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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 304 233 298
Rank change year-on-year -71 +65 -24
Contract jobs citing Apache 305 384 362
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.86% 1.07% 0.77%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.04% 9.65% 7.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 291 280
10th Percentile £380 £380 £396
25th Percentile £456 £523 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £734 £575
Median % change year-on-year -25.07% +27.65% -10.16%
75th Percentile £688 £863 £700
90th Percentile £825 £888 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £523
% change year-on-year +3.58% -9.09% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 10
10th Percentile £61.78 £55.63 £21.35
25th Percentile £64.81 £67.25 £29.31
Median hourly rate £72.25 £74.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% -5.13% +22.98%
75th Percentile £77.31 £74.33 -
90th Percentile £78.93 £74.72 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.25 £74.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -2.36% -5.13% +48.57%

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 3,793 3,979 4,772
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.72% 11.04% 10.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,550 2,465 3,177
10th Percentile £285 £262 £250
25th Percentile £400 £392 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £595 £638 £626
90th Percentile £713 £790 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £471 £450 £468
% change year-on-year +4.67% -3.79% -1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 77 142
10th Percentile £17.33 £18.00 £15.42
25th Percentile £20.50 £23.80 £18.34
Median hourly rate £35.00 £39.00 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +38.05% +44.87%
75th Percentile £67.19 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.83 £74.00 £74.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £50.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -30.00% +108.33% +37.14%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Apache in the UK

Apache
Top 15 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 November 2025. 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 -78 269 £550 -26.67% 172
London -79 145 £625 -21.88% 95
UK excluding London +15 135 £492 +3.58% 100
Work from Home -76 102 £638 -20.25% 101
North of England -7 48 £453 -13.71% 25
Midlands -14 36 £511 -16.46% 4
North West +6 33 £448 -18.55% 18
West Midlands -14 29 £511 -16.46% 2
Scotland +17 19 £500 +17.65% 9
South East -8 16 £600 +26.32% 29
South West -1 12 £344 -45.50% 21
Yorkshire -37 12 £475 -5.00% 6
East Midlands -11 7 £510 +41.67% 2
East of England -19 7 £550 +74.60% 7
North East - 3 £400 - 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
1 108 (35.41%) Apache Airflow
2 93 (30.49%) Apache Spark
3 28 (9.18%) IIS
4 26 (8.52%) WebLogic
5 25 (8.20%) JBoss
6 21 (6.89%) WebSphere
7 17 (5.57%) Confluence
8 13 (4.26%) Tomcat
9 10 (3.28%) iPlanet
9 10 (3.28%) WebSphere Application Server
10 7 (2.30%) nginx
11 5 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (1.31%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.66%) Apache Geronimo
13 2 (0.66%) Apache Pig
13 2 (0.66%) Apache ServiceMix
13 2 (0.66%) Luigi
13 2 (0.66%) Oracle HTTP Server
13 2 (0.66%) Red Hat Fuse
14 1 (0.33%) CloudStack
Applications
1 3 (0.98%) Chatbot
1 3 (0.98%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.66%) Abaqus
2 2 (0.66%) Sketch
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (2.62%) Maximo
2 1 (0.33%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.33%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 164 (53.77%) AWS
2 86 (28.20%) Azure
3 60 (19.67%) dbt
3 60 (19.67%) Snowflake
4 43 (14.10%) GCP
5 42 (13.77%) Serverless
6 29 (9.51%) Amazon S3
7 20 (6.56%) Power Platform
8 19 (6.23%) Azure Data Factory
