Apache Contracts

Apache HTTP Server (httpd)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Apache skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Apache over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 251 272 289
Rank change year-on-year +21 +17 +28
Contract jobs citing Apache 312 378 547
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.07% 0.87% 0.92%
As % of the Application Platforms category 9.43% 9.05% 8.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 315 395
10th Percentile £410 £350 £438
25th Percentile £475 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -
75th Percentile £838 £800 £775
90th Percentile £875 £888 £835
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 9
10th Percentile £32.42 £21.97 £39.49
25th Percentile £49.78 £30.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £78.70 £52.50 £73.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.90% -28.08% +33.19%
75th Percentile £80.83 £72.83 £78.00
90th Percentile £82.11 £74.75 £79.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £78.70 £52.50 £73.00
% change year-on-year +49.90% -28.08% +14.75%

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 3,308 4,179 6,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.31% 9.59% 10.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,205 2,874 4,603
10th Percentile £275 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.97%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £713 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £453 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +0.72% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 161 147
10th Percentile £16.65 £13.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.25 £15.42 £18.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £27.52 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.01% -31.21% +81.82%
75th Percentile £64.13 £46.18 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.50 £68.00 £78.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.18 £23.75 £26.24
% change year-on-year +94.44% -9.49% +41.84%

Apache
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Apache as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Apache in the UK

Apache
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Apache.

Daily rate trend for Apache in the UK

Apache
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apache in the UK

Apache
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Apache.

Hourly rate trend for Apache in the UK

Apache
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Apache over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Apache in the UK

Apache
Top 17 Contract 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 30 April 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 +18 285 £675 +11.57% 211
London -3 201 £750 +7.14% 126
Work from Home +60 132 £750 -6.25% 149
UK excluding London +47 85 £500 +5.26% 86
South East +41 23 £475 -5.00% 17
North of England +26 20 £475 -6.86% 24
South West +53 15 £613 +15.02% 19
Midlands +30 11 £575 +35.29% 14
North West +8 10 £475 - 15
Yorkshire +15 9 £538 -11.89% 7
West Midlands +23 8 £600 +26.32% 9
East of England +21 6 £318 -9.09% 8
Northern Ireland - 4 £410 - 1
East Midlands +9 3 £410 -2.09% 5
Wales +3 3 - -
Scotland +2 3 £463 -15.91% 6
North East - 1 £650 - 2

