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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 385 270 190
Rank change year-on-year -115 -80 +111
Contract jobs citing Apache 324 306 510
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.60% 0.95% 1.34%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.05% 8.66% 12.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 227 433
10th Percentile £363 £362 £419
25th Percentile £413 £463 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £750
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -26.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £615 £775 £875
90th Percentile £700 £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 10 4 8
10th Percentile £66.16 £38.21 £43.40
25th Percentile £67.47 £64.24 £53.56
Median hourly rate £69.99 £79.35 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.80% +10.21% -7.69%
75th Percentile £81.46 £80.74 £74.11
90th Percentile £86.23 £82.07 £74.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £69.99 £79.35 £72.00
% change year-on-year -11.80% +10.21% -7.69%

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 4,597 3,533 4,071
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.57% 10.93% 10.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,022 2,292 2,751
10th Percentile £288 £278 £275
25th Percentile £404 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £483 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.63% -8.10% +2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £680 £720 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £462 £450 £470
% change year-on-year +2.56% -4.26% -1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 92 90
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.45 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £25.00 £23.58
Median hourly rate £32.50 £42.27 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -23.11% +16.61% -32.87%
75th Percentile £63.43 £65.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £84.17 £77.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £44.64 £48.56
% change year-on-year -27.19% -8.08% +6.73%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -98 280 £513 -8.03% 291
London -84 171 £550 -21.43% 214
UK excluding London -90 121 £425 -15.00% 136
Work from Home -62 104 £519 -30.83% 89
North of England -60 52 £413 -2.37% 28
North East -9 29 £385 -30.00% 3
South West -38 22 £450 -9.09% 28
Scotland -17 19 £425 -15.00% 33
North West -58 14 £530 +48.04% 18
Midlands -59 13 £460 -13.86% 6
South East -73 12 £450 -25.00% 35
West Midlands -57 11 £478 -11.33% 2
Yorkshire -42 9 £469 -1.32% 7
Wales -15 2 £475 -
East of England -24 2 £400 -27.27% 4
East Midlands -23 1 £495 +17.86% 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
1 177 (54.63%) Apache Spark
2 153 (47.22%) Apache Airflow
3 35 (10.80%) Jupyter
4 16 (4.94%) nginx
5 12 (3.70%) Confluence
6 10 (3.09%) Tomcat
7 9 (2.78%) Apache Superset
8 6 (1.85%) IIS
8 6 (1.85%) WebSphere
9 5 (1.54%) CloudStack
10 4 (1.23%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.93%) JBoss
11 3 (0.93%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.62%) Apache Geronimo
12 2 (0.62%) Apache ServiceMix
12 2 (0.62%) Red Hat Fuse
13 1 (0.31%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.31%) Luigi
13 1 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
13 1 (0.31%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Magento
1 1 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.31%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 189 (58.33%) AWS
2 116 (35.80%) Azure
3 87 (26.85%) GCP
4 55 (16.98%) Amazon S3
5 52 (16.05%) dbt
6 40 (12.35%) Snowflake
7 34 (10.49%) Serverless
8 33 (10.19%) Azure DevOps
9 32 (9.88%) Azure Data Factory
10 30 (9.26%) Amazon EMR
10 30 (9.26%) AWS Lambda
10 30 (9.26%) Power Platform
11 25 (7.72%) GitHub
12 17 (5.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 16 (4.94%) Azure Databricks
14 14 (4.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 14 (4.32%) GitHub Actions
