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 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 267 302
Rank change year-on-year -61 +35 -24
Contract jobs citing Apache 293 313 330
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.80% 0.92% 0.75%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.75% 8.25% 7.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 232 254
10th Percentile £376 £380 £350
25th Percentile £434 £506 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £575
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +17.39% -10.16%
75th Percentile £656 £850 £700
90th Percentile £825 £888 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 7
10th Percentile £66.13 - £19.40
25th Percentile £74.13 - £22.00
Median hourly rate £80.50 £74.00 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.78% +142.62% -41.90%
75th Percentile £82.75 £74.22 £65.88
90th Percentile £86.00 £74.35 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.50 £74.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +8.78% +40.95% +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 3,783 3,796 4,507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.34% 11.10% 10.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,570 2,335 2,991
10th Percentile £290 £250 £256
25th Percentile £400 £385 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £625
90th Percentile £710 £751 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 82 136
10th Percentile £15.60 £17.08 £14.14
25th Percentile £19.75 £21.25 £17.43
Median hourly rate £27.21 £35.00 £26.39
Median % change year-on-year -22.26% +32.63% +42.84%
75th Percentile £68.54 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £69.70 £72.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.89 £42.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.27% +88.89% +28.57%

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 18 December 2025.

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 18 December 2025.

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 18 December 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 -59 250 £540 -20.00% 173
UK excluding London -1 134 £475 - 162
London -58 133 £603 -19.67% 33
Work from Home -76 86 £600 -22.58% 120
North of England -28 39 £453 -11.61% 34
Midlands -8 38 £515 -15.85% 17
West Midlands -7 31 £515 -15.85% 10
North West 0 26 £452 -17.91% 19
Scotland +21 24 £500 +23.08% 9
South West -1 16 £344 -43.84% 25
South East -34 12 £600 +26.32% 48
Yorkshire -39 10 £475 - 12
East Midlands -10 7 £510 +65.85% 5
East of England -23 6 £483 +53.17% 28
North East - 3 £400 - 3
Northern Ireland -9 2 £463 +1.37% 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
1 105 (35.84%) Apache Airflow
2 100 (34.13%) Apache Spark
3 26 (8.87%) WebLogic
4 21 (7.17%) IIS
4 21 (7.17%) JBoss
5 15 (5.12%) WebSphere
6 11 (3.75%) Confluence
7 10 (3.41%) iPlanet
7 10 (3.41%) Tomcat
7 10 (3.41%) WebSphere Application Server
8 4 (1.37%) Jupyter
8 4 (1.37%) nginx
9 3 (1.02%) SAS
10 2 (0.68%) Apache Geronimo
10 2 (0.68%) Apache Pig
10 2 (0.68%) Apache ServiceMix
10 2 (0.68%) Luigi
10 2 (0.68%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.68%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.34%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 3 (1.02%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.68%) Abaqus
2 2 (0.68%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.02%) Maximo
2 1 (0.34%) Actimize
2 1 (0.34%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.34%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 164 (55.97%) AWS
2 82 (27.99%) Azure
3 48 (16.38%) Serverless
4 47 (16.04%) Snowflake
5 45 (15.36%) GCP
6 43 (14.68%) dbt
7 37 (12.63%) Amazon S3
8 28 (9.56%) Power Platform
9 27 (9.22%) AWS CloudFormation
10 22 (7.51%) AWS Lambda
10 22 (7.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 18 (6.14%) Azure Data Factory
11 18 (6.14%) Azure Monitor
12 13 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (3.41%) OpenShift
