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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 270 189
Rank change year-on-year -101 -81 +108
Contract jobs citing Apache 320 320 518
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.60% 0.97% 1.33%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.87% 8.88% 12.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 240 438
10th Percentile £363 £375 £417
25th Percentile £413 £463 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £750
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £588 £825 £875
90th Percentile £676 £838 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £510 £468
% change year-on-year -11.76% +9.09% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 12
10th Percentile £61.24 £38.21 £37.70
25th Percentile £66.74 £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 £73.19 £80.74 £74.44
90th Percentile £84.75 £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 4,659 3,604 4,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.72% 10.97% 10.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,072 2,375 2,841
10th Percentile £305 £281 £280
25th Percentile £404 £394 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £479 £515
Median % change year-on-year +4.38% -6.99% +0.98%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £725 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £459
% change year-on-year +2.78% -1.91% -2.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 89 112
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.27 £15.13
25th Percentile £19.00 £26.00 £20.88
Median hourly rate £35.00 £44.50 £32.11
Median % change year-on-year -21.35% +38.61% -38.85%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.25 £68.19
90th Percentile £74.85 £79.00 £74.94
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £47.12 £33.00
% change year-on-year -31.03% +42.79% -17.50%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 -119 268 £513 -14.58% 187
London -93 160 £550 -26.67% 122
UK excluding London -81 130 £450 -11.76% 78
Work from Home -71 97 £509 -32.20% 69
North of England -49 56 £425 +18.72% 20
North East - 29 £385 - 4
Scotland +6 27 £525 +5.00% 8
North West -40 21 £525 +46.65% 8
South West -31 19 £450 -12.62% 14
Midlands -64 13 £495 -8.08% 10
South East -73 12 £460 -23.33% 20
West Midlands -68 10 £478 -11.57% 5
Yorkshire -44 6 £463 -19.57% 8
Wales -10 2 £475 - 2
East Midlands -16 2 £548 +33.54% 5
East of England -28 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 (53.75%) Apache Spark
2 128 (40.00%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (9.69%) Jupyter
4 23 (7.19%) Tomcat
5 19 (5.94%) WebSphere
6 14 (4.38%) Apache Geronimo
6 14 (4.38%) Apache ServiceMix
6 14 (4.38%) nginx
6 14 (4.38%) Red Hat Fuse
7 10 (3.13%) Confluence
8 8 (2.50%) Apache Superset
9 7 (2.19%) IIS
10 5 (1.56%) CloudStack
10 5 (1.56%) SharePoint
11 4 (1.25%) JBoss
12 3 (0.94%) 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 (0.63%) 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
1 174 (54.38%) AWS
2 114 (35.63%) Azure
3 80 (25.00%) GCP
4 53 (16.56%) Amazon S3
5 41 (12.81%) dbt
6 35 (10.94%) Snowflake
7 33 (10.31%) Azure DevOps
7 33 (10.31%) Power Platform
7 33 (10.31%) Serverless
8 30 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
9 29 (9.06%) Amazon EMR
10 28 (8.75%) Azure Data Factory
11 24 (7.50%) GitHub
12 18 (5.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 17 (5.31%) GitHub Actions
14 15 (4.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 13 (4.06%) AWS CloudFormation
16 11 (3.44%) Amazon SQS
16 11 (3.44%) AWS Step Functions
17 9 (2.81%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.94%) DNS
2 15 (4.69%) Firewall
3 6 (1.88%) SAN
4 5 (1.56%) DHCP
4 5 (1.56%) NAS
5 3 (0.94%) HTTP
5 3 (0.94%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.94%) Network Security
5 3 (0.94%) SSL
5 3 (0.94%) Structured Cabling
5 3 (0.94%) 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 (0.31%) 4G
