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 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 281 304
Rank change year-on-year -43 +23 -29
Contract jobs citing Apache 282 271 312
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.76% 0.84% 0.74%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.53% 7.60% 7.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 199 238
10th Percentile £374 £372 £350
25th Percentile £430 £488 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £613 £575
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +6.52% -9.80%
75th Percentile £614 £838 £700
90th Percentile £825 £888 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £471 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -0.84% -9.52% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 6
10th Percentile £66.13 £74.04 £22.00
25th Percentile £74.13 £74.11 £23.44
Median hourly rate £80.50 £74.22 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.46% +78.84% -20.95%
75th Percentile £82.75 £74.33 £71.94
90th Percentile £86.00 £74.40 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.50 £74.22 £65.25
% change year-on-year +8.46% +13.75% +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 3,743 3,567 4,255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.14% 11.05% 10.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,596 2,189 2,842
10th Percentile £290 £250 £250
25th Percentile £400 £385 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £624 £613
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £465
% change year-on-year +5.56% -3.22% -3.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 75 130
10th Percentile £14.95 £17.08 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.62 £21.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +45.83% +34.38%
75th Percentile £68.90 £63.13 £63.75
90th Percentile £81.30 £66.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.31 £42.50 £22.25
% change year-on-year -38.09% +91.01% +27.36%

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 8 January 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 8 January 2026.

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 8 January 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 -53 240 £534 -20.89% 96
UK excluding London -12 136 £471 -0.84% 79
London -51 124 £600 -12.73% 24
Work from Home -55 80 £550 -29.03% 56
Midlands -4 40 £525 -14.22% 10
North of England -27 39 £453 -11.61% 18
West Midlands -10 33 £525 -14.22% 6
North West -3 26 £452 -17.91% 9
Scotland +21 23 £500 +23.08% 3
South West -5 16 £344 -43.84% 18
South East -35 11 £643 +35.26% 24
Yorkshire -43 10 £475 - 5
East Midlands -20 7 £510 +65.85% 4
East of England -21 7 £363 +15.08% 6
Northern Ireland -9 3 £463 +1.37% 1
North East - 3 £400 - 4

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
1 100 (35.46%) Apache Spark
2 97 (34.40%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (9.22%) WebLogic
4 23 (8.16%) IIS
5 21 (7.45%) JBoss
6 14 (4.96%) WebSphere
7 10 (3.55%) iPlanet
7 10 (3.55%) WebSphere Application Server
8 9 (3.19%) Confluence
8 9 (3.19%) Tomcat
9 4 (1.42%) Jupyter
9 4 (1.42%) nginx
10 3 (1.06%) SAS
11 2 (0.71%) Apache Geronimo
11 2 (0.71%) Apache Pig
11 2 (0.71%) Apache ServiceMix
11 2 (0.71%) Luigi
11 2 (0.71%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.71%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.35%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 3 (1.06%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.71%) Abaqus
2 2 (0.71%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.71%) Maximo
2 1 (0.35%) Actimize
2 1 (0.35%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.35%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 153 (54.26%) AWS
2 80 (28.37%) Azure
3 45 (15.96%) Serverless
4 43 (15.25%) GCP
4 43 (15.25%) Snowflake
5 35 (12.41%) Amazon S3
6 34 (12.06%) dbt
7 30 (10.64%) Power Platform
8 27 (9.57%) AWS CloudFormation
