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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 280 190
Rank change year-on-year -91 -90 +113
Contract jobs citing Apache 347 286 477
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.64% 0.86% 1.26%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.41% 8.02% 11.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 207 395
10th Percentile £350 £377 £409
25th Percentile £406 £462 £536
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £550 £750
Median % change year-on-year -7.45% -26.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £625 £713 £850
90th Percentile £712 £825 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £492 £475
% change year-on-year -13.62% +3.58% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 7
10th Percentile £56.87 - £57.50
25th Percentile £62.48 - £69.50
Median hourly rate £67.47 £80.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.66% +8.11% -5.13%
75th Percentile £74.06 - £74.44
90th Percentile £82.75 - £74.66
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £80.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year -15.66% +8.11% -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 4,684 3,565 4,151
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.57% 10.74% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,032 2,305 2,656
10th Percentile £286 £278 £263
25th Percentile £404 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £643
90th Percentile £682 £700 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £460
% change year-on-year +2.78% -2.17% -3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 86 80
10th Percentile £14.79 £15.60 £17.08
25th Percentile £16.60 £20.69 £23.80
Median hourly rate £28.40 £34.43 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -17.53% -7.57% -19.02%
75th Percentile £56.32 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £72.50 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.25 £32.77 £48.56
% change year-on-year -13.79% -32.52% +7.91%

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 -84 294 £513 -6.82% 473
London -72 164 £588 -9.62% 243
UK excluding London -68 149 £425 -13.62% 382
Work from Home -78 102 £495 -34.00% 360
North of England -44 59 £413 -8.94% 67
South West -14 30 £525 +15.38% 53
North East -11 29 £385 -30.00% 16
Scotland -12 28 £409 -18.20% 88
Yorkshire -34 16 £475 - 16
Midlands -56 15 £475 -7.09% 34
North West -55 14 £530 +18.83% 35
West Midlands -56 14 £475 -9.52% 16
South East -59 13 £425 -29.17% 52
East of England -23 4 £456 -17.05% 27
Wales - 2 £475 - 33
East Midlands -11 1 £495 +17.86% 18

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
1 188 (54.18%) Apache Spark
2 167 (48.13%) Apache Airflow
3 37 (10.66%) Jupyter
4 22 (6.34%) nginx
5 18 (5.19%) Tomcat
6 16 (4.61%) Confluence
7 10 (2.88%) IIS
8 9 (2.59%) WebSphere
9 7 (2.02%) Apache Superset
9 7 (2.02%) WebLogic
10 5 (1.44%) CloudStack
11 4 (1.15%) JBoss
11 4 (1.15%) SharePoint
12 3 (0.86%) IBM HTTP Server
12 3 (0.86%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 3 (0.86%) WebLogic Portal
12 3 (0.86%) WebSphere Application Server
12 3 (0.86%) WebSphere Portal
13 1 (0.29%) Apache Pulsar
13 1 (0.29%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 196 (56.48%) AWS
2 117 (33.72%) Azure
3 90 (25.94%) GCP
4 75 (21.61%) Amazon S3
5 62 (17.87%) dbt
6 50 (14.41%) Snowflake
7 39 (11.24%) Serverless
8 36 (10.37%) Amazon EMR
9 34 (9.80%) AWS Lambda
10 31 (8.93%) Azure Data Factory
11 27 (7.78%) Azure DevOps
11 27 (7.78%) Power Platform
12 23 (6.63%) GitHub
13 21 (6.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 21 (6.05%) Amazon EC2
14 16 (4.61%) OpenShift
15 15 (4.32%) Azure Databricks
16 14 (4.03%) Cloud Composer
17 13 (3.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 12 (3.46%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.32%) DNS
2 13 (3.75%) Firewall
3 5 (1.44%) DHCP
