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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 368 270 310
Rank change year-on-year -98 +40 -25
Contract jobs citing Apache 284 285 318
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.66% 0.93% 0.71%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.89% 7.99% 7.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 209 251
10th Percentile £394 £404 £350
25th Percentile £456 £475 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £838 £788
90th Percentile £710 £875 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £510
% change year-on-year +10.53% -6.86% -13.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 8
10th Percentile £62.00 - £21.92
25th Percentile £64.00 - £22.00
Median hourly rate £69.00 £74.44 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.31% +79.37% +18.62%
75th Percentile £80.50 - £58.92
90th Percentile £83.00 - £75.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £69.00 £74.44 £52.50
% change year-on-year -7.31% +41.79% +50.06%

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 4,124 3,569 4,283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.66% 11.65% 9.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,850 2,250 2,863
10th Percentile £304 £255 £250
25th Percentile £404 £385 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% -4.81%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £713 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £455 £450
% change year-on-year +4.40% +1.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 71 175
10th Percentile £15.00 £17.00 £13.93
25th Percentile £17.50 £23.15 £15.50
Median hourly rate £27.21 £41.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.63% +60.78% +15.07%
75th Percentile £69.36 £63.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £81.00 £66.00 £68.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.12 £45.00 £23.75
% change year-on-year -17.51% +89.47% +15.85%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 -129 226 £525 -22.22% 70
UK excluding London -20 139 £525 +10.53% 49
London -95 118 £575 -17.86% 31
Work from Home -96 62 £512 -31.76% 36
North of England -43 37 £475 -11.63% 9
Scotland +45 35 £525 +1.20% 4
Midlands -46 29 £538 +2.38% 4
North West -14 26 £492 +3.58% 6
West Midlands -37 24 £500 -16.67% 4
South West -20 17 £625 +5.26% 14
South East -51 12 £555 +38.75% 14
North East -5 7 £425 -34.62% 1
East of England -24 7 £363 +13.99% 3
East Midlands -29 5 £663 +84.67%
Yorkshire -65 4 £475 -11.63% 2
Northern Ireland -2 3 £463 -22.92%
Wales - 1 £543 - 3

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
1 111 (39.08%) Apache Spark
2 66 (23.24%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (9.86%) Tomcat
4 26 (9.15%) WebSphere
5 22 (7.75%) Apache Geronimo
5 22 (7.75%) Apache ServiceMix
5 22 (7.75%) Red Hat Fuse
6 15 (5.28%) WebLogic
7 13 (4.58%) JBoss
8 11 (3.87%) IIS
9 6 (2.11%) Confluence
10 5 (1.76%) Palantir Foundry
11 4 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (1.41%) nginx
12 3 (1.06%) Apache Superset
12 3 (1.06%) iPlanet
12 3 (1.06%) Jupyter
12 3 (1.06%) SAS
12 3 (1.06%) WebSphere Application Server
13 2 (0.70%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 3 (1.06%) 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
1 144 (50.70%) AWS
2 95 (33.45%) Azure
3 71 (25.00%) GCP
4 43 (15.14%) Amazon S3
4 43 (15.14%) Serverless
5 39 (13.73%) AWS CloudFormation
6 38 (13.38%) Power Platform
7 26 (9.15%) AWS Lambda
7 26 (9.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 23 (8.10%) Snowflake
9 19 (6.69%) Amazon SQS
9 19 (6.69%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (6.34%) Azure Data Factory
11 17 (5.99%) Collibra
11 17 (5.99%) dbt
12 13 (4.58%) AWS Step Functions
13 11 (3.87%) GitHub
14 9 (3.17%) Cloud Computing
14 9 (3.17%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (2.82%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.93%) Firewall
2 11 (3.87%) HTTP
3 8 (2.82%) DNS