7 1 (0.31%) 5G
7 1 (0.31%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.31%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.31%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (17.19%) Data Warehouse
2 45 (14.06%) Data Lake
3 40 (12.50%) Delta Lake
4 38 (11.88%) Big Data
5 36 (11.25%) BigQuery
6 32 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
6 32 (10.00%) Flink
7 30 (9.38%) Power BI
8 25 (7.81%) Metadata
9 22 (6.88%) Amazon Redshift
10 21 (6.56%) SQL Server
11 18 (5.63%) Hadoop
11 18 (5.63%) PostgreSQL
11 18 (5.63%) Relational Database
12 17 (5.31%) Apache Iceberg
12 17 (5.31%) NoSQL
13 13 (4.06%) Tableau
14 12 (3.75%) Elasticsearch
15 10 (3.13%) MongoDB
15 10 (3.13%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 50 (15.63%) Git
2 48 (15.00%) GitLab
3 22 (6.88%) JIRA
4 17 (5.31%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.50%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.88%) Bitbucket
6 6 (1.88%) Maven
7 5 (1.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (1.56%) MLflow
8 4 (1.25%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.25%) Gradle
9 2 (0.63%) JMeter
9 2 (0.63%) Selenium
9 2 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.31%) Capybara
10 1 (0.31%) minitest
10 1 (0.31%) Newman
10 1 (0.31%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.31%) Postman
10 1 (0.31%) RSpec
General
1 69 (21.56%) Social Skills
2 68 (21.25%) Finance
3 42 (13.13%) Public Sector
4 39 (12.19%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (8.13%) Banking
6 6 (1.88%) Billing
6 6 (1.88%) Financial Institution
6 6 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (1.88%) Marketing
6 6 (1.88%) Publishing
7 4 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.25%) Front Office
7 4 (1.25%) Investment Banking
8 3 (0.94%) Law
8 3 (0.94%) Legal
9 2 (0.63%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.31%) Prime Brokerage
10 1 (0.31%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 116 (36.25%) Data Engineer
2 54 (16.88%) Senior
3 45 (14.06%) Architect
4 44 (13.75%) Developer
5 31 (9.69%) Senior Data Engineer
6 27 (8.44%) Lead
7 22 (6.88%) DevOps Engineer
7 22 (6.88%) Java Developer
8 19 (5.94%) Data Architect
9 14 (4.38%) Lead Data Engineer
10 13 (4.06%) AWS Engineer
11 12 (3.75%) Python Engineer
12 10 (3.13%) Cloud Engineer
13 9 (2.81%) Senior Developer
13 9 (2.81%) Software Engineer
14 8 (2.50%) AWS Data Engineer
14 8 (2.50%) Platform Engineer
14 8 (2.50%) Python Data Engineer
14 8 (2.50%) Python Developer
14 8 (2.50%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (21.25%) PySpark
2 67 (20.94%) Kafka
3 27 (8.44%) REST
4 26 (8.13%) Spring
5 23 (7.19%) Spring Boot
6 19 (5.94%) Middleware
7 17 (5.31%) JSON
8 16 (5.00%) Apache Beam
9 14 (4.38%) Apache Axis
9 14 (4.38%) Apache Camel
10 11 (3.44%) Apache NiFi
11 9 (2.81%) SOAP
12 8 (2.50%) Great Expectations
12 8 (2.50%) OAuth
13 7 (2.19%) AWS CDK
13 7 (2.19%) Spark Streaming
13 7 (2.19%) YAML
14 6 (1.88%) Elastic Stack
14 6 (1.88%) LAMP
14 6 (1.88%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 51 (15.94%) Cloud Native
2 22 (6.88%) Product Ownership
3 15 (4.69%) Data Structures
4 14 (4.38%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.38%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (3.75%) Management Information System
6 10 (3.13%) Public Cloud
7 9 (2.81%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (2.81%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.88%) Data Fabric
9 5 (1.56%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.56%) Clustering
9 5 (1.56%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.56%) Replication
9 5 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.25%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.25%) PKI
10 4 (1.25%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.94%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 49 (15.31%) Linux
2 17 (5.31%) Ubuntu
2 17 (5.31%) Windows
3 14 (4.38%) Unix