9 21 (7.45%) AWS Lambda
10 20 (7.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 17 (6.03%) Azure Monitor
12 16 (5.67%) Azure Data Factory
13 13 (4.61%) Azure DevOps
14 10 (3.55%) Amazon SQS
14 10 (3.55%) OpenShift
15 9 (3.19%) AWS Step Functions
15 9 (3.19%) Cloud Computing
15 9 (3.19%) Collibra
15 9 (3.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.61%) Firewall
2 11 (3.90%) Kerberos
3 8 (2.84%) HTTP
4 5 (1.77%) DNS
5 4 (1.42%) DHCP
5 4 (1.42%) Network Security
6 3 (1.06%) SSL
6 3 (1.06%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.71%) SAN
8 1 (0.35%) InfiniBand
8 1 (0.35%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.35%) LAN
8 1 (0.35%) Spanning Tree
8 1 (0.35%) SSH
8 1 (0.35%) VLAN
8 1 (0.35%) VPN
8 1 (0.35%) WAN
8 1 (0.35%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (19.15%) Data Lake
2 44 (15.60%) Amazon Athena
3 43 (15.25%) Big Data
4 38 (13.48%) Hadoop
5 36 (12.77%) Data Warehouse
6 30 (10.64%) Power BI
7 27 (9.57%) Apache Iceberg
8 25 (8.87%) Delta Lake
9 21 (7.45%) Amazon Redshift
10 20 (7.09%) Apache Arrow
10 20 (7.09%) Apache Ignite
10 20 (7.09%) BigQuery
10 20 (7.09%) Dremio
11 19 (6.74%) Apache Hive
12 17 (6.03%) NoSQL
13 15 (5.32%) Oracle Database
14 14 (4.96%) Metadata
15 12 (4.26%) Elasticsearch
15 12 (4.26%) MongoDB
15 12 (4.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 52 (18.44%) Git
2 23 (8.16%) GitLab
3 16 (5.67%) JIRA
4 15 (5.32%) Jenkins
5 14 (4.96%) JUnit
6 11 (3.90%) Artifactory
6 11 (3.90%) Bitbucket Server
6 11 (3.90%) CA Release Automation
7 10 (3.55%) MLflow
8 9 (3.19%) Eclipse
8 9 (3.19%) IntelliJ
8 9 (3.19%) Selenium
9 8 (2.84%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (2.13%) Mockito
11 4 (1.42%) Bitbucket
11 4 (1.42%) Liquibase
11 4 (1.42%) Maven
12 3 (1.06%) Gradle
13 2 (0.71%) Cypress.io
13 2 (0.71%) Snakemake
General
1 75 (26.60%) Social Skills
2 62 (21.99%) Finance
3 32 (11.35%) Banking
4 23 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (7.09%) Front Office
5 20 (7.09%) Investment Banking
5 20 (7.09%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.19%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (1.42%) Legal
8 3 (1.06%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.06%) Billing
8 3 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.71%) Electronics
9 2 (0.71%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.71%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.71%) Marketing
9 2 (0.71%) Tech for Good
9 2 (0.71%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.35%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 77 (27.30%) Data Engineer
2 58 (20.57%) Senior
3 39 (13.83%) Software Engineer
4 33 (11.70%) Developer
5 32 (11.35%) AWS Engineer
6 31 (10.99%) Python Engineer
7 28 (9.93%) Senior Software Engineer
8 24 (8.51%) Java Engineer
9 21 (7.45%) DevOps Engineer
10 20 (7.09%) AWS Software Engineer
10 20 (7.09%) Java Software Engineer
10 20 (7.09%) Python Software Engineer
11 19 (6.74%) Senior Java Engineer
11 19 (6.74%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 16 (5.67%) Lead
13 13 (4.61%) Platform Engineer
14 12 (4.26%) Architect
14 12 (4.26%) Senior Data Engineer
15 10 (3.55%) Java Developer
16 8 (2.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (15.96%) Kafka
2 44 (15.60%) REST
3 42 (14.89%) Apache NiFi
4 34 (12.06%) Pandas
5 32 (11.35%) PySpark
6 30 (10.64%) NumPy
7 20 (7.09%) gRPC
7 20 (7.09%) Protocol Buffers
7 20 (7.09%) SciPy
8 18 (6.38%) OAuth
9 17 (6.03%) Spring
10 15 (5.32%) SOAP
11 14 (4.96%) JSON
11 14 (4.96%) XML
12 12 (4.26%) HTML
12 12 (4.26%) Middleware
12 12 (4.26%) OpenID
12 12 (4.26%) React
13 11 (3.90%) LDAP
13 11 (3.90%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.80%) Equities
2 21 (7.45%) Cloud Native
3 20 (7.09%) Derivative
3 20 (7.09%) Fixed Income
3 20 (7.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 20 (7.09%) Hedge funds
3 20 (7.09%) Pricing Data
4 15 (5.32%) Algorithms
