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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 376 263 193
Rank change year-on-year -113 -70 +104
Contract jobs citing Apache 322 317 513
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.61% 0.96% 1.31%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.98% 8.82% 12.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 238 434
10th Percentile £363 £378 £425
25th Percentile £413 £475 £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 £675 £858 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £520 £475
% change year-on-year -9.13% +9.47% -13.64%
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 4,611 3,595 4,135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.73% 10.93% 10.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,036 2,367 2,848
10th Percentile £305 £281 £279
25th Percentile £405 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.77% +0.98%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £645
90th Percentile £675 £725 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £450 £458
% change year-on-year +3.33% -1.64% -3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 89 113
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.27 £13.93
25th Percentile £19.03 £26.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £44.50 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -21.35% +40.33% -39.60%
75th Percentile £62.75 £65.25 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £47.12 £31.00
% change year-on-year -25.72% +52.00% -27.06%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -118 270 £510 -15.00% 153
London -86 160 £550 -26.67% 82
UK excluding London -74 133 £473 -9.13% 81
Work from Home -71 97 £509 -32.20% 67
North of England -31 55 £425 +18.38% 23
Scotland +4 28 £525 +5.00% 6
North East - 28 £385 - 5
North West -48 21 £525 +46.65% 8
South West -41 18 £450 -12.62% 18
Midlands -55 17 £495 -8.08% 7
West Midlands -58 14 £494 -8.56% 6
South East -71 12 £460 -23.33% 20
Yorkshire -46 6 £475 -17.39% 10
East Midlands -11 2 £548 +33.54% 1
Wales -14 2 £475 - 2
East of England -24 2 £400 -27.27% 4

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
1 169 (52.48%) Apache Spark
2 126 (39.13%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (9.01%) Jupyter
4 24 (7.45%) Tomcat
5 20 (6.21%) WebSphere
6 15 (4.66%) Apache Geronimo
6 15 (4.66%) Apache ServiceMix
6 15 (4.66%) Red Hat Fuse
7 14 (4.35%) nginx
8 9 (2.80%) Confluence
9 7 (2.17%) Apache Superset
9 7 (2.17%) IIS
10 5 (1.55%) CloudStack
10 5 (1.55%) SharePoint
11 4 (1.24%) 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
1 172 (53.42%) AWS
2 113 (35.09%) Azure
3 84 (26.09%) GCP
4 53 (16.46%) Amazon S3
5 41 (12.73%) dbt
6 35 (10.87%) Power Platform
7 34 (10.56%) Snowflake
8 33 (10.25%) Azure DevOps
9 31 (9.63%) Serverless
10 29 (9.01%) Amazon EMR
10 29 (9.01%) AWS Lambda
10 29 (9.01%) Azure Data Factory
11 23 (7.14%) GitHub
12 19 (5.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 17 (5.28%) GitHub Actions
14 15 (4.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 13 (4.04%) AWS CloudFormation
16 11 (3.42%) Amazon SQS
16 11 (3.42%) AWS Step Functions
17 10 (3.11%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.90%) DNS
2 15 (4.66%) Firewall
3 6 (1.86%) SAN
4 5 (1.55%) DHCP
4 5 (1.55%) NAS
5 3 (0.93%) HTTP
5 3 (0.93%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.93%) Network Security
5 3 (0.93%) SSL
5 3 (0.93%) Structured Cabling
5 3 (0.93%) VLAN
6 2 (0.62%) BIG-IP
6 2 (0.62%) FTP
6 2 (0.62%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.62%) 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 (17.08%) Data Warehouse
