Apache Job Trends

Apache HTTP Server (httpd)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Apache skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 477 269 360
Rank change year-on-year -208 +91 -23
Permanent jobs citing Apache 179 641 407
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.32% 1.03% 0.81%
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.85% 11.61% 7.05%
Number of salaries quoted 141 532 323
10th Percentile £50,250 £48,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £74,688 £57,184
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £105,000 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +31.86% +13.76%
75th Percentile £120,000 £142,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £148,750 £138,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +15.24% -12.50% +4.35%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring application platform skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,694 5,520 5,777
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.55% 8.89% 11.45%
Number of salaries quoted 2,519 3,403 4,551
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £37,900
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -
75th Percentile £73,750 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £91,934
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,750 £47,500 £47,103
% change year-on-year -12.11% +0.84% -0.84%

Apache
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Apache relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Apache job vacancy trend in the UK

Apache
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Apache.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Apache

Apache
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Apache over the 6 months to 7 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Apache in the UK

Apache
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Apache within the UK over the 6 months to 7 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -185 172 £90,000 -14.29% 258
London -142 105 £110,000 -4.35% 30
Work from Home -154 89 £110,000 - 134
UK excluding London -33 61 £60,500 +15.24% 255
South West +17 19 £70,000 -9.68% 37
North of England -14 18 £62,500 +19.05% 36
Midlands +33 11 £39,000 -26.42% 61
Yorkshire +5 11 £62,500 - 14
South East -10 8 £62,750 -19.03% 64
West Midlands +37 7 £39,000 -44.29% 33
North West -10 6 £55,000 +4.76% 19
East Midlands +9 4 £41,250 -19.90% 23
Scotland +2 4 - - 11
East of England +19 1 - - 41
North East +7 1 £90,000 +46.94% 3
Wales +3 1 £50,124 -24.28% 7

