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 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 114 120
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 +38
Contract jobs citing Apache 11 16 18
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.51% 0.77% 0.69%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.64% 6.64% 4.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 15
10th Percentile £486 £423 £348
25th Percentile £553 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £640 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.20% +21.90% -18.45%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £756
90th Percentile £716 £731 £910
London median daily rate £575 £675 £550
% change year-on-year -14.81% +22.73% -15.38%

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 195 241 361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 9.04% 11.60% 13.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 130 255
10th Percentile £363 £239 £250
25th Percentile £419 £363 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £520
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -6.25% -4.24%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £695 £688 £708
London median daily rate £520 £525 £501
% change year-on-year -0.95% +4.84% -8.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 6
10th Percentile £18.95 - -
25th Percentile £19.63 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +55.56% +15.38%
75th Percentile £22.13 - £36.50
90th Percentile £22.65 - £40.00
London median hourly rate £20.61 £35.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -41.13% +16.67% +32.57%

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 28 February 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 28 February 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 -13 11 £588 -8.20% 6
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 (54.55%) Apache Spark
2 5 (45.45%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (9.09%) Confluence
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) AWS
1 5 (45.45%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) Power Platform
3 3 (27.27%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (27.27%) dbt
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (18.18%) Serverless
4 2 (18.18%) Snowflake
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Functions
5 1 (9.09%) Dagster
5 1 (9.09%) GCP
5 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (9.09%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (63.64%) Data Lake
2 4 (36.36%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (36.36%) Delta Lake
2 4 (36.36%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (27.27%) Power BI
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (18.18%) Relational Database
4 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (9.09%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (9.09%) Big Data
5 1 (9.09%) Hadoop
5 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
5 1 (9.09%) MySQL
5 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
5 1 (9.09%) RDBMS
5 1 (9.09%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (9.09%) Star Schema
5 1 (9.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Data Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Senior
2 3 (27.27%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Data Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Snowflake Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Big Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Data Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Hadoop Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Principal Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Scrum Master
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Big Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Hadoop Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) PySpark
2 1 (9.09%) AWS CDK
2 1 (9.09%) Kafka
2 1 (9.09%) LangChain
2 1 (9.09%) Middleware
2 1 (9.09%) Model Context Protocol
2 1 (9.09%) OpenJDK
2 1 (9.09%) PyTorch
2 1 (9.09%) Ray
2 1 (9.09%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
1 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) AI Agents
2 1 (9.09%) Autonomous Agent
2 1 (9.09%) Clustering
2 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Analytics
1 8 (72.73%) Data Pipeline
2 7 (63.64%) ETL
3 6 (54.55%) Data Engineering
4 5 (45.45%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (45.45%) Data Modelling
5 4 (36.36%) Agile
5 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
5 4 (36.36%) Data Transformation
5 4 (36.36%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (36.36%) Validation
6 3 (27.27%) Data Governance
6 3 (27.27%) Migration
7 2 (18.18%) AI
7 2 (18.18%) Data Architecture
7 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
7 2 (18.18%) Dimensional Modelling
7 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (18.18%) Open Source
7 2 (18.18%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) Python
2 7 (63.64%) SQL
3 3 (27.27%) Scala
4 1 (9.09%) C#
4 1 (9.09%) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Databricks
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle
3 1 (9.09%) Google
3 1 (9.09%) Informatica