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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 265 192
Rank change year-on-year -100 -73 +104
Contract jobs citing Apache 324 320 525
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.62% 0.98% 1.32%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.08% 8.92% 12.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 241 446
10th Percentile £363 £400 £416
25th Percentile £425 £463 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £750
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £586 £825 £850
90th Percentile £675 £850 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £530 £475
% change year-on-year -10.29% +11.47% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 12
10th Percentile £60.47 £38.21 £37.70
25th Percentile £64.00 £64.24 £50.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £79.35 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.97% +10.21% -7.69%
75th Percentile £71.50 £80.74 £74.44
90th Percentile £78.00 £82.07 £74.94
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £79.35 £72.00
% change year-on-year -14.97% +10.21% -7.69%

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 4,575 3,586 4,197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.71% 10.93% 10.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,021 2,354 2,896
10th Percentile £306 £281 £275
25th Percentile £405 £391 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £514
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.54% +2.75%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £725 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £450 £453
% change year-on-year +3.33% -0.66% -4.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 87 119
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.03 £13.61
25th Percentile £19.02 £26.00 £19.82
Median hourly rate £33.75 £43.09 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -21.68% +35.89% -39.60%
75th Percentile £61.68 £67.63 £66.50
90th Percentile £74.48 £79.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £46.65 £30.00
% change year-on-year -24.97% +55.50% -25.00%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 29 July 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 -118 263 £513 -14.58% 127
London -93 153 £550 -26.67% 69
UK excluding London -67 140 £475 -10.29% 67
Work from Home -90 93 £509 -32.20% 42
North of England -45 55 £425 - 18
Scotland +6 34 £525 +5.00% 4
North East - 28 £385 - 5
North West -44 21 £525 +46.65% 9
South West -36 18 £450 -12.62% 16
Midlands -62 17 £495 -7.82% 6
West Midlands -60 14 £494 -9.40% 5
South East -72 11 £470 -21.67% 19
Yorkshire -49 6 £475 -20.83% 4
Wales -14 3 £509 - 2
East of England -24 3 £400 -27.27% 3
East Midlands -15 2 £548 +33.54% 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
1 170 (52.47%) Apache Spark
2 121 (37.35%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (9.26%) Tomcat
4 29 (8.95%) Jupyter
5 26 (8.02%) WebSphere
6 21 (6.48%) Apache Geronimo
6 21 (6.48%) Apache ServiceMix
6 21 (6.48%) Red Hat Fuse
7 12 (3.70%) nginx
8 8 (2.47%) Confluence
9 7 (2.16%) Apache Superset
9 7 (2.16%) IIS
10 5 (1.54%) CloudStack
10 5 (1.54%) SharePoint
11 4 (1.23%) JBoss
12 3 (0.93%) WebLogic
13 1 (0.31%) CMS
13 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
13 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
13 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
1 169 (52.16%) AWS
2 114 (35.19%) Azure
3 80 (24.69%) GCP
4 53 (16.36%) Amazon S3
5 38 (11.73%) dbt
6 35 (10.80%) Power Platform
7 31 (9.57%) Snowflake
8 30 (9.26%) Azure DevOps
8 30 (9.26%) Serverless
9 28 (8.64%) Amazon EMR
9 28 (8.64%) AWS Lambda
9 28 (8.64%) Azure Data Factory
10 21 (6.48%) GitHub
11 20 (6.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 15 (4.63%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (4.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 14 (4.32%) AWS CloudFormation
14 12 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
15 10 (3.09%) AWS Step Functions
15 10 (3.09%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.25%) DNS
