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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 492 326 343
Rank change year-on-year -166 +17 -21
Permanent jobs citing Apache 162 440 451
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.82% 0.81%
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.77% 9.02% 7.40%
Number of salaries quoted 125 347 318
10th Percentile £47,750 £47,500 £44,625
25th Percentile £58,750 £71,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £92,500 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +16.16% +13.76%
75th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £147,500 £142,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,250 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -4.55% -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 3,394 4,880 6,093
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.66% 9.12% 10.94%
Number of salaries quoted 2,271 2,859 4,524
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £38,959 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,039 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -11.50% +5.56% -5.26%

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 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Apache in the UK

Apache
Top 14 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 14 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -141 156 £85,000 -8.11% 100
London -94 87 £110,000 +2.33% 34
Work from Home -108 69 £102,500 -4.65% 51
UK excluding London -45 58 £61,250 +16.67% 79
North of England -18 21 £62,500 +19.05% 20
South West +2 20 £70,000 -9.68% 16
Yorkshire - 11 £65,000 - 7
Midlands +21 10 £39,000 -40.00% 4
North West -14 10 £56,250 +7.14% 7
West Midlands +23 7 £39,000 -44.29% 1
South East -17 6 £75,000 +25.00% 26
East Midlands -10 3 £40,000 -30.43% 3
East of England +19 1 - - 7
Scotland +2 1 - - 3

