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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 278 306
Rank change year-on-year -44 +28 -28
Contract jobs citing Apache 286 306 322
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.77% 0.90% 0.74%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.58% 8.16% 7.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 228 247
10th Percentile £375 £381 £350
25th Percentile £431 £506 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £575
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +17.39% -10.16%
75th Percentile £638 £850 £700
90th Percentile £825 £888 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -0.42% -9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 6
10th Percentile £66.13 - £22.00
25th Percentile £74.13 - £23.44
Median hourly rate £80.50 £74.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.78% +78.31% -20.95%
75th Percentile £82.75 £74.22 £71.94
90th Percentile £86.00 £74.35 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.50 £74.00 £65.25
% change year-on-year +8.78% +13.41% +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 3,772 3,749 4,410
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.16% 11.06% 10.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,584 2,307 2,928
10th Percentile £290 £256 £250
25th Percentile £400 £386 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £626 £625
90th Percentile £700 £750 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £452 £470
% change year-on-year +5.09% -3.83% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 79 128
10th Percentile £15.53 £17.06 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.37 £21.13 £17.19
Median hourly rate £26.25 £35.00 £26.89
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +30.16% +45.75%
75th Percentile £65.33 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £67.62 £71.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.21 £42.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -35.98% +93.18% +25.71%

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 25 December 2025.

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 25 December 2025.

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 25 December 2025. 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 -67 243 £537 -20.44% 159
UK excluding London +8 133 £473 -0.42% 130
London -65 129 £603 -19.67% 44
Work from Home -70 82 £600 -22.58% 59
North of England -29 39 £453 -11.61% 25
Midlands -7 38 £515 -15.85% 17
West Midlands -5 31 £515 -15.85% 10
North West -12 26 £452 -17.91% 17
Scotland +23 23 £500 +23.08% 4
South West -10 16 £344 -43.84% 33
South East -42 11 £643 +35.26% 32
Yorkshire -38 10 £475 - 6
East Midlands -14 7 £510 +65.85% 6
East of England -24 6 £363 +15.08% 14
Northern Ireland -7 3 £463 +1.37% 4
North East - 3 £400 - 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
1 103 (36.01%) Apache Spark
2 102 (35.66%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (9.09%) WebLogic
4 22 (7.69%) IIS
5 21 (7.34%) JBoss
6 15 (5.24%) WebSphere
7 10 (3.50%) iPlanet
7 10 (3.50%) WebSphere Application Server
8 9 (3.15%) Tomcat
9 8 (2.80%) Confluence
10 4 (1.40%) Jupyter
10 4 (1.40%) nginx
11 3 (1.05%) SAS
12 2 (0.70%) Apache Geronimo
12 2 (0.70%) Apache Pig
12 2 (0.70%) Apache ServiceMix
12 2 (0.70%) Luigi
12 2 (0.70%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.70%) Red Hat Fuse
13 1 (0.35%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 3 (1.05%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.70%) Abaqus
2 2 (0.70%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.05%) Maximo
2 1 (0.35%) Actimize
2 1 (0.35%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.35%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 158 (55.24%) AWS
2 83 (29.02%) Azure
3 46 (16.08%) Serverless
3 46 (16.08%) Snowflake
4 45 (15.73%) GCP
5 41 (14.34%) dbt
6 36 (12.59%) Amazon S3
7 30 (10.49%) Power Platform
