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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 370 270 189
Rank change year-on-year -100 -81 +112
Contract jobs citing Apache 319 323 524
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.60% 0.99% 1.35%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.91% 8.93% 12.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 232 445
10th Percentile £363 £375 £422
25th Percentile £413 £463 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £557 £750
Median % change year-on-year -8.03% -25.70% +25.00%
75th Percentile £600 £825 £875
90th Percentile £677 - £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £506 £475
% change year-on-year -11.07% +6.53% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 10
10th Percentile £62.00 £38.21 £45.30
25th Percentile £66.99 £64.24 £58.25
Median hourly rate £67.47 £79.35 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.97% +7.23% -5.13%
75th Percentile £74.38 £80.74 £74.44
90th Percentile £83.62 £82.07 £75.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £79.35 £74.00
% change year-on-year -14.97% +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 4,617 3,617 4,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.62% 11.03% 10.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,033 2,362 2,827
10th Percentile £300 £278 £275
25th Percentile £404 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £520
Median % change year-on-year +4.28% -7.79% +1.46%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £680 £720 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £450 £470
% change year-on-year +2.22% -4.26% -1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 91 104
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.33 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.90 £25.08 £21.19
Median hourly rate £32.50 £41.45 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.59% +26.56% -35.15%
75th Percentile £56.63 £65.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £74.08 £77.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £44.64 £45.00
% change year-on-year -27.19% -0.81% +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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -132 269 £500 -13.04% 71
London -93 160 £550 -21.43% 28
UK excluding London -93 125 £450 -11.07% 60
Work from Home -81 99 £500 -33.33% 25
North of England -57 56 £425 +8.28% 16
North East -8 29 £385 -30.00% 3
Scotland -7 23 £525 +5.00% 4
South West -44 19 £450 -9.09% 15
North West -45 19 £530 +48.04% 9
Midlands -61 12 £460 -14.10% 2
South East -70 12 £460 -23.33% 22
West Midlands -63 9 £425 -21.08% 2
Yorkshire -47 8 £475 -2.56% 4
Wales -17 2 £475 - 1
East Midlands -19 2 £548 +31.93%
East of England -20 2 £400 -27.27% 2

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 (55.49%) Apache Spark
2 137 (42.95%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (10.34%) Jupyter
4 17 (5.33%) Tomcat
5 15 (4.70%) nginx
6 13 (4.08%) WebSphere
7 10 (3.13%) Confluence
8 8 (2.51%) Apache Geronimo
8 8 (2.51%) Apache ServiceMix
8 8 (2.51%) Apache Superset
8 8 (2.51%) Red Hat Fuse
9 7 (2.19%) IIS
10 5 (1.57%) CloudStack
10 5 (1.57%) SharePoint
11 4 (1.25%) JBoss
12 3 (0.94%) WebLogic
13 1 (0.31%) CMS
13 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
13 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (0.63%) 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
1 175 (54.86%) AWS
2 115 (36.05%) Azure
3 81 (25.39%) GCP
4 50 (15.67%) Amazon S3
5 43 (13.48%) dbt
6 34 (10.66%) Azure DevOps
6 34 (10.66%) Snowflake
7 32 (10.03%) Serverless
8 30 (9.40%) Amazon EMR
8 30 (9.40%) Azure Data Factory
9 28 (8.78%) AWS Lambda
9 28 (8.78%) Power Platform
10 23 (7.21%) GitHub
11 16 (5.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 16 (5.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 14 (4.39%) GitHub Actions
13 12 (3.76%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (3.13%) IaaS
15 9 (2.82%) Amazon SQS
15 9 (2.82%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.96%) DNS
2 15 (4.70%) Firewall
3 6 (1.88%) SAN
