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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 281 192
Rank change year-on-year -98 -89 +105
Contract jobs citing Apache 320 309 503
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.59% 0.94% 1.32%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.85% 8.61% 12.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 227 423
10th Percentile £360 £370 £419
25th Percentile £409 £458 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £750
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -26.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £618 £738 £850
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 9 1 8
10th Percentile £64.85 - £43.40
25th Percentile - - £60.31
Median hourly rate £67.47 £80.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.66% +8.11% -5.13%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £74.44
90th Percentile £83.94 - £74.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £80.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year -15.66% +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 4,669 3,587 4,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.60% 10.89% 10.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,054 2,321 2,720
10th Percentile £282 £277 £266
25th Percentile £402 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -7.62% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £680 £713 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +2.22% -2.70% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 92 86
10th Percentile £14.96 £17.40 £17.08
25th Percentile £16.80 £24.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £32.50 £36.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.96% -3.95% -27.62%
75th Percentile £62.34 £65.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £38.03 £48.56
% change year-on-year -14.54% -21.68% +5.36%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -129 271 £513 -6.82% 413
London -86 163 £550 -16.67% 285
UK excluding London -95 127 £425 -15.00% 191
Work from Home -65 99 £500 -33.33% 149
North of England -65 50 £413 -7.92% 39
North East -11 29 £385 -30.00% 6
Scotland -14 24 £409 -18.20% 40
South West -36 24 £450 -12.62% 37
Midlands -57 13 £460 -11.54% 11
North West -60 12 £530 +47.22% 26
South East -68 12 £450 -25.00% 43
West Midlands -64 11 £478 -10.58% 5
Yorkshire -46 9 £469 -1.32% 7
East of England -27 3 £456 -17.05% 10
Wales -12 2 £475 - 2
East Midlands -12 1 £495 +17.86% 6

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
1 172 (53.75%) Apache Spark
2 158 (49.38%) Apache Airflow
3 35 (10.94%) Jupyter
4 17 (5.31%) nginx
5 13 (4.06%) Confluence
6 8 (2.50%) Apache Superset
6 8 (2.50%) Tomcat
7 6 (1.88%) IIS
8 5 (1.56%) CloudStack
9 4 (1.25%) SharePoint
9 4 (1.25%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.94%) JBoss
10 3 (0.94%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.31%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.31%) CMS
11 1 (0.31%) Luigi
11 1 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.31%) SAS
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
1 190 (59.38%) AWS
2 109 (34.06%) Azure
3 86 (26.88%) GCP
4 63 (19.69%) Amazon S3
5 55 (17.19%) dbt
6 40 (12.50%) Snowflake
7 39 (12.19%) Serverless
8 34 (10.63%) AWS Lambda
9 31 (9.69%) Amazon EMR
10 28 (8.75%) Azure Data Factory
10 28 (8.75%) Azure DevOps
11 26 (8.13%) Power Platform
12 21 (6.56%) GitHub
13 19 (5.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 18 (5.63%) Amazon EC2
15 12 (3.75%) Amazon ECS
15 12 (3.75%) Azure Databricks
15 12 (3.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 12 (3.75%) Cloud Composer
16 11 (3.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.00%) DNS
2 12 (3.75%) Firewall
3 5 (1.56%) DHCP
3 5 (1.56%) NAS
3 5 (1.56%) SAN
3 5 (1.56%) SSL
4 3 (0.94%) HTTP
4 3 (0.94%) HTTPS
4 3 (0.94%) Network Security
