Apache Contract Job Trends in Central London

Apache HTTP Server (httpd)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Apache skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 107 117
Rank change year-on-year -19 +10 +39
Contract jobs citing Apache 13 20 15
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.52% 1.06% 0.62%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.60% 8.70% 4.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 11 12
10th Percentile £425 £425 £321
25th Percentile £462 £453 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year - +0.92% -16.15%
75th Percentile £644 £660 £723
90th Percentile £689 £725 £771
London median daily rate £570 £750 £725
% change year-on-year -24.00% +3.45% +11.54%

All Application Platform Skills
Central London

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 in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 197 230 318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 7.91% 12.16% 13.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 129 236
10th Percentile £370 £216 £250
25th Percentile £440 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £491 £525
Median % change year-on-year +12.13% -6.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £621
90th Percentile £725 £696 £725
London median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £20.00 - £34.40
25th Percentile £21.13 - £36.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £26.45 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -33.88% -23.81%
75th Percentile £23.08 - -
90th Percentile £23.13 - -
London median hourly rate £25.50 £27.00 £30.16
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.48% -19.57%

Apache
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Apache relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Apache job vacancy trend in Central London

Apache
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Apache.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Apache

Apache
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache in Central London over the 6 months to 23 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Apache in Central London

Apache
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Apache.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Apache

Apache
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Apache within the Central London region over the 6 months to 23 May 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
City of London -23 13 £550 - 9
Apache
London

Apache
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 6 (46.15%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (46.15%) Apache Spark
2 2 (15.38%) nginx
3 1 (7.69%) Confluence
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (7.69%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Magento
1 1 (7.69%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) Azure
3 3 (23.08%) Power Platform
3 3 (23.08%) Snowflake
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon S3
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (7.69%) Dagster
5 1 (7.69%) dbt
5 1 (7.69%) GCP
5 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
5 1 (7.69%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) DNS
1 1 (7.69%) NAS
1 1 (7.69%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) SQL Server
2 3 (23.08%) Delta Lake
3 2 (15.38%) Big Data
3 2 (15.38%) Data Lake
3 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (15.38%) Power BI
3 2 (15.38%) Spark SQL
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (7.69%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
4 1 (7.69%) Metadata
4 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
4 1 (7.69%) MySQL
4 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
4 1 (7.69%) RDBMS
4 1 (7.69%) Redis
4 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
4 1 (7.69%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) PHPUnit
General
1 4 (30.77%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Data Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Java Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Snowflake Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Architect
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Big Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Hadoop Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Magento Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Scrum Master
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Big Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Hadoop Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) PySpark
2 3 (23.08%) Kafka
3 2 (15.38%) JSON
4 1 (7.69%) CSS
4 1 (7.69%) GraphQL
4 1 (7.69%) HTML
4 1 (7.69%) jQuery
4 1 (7.69%) KnockoutJS
4 1 (7.69%) Middleware
4 1 (7.69%) OpenJDK
4 1 (7.69%) REST
4 1 (7.69%) SOAP
4 1 (7.69%) Spring
4 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Clustering
2 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) CentOS
2 1 (7.69%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
2 6 (46.15%) Data Pipeline
2 6 (46.15%) ETL
3 5 (38.46%) Analytics
4 4 (30.77%) Data Engineering
4 4 (30.77%) DevOps
4 4 (30.77%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
5 3 (23.08%) Data Governance
5 3 (23.08%) Data Modelling
5 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (23.08%) Migration
5 3 (23.08%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (23.08%) Validation
6 2 (15.38%) Data Science
6 2 (15.38%) Observability
6 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (15.38%) Project Delivery
6 2 (15.38%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) Python
2 8 (61.54%) SQL
3 3 (23.08%) Java
4 2 (15.38%) R
5 1 (7.69%) Bash
5 1 (7.69%) C#
5 1 (7.69%) PHP
5 1 (7.69%) PL/SQL
5 1 (7.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) DBS Check
1 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Varnish
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 2 (15.38%) Terraform
3 1 (7.69%) Ansible
3 1 (7.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Databricks
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) Adobe
3 1 (7.69%) Google
3 1 (7.69%) Informatica
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.69%) VMware