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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 234 258
Rank change year-on-year -118 +24 +41
Contract jobs citing Apache 297 310 384
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.62% 1.06% 0.88%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.06% 9.32% 9.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 240 322
10th Percentile £385 £410 £400
25th Percentile £456 £473 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £605
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +11.57% +0.83%
75th Percentile £600 £838 £850
90th Percentile £674 £875 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £488
% change year-on-year +5.00% +2.56% -11.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 9
10th Percentile £64.00 £32.42 £21.95
25th Percentile £65.25 £49.78 £27.75
Median hourly rate £75.00 £78.70 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.70% +49.90% -32.69%
75th Percentile £82.50 £80.83 £74.44
90th Percentile £89.00 £82.11 £75.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £78.70 £57.25
% change year-on-year -4.70% +37.47% -24.17%

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 4,206 3,326 4,190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.82% 11.36% 9.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,874 2,226 2,894
10th Percentile £313 £275 £250
25th Percentile £404 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £468 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +3.89% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 77 159
10th Percentile £15.54 £16.55 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.02 £22.50 £15.41
Median hourly rate £28.44 £43.09 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.00% +56.69% -31.25%
75th Percentile £71.75 £64.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £78.55 £76.00 £69.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £47.50 £23.63
% change year-on-year -26.31% +101.05% -10.78%

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 May 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 May 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 7 May 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 -144 229 £525 -22.22% 82
London -115 132 £570 -24.00% 34
UK excluding London -55 130 £525 +5.00% 56
Work from Home -84 73 £525 -30.00% 52
Scotland +37 40 £525 +13.51% 6
North of England -43 33 £484 +1.79% 18
North West -26 21 £525 +10.53% 11
Midlands -66 20 £550 -4.35% 6
South West -29 16 £450 -26.53% 13
West Midlands -53 16 £550 -8.33% 6
North East -7 10 £405 -37.69% 6
East of England -31 8 £363 +13.93% 2
South East -55 8 £550 +51.72% 11
Northern Ireland +2 3 £463 +12.80%
Wales -14 3 £509 -
East Midlands -31 3 £600 +46.34%
Yorkshire -58 2 £469 -12.79% 1

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
1 136 (45.79%) Apache Spark
2 76 (25.59%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (9.76%) Tomcat
4 27 (9.09%) WebSphere
5 24 (8.08%) Apache Geronimo
5 24 (8.08%) Apache ServiceMix
5 24 (8.08%) Red Hat Fuse
6 7 (2.36%) IIS
7 6 (2.02%) Jupyter
8 5 (1.68%) Apache Superset
8 5 (1.68%) nginx
9 4 (1.35%) Confluence
9 4 (1.35%) WebLogic
10 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (1.01%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (1.01%) SAS
11 2 (0.67%) Apache Synapse
11 2 (0.67%) JBoss
11 2 (0.67%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.34%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.67%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Actimize
1 1 (0.34%) Magento
1 1 (0.34%) Maximo
1 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.34%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 137 (46.13%) AWS
2 104 (35.02%) Azure
3 68 (22.90%) GCP
4 49 (16.50%) Amazon S3
5 41 (13.80%) Power Platform
6 36 (12.12%) Serverless
7 35 (11.78%) AWS CloudFormation
8 28 (9.43%) AWS Lambda
8 28 (9.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 27 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
10 23 (7.74%) Azure Data Factory
11 21 (7.07%) Amazon SQS
12 19 (6.40%) Snowflake
13 18 (6.06%) GitHub
14 17 (5.72%) Collibra