4 3 (0.94%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (0.94%) Structured Cabling
5 2 (0.63%) BIG-IP
5 2 (0.63%) VLAN
5 2 (0.63%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.31%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (21.88%) Data Warehouse
2 48 (15.00%) Data Lake
3 44 (13.75%) BigQuery
4 41 (12.81%) Big Data
5 40 (12.50%) Delta Lake
6 36 (11.25%) Flink
7 31 (9.69%) Metadata
8 30 (9.38%) Amazon Athena
9 27 (8.44%) PostgreSQL
10 25 (7.81%) Power BI
11 23 (7.19%) Amazon Redshift
12 22 (6.88%) SQL Server
13 20 (6.25%) Apache Iceberg
14 18 (5.63%) Relational Database
15 17 (5.31%) Elasticsearch
15 17 (5.31%) Hadoop
16 15 (4.69%) NoSQL
17 13 (4.06%) Tableau
18 11 (3.44%) DynamoDB
18 11 (3.44%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 58 (18.13%) GitLab
2 49 (15.31%) Git
3 19 (5.94%) JIRA
4 17 (5.31%) Jenkins
5 9 (2.81%) SonarQube
6 7 (2.19%) Maven
7 6 (1.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (1.56%) Artifactory
8 5 (1.56%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.25%) Gradle
9 4 (1.25%) MLflow
10 2 (0.63%) JMeter
10 2 (0.63%) RStudio
10 2 (0.63%) Selenium
10 2 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.63%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.31%) Ant
11 1 (0.31%) minitest
11 1 (0.31%) Newman
11 1 (0.31%) Postman
General
1 78 (24.38%) Social Skills
2 72 (22.50%) Finance
3 48 (15.00%) Public Sector
4 42 (13.13%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (9.38%) Banking
6 8 (2.50%) Publishing
7 7 (2.19%) Financial Institution
7 7 (2.19%) Marketing
8 6 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.88%) Military
9 5 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.25%) Billing
11 3 (0.94%) Law
11 3 (0.94%) Legal
12 2 (0.63%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.63%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.63%) Retail
13 1 (0.31%) Dutch Language
13 1 (0.31%) French Language
Job Titles
1 130 (40.63%) Data Engineer
2 58 (18.13%) Senior
3 45 (14.06%) Architect
4 41 (12.81%) Developer
5 35 (10.94%) Senior Data Engineer
6 28 (8.75%) DevOps Engineer
7 24 (7.50%) Lead
8 22 (6.88%) Data Architect
9 19 (5.94%) Databricks Engineer
9 19 (5.94%) Java Developer
10 14 (4.38%) Databricks Data Engineer
10 14 (4.38%) Python Engineer
11 12 (3.75%) Cloud Engineer
12 11 (3.44%) Python Data Engineer
12 11 (3.44%) Software Engineer
13 9 (2.81%) AWS Engineer
13 9 (2.81%) Lead Data Engineer
13 9 (2.81%) Senior Developer
13 9 (2.81%) Technical Leader
14 8 (2.50%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (30.00%) Terraform
2 82 (25.63%) PySpark
3 67 (20.94%) Kafka
4 31 (9.69%) REST
5 25 (7.81%) Spring
5 25 (7.81%) Spring Boot
6 17 (5.31%) Apache Beam
7 16 (5.00%) Apache NiFi
7 16 (5.00%) JSON
8 13 (4.06%) SOAP
9 10 (3.13%) Pandas
10 9 (2.81%) Spark Streaming
11 8 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (2.50%) YAML
12 7 (2.19%) OAuth
13 6 (1.88%) AngularJS
13 6 (1.88%) Apache Avro
13 6 (1.88%) XML
14 5 (1.56%) Middleware
14 5 (1.56%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 51 (15.94%) Cloud Native
2 24 (7.50%) Product Ownership
3 16 (5.00%) Data Structures
4 14 (4.38%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (3.75%) Onboarding
6 11 (3.44%) Management Information System
7 9 (2.81%) Data Fabric
7 9 (2.81%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (2.50%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.88%) Clustering
10 5 (1.56%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.56%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.56%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.56%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (1.56%) Replication
11 4 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.25%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (0.94%) PKI
12 3 (0.94%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 46 (14.38%) Linux