3 5 (1.44%) HTTP
3 5 (1.44%) NAS
3 5 (1.44%) SAN
3 5 (1.44%) SSL
4 4 (1.15%) Network Security
5 3 (0.86%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.86%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (0.86%) Structured Cabling
6 2 (0.58%) BIG-IP
6 2 (0.58%) Internet
6 2 (0.58%) VLAN
6 2 (0.58%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.29%) Broadband
7 1 (0.29%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (22.48%) Data Warehouse
2 54 (15.56%) Data Lake
3 48 (13.83%) Big Data
4 47 (13.54%) BigQuery
5 41 (11.82%) Delta Lake
6 39 (11.24%) Flink
7 38 (10.95%) Metadata
8 31 (8.93%) PostgreSQL
9 29 (8.36%) Amazon Athena
10 27 (7.78%) Power BI
11 26 (7.49%) Amazon Redshift
11 26 (7.49%) Apache Iceberg
12 23 (6.63%) Hadoop
13 20 (5.76%) SQL Server
14 19 (5.48%) Relational Database
15 15 (4.32%) NoSQL
16 14 (4.03%) Elasticsearch
17 12 (3.46%) DynamoDB
18 11 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
18 11 (3.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 67 (19.31%) GitLab
2 49 (14.12%) Git
3 21 (6.05%) JIRA
4 18 (5.19%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.02%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (1.73%) Maven
7 5 (1.44%) Artifactory
7 5 (1.44%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.86%) Gradle
8 3 (0.86%) MLflow
8 3 (0.86%) Selenium
9 2 (0.58%) Gerrit
9 2 (0.58%) JMeter
9 2 (0.58%) RStudio
9 2 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.58%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.29%) Ant
10 1 (0.29%) Capybara
10 1 (0.29%) RSpec
General
1 89 (25.65%) Social Skills
2 82 (23.63%) Finance
3 51 (14.70%) Public Sector
4 45 (12.97%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (10.37%) Banking
6 8 (2.31%) Financial Institution
6 8 (2.31%) Publishing
7 7 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.02%) Military
8 6 (1.73%) Marketing
9 5 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.44%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.15%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.15%) Billing
10 4 (1.15%) Retail
11 3 (0.86%) Automotive
11 3 (0.86%) Law
11 3 (0.86%) Legal
12 2 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 147 (42.36%) Data Engineer
2 61 (17.58%) Senior
3 44 (12.68%) Architect
4 41 (11.82%) Senior Data Engineer
5 37 (10.66%) Developer
6 28 (8.07%) DevOps Engineer
7 27 (7.78%) Lead
8 24 (6.92%) Data Architect
9 22 (6.34%) Databricks Engineer
10 18 (5.19%) Java Developer
11 16 (4.61%) Databricks Data Engineer
12 15 (4.32%) Python Engineer
13 13 (3.75%) Python Data Engineer
14 12 (3.46%) Cloud Engineer
15 11 (3.17%) AWS Engineer
16 10 (2.88%) GCP Engineer
16 10 (2.88%) Senior Databricks Data Engineer
16 10 (2.88%) Snowflake Engineer
16 10 (2.88%) Software Engineer
16 10 (2.88%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (31.70%) Terraform
2 95 (27.38%) PySpark
3 79 (22.77%) Kafka
4 36 (10.37%) REST
5 31 (8.93%) Spring
6 30 (8.65%) Spring Boot
7 20 (5.76%) Apache NiFi
8 16 (4.61%) Apache Beam
9 14 (4.03%) JSON
10 12 (3.46%) Middleware
10 12 (3.46%) SOAP
11 10 (2.88%) OAuth
11 10 (2.88%) Pandas
12 9 (2.59%) Spark Streaming
13 8 (2.31%) Elastic Stack
13 8 (2.31%) YAML
14 7 (2.02%) AngularJS
14 7 (2.02%) Web Services
15 6 (1.73%) LDAP
15 6 (1.73%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 57 (16.43%) Cloud Native
2 25 (7.20%) Product Ownership
3 19 (5.48%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (4.32%) Data Structures
4 15 (4.32%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (3.75%) Onboarding
6 11 (3.17%) Management Information System
7 10 (2.88%) Algorithms
8 9 (2.59%) Data Fabric
8 9 (2.59%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (2.02%) Clustering
9 7 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.73%) AI Agents
10 6 (1.73%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.44%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.44%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.44%) Replication