15 13 (4.01%) Amazon EC2
16 10 (3.09%) Cloud Composer
17 9 (2.78%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.94%) DNS
2 13 (4.01%) Firewall
3 5 (1.54%) DHCP
3 5 (1.54%) NAS
3 5 (1.54%) SAN
4 4 (1.23%) SSL
5 3 (0.93%) HTTP
5 3 (0.93%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.93%) Network Security
5 3 (0.93%) Structured Cabling
6 2 (0.62%) BIG-IP
6 2 (0.62%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.62%) VLAN
6 2 (0.62%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.31%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (20.68%) Data Warehouse
2 50 (15.43%) Data Lake
3 43 (13.27%) BigQuery
4 41 (12.65%) Big Data
4 41 (12.65%) Delta Lake
5 36 (11.11%) Flink
6 31 (9.57%) Amazon Athena
6 31 (9.57%) Metadata
7 29 (8.95%) Power BI
8 23 (7.10%) Amazon Redshift
9 22 (6.79%) PostgreSQL
10 21 (6.48%) SQL Server
11 19 (5.86%) Apache Iceberg
11 19 (5.86%) Hadoop
12 18 (5.56%) Relational Database
13 17 (5.25%) Elasticsearch
13 17 (5.25%) NoSQL
14 14 (4.32%) Tableau
15 11 (3.40%) MongoDB
16 10 (3.09%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 54 (16.67%) GitLab
2 47 (14.51%) Git
3 22 (6.79%) JIRA
4 13 (4.01%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.47%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.85%) Maven
7 5 (1.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (1.54%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.54%) MLflow
8 4 (1.23%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.23%) Gradle
9 2 (0.62%) JMeter
9 2 (0.62%) RStudio
9 2 (0.62%) Selenium
9 2 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.62%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.31%) Ant
10 1 (0.31%) minitest
10 1 (0.31%) Newman
10 1 (0.31%) Postman
General
1 75 (23.15%) Social Skills
2 70 (21.60%) Finance
3 48 (14.81%) Public Sector
4 41 (12.65%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (7.72%) Banking
6 7 (2.16%) Financial Institution
6 7 (2.16%) Marketing
6 7 (2.16%) Publishing
7 6 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.54%) Military
9 4 (1.23%) Billing
10 3 (0.93%) Law
10 3 (0.93%) Legal
11 2 (0.62%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.62%) Retail
12 1 (0.31%) Dutch Language
12 1 (0.31%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.31%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 130 (40.12%) Data Engineer
2 59 (18.21%) Senior
3 46 (14.20%) Architect
4 42 (12.96%) Developer
5 36 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
6 27 (8.33%) Lead
7 24 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
8 22 (6.79%) Data Architect
9 20 (6.17%) Databricks Engineer
9 20 (6.17%) Java Developer
10 14 (4.32%) Databricks Data Engineer
10 14 (4.32%) Python Engineer
11 12 (3.70%) Lead Data Engineer
12 11 (3.40%) Cloud Engineer
12 11 (3.40%) Python Data Engineer
13 10 (3.09%) AWS Engineer
13 10 (3.09%) Software Engineer
14 9 (2.78%) Senior Developer
14 9 (2.78%) Technical Leader
15 8 (2.47%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (29.63%) Terraform
2 78 (24.07%) PySpark
3 70 (21.60%) Kafka
4 29 (8.95%) REST
5 23 (7.10%) Spring
5 23 (7.10%) Spring Boot
6 22 (6.79%) JSON
7 17 (5.25%) Apache Beam
8 16 (4.94%) Apache NiFi
9 10 (3.09%) SOAP
10 9 (2.78%) Spark Streaming
11 8 (2.47%) Apache Avro
11 8 (2.47%) YAML
12 7 (2.16%) Elastic Stack
12 7 (2.16%) Middleware
12 7 (2.16%) OAuth
12 7 (2.16%) Pandas
13 6 (1.85%) AWS CDK
13 6 (1.85%) XML
14 5 (1.54%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 56 (17.28%) Cloud Native
2 24 (7.41%) Product Ownership
3 16 (4.94%) Data Structures
4 14 (4.32%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (4.01%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (3.40%) Management Information System
7 10 (3.09%) Onboarding
8 9 (2.78%) Data Fabric
8 9 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (2.47%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.54%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.54%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.54%) Clustering
