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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 378 282 191
Rank change year-on-year -96 -91 +116
Contract jobs citing Apache 316 318 519
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.59% 0.97% 1.33%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.79% 8.90% 12.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 235 438
10th Percentile £363 £375 £417
25th Percentile £413 £463 £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £750
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £600 £825 £875
90th Percentile £678 £838 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £515 £474
% change year-on-year -12.62% +8.71% -13.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 11
10th Percentile £61.24 £38.21 £36.75
25th Percentile £66.74 £64.24 £51.13
Median hourly rate £67.47 £79.35 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.97% +7.23% -5.13%
75th Percentile £73.19 £80.74 £74.44
90th Percentile £84.75 £82.07 £75.00
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 4,655 3,575 4,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.72% 10.86% 10.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,074 2,342 2,830
10th Percentile £305 £281 £275
25th Percentile £405 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £479 £520
Median % change year-on-year +4.38% -7.88% +1.46%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £725 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £468
% change year-on-year +2.78% -3.90% +0.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 90 110
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.33 £15.37
25th Percentile £19.00 £26.00 £20.63
Median hourly rate £32.50 £43.80 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.79% +34.75% -35.64%
75th Percentile £60.33 £65.25 £68.56
90th Percentile £74.26 £78.88 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £46.65 £35.00
% change year-on-year -30.33% +33.29% +21.74%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -122 267 £511 -14.79% 196
London -96 161 £550 -25.42% 119
UK excluding London -81 125 £450 -12.62% 90
Work from Home -77 96 £509 -32.20% 72
North of England -51 55 £425 +18.72% 22
North East - 29 £385 - 3
Scotland +1 24 £525 +5.00% 11
North West -40 19 £528 +47.35% 13
South West -34 18 £450 -12.62% 20
Midlands -63 13 £495 -8.08% 15
South East -78 12 £460 -23.33% 17
West Midlands -62 10 £478 -11.57% 9
Yorkshire -48 7 £469 -18.48% 6
Wales -12 2 £475 - 2
East Midlands -13 2 £548 +33.54% 6
East of England -26 2 £400 -27.27% 3

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 (54.43%) Apache Spark
2 130 (41.14%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (9.81%) Jupyter
4 19 (6.01%) Tomcat
5 15 (4.75%) nginx
5 15 (4.75%) WebSphere
6 10 (3.16%) Apache Geronimo
6 10 (3.16%) Apache ServiceMix
6 10 (3.16%) Confluence
6 10 (3.16%) Red Hat Fuse
7 7 (2.22%) Apache Superset
7 7 (2.22%) IIS
8 5 (1.58%) CloudStack
8 5 (1.58%) SharePoint
9 4 (1.27%) JBoss
10 3 (0.95%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.32%) CMS
11 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Magento
1 1 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.32%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 172 (54.43%) AWS
2 116 (36.71%) Azure
3 81 (25.63%) GCP
4 51 (16.14%) Amazon S3
5 42 (13.29%) dbt
6 36 (11.39%) Snowflake
7 34 (10.76%) Azure DevOps
8 33 (10.44%) Serverless
9 31 (9.81%) Azure Data Factory
9 31 (9.81%) Power Platform
10 29 (9.18%) Amazon EMR
10 29 (9.18%) AWS Lambda
11 24 (7.59%) GitHub
12 17 (5.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 15 (4.75%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (4.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 11 (3.48%) AWS CloudFormation
16 10 (3.16%) Amazon SQS
16 10 (3.16%) AWS Step Functions
17 9 (2.85%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.01%) DNS
2 15 (4.75%) Firewall
3 6 (1.90%) SAN
4 5 (1.58%) DHCP
4 5 (1.58%) NAS
5 3 (0.95%) HTTP
