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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 266 208
Rank change year-on-year -95 -58 +80
Contract jobs citing Apache 298 293 496
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.59% 0.98% 1.13%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.83% 8.78% 11.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 222 430
10th Percentile £363 £389 £406
25th Percentile £425 £463 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £584 £825 £850
90th Percentile £663 £875 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £538 £488
% change year-on-year -10.47% +10.26% -11.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 10
10th Percentile £63.00 £38.21 £35.25
25th Percentile £64.00 £64.24 £47.50
Median hourly rate £66.50 £79.35 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% +20.23% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70.88 £80.74 £74.44
90th Percentile £83.25 £82.07 £75.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.50 £79.35 £66.00
% change year-on-year -16.19% +20.23% -15.38%

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 4,363 3,339 4,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.66% 11.22% 10.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,925 2,207 3,069
10th Percentile £313 £289 £262
25th Percentile £404 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -1.57%
75th Percentile £588 £599 £624
90th Percentile £675 £709 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +2.78% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 70 166
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.33 £13.50
25th Percentile £19.25 £26.35 £16.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £52.50 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -38.10% +65.56% -39.60%
75th Percentile £61.17 £69.00 £51.91
90th Percentile £74.85 £78.88 £72.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £53.61 £30.00
% change year-on-year -39.38% +78.70% -40.00%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 18 June 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 -137 235 £525 -18.64% 96
UK excluding London -55 139 £481 -10.47% 66
London -96 127 £560 -25.33% 48
Work from Home -77 82 £512 -31.76% 40
North of England -44 53 £425 - 18
Scotland +23 36 £525 +13.51% 4
North East -6 31 £385 -40.77% 6
Midlands -45 21 £525 -8.70% 5
North West -33 19 £525 +46.65% 11
West Midlands -42 18 £528 -12.08% 3
South West -21 15 £450 -20.00% 13
East of England -31 5 £363 -5.23% 5
South East -74 5 £500 -13.04% 14
Wales -13 3 £509 - 2
Yorkshire -67 3 £463 -26.00% 1
East Midlands -23 2 £548 +33.54% 2
Northern Ireland -1 1 £430 +4.88% 8

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
1 151 (50.67%) Apache Spark
2 100 (33.56%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (10.40%) Tomcat
4 27 (9.06%) Jupyter
5 26 (8.72%) WebSphere
6 22 (7.38%) Apache Geronimo
6 22 (7.38%) Apache ServiceMix
6 22 (7.38%) Red Hat Fuse
7 10 (3.36%) IIS
8 8 (2.68%) nginx
9 5 (1.68%) Apache Superset
9 5 (1.68%) SharePoint
10 4 (1.34%) CloudStack
10 4 (1.34%) Confluence
10 4 (1.34%) WebLogic
11 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.67%) Apache Synapse
12 2 (0.67%) JBoss
13 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Magento
1 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.34%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 151 (50.67%) AWS
2 107 (35.91%) Azure
3 70 (23.49%) GCP
4 46 (15.44%) Amazon S3
5 36 (12.08%) Power Platform
6 29 (9.73%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (8.72%) Serverless
8 23 (7.72%) AWS Lambda
9 22 (7.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 21 (7.05%) Azure Data Factory
11 20 (6.71%) Snowflake
12 19 (6.38%) AWS CloudFormation
13 18 (6.04%) Amazon EMR
13 18 (6.04%) dbt
14 17 (5.70%) GitHub
15 16 (5.37%) Amazon SQS
16 14 (4.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 13 (4.36%) Collibra
18 12 (4.03%) GitHub Actions
19 8 (2.68%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.70%) DNS
2 11 (3.69%) Firewall
3 6 (2.01%) HTTP
4 5 (1.68%) SAN
5 4 (1.34%) NAS
6 3 (1.01%) VLAN
7 2 (0.67%) BIG-IP
