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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 287 188
Rank change year-on-year -93 -99 +103
Contract jobs citing Apache 321 304 502
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.59% 0.92% 1.30%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.85% 8.54% 12.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 225 421
10th Percentile £350 £368 £419
25th Percentile £407 £463 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £550 £750
Median % change year-on-year -7.45% -26.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £615 £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 4,683 3,558 4,169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.58% 10.81% 10.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,049 2,304 2,738
10th Percentile £285 £275 £263
25th Percentile £402 £384 £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 £703 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £464
% change year-on-year +2.78% -2.96% -2.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 91 85
10th Percentile £14.89 £17.33 £17.45
25th Percentile £16.60 £24.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.50 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.45% -7.79% -26.67%
75th Percentile £61.57 £65.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £84.72 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £48.56
% change year-on-year -7.14% -27.92% +5.15%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -111 272 £513 -6.82% 352
London -75 165 £550 -15.38% 239
UK excluding London -101 124 £425 -15.00% 165
Work from Home -77 99 £500 -33.33% 122
North of England -55 50 £413 -8.33% 37
North East -15 29 £385 -30.00% 5
Scotland -14 24 £409 -18.20% 33
South West -27 22 £460 -10.68% 34
South East -61 12 £450 -25.00% 35
North West -64 12 £530 +35.90% 20
Midlands -66 12 £425 -18.27% 9
West Midlands -62 10 £425 -20.41% 4
Yorkshire -45 9 £469 -1.32% 12
East of England -32 3 £456 -17.05% 8
Wales -10 2 £475 - 2
East Midlands -20 1 £495 +17.86% 5

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
1 174 (54.21%) Apache Spark
2 160 (49.84%) Apache Airflow
3 37 (11.53%) Jupyter
4 18 (5.61%) nginx
5 13 (4.05%) Confluence
6 9 (2.80%) Tomcat
7 7 (2.18%) Apache Superset
8 6 (1.87%) IIS
9 5 (1.56%) CloudStack
9 5 (1.56%) WebSphere
10 4 (1.25%) SharePoint
10 4 (1.25%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.93%) JBoss
12 1 (0.31%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.31%) CMS
12 1 (0.31%) Luigi
12 1 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.31%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.62%) 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
1 191 (59.50%) AWS
2 108 (33.64%) Azure
3 85 (26.48%) GCP
4 66 (20.56%) Amazon S3
5 55 (17.13%) dbt
6 40 (12.46%) Snowflake
7 39 (12.15%) Serverless
8 34 (10.59%) Amazon EMR
8 34 (10.59%) AWS Lambda
9 29 (9.03%) Azure DevOps
10 28 (8.72%) Azure Data Factory
11 25 (7.79%) Power Platform
12 21 (6.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 20 (6.23%) Amazon EC2
13 20 (6.23%) GitHub
14 13 (4.05%) Azure Databricks
15 12 (3.74%) Amazon ECS
15 12 (3.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 12 (3.74%) Cloud Composer
15 12 (3.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.98%) DNS
2 12 (3.74%) Firewall
3 5 (1.56%) DHCP
3 5 (1.56%) NAS
3 5 (1.56%) SAN
3 5 (1.56%) SSL
4 3 (0.93%) HTTP
4 3 (0.93%) HTTPS
4 3 (0.93%) Network Security
4 3 (0.93%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (0.93%) Structured Cabling
5 2 (0.62%) BIG-IP
5 2 (0.62%) VLAN
5 2 (0.62%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.31%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (21.81%) Data Warehouse
2 49 (15.26%) Data Lake
3 44 (13.71%) BigQuery
4 41 (12.77%) Big Data
5 38 (11.84%) Delta Lake
6 36 (11.21%) Flink
7 31 (9.66%) Amazon Athena
7 31 (9.66%) Metadata
8 28 (8.72%) PostgreSQL
9 24 (7.48%) Power BI
10 23 (7.17%) Amazon Redshift
11 22 (6.85%) SQL Server
12 19 (5.92%) Apache Iceberg
13 18 (5.61%) Relational Database
14 17 (5.30%) Elasticsearch
14 17 (5.30%) Hadoop
15 15 (4.67%) NoSQL
16 12 (3.74%) DynamoDB
16 12 (3.74%) Tableau
17 11 (3.43%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 58 (18.07%) GitLab
2 49 (15.26%) Git
3 19 (5.92%) JIRA
4 18 (5.61%) Jenkins
5 9 (2.80%) SonarQube
6 7 (2.18%) Maven
7 6 (1.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (1.56%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.25%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.25%) Gradle
9 4 (1.25%) MLflow
10 3 (0.93%) Selenium
11 2 (0.62%) JMeter
11 2 (0.62%) RStudio
11 2 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.62%) Terragrunt
12 1 (0.31%) minitest
12 1 (0.31%) Newman
12 1 (0.31%) Postman
12 1 (0.31%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 80 (24.92%) Social Skills
2 72 (22.43%) Finance
3 49 (15.26%) Public Sector
4 42 (13.08%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (9.35%) Banking
6 8 (2.49%) Publishing
7 7 (2.18%) Financial Institution
7 7 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.18%) Marketing
8 6 (1.87%) Military
9 5 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.25%) Billing
11 3 (0.93%) Law
11 3 (0.93%) Legal
12 2 (0.62%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.62%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.62%) Retail
13 1 (0.31%) Dutch Language
13 1 (0.31%) French Language