14 9 (3.07%) Amazon SQS
14 9 (3.07%) AWS Step Functions
14 9 (3.07%) Cloud Computing
14 9 (3.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 8 (2.73%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.75%) Firewall
1 11 (3.75%) Kerberos
2 8 (2.73%) HTTP
3 4 (1.37%) DNS
3 4 (1.37%) Network Security
4 3 (1.02%) DHCP
4 3 (1.02%) SSL
4 3 (1.02%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.68%) SAN
5 2 (0.68%) VPN
6 1 (0.34%) InfiniBand
6 1 (0.34%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.34%) LAN
6 1 (0.34%) Spanning Tree
6 1 (0.34%) SSH
6 1 (0.34%) VLAN
6 1 (0.34%) WAN
6 1 (0.34%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (19.80%) Data Lake
2 46 (15.70%) Amazon Athena
3 45 (15.36%) Big Data
4 40 (13.65%) Data Warehouse
5 38 (12.97%) Hadoop
6 31 (10.58%) Apache Iceberg
7 28 (9.56%) Power BI
8 27 (9.22%) Delta Lake
9 24 (8.19%) Apache Arrow
9 24 (8.19%) Apache Ignite
9 24 (8.19%) Dremio
10 23 (7.85%) Amazon Redshift
11 20 (6.83%) BigQuery
12 19 (6.48%) Apache Hive
13 16 (5.46%) Metadata
13 16 (5.46%) NoSQL
14 14 (4.78%) Oracle Database
15 13 (4.44%) Elasticsearch
15 13 (4.44%) Relational Database
16 12 (4.10%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 52 (17.75%) Git
2 23 (7.85%) GitLab
3 18 (6.14%) Jenkins
4 15 (5.12%) JIRA
5 14 (4.78%) JUnit
6 11 (3.75%) Artifactory
6 11 (3.75%) Bitbucket Server
6 11 (3.75%) CA Release Automation
6 11 (3.75%) MLflow
7 9 (3.07%) Eclipse
7 9 (3.07%) IntelliJ
7 9 (3.07%) Selenium
7 9 (3.07%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (2.05%) Bitbucket
8 6 (2.05%) Mockito
9 4 (1.37%) Liquibase
9 4 (1.37%) Maven
10 3 (1.02%) Gradle
10 3 (1.02%) Vagrant
11 2 (0.68%) Cypress.io
General
1 78 (26.62%) Social Skills
2 63 (21.50%) Finance
3 36 (12.29%) Banking
4 25 (8.53%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (8.19%) Front Office
5 24 (8.19%) Investment Banking
6 21 (7.17%) Public Sector
7 9 (3.07%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.37%) Legal
9 3 (1.02%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.68%) Electronics
10 2 (0.68%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.68%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.68%) Marketing
10 2 (0.68%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.68%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.34%) Games
11 1 (0.34%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 78 (26.62%) Data Engineer
2 67 (22.87%) Senior
3 43 (14.68%) Software Engineer
4 35 (11.95%) AWS Engineer
5 34 (11.60%) Python Engineer
6 33 (11.26%) Senior Software Engineer
7 28 (9.56%) Developer
7 28 (9.56%) Java Engineer
8 24 (8.19%) AWS Software Engineer
8 24 (8.19%) Java Software Engineer
8 24 (8.19%) Python Software Engineer
9 23 (7.85%) Senior Java Engineer
9 23 (7.85%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 22 (7.51%) DevOps Engineer
11 16 (5.46%) Lead
12 15 (5.12%) Architect
13 14 (4.78%) Senior Data Engineer
14 13 (4.44%) Platform Engineer
15 8 (2.73%) Hadoop Engineer
15 8 (2.73%) Monitoring Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (16.38%) Kafka
2 45 (15.36%) Apache NiFi
3 40 (13.65%) REST
4 38 (12.97%) Pandas
5 34 (11.60%) NumPy
6 32 (10.92%) PySpark
7 24 (8.19%) gRPC
7 24 (8.19%) Protocol Buffers
7 24 (8.19%) SciPy
8 18 (6.14%) OAuth
9 17 (5.80%) Spring
10 15 (5.12%) XML
11 14 (4.78%) JSON
12 13 (4.44%) React
12 13 (4.44%) SOAP
13 12 (4.10%) HTML
13 12 (4.10%) Middleware
13 12 (4.10%) OpenID
14 11 (3.75%) LDAP
14 11 (3.75%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (8.87%) Equities
2 24 (8.19%) Derivative
2 24 (8.19%) Fixed Income
2 24 (8.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 24 (8.19%) Hedge funds
2 24 (8.19%) Pricing Data
3 20 (6.83%) Cloud Native
4 15 (5.12%) Algorithms
5 9 (3.07%) Distributed Computing
