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 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 277 315
Rank change year-on-year -58 +38 -39
Contract jobs citing Apache 271 277 317
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.71% 0.89% 0.70%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.08% 7.83% 7.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 208 248
10th Percentile £375 £371 £350
25th Percentile £430 £468 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £613 £530
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +15.57% -11.67%
75th Percentile £614 £838 £700
90th Percentile £738 £879 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £475 £510
% change year-on-year -0.42% -6.86% -8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 6
10th Percentile £62.73 - £22.00
25th Percentile £67.75 - £23.44
Median hourly rate £77.00 £74.44 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.44% +79.37% -20.95%
75th Percentile £82.25 - £71.94
90th Percentile £84.80 - £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £77.00 £74.44 £65.25
% change year-on-year +3.44% +14.08% +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 3,829 3,539 4,395
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.96% 11.39% 9.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,654 2,162 2,950
10th Percentile £299 £250 £250
25th Percentile £400 £381 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £600
90th Percentile £693 £723 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 71 169
10th Percentile £14.66 £17.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £21.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £41.00 £26.78
Median % change year-on-year -38.66% +53.10% +37.33%
75th Percentile £69.19 £63.75 £51.58
90th Percentile £82.30 £66.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.96 £50.91 £24.00
% change year-on-year -52.94% +112.11% +35.44%

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 2 February 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 2 February 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 2 February 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 -92 222 £525 -19.23% 92
UK excluding London -11 131 £473 -0.42% 78
London -88 111 £575 -14.81% 39
Work from Home -79 65 £512 -29.84% 43
North of England -20 42 £450 -12.20% 21
Midlands -20 34 £540 +29.73% 3
West Midlands -12 29 £525 - 2
North West -6 28 £452 -17.91% 8
Scotland +28 25 £500 -3.61% 17
South West -17 14 £625 +2.04% 18
South East -46 10 £643 +35.26% 13
Yorkshire -53 8 £475 +2.70% 6
North East -8 6 £413 -36.54% 7
East of England -25 6 £363 +14.53% 4
East Midlands -18 5 £663 +115.45% 1
Northern Ireland -2 3 £463 -2.63% 1

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
1 109 (40.22%) Apache Spark
2 78 (28.78%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (8.12%) IIS
4 21 (7.75%) JBoss
5 20 (7.38%) WebLogic
6 18 (6.64%) WebSphere
7 12 (4.43%) Tomcat
8 10 (3.69%) iPlanet
8 10 (3.69%) WebSphere Application Server
9 7 (2.58%) Apache Geronimo
9 7 (2.58%) Apache ServiceMix
9 7 (2.58%) Confluence
9 7 (2.58%) Red Hat Fuse
10 6 (2.21%) nginx
10 6 (2.21%) Palantir Foundry
11 4 (1.48%) Jupyter
12 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
12 3 (1.11%) SAS
13 2 (0.74%) Apache Pig
13 2 (0.74%) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications
1 3 (1.11%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Actimize
1 1 (0.37%) Maximo
1 1 (0.37%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.37%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 146 (53.87%) AWS
2 83 (30.63%) Azure
3 54 (19.93%) GCP
4 41 (15.13%) Amazon S3
5 39 (14.39%) Serverless
6 33 (12.18%) Power Platform
7 32 (11.81%) AWS CloudFormation
8 27 (9.96%) Snowflake
9 21 (7.75%) AWS Lambda
10 20 (7.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 18 (6.64%) dbt
12 17 (6.27%) Azure Data Factory
13 15 (5.54%) Amazon SQS
13 15 (5.54%) Azure DevOps
14 13 (4.80%) Collibra
15 10 (3.69%) OpenShift
16 9 (3.32%) Cloud Computing
