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 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 266 182
Rank change year-on-year -107 -84 +115
Contract jobs citing Apache 317 320 516
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.59% 0.98% 1.33%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.92% 8.91% 12.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 231 440
10th Percentile £363 £375 £425
25th Percentile £413 £463 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £552 £750
Median % change year-on-year -7.61% -26.40% +25.00%
75th Percentile £600 £819 £875
90th Percentile £692 £825 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 9
10th Percentile £62.45 £38.21 £44.35
25th Percentile £67.23 £64.24 £56.00
Median hourly rate £68.24 £79.35 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.01% +7.23% -5.13%
75th Percentile £77.15 £80.74 £74.44
90th Percentile £85.09 £82.07 £74.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.24 £79.35 £74.00
% change year-on-year -14.01% +7.23% -5.13%

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 4,579 3,592 4,120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.53% 10.97% 10.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,000 2,336 2,801
10th Percentile £288 £278 £281
25th Percentile £404 £387 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +0.96%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £680 £719 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +2.78% -2.70% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 92 98
10th Percentile £16.23 £17.45 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £25.00 £21.44
Median hourly rate £32.50 £41.26 £33.04
Median % change year-on-year -21.22% +24.88% -37.08%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.25 £69.69
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £74.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £43.09 £47.50
% change year-on-year -24.58% -9.28% +18.75%

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 27 August 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 -107 269 £500 -13.04% 58
London -79 162 £550 -22.26% 24
UK excluding London -97 122 £425 -15.00% 49
Work from Home -73 100 £506 -32.50% 23
North of England -51 55 £413 -1.79% 9
North East -14 29 £385 -30.00%
Scotland -7 22 £525 +5.00% 10
South West -38 19 £450 -9.09% 19
North West -51 17 £530 +48.04% 7
South East -61 12 £450 -25.00% 10
Midlands -69 11 £425 -20.41% 1
Yorkshire -52 9 £469 -1.32% 2
West Midlands -63 9 £425 -21.08% 1
Wales -15 2 £475 -
East of England -28 2 £400 -27.27% 2
East Midlands -18 1 £495 +17.86%

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
1 178 (56.15%) Apache Spark
2 139 (43.85%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (10.41%) Jupyter
4 16 (5.05%) nginx
5 14 (4.42%) Tomcat
6 10 (3.15%) Confluence
6 10 (3.15%) WebSphere
7 9 (2.84%) Apache Superset
8 7 (2.21%) IIS
9 5 (1.58%) Apache Geronimo
9 5 (1.58%) Apache ServiceMix
9 5 (1.58%) CloudStack
9 5 (1.58%) Red Hat Fuse
9 5 (1.58%) SharePoint
10 4 (1.26%) JBoss
11 3 (0.95%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.32%) CMS
12 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.32%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Magento
1 1 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.32%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 176 (55.52%) AWS
2 115 (36.28%) Azure
3 80 (25.24%) GCP
4 51 (16.09%) Amazon S3
5 45 (14.20%) dbt
6 35 (11.04%) Snowflake
7 34 (10.73%) Azure DevOps
8 33 (10.41%) Serverless
9 30 (9.46%) Amazon EMR
9 30 (9.46%) Azure Data Factory
9 30 (9.46%) Power Platform
10 29 (9.15%) AWS Lambda
11 24 (7.57%) GitHub
12 16 (5.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 16 (5.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 14 (4.42%) GitHub Actions
14 12 (3.79%) Amazon EC2
15 9 (2.84%) Amazon SQS
15 9 (2.84%) IaaS
16 8 (2.52%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.68%) DNS
2 14 (4.42%) Firewall