4 5 (1.76%) Network Security
5 4 (1.41%) DHCP
5 4 (1.41%) Kerberos
6 3 (1.06%) SAN
6 3 (1.06%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.70%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.70%) SSH
7 2 (0.70%) SSL
7 2 (0.70%) VLAN
8 1 (0.35%) 4G
8 1 (0.35%) 5G
8 1 (0.35%) InfiniBand
8 1 (0.35%) Intranet
8 1 (0.35%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.35%) Spanning Tree
8 1 (0.35%) VPN
8 1 (0.35%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (17.25%) Data Lake
2 39 (13.73%) Data Warehouse
3 36 (12.68%) Big Data
4 33 (11.62%) Amazon Athena
4 33 (11.62%) Power BI
5 32 (11.27%) BigQuery
6 25 (8.80%) Hadoop
7 24 (8.45%) Delta Lake
8 19 (6.69%) PostgreSQL
9 18 (6.34%) SQL Server
10 16 (5.63%) Mixpanel
10 16 (5.63%) MongoDB
10 16 (5.63%) NoSQL
11 15 (5.28%) Amazon Redshift
11 15 (5.28%) Metadata
11 15 (5.28%) MySQL
11 15 (5.28%) OLAP
11 15 (5.28%) OLTP
12 12 (4.23%) Relational Database
13 11 (3.87%) Flink
Development Applications
1 52 (18.31%) Git
2 23 (8.10%) GitLab
3 14 (4.93%) JIRA
4 12 (4.23%) Jenkins
4 12 (4.23%) JUnit
4 12 (4.23%) MLflow
5 10 (3.52%) Artifactory
5 10 (3.52%) Selenium
6 9 (3.17%) Eclipse
6 9 (3.17%) IntelliJ
7 6 (2.11%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.76%) Maven
9 4 (1.41%) Mockito
10 3 (1.06%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (1.06%) CA Release Automation
10 3 (1.06%) Gradle
10 3 (1.06%) Liquibase
10 3 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.70%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.70%) ERwin
General
1 57 (20.07%) Social Skills
2 48 (16.90%) Finance
3 29 (10.21%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (7.75%) Public Sector
5 19 (6.69%) Banking
6 9 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (2.82%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.46%) Front Office
9 5 (1.76%) Billing
10 4 (1.41%) Marketing
10 4 (1.41%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.06%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.70%) Electronics
12 2 (0.70%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.70%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.70%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.35%) Games
13 1 (0.35%) Law
Job Titles
1 87 (30.63%) Data Engineer
2 46 (16.20%) Senior
3 33 (11.62%) Developer
4 28 (9.86%) Software Engineer
5 27 (9.51%) Lead
6 19 (6.69%) Architect
6 19 (6.69%) AWS Engineer
7 18 (6.34%) Senior Data Engineer
8 17 (5.99%) DevOps Engineer
9 15 (5.28%) Lead Data Engineer
9 15 (5.28%) Principal Engineer
10 14 (4.93%) Principal Data Engineer
11 13 (4.58%) Python Engineer
12 11 (3.87%) Java Developer
13 10 (3.52%) Data Architect
13 10 (3.52%) Java Engineer
14 9 (3.17%) Senior Software Engineer
15 8 (2.82%) Data Analytics Engineer
15 8 (2.82%) Principal Software Engineer
15 8 (2.82%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (20.42%) Kafka
2 38 (13.38%) REST
3 35 (12.32%) Apache NiFi
4 31 (10.92%) PySpark
5 27 (9.51%) Middleware
6 23 (8.10%) Spring
7 22 (7.75%) Apache Axis
7 22 (7.75%) Apache Camel
8 18 (6.34%) Pandas
9 16 (5.63%) Great Expectations
10 15 (5.28%) NumPy
11 14 (4.93%) JSON
12 13 (4.58%) SOAP
13 12 (4.23%) Hibernate
13 12 (4.23%) XML
14 11 (3.87%) EJB
15 10 (3.52%) HTML
15 10 (3.52%) Play Framework
15 10 (3.52%) React
16 9 (3.17%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.86%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.23%) Algorithms
2 12 (4.23%) Management Information System
3 10 (3.52%) Data Structures
3 10 (3.52%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (2.82%) Distributed Computing
6 6 (2.11%) Clustering
6 6 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.11%) Equities
6 6 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.11%) Replication
7 5 (1.76%) Freedom of Information
7 5 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.41%) Derivative
8 4 (1.41%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.41%) Hedge funds
8 4 (1.41%) Pricing Data
9 3 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 44 (15.49%) Linux