4 5 (1.57%) DHCP
4 5 (1.57%) NAS
5 3 (0.94%) HTTP
5 3 (0.94%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.94%) Network Security
5 3 (0.94%) SSL
5 3 (0.94%) Structured Cabling
5 3 (0.94%) VLAN
6 2 (0.63%) BIG-IP
6 2 (0.63%) FTP
6 2 (0.63%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.63%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.31%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.31%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.31%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (18.50%) Data Warehouse
2 47 (14.73%) Data Lake
3 41 (12.85%) Delta Lake
4 40 (12.54%) BigQuery
5 39 (12.23%) Big Data
6 35 (10.97%) Flink
7 32 (10.03%) Amazon Athena
8 27 (8.46%) Power BI
9 25 (7.84%) Metadata
10 23 (7.21%) Amazon Redshift
11 21 (6.58%) SQL Server
12 20 (6.27%) PostgreSQL
13 18 (5.64%) Apache Iceberg
13 18 (5.64%) Relational Database
14 17 (5.33%) NoSQL
15 16 (5.02%) Hadoop
16 15 (4.70%) Elasticsearch
17 12 (3.76%) Tableau
18 10 (3.13%) MongoDB
18 10 (3.13%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 52 (16.30%) GitLab
2 46 (14.42%) Git
3 21 (6.58%) JIRA
4 14 (4.39%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.51%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.88%) Maven
7 5 (1.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (1.57%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.57%) MLflow
8 4 (1.25%) Gradle
9 3 (0.94%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.63%) JMeter
10 2 (0.63%) Selenium
10 2 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.31%) minitest
11 1 (0.31%) Newman
11 1 (0.31%) PHPUnit
11 1 (0.31%) Postman
11 1 (0.31%) RSpec
11 1 (0.31%) Terragrunt
General
1 72 (22.57%) Finance
2 70 (21.94%) Social Skills
3 47 (14.73%) Public Sector
4 36 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (7.84%) Banking
6 7 (2.19%) Financial Institution
7 6 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (1.88%) Marketing
7 6 (1.88%) Publishing
8 5 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.25%) Billing
10 3 (0.94%) Law
10 3 (0.94%) Legal
10 3 (0.94%) Military
11 2 (0.63%) Front Office
11 2 (0.63%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.31%) Dutch Language
12 1 (0.31%) French Language
Job Titles
1 121 (37.93%) Data Engineer
2 59 (18.50%) Senior
3 45 (14.11%) Architect
4 43 (13.48%) Developer
5 34 (10.66%) Senior Data Engineer
6 25 (7.84%) Lead
7 23 (7.21%) DevOps Engineer
8 21 (6.58%) Java Developer
9 19 (5.96%) Data Architect
10 13 (4.08%) Python Engineer
11 12 (3.76%) Lead Data Engineer
12 10 (3.13%) AWS Engineer
12 10 (3.13%) Cloud Engineer
12 10 (3.13%) Python Data Engineer
12 10 (3.13%) Software Engineer
13 9 (2.82%) Senior Developer
14 8 (2.51%) Analyst
14 8 (2.51%) Python Developer
14 8 (2.51%) Solutions Architect
14 8 (2.51%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (28.84%) Terraform
2 74 (23.20%) PySpark
3 69 (21.63%) Kafka
4 26 (8.15%) Spring
5 25 (7.84%) REST
5 25 (7.84%) Spring Boot
6 19 (5.96%) JSON
7 16 (5.02%) Apache Beam
8 13 (4.08%) Middleware
9 10 (3.13%) Apache NiFi
10 9 (2.82%) YAML
11 8 (2.51%) Apache Axis
11 8 (2.51%) Apache Camel
11 8 (2.51%) AWS CDK
11 8 (2.51%) OAuth
11 8 (2.51%) SOAP
11 8 (2.51%) Spark Streaming
12 7 (2.19%) Pandas
13 6 (1.88%) Apache Avro
13 6 (1.88%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 49 (15.36%) Cloud Native
2 22 (6.90%) Product Ownership
3 15 (4.70%) Legacy Systems
4 14 (4.39%) Data Structures
5 13 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (3.76%) Management Information System
7 10 (3.13%) Public Cloud
8 9 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (2.82%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.88%) Data Fabric
10 5 (1.57%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.57%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.57%) Replication
10 5 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.25%) Clustering
11 4 (1.25%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (1.25%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (1.25%) PKI
12 3 (0.94%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 51 (15.99%) Linux