8 28 (9.79%) AWS CloudFormation
9 22 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
9 22 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 17 (5.94%) Azure Data Factory
10 17 (5.94%) Azure Monitor
11 13 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (3.50%) Amazon SQS
12 10 (3.50%) OpenShift
13 9 (3.15%) AWS Step Functions
13 9 (3.15%) Cloud Computing
13 9 (3.15%) Collibra
13 9 (3.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.85%) Firewall
1 11 (3.85%) Kerberos
2 8 (2.80%) HTTP
3 5 (1.75%) DNS
4 4 (1.40%) DHCP
4 4 (1.40%) Network Security
5 3 (1.05%) SSL
5 3 (1.05%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.70%) SAN
7 1 (0.35%) InfiniBand
7 1 (0.35%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.35%) LAN
7 1 (0.35%) Spanning Tree
7 1 (0.35%) SSH
7 1 (0.35%) VLAN
7 1 (0.35%) VPN
7 1 (0.35%) WAN
7 1 (0.35%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (19.93%) Data Lake
2 46 (16.08%) Amazon Athena
3 44 (15.38%) Big Data
4 41 (14.34%) Data Warehouse
5 38 (13.29%) Hadoop
6 30 (10.49%) Power BI
7 29 (10.14%) Apache Iceberg
8 26 (9.09%) Delta Lake
9 23 (8.04%) Amazon Redshift
10 22 (7.69%) Apache Arrow
10 22 (7.69%) Apache Ignite
10 22 (7.69%) Dremio
11 21 (7.34%) BigQuery
12 19 (6.64%) Apache Hive
13 17 (5.94%) NoSQL
14 15 (5.24%) Metadata
14 15 (5.24%) Oracle Database
15 13 (4.55%) Relational Database
16 12 (4.20%) Elasticsearch
16 12 (4.20%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 51 (17.83%) Git
2 23 (8.04%) GitLab
3 15 (5.24%) Jenkins
4 14 (4.90%) JUnit
5 12 (4.20%) JIRA
6 11 (3.85%) Artifactory
6 11 (3.85%) Bitbucket Server
6 11 (3.85%) CA Release Automation
6 11 (3.85%) MLflow
7 9 (3.15%) Eclipse
7 9 (3.15%) IntelliJ
7 9 (3.15%) Selenium
8 8 (2.80%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (2.10%) Mockito
10 4 (1.40%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.40%) Liquibase
10 4 (1.40%) Maven
11 3 (1.05%) Gradle
12 2 (0.70%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.70%) Snakemake
General
1 74 (25.87%) Social Skills
2 61 (21.33%) Finance
3 34 (11.89%) Banking
4 24 (8.39%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (7.69%) Front Office
5 22 (7.69%) Investment Banking
6 21 (7.34%) Public Sector
7 9 (3.15%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.40%) Legal
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%) Marketing
10 2 (0.70%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.70%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.35%) Games
11 1 (0.35%) Law
Job Titles
1 79 (27.62%) Data Engineer
2 62 (21.68%) Senior
3 41 (14.34%) Software Engineer
4 34 (11.89%) AWS Engineer
5 33 (11.54%) Python Engineer
6 30 (10.49%) Senior Software Engineer
7 28 (9.79%) Developer
8 26 (9.09%) Java Engineer
9 22 (7.69%) AWS Software Engineer
9 22 (7.69%) Java Software Engineer
9 22 (7.69%) Python Software Engineer
10 21 (7.34%) DevOps Engineer
10 21 (7.34%) Senior Java Engineer
10 21 (7.34%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 16 (5.59%) Lead
12 15 (5.24%) Architect
13 13 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
14 12 (4.20%) Senior Data Engineer
15 8 (2.80%) Hadoop Engineer
15 8 (2.80%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (16.78%) Kafka
2 43 (15.03%) Apache NiFi
3 41 (14.34%) REST
4 36 (12.59%) Pandas
5 33 (11.54%) PySpark
6 32 (11.19%) NumPy
7 22 (7.69%) gRPC
7 22 (7.69%) Protocol Buffers
7 22 (7.69%) SciPy
8 18 (6.29%) OAuth
9 17 (5.94%) Spring
10 15 (5.24%) XML
11 14 (4.90%) JSON
12 13 (4.55%) SOAP
13 12 (4.20%) HTML
13 12 (4.20%) Middleware
13 12 (4.20%) OpenID
13 12 (4.20%) React
14 11 (3.85%) LDAP
14 11 (3.85%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.39%) Equities
2 22 (7.69%) Derivative
2 22 (7.69%) Fixed Income
2 22 (7.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 22 (7.69%) Hedge funds
2 22 (7.69%) Pricing Data
3 21 (7.34%) Cloud Native
4 15 (5.24%) Algorithms
5 9 (3.15%) Distributed Computing
