3 (1.05%) Liquibase
12 2 (0.70%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.70%) ERwin
13 1 (0.35%) PowerDesigner
13 1 (0.35%) SonarQube
13 1 (0.35%) Storybook
General
1 51 (17.83%) Social Skills
2 50 (17.48%) Finance
3 29 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (7.34%) Public Sector
5 17 (5.94%) Banking
6 6 (2.10%) Investment Banking
7 5 (1.75%) Billing
7 5 (1.75%) Front Office
8 4 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.40%) Marketing
8 4 (1.40%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.05%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.70%) Electronics
10 2 (0.70%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.70%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.70%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.35%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 93 (32.52%) Data Engineer
2 41 (14.34%) Senior
3 34 (11.89%) Developer
4 30 (10.49%) Lead
5 24 (8.39%) Software Engineer
6 18 (6.29%) AWS Engineer
6 18 (6.29%) Lead Data Engineer
6 18 (6.29%) Senior Data Engineer
7 17 (5.94%) Architect
7 17 (5.94%) Principal Engineer
8 16 (5.59%) Principal Data Engineer
9 14 (4.90%) DevOps Engineer
9 14 (4.90%) Java Developer
10 10 (3.50%) Python Engineer
11 9 (3.15%) Data Architect
12 8 (2.80%) AWS Data Engineer
12 8 (2.80%) Data Analytics Engineer
12 8 (2.80%) Java Engineer
12 8 (2.80%) Principal Software Engineer
12 8 (2.80%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (22.03%) Kafka
2 35 (12.24%) PySpark
3 33 (11.54%) Apache NiFi
4 32 (11.19%) REST
5 27 (9.44%) Middleware
6 24 (8.39%) Apache Axis
6 24 (8.39%) Apache Camel
7 19 (6.64%) Spring
8 18 (6.29%) Great Expectations
9 15 (5.24%) JSON
9 15 (5.24%) Pandas
10 12 (4.20%) NumPy
11 11 (3.85%) AWS CDK
12 9 (3.15%) Apache Beam
12 9 (3.15%) React
13 8 (2.80%) Node.js
13 8 (2.80%) SOAP
13 8 (2.80%) Spring Boot
14 7 (2.45%) Hibernate
14 7 (2.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (11.54%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.20%) Management Information System
3 11 (3.85%) Algorithms
4 9 (3.15%) Data Structures
4 9 (3.15%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (3.15%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.80%) Distributed Computing
5 8 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.45%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.10%) Clustering
8 5 (1.75%) Freedom of Information
8 5 (1.75%) Replication
9 4 (1.40%) Equities
9 4 (1.40%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.70%) Derivative
11 2 (0.70%) Hedge funds
11 2 (0.70%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.70%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 40 (13.99%) Linux
2 26 (9.09%) Windows
3 21 (7.34%) Unix
4 9 (3.15%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.10%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.40%) Debian
8 3 (1.05%) Rocky
8 3 (1.05%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.70%) Solaris
9 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.35%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.35%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (40.91%) CI/CD
2 97 (33.92%) Analytics
3 90 (31.47%) Data Engineering
3 90 (31.47%) DevOps
4 89 (31.12%) Data Pipeline
5 87 (30.42%) ETL
6 82 (28.67%) Data Modelling
7 70 (24.48%) Agile
8 64 (22.38%) Data Governance
9 63 (22.03%) Problem-Solving
10 59 (20.63%) Machine Learning
11 57 (19.93%) AI
12 54 (18.88%) Infrastructure as Code
13 47 (16.43%) Business Intelligence
13 47 (16.43%) Data Architecture
14 46 (16.08%) Software Engineering
15 42 (14.69%) Observability
16 34 (11.89%) Data Science
17 31 (10.84%) Workflow
18 29 (10.14%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 162 (56.64%) SQL
2 155 (54.20%) Python
3 88 (30.77%) Java
4 29 (10.14%) Scala
5 24 (8.39%) C#
6 16 (5.59%) PowerShell
7 13 (4.55%) JavaScript
8 9 (3.15%) R
8 9 (3.15%) Shell Script
9 8 (2.80%) Bash
9 8 (2.80%) TypeScript
10 6 (2.10%) Perl
11 5 (1.75%) PHP
11 5 (1.75%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.40%) C++
13 2 (0.70%) AWK
13 2 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.70%) Go
14 1 (0.35%) Korn
14 1 (0.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 84 (29.37%) Security Cleared
2 65 (22.73%) SC Cleared
3 27 (9.44%) DV Cleared
4 18 (6.29%) Degree
5 11 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.15%) Master's Degree
7 8 (2.80%) AWS Certification
8 7 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.05%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.35%) CCNA
11 1 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.35%) RHCE
11 1 (0.35%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (24.13%) Data Quality
2 28 (9.79%) GDPR
3 14 (4.90%) QA
4 5 (1.75%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.35%) IFRS
7 1 (0.35%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.35%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.35%) MiFID
7 1 (0.35%) Solvency II
System Software
1 42 (14.69%) Docker
2 6 (2.10%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.40%) HDFS
3 4 (1.40%) NFS
4 3 (1.05%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.05%) Samba
5 2 (0.70%) iptables
5 2 (0.70%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.70%) Postfix
5 2 (0.70%) Varnish
5 2 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.35%) Ceph
6 1 (0.35%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.35%) KVM
6 1 (0.35%) Lustre
6 1 (0.35%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.35%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 64 (22.38%) Terraform
2 47 (16.43%) Kubernetes
3 25 (8.74%) Ansible
4 7 (2.45%) Grafana
5 4 (1.40%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.40%) Puppet
6 3 (1.05%) HAProxy
7 2 (0.70%) Apache Ranger
7 2 (0.70%) Kibana
7 2 (0.70%) logstash
7 2 (0.70%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.70%) SELinux
8 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.35%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.35%) SCCM
8 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.35%) systemd
8 1 (0.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 59 (20.63%) Databricks
2 43 (15.03%) Oracle
3 40 (13.99%) Google
4 24 (8.39%) TIBCO
5 19 (6.64%) Microsoft
6 16 (5.59%) Red Hat
7 13 (4.55%) Cloudera
8 12 (4.20%) Informatica
9 8 (2.80%) ServiceNow
10 7 (2.45%) Cisco
10 7 (2.45%) Talend
11 6 (2.10%) Confluent
11 6 (2.10%) Foundry
11 6 (2.10%) Palantir
12 5 (1.75%) Palo Alto
12 5 (1.75%) SolarWinds
12 5 (1.75%) Splunk
13 4 (1.40%) Guidewire
13 4 (1.40%) IBM
13 4 (1.40%) webMethods