6 8 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (2.39%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.05%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.71%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.71%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.71%) Replication
10 3 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.68%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.68%) Autonomous Agent
11 2 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 69 (23.55%) Linux
2 51 (17.41%) Windows
3 41 (13.99%) Unix
4 15 (5.12%) Windows Server
5 13 (4.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.73%) CentOS
6 8 (2.73%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.71%) Debian
8 1 (0.34%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.34%) Rocky
8 1 (0.34%) Solaris
8 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (35.84%) Agile
1 105 (35.84%) CI/CD
2 89 (30.38%) DevOps
3 86 (29.35%) Analytics
4 85 (29.01%) Data Pipeline
5 81 (27.65%) ETL
6 73 (24.91%) Software Engineering
7 68 (23.21%) Data Engineering
8 60 (20.48%) Problem-Solving
9 58 (19.80%) Data Modelling
10 51 (17.41%) Business Intelligence
10 51 (17.41%) Data Governance
11 44 (15.02%) Infrastructure as Code
12 41 (13.99%) Continuous Improvement
13 39 (13.31%) Visualisation
14 37 (12.63%) Machine Learning
15 35 (11.95%) Microservices
16 34 (11.60%) Data Science
16 34 (11.60%) Observability
17 30 (10.24%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 173 (59.04%) Python
2 111 (37.88%) SQL
3 80 (27.30%) Java
4 43 (14.68%) JavaScript
5 36 (12.29%) Scala
6 27 (9.22%) TypeScript
7 18 (6.14%) C#
7 18 (6.14%) Shell Script
8 16 (5.46%) PowerShell
9 13 (4.44%) Bash
10 11 (3.75%) Groovy
11 10 (3.41%) C++
12 7 (2.39%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.37%) R
14 3 (1.02%) Perl
14 3 (1.02%) PHP
15 2 (0.68%) AWK
15 2 (0.68%) Korn
15 2 (0.68%) SPARQL
15 2 (0.68%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 87 (29.69%) Security Cleared
2 61 (20.82%) SC Cleared
3 40 (13.65%) DV Cleared
4 15 (5.12%) Degree
5 14 (4.78%) AWS Certification
6 10 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.37%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.68%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.68%) MCP
9 2 (0.68%) RHCE
10 1 (0.34%) CCNA
10 1 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.34%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (15.36%) Data Quality
2 21 (7.17%) QA
3 17 (5.80%) GDPR
4 5 (1.71%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.02%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.34%) IFRS
6 1 (0.34%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.34%) MiFID
6 1 (0.34%) Solvency II
System Software
1 53 (18.09%) Docker
2 14 (4.78%) Active Directory
2 14 (4.78%) HDFS
3 8 (2.73%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 4 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.68%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.68%) KVM
6 2 (0.68%) VirtualBox
7 1 (0.34%) Ceph
7 1 (0.34%) iptables
7 1 (0.34%) Lustre
7 1 (0.34%) NFS
7 1 (0.34%) Samba
7 1 (0.34%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 53 (18.09%) Terraform
2 40 (13.65%) Kubernetes
3 35 (11.95%) Ansible
4 18 (6.14%) Puppet
5 14 (4.78%) Progress Chef
6 11 (3.75%) CA Single Sign-On
7 10 (3.41%) CA Wily
7 10 (3.41%) Hadoop YARN
7 10 (3.41%) Prometheus
8 9 (3.07%) Grafana
9 8 (2.73%) Tivoli
10 6 (2.05%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.37%) Nagios
12 3 (1.02%) Kibana
12 3 (1.02%) logstash
12 3 (1.02%) Oozie
12 3 (1.02%) Salt
13 2 (0.68%) Icinga
13 2 (0.68%) Red Hat Satellite
14 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 50 (17.06%) Databricks
2 39 (13.31%) Oracle
3 33 (11.26%) Splunk
4 25 (8.53%) AppDynamics
4 25 (8.53%) Microsoft
5 19 (6.48%) Google
5 19 (6.48%) Red Hat
6 17 (5.80%) Cisco
7 16 (5.46%) IBM
8 15 (5.12%) Dynatrace
9 12 (4.10%) Cloudera
10 11 (3.75%) Broadcom
11 9 (3.07%) Foundry
11 9 (3.07%) Informatica
11 9 (3.07%) Palantir
11 9 (3.07%) webMethods
12 8 (2.73%) ServiceNow
12 8 (2.73%) VMware
13 5 (1.71%) Salesforce
14 3 (1.02%) SAP