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

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 249 268
Rank change year-on-year -101 +19 +10
Contract jobs citing Apache 295 313 372
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.63% 1.07% 0.85%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.00% 9.41% 8.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 239 310
10th Percentile £394 £410 £350
25th Percentile £456 £478 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £575
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +17.39% -4.17%
75th Percentile £588 £838 £800
90th Percentile £664 £875 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 10
10th Percentile £64.00 £32.42 £21.97
25th Percentile £65.25 £49.78 £30.00
Median hourly rate £75.00 £78.70 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.70% +49.90% -28.08%
75th Percentile £82.50 £80.83 £72.83
90th Percentile £89.00 £82.11 £74.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £78.70 £52.50
% change year-on-year -4.70% +49.90% -28.08%

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 4,212 3,328 4,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.00% 11.33% 9.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,885 2,223 2,879
10th Percentile £308 £275 £250
25th Percentile £404 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.96%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £600
90th Percentile £688 £713 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £460 £450
% change year-on-year +1.96% +2.22% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 83 162
10th Percentile £15.20 £16.80 £13.03
25th Percentile £19.00 £22.50 £15.42
Median hourly rate £35.00 £41.91 £28.01
Median % change year-on-year -16.49% +49.64% -34.10%
75th Percentile £73.00 £64.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £67.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.12 £50.66 £24.09
% change year-on-year -26.72% +110.28% -8.19%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -141 228 £525 -22.22% 93
UK excluding London -41 133 £525 +5.00% 69
London -123 127 £560 -25.33% 37
Work from Home -80 75 £513 -32.79% 94
Scotland +42 39 £525 +13.51% 6
North of England -49 34 £492 +3.58% 15
North West -24 23 £525 +10.53% 8
Midlands -48 23 £550 -4.35% 6
West Midlands -49 18 £538 -10.42% 5
South West -29 15 £450 -26.53% 23
South East -76 9 £550 +15.79% 14
North East -11 8 £438 -32.69% 5
East of England -30 8 £363 +15.08% 3
East Midlands -36 4 £600 +46.34% 1
Northern Ireland +1 3 £463 +12.80% 2
Wales -8 3 £509 - 1
Yorkshire -69 3 £469 -12.79% 2

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
1 135 (45.76%) Apache Spark
2 74 (25.08%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (9.83%) Tomcat
4 27 (9.15%) WebSphere
5 24 (8.14%) Apache Geronimo
5 24 (8.14%) Apache ServiceMix
5 24 (8.14%) Red Hat Fuse
6 7 (2.37%) IIS
6 7 (2.37%) WebLogic
7 5 (1.69%) Apache Superset
7 5 (1.69%) Jupyter
7 5 (1.69%) nginx
8 4 (1.36%) Confluence
8 4 (1.36%) JBoss
9 3 (1.02%) Apache Synapse
9 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (1.02%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (1.02%) SAS
10 2 (0.68%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.34%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.68%) 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
1 143 (48.47%) AWS
2 106 (35.93%) Azure
3 68 (23.05%) GCP
4 52 (17.63%) Amazon S3
5 41 (13.90%) Power Platform
6 40 (13.56%) Serverless
7 39 (13.22%) AWS CloudFormation
8 31 (10.51%) AWS Lambda
9 30 (10.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 29 (9.83%) Azure DevOps
11 24 (8.14%) Azure Data Factory
12 22 (7.46%) Amazon SQS
13 19 (6.44%) Snowflake
14 18 (6.10%) Collibra
15 16 (5.42%) GitHub
16 14 (4.75%) AWS Step Functions
16 14 (4.75%) dbt
17 13 (4.41%) GitHub Actions
18 10 (3.39%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 9 (3.05%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.41%) Firewall
2 10 (3.39%) DNS
2 10 (3.39%) HTTP