Apache
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 131 (41.99%) Apache Airflow
2 119 (38.14%) Apache Spark
3 20 (6.41%) nginx
4 14 (4.49%) Tomcat
5 10 (3.21%) Confluence
6 6 (1.92%) IIS
6 6 (1.92%) Jupyter
7 5 (1.60%) CMS
7 5 (1.60%) JBoss
7 5 (1.60%) WebSphere
8 4 (1.28%) Camunda
8 4 (1.28%) Drupal
8 4 (1.28%) OpenStack
8 4 (1.28%) WordPress
9 3 (0.96%) WebLogic
9 3 (0.96%) WebLogic Portal
10 2 (0.64%) Alfresco
10 2 (0.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 168 (53.85%) AWS
2 100 (32.05%) dbt
3 68 (21.79%) GCP
4 64 (20.51%) Azure
4 64 (20.51%) Snowflake
5 52 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
6 42 (13.46%) Serverless
7 41 (13.14%) AWS Lambda
8 38 (12.18%) OpenShift
9 31 (9.94%) Amazon EC2
10 26 (8.33%) Amazon S3
11 21 (6.73%) Amazon EKS
12 17 (5.45%) Dagster
12 17 (5.45%) GitHub
12 17 (5.45%) Power Platform
13 13 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 12 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
15 11 (3.53%) AWS CloudFormation
16 8 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
17 5 (1.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.45%) DNS
2 12 (3.85%) SMTP
3 9 (2.88%) DHCP
4 8 (2.56%) FTP
4 8 (2.56%) Telnet
5 6 (1.92%) HTTP
5 6 (1.92%) SSH
6 5 (1.60%) SSL
7 4 (1.28%) Firewall
7 4 (1.28%) Internet
7 4 (1.28%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.28%) tcpdump
8 1 (0.32%) Network Security
8 1 (0.32%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (30.13%) Apache Iceberg
2 90 (28.85%) Amazon Athena
3 86 (27.56%) Dremio
4 84 (26.92%) Apache Arrow
5 70 (22.44%) Big Data
6 69 (22.12%) Apache Ignite
7 53 (16.99%) Data Lake
8 46 (14.74%) Hadoop
9 36 (11.54%) Data Warehouse
10 29 (9.29%) Flink
11 27 (8.65%) SQL Server
12 24 (7.69%) MongoDB
13 21 (6.73%) MySQL
14 20 (6.41%) Apache Hive
15 19 (6.09%) Relational Database
16 17 (5.45%) BigQuery
16 17 (5.45%) Delta Lake
16 17 (5.45%) NoSQL
16 17 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
16 17 (5.45%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 44 (14.10%) Git
2 38 (12.18%) Jenkins
3 30 (9.62%) Artifactory
4 20 (6.41%) JIRA
5 10 (3.21%) GitLab
6 7 (2.24%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.92%) Bitbucket
7 6 (1.92%) RStudio
8 5 (1.60%) MLflow
9 4 (1.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (1.28%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (1.28%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.96%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.96%) JUnit
10 3 (0.96%) Maven
11 2 (0.64%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.64%) Selenium
12 1 (0.32%) Hudson
12 1 (0.32%) Mockito
12 1 (0.32%) PHPUnit
General
1 130 (41.67%) Finance
2 90 (28.85%) Front Office
3 64 (20.51%) Banking
4 55 (17.63%) Investment Banking
5 52 (16.67%) Social Skills
6 29 (9.29%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (5.77%) Public Sector
8 6 (1.92%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.60%) Law
9 5 (1.60%) Legal
10 2 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.64%) Korean Language
11 1 (0.32%) Billing
11 1 (0.32%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.32%) Games
11 1 (0.32%) Military
11 1 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.32%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 114 (36.54%) Data Engineer
2 106 (33.97%) AWS Engineer
3 71 (22.76%) Python Engineer
4 69 (22.12%) Developer
5 67 (21.47%) Software Engineer
6 56 (17.95%) AWS Software Engineer
7 50 (16.03%) DevOps Engineer
7 50 (16.03%) Senior
8 38 (12.18%) AWS DevOps
8 38 (12.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 37 (11.86%) Python Software Engineer
10 34 (10.90%) Java Engineer
11 31 (9.94%) Java Software Engineer
12 28 (8.97%) Java Developer
13 27 (8.65%) AWS Developer
13 27 (8.65%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 26 (8.33%) Python Developer
15 22 (7.05%) Senior Software Engineer
16 18 (5.77%) Senior Java Engineer
16 18 (5.77%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (32.05%) PySpark
2 85 (27.24%) Kafka
3 47 (15.06%) Pandas
4 46 (14.74%) NumPy
5 42 (13.46%) Protocol Buffers
6 41 (13.14%) gRPC
7 40 (12.82%) SciPy
8 34 (10.90%) AngularJS
8 34 (10.90%) Apache NiFi
9 28 (8.97%) J2EE
10 25 (8.01%) React
11 18 (5.77%) HTML
12 16 (5.13%) Node.js
