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 8 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 249 282
Rank change year-on-year -95 +33 +5
Contract jobs citing Apache 301 307 349
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.66% 1.05% 0.80%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.05% 9.12% 8.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 231 282
10th Percentile £400 £405 £350
25th Percentile £456 £466 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £575
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +17.39% -4.17%
75th Percentile £600 £838 £788
90th Percentile £685 £875 £875
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £488
% change year-on-year +5.00% +2.56% -13.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 10
10th Percentile £62.20 £32.42 £21.97
25th Percentile £64.00 £49.78 £23.44
Median hourly rate £72.00 £78.70 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.51% +72.97% -41.67%
75th Percentile £82.25 £80.83 £64.44
90th Percentile £88.40 £82.11 £74.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.00 £78.70 £52.50
% change year-on-year -8.51% +49.90% -32.69%

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 4,271 3,367 4,206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.34% 11.52% 9.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,949 2,249 2,863
10th Percentile £305 £268 £250
25th Percentile £404 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% -3.41%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £600
90th Percentile £688 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £452 £450
% change year-on-year +5.20% +0.33% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 78 170
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.58 £13.50
25th Percentile £19.00 £23.85 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £42.50 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +47.83% +15.00%
75th Percentile £73.44 £64.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £81.10 £75.75 £68.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.00 £52.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -21.90% +118.75% +9.09%

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 8 April 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 8 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Apache in the UK

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 8 April 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 -131 238 £525 -22.22% 88
UK excluding London -50 135 £525 +5.00% 55
London -111 134 £555 -26.00% 50
Work from Home -87 73 £525 -30.00% 42
Scotland +39 37 £525 +13.51% 4
North of England -46 35 £484 +1.79% 11
North West -15 25 £525 +10.53% 9
Midlands -51 24 £550 - 4
West Midlands -54 19 £538 -10.42% 4
South West -27 18 £450 -26.53% 12
South East -62 10 £555 +38.75% 17
North East -11 7 £425 -34.62% 1
East of England -29 7 £363 +15.08% 5
East Midlands -30 4 £663 +84.67%
Northern Ireland -3 3 £463 -8.42%
Wales -10 3 £509 - 2
Yorkshire -58 3 £469 -12.79% 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
1 128 (42.52%) Apache Spark
2 71 (23.59%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (9.30%) Tomcat
4 26 (8.64%) WebSphere
5 24 (7.97%) Apache Geronimo
5 24 (7.97%) Apache ServiceMix
5 24 (7.97%) Red Hat Fuse
6 9 (2.99%) WebLogic
7 8 (2.66%) IIS
8 6 (1.99%) Confluence
9 5 (1.66%) Apache Superset
9 5 (1.66%) JBoss
9 5 (1.66%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (1.33%) nginx
11 3 (1.00%) Apache Synapse
11 3 (1.00%) Jupyter
11 3 (1.00%) SAS
12 2 (0.66%) SharePoint
13 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Actimize
1 1 (0.33%) Magento
1 1 (0.33%) Maximo
1 1 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.33%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 146 (48.50%) AWS
2 107 (35.55%) Azure
3 75 (24.92%) GCP
4 50 (16.61%) Amazon S3
5 44 (14.62%) Power Platform
6 42 (13.95%) Serverless
7 39 (12.96%) AWS CloudFormation
8 29 (9.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 28 (9.30%) AWS Lambda
10 26 (8.64%) Azure DevOps
11 24 (7.97%) Azure Data Factory
12 22 (7.31%) Amazon SQS
12 22 (7.31%) Snowflake