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 78 (48.15%) Apache Airflow
2 46 (28.40%) Apache Spark
3 8 (4.94%) Confluence
3 8 (4.94%) nginx
4 7 (4.32%) IIS
5 4 (2.47%) Apache Superset
5 4 (2.47%) Appian
5 4 (2.47%) JBoss
6 3 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (1.23%) WebSphere
7 2 (1.23%) WildFly
8 1 (0.62%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.62%) SAS
8 1 (0.62%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.62%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Notion
Business Applications
1 3 (1.85%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.62%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 112 (69.14%) AWS
2 46 (28.40%) dbt
3 38 (23.46%) Snowflake
4 36 (22.22%) Azure
5 32 (19.75%) Amazon S3
6 29 (17.90%) GCP
7 22 (13.58%) AWS Lambda
7 22 (13.58%) Serverless
8 14 (8.64%) Amazon SQS
9 13 (8.02%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (8.02%) SaaS
10 10 (6.17%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (5.56%) Amazon Kinesis
11 9 (5.56%) Power Platform
12 8 (4.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (4.32%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (4.32%) OpenShift
14 6 (3.70%) Amazon EMR
14 6 (3.70%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.70%) Firewall
2 5 (3.09%) SSL
2 5 (3.09%) VPN
3 4 (2.47%) HTTP
3 4 (2.47%) HTTPS
3 4 (2.47%) Reverse Proxy
3 4 (2.47%) SAN
4 3 (1.85%) AMQP
4 3 (1.85%) Intranet
4 3 (1.85%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (1.23%) DHCP
5 2 (1.23%) DNS
5 2 (1.23%) iSCSI
5 2 (1.23%) LAN
5 2 (1.23%) NAS
5 2 (1.23%) PBX
5 2 (1.23%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (1.23%) SNMP
5 2 (1.23%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (34.57%) Data Lake
2 43 (26.54%) Apache Iceberg
3 40 (24.69%) Amazon Athena
4 32 (19.75%) Apache Ignite
5 31 (19.14%) Data Warehouse
6 29 (17.90%) Apache Arrow
6 29 (17.90%) Dremio
7 26 (16.05%) Amazon Redshift
8 19 (11.73%) SQL Server
9 16 (9.88%) MongoDB
10 13 (8.02%) NoSQL
11 12 (7.41%) Big Data
12 11 (6.79%) MySQL
12 11 (6.79%) Tableau
13 10 (6.17%) BigQuery
14 9 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
15 8 (4.94%) Amazon QuickSight
16 7 (4.32%) Metadata
17 6 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
18 5 (3.09%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 31 (19.14%) Git
2 13 (8.02%) GitLab
2 13 (8.02%) JIRA
3 8 (4.94%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.70%) Bitbucket
5 5 (3.09%) JUnit
6 4 (2.47%) Robot Framework
6 4 (2.47%) Selenium
6 4 (2.47%) Snyk
7 2 (1.23%) Ant
7 2 (1.23%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.23%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.23%) JMeter
7 2 (1.23%) LoadRunner
7 2 (1.23%) Maven
7 2 (1.23%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.23%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.23%) Subversion
8 1 (0.62%) Deequ
8 1 (0.62%) Gatling
General
1 57 (35.19%) Finance
2 48 (29.63%) Social Skills
3 32 (19.75%) Banking
4 29 (17.90%) Front Office
4 29 (17.90%) Investment Banking
5 15 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.09%) Advertising
6 5 (3.09%) Tech for Good
7 4 (2.47%) Marketing
7 4 (2.47%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.85%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.85%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.23%) Law
9 2 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.62%) Electronics
10 1 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.62%) Legal
10 1 (0.62%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.62%) Publishing
10 1 (0.62%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 46 (28.40%) Senior
3 43 (26.54%) Software Engineer
4 39 (24.07%) AWS Engineer
5 32 (19.75%) Python Engineer
6 29 (17.90%) AWS Software Engineer
6 29 (17.90%) Java Engineer
6 29 (17.90%) Java Software Engineer
6 29 (17.90%) Python Software Engineer
7 28 (17.28%) Senior Software Engineer
8 27 (16.67%) Senior Java Engineer
8 27 (16.67%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 23 (14.20%) Developer
10 15 (9.26%) Senior Data Engineer
11 11 (6.79%) Backend Developer
12 10 (6.17%) Lead
13 8 (4.94%) AWS Data Engineer
14 7 (4.32%) Applications Support
14 7 (4.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 7 (4.32%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (29.01%) Kafka
2 46 (28.40%) Pandas
3 32 (19.75%) gRPC
3 32 (19.75%) NumPy
4 29 (17.90%) Protocol Buffers
4 29 (17.90%) SciPy
5 20 (12.35%) Apache NiFi
5 20 (12.35%) Spring
6 19 (11.73%) Spring Boot
7 16 (9.88%) Hibernate
7 16 (9.88%) RESTful
8 12 (7.41%) PySpark
9 11 (6.79%) JPA
9 11 (6.79%) React
10 9 (5.56%) LAMP
11 7 (4.32%) CSS
11 7 (4.32%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (4.32%) HTML
11 7 (4.32%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (3.09%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 30 (18.52%) Cloud Native
2 29 (17.90%) Derivative
2 29 (17.90%) Equities
2 29 (17.90%) Fixed Income
2 29 (17.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 29 (17.90%) Hedge funds
2 29 (17.90%) Pricing Data
3 13 (8.02%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (6.79%) Distributed Architecture
5 10 (6.17%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.70%) Legacy Code
6 6 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (3.70%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.47%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (2.47%) Low-Code
7 4 (2.47%) PKI
8 3 (1.85%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.85%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (22.22%) Linux
2 11 (6.79%) Windows
3 9 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (4.32%) CentOS
5 6 (3.70%) Ubuntu
6 4 (2.47%) Unix
6 4 (2.47%) Windows Server
7 3 (1.85%) Debian
7 3 (1.85%) VMS
8 2 (1.23%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.62%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (46.30%) Agile
2 69 (42.59%) Data Pipeline
3 63 (38.89%) CI/CD
4 53 (32.72%) ETL
5 51 (31.48%) Data Engineering
6 49 (30.25%) Problem-Solving
6 49 (30.25%) Software Engineering
7 46 (28.40%) DevOps
8 41 (25.31%) Data Modelling
9 40 (24.69%) Analytics
10 35 (21.60%) Infrastructure as Code
11 29 (17.90%) Asset Management
11 29 (17.90%) Investment Management
12 25 (15.43%) Containerisation
13 24 (14.81%) Microservices
13 24 (14.81%) Migration
14 21 (12.96%) Business Intelligence
15 19 (11.73%) Data Science
16 18 (11.11%) Visualisation
17 17 (10.49%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 131 (80.86%) Python
2 71 (43.83%) Java
3 66 (40.74%) SQL
4 52 (32.10%) JavaScript
5 38 (23.46%) TypeScript
6 12 (7.41%) Bash
6 12 (7.41%) PHP
7 7 (4.32%) Groovy
8 5 (3.09%) Scala
9 3 (1.85%) ANSI SQL
9 3 (1.85%) Perl
10 2 (1.23%) C
11 1 (0.62%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.62%) R
11 1 (0.62%) Ruby
11 1 (0.62%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (17.28%) Security Cleared
2 21 (12.96%) DV Cleared
3 14 (8.64%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.70%) Degree
5 5 (3.09%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.47%) CISSP
6 4 (2.47%) OSCP
7 2 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.23%) CCNA
7 2 (1.23%) CCNP
7 2 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (20.99%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.23%) SLA
3 1 (0.62%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.62%) QA
System Software
1 36 (22.22%) Docker
2 5 (3.09%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 2 (1.23%) pfSense
3 2 (1.23%) Samba
3 2 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 36 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 26 (16.05%) Terraform
3 22 (13.58%) Ansible
4 11 (6.79%) Grafana
5 9 (5.56%) Kibana
6 8 (4.94%) Prometheus
7 6 (3.70%) Argo
8 5 (3.09%) Docker Swarm
8 5 (3.09%) Istio
8 5 (3.09%) linkerd
8 5 (3.09%) Mesos
8 5 (3.09%) Puppet
9 4 (2.47%) logstash
10 2 (1.23%) Podman
10 2 (1.23%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (1.23%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 1 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.62%) CASB
11 1 (0.62%) Nagios
11 1 (0.62%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 21 (12.96%) Microsoft
2 18 (11.11%) Oracle
3 11 (6.79%) Databricks
3 11 (6.79%) Google
3 11 (6.79%) Red Hat
4 6 (3.70%) Atlassian
4 6 (3.70%) Salesforce
5 5 (3.09%) SAP
5 5 (3.09%) VMware
6 4 (2.47%) BiZZdesign
6 4 (2.47%) Black Duck
6 4 (2.47%) Blue Prism
6 4 (2.47%) Coverity
6 4 (2.47%) Dell
6 4 (2.47%) Imperva
6 4 (2.47%) Splunk
6 4 (2.47%) UiPath
7 3 (1.85%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.85%) SaltStack
7 3 (1.85%) Solace