2 14 (4.32%) Firewall
3 6 (1.85%) SAN
4 5 (1.54%) NAS
5 4 (1.23%) DHCP
6 3 (0.93%) HTTP
6 3 (0.93%) Network Security
6 3 (0.93%) Structured Cabling
6 3 (0.93%) VLAN
7 2 (0.62%) BIG-IP
7 2 (0.62%) FTP
7 2 (0.62%) SSL
7 2 (0.62%) VXLAN
8 1 (0.31%) 4G
8 1 (0.31%) 5G
8 1 (0.31%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.31%) Intranet
8 1 (0.31%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.31%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.31%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (16.36%) Data Warehouse
2 45 (13.89%) Data Lake
3 42 (12.96%) Big Data
4 35 (10.80%) Delta Lake
5 34 (10.49%) BigQuery
6 31 (9.57%) Power BI
7 30 (9.26%) Amazon Athena
7 30 (9.26%) Flink
8 25 (7.72%) Metadata
9 24 (7.41%) SQL Server
10 21 (6.48%) Hadoop
11 20 (6.17%) PostgreSQL
12 18 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
13 17 (5.25%) NoSQL
13 17 (5.25%) Relational Database
14 15 (4.63%) Tableau
15 14 (4.32%) MySQL
16 13 (4.01%) Apache Iceberg
17 11 (3.40%) Elasticsearch
17 11 (3.40%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 48 (14.81%) Git
2 44 (13.58%) GitLab
3 21 (6.48%) JIRA
4 16 (4.94%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.16%) SonarQube
6 5 (1.54%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.54%) Maven
6 5 (1.54%) MLflow
7 4 (1.23%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (1.23%) Gradle
8 3 (0.93%) Selenium
9 1 (0.31%) Ant
9 1 (0.31%) Capybara
9 1 (0.31%) git-flow
9 1 (0.31%) JMeter
9 1 (0.31%) minitest
9 1 (0.31%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.31%) RSpec
9 1 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 64 (19.75%) Finance
1 64 (19.75%) Social Skills
2 40 (12.35%) Public Sector
3 39 (12.04%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (7.10%) Banking
5 7 (2.16%) Marketing
6 6 (1.85%) Billing
6 6 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.54%) Publishing
8 4 (1.23%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.23%) Front Office
8 4 (1.23%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.93%) Law
9 3 (0.93%) Legal
10 2 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.62%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.31%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.31%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 116 (35.80%) Data Engineer
2 53 (16.36%) Senior
3 46 (14.20%) Developer
4 44 (13.58%) Architect
5 29 (8.95%) Senior Data Engineer
6 27 (8.33%) Lead
7 22 (6.79%) Java Developer
8 21 (6.48%) DevOps Engineer
9 20 (6.17%) Data Architect
10 15 (4.63%) Lead Data Engineer
11 13 (4.01%) AWS Engineer
12 9 (2.78%) Cloud Engineer
12 9 (2.78%) Python Developer
12 9 (2.78%) Python Engineer
12 9 (2.78%) Senior Developer
12 9 (2.78%) Software Engineer
13 8 (2.47%) Analyst
13 8 (2.47%) AWS Data Engineer
14 7 (2.16%) GCP Engineer
14 7 (2.16%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (21.91%) Kafka
2 63 (19.44%) PySpark
3 27 (8.33%) REST
3 27 (8.33%) Spring
4 26 (8.02%) Middleware
5 23 (7.10%) Spring Boot
6 21 (6.48%) Apache Axis
6 21 (6.48%) Apache Camel
7 18 (5.56%) Apache Beam
8 17 (5.25%) JSON
9 11 (3.40%) Apache NiFi
10 9 (2.78%) Great Expectations
10 9 (2.78%) SOAP
11 8 (2.47%) LAMP
11 8 (2.47%) OAuth
11 8 (2.47%) Pandas
12 7 (2.16%) AWS CDK
13 6 (1.85%) Elastic Stack
13 6 (1.85%) Spark Streaming
14 5 (1.54%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 52 (16.05%) Cloud Native
2 18 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 17 (5.25%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.32%) Data Structures
5 13 (4.01%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (3.40%) Management Information System
7 10 (3.09%) Public Cloud
8 9 (2.78%) Onboarding
9 8 (2.47%) Clustering
9 8 (2.47%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.85%) Distributed Computing
11 5 (1.54%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.54%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.54%) Replication
11 5 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.23%) Algorithms
12 4 (1.23%) Data Fabric
12 4 (1.23%) PKI
