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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 272 190
Rank change year-on-year -95 -82 +112
Contract jobs citing Apache 334 317 522
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.63% 0.97% 1.31%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.21% 8.82% 12.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 238 444
10th Percentile £363 £396 £415
25th Percentile £425 £475 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £750
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £588 £825 £856
90th Percentile £675 £858 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £530 £475
% change year-on-year -10.29% +11.47% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 12
10th Percentile £60.47 £38.21 £37.70
25th Percentile £64.00 £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 £71.50 £80.74 £74.44
90th Percentile £78.00 £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 4,631 3,595 4,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.72% 10.96% 10.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,059 2,366 2,886
10th Percentile £306 £281 £274
25th Percentile £406 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.77% +3.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £725 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £450 £455
% change year-on-year +3.33% -1.10% -3.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 87 119
10th Percentile £16.25 £19.08 £13.61
25th Percentile £19.01 £26.00 £19.82
Median hourly rate £32.50 £44.50 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.97% +43.55% -39.51%
75th Percentile £61.26 £67.63 £66.50
90th Percentile £74.33 £79.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £47.12 £30.00
% change year-on-year -31.03% +57.07% -14.29%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 31 July 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 -125 274 £513 -14.58% 117
London -86 162 £550 -26.67% 64
UK excluding London -50 140 £475 -10.29% 62
Work from Home -65 97 £509 -32.20% 37
North of England -43 56 £425 - 20
Scotland +13 33 £525 +5.00% 4
North East - 28 £385 - 6
North West -48 22 £525 +46.65% 8
South West -39 18 £450 -12.62% 11
Midlands -55 17 £495 -7.82% 6
West Midlands -62 14 £494 -9.40% 5
South East -70 11 £470 -21.67% 17
Yorkshire -57 6 £475 -20.83% 6
Wales -15 3 £509 - 2
East of England -25 3 £400 -27.27% 3
East Midlands -15 2 £548 +33.54% 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
1 173 (51.80%) Apache Spark
2 125 (37.43%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (8.98%) Tomcat
4 29 (8.68%) Jupyter
5 26 (7.78%) WebSphere
6 21 (6.29%) Apache Geronimo
6 21 (6.29%) Apache ServiceMix
6 21 (6.29%) Red Hat Fuse
7 13 (3.89%) nginx
8 8 (2.40%) Confluence
9 7 (2.10%) IIS
10 6 (1.80%) Apache Superset
11 5 (1.50%) CloudStack
11 5 (1.50%) SharePoint
12 4 (1.20%) JBoss
13 3 (0.90%) WebLogic
14 1 (0.30%) CMS
14 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
14 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
14 1 (0.30%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Magento
1 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.30%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 174 (52.10%) AWS
2 117 (35.03%) Azure
3 85 (25.45%) GCP
4 54 (16.17%) Amazon S3
5 42 (12.57%) dbt
6 35 (10.48%) Power Platform
7 33 (9.88%) Azure DevOps
8 32 (9.58%) Snowflake
9 30 (8.98%) Serverless
10 29 (8.68%) Azure Data Factory
11 28 (8.38%) Amazon EMR
11 28 (8.38%) AWS Lambda
12 23 (6.89%) GitHub
13 20 (5.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 17 (5.09%) GitHub Actions
15 15 (4.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 15 (4.49%) AWS CloudFormation
16 12 (3.59%) Amazon SQS
17 10 (2.99%) AWS Step Functions
17 10 (2.99%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.39%) DNS
2 14 (4.19%) Firewall
3 6 (1.80%) SAN
4 5 (1.50%) NAS
5 4 (1.20%) DHCP
6 3 (0.90%) HTTP