3 6 (2.03%) Network Security
4 4 (1.36%) DHCP
4 4 (1.36%) SAN
5 3 (1.02%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.68%) FTP
6 2 (0.68%) iSCSI
6 2 (0.68%) SSH
6 2 (0.68%) VLAN
7 1 (0.34%) 4G
7 1 (0.34%) 5G
7 1 (0.34%) InfiniBand
7 1 (0.34%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.34%) LAN
7 1 (0.34%) NAS
7 1 (0.34%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.34%) Spanning Tree
7 1 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (17.29%) Data Lake
2 40 (13.56%) Big Data
2 40 (13.56%) Data Warehouse
3 36 (12.20%) Delta Lake
4 35 (11.86%) Power BI
5 34 (11.53%) Amazon Athena
6 33 (11.19%) BigQuery
7 23 (7.80%) Hadoop
7 23 (7.80%) SQL Server
8 21 (7.12%) PostgreSQL
9 17 (5.76%) Flink
9 17 (5.76%) Metadata
9 17 (5.76%) Mixpanel
10 16 (5.42%) Amazon Redshift
10 16 (5.42%) OLAP
10 16 (5.42%) OLTP
11 15 (5.08%) MySQL
11 15 (5.08%) NoSQL
11 15 (5.08%) Relational Database
12 12 (4.07%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 56 (18.98%) Git
2 22 (7.46%) GitLab
2 22 (7.46%) JIRA
3 16 (5.42%) MLflow
4 11 (3.73%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.71%) Artifactory
6 7 (2.37%) Maven
7 6 (2.03%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.69%) JUnit
8 5 (1.69%) Selenium
9 4 (1.36%) Gradle
9 4 (1.36%) Mockito
10 3 (1.02%) Liquibase
11 2 (0.68%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.68%) ERwin
11 2 (0.68%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.68%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.34%) Ant
12 1 (0.34%) git-flow
12 1 (0.34%) PowerDesigner
General
1 56 (18.98%) Finance
2 54 (18.31%) Social Skills
3 33 (11.19%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (7.12%) Public Sector
5 14 (4.75%) Banking
6 5 (1.69%) Billing
7 4 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.36%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.02%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.02%) Front Office
8 3 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.02%) Marketing
9 2 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.68%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.34%) Dutch Language
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%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 98 (33.22%) Data Engineer
2 46 (15.59%) Senior
3 41 (13.90%) Developer
4 31 (10.51%) Lead
5 25 (8.47%) Architect
6 20 (6.78%) Senior Data Engineer
7 19 (6.44%) Software Engineer
8 17 (5.76%) Java Developer
8 17 (5.76%) Lead Data Engineer
8 17 (5.76%) Principal Engineer
9 16 (5.42%) Principal Data Engineer
10 15 (5.08%) AWS Engineer
11 11 (3.73%) Data Architect
12 10 (3.39%) DevOps Engineer
13 9 (3.05%) Analyst
13 9 (3.05%) Python Engineer
14 8 (2.71%) Platform Engineer
15 7 (2.37%) Principal Software Engineer
15 7 (2.37%) Technical Leader
16 6 (2.03%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (22.37%) Kafka
2 42 (14.24%) PySpark
3 30 (10.17%) Middleware
3 30 (10.17%) REST
4 24 (8.14%) Apache Axis
4 24 (8.14%) Apache Camel
5 21 (7.12%) Spring
6 19 (6.44%) Apache NiFi
6 19 (6.44%) Great Expectations
7 17 (5.76%) JSON
8 12 (4.07%) Apache Beam
8 12 (4.07%) Spring Boot
9 11 (3.73%) Pandas
10 10 (3.39%) AWS CDK
11 9 (3.05%) NumPy
11 9 (3.05%) SOAP
12 7 (2.37%) PyTorch
13 6 (2.03%) Node.js
13 6 (2.03%) OAuth
14 5 (1.69%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 38 (12.88%) Cloud Native
2 13 (4.41%) Management Information System
3 12 (4.07%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (3.05%) Algorithms
5 9 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (2.71%) Data Structures
7 7 (2.37%) Clustering
8 6 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (2.03%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (1.69%) Freedom of Information
9 5 (1.69%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.69%) Replication
10 4 (1.36%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.02%) Distributed Applications