12 4 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 51 (15.74%) Linux
2 17 (5.25%) Windows
3 15 (4.63%) Ubuntu
3 15 (4.63%) Unix
4 9 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.85%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.54%) CentOS
7 4 (1.23%) Rocky
7 4 (1.23%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.93%) Debian
9 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.31%) Solaris
10 1 (0.31%) VMS
10 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (46.91%) CI/CD
2 125 (38.58%) Data Engineering
2 125 (38.58%) Data Pipeline
3 114 (35.19%) Analytics
4 103 (31.79%) DevOps
5 99 (30.56%) Data Modelling
6 94 (29.01%) ETL
7 83 (25.62%) Agile
8 71 (21.91%) Containerisation
8 71 (21.91%) Infrastructure as Code
9 64 (19.75%) AI
9 64 (19.75%) Data Governance
10 44 (13.58%) Business Intelligence
11 43 (13.27%) Machine Learning
11 43 (13.27%) Migration
11 43 (13.27%) Problem-Solving
12 40 (12.35%) Data Architecture
13 39 (12.04%) Workflow
14 38 (11.73%) Data Science
15 34 (10.49%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 209 (64.51%) Python
2 185 (57.10%) SQL
3 92 (28.40%) Java
4 27 (8.33%) Scala
5 21 (6.48%) Bash
6 19 (5.86%) Shell Script
7 16 (4.94%) PowerShell
8 10 (3.09%) R
8 10 (3.09%) TypeScript
9 9 (2.78%) Go
9 9 (2.78%) Perl
10 8 (2.47%) C#
10 8 (2.47%) JavaScript
11 7 (2.16%) PL/SQL
12 6 (1.85%) PHP
13 5 (1.54%) Ruby
14 4 (1.23%) Groovy
15 3 (0.93%) Cypher
15 3 (0.93%) Gremlin
15 3 (0.93%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 95 (29.32%) Security Cleared
2 86 (26.54%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.48%) Degree
4 17 (5.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.78%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.47%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.47%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.85%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.93%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.93%) CCNP
9 3 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.93%) CSPO
9 3 (0.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.62%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.62%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.31%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.31%) MBA
11 1 (0.31%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (25.62%) Data Quality
2 19 (5.86%) GDPR
3 12 (3.70%) QA
4 7 (2.16%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (1.23%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.62%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.62%) SLA
7 2 (0.62%) WCAG
System Software
1 86 (26.54%) Docker
2 11 (3.40%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.78%) Postfix
4 8 (2.47%) NFS
5 7 (2.16%) Varnish
6 4 (1.23%) Sendmail
6 4 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (0.93%) Dovecot
7 3 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.93%) vSphere
8 2 (0.62%) Ceph
8 2 (0.62%) HDFS
8 2 (0.62%) KVM
8 2 (0.62%) Samba
9 1 (0.31%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.31%) iptables
Systems Management
1 87 (26.85%) Terraform
2 68 (20.99%) Kubernetes
3 23 (7.10%) Ansible
4 9 (2.78%) Grafana
4 9 (2.78%) HAProxy
5 6 (1.85%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.23%) Packer
6 4 (1.23%) SELinux
6 4 (1.23%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.93%) Apache Ranger
7 3 (0.93%) Check_MK
7 3 (0.93%) Kibana
8 2 (0.62%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.62%) Puppet
8 2 (0.62%) systemd
9 1 (0.31%) logstash
9 1 (0.31%) Rundeck
9 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.31%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 71 (21.91%) Databricks
2 37 (11.42%) Google
3 35 (10.80%) Microsoft
3 35 (10.80%) Oracle
4 22 (6.79%) TIBCO
5 16 (4.94%) Trend Micro
6 10 (3.09%) Cloudera
6 10 (3.09%) Red Hat
7 9 (2.78%) Informatica
7 9 (2.78%) VMware
8 8 (2.47%) ServiceNow
9 7 (2.16%) Cisco
9 7 (2.16%) Guidewire
10 6 (1.85%) Splunk
11 5 (1.54%) Confluent
11 5 (1.54%) IBM
12 4 (1.23%) Hortonworks
12 4 (1.23%) Okta
12 4 (1.23%) Talend
12 4 (1.23%) Tanium