15 14 (4.71%) dbt
16 13 (4.38%) AWS Step Functions
16 13 (4.38%) GitHub Actions
17 9 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 9 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.38%) Firewall
2 11 (3.70%) DNS
3 10 (3.37%) HTTP
4 6 (2.02%) Network Security
5 4 (1.35%) DHCP
5 4 (1.35%) SAN
6 3 (1.01%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.67%) FTP
7 2 (0.67%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.67%) SSH
7 2 (0.67%) VLAN
8 1 (0.34%) 4G
8 1 (0.34%) 5G
8 1 (0.34%) InfiniBand
8 1 (0.34%) Intranet
8 1 (0.34%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.34%) NAS
8 1 (0.34%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.34%) Spanning Tree
8 1 (0.34%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (16.50%) Data Lake
2 43 (14.48%) Big Data
3 39 (13.13%) Data Warehouse
4 35 (11.78%) Delta Lake
4 35 (11.78%) Power BI
5 32 (10.77%) Amazon Athena
5 32 (10.77%) BigQuery
6 24 (8.08%) Hadoop
7 23 (7.74%) SQL Server
8 21 (7.07%) PostgreSQL
9 19 (6.40%) Flink
10 16 (5.39%) Metadata
10 16 (5.39%) Mixpanel
10 16 (5.39%) NoSQL
11 15 (5.05%) OLAP
11 15 (5.05%) OLTP
12 14 (4.71%) Amazon Redshift
12 14 (4.71%) MySQL
12 14 (4.71%) Relational Database
13 12 (4.04%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 57 (19.19%) Git
2 27 (9.09%) GitLab
3 22 (7.41%) JIRA
4 16 (5.39%) MLflow
5 12 (4.04%) Jenkins
6 9 (3.03%) Artifactory
7 7 (2.36%) Maven
8 5 (1.68%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.35%) Gradle
10 3 (1.01%) Mockito
10 3 (1.01%) Selenium
10 3 (1.01%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.67%) JUnit
11 2 (0.67%) Liquibase
12 1 (0.34%) Ant
12 1 (0.34%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.34%) ERwin
12 1 (0.34%) PHPUnit
12 1 (0.34%) RSpec
12 1 (0.34%) Storybook
General
1 61 (20.54%) Finance
2 49 (16.50%) Social Skills
3 35 (11.78%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (7.07%) Public Sector
5 15 (5.05%) Banking
6 7 (2.36%) Billing
7 4 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.35%) Front Office
7 4 (1.35%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.01%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.01%) Marketing
9 2 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.67%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.34%) Dutch Language
10 1 (0.34%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.34%) French Language
10 1 (0.34%) Law
10 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.34%) Prime Brokerage
10 1 (0.34%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 100 (33.67%) Data Engineer
2 46 (15.49%) Senior
3 41 (13.80%) Developer
4 31 (10.44%) Lead
5 29 (9.76%) Architect
6 19 (6.40%) Senior Data Engineer
6 19 (6.40%) Software Engineer
7 18 (6.06%) Java Developer
8 17 (5.72%) Lead Data Engineer
9 16 (5.39%) Principal Engineer
10 15 (5.05%) Principal Data Engineer
11 13 (4.38%) AWS Engineer
12 12 (4.04%) DevOps Engineer
13 11 (3.70%) Data Architect
14 9 (3.03%) Analyst
14 9 (3.03%) Python Engineer
15 8 (2.69%) Platform Engineer
16 7 (2.36%) Technical Leader
17 6 (2.02%) AWS Data Engineer
17 6 (2.02%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (22.56%) Kafka
2 45 (15.15%) PySpark
3 29 (9.76%) REST
4 28 (9.43%) Middleware
5 24 (8.08%) Apache Axis
5 24 (8.08%) Apache Camel
6 22 (7.41%) Spring
7 20 (6.73%) Apache NiFi
8 18 (6.06%) Great Expectations
9 15 (5.05%) JSON
9 15 (5.05%) Spring Boot
10 12 (4.04%) Apache Beam
11 11 (3.70%) Pandas
12 9 (3.03%) AWS CDK
12 9 (3.03%) NumPy
12 9 (3.03%) SOAP
13 7 (2.36%) PyTorch
14 6 (2.02%) Node.js
14 6 (2.02%) OAuth
15 5 (1.68%) React
Miscellaneous
1 40 (13.47%) Cloud Native
2 15 (5.05%) Management Information System
3 12 (4.04%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.37%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (3.03%) Algorithms
5 9 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.69%) Data Structures
7 7 (2.36%) Clustering
8 6 (2.02%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.68%) Freedom of Information
9 5 (1.68%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.68%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.68%) Replication