2 29 (10.21%) Windows
3 27 (9.51%) Unix
4 12 (4.23%) Windows Server
5 11 (3.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.82%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.41%) CentOS
7 4 (1.41%) Debian
8 3 (1.06%) Rocky
8 3 (1.06%) 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
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (41.20%) CI/CD
2 90 (31.69%) Analytics
2 90 (31.69%) DevOps
3 86 (30.28%) ETL
4 84 (29.58%) Data Engineering
4 84 (29.58%) Data Pipeline
5 72 (25.35%) Data Modelling
6 70 (24.65%) Agile
7 69 (24.30%) Problem-Solving
8 60 (21.13%) Data Governance
9 57 (20.07%) Machine Learning
10 56 (19.72%) AI
10 56 (19.72%) Infrastructure as Code
11 52 (18.31%) Software Engineering
12 42 (14.79%) Data Architecture
13 41 (14.44%) Business Intelligence
14 38 (13.38%) Observability
15 32 (11.27%) Data Science
15 32 (11.27%) Microservices
15 32 (11.27%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 150 (52.82%) Python
1 150 (52.82%) SQL
2 90 (31.69%) Java
3 32 (11.27%) Scala
4 23 (8.10%) C#
5 16 (5.63%) JavaScript
5 16 (5.63%) PowerShell
6 10 (3.52%) Shell Script
7 9 (3.17%) Bash
7 9 (3.17%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.76%) Perl
8 5 (1.76%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.41%) C++
9 4 (1.41%) PHP
9 4 (1.41%) R
10 3 (1.06%) Go
10 3 (1.06%) Groovy
11 2 (0.70%) AWK
11 2 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 75 (26.41%) Security Cleared
2 55 (19.37%) SC Cleared
3 28 (9.86%) DV Cleared
4 18 (6.34%) Degree
5 11 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (3.52%) AWS Certification
7 9 (3.17%) Master's Degree
8 8 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.06%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.06%) RHCE
10 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.35%) CCNA
11 1 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.35%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (23.24%) Data Quality
2 27 (9.51%) GDPR
3 14 (4.93%) QA
4 6 (2.11%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.70%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.35%) IFRS
6 1 (0.35%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.35%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.35%) MiFID
6 1 (0.35%) Solvency II
System Software
1 47 (16.55%) Docker
2 9 (3.17%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.76%) HDFS
4 4 (1.41%) NFS
5 3 (1.06%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.06%) Samba
5 3 (1.06%) Tivoli Directory Server
6 2 (0.70%) iptables
6 2 (0.70%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.70%) Postfix
6 2 (0.70%) Varnish
6 2 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.35%) Ceph
7 1 (0.35%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.35%) KVM
7 1 (0.35%) Lustre
7 1 (0.35%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.35%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 62 (21.83%) Terraform
2 46 (16.20%) Kubernetes
3 29 (10.21%) Ansible
4 9 (3.17%) Puppet
5 7 (2.46%) Grafana
6 6 (2.11%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.06%) CA Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.06%) CA Wily
8 3 (1.06%) HAProxy
8 3 (1.06%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.06%) Tivoli
9 2 (0.70%) Kibana
9 2 (0.70%) logstash
9 2 (0.70%) Nagios
9 2 (0.70%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.70%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (0.70%) SELinux
10 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.35%) systemd
Vendors
1 53 (18.66%) Databricks
2 47 (16.55%) Oracle
3 37 (13.03%) Google
4 22 (7.75%) TIBCO
5 21 (7.39%) Microsoft
6 18 (6.34%) Red Hat
7 12 (4.23%) Informatica
8 9 (3.17%) Splunk
8 9 (3.17%) webMethods
9 8 (2.82%) ServiceNow
10 7 (2.46%) Cisco
10 7 (2.46%) Cloudera
10 7 (2.46%) IBM
10 7 (2.46%) Talend
11 5 (1.76%) Foundry
11 5 (1.76%) Palantir
11 5 (1.76%) Palo Alto
11 5 (1.76%) SolarWinds
11 5 (1.76%) VMware
12 4 (1.41%) AppDynamics