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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 276 192 308
Rank change year-on-year -84 +116 -22
Contract jobs citing Apache 304 501 399
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.93% 1.32% 0.80%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.59% 12.27% 7.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 422 307
10th Percentile £365 £419 £450
25th Percentile £463 £538 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £750 £600
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +25.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £738 £850 £738
90th Percentile £825 £888 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 14
10th Percentile - £43.40 £70.50
25th Percentile - £60.31 -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £74.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -5.13% +4.91%
75th Percentile - £74.44 £88.25
90th Percentile - £74.61 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £74.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +8.11% -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 3,541 4,082 5,217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.84% 10.73% 10.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,293 2,685 3,516
10th Percentile £277 £267 £256
25th Percentile £388 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £640
90th Percentile £706 £825 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £463 £475
% change year-on-year -2.70% -2.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 86 162
10th Percentile £17.40 £17.08 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.25 £23.80 £20.81
Median hourly rate £36.50 £38.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.95% -27.62% +138.64%
75th Percentile £65.06 £70.00 £66.19
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.03 £48.56 £46.09
% change year-on-year -21.68% +5.36% +133.84%

Apache
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Apache as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Apache 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 16 September 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
Top 17 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 16 September 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 -92 268 £550 -27.27% 112
London -105 164 £650 -18.75% 60
UK excluding London +21 117 £500 +5.26% 79
Work from Home -74 109 £750 -6.25% 68
North of England 0 39 £448 -5.68% 14
North West +8 28 £360 -34.55% 11
Midlands -5 24 £530 -13.48% 7
West Midlands -3 21 £537 -12.25% 3
Scotland +8 16 £500 +25.00% 6
South West +23 14 £515 -3.38% 9
South East +11 12 £600 +26.32% 40
Yorkshire -21 10 £475 +2.70% 3
East of England +6 8 £550 +144.44% 2
Wales +7 3 - -
East Midlands -6 3 £420 +1.82% 4
Northern Ireland -8 2 £410 -10.14% 1
North East - 1 £550 -

Apache
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 108 (35.53%) Apache Airflow
2 95 (31.25%) Apache Spark
3 28 (9.21%) IIS
4 22 (7.24%) WebSphere
5 21 (6.91%) JBoss
6 20 (6.58%) WebLogic
7 17 (5.59%) Confluence
8 16 (5.26%) nginx
8 16 (5.26%) Tomcat
9 11 (3.62%) WebSphere Application Server
10 10 (3.29%) iPlanet
11 6 (1.97%) Jupyter
12 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
13 3 (0.99%) WebLogic Portal
14 2 (0.66%) Alfresco
14 2 (0.66%) Apache Pig
14 2 (0.66%) Camunda
14 2 (0.66%) Luigi
14 2 (0.66%) Oracle HTTP Server
14 2 (0.66%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Abaqus
1 2 (0.66%) MS Visio
1 2 (0.66%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 7 (2.30%) Maximo
2 1 (0.33%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.33%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 153 (50.33%) AWS
2 74 (24.34%) Azure
3 71 (23.36%) Snowflake
4 67 (22.04%) dbt
5 34 (11.18%) GCP
6 26 (8.55%) Serverless
7 21 (6.91%) Amazon S3
8 20 (6.58%) OpenShift
9 17 (5.59%) Azure Monitor
10 15 (4.93%) Power Platform
11 13 (4.28%) Azure Data Factory
11 13 (4.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 12 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (3.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 9 (2.96%) Amazon EC2