11 3 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.02%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.68%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 48 (16.27%) Linux
2 22 (7.46%) Unix
2 22 (7.46%) Windows
3 9 (3.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (3.05%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.71%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.69%) Debian
6 4 (1.36%) Rocky
7 3 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.68%) CentOS
8 2 (0.68%) Solaris
8 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (42.37%) CI/CD
2 98 (33.22%) Analytics
2 98 (33.22%) Data Pipeline
3 91 (30.85%) ETL
4 88 (29.83%) Data Engineering
4 88 (29.83%) DevOps
5 85 (28.81%) Data Modelling
6 73 (24.75%) Agile
7 66 (22.37%) AI
8 65 (22.03%) Problem-Solving
9 64 (21.69%) Data Governance
10 60 (20.34%) Machine Learning
11 58 (19.66%) Infrastructure as Code
12 46 (15.59%) Observability
13 45 (15.25%) Data Architecture
14 43 (14.58%) Business Intelligence
15 38 (12.88%) Containerisation
15 38 (12.88%) Software Engineering
16 35 (11.86%) Data Science
17 33 (11.19%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 176 (59.66%) SQL
2 165 (55.93%) Python
3 87 (29.49%) Java
4 26 (8.81%) Scala
5 19 (6.44%) C#
6 13 (4.41%) Shell Script
7 11 (3.73%) PowerShell
7 11 (3.73%) R
8 10 (3.39%) JavaScript
9 9 (3.05%) Bash
10 8 (2.71%) TypeScript
11 6 (2.03%) Perl
11 6 (2.03%) PHP
12 5 (1.69%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.02%) Go
13 3 (1.02%) Ruby
14 2 (0.68%) AWK
14 2 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.34%) C++
15 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 85 (28.81%) Security Cleared
2 70 (23.73%) SC Cleared
3 19 (6.44%) Degree
4 15 (5.08%) DV Cleared
5 14 (4.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.71%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (2.71%) Master's Degree
7 7 (2.37%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.02%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.02%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.68%) 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 66 (22.37%) Data Quality
2 26 (8.81%) GDPR
3 11 (3.73%) QA
4 7 (2.37%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.02%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.68%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.68%) WCAG
8 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.34%) IFRS
8 1 (0.34%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.34%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.34%) MiFID
8 1 (0.34%) SLA
8 1 (0.34%) Solvency II
System Software
1 49 (16.61%) Docker
2 6 (2.03%) NFS
3 5 (1.69%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.69%) Varnish
4 4 (1.36%) HDFS
4 4 (1.36%) Postfix
5 3 (1.02%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.02%) Samba
5 3 (1.02%) Sendmail
5 3 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.68%) iptables
6 2 (0.68%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.34%) Ceph
7 1 (0.34%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.34%) KVM
7 1 (0.34%) Lustre
7 1 (0.34%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 64 (21.69%) Terraform
2 57 (19.32%) Kubernetes
3 26 (8.81%) Ansible
4 9 (3.05%) Grafana
5 5 (1.69%) HAProxy
6 4 (1.36%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.36%) Puppet
7 3 (1.02%) Kibana
7 3 (1.02%) SELinux
8 2 (0.68%) Apache Ranger
8 2 (0.68%) logstash
8 2 (0.68%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.68%) systemd
9 1 (0.34%) Podman
9 1 (0.34%) Rundeck
9 1 (0.34%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 66 (22.37%) Databricks
2 43 (14.58%) Oracle
3 36 (12.20%) Google
4 24 (8.14%) Microsoft
4 24 (8.14%) TIBCO
5 13 (4.41%) Red Hat
6 12 (4.07%) Informatica
7 11 (3.73%) Cloudera
8 8 (2.71%) Talend
9 7 (2.37%) Cisco
9 7 (2.37%) Confluent
9 7 (2.37%) ServiceNow
10 6 (2.03%) Guidewire
11 5 (1.69%) IBM
11 5 (1.69%) Palo Alto
11 5 (1.69%) SolarWinds
11 5 (1.69%) Splunk
11 5 (1.69%) VMware
12 4 (1.36%) Dynatrace
12 4 (1.36%) Hortonworks