13 19 (6.31%) Collibra
14 16 (5.32%) GitHub
15 14 (4.65%) AWS Step Functions
15 14 (4.65%) dbt
16 13 (4.32%) GitHub Actions
17 10 (3.32%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 8 (2.66%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.32%) Firewall
2 9 (2.99%) DNS
2 9 (2.99%) HTTP
3 6 (1.99%) Network Security
4 4 (1.33%) DHCP
5 3 (1.00%) SAN
5 3 (1.00%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.66%) FTP
6 2 (0.66%) iSCSI
6 2 (0.66%) SSH
6 2 (0.66%) VLAN
7 1 (0.33%) 4G
7 1 (0.33%) 5G
7 1 (0.33%) InfiniBand
7 1 (0.33%) Intranet
7 1 (0.33%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.33%) LAN
7 1 (0.33%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.33%) Spanning Tree
7 1 (0.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (17.94%) Data Lake
2 40 (13.29%) Data Warehouse
3 38 (12.62%) Power BI
4 37 (12.29%) Amazon Athena
4 37 (12.29%) Big Data
5 36 (11.96%) BigQuery
6 34 (11.30%) Delta Lake
7 23 (7.64%) Hadoop
8 20 (6.64%) SQL Server
9 18 (5.98%) Mixpanel
9 18 (5.98%) PostgreSQL
10 17 (5.65%) Amazon Redshift
10 17 (5.65%) Metadata
10 17 (5.65%) OLAP
10 17 (5.65%) OLTP
11 15 (4.98%) Flink
11 15 (4.98%) MySQL
12 14 (4.65%) NoSQL
13 13 (4.32%) Relational Database
14 12 (3.99%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 51 (16.94%) Git
2 23 (7.64%) GitLab
2 23 (7.64%) JIRA
3 14 (4.65%) MLflow
4 9 (2.99%) Artifactory
4 9 (2.99%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.33%) JUnit
6 6 (1.99%) Bitbucket
6 6 (1.99%) Maven
6 6 (1.99%) Selenium
7 4 (1.33%) Eclipse
7 4 (1.33%) Gradle
7 4 (1.33%) IntelliJ
7 4 (1.33%) Mockito
8 3 (1.00%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.66%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.66%) ERwin
9 2 (0.66%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.33%) PowerDesigner
10 1 (0.33%) RSpec
General
1 55 (18.27%) Social Skills
2 51 (16.94%) Finance
3 29 (9.63%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (7.31%) Public Sector
5 16 (5.32%) Banking
6 6 (1.99%) Investment Banking
7 5 (1.66%) Billing
7 5 (1.66%) Front Office
7 5 (1.66%) Marketing
8 4 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.33%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.00%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.66%) Electronics
10 2 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.66%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.33%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.33%) French Language
11 1 (0.33%) Law
11 1 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 98 (32.56%) Data Engineer
2 48 (15.95%) Senior
3 43 (14.29%) Developer
4 29 (9.63%) Lead
5 24 (7.97%) Software Engineer
6 21 (6.98%) Architect
7 20 (6.64%) Senior Data Engineer
8 18 (5.98%) Java Developer
8 18 (5.98%) Principal Engineer
9 17 (5.65%) AWS Engineer
9 17 (5.65%) Lead Data Engineer
9 17 (5.65%) Principal Data Engineer
10 11 (3.65%) DevOps Engineer
11 10 (3.32%) Data Architect
11 10 (3.32%) Python Engineer
12 8 (2.66%) Analyst
12 8 (2.66%) Java Engineer
12 8 (2.66%) Platform Engineer
12 8 (2.66%) Principal Software Engineer
13 7 (2.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (22.26%) Kafka
2 35 (11.63%) PySpark
3 33 (10.96%) REST
4 29 (9.63%) Middleware
5 28 (9.30%) Apache NiFi
6 24 (7.97%) Apache Axis
6 24 (7.97%) Apache Camel
7 20 (6.64%) Spring
8 19 (6.31%) Great Expectations
8 19 (6.31%) JSON
9 13 (4.32%) Pandas
10 12 (3.99%) Apache Beam
11 11 (3.65%) NumPy
12 10 (3.32%) SOAP
13 9 (2.99%) AWS CDK
13 9 (2.99%) Spring Boot
14 7 (2.33%) Hibernate
14 7 (2.33%) HTML
14 7 (2.33%) React
14 7 (2.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 38 (12.62%) Cloud Native
2 12 (3.99%) Management Information System
3 11 (3.65%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.32%) Algorithms
4 10 (3.32%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (2.66%) Data Structures
5 8 (2.66%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.33%) Clustering
7 6 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (1.99%) Distributed Computing
7 6 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.66%) Freedom of Information