14 9 (2.96%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
15 8 (2.63%) GitHub
16 7 (2.30%) Amazon EMR
17 6 (1.97%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.62%) DNS
2 10 (3.29%) Kerberos
3 8 (2.63%) Firewall
4 7 (2.30%) SSL
5 5 (1.64%) HTTP
5 5 (1.64%) SMTP
6 4 (1.32%) SSH
7 3 (0.99%) DHCP
8 1 (0.33%) FTP
8 1 (0.33%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.33%) LAN
8 1 (0.33%) Network Security
8 1 (0.33%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.33%) Telnet
8 1 (0.33%) VPN
8 1 (0.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (22.04%) Data Lake
2 61 (20.07%) Big Data
3 53 (17.43%) Amazon Athena
3 53 (17.43%) Apache Iceberg
4 48 (15.79%) Apache Ignite
5 47 (15.46%) Apache Arrow
5 47 (15.46%) Dremio
5 47 (15.46%) Hadoop
6 37 (12.17%) Data Warehouse
7 30 (9.87%) SQL Server
8 27 (8.88%) Apache Hive
8 27 (8.88%) Delta Lake
9 21 (6.91%) Amazon Redshift
10 19 (6.25%) NoSQL
11 18 (5.92%) Elasticsearch
12 15 (4.93%) BigQuery
12 15 (4.93%) Metadata
12 15 (4.93%) Power BI
13 14 (4.61%) Oracle Database
13 14 (4.61%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 56 (18.42%) Git
2 39 (12.83%) Jenkins
3 30 (9.87%) JIRA
4 16 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
5 11 (3.62%) Bitbucket Server
5 11 (3.62%) CA Release Automation
6 7 (2.30%) GitLab
7 6 (1.97%) JUnit
7 6 (1.97%) Subversion
8 4 (1.32%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.32%) ER Studio
8 4 (1.32%) ERwin
8 4 (1.32%) MLflow
8 4 (1.32%) Mockito
8 4 (1.32%) MSI
8 4 (1.32%) Robot Framework
8 4 (1.32%) RStudio
9 3 (0.99%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.99%) Gerrit
9 3 (0.99%) Vagrant
General
1 85 (27.96%) Finance
2 70 (23.03%) Social Skills
3 57 (18.75%) Banking
4 50 (16.45%) Investment Banking
5 49 (16.12%) Front Office
6 28 (9.21%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (5.92%) Public Sector
8 6 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.97%) Legal
9 4 (1.32%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.32%) Law
10 2 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.33%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.33%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.33%) Games
11 1 (0.33%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.33%) Marketing
11 1 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.33%) Publishing
11 1 (0.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 84 (27.63%) Senior
2 64 (21.05%) Data Engineer
3 56 (18.42%) Python Engineer
3 56 (18.42%) Software Engineer
4 55 (18.09%) AWS Engineer
5 52 (17.11%) Senior Software Engineer
6 49 (16.12%) Java Engineer
7 47 (15.46%) AWS Software Engineer
7 47 (15.46%) Java Software Engineer
7 47 (15.46%) Python Software Engineer
7 47 (15.46%) Senior Java Engineer
7 47 (15.46%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 43 (14.14%) Developer
9 23 (7.57%) Architect
10 22 (7.24%) DevOps Engineer
11 18 (5.92%) Java Developer
12 13 (4.28%) Platform Engineer
13 12 (3.95%) Data Architect
14 10 (3.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 10 (3.29%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (18.42%) Pandas
2 52 (17.11%) NumPy
3 48 (15.79%) Kafka
3 48 (15.79%) Protocol Buffers
4 47 (15.46%) gRPC
4 47 (15.46%) SciPy
5 40 (13.16%) Apache NiFi
6 26 (8.55%) OAuth
7 22 (7.24%) PySpark
8 21 (6.91%) REST
9 17 (5.59%) Spark Streaming
10 15 (4.93%) Spring
10 15 (4.93%) YAML
11 14 (4.61%) JSON
11 14 (4.61%) RabbitMQ
12 13 (4.28%) .NET
12 13 (4.28%) React
12 13 (4.28%) RESTful
13 12 (3.95%) OpenID
13 12 (3.95%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 47 (15.46%) Derivative
1 47 (15.46%) Equities
1 47 (15.46%) Fixed Income
1 47 (15.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 47 (15.46%) Hedge funds
1 47 (15.46%) Pricing Data
2 16 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 13 (4.28%) Data Structures
4 12 (3.95%) Distributed Computing
4 12 (3.95%) PKI
5 11 (3.62%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (2.63%) Algorithms