12 4 (1.15%) Distributed Computing
13 3 (0.86%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 46 (13.26%) Linux
2 22 (6.34%) Windows
3 15 (4.32%) Ubuntu
4 9 (2.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.73%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.44%) Unix
6 5 (1.44%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.15%) CentOS
8 3 (0.86%) Rocky
9 2 (0.58%) Debian
9 2 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.29%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.29%) Solaris
10 1 (0.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (53.60%) CI/CD
2 155 (44.67%) Data Pipeline
3 153 (44.09%) Data Engineering
4 121 (34.87%) DevOps
5 118 (34.01%) Analytics
6 116 (33.43%) ETL
7 108 (31.12%) Agile
8 103 (29.68%) Data Modelling
9 89 (25.65%) AI
10 85 (24.50%) Infrastructure as Code
11 70 (20.17%) Containerisation
12 67 (19.31%) Machine Learning
13 64 (18.44%) Data Governance
14 59 (17.00%) Migration
15 54 (15.56%) Lakehouse
16 49 (14.12%) Problem-Solving
17 47 (13.54%) Data Science
18 45 (12.97%) Stakeholder Management
19 42 (12.10%) Technical Leadership
19 42 (12.10%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 231 (66.57%) Python
2 177 (51.01%) SQL
3 71 (20.46%) Java
4 32 (9.22%) Scala
5 28 (8.07%) Bash
5 28 (8.07%) PowerShell
6 13 (3.75%) Shell Script
7 10 (2.88%) JavaScript
8 8 (2.31%) Go
9 7 (2.02%) PL/SQL
10 6 (1.73%) TypeScript
11 5 (1.44%) Bicep
11 5 (1.44%) Groovy
12 4 (1.15%) Perl
13 3 (0.86%) Cypher
13 3 (0.86%) Gremlin
13 3 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.86%) R
13 3 (0.86%) Ruby
13 3 (0.86%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 105 (30.26%) Security Cleared
2 83 (23.92%) SC Cleared
3 23 (6.63%) Degree
4 22 (6.34%) DV Cleared
5 15 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (3.46%) AWS Certification
7 7 (2.02%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.15%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.15%) CISSP
10 3 (0.86%) CCNP
10 3 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.86%) CSPO
10 3 (0.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.58%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.29%) FFIEC
12 1 (0.29%) RHCSA
12 1 (0.29%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (26.51%) Data Quality
2 13 (3.75%) QA
3 12 (3.46%) GDPR
4 7 (2.02%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.15%) Government Security Classifications
6 3 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.86%) NCSC
7 2 (0.58%) NIST
7 2 (0.58%) SLA
8 1 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.29%) GLBA
8 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 106 (30.55%) Docker
2 19 (5.48%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.44%) Postfix
3 5 (1.44%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.86%) Dovecot
5 3 (0.86%) NFS
5 3 (0.86%) vSphere
6 2 (0.58%) Ceph
6 2 (0.58%) KVM
6 2 (0.58%) Varnish
7 1 (0.29%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 92 (26.51%) Kubernetes
2 28 (8.07%) Ansible
3 17 (4.90%) Grafana
4 13 (3.75%) Prometheus
5 7 (2.02%) HAProxy
6 5 (1.44%) Packer
6 5 (1.44%) Puppet
6 5 (1.44%) vCenter Server
7 4 (1.15%) Kibana
7 4 (1.15%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.86%) Check_MK
9 2 (0.58%) Control-M
9 2 (0.58%) SELinux
10 1 (0.29%) Apache Ranger
10 1 (0.29%) logstash
10 1 (0.29%) Podman
10 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.29%) systemd
Vendors
1 91 (26.22%) Databricks
2 41 (11.82%) Google
3 37 (10.66%) Microsoft
4 18 (5.19%) Oracle
5 17 (4.90%) Trend Micro
6 11 (3.17%) Red Hat
7 10 (2.88%) VMware
8 9 (2.59%) Informatica
9 8 (2.31%) IBM
9 8 (2.31%) ServiceNow
10 7 (2.02%) Cisco
10 7 (2.02%) Splunk
11 6 (1.73%) Guidewire
12 5 (1.44%) New Relic
12 5 (1.44%) Talend
12 5 (1.44%) Tanium
13 4 (1.15%) Teradata
13 4 (1.15%) webMethods
14 3 (0.86%) Fortinet
14 3 (0.86%) Veeam