3 5 (1.58%) DHCP
3 5 (1.58%) NAS
3 5 (1.58%) SAN
4 3 (0.95%) HTTP
4 3 (0.95%) HTTPS
4 3 (0.95%) SSL
4 3 (0.95%) Structured Cabling
4 3 (0.95%) VLAN
5 2 (0.63%) BIG-IP
5 2 (0.63%) FTP
5 2 (0.63%) Network Security
5 2 (0.63%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.63%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.32%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (19.56%) Data Warehouse
2 48 (15.14%) Data Lake
3 42 (13.25%) Delta Lake
4 39 (12.30%) BigQuery
5 38 (11.99%) Big Data
6 35 (11.04%) Flink
7 32 (10.09%) Amazon Athena
8 29 (9.15%) Power BI
9 26 (8.20%) Metadata
10 23 (7.26%) Amazon Redshift
11 20 (6.31%) SQL Server
12 19 (5.99%) PostgreSQL
13 18 (5.68%) Apache Iceberg
14 17 (5.36%) Hadoop
14 17 (5.36%) NoSQL
14 17 (5.36%) Relational Database
15 16 (5.05%) Elasticsearch
16 12 (3.79%) Tableau
17 10 (3.15%) MongoDB
18 9 (2.84%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 52 (16.40%) GitLab
2 44 (13.88%) Git
3 21 (6.62%) JIRA
4 13 (4.10%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.52%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.89%) Maven
7 5 (1.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (1.58%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.58%) MLflow
8 4 (1.26%) Gradle
9 3 (0.95%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.63%) JMeter
10 2 (0.63%) Selenium
10 2 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.63%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.32%) Ant
11 1 (0.32%) Capybara
11 1 (0.32%) minitest
11 1 (0.32%) Newman
11 1 (0.32%) Postman
General
1 74 (23.34%) Finance
2 71 (22.40%) Social Skills
3 47 (14.83%) Public Sector
4 38 (11.99%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (7.89%) Banking
6 7 (2.21%) Financial Institution
7 6 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (1.89%) Publishing
8 5 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.58%) Marketing
9 4 (1.26%) Billing
10 3 (0.95%) Law
10 3 (0.95%) Legal
10 3 (0.95%) Military
11 2 (0.63%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.63%) Front Office
11 2 (0.63%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.32%) Dutch Language
12 1 (0.32%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 122 (38.49%) Data Engineer
2 58 (18.30%) Senior
3 44 (13.88%) Architect
4 43 (13.56%) Developer
5 34 (10.73%) Senior Data Engineer
6 26 (8.20%) Lead
7 23 (7.26%) DevOps Engineer
8 21 (6.62%) Java Developer
9 19 (5.99%) Data Architect
10 13 (4.10%) Python Engineer
11 12 (3.79%) Lead Data Engineer
12 11 (3.47%) Cloud Engineer
13 10 (3.15%) AWS Engineer
13 10 (3.15%) Python Data Engineer
13 10 (3.15%) Software Engineer
14 9 (2.84%) Senior Developer
14 9 (2.84%) Technical Leader
15 8 (2.52%) Analyst
15 8 (2.52%) Python Developer
15 8 (2.52%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (29.65%) Terraform
2 74 (23.34%) PySpark
3 70 (22.08%) Kafka
4 26 (8.20%) Spring
5 25 (7.89%) REST
5 25 (7.89%) Spring Boot
6 19 (5.99%) JSON
7 15 (4.73%) Apache Beam
8 10 (3.15%) Apache NiFi
8 10 (3.15%) Middleware
9 9 (2.84%) Spark Streaming
10 8 (2.52%) AWS CDK
10 8 (2.52%) OAuth
10 8 (2.52%) SOAP
10 8 (2.52%) YAML
11 7 (2.21%) Pandas
12 6 (1.89%) Apache Avro
12 6 (1.89%) Elastic Stack
12 6 (1.89%) Great Expectations
12 6 (1.89%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 51 (16.09%) Cloud Native
2 23 (7.26%) Product Ownership
3 15 (4.73%) Legacy Systems
4 14 (4.42%) Data Structures
5 13 (4.10%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (3.47%) Management Information System
7 10 (3.15%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (2.84%) Public Cloud
9 8 (2.52%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.89%) Data Fabric
11 5 (1.58%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.58%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.58%) Replication
11 5 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.26%) Distributed Architecture
12 4 (1.26%) Distributed Computing
12 4 (1.26%) PKI
13 3 (0.95%) Algorithms