6 3 (0.90%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.90%) Network Security
6 3 (0.90%) SSL
6 3 (0.90%) Structured Cabling
6 3 (0.90%) VLAN
7 2 (0.60%) BIG-IP
7 2 (0.60%) FTP
7 2 (0.60%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.60%) VXLAN
8 1 (0.30%) 4G
8 1 (0.30%) 5G
8 1 (0.30%) Intranet
8 1 (0.30%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.30%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (17.07%) Data Warehouse
2 47 (14.07%) Data Lake
3 42 (12.57%) Big Data
4 39 (11.68%) BigQuery
5 38 (11.38%) Delta Lake
6 33 (9.88%) Flink
7 32 (9.58%) Amazon Athena
8 31 (9.28%) Power BI
9 26 (7.78%) Metadata
10 25 (7.49%) SQL Server
11 21 (6.29%) Amazon Redshift
11 21 (6.29%) Hadoop
12 20 (5.99%) PostgreSQL
13 18 (5.39%) Relational Database
14 17 (5.09%) NoSQL
15 16 (4.79%) Apache Iceberg
16 15 (4.49%) Tableau
17 14 (4.19%) MySQL
18 12 (3.59%) Elasticsearch
19 11 (3.29%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 50 (14.97%) Git
2 45 (13.47%) GitLab
3 20 (5.99%) JIRA
4 18 (5.39%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.10%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.80%) Maven
7 5 (1.50%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.50%) MLflow
8 4 (1.20%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (1.20%) Gradle
9 3 (0.90%) Selenium
10 2 (0.60%) JMeter
10 2 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.30%) Ant
11 1 (0.30%) Capybara
11 1 (0.30%) git-flow
11 1 (0.30%) minitest
11 1 (0.30%) Newman
11 1 (0.30%) Postman
General
1 66 (19.76%) Social Skills
2 65 (19.46%) Finance
3 41 (12.28%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (12.28%) Public Sector
4 25 (7.49%) Banking
5 6 (1.80%) Billing
5 6 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (1.80%) Marketing
5 6 (1.80%) Publishing
6 5 (1.50%) Financial Institution
6 5 (1.50%) Investment Banking
7 4 (1.20%) Front Office
8 3 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (0.90%) Law
8 3 (0.90%) Legal
9 2 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.60%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.30%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 121 (36.23%) Data Engineer
2 55 (16.47%) Senior
3 47 (14.07%) Architect
4 46 (13.77%) Developer
5 31 (9.28%) Senior Data Engineer
6 28 (8.38%) Lead
7 22 (6.59%) Java Developer
8 21 (6.29%) Data Architect
8 21 (6.29%) DevOps Engineer
9 16 (4.79%) Lead Data Engineer
10 13 (3.89%) AWS Engineer
11 10 (2.99%) Cloud Engineer
11 10 (2.99%) Python Engineer
12 9 (2.69%) Python Developer
12 9 (2.69%) Senior Developer
12 9 (2.69%) Software Engineer
13 8 (2.40%) Analyst
13 8 (2.40%) AWS Data Engineer
13 8 (2.40%) GCP Engineer
13 8 (2.40%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (21.86%) Kafka
2 66 (19.76%) PySpark
3 27 (8.08%) REST
3 27 (8.08%) Spring
4 26 (7.78%) Middleware
5 23 (6.89%) Spring Boot
6 21 (6.29%) Apache Axis
6 21 (6.29%) Apache Camel
7 20 (5.99%) Apache Beam
8 17 (5.09%) JSON
9 11 (3.29%) Apache NiFi
10 9 (2.69%) Great Expectations
10 9 (2.69%) SOAP
11 8 (2.40%) LAMP
11 8 (2.40%) OAuth
11 8 (2.40%) Pandas
12 7 (2.10%) AWS CDK
12 7 (2.10%) Spark Streaming
13 6 (1.80%) Elastic Stack
13 6 (1.80%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 53 (15.87%) Cloud Native
2 18 (5.39%) Product Ownership
3 17 (5.09%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (4.49%) Data Structures
5 14 (4.19%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (3.59%) Management Information System
7 10 (2.99%) Public Cloud
8 9 (2.69%) Clustering
8 9 (2.69%) Onboarding
9 8 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.80%) Data Fabric
10 6 (1.80%) Distributed Computing
11 5 (1.50%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.50%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.50%) Replication
11 5 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.20%) Algorithms
12 4 (1.20%) PKI