7 7 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (2.30%) Market Risk
8 6 (1.97%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.97%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (1.97%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.64%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.64%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 88 (28.95%) Linux
2 50 (16.45%) Windows
3 30 (9.87%) Unix
4 28 (9.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 23 (7.57%) Windows Server
6 15 (4.93%) CentOS
7 5 (1.64%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.32%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.99%) Debian
10 1 (0.33%) AIX
10 1 (0.33%) Rocky
10 1 (0.33%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (40.46%) Agile
2 93 (30.59%) DevOps
3 92 (30.26%) CI/CD
4 78 (25.66%) Data Pipeline
5 74 (24.34%) Software Engineering
6 68 (22.37%) Analytics
7 63 (20.72%) ETL
8 52 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
9 48 (15.79%) Asset Management
10 47 (15.46%) Investment Management
11 45 (14.80%) Data Modelling
12 41 (13.49%) Data Engineering
13 38 (12.50%) Data Governance
14 33 (10.86%) Continuous Improvement
15 31 (10.20%) Performance Tuning
16 30 (9.87%) Business Intelligence
16 30 (9.87%) Visualisation
17 28 (9.21%) Containerisation
17 28 (9.21%) Data Science
17 28 (9.21%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 174 (57.24%) Python
2 100 (32.89%) Java
3 94 (30.92%) SQL
4 74 (24.34%) JavaScript
5 50 (16.45%) TypeScript
6 29 (9.54%) Scala
7 19 (6.25%) Bash
8 18 (5.92%) Shell Script
9 13 (4.28%) Groovy
10 11 (3.62%) PHP
11 10 (3.29%) C#
11 10 (3.29%) PowerShell
12 9 (2.96%) C++
13 6 (1.97%) Go
14 5 (1.64%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.99%) Perl
16 2 (0.66%) Korn
16 2 (0.66%) R
16 2 (0.66%) SPARQL
16 2 (0.66%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 90 (29.61%) Security Cleared
2 60 (19.74%) SC Cleared
3 38 (12.50%) DV Cleared
4 11 (3.62%) Degree
5 10 (3.29%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.66%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.66%) RHCE
9 1 (0.33%) CCNP
9 1 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.33%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.33%) MCP
9 1 (0.33%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.87%) Data Quality
2 25 (8.22%) QA
3 14 (4.61%) GDPR
4 6 (1.97%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.99%) HIPAA
5 3 (0.99%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.66%) Section 508
6 2 (0.66%) SLA
6 2 (0.66%) WCAG
7 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 44 (14.47%) Docker
2 21 (6.91%) Active Directory
3 14 (4.61%) HDFS
4 13 (4.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (2.63%) Tivoli Directory Server
6 4 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.99%) LXC
8 2 (0.66%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.66%) vCloud
8 2 (0.66%) VirtualBox
8 2 (0.66%) VMware Workstation
8 2 (0.66%) vSphere
9 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.33%) KVM
9 1 (0.33%) NFS
9 1 (0.33%) Samba
Systems Management
1 43 (14.14%) Kubernetes
2 41 (13.49%) Ansible
3 32 (10.53%) Terraform
4 15 (4.93%) Progress Chef
4 15 (4.93%) Prometheus
5 14 (4.61%) Kibana
6 13 (4.28%) Grafana
7 11 (3.62%) CA Single Sign-On
7 11 (3.62%) Puppet
8 10 (3.29%) CA Wily
8 10 (3.29%) Hadoop YARN
9 8 (2.63%) Tivoli
10 5 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.32%) logstash
11 4 (1.32%) Nagios
11 4 (1.32%) WMI
12 3 (0.99%) Oozie
12 3 (0.99%) Salt
13 2 (0.66%) Icinga
13 2 (0.66%) Podman
Vendors
1 47 (15.46%) Oracle
2 39 (12.83%) Databricks
3 37 (12.17%) Microsoft
4 32 (10.53%) Splunk
5 28 (9.21%) AppDynamics
6 24 (7.89%) IBM
7 16 (5.26%) VMware
8 15 (4.93%) Cisco
8 15 (4.93%) Dynatrace
9 14 (4.61%) Google
10 11 (3.62%) Broadcom
10 11 (3.62%) Informatica
10 11 (3.62%) Red Hat
11 10 (3.29%) Cloudera
12 9 (2.96%) Foundry
12 9 (2.96%) Palantir
13 6 (1.97%) Talend
14 5 (1.64%) ServiceNow
15 3 (0.99%) Guidewire
15 3 (0.99%) Rackspace