2 44 (13.66%) Data Lake
3 40 (12.42%) Delta Lake
4 39 (12.11%) Big Data
4 39 (12.11%) BigQuery
5 32 (9.94%) Amazon Athena
5 32 (9.94%) Flink
6 31 (9.63%) Power BI
7 25 (7.76%) Metadata
8 21 (6.52%) Amazon Redshift
8 21 (6.52%) SQL Server
9 19 (5.90%) PostgreSQL
10 18 (5.59%) Hadoop
10 18 (5.59%) Relational Database
11 17 (5.28%) Apache Iceberg
11 17 (5.28%) NoSQL
12 13 (4.04%) Tableau
13 12 (3.73%) Elasticsearch
14 10 (3.11%) MongoDB
14 10 (3.11%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 50 (15.53%) Git
2 45 (13.98%) GitLab
3 21 (6.52%) JIRA
4 18 (5.59%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.17%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.86%) Bitbucket
6 6 (1.86%) Maven
7 5 (1.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (1.55%) MLflow
8 4 (1.24%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.24%) Gradle
9 3 (0.93%) Selenium
10 2 (0.62%) JMeter
10 2 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.31%) Capybara
11 1 (0.31%) git-flow
11 1 (0.31%) minitest
11 1 (0.31%) Newman
11 1 (0.31%) Postman
11 1 (0.31%) RSpec
General
1 68 (21.12%) Social Skills
2 67 (20.81%) Finance
3 41 (12.73%) Public Sector
4 40 (12.42%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (7.76%) Banking
6 6 (1.86%) Billing
6 6 (1.86%) Financial Institution
6 6 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (1.86%) Marketing
6 6 (1.86%) Publishing
7 4 (1.24%) Front Office
7 4 (1.24%) Investment Banking
8 3 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (0.93%) Law
8 3 (0.93%) Legal
9 2 (0.62%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.62%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.31%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 121 (37.58%) Data Engineer
2 54 (16.77%) Senior
3 45 (13.98%) Architect
4 43 (13.35%) Developer
5 31 (9.63%) Senior Data Engineer
6 30 (9.32%) Lead
7 22 (6.83%) Java Developer
8 20 (6.21%) DevOps Engineer
9 19 (5.90%) Data Architect
10 17 (5.28%) Lead Data Engineer
11 13 (4.04%) AWS Engineer
12 11 (3.42%) Python Engineer
13 10 (3.11%) Cloud Engineer
14 9 (2.80%) Senior Developer
15 8 (2.48%) AWS Data Engineer
15 8 (2.48%) GCP Engineer
15 8 (2.48%) Python Developer
15 8 (2.48%) Snowflake Engineer
15 8 (2.48%) Software Engineer
16 7 (2.17%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (22.05%) Kafka
2 68 (21.12%) PySpark
3 26 (8.07%) REST
3 26 (8.07%) Spring
4 23 (7.14%) Spring Boot
5 20 (6.21%) Apache Beam
5 20 (6.21%) Middleware
6 17 (5.28%) JSON
7 15 (4.66%) Apache Axis
7 15 (4.66%) Apache Camel
8 11 (3.42%) Apache NiFi
9 9 (2.80%) SOAP
10 8 (2.48%) Great Expectations
10 8 (2.48%) OAuth
10 8 (2.48%) Pandas
11 7 (2.17%) AWS CDK
11 7 (2.17%) Spark Streaming
12 6 (1.86%) Elastic Stack
12 6 (1.86%) LAMP
12 6 (1.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (16.15%) Cloud Native
2 20 (6.21%) Product Ownership
3 17 (5.28%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (4.66%) Data Structures
5 14 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (3.73%) Management Information System
7 10 (3.11%) Public Cloud
8 9 (2.80%) Clustering
8 9 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (2.80%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.86%) Data Fabric
10 5 (1.55%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.55%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.55%) Replication
10 5 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.24%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.24%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (1.24%) PKI
11 4 (1.24%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 48 (14.91%) Linux