9 18 (5.90%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (5.90%) Azure Monitor
9 18 (5.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 16 (5.25%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (5.25%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (3.93%) OpenShift
12 10 (3.28%) GitHub
13 9 (2.95%) Amazon EMR
13 9 (2.95%) Cloud Computing
14 8 (2.62%) GitHub Actions
15 7 (2.30%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.61%) Firewall
2 10 (3.28%) Kerberos
3 8 (2.62%) HTTP
4 7 (2.30%) DNS
5 6 (1.97%) SSL
6 4 (1.31%) Network Security
6 4 (1.31%) SMTP
7 2 (0.66%) VPN
8 1 (0.33%) DHCP
8 1 (0.33%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.33%) LAN
8 1 (0.33%) WAN
8 1 (0.33%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (21.31%) Data Lake
2 47 (15.41%) Amazon Athena
3 46 (15.08%) Big Data
4 44 (14.43%) Data Warehouse
5 41 (13.44%) Apache Iceberg
6 40 (13.11%) Hadoop
7 34 (11.15%) Apache Arrow
7 34 (11.15%) Apache Ignite
7 34 (11.15%) Dremio
8 26 (8.52%) Delta Lake
9 25 (8.20%) Amazon Redshift
10 21 (6.89%) Metadata
11 20 (6.56%) Power BI
12 19 (6.23%) NoSQL
13 18 (5.90%) Apache Hive
13 18 (5.90%) Relational Database
14 17 (5.57%) BigQuery
14 17 (5.57%) SQL Server
15 14 (4.59%) Oracle Database
16 12 (3.93%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 53 (17.38%) Git
2 22 (7.21%) Jenkins
3 21 (6.89%) JIRA
4 14 (4.59%) GitLab
4 14 (4.59%) JUnit
5 13 (4.26%) Sonatype Nexus
6 11 (3.61%) Bitbucket Server
6 11 (3.61%) CA Release Automation
7 9 (2.95%) Eclipse
7 9 (2.95%) IntelliJ
7 9 (2.95%) Selenium
8 7 (2.30%) Artifactory
9 5 (1.64%) ERwin
9 5 (1.64%) MLflow
9 5 (1.64%) Mockito
9 5 (1.64%) Subversion
10 4 (1.31%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.31%) ER Studio
10 4 (1.31%) Liquibase
10 4 (1.31%) MSI
General
1 86 (28.20%) Social Skills
2 68 (22.30%) Finance
3 47 (15.41%) Banking
4 35 (11.48%) Investment Banking
5 34 (11.15%) Front Office
6 22 (7.21%) Analytical Skills
7 20 (6.56%) Public Sector
8 9 (2.95%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.31%) Legal
11 2 (0.66%) Electronics
11 2 (0.66%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.66%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.66%) Marketing
11 2 (0.66%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.66%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.33%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 72 (23.61%) Senior
2 71 (23.28%) Data Engineer
3 46 (15.08%) Software Engineer
4 44 (14.43%) AWS Engineer
5 43 (14.10%) Python Engineer
6 41 (13.44%) Senior Software Engineer
7 38 (12.46%) Java Engineer
8 34 (11.15%) AWS Software Engineer
8 34 (11.15%) Java Software Engineer
8 34 (11.15%) Python Software Engineer
9 33 (10.82%) Senior Java Engineer
9 33 (10.82%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 31 (10.16%) Developer
11 19 (6.23%) DevOps Engineer
12 17 (5.57%) Architect
13 14 (4.59%) Senior Data Engineer
14 13 (4.26%) Platform Engineer
15 12 (3.93%) Lead
16 10 (3.28%) Data Architect
16 10 (3.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (15.41%) Kafka
1 47 (15.41%) Pandas
2 44 (14.43%) NumPy
3 41 (13.44%) Apache NiFi
4 34 (11.15%) gRPC
4 34 (11.15%) Protocol Buffers
4 34 (11.15%) REST
4 34 (11.15%) SciPy
5 26 (8.52%) PySpark
6 20 (6.56%) XML
7 19 (6.23%) OAuth
8 18 (5.90%) SOAP
9 16 (5.25%) Spring
10 15 (4.92%) React
11 14 (4.59%) HTML
11 14 (4.59%) JSON
12 13 (4.26%) Middleware
13 12 (3.93%) OpenID
13 12 (3.93%) Web Services
14 11 (3.61%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (11.48%) Equities
2 34 (11.15%) Derivative
2 34 (11.15%) Fixed Income
2 34 (11.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 34 (11.15%) Hedge funds
2 34 (11.15%) Pricing Data
3 16 (5.25%) Cloud Native
4 12 (3.93%) PKI
5 11 (3.61%) Algorithms
6 10 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (2.62%) Data Structures
7 8 (2.62%) Distributed Computing