10 4 (1.35%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.01%) Distributed Applications
11 3 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
12 2 (0.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 50 (16.84%) Linux
2 22 (7.41%) Windows
3 20 (6.73%) Unix
4 11 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (3.03%) Ubuntu
5 9 (3.03%) Windows Server
6 6 (2.02%) Debian
7 5 (1.68%) Rocky
8 3 (1.01%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.67%) CentOS
9 2 (0.67%) Solaris
9 2 (0.67%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (41.41%) CI/CD
2 97 (32.66%) Data Pipeline
3 96 (32.32%) Analytics
4 91 (30.64%) ETL
5 89 (29.97%) Data Engineering
6 87 (29.29%) Data Modelling
7 86 (28.96%) DevOps
8 71 (23.91%) Agile
9 67 (22.56%) AI
10 62 (20.88%) Data Governance
10 62 (20.88%) Problem-Solving
11 59 (19.87%) Machine Learning
12 54 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
13 46 (15.49%) Observability
14 45 (15.15%) Containerisation
15 43 (14.48%) Data Architecture
16 41 (13.80%) Business Intelligence
17 38 (12.79%) Software Engineering
18 36 (12.12%) Data Science
19 34 (11.45%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 173 (58.25%) SQL
2 171 (57.58%) Python
3 88 (29.63%) Java
4 25 (8.42%) Scala
5 18 (6.06%) C#
6 14 (4.71%) Shell Script
7 12 (4.04%) PowerShell
7 12 (4.04%) R
8 11 (3.70%) Bash
8 11 (3.70%) JavaScript
9 8 (2.69%) TypeScript
10 7 (2.36%) Perl
11 6 (2.02%) PHP
12 5 (1.68%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.35%) Go
13 4 (1.35%) Ruby
14 2 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.34%) Groovy
15 1 (0.34%) Korn
15 1 (0.34%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 85 (28.62%) Security Cleared
2 69 (23.23%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.73%) Degree
4 16 (5.39%) DV Cleared
5 15 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.36%) AWS Certification
7 7 (2.36%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.01%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.01%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.34%) CCNA
10 1 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.34%) RHCE
10 1 (0.34%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (21.55%) Data Quality
2 24 (8.08%) GDPR
3 11 (3.70%) QA
4 7 (2.36%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.01%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.67%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.67%) WCAG
8 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.34%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.34%) MiFID
8 1 (0.34%) SLA
System Software
1 47 (15.82%) Docker
2 7 (2.36%) NFS
3 6 (2.02%) Varnish
4 5 (1.68%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.68%) Postfix
5 4 (1.35%) HDFS
5 4 (1.35%) Sendmail
6 3 (1.01%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.01%) Samba
6 3 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.67%) iptables
7 2 (0.67%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.34%) Ceph
8 1 (0.34%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.34%) KVM
8 1 (0.34%) Lustre
8 1 (0.34%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 61 (20.54%) Kubernetes
1 61 (20.54%) Terraform
2 27 (9.09%) Ansible
3 8 (2.69%) Grafana
4 6 (2.02%) HAProxy
5 3 (1.01%) Kibana
5 3 (1.01%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.01%) SELinux
6 2 (0.67%) Apache Ranger
6 2 (0.67%) logstash
6 2 (0.67%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (0.67%) Puppet
6 2 (0.67%) systemd
7 1 (0.34%) Podman
7 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.34%) Rundeck
7 1 (0.34%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 64 (21.55%) Databricks
2 41 (13.80%) Oracle
3 34 (11.45%) Google
4 24 (8.08%) Microsoft
4 24 (8.08%) TIBCO
5 14 (4.71%) Red Hat
6 12 (4.04%) Informatica
7 10 (3.37%) Cloudera
8 9 (3.03%) ServiceNow
9 8 (2.69%) Guidewire
9 8 (2.69%) Talend
10 6 (2.02%) Cisco
10 6 (2.02%) Confluent
11 5 (1.68%) IBM
11 5 (1.68%) Palo Alto
11 5 (1.68%) SolarWinds
11 5 (1.68%) VMware
12 4 (1.35%) Hortonworks
12 4 (1.35%) Splunk
13 3 (1.01%) Foundry