10 5 (1.54%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.23%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (1.23%) Replication
12 3 (0.93%) PKI
12 3 (0.93%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 48 (14.81%) Linux
2 18 (5.56%) Windows
3 15 (4.63%) Ubuntu
4 11 (3.40%) Unix
5 10 (3.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.85%) Windows Server
7 5 (1.54%) Windows 10
8 4 (1.23%) CentOS
9 3 (0.93%) Debian
9 3 (0.93%) Rocky
10 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.31%) Solaris
11 1 (0.31%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (49.69%) CI/CD
2 142 (43.83%) Data Pipeline
3 132 (40.74%) Data Engineering
4 114 (35.19%) Analytics
5 113 (34.88%) DevOps
6 106 (32.72%) Data Modelling
7 105 (32.41%) ETL
8 103 (31.79%) Agile
9 82 (25.31%) Infrastructure as Code
10 76 (23.46%) Containerisation
11 70 (21.60%) AI
12 65 (20.06%) Data Governance
13 52 (16.05%) Machine Learning
14 50 (15.43%) Migration
15 49 (15.12%) Lakehouse
16 43 (13.27%) Business Intelligence
17 42 (12.96%) Data Architecture
17 42 (12.96%) Data Transformation
18 41 (12.65%) Workflow
19 40 (12.35%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 222 (68.52%) Python
2 171 (52.78%) SQL
3 69 (21.30%) Java
4 28 (8.64%) Scala
5 23 (7.10%) Bash
5 23 (7.10%) PowerShell
6 18 (5.56%) Shell Script
7 11 (3.40%) R
8 9 (2.78%) Go
9 8 (2.47%) TypeScript
10 7 (2.16%) PL/SQL
11 5 (1.54%) JavaScript
11 5 (1.54%) Perl
12 4 (1.23%) Bicep
12 4 (1.23%) C#
12 4 (1.23%) Groovy
12 4 (1.23%) Ruby
13 3 (0.93%) Cypher
13 3 (0.93%) Gremlin
13 3 (0.93%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 106 (32.72%) Security Cleared
2 90 (27.78%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.86%) Degree
4 15 (4.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (4.63%) DV Cleared
5 10 (3.09%) AWS Certification
6 6 (1.85%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.54%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.93%) CCNP
8 3 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.93%) CSPO
8 3 (0.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.62%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.31%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.31%) PMP
10 1 (0.31%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (25.93%) Data Quality
2 15 (4.63%) GDPR
3 10 (3.09%) QA
4 7 (2.16%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.23%) Government Security Classifications
6 3 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.93%) NCSC
6 3 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.62%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.62%) SLA
7 2 (0.62%) WCAG
8 1 (0.31%) NIST
System Software
1 98 (30.25%) Docker
2 13 (4.01%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.16%) Postfix
4 5 (1.54%) NFS
4 5 (1.54%) Varnish
4 5 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.93%) Dovecot
6 3 (0.93%) Sendmail
6 3 (0.93%) vSphere
7 2 (0.62%) Ceph
7 2 (0.62%) KVM
7 2 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 81 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 25 (7.72%) Ansible
3 13 (4.01%) Grafana
4 9 (2.78%) Prometheus
5 7 (2.16%) HAProxy
6 5 (1.54%) Packer
6 5 (1.54%) vCenter Server
7 4 (1.23%) Puppet
8 3 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.93%) Apache Ranger
8 3 (0.93%) Check_MK
8 3 (0.93%) Kibana
8 3 (0.93%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.93%) SELinux
9 2 (0.62%) Control-M
9 2 (0.62%) systemd
10 1 (0.31%) logstash
10 1 (0.31%) Podman
10 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 86 (26.54%) Databricks
2 38 (11.73%) Microsoft
3 37 (11.42%) Google
4 17 (5.25%) Trend Micro
5 13 (4.01%) Oracle
6 11 (3.40%) Red Hat
7 10 (3.09%) Cloudera
7 10 (3.09%) VMware
8 9 (2.78%) Informatica
8 9 (2.78%) ServiceNow
9 8 (2.47%) Splunk
10 7 (2.16%) Cisco
11 6 (1.85%) Guidewire
12 5 (1.54%) Confluent
12 5 (1.54%) New Relic
12 5 (1.54%) Talend
12 5 (1.54%) Tanium
13 4 (1.23%) Hortonworks
13 4 (1.23%) IBM
13 4 (1.23%) Teradata