2 18 (5.63%) Windows
3 16 (5.00%) Ubuntu
4 11 (3.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.19%) Unix
6 6 (1.88%) Windows Server
7 5 (1.56%) Windows 10
8 4 (1.25%) CentOS
8 4 (1.25%) Rocky
9 3 (0.94%) Debian
10 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.31%) Solaris
11 1 (0.31%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (50.94%) CI/CD
2 139 (43.44%) Data Pipeline
3 134 (41.88%) Data Engineering
4 113 (35.31%) Analytics
5 111 (34.69%) DevOps
6 107 (33.44%) ETL
7 98 (30.63%) Agile
8 96 (30.00%) Data Modelling
9 83 (25.94%) Infrastructure as Code
10 75 (23.44%) AI
10 75 (23.44%) Containerisation
11 62 (19.38%) Data Governance
12 55 (17.19%) Migration
13 54 (16.88%) Machine Learning
14 50 (15.63%) Lakehouse
15 42 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
15 42 (13.13%) Workflow
16 40 (12.50%) Data Transformation
16 40 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
17 39 (12.19%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 223 (69.69%) Python
2 166 (51.88%) SQL
3 66 (20.63%) Java
4 29 (9.06%) Scala
5 24 (7.50%) Bash
6 23 (7.19%) PowerShell
7 15 (4.69%) Shell Script
8 9 (2.81%) Go
8 9 (2.81%) TypeScript
9 8 (2.50%) JavaScript
10 7 (2.19%) PL/SQL
11 6 (1.88%) R
12 5 (1.56%) Groovy
13 4 (1.25%) Bicep
13 4 (1.25%) Perl
13 4 (1.25%) Ruby
14 3 (0.94%) Cypher
14 3 (0.94%) Gremlin
14 3 (0.94%) SPARQL
15 2 (0.63%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 100 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 83 (25.94%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.25%) Degree
4 16 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (5.00%) DV Cleared
5 13 (4.06%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.19%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.56%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.94%) CCNP
8 3 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.94%) CSPO
8 3 (0.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.63%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.31%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.31%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.31%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (26.56%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.06%) QA
3 12 (3.75%) GDPR
4 9 (2.81%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.25%) Government Security Classifications
6 3 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.94%) NCSC
7 2 (0.63%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.63%) SLA
7 2 (0.63%) WCAG
8 1 (0.31%) NIST
8 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 100 (31.25%) Docker
2 13 (4.06%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.19%) Postfix
4 5 (1.56%) NFS
4 5 (1.56%) Varnish
4 5 (1.56%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.94%) Dovecot
6 3 (0.94%) Sendmail
6 3 (0.94%) vSphere
7 2 (0.63%) Ceph
7 2 (0.63%) KVM
7 2 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 83 (25.94%) Kubernetes
2 26 (8.13%) Ansible
3 15 (4.69%) Grafana
4 11 (3.44%) Prometheus
5 9 (2.81%) HAProxy
6 5 (1.56%) Packer
6 5 (1.56%) Puppet
6 5 (1.56%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.94%) Check_MK
7 3 (0.94%) Kibana
7 3 (0.94%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.94%) SELinux
8 2 (0.63%) Control-M
8 2 (0.63%) systemd
9 1 (0.31%) Apache Ranger
9 1 (0.31%) logstash
9 1 (0.31%) Podman
9 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 83 (25.94%) Databricks
2 38 (11.88%) Microsoft
3 37 (11.56%) Google
4 17 (5.31%) Trend Micro
5 13 (4.06%) Oracle
6 11 (3.44%) Red Hat
7 10 (3.13%) VMware
8 9 (2.81%) Informatica
8 9 (2.81%) ServiceNow
9 7 (2.19%) Cisco
9 7 (2.19%) Splunk
10 6 (1.88%) Guidewire
11 5 (1.56%) New Relic
11 5 (1.56%) Talend
11 5 (1.56%) Tanium
12 4 (1.25%) Cloudera
12 4 (1.25%) IBM
12 4 (1.25%) Teradata
13 3 (0.94%) Juniper
13 3 (0.94%) SAP