7 2 (0.67%) FTP
7 2 (0.67%) Network Security
7 2 (0.67%) Structured Cabling
7 2 (0.67%) VXLAN
8 1 (0.34%) 4G
8 1 (0.34%) 5G
8 1 (0.34%) DHCP
8 1 (0.34%) Intranet
8 1 (0.34%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.34%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.34%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.34%) SSH
8 1 (0.34%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (13.76%) Big Data
2 40 (13.42%) Data Warehouse
3 39 (13.09%) Data Lake
4 30 (10.07%) Amazon Athena
4 30 (10.07%) Power BI
5 28 (9.40%) BigQuery
5 28 (9.40%) SQL Server
6 26 (8.72%) Delta Lake
7 22 (7.38%) Flink
7 22 (7.38%) Hadoop
8 20 (6.71%) PostgreSQL
9 17 (5.70%) Metadata
9 17 (5.70%) NoSQL
10 16 (5.37%) MySQL
11 13 (4.36%) Relational Database
12 12 (4.03%) Amazon Redshift
12 12 (4.03%) Tableau
13 11 (3.69%) Mixpanel
14 10 (3.36%) MongoDB
14 10 (3.36%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 56 (18.79%) Git
2 40 (13.42%) GitLab
3 21 (7.05%) JIRA
4 13 (4.36%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.68%) MLflow
6 6 (2.01%) Maven
6 6 (2.01%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.34%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.34%) Gradle
8 3 (1.01%) Selenium
9 2 (0.67%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.34%) Ant
10 1 (0.34%) Capybara
10 1 (0.34%) git-flow
10 1 (0.34%) minitest
10 1 (0.34%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.34%) RSpec
10 1 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 55 (18.46%) Finance
2 51 (17.11%) Social Skills
3 36 (12.08%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (12.08%) Public Sector
4 13 (4.36%) Banking
5 7 (2.35%) Billing
6 5 (1.68%) Marketing
7 4 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.34%) Front Office
7 4 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.34%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.01%) Publishing
9 2 (0.67%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.34%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.34%) Dutch Language
10 1 (0.34%) French Language
10 1 (0.34%) Law
10 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.34%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.34%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 103 (34.56%) Data Engineer
2 46 (15.44%) Developer
3 41 (13.76%) Senior
4 30 (10.07%) Architect
5 25 (8.39%) Lead
6 22 (7.38%) Senior Data Engineer
7 21 (7.05%) Java Developer
8 19 (6.38%) DevOps Engineer
9 17 (5.70%) Lead Data Engineer
10 13 (4.36%) Software Engineer
11 12 (4.03%) AWS Engineer
11 12 (4.03%) Data Architect
11 12 (4.03%) Principal Engineer
12 11 (3.69%) Principal Data Engineer
13 9 (3.02%) Python Developer
14 8 (2.68%) Analyst
14 8 (2.68%) Python Engineer
14 8 (2.68%) Senior Developer
15 7 (2.35%) AWS Data Engineer
15 7 (2.35%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (21.48%) Kafka
2 45 (15.10%) PySpark
3 25 (8.39%) Middleware
3 25 (8.39%) Spring
4 23 (7.72%) REST
5 22 (7.38%) Apache Axis
5 22 (7.38%) Apache Camel
6 18 (6.04%) Spring Boot
7 15 (5.03%) JSON
8 14 (4.70%) Apache Beam
9 13 (4.36%) Great Expectations
10 10 (3.36%) SOAP
11 9 (3.02%) AWS CDK
12 8 (2.68%) OAuth
12 8 (2.68%) Pandas
13 7 (2.35%) LAMP
13 7 (2.35%) NumPy
14 6 (2.01%) PyTorch
15 5 (1.68%) Apache NiFi
15 5 (1.68%) Apache Tika
Miscellaneous
1 44 (14.77%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.37%) Management Information System
2 16 (5.37%) Product Ownership
3 13 (4.36%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (3.69%) Data Structures
5 10 (3.36%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (3.02%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.68%) Clustering
7 8 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.01%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.68%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.68%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (1.68%) Freedom of Information
10 4 (1.34%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.34%) Data Fabric
10 4 (1.34%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.34%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.01%) Distributed Applications