2 16 (5.02%) Ubuntu
2 16 (5.02%) Windows
3 13 (4.08%) Unix
4 11 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.57%) CentOS
5 5 (1.57%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.57%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.25%) Rocky
7 3 (0.94%) Debian
8 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.31%) Solaris
9 1 (0.31%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (48.59%) CI/CD
2 135 (42.32%) Data Pipeline
3 122 (38.24%) Data Engineering
4 112 (35.11%) Analytics
5 111 (34.80%) DevOps
6 96 (30.09%) Data Modelling
6 96 (30.09%) ETL
7 95 (29.78%) Agile
8 76 (23.82%) Infrastructure as Code
9 74 (23.20%) Containerisation
10 63 (19.75%) AI
11 56 (17.55%) Data Governance
12 47 (14.73%) Machine Learning
12 47 (14.73%) Migration
13 41 (12.85%) Business Intelligence
14 40 (12.54%) Data Architecture
15 38 (11.91%) Data Transformation
16 37 (11.60%) Problem-Solving
16 37 (11.60%) Software Engineering
16 37 (11.60%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 217 (68.03%) Python
2 173 (54.23%) SQL
3 78 (24.45%) Java
4 27 (8.46%) Scala
5 24 (7.52%) Bash
6 22 (6.90%) PowerShell
7 20 (6.27%) Shell Script
8 10 (3.13%) R
8 10 (3.13%) TypeScript
9 9 (2.82%) Go
10 7 (2.19%) PL/SQL
11 6 (1.88%) Perl
12 5 (1.57%) C#
12 5 (1.57%) Ruby
13 4 (1.25%) Bicep
13 4 (1.25%) Groovy
13 4 (1.25%) JavaScript
14 3 (0.94%) Cypher
14 3 (0.94%) Gremlin
14 3 (0.94%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 96 (30.09%) Security Cleared
2 86 (26.96%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.96%) Degree
4 15 (4.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.82%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.88%) AWS Certification
6 6 (1.88%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.57%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.94%) CCNP
9 3 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.94%) CSPO
9 3 (0.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.63%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.63%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.31%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.31%) PMP
11 1 (0.31%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (25.08%) Data Quality
2 16 (5.02%) GDPR
3 11 (3.45%) QA
4 7 (2.19%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (1.25%) Government Security Classifications
7 3 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.63%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.63%) SLA
8 2 (0.63%) WCAG
9 1 (0.31%) NIST
System Software
1 101 (31.66%) Docker
2 14 (4.39%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.82%) Postfix
4 8 (2.51%) NFS
5 7 (2.19%) Varnish
6 5 (1.57%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.25%) Sendmail
7 4 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
8 3 (0.94%) Dovecot
8 3 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.94%) vSphere
9 2 (0.63%) Ceph
9 2 (0.63%) KVM
9 2 (0.63%) Samba
10 1 (0.31%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.31%) iptables
Systems Management
1 81 (25.39%) Kubernetes
2 24 (7.52%) Ansible
3 12 (3.76%) Grafana
4 9 (2.82%) HAProxy
5 8 (2.51%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.57%) Packer
6 5 (1.57%) vCenter Server
7 4 (1.25%) Puppet
7 4 (1.25%) SELinux
8 3 (0.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.94%) Apache Ranger
8 3 (0.94%) Check_MK
8 3 (0.94%) Kibana
8 3 (0.94%) systemd
9 2 (0.63%) Control-M
9 2 (0.63%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.31%) logstash
10 1 (0.31%) Rundeck
10 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.31%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 79 (24.76%) Databricks
2 37 (11.60%) Microsoft
3 33 (10.34%) Google
4 17 (5.33%) Oracle
4 17 (5.33%) Trend Micro
5 11 (3.45%) Red Hat
6 10 (3.13%) Cloudera
6 10 (3.13%) Informatica
6 10 (3.13%) VMware
7 9 (2.82%) TIBCO
8 8 (2.51%) ServiceNow
8 8 (2.51%) Splunk
9 7 (2.19%) Cisco
10 6 (1.88%) Guidewire
11 5 (1.57%) Confluent
11 5 (1.57%) IBM
11 5 (1.57%) New Relic
11 5 (1.57%) Tanium
12 4 (1.25%) Hortonworks
12 4 (1.25%) Talend