13 3 (0.95%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 50 (15.77%) Linux
2 16 (5.05%) Ubuntu
2 16 (5.05%) Windows
3 12 (3.79%) Unix
4 10 (3.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.58%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.58%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.26%) CentOS
6 4 (1.26%) Rocky
7 3 (0.95%) Debian
8 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.32%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.32%) Solaris
9 1 (0.32%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (49.53%) CI/CD
2 136 (42.90%) Data Pipeline
3 126 (39.75%) Data Engineering
4 112 (35.33%) Analytics
4 112 (35.33%) DevOps
5 97 (30.60%) Data Modelling
5 97 (30.60%) ETL
6 96 (30.28%) Agile
7 79 (24.92%) Infrastructure as Code
8 74 (23.34%) Containerisation
9 65 (20.50%) AI
10 57 (17.98%) Data Governance
11 49 (15.46%) Machine Learning
12 47 (14.83%) Migration
13 42 (13.25%) Business Intelligence
14 40 (12.62%) Data Architecture
14 40 (12.62%) Problem-Solving
15 38 (11.99%) Data Transformation
16 37 (11.67%) Workflow
17 36 (11.36%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 217 (68.45%) Python
2 170 (53.63%) SQL
3 74 (23.34%) Java
4 27 (8.52%) Scala
5 23 (7.26%) Bash
5 23 (7.26%) PowerShell
6 18 (5.68%) Shell Script
7 10 (3.15%) R
7 10 (3.15%) TypeScript
8 9 (2.84%) Go
9 7 (2.21%) PL/SQL
10 6 (1.89%) Perl
11 5 (1.58%) C#
12 4 (1.26%) Bicep
12 4 (1.26%) Groovy
12 4 (1.26%) JavaScript
12 4 (1.26%) Ruby
13 3 (0.95%) Cypher
13 3 (0.95%) Gremlin
13 3 (0.95%) PHP
Qualifications
1 96 (30.28%) Security Cleared
2 86 (27.13%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.99%) Degree
4 15 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.84%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.89%) AWS Certification
6 6 (1.89%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.58%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.95%) CCNP
9 3 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.95%) CSPO
9 3 (0.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.63%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.32%) MBA
11 1 (0.32%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.32%) PMP
11 1 (0.32%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (24.92%) Data Quality
2 16 (5.05%) GDPR
3 11 (3.47%) QA
4 7 (2.21%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (1.26%) Government Security Classifications
7 3 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.63%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.63%) SLA
8 2 (0.63%) WCAG
9 1 (0.32%) NIST
System Software
1 101 (31.86%) Docker
2 13 (4.10%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.52%) Postfix
4 7 (2.21%) NFS
5 6 (1.89%) Varnish
6 5 (1.58%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
8 3 (0.95%) Dovecot
8 3 (0.95%) Sendmail
8 3 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.95%) vSphere
9 2 (0.63%) Ceph
9 2 (0.63%) KVM
10 1 (0.32%) iptables
10 1 (0.32%) Samba
Systems Management
1 83 (26.18%) Kubernetes
2 25 (7.89%) Ansible
3 14 (4.42%) Grafana
4 9 (2.84%) Prometheus
5 8 (2.52%) HAProxy
6 5 (1.58%) Packer
6 5 (1.58%) vCenter Server
7 4 (1.26%) Puppet
7 4 (1.26%) SELinux
8 3 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.95%) Apache Ranger
8 3 (0.95%) Check_MK
8 3 (0.95%) Kibana
8 3 (0.95%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.95%) systemd
9 2 (0.63%) Control-M
10 1 (0.32%) logstash
10 1 (0.32%) Podman
10 1 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.32%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 81 (25.55%) Databricks
2 37 (11.67%) Microsoft
3 32 (10.09%) Google
4 17 (5.36%) Trend Micro
5 15 (4.73%) Oracle
6 10 (3.15%) Cloudera
6 10 (3.15%) Informatica
6 10 (3.15%) Red Hat
6 10 (3.15%) VMware
7 8 (2.52%) ServiceNow
7 8 (2.52%) Splunk
8 7 (2.21%) Cisco
9 6 (1.89%) Guidewire
9 6 (1.89%) TIBCO
10 5 (1.58%) Confluent
10 5 (1.58%) IBM
10 5 (1.58%) New Relic
10 5 (1.58%) Tanium
11 4 (1.26%) Hortonworks
11 4 (1.26%) Talend