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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 253 293
Rank change year-on-year -100 +40 -7
Contract jobs citing Apache 294 303 344
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.66% 1.04% 0.78%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.00% 9.00% 8.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 223 277
10th Percentile £398 £406 £350
25th Percentile £456 £488 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £565
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +19.47% -5.83%
75th Percentile £600 £838 £788
90th Percentile £688 £875 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +5.00% -1.96% -11.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 10
10th Percentile £62.20 £32.42 £21.97
25th Percentile £64.00 £49.78 £23.44
Median hourly rate £72.00 £78.70 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.51% +72.97% -41.67%
75th Percentile £82.25 £80.83 £64.44
90th Percentile £88.40 £82.11 £74.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.00 £78.70 £52.50
% change year-on-year -8.51% +49.90% -32.69%

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 4,198 3,366 4,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.40% 11.59% 9.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,913 2,230 2,873
10th Percentile £305 £263 £250
25th Percentile £404 £391 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £612 £600
90th Percentile £688 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £454 £450
% change year-on-year +4.63% +0.89% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 78 169
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.58 £13.50
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.85 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £47.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.26% +66.66% +25.94%
75th Percentile £73.88 £64.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £81.80 £75.75 £68.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.00 £53.94 £24.00
% change year-on-year -23.99% +124.74% +9.09%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -134 236 £525 -22.22% 88
UK excluding London -49 133 £525 +5.00% 55
London -112 131 £550 -26.67% 50
Work from Home -107 68 £525 -32.26% 42
Scotland +41 35 £525 +20.00% 4
North of England -53 35 £492 +3.58% 11
North West -24 25 £525 +10.53% 9
Midlands -59 25 £550 - 4
South West -22 19 £450 -26.53% 12
West Midlands -48 19 £538 -10.42% 4
South East -71 10 £555 +38.75% 17
North East -6 7 £425 -34.62% 1
East of England -26 7 £363 +15.08% 5
East Midlands -31 5 £663 +84.67%
Northern Ireland +2 3 £463 -22.92%
Yorkshire -61 3 £475 -11.63% 1
Wales -12 1 £543 - 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
1 124 (42.18%) Apache Spark
2 68 (23.13%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (9.52%) Tomcat
4 25 (8.50%) WebSphere
5 24 (8.16%) Apache Geronimo
5 24 (8.16%) Apache ServiceMix
5 24 (8.16%) Red Hat Fuse
6 9 (3.06%) WebLogic
7 8 (2.72%) IIS
8 6 (2.04%) Apache Superset
8 6 (2.04%) Confluence
9 5 (1.70%) JBoss
9 5 (1.70%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (1.36%) nginx
11 3 (1.02%) Apache Synapse
11 3 (1.02%) Jupyter
11 3 (1.02%) SAS
12 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Actimize
1 1 (0.34%) Magento
1 1 (0.34%) Maximo
1 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 143 (48.64%) AWS
2 107 (36.39%) Azure
3 73 (24.83%) GCP
4 48 (16.33%) Amazon S3
5 44 (14.97%) Power Platform
6 41 (13.95%) Serverless
7 39 (13.27%) AWS CloudFormation
8 27 (9.18%) AWS Lambda
8 27 (9.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 26 (8.84%) Azure DevOps
10 23 (7.82%) Azure Data Factory
11 21 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
11 21 (7.14%) Snowflake
12 19 (6.46%) Collibra
13 17 (5.78%) GitHub
14 15 (5.10%) dbt
15 14 (4.76%) AWS Step Functions
15 14 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