16 9 (3.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 8 (2.95%) Amazon ECS
17 8 (2.95%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.80%) Firewall
2 11 (4.06%) HTTP
2 11 (4.06%) Kerberos
3 5 (1.85%) DNS
4 4 (1.48%) DHCP
4 4 (1.48%) Network Security
5 3 (1.11%) SSL
5 3 (1.11%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.74%) SAN
7 1 (0.37%) InfiniBand
7 1 (0.37%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.37%) LAN
7 1 (0.37%) Spanning Tree
7 1 (0.37%) SSH
7 1 (0.37%) VLAN
7 1 (0.37%) VPN
7 1 (0.37%) WAN
7 1 (0.37%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (17.34%) Data Lake
2 39 (14.39%) Big Data
3 35 (12.92%) Amazon Athena
4 34 (12.55%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (12.55%) Hadoop
5 31 (11.44%) Power BI
6 27 (9.96%) Delta Lake
7 22 (8.12%) BigQuery
8 18 (6.64%) Amazon Redshift
9 16 (5.90%) Apache Hive
9 16 (5.90%) NoSQL
9 16 (5.90%) PostgreSQL
10 15 (5.54%) Apache Iceberg
10 15 (5.54%) Metadata
10 15 (5.54%) MongoDB
10 15 (5.54%) OLTP
11 13 (4.80%) Oracle Database
11 13 (4.80%) SQL Server
12 12 (4.43%) Mixpanel
13 11 (4.06%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 51 (18.82%) Git
2 21 (7.75%) GitLab
3 15 (5.54%) Jenkins
4 13 (4.80%) JIRA
5 12 (4.43%) JUnit
5 12 (4.43%) MLflow
6 11 (4.06%) Bitbucket Server
6 11 (4.06%) CA Release Automation
7 9 (3.32%) Artifactory
7 9 (3.32%) Eclipse
7 9 (3.32%) IntelliJ
7 9 (3.32%) Selenium
8 8 (2.95%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (1.85%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.85%) Maven
10 4 (1.48%) Mockito
11 3 (1.11%) Gradle
11 3 (1.11%) Liquibase
12 2 (0.74%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.74%) ERwin
General
1 64 (23.62%) Social Skills
2 56 (20.66%) Finance
3 27 (9.96%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (8.12%) Public Sector
5 20 (7.38%) Banking
6 9 (3.32%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (2.95%) Front Office
7 8 (2.95%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.11%) Billing
9 3 (1.11%) Legal
9 3 (1.11%) Marketing
10 2 (0.74%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.74%) Electronics
10 2 (0.74%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.74%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.74%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.74%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 78 (28.78%) Data Engineer
2 46 (16.97%) Senior
3 29 (10.70%) Software Engineer
4 28 (10.33%) Developer
5 20 (7.38%) AWS Engineer
6 19 (7.01%) Architect
7 18 (6.64%) Python Engineer
8 17 (6.27%) DevOps Engineer
8 17 (6.27%) Lead
9 14 (5.17%) Senior Data Engineer
9 14 (5.17%) Senior Software Engineer
10 12 (4.43%) Data Architect
10 12 (4.43%) Java Engineer
11 11 (4.06%) Principal Engineer
12 10 (3.69%) Principal Data Engineer
13 9 (3.32%) Java Developer
13 9 (3.32%) Platform Engineer
14 8 (2.95%) Java Software Engineer
14 8 (2.95%) Python Software Engineer
14 8 (2.95%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (17.34%) Kafka
2 38 (14.02%) REST
3 35 (12.92%) Apache NiFi
4 31 (11.44%) PySpark
5 20 (7.38%) Pandas
6 18 (6.64%) NumPy
6 18 (6.64%) Spring
7 17 (6.27%) Middleware
7 17 (6.27%) OAuth
8 13 (4.80%) JSON
9 12 (4.43%) EJB
9 12 (4.43%) Great Expectations
9 12 (4.43%) Hibernate
9 12 (4.43%) OpenID
9 12 (4.43%) SOAP
9 12 (4.43%) XML
10 11 (4.06%) LDAP
10 11 (4.06%) SAML
11 10 (3.69%) HTML
11 10 (3.69%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.49%) Cloud Native
2 15 (5.54%) Algorithms
3 10 (3.69%) Equities
3 10 (3.69%) Management Information System
4 8 (2.95%) Data Structures
4 8 (2.95%) Derivative
4 8 (2.95%) Fixed Income
4 8 (2.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (2.95%) Hedge funds
4 8 (2.95%) Pricing Data
4 8 (2.95%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.58%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.21%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.21%) Distributed Computing
6 6 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.85%) Freedom of Information