12 4 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 52 (15.57%) Linux
2 17 (5.09%) Windows
3 16 (4.79%) Ubuntu
4 15 (4.49%) Unix
5 10 (2.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.80%) Windows Server
7 5 (1.50%) CentOS
8 4 (1.20%) Rocky
8 4 (1.20%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.90%) Debian
10 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.30%) Solaris
11 1 (0.30%) VMS
11 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (47.31%) CI/CD
2 130 (38.92%) Data Pipeline
3 127 (38.02%) Data Engineering
4 117 (35.03%) Analytics
5 107 (32.04%) DevOps
6 102 (30.54%) Data Modelling
7 96 (28.74%) ETL
8 84 (25.15%) Agile
9 74 (22.16%) Infrastructure as Code
10 71 (21.26%) Containerisation
11 66 (19.76%) AI
11 66 (19.76%) Data Governance
12 47 (14.07%) Business Intelligence
13 46 (13.77%) Machine Learning
13 46 (13.77%) Migration
14 44 (13.17%) Data Architecture
14 44 (13.17%) Problem-Solving
15 41 (12.28%) Data Science
16 39 (11.68%) Workflow
17 36 (10.78%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 215 (64.37%) Python
2 191 (57.19%) SQL
3 95 (28.44%) Java
4 29 (8.68%) Scala
5 22 (6.59%) Bash
5 22 (6.59%) Shell Script
6 17 (5.09%) PowerShell
7 11 (3.29%) R
8 10 (2.99%) TypeScript
9 9 (2.69%) Go
9 9 (2.69%) Perl
10 8 (2.40%) C#
10 8 (2.40%) JavaScript
11 7 (2.10%) PL/SQL
12 6 (1.80%) PHP
13 5 (1.50%) Ruby
14 4 (1.20%) Groovy
15 3 (0.90%) Bicep
15 3 (0.90%) Cypher
15 3 (0.90%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 95 (28.44%) Security Cleared
2 86 (25.75%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.29%) Degree
4 17 (5.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.69%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.40%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.40%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.80%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.90%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.90%) CCNP
9 3 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.90%) CSPO
9 3 (0.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.60%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.60%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.30%) MBA
11 1 (0.30%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (26.05%) Data Quality
2 19 (5.69%) GDPR
3 12 (3.59%) QA
4 7 (2.10%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (1.20%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.60%) SLA
7 2 (0.60%) WCAG
System Software
1 90 (26.95%) Docker
2 12 (3.59%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.69%) Postfix
4 8 (2.40%) NFS
5 7 (2.10%) Varnish
6 4 (1.20%) Sendmail
6 4 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (0.90%) Dovecot
7 3 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.90%) vSphere
8 2 (0.60%) Ceph
8 2 (0.60%) HDFS
8 2 (0.60%) KVM
8 2 (0.60%) Samba
9 1 (0.30%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.30%) iptables
Systems Management
1 90 (26.95%) Terraform
2 73 (21.86%) Kubernetes
3 24 (7.19%) Ansible
4 10 (2.99%) Grafana
5 9 (2.69%) HAProxy
6 7 (2.10%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.20%) Packer
7 4 (1.20%) SELinux
7 4 (1.20%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.90%) Apache Ranger
8 3 (0.90%) Check_MK
8 3 (0.90%) Kibana
8 3 (0.90%) systemd
9 2 (0.60%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.60%) Puppet
10 1 (0.30%) logstash
10 1 (0.30%) Podman
10 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.30%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 74 (22.16%) Databricks
2 40 (11.98%) Google
3 37 (11.08%) Microsoft
4 35 (10.48%) Oracle
5 22 (6.59%) TIBCO
6 16 (4.79%) Trend Micro
7 11 (3.29%) Red Hat
8 10 (2.99%) Cloudera
8 10 (2.99%) Informatica
9 9 (2.69%) VMware
10 8 (2.40%) ServiceNow
10 8 (2.40%) Splunk
11 7 (2.10%) Cisco
11 7 (2.10%) Guidewire
12 5 (1.50%) Confluent
12 5 (1.50%) IBM
12 5 (1.50%) New Relic
13 4 (1.20%) Okta
13 4 (1.20%) Talend
13 4 (1.20%) Tanium