16 10 (3.40%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 8 (2.72%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.42%) Firewall
2 8 (2.72%) DNS
2 8 (2.72%) HTTP
3 6 (2.04%) Network Security
4 4 (1.36%) DHCP
5 3 (1.02%) SAN
5 3 (1.02%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.68%) FTP
6 2 (0.68%) iSCSI
6 2 (0.68%) SSH
6 2 (0.68%) VLAN
7 1 (0.34%) 4G
7 1 (0.34%) 5G
7 1 (0.34%) InfiniBand
7 1 (0.34%) LAN
7 1 (0.34%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.34%) Spanning Tree
7 1 (0.34%) VPN
7 1 (0.34%) WAN
7 1 (0.34%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (18.03%) Data Lake
2 38 (12.93%) Power BI
3 37 (12.59%) Amazon Athena
4 36 (12.24%) Data Warehouse
5 34 (11.56%) Big Data
5 34 (11.56%) BigQuery
6 32 (10.88%) Delta Lake
7 21 (7.14%) Hadoop
8 20 (6.80%) SQL Server
9 19 (6.46%) PostgreSQL
10 18 (6.12%) Mixpanel
11 17 (5.78%) OLAP
11 17 (5.78%) OLTP
12 16 (5.44%) Amazon Redshift
12 16 (5.44%) Metadata
12 16 (5.44%) MySQL
13 15 (5.10%) Flink
14 14 (4.76%) NoSQL
15 11 (3.74%) Tableau
16 10 (3.40%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 51 (17.35%) Git
2 25 (8.50%) GitLab
3 20 (6.80%) JIRA
4 13 (4.42%) MLflow
5 10 (3.40%) Artifactory
5 10 (3.40%) Jenkins
6 7 (2.38%) JUnit
7 6 (2.04%) Bitbucket
7 6 (2.04%) Maven
8 5 (1.70%) Selenium
9 4 (1.36%) Eclipse
9 4 (1.36%) Gradle
9 4 (1.36%) IntelliJ
9 4 (1.36%) Mockito
10 3 (1.02%) Liquibase
11 2 (0.68%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.68%) ERwin
12 1 (0.34%) git-flow
12 1 (0.34%) PHPUnit
12 1 (0.34%) SonarQube
General
1 51 (17.35%) Social Skills
2 50 (17.01%) Finance
3 28 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 16 (5.44%) Banking
6 6 (2.04%) Investment Banking
7 5 (1.70%) Billing
7 5 (1.70%) Front Office
7 5 (1.70%) Marketing
8 4 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.36%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.02%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.68%) Electronics
10 2 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.68%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.34%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.34%) Prime Brokerage
11 1 (0.34%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 93 (31.63%) Data Engineer
2 44 (14.97%) Senior
3 40 (13.61%) Developer
4 28 (9.52%) Lead
5 24 (8.16%) Software Engineer
6 21 (7.14%) Architect
7 18 (6.12%) Principal Engineer
7 18 (6.12%) Senior Data Engineer
8 17 (5.78%) AWS Engineer
8 17 (5.78%) Lead Data Engineer
8 17 (5.78%) Principal Data Engineer
9 16 (5.44%) Java Developer
10 13 (4.42%) DevOps Engineer
11 10 (3.40%) Data Architect
12 9 (3.06%) Python Engineer
13 8 (2.72%) Java Engineer
13 8 (2.72%) Platform Engineer
13 8 (2.72%) Principal Software Engineer
14 7 (2.38%) Analyst
14 7 (2.38%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (21.77%) Kafka
2 34 (11.56%) PySpark
3 33 (11.22%) REST
4 29 (9.86%) Apache NiFi
4 29 (9.86%) Middleware
5 24 (8.16%) Apache Axis
5 24 (8.16%) Apache Camel
6 20 (6.80%) Spring
7 19 (6.46%) Great Expectations
8 17 (5.78%) JSON
9 12 (4.08%) Pandas
10 10 (3.40%) Apache Beam
10 10 (3.40%) NumPy
10 10 (3.40%) SOAP
11 9 (3.06%) AWS CDK
11 9 (3.06%) Spring Boot
12 8 (2.72%) React
13 7 (2.38%) Hibernate
13 7 (2.38%) Node.js
13 7 (2.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 38 (12.93%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.08%) Management Information System
3 11 (3.74%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.06%) Algorithms
4 9 (3.06%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.38%) Clustering
6 7 (2.38%) Data Structures
6 7 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.04%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (1.70%) Freedom of Information
8 5 (1.70%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.70%) Replication
9 4 (1.36%) Equities
9 4 (1.36%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.02%) Distributed Applications