7 5 (1.85%) Replication
7 5 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 56 (20.66%) Linux
2 42 (15.50%) Windows
3 33 (12.18%) Unix
4 17 (6.27%) Windows Server
5 9 (3.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.21%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.11%) CentOS
7 3 (1.11%) Debian
7 3 (1.11%) Solaris
8 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.37%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.37%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (40.59%) CI/CD
2 86 (31.73%) DevOps
3 84 (31.00%) ETL
4 83 (30.63%) Data Pipeline
5 80 (29.52%) Analytics
6 79 (29.15%) Agile
7 73 (26.94%) Data Engineering
8 67 (24.72%) Data Modelling
9 64 (23.62%) Problem-Solving
10 55 (20.30%) Data Governance
11 52 (19.19%) Machine Learning
11 52 (19.19%) Software Engineering
12 48 (17.71%) Infrastructure as Code
13 44 (16.24%) AI
14 42 (15.50%) Business Intelligence
15 36 (13.28%) Data Architecture
15 36 (13.28%) Observability
16 33 (12.18%) Continuous Improvement
17 32 (11.81%) Data Science
17 32 (11.81%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 154 (56.83%) Python
2 119 (43.91%) SQL
3 73 (26.94%) Java
4 36 (13.28%) Scala
5 20 (7.38%) C#
6 17 (6.27%) JavaScript
6 17 (6.27%) Shell Script
7 13 (4.80%) PowerShell
8 11 (4.06%) Groovy
9 10 (3.69%) TypeScript
10 6 (2.21%) Bash
10 6 (2.21%) PL/SQL
11 5 (1.85%) C++
11 5 (1.85%) R
12 2 (0.74%) AWK
12 2 (0.74%) Go
12 2 (0.74%) SPARQL
13 1 (0.37%) Korn
13 1 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.37%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 74 (27.31%) Security Cleared
2 53 (19.56%) SC Cleared
3 30 (11.07%) DV Cleared
4 14 (5.17%) Degree
5 13 (4.80%) AWS Certification
6 9 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.21%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.74%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.74%) RHCE
8 2 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.37%) CCNA
9 1 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.37%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.37%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (19.19%) Data Quality
2 24 (8.86%) GDPR
3 11 (4.06%) QA
4 6 (2.21%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.11%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.74%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.37%) IFRS
7 1 (0.37%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.37%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.37%) MiFID
7 1 (0.37%) Solvency II
System Software
1 51 (18.82%) Docker
2 14 (5.17%) Active Directory
3 12 (4.43%) HDFS
4 8 (2.95%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 4 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.11%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.74%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.37%) Ceph
8 1 (0.37%) iptables
8 1 (0.37%) KVM
8 1 (0.37%) Lustre
8 1 (0.37%) NFS
8 1 (0.37%) Samba
8 1 (0.37%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 51 (18.82%) Terraform
2 42 (15.50%) Kubernetes
3 31 (11.44%) Ansible
4 14 (5.17%) Puppet
5 11 (4.06%) CA Single Sign-On
6 10 (3.69%) CA Wily
6 10 (3.69%) Progress Chef
7 8 (2.95%) Hadoop YARN
7 8 (2.95%) Tivoli
8 6 (2.21%) Grafana
8 6 (2.21%) Prometheus
8 6 (2.21%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.74%) Kibana
9 2 (0.74%) logstash
9 2 (0.74%) Nagios
9 2 (0.74%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.74%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.37%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.37%) Oozie
Vendors
1 47 (17.34%) Databricks
2 42 (15.50%) Oracle
3 25 (9.23%) Google
4 23 (8.49%) Microsoft
4 23 (8.49%) Splunk
5 17 (6.27%) Red Hat
6 16 (5.90%) AppDynamics
7 15 (5.54%) IBM
8 11 (4.06%) Broadcom
8 11 (4.06%) Cisco
9 9 (3.32%) Cloudera
9 9 (3.32%) Dynatrace
9 9 (3.32%) Informatica
9 9 (3.32%) ServiceNow
9 9 (3.32%) webMethods
10 7 (2.58%) TIBCO
11 6 (2.21%) Foundry
11 6 (2.21%) Palantir
11 6 (2.21%) VMware
12 5 (1.85%) Talend