5 8 (2.84%) Distributed Computing
6 7 (2.48%) Data Structures
7 6 (2.13%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.77%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.77%) Replication
8 5 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.42%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.06%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 62 (21.99%) Linux
2 49 (17.38%) Windows
3 39 (13.83%) Unix
4 16 (5.67%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.77%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.06%) CentOS
8 2 (0.71%) Debian
9 1 (0.35%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.35%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (36.17%) CI/CD
2 99 (35.11%) Agile
3 83 (29.43%) Data Pipeline
4 81 (28.72%) Analytics
4 81 (28.72%) DevOps
5 76 (26.95%) ETL
6 67 (23.76%) Software Engineering
7 65 (23.05%) Data Engineering
8 60 (21.28%) Data Modelling
9 59 (20.92%) Problem-Solving
10 52 (18.44%) Business Intelligence
11 47 (16.67%) Data Governance
12 42 (14.89%) Infrastructure as Code
13 40 (14.18%) Continuous Improvement
13 40 (14.18%) Visualisation
14 35 (12.41%) Machine Learning
14 35 (12.41%) Observability
15 33 (11.70%) Microservices
16 30 (10.64%) Data Science
16 30 (10.64%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 161 (57.09%) Python
2 110 (39.01%) SQL
3 77 (27.30%) Java
4 35 (12.41%) JavaScript
5 32 (11.35%) Scala
6 23 (8.16%) TypeScript
7 18 (6.38%) C#
8 17 (6.03%) Shell Script
9 15 (5.32%) PowerShell
10 11 (3.90%) Groovy
11 9 (3.19%) Bash
11 9 (3.19%) C++
12 7 (2.48%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.42%) R
14 2 (0.71%) AWK
14 2 (0.71%) SPARQL
14 2 (0.71%) Tcl
15 1 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.35%) Korn
15 1 (0.35%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 81 (28.72%) Security Cleared
2 56 (19.86%) SC Cleared
3 37 (13.12%) DV Cleared
4 13 (4.61%) AWS Certification
4 13 (4.61%) Degree
5 10 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.42%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.71%) RHCE
9 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.35%) CCNA
9 1 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.35%) MCP
9 1 (0.35%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (15.96%) Data Quality
2 18 (6.38%) GDPR
3 16 (5.67%) QA
4 5 (1.77%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.06%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.35%) IFRS
6 1 (0.35%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.35%) MiFID
6 1 (0.35%) Solvency II
System Software
1 49 (17.38%) Docker
2 14 (4.96%) Active Directory
2 14 (4.96%) HDFS
3 8 (2.84%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 4 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.06%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.35%) Ceph
6 1 (0.35%) iptables
6 1 (0.35%) KVM
6 1 (0.35%) Lustre
6 1 (0.35%) NFS
6 1 (0.35%) Samba
6 1 (0.35%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 48 (17.02%) Terraform
2 39 (13.83%) Kubernetes
3 34 (12.06%) Ansible
4 14 (4.96%) Puppet
5 11 (3.90%) CA Single Sign-On
6 10 (3.55%) CA Wily
6 10 (3.55%) Hadoop YARN
6 10 (3.55%) Progress Chef
6 10 (3.55%) Prometheus
7 9 (3.19%) Grafana
8 8 (2.84%) Tivoli
9 6 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.06%) Kibana
10 3 (1.06%) logstash
10 3 (1.06%) Oozie
11 2 (0.71%) Nagios
11 2 (0.71%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.35%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.35%) SCCM
Vendors
1 50 (17.73%) Databricks
2 40 (14.18%) Oracle
3 33 (11.70%) Splunk
4 25 (8.87%) AppDynamics
5 22 (7.80%) Microsoft
6 20 (7.09%) Cisco
7 19 (6.74%) Google
7 19 (6.74%) Red Hat
8 15 (5.32%) Dynatrace
9 14 (4.96%) IBM
10 11 (3.90%) Broadcom
10 11 (3.90%) Cloudera
10 11 (3.90%) ServiceNow
11 9 (3.19%) webMethods
12 8 (2.84%) Foundry
12 8 (2.84%) Palantir
13 5 (1.77%) Informatica
13 5 (1.77%) Palo Alto
13 5 (1.77%) Salesforce
13 5 (1.77%) SolarWinds