4 11 (3.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.56%) CentOS
5 5 (1.56%) Rocky
5 5 (1.56%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.56%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.25%) Debian
7 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.31%) Solaris
8 1 (0.31%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (48.13%) CI/CD
2 129 (40.31%) Data Pipeline
3 124 (38.75%) Data Engineering
4 110 (34.38%) Analytics
5 108 (33.75%) DevOps
6 97 (30.31%) Data Modelling
7 96 (30.00%) ETL
8 89 (27.81%) Agile
9 74 (23.13%) Containerisation
9 74 (23.13%) Infrastructure as Code
10 61 (19.06%) AI
10 61 (19.06%) Data Governance
11 46 (14.38%) Business Intelligence
12 45 (14.06%) Machine Learning
13 44 (13.75%) Migration
14 42 (13.13%) Data Architecture
15 41 (12.81%) Problem-Solving
16 39 (12.19%) Workflow
17 37 (11.56%) Data Science
17 37 (11.56%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 211 (65.94%) Python
2 177 (55.31%) SQL
3 84 (26.25%) Java
4 28 (8.75%) Scala
5 23 (7.19%) Bash
6 21 (6.56%) Shell Script
7 20 (6.25%) PowerShell
8 11 (3.44%) R
9 10 (3.13%) Go
10 9 (2.81%) TypeScript
11 7 (2.19%) C#
11 7 (2.19%) PL/SQL
12 6 (1.88%) Perl
13 5 (1.56%) JavaScript
13 5 (1.56%) Ruby
14 4 (1.25%) Bicep
14 4 (1.25%) Groovy
15 3 (0.94%) Cypher
15 3 (0.94%) Gremlin
15 3 (0.94%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 92 (28.75%) Security Cleared
2 83 (25.94%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.94%) Degree
4 17 (5.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.81%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.88%) AWS Certification
6 6 (1.88%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.56%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.94%) CCNP
9 3 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.94%) CSPO
9 3 (0.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.63%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.63%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.31%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.31%) MBA
11 1 (0.31%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (25.94%) Data Quality
2 18 (5.63%) GDPR
3 12 (3.75%) QA
4 7 (2.19%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (1.25%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.63%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.63%) SLA
7 2 (0.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 97 (30.31%) Docker
2 13 (4.06%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.81%) Postfix
4 8 (2.50%) NFS
5 7 (2.19%) Varnish
6 5 (1.56%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.25%) Sendmail
7 4 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
8 3 (0.94%) Dovecot
8 3 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.94%) vSphere
9 2 (0.63%) Ceph
9 2 (0.63%) HDFS
9 2 (0.63%) KVM
9 2 (0.63%) Samba
10 1 (0.31%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.31%) iptables
Systems Management
1 90 (28.13%) Terraform
2 79 (24.69%) Kubernetes
3 25 (7.81%) Ansible
4 11 (3.44%) Grafana
5 9 (2.81%) HAProxy
6 7 (2.19%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.56%) Packer
7 5 (1.56%) vCenter Server
8 4 (1.25%) SELinux
9 3 (0.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.94%) Apache Ranger
9 3 (0.94%) Check_MK
9 3 (0.94%) Kibana
9 3 (0.94%) systemd
10 2 (0.63%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.63%) Puppet
11 1 (0.31%) logstash
11 1 (0.31%) Podman
11 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.31%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 72 (22.50%) Databricks
2 37 (11.56%) Microsoft
3 35 (10.94%) Google
4 24 (7.50%) Oracle
5 17 (5.31%) Trend Micro
6 15 (4.69%) TIBCO
7 11 (3.44%) Red Hat
8 10 (3.13%) Cloudera
8 10 (3.13%) VMware
9 9 (2.81%) ServiceNow
10 8 (2.50%) Informatica
10 8 (2.50%) Splunk
11 7 (2.19%) Cisco
11 7 (2.19%) Guidewire
12 5 (1.56%) Confluent
12 5 (1.56%) IBM
12 5 (1.56%) New Relic
12 5 (1.56%) Tanium
13 4 (1.25%) Hortonworks
13 4 (1.25%) Okta