5 3 (0.95%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.95%) Network Security
5 3 (0.95%) SSL
5 3 (0.95%) Structured Cabling
5 3 (0.95%) 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 (0.32%) 4G
7 1 (0.32%) 5G
7 1 (0.32%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.32%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.32%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (18.04%) Data Warehouse
2 46 (14.56%) Data Lake
3 41 (12.97%) Delta Lake
4 38 (12.03%) BigQuery
5 36 (11.39%) Big Data
6 33 (10.44%) Flink
7 31 (9.81%) Amazon Athena
8 28 (8.86%) Power BI
9 25 (7.91%) Metadata
10 23 (7.28%) Amazon Redshift
11 21 (6.65%) SQL Server
12 19 (6.01%) PostgreSQL
13 18 (5.70%) Apache Iceberg
13 18 (5.70%) Relational Database
14 16 (5.06%) Hadoop
14 16 (5.06%) NoSQL
15 14 (4.43%) Elasticsearch
16 12 (3.80%) Tableau
17 10 (3.16%) MongoDB
17 10 (3.16%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 50 (15.82%) Git
2 49 (15.51%) GitLab
3 22 (6.96%) JIRA
4 15 (4.75%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.53%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.90%) Bitbucket
6 6 (1.90%) Maven
7 5 (1.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (1.58%) MLflow
8 4 (1.27%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.27%) Gradle
9 2 (0.63%) JMeter
9 2 (0.63%) Selenium
9 2 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.32%) Capybara
10 1 (0.32%) git-flow
10 1 (0.32%) minitest
10 1 (0.32%) Newman
10 1 (0.32%) Postman
10 1 (0.32%) RSpec
General
1 70 (22.15%) Finance
2 69 (21.84%) Social Skills
3 42 (13.29%) Public Sector
4 39 (12.34%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (8.54%) Banking
6 6 (1.90%) Billing
6 6 (1.90%) Financial Institution
6 6 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (1.90%) Marketing
6 6 (1.90%) Publishing
7 4 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.27%) Front Office
7 4 (1.27%) Investment Banking
8 3 (0.95%) Law
8 3 (0.95%) Legal
9 2 (0.63%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.32%) Prime Brokerage
10 1 (0.32%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 118 (37.34%) Data Engineer
2 55 (17.41%) Senior
3 44 (13.92%) Architect
4 42 (13.29%) Developer
5 33 (10.44%) Senior Data Engineer
6 27 (8.54%) Lead
7 22 (6.96%) DevOps Engineer
7 22 (6.96%) Java Developer
8 18 (5.70%) Data Architect
9 14 (4.43%) Lead Data Engineer
10 13 (4.11%) AWS Engineer
11 12 (3.80%) Python Engineer
12 9 (2.85%) Cloud Engineer
12 9 (2.85%) Python Data Engineer
12 9 (2.85%) Senior Developer
12 9 (2.85%) Software Engineer
13 8 (2.53%) Analyst
13 8 (2.53%) AWS Data Engineer
13 8 (2.53%) Platform Engineer
13 8 (2.53%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (22.47%) PySpark
2 70 (22.15%) Kafka
3 27 (8.54%) REST
4 26 (8.23%) Spring
5 23 (7.28%) Spring Boot
6 17 (5.38%) JSON
7 16 (5.06%) Apache Beam
8 15 (4.75%) Middleware
9 11 (3.48%) Apache NiFi
10 10 (3.16%) Apache Axis
10 10 (3.16%) Apache Camel
11 9 (2.85%) SOAP
12 8 (2.53%) OAuth
12 8 (2.53%) YAML
13 7 (2.22%) AWS CDK
13 7 (2.22%) Great Expectations
13 7 (2.22%) Spark Streaming
14 6 (1.90%) Elastic Stack
14 6 (1.90%) LAMP
14 6 (1.90%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 50 (15.82%) Cloud Native
2 23 (7.28%) Product Ownership
3 14 (4.43%) Data Structures
3 14 (4.43%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (4.11%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (3.80%) Management Information System
6 10 (3.16%) Public Cloud
7 9 (2.85%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (2.85%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.90%) Data Fabric
9 5 (1.58%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.58%) Clustering
9 5 (1.58%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.58%) Replication
9 5 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.27%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.27%) PKI
10 4 (1.27%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.95%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 51 (16.14%) Linux
2 17 (5.38%) Ubuntu