Job Titles
1 131 (40.81%) Data Engineer
2 58 (18.07%) Senior
3 45 (14.02%) Architect
4 42 (13.08%) Developer
5 35 (10.90%) Senior Data Engineer
6 28 (8.72%) DevOps Engineer
7 24 (7.48%) Lead
8 22 (6.85%) Data Architect
9 20 (6.23%) Java Developer
10 19 (5.92%) Databricks Engineer
11 15 (4.67%) Python Engineer
12 14 (4.36%) Databricks Data Engineer
13 12 (3.74%) Cloud Engineer
13 12 (3.74%) Python Data Engineer
14 10 (3.12%) Software Engineer
15 9 (2.80%) AWS Engineer
15 9 (2.80%) Lead Data Engineer
15 9 (2.80%) Senior Developer
15 9 (2.80%) Technical Leader
16 8 (2.49%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (30.22%) Terraform
2 84 (26.17%) PySpark
3 67 (20.87%) Kafka
4 30 (9.35%) REST
5 26 (8.10%) Spring
6 25 (7.79%) Spring Boot
7 17 (5.30%) Apache Beam
8 16 (4.98%) JSON
9 15 (4.67%) Apache NiFi
10 13 (4.05%) SOAP
11 11 (3.43%) Pandas
12 9 (2.80%) Spark Streaming
13 8 (2.49%) Elastic Stack
13 8 (2.49%) YAML
14 7 (2.18%) OAuth
15 6 (1.87%) AngularJS
15 6 (1.87%) Apache Avro
15 6 (1.87%) Middleware
15 6 (1.87%) NumPy
15 6 (1.87%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 50 (15.58%) Cloud Native
2 23 (7.17%) Product Ownership
3 16 (4.98%) Data Structures
4 15 (4.67%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (3.74%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (3.74%) Onboarding
6 11 (3.43%) Management Information System
7 9 (2.80%) Data Fabric
7 9 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (2.49%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.87%) 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%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (0.93%) PKI
12 3 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 44 (13.71%) Linux
2 17 (5.30%) Windows
3 15 (4.67%) Ubuntu
4 9 (2.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.18%) Unix
6 6 (1.87%) Windows Server
7 5 (1.56%) Windows 10
8 4 (1.25%) CentOS
9 3 (0.93%) Rocky
10 2 (0.62%) Debian
10 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.31%) Solaris
11 1 (0.31%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (51.09%) CI/CD
2 141 (43.93%) Data Pipeline
3 136 (42.37%) Data Engineering
4 114 (35.51%) Analytics
5 113 (35.20%) DevOps
6 109 (33.96%) ETL
7 100 (31.15%) Agile
8 97 (30.22%) Data Modelling
9 84 (26.17%) Infrastructure as Code
10 76 (23.68%) AI
11 74 (23.05%) Containerisation
12 62 (19.31%) Data Governance
13 56 (17.45%) Migration
14 54 (16.82%) Machine Learning
15 49 (15.26%) Lakehouse
16 41 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
16 41 (12.77%) Stakeholder Management
17 40 (12.46%) Data Transformation
17 40 (12.46%) Technical Leadership
17 40 (12.46%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 222 (69.16%) Python
2 167 (52.02%) SQL
3 67 (20.87%) Java
4 29 (9.03%) Scala
5 24 (7.48%) Bash
6 22 (6.85%) PowerShell
7 15 (4.67%) Shell Script
8 9 (2.80%) TypeScript
9 8 (2.49%) Go
10 7 (2.18%) JavaScript
10 7 (2.18%) PL/SQL
11 5 (1.56%) Groovy
11 5 (1.56%) R
12 4 (1.25%) Bicep
12 4 (1.25%) Perl
12 4 (1.25%) Ruby
13 3 (0.93%) Cypher
13 3 (0.93%) Gremlin
13 3 (0.93%) SPARQL
14 2 (0.62%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 100 (31.15%) Security Cleared
2 84 (26.17%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.92%) Degree
4 15 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (4.67%) DV Cleared
5 13 (4.05%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.18%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.56%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.93%) CCNP
8 3 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.93%) CSPO
8 3 (0.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.62%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.62%) 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 86 (26.79%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.05%) QA
3 12 (3.74%) GDPR
4 9 (2.80%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.25%) Government Security Classifications
6 3 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.93%) NCSC
7 2 (0.62%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.62%) SLA
7 2 (0.62%) WCAG
8 1 (0.31%) NIST
8 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 100 (31.15%) Docker
2 13 (4.05%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.18%) 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 (0.93%) Dovecot
6 3 (0.93%) Sendmail
6 3 (0.93%) vSphere
7 2 (0.62%) Ceph
7 2 (0.62%) KVM
7 2 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 81 (25.23%) Kubernetes
2 25 (7.79%) Ansible
3 16 (4.98%) Grafana
4 11 (3.43%) Prometheus
5 9 (2.80%) HAProxy
6 5 (1.56%) Packer
6 5 (1.56%) Puppet
6 5 (1.56%) vCenter Server
7 4 (1.25%) Kibana
8 3 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.93%) Check_MK
8 3 (0.93%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.93%) SELinux
9 2 (0.62%) Control-M
9 2 (0.62%) systemd
10 1 (0.31%) Apache Ranger
10 1 (0.31%) logstash
10 1 (0.31%) Podman
10 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 83 (25.86%) Databricks
2 38 (11.84%) Microsoft
3 37 (11.53%) Google
4 17 (5.30%) Trend Micro
5 13 (4.05%) Oracle
6 10 (3.12%) Red Hat
6 10 (3.12%) VMware
7 9 (2.80%) Informatica
7 9 (2.80%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.18%) Cisco
8 7 (2.18%) Splunk
9 6 (1.87%) Guidewire
10 5 (1.56%) IBM
10 5 (1.56%) New Relic
10 5 (1.56%) Talend
10 5 (1.56%) Tanium
11 4 (1.25%) Cloudera
11 4 (1.25%) Teradata
12 3 (0.93%) Fortinet
12 3 (0.93%) webMethods