11 3 (1.01%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 48 (16.11%) Linux
2 19 (6.38%) Windows
3 18 (6.04%) Unix
4 15 (5.03%) Ubuntu
5 11 (3.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (3.36%) Windows Server
7 5 (1.68%) CentOS
7 5 (1.68%) Rocky
8 4 (1.34%) Debian
8 4 (1.34%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (1.01%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.67%) Solaris
10 2 (0.67%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (46.98%) CI/CD
2 107 (35.91%) Data Engineering
3 99 (33.22%) Analytics
4 94 (31.54%) DevOps
5 92 (30.87%) Data Pipeline
6 85 (28.52%) Data Modelling
7 82 (27.52%) ETL
8 68 (22.82%) Agile
9 67 (22.48%) Containerisation
10 66 (22.15%) AI
11 65 (21.81%) Infrastructure as Code
12 55 (18.46%) Data Governance
13 51 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
14 50 (16.78%) Machine Learning
15 39 (13.09%) Observability
16 38 (12.75%) Business Intelligence
17 36 (12.08%) Workflow
18 33 (11.07%) Migration
19 32 (10.74%) Data Science
20 31 (10.40%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 187 (62.75%) Python
2 175 (58.72%) SQL
3 90 (30.20%) Java
4 22 (7.38%) Scala
5 18 (6.04%) Bash
6 13 (4.36%) Shell Script
7 12 (4.03%) C#
8 11 (3.69%) PowerShell
8 11 (3.69%) R
9 9 (3.02%) JavaScript
10 8 (2.68%) Go
10 8 (2.68%) TypeScript
11 7 (2.35%) Perl
12 6 (2.01%) PHP
13 5 (1.68%) Ruby
14 4 (1.34%) PL/SQL
15 3 (1.01%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.34%) Groovy
16 1 (0.34%) Korn
Qualifications
1 91 (30.54%) Security Cleared
2 83 (27.85%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.05%) Degree
4 15 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.68%) Master's Degree
6 7 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.01%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.68%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.34%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.01%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.67%) CCNP
11 2 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.67%) CSPO
11 2 (0.67%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.34%) RHCE
12 1 (0.34%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (20.47%) Data Quality
2 22 (7.38%) GDPR
3 7 (2.35%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.35%) QA
4 5 (1.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.01%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.67%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (0.67%) WCAG
7 1 (0.34%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.34%) SLA
System Software
1 73 (24.50%) Docker
2 9 (3.02%) Postfix
3 8 (2.68%) NFS
4 7 (2.35%) Active Directory
4 7 (2.35%) Varnish
5 5 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.34%) Sendmail
7 3 (1.01%) Dovecot
7 3 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.67%) Ceph
8 2 (0.67%) HDFS
8 2 (0.67%) KVM
8 2 (0.67%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.67%) Samba
8 2 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.67%) vSphere
9 1 (0.34%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.34%) iptables
Systems Management
1 73 (24.50%) Terraform
2 57 (19.13%) Kubernetes
3 23 (7.72%) Ansible
4 9 (3.02%) Grafana
4 9 (3.02%) HAProxy
5 4 (1.34%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.34%) SELinux
6 3 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.67%) Apache Ranger
7 2 (0.67%) Check_MK
7 2 (0.67%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.67%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.67%) Puppet
7 2 (0.67%) systemd
8 1 (0.34%) Kibana
8 1 (0.34%) Podman
8 1 (0.34%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.34%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 55 (18.46%) Databricks
2 43 (14.43%) Oracle
3 34 (11.41%) Google
4 29 (9.73%) Microsoft
5 22 (7.38%) TIBCO
6 15 (5.03%) Trend Micro
7 10 (3.36%) Red Hat
8 9 (3.02%) Cisco
9 8 (2.68%) Cloudera
9 8 (2.68%) Guidewire
9 8 (2.68%) Informatica
10 7 (2.35%) ServiceNow
11 6 (2.01%) Talend
12 5 (1.68%) Confluent
12 5 (1.68%) IBM
12 5 (1.68%) VMware
13 4 (1.34%) Hortonworks
14 3 (1.01%) Dynatrace
14 3 (1.01%) F5
14 3 (1.01%) Splunk