2 17 (5.38%) Windows
3 13 (4.11%) Unix
4 12 (3.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.58%) CentOS
5 5 (1.58%) Rocky
5 5 (1.58%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.58%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.27%) Debian
7 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.32%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.32%) Solaris
8 1 (0.32%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (49.05%) CI/CD
2 132 (41.77%) Data Pipeline
3 124 (39.24%) Data Engineering
4 110 (34.81%) Analytics
4 110 (34.81%) DevOps
5 97 (30.70%) Data Modelling
6 96 (30.38%) ETL
7 92 (29.11%) Agile
8 74 (23.42%) Containerisation
8 74 (23.42%) Infrastructure as Code
9 60 (18.99%) AI
10 59 (18.67%) Data Governance
11 45 (14.24%) Machine Learning
11 45 (14.24%) Migration
12 44 (13.92%) Business Intelligence
13 41 (12.97%) Data Architecture
13 41 (12.97%) Problem-Solving
14 37 (11.71%) Data Transformation
14 37 (11.71%) Performance Optimisation
14 37 (11.71%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 213 (67.41%) Python
2 175 (55.38%) SQL
3 80 (25.32%) Java
4 27 (8.54%) Scala
5 24 (7.59%) Bash
6 22 (6.96%) PowerShell
7 20 (6.33%) Shell Script
8 10 (3.16%) Go
8 10 (3.16%) R
9 9 (2.85%) TypeScript
10 7 (2.22%) PL/SQL
11 6 (1.90%) C#
11 6 (1.90%) Perl
12 5 (1.58%) JavaScript
12 5 (1.58%) Ruby
13 4 (1.27%) Bicep
13 4 (1.27%) Groovy
14 3 (0.95%) Cypher
14 3 (0.95%) Gremlin
14 3 (0.95%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 91 (28.80%) Security Cleared
2 82 (25.95%) SC Cleared
3 19 (6.01%) Degree
4 16 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.85%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.90%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.58%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.58%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.95%) CCNP
9 3 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.95%) CSPO
9 3 (0.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.63%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.63%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.32%) MBA
11 1 (0.32%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (26.27%) Data Quality
2 17 (5.38%) GDPR
3 12 (3.80%) QA
4 7 (2.22%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (1.27%) Government Security Classifications
7 3 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.63%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.63%) SLA
8 2 (0.63%) WCAG
9 1 (0.32%) NIST
System Software
1 98 (31.01%) Docker
2 14 (4.43%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.85%) Postfix
4 8 (2.53%) NFS
5 7 (2.22%) Varnish
6 5 (1.58%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.27%) Sendmail
7 4 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
8 3 (0.95%) Dovecot
8 3 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.95%) vSphere
9 2 (0.63%) Ceph
9 2 (0.63%) KVM
9 2 (0.63%) Samba
10 1 (0.32%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.32%) iptables
Systems Management
1 91 (28.80%) Terraform
2 81 (25.63%) Kubernetes
3 25 (7.91%) Ansible
4 12 (3.80%) Grafana
5 9 (2.85%) HAProxy
6 8 (2.53%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.58%) Packer
7 5 (1.58%) vCenter Server
8 4 (1.27%) SELinux
9 3 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.95%) Apache Ranger
9 3 (0.95%) Check_MK
9 3 (0.95%) Kibana
9 3 (0.95%) Puppet
9 3 (0.95%) systemd
10 2 (0.63%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.32%) Control-M
11 1 (0.32%) logstash
11 1 (0.32%) Rundeck
11 1 (0.32%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 74 (23.42%) Databricks
2 39 (12.34%) Microsoft
3 35 (11.08%) Google
4 20 (6.33%) Oracle
5 17 (5.38%) Trend Micro
6 12 (3.80%) Red Hat
7 11 (3.48%) TIBCO
8 10 (3.16%) Cloudera
8 10 (3.16%) VMware
9 9 (2.85%) Informatica
9 9 (2.85%) ServiceNow
10 8 (2.53%) Splunk
11 7 (2.22%) Cisco
11 7 (2.22%) Guidewire
12 5 (1.58%) Confluent
12 5 (1.58%) IBM
12 5 (1.58%) New Relic
12 5 (1.58%) Tanium
13 4 (1.27%) Hortonworks
13 4 (1.27%) Okta