8 5 (1.66%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.66%) Replication
9 4 (1.33%) Equities
9 4 (1.33%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.00%) Distributed Applications
10 3 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.66%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 43 (14.29%) Linux
2 23 (7.64%) Unix
2 23 (7.64%) Windows
3 9 (2.99%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.99%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.66%) Debian
7 4 (1.33%) Rocky
8 3 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.66%) Solaris
9 2 (0.66%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.33%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (40.86%) CI/CD
2 99 (32.89%) Analytics
3 96 (31.89%) Data Pipeline
4 94 (31.23%) ETL
5 89 (29.57%) Data Engineering
5 89 (29.57%) DevOps
6 87 (28.90%) Data Modelling
7 73 (24.25%) Agile
8 65 (21.59%) Data Governance
8 65 (21.59%) Problem-Solving
9 63 (20.93%) AI
10 58 (19.27%) Machine Learning
11 57 (18.94%) Infrastructure as Code
12 49 (16.28%) Business Intelligence
13 47 (15.61%) Software Engineering
14 46 (15.28%) Data Architecture
15 45 (14.95%) Observability
16 34 (11.30%) Data Science
17 32 (10.63%) Containerisation
17 32 (10.63%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 174 (57.81%) SQL
2 164 (54.49%) Python
3 93 (30.90%) Java
4 29 (9.63%) Scala
5 23 (7.64%) C#
6 14 (4.65%) JavaScript
7 13 (4.32%) PowerShell
8 11 (3.65%) R
8 11 (3.65%) Shell Script
9 10 (3.32%) TypeScript
10 7 (2.33%) Bash
11 6 (1.99%) Perl
11 6 (1.99%) PHP
12 5 (1.66%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.00%) C++
13 3 (1.00%) Go
13 3 (1.00%) Ruby
14 2 (0.66%) AWK
14 2 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 91 (30.23%) Security Cleared
2 73 (24.25%) SC Cleared
3 23 (7.64%) DV Cleared
4 18 (5.98%) Degree
5 13 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.33%) AWS Certification
7 7 (2.33%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.00%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.00%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.33%) CCNA
10 1 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.33%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.33%) RHCE
10 1 (0.33%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (22.92%) Data Quality
2 27 (8.97%) GDPR
3 13 (4.32%) QA
4 7 (2.33%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.66%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.33%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.33%) IFRS
7 1 (0.33%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.33%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.33%) MiFID
7 1 (0.33%) SLA
7 1 (0.33%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 47 (15.61%) Docker
2 6 (1.99%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.99%) NFS
3 5 (1.66%) Varnish
4 4 (1.33%) HDFS
4 4 (1.33%) Postfix
5 3 (1.00%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.00%) Samba
5 3 (1.00%) Sendmail
6 2 (0.66%) iptables
6 2 (0.66%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.33%) Ceph
7 1 (0.33%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.33%) KVM
7 1 (0.33%) Lustre
7 1 (0.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 65 (21.59%) Terraform
2 52 (17.28%) Kubernetes
3 25 (8.31%) Ansible
4 8 (2.66%) Grafana
5 5 (1.66%) HAProxy
6 4 (1.33%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.33%) Puppet
7 3 (1.00%) SELinux
8 2 (0.66%) Apache Ranger
8 2 (0.66%) Kibana
8 2 (0.66%) logstash
8 2 (0.66%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.66%) systemd
9 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.33%) Rundeck
9 1 (0.33%) SCCM
9 1 (0.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 65 (21.59%) Databricks
2 43 (14.29%) Oracle
3 39 (12.96%) Google
4 24 (7.97%) TIBCO
5 21 (6.98%) Microsoft
6 14 (4.65%) Red Hat
7 13 (4.32%) Cloudera
8 12 (3.99%) Informatica
9 9 (2.99%) ServiceNow
10 8 (2.66%) Confluent
10 8 (2.66%) Talend
11 7 (2.33%) Cisco
12 6 (1.99%) Guidewire
12 6 (1.99%) Splunk
13 5 (1.66%) Foundry
13 5 (1.66%) IBM
13 5 (1.66%) Palantir
13 5 (1.66%) Palo Alto
13 5 (1.66%) SolarWinds
14 4 (1.33%) SAP