10 3 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.68%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 45 (15.31%) Linux
2 26 (8.84%) Windows
3 23 (7.82%) Unix
4 9 (3.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (3.06%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.38%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.70%) Debian
7 4 (1.36%) Rocky
8 3 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.68%) Solaris
9 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.34%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.34%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (41.50%) CI/CD
2 97 (32.99%) Analytics
3 93 (31.63%) Data Pipeline
4 92 (31.29%) DevOps
5 89 (30.27%) ETL
6 87 (29.59%) Data Engineering
7 85 (28.91%) Data Modelling
8 68 (23.13%) Agile
9 64 (21.77%) Data Governance
10 61 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
11 60 (20.41%) AI
12 57 (19.39%) Infrastructure as Code
12 57 (19.39%) Machine Learning
13 47 (15.99%) Business Intelligence
13 47 (15.99%) Software Engineering
14 46 (15.65%) Data Architecture
15 44 (14.97%) Observability
16 34 (11.56%) Data Science
17 33 (11.22%) Containerisation
17 33 (11.22%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 167 (56.80%) SQL
2 159 (54.08%) Python
3 89 (30.27%) Java
4 28 (9.52%) Scala
5 24 (8.16%) C#
6 15 (5.10%) PowerShell
7 14 (4.76%) JavaScript
8 11 (3.74%) R
8 11 (3.74%) Shell Script
8 11 (3.74%) TypeScript
9 8 (2.72%) Bash
10 6 (2.04%) Perl
10 6 (2.04%) PHP
11 5 (1.70%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.02%) C++
12 3 (1.02%) Go
13 2 (0.68%) AWK
13 2 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.68%) Ruby
14 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 88 (29.93%) Security Cleared
2 70 (23.81%) SC Cleared
3 24 (8.16%) DV Cleared
4 18 (6.12%) Degree
5 13 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.38%) AWS Certification
7 7 (2.38%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.02%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.02%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.34%) CCNA
10 1 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.34%) RHCE
10 1 (0.34%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (22.79%) Data Quality
2 27 (9.18%) GDPR
3 14 (4.76%) QA
4 5 (1.70%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.34%) IFRS
7 1 (0.34%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.34%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.34%) MiFID
7 1 (0.34%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 50 (17.01%) Docker
2 6 (2.04%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.04%) NFS
3 5 (1.70%) Varnish
4 4 (1.36%) HDFS
4 4 (1.36%) Postfix
5 3 (1.02%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.02%) Samba
5 3 (1.02%) Sendmail
6 2 (0.68%) iptables
6 2 (0.68%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.34%) Ceph
7 1 (0.34%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.34%) KVM
7 1 (0.34%) Lustre
7 1 (0.34%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 66 (22.45%) Terraform
2 55 (18.71%) Kubernetes
3 27 (9.18%) Ansible
4 7 (2.38%) Grafana
5 5 (1.70%) HAProxy
6 4 (1.36%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.36%) Puppet
7 3 (1.02%) SELinux
8 2 (0.68%) Apache Ranger
8 2 (0.68%) Kibana
8 2 (0.68%) logstash
8 2 (0.68%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.68%) systemd
9 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.34%) Rundeck
9 1 (0.34%) SCCM
9 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.34%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 61 (20.75%) Databricks
2 44 (14.97%) Oracle
3 38 (12.93%) Google
4 24 (8.16%) TIBCO
5 21 (7.14%) Microsoft
6 16 (5.44%) Red Hat
7 13 (4.42%) Cloudera
8 12 (4.08%) Informatica
9 9 (3.06%) ServiceNow
10 8 (2.72%) Confluent
11 7 (2.38%) Cisco
11 7 (2.38%) Talend
12 5 (1.70%) Foundry
12 5 (1.70%) Palantir
12 5 (1.70%) Palo Alto
12 5 (1.70%) SolarWinds
12 5 (1.70%) Splunk
13 4 (1.36%) Guidewire
13 4 (1.36%) VMware
13 4 (1.36%) webMethods