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 95 (53.07%) Apache Airflow
2 51 (28.49%) Apache Spark
3 8 (4.47%) nginx
4 7 (3.91%) Confluence
5 6 (3.35%) IIS
6 5 (2.79%) Apache Synapse
6 5 (2.79%) Appian
7 3 (1.68%) JBoss
7 3 (1.68%) WebSphere
8 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (1.12%) WildFly
9 1 (0.56%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.56%) Luigi
9 1 (0.56%) SAS
9 1 (0.56%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Notion
Business Applications
1 3 (1.68%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.56%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 131 (73.18%) AWS
2 63 (35.20%) dbt
3 60 (33.52%) Snowflake
4 38 (21.23%) Azure
5 29 (16.20%) Amazon S3
6 26 (14.53%) GCP
7 19 (10.61%) AWS Lambda
7 19 (10.61%) Serverless
8 15 (8.38%) Amazon SQS
8 15 (8.38%) SaaS
9 9 (5.03%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (5.03%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (5.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 8 (4.47%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (4.47%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (3.91%) Amazon Kinesis
11 7 (3.91%) OpenShift
11 7 (3.91%) Power Platform
12 6 (3.35%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (3.35%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.35%) HTTP
1 6 (3.35%) HTTPS
1 6 (3.35%) Reverse Proxy
1 6 (3.35%) SSL
2 4 (2.23%) Firewall
2 4 (2.23%) SAN
2 4 (2.23%) VPN
3 3 (1.68%) Intranet
4 2 (1.12%) AMQP
4 2 (1.12%) DHCP
4 2 (1.12%) DNS
4 2 (1.12%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (1.12%) iSCSI
4 2 (1.12%) LAN
4 2 (1.12%) NAS
4 2 (1.12%) Network Security
4 2 (1.12%) PBX
4 2 (1.12%) SNMP
4 2 (1.12%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (41.34%) Data Lake
2 61 (34.08%) Apache Iceberg
3 58 (32.40%) Amazon Athena
4 52 (29.05%) Apache Ignite
5 49 (27.37%) Apache Arrow
5 49 (27.37%) Dremio
6 25 (13.97%) Data Warehouse
7 21 (11.73%) Amazon Redshift
8 16 (8.94%) Big Data
8 16 (8.94%) SQL Server
9 15 (8.38%) NoSQL
10 14 (7.82%) MongoDB
11 11 (6.15%) MySQL
12 9 (5.03%) BigQuery
12 9 (5.03%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (3.35%) PostgreSQL
13 6 (3.35%) Tableau
14 5 (2.79%) Airbyte
14 5 (2.79%) Data Mining
15 4 (2.23%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 21 (11.73%) Git
2 12 (6.70%) JIRA
3 11 (6.15%) Jenkins
4 9 (5.03%) GitLab
5 6 (3.35%) JUnit
6 5 (2.79%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.79%) Robot Framework
6 5 (2.79%) Selenium
6 5 (2.79%) Snyk
7 3 (1.68%) Ant
7 3 (1.68%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.68%) Maven
7 3 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.12%) JMeter
8 2 (1.12%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.56%) Deequ
9 1 (0.56%) Gatling
9 1 (0.56%) Mercurial
9 1 (0.56%) SonarQube
General
1 76 (42.46%) Finance
2 53 (29.61%) Social Skills
3 52 (29.05%) Banking
4 50 (27.93%) Front Office
5 49 (27.37%) Investment Banking
6 18 (10.06%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.91%) Law
8 6 (3.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (3.35%) Tech for Good
9 3 (1.68%) Advertising
9 3 (1.68%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.68%) Marketing
9 3 (1.68%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.12%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Games
11 1 (0.56%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.56%) Legal
11 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 67 (37.43%) Senior
2 65 (36.31%) Software Engineer
3 58 (32.40%) AWS Engineer
4 57 (31.84%) Python Engineer
5 52 (29.05%) Python Software Engineer
6 50 (27.93%) AWS Software Engineer
7 49 (27.37%) Java Engineer
7 49 (27.37%) Java Software Engineer
7 49 (27.37%) Senior Software Engineer
8 47 (26.26%) Senior Java Engineer
8 47 (26.26%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 45 (25.14%) Data Engineer
10 20 (11.17%) Developer
11 15 (8.38%) Senior Data Engineer
12 13 (7.26%) Architect
12 13 (7.26%) Lead
13 11 (6.15%) Backend Developer
14 7 (3.91%) Applications Support
15 6 (3.35%) Applications Specialist
15 6 (3.35%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (36.87%) Pandas
2 52 (29.05%) NumPy
3 51 (28.49%) gRPC
4 49 (27.37%) Protocol Buffers
4 49 (27.37%) SciPy
5 44 (24.58%) Kafka
6 18 (10.06%) Spring
7 17 (9.50%) Apache NiFi
7 17 (9.50%) Spring Boot
8 16 (8.94%) RESTful
9 15 (8.38%) Hibernate
10 11 (6.15%) JPA
11 10 (5.59%) PySpark
11 10 (5.59%) React
12 9 (5.03%) LAMP
13 7 (3.91%) Elastic Stack
14 6 (3.35%) CSS
14 6 (3.35%) HTML
14 6 (3.35%) OAuth
14 6 (3.35%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 49 (27.37%) Derivative
1 49 (27.37%) Equities
1 49 (27.37%) Fixed Income
1 49 (27.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 49 (27.37%) Hedge funds
1 49 (27.37%) Pricing Data
2 27 (15.08%) Cloud Native
3 18 (10.06%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (6.15%) Distributed Architecture
5 9 (5.03%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (3.91%) Legacy Code
6 7 (3.91%) Management Information System
7 6 (3.35%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (3.35%) PKI
8 5 (2.79%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.68%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.68%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.68%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.12%) FPGA
10 2 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 38 (21.23%) Linux
2 11 (6.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (5.59%) Windows
4 8 (4.47%) CentOS
5 6 (3.35%) Unix
6 4 (2.23%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.68%) Windows Server
8 2 (1.12%) Debian
8 2 (1.12%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (1.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (51.40%) Agile
2 72 (40.22%) Software Engineering
3 58 (32.40%) Data Pipeline
4 54 (30.17%) CI/CD
5 51 (28.49%) DevOps
6 49 (27.37%) Asset Management
6 49 (27.37%) Investment Management
7 48 (26.82%) ETL
7 48 (26.82%) Problem-Solving
8 45 (25.14%) Data Engineering
9 37 (20.67%) Data Modelling
10 32 (17.88%) Analytics
10 32 (17.88%) Infrastructure as Code
11 30 (16.76%) Migration
12 25 (13.97%) Microservices
13 24 (13.41%) AI
14 23 (12.85%) Containerisation
15 19 (10.61%) Data Integration
15 19 (10.61%) Mentoring
16 18 (10.06%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 144 (80.45%) Python
2 85 (47.49%) Java
3 70 (39.11%) JavaScript
4 63 (35.20%) SQL
5 57 (31.84%) TypeScript
6 13 (7.26%) PHP
7 8 (4.47%) Bash
8 6 (3.35%) Scala
9 5 (2.79%) Groovy
10 4 (2.23%) Perl
11 3 (1.68%) C
12 2 (1.12%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.56%) C++
13 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.56%) R
13 1 (0.56%) Ruby
13 1 (0.56%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 20 (11.17%) Security Cleared
2 15 (8.38%) DV Cleared
3 11 (6.15%) SC Cleared
4 10 (5.59%) Degree
5 7 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.35%) CISSP
6 6 (3.35%) OSCP
7 4 (2.23%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.12%) CCNA
8 2 (1.12%) CCNP
8 2 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (14.53%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.12%) QA
2 2 (1.12%) SLA
3 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.56%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 33 (18.44%) Docker
2 4 (2.23%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.12%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 2 (1.12%) pfSense
3 2 (1.12%) Samba
4 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (18.44%) Kubernetes
2 29 (16.20%) Terraform
3 24 (13.41%) Ansible
4 9 (5.03%) Kibana
5 7 (3.91%) Grafana
6 5 (2.79%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.79%) Puppet
7 4 (2.23%) logstash
8 3 (1.68%) Argo
8 3 (1.68%) Podman
9 2 (1.12%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (1.12%) Istio
9 2 (1.12%) linkerd
9 2 (1.12%) Mesos
9 2 (1.12%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (1.12%) Red Hat Spacewalk
10 1 (0.56%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 20 (11.17%) Microsoft
2 19 (10.61%) Databricks
3 17 (9.50%) Oracle
4 11 (6.15%) Red Hat
5 10 (5.59%) Google
6 6 (3.35%) Imperva
6 6 (3.35%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.79%) Atlassian
7 5 (2.79%) BiZZdesign
7 5 (2.79%) Black Duck
7 5 (2.79%) Blue Prism
7 5 (2.79%) Coverity
7 5 (2.79%) SAP
7 5 (2.79%) UiPath
7 5 (2.79%) VMware
8 4 (2.23%) Dell
8 4 (2.23%) Informatica
8 4 (2.23%) Splunk
9 3 (1.68%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.68%) Solace