6 8 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (2.45%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.10%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.75%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.75%) Replication
10 4 (1.40%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.70%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 63 (22.03%) Linux
2 48 (16.78%) Windows
3 39 (13.64%) Unix
4 15 (5.24%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.75%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.05%) CentOS
8 2 (0.70%) Debian
9 1 (0.35%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.35%) Rocky
9 1 (0.35%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (36.01%) CI/CD
2 99 (34.62%) Agile
3 86 (30.07%) Analytics
3 86 (30.07%) Data Pipeline
4 84 (29.37%) DevOps
5 81 (28.32%) ETL
6 70 (24.48%) Software Engineering
7 69 (24.13%) Data Engineering
8 60 (20.98%) Data Modelling
8 60 (20.98%) Problem-Solving
9 53 (18.53%) Business Intelligence
10 51 (17.83%) Data Governance
11 44 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
12 40 (13.99%) Continuous Improvement
12 40 (13.99%) Visualisation
13 38 (13.29%) Machine Learning
14 35 (12.24%) Observability
15 33 (11.54%) Data Science
15 33 (11.54%) Microservices
16 29 (10.14%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 170 (59.44%) Python
2 113 (39.51%) SQL
3 76 (26.57%) Java
4 38 (13.29%) JavaScript
5 36 (12.59%) Scala
6 25 (8.74%) TypeScript
7 18 (6.29%) C#
8 17 (5.94%) Shell Script
9 15 (5.24%) PowerShell
10 11 (3.85%) Groovy
11 9 (3.15%) Bash
11 9 (3.15%) C++
12 7 (2.45%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.40%) R
14 2 (0.70%) AWK
14 2 (0.70%) Korn
14 2 (0.70%) SPARQL
14 2 (0.70%) Tcl
15 1 (0.35%) Perl
15 1 (0.35%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 84 (29.37%) Security Cleared
2 59 (20.63%) SC Cleared
3 37 (12.94%) DV Cleared
4 14 (4.90%) AWS Certification
5 13 (4.55%) Degree
6 10 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.40%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.70%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.70%) MCP
9 2 (0.70%) RHCE
10 1 (0.35%) CCNA
10 1 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.35%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (16.43%) Data Quality
2 18 (6.29%) GDPR
2 18 (6.29%) QA
3 5 (1.75%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.05%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.35%) IFRS
5 1 (0.35%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.35%) MiFID
5 1 (0.35%) Solvency II
System Software
1 49 (17.13%) Docker
2 14 (4.90%) Active Directory
2 14 (4.90%) HDFS
3 8 (2.80%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 4 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.05%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.70%) KVM
7 1 (0.35%) Ceph
7 1 (0.35%) iptables
7 1 (0.35%) Lustre
7 1 (0.35%) NFS
7 1 (0.35%) Samba
7 1 (0.35%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 51 (17.83%) Terraform
2 39 (13.64%) Kubernetes
3 32 (11.19%) Ansible
4 14 (4.90%) Puppet
5 11 (3.85%) CA Single Sign-On
6 10 (3.50%) CA Wily
6 10 (3.50%) Hadoop YARN
6 10 (3.50%) Progress Chef
6 10 (3.50%) Prometheus
7 9 (3.15%) Grafana
8 8 (2.80%) Tivoli
9 6 (2.10%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.05%) Kibana
10 3 (1.05%) logstash
10 3 (1.05%) Oozie
11 2 (0.70%) Nagios
11 2 (0.70%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.35%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.35%) SELinux
Vendors
1 52 (18.18%) Databricks
2 39 (13.64%) Oracle
3 33 (11.54%) Splunk
4 25 (8.74%) AppDynamics
5 23 (8.04%) Microsoft
6 20 (6.99%) Google
7 19 (6.64%) Red Hat
8 18 (6.29%) Cisco
9 15 (5.24%) Dynatrace
9 15 (5.24%) IBM
10 11 (3.85%) Broadcom
10 11 (3.85%) Cloudera
11 9 (3.15%) webMethods
12 8 (2.80%) Foundry
12 8 (2.80%) Palantir
12 8 (2.80%) ServiceNow
13 7 (2.45%) Informatica
14 5 (1.75%) Salesforce
14 5 (1.75%) VMware
15 3 (1.05%) Palo Alto