8 6 (1.97%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.31%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.31%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.31%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.31%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.31%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 72 (23.61%) Linux
2 55 (18.03%) Windows
3 40 (13.11%) Unix
4 20 (6.56%) Windows Server
5 18 (5.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (3.93%) CentOS
7 6 (1.97%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.31%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.98%) Debian
10 1 (0.33%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.33%) Rocky
10 1 (0.33%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (39.34%) Agile
2 102 (33.44%) CI/CD
3 100 (32.79%) DevOps
4 82 (26.89%) Data Pipeline
5 79 (25.90%) Analytics
6 78 (25.57%) ETL
7 72 (23.61%) Software Engineering
8 60 (19.67%) Data Engineering
9 57 (18.69%) Problem-Solving
10 56 (18.36%) Data Modelling
11 50 (16.39%) Data Governance
12 45 (14.75%) Continuous Improvement
13 44 (14.43%) Business Intelligence
14 36 (11.80%) Asset Management
14 36 (11.80%) Infrastructure as Code
15 35 (11.48%) Workflow
16 34 (11.15%) Investment Management
16 34 (11.15%) Microservices
17 33 (10.82%) Visualisation
18 32 (10.49%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 177 (58.03%) Python
2 108 (35.41%) SQL
3 88 (28.85%) Java
4 60 (19.67%) JavaScript
5 38 (12.46%) Scala
6 36 (11.80%) TypeScript
7 17 (5.57%) PowerShell
8 16 (5.25%) Shell Script
9 14 (4.59%) Bash
9 14 (4.59%) C#
10 12 (3.93%) Groovy
11 11 (3.61%) C++
12 7 (2.30%) PHP
13 6 (1.97%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.98%) Go
14 3 (0.98%) R
15 2 (0.66%) AWK
15 2 (0.66%) Korn
15 2 (0.66%) SPARQL
15 2 (0.66%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 90 (29.51%) Security Cleared
2 60 (19.67%) SC Cleared
3 41 (13.44%) DV Cleared
4 13 (4.26%) AWS Certification
5 11 (3.61%) Degree
6 6 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.31%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.66%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.66%) MCP
9 2 (0.66%) RHCE
10 1 (0.33%) CCNP
10 1 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.33%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.33%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (13.77%) Data Quality
2 26 (8.52%) QA
3 9 (2.95%) GDPR
4 8 (2.62%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.31%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.66%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.66%) Section 508
6 2 (0.66%) WCAG
7 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.33%) IFRS
7 1 (0.33%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 50 (16.39%) Docker
2 19 (6.23%) Active Directory
3 12 (3.93%) HDFS
4 10 (3.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (2.62%) Tivoli Directory Server
6 4 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.66%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.33%) KVM
Systems Management
1 42 (13.77%) Terraform
2 39 (12.79%) Ansible
3 35 (11.48%) Kubernetes
4 19 (6.23%) Puppet
5 15 (4.92%) Progress Chef
6 11 (3.61%) CA Single Sign-On
6 11 (3.61%) Prometheus
7 10 (3.28%) CA Wily
7 10 (3.28%) Grafana
7 10 (3.28%) Hadoop YARN
8 8 (2.62%) Tivoli
9 6 (1.97%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.31%) Nagios
10 4 (1.31%) WMI
11 3 (0.98%) Kibana
11 3 (0.98%) Oozie
11 3 (0.98%) Salt
12 2 (0.66%) Icinga
12 2 (0.66%) logstash
12 2 (0.66%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 44 (14.43%) Oracle
2 42 (13.77%) Databricks
3 36 (11.80%) Microsoft
4 33 (10.82%) Splunk
5 25 (8.20%) AppDynamics
6 24 (7.87%) IBM
7 17 (5.57%) Google
8 15 (4.92%) Cisco
8 15 (4.92%) Dynatrace
9 13 (4.26%) VMware
10 12 (3.93%) Cloudera
10 12 (3.93%) Red Hat
11 11 (3.61%) Broadcom
12 10 (3.28%) Informatica
13 9 (2.95%) Foundry
13 9 (2.95%) Palantir
13 9 (2.95%) webMethods
14 7 (2.30%) ServiceNow
15 5 (1.64%) Talend
16 3 (0.98%) Guidewire