2 17 (5.28%) Windows
3 16 (4.97%) Ubuntu
4 14 (4.35%) Unix
5 10 (3.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.55%) CentOS
6 5 (1.55%) Windows 10
6 5 (1.55%) Windows Server
7 4 (1.24%) Rocky
8 3 (0.93%) Debian
9 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.31%) Solaris
10 1 (0.31%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (48.76%) CI/CD
2 129 (40.06%) Data Pipeline
3 125 (38.82%) Data Engineering
4 113 (35.09%) Analytics
5 107 (33.23%) DevOps
6 98 (30.43%) Data Modelling
7 95 (29.50%) ETL
8 85 (26.40%) Agile
9 72 (22.36%) Infrastructure as Code
10 71 (22.05%) Containerisation
11 63 (19.57%) Data Governance
12 62 (19.25%) AI
13 47 (14.60%) Business Intelligence
14 45 (13.98%) Machine Learning
15 44 (13.66%) Migration
16 42 (13.04%) Data Architecture
17 41 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
18 38 (11.80%) Data Science
18 38 (11.80%) Workflow
19 36 (11.18%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 214 (66.46%) Python
2 183 (56.83%) SQL
3 89 (27.64%) Java
4 28 (8.70%) Scala
5 22 (6.83%) Bash
6 21 (6.52%) Shell Script
7 19 (5.90%) PowerShell
8 11 (3.42%) R
9 9 (2.80%) Go
9 9 (2.80%) TypeScript
10 7 (2.17%) C#
10 7 (2.17%) PL/SQL
11 6 (1.86%) Perl
12 5 (1.55%) JavaScript
12 5 (1.55%) Ruby
13 4 (1.24%) Groovy
14 3 (0.93%) Cypher
14 3 (0.93%) Gremlin
14 3 (0.93%) PHP
14 3 (0.93%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 91 (28.26%) Security Cleared
2 82 (25.47%) SC Cleared
3 18 (5.59%) Degree
4 16 (4.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.80%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.86%) AWS Certification
6 6 (1.86%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.55%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
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%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.31%) MBA
11 1 (0.31%) PhD
11 1 (0.31%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (26.40%) Data Quality
2 18 (5.59%) GDPR
3 12 (3.73%) QA
4 7 (2.17%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (1.24%) 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 92 (28.57%) Docker
2 12 (3.73%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.80%) Postfix
4 8 (2.48%) NFS
5 7 (2.17%) Varnish
6 5 (1.55%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.24%) Sendmail
7 4 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
8 3 (0.93%) Dovecot
8 3 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.93%) vSphere
9 2 (0.62%) Ceph
9 2 (0.62%) HDFS
9 2 (0.62%) KVM
9 2 (0.62%) Samba
10 1 (0.31%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.31%) iptables
Systems Management
1 91 (28.26%) Terraform
2 76 (23.60%) Kubernetes
3 25 (7.76%) Ansible
4 11 (3.42%) Grafana
5 9 (2.80%) HAProxy
6 7 (2.17%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.55%) Packer
7 5 (1.55%) vCenter Server
8 4 (1.24%) SELinux
9 3 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.93%) Apache Ranger
9 3 (0.93%) Check_MK
9 3 (0.93%) Kibana
9 3 (0.93%) systemd
10 2 (0.62%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.62%) Puppet
11 1 (0.31%) logstash
11 1 (0.31%) Podman
11 1 (0.31%) Rundeck
11 1 (0.31%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 73 (22.67%) Databricks
2 37 (11.49%) Google
3 35 (10.87%) Microsoft
4 25 (7.76%) Oracle
5 16 (4.97%) TIBCO
5 16 (4.97%) Trend Micro
6 11 (3.42%) Red Hat
7 10 (3.11%) Cloudera
7 10 (3.11%) VMware
8 9 (2.80%) ServiceNow
9 8 (2.48%) Informatica
9 8 (2.48%) Splunk
10 7 (2.17%) Cisco
10 7 (2.17%) Guidewire
11 5 (1.55%) Confluent
11 5 (1.55%) IBM
11 5 (1.55%) New Relic
11 5 (1.55%) Tanium
12 4 (1.24%) Hortonworks
12 4 (1.24%) Okta