13 15 (4.81%) JSON
14 14 (4.49%) .NET
14 14 (4.49%) CSS
14 14 (4.49%) Elastic Stack
14 14 (4.49%) Spring
15 12 (3.85%) Vue
15 12 (3.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 56 (17.95%) Fixed Income
2 45 (14.42%) Derivative
2 45 (14.42%) Equities
2 45 (14.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 45 (14.42%) Hedge funds
3 14 (4.49%) Distributed Computing
4 12 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (3.85%) Pricing Data
5 11 (3.53%) Cloud Native
6 10 (3.21%) Data Structures
7 8 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
7 8 (2.56%) Market Risk
8 7 (2.24%) Reference Data
9 6 (1.92%) PKI
9 6 (1.92%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.60%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.60%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.28%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 70 (22.44%) Linux
2 18 (5.77%) Unix
3 16 (5.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (4.17%) Windows
5 4 (1.28%) CentOS
5 4 (1.28%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.32%) AIX
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (41.99%) Agile
2 110 (35.26%) Software Engineering
3 102 (32.69%) CI/CD
4 92 (29.49%) DevOps
5 86 (27.56%) Asset Management
6 79 (25.32%) Data Pipeline
7 76 (24.36%) Data Engineering
8 71 (22.76%) ETL
9 62 (19.87%) Problem-Solving
10 57 (18.27%) Analytics
11 39 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 37 (11.86%) Containerisation
12 37 (11.86%) Data Modelling
13 36 (11.54%) Open Source
14 32 (10.26%) Data Management
15 28 (8.97%) Migration
16 27 (8.65%) Data Governance
16 27 (8.65%) Workflow
17 26 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
18 25 (8.01%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 221 (70.83%) Python
2 140 (44.87%) Java
3 122 (39.10%) SQL
4 62 (19.87%) JavaScript
5 45 (14.42%) TypeScript
6 28 (8.97%) Go
7 25 (8.01%) Scala
8 15 (4.81%) PHP
9 12 (3.85%) Bash
10 11 (3.53%) Shell Script
11 7 (2.24%) Groovy
12 4 (1.28%) C#
12 4 (1.28%) Perl
13 3 (0.96%) C++
14 2 (0.64%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.64%) R
15 1 (0.32%) C
15 1 (0.32%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.32%) Rust
15 1 (0.32%) VB
Qualifications
1 71 (22.76%) Security Cleared
2 48 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 27 (8.65%) DV Cleared
4 11 (3.53%) Degree
5 8 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.92%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.28%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.96%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.64%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.64%) PhD
11 1 (0.32%) CSPO
11 1 (0.32%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (11.86%) Data Quality
2 15 (4.81%) GDPR
3 9 (2.88%) QA
4 8 (2.56%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.32%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.32%) NCSC
5 1 (0.32%) SLA
System Software
1 77 (24.68%) Docker
2 8 (2.56%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.56%) NFS
2 8 (2.56%) Samba
3 5 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 4 (1.28%) HDFS
4 4 (1.28%) vSphere
5 3 (0.96%) LXC
5 3 (0.96%) vCloud
5 3 (0.96%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (0.64%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.32%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 87 (27.88%) Kubernetes
2 69 (22.12%) Terraform
3 28 (8.97%) Ansible
4 12 (3.85%) Kibana
5 11 (3.53%) Prometheus
6 9 (2.88%) Grafana
7 8 (2.56%) yum
8 6 (1.92%) Istio
9 5 (1.60%) Puppet
10 4 (1.28%) HAProxy
10 4 (1.28%) logstash
11 3 (0.96%) Kubeflow
11 3 (0.96%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.32%) Argo
12 1 (0.32%) linkerd
12 1 (0.32%) Oracle Identity Management
12 1 (0.32%) Podman
12 1 (0.32%) Rancher
12 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 26 (8.33%) Databricks
2 24 (7.69%) Google
3 17 (5.45%) Oracle
4 13 (4.17%) Microsoft
5 10 (3.21%) Red Hat
6 9 (2.88%) Informatica
6 9 (2.88%) VMware
7 8 (2.56%) AppDynamics
7 8 (2.56%) Splunk
8 7 (2.24%) Dynatrace
9 6 (1.92%) IBM
9 6 (1.92%) Palantir
9 6 (1.92%) Talend
10 5 (1.60%) Cloudera
10 5 (1.60%) Confluent
11 4 (1.28%) F5
11 4 (1.28%) HP
11 4 (1.28%) Sybase
11 4 (1.28%) Zend
12 2 (0.64%) Atlassian