Apache Contract Job Trends in London

Apache HTTP Server (httpd)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Apache skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 187 216
Rank change year-on-year -94 +29 +32
Contract jobs citing Apache 113 176 193
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.73% 1.31% 1.05%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.29% 10.92% 9.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 142 164
10th Percentile £435 £451 £406
25th Percentile £500 £541 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £675 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +22.73% -15.38%
75th Percentile £688 £838 £788
90th Percentile £800 £888 -
England median daily rate £525 £675 £531
% change year-on-year -22.22% +27.06% -11.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
England median hourly rate £80.50 £74.44 £30.50
% change year-on-year +8.14% +144.07% -33.57%

All Application Platform Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,550 1,612 2,010
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.98% 11.95% 10.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,075 1,007 1,438
10th Percentile £348 £308 £263
25th Percentile £415 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £626 £663 £625
90th Percentile £738 £810 £763
England median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 11 32
10th Percentile - £19.95 £17.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £23.80 £22.00
Median hourly rate £24.08 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.21% +16.67% +28.67%
75th Percentile £37.56 £40.46 £34.38
90th Percentile £87.31 £41.91 £48.63
England median hourly rate £27.21 £47.50 £26.39
% change year-on-year -42.72% +79.99% +19.95%

Apache
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Apache job vacancy trend in London

Apache
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Apache

Apache
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache in London over the 6 months to 18 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Apache in London

Apache
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Apache

Apache
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 18 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
West London -6 15 £603 - 4
Central London -18 10 £575 -10.16% 6
South London -11 2 £507 -13.66% 4
Apache
England

Apache
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 57 (50.44%) Apache Spark
2 31 (27.43%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (6.19%) Confluence
4 6 (5.31%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (1.77%) Apache Pig
5 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.77%) nginx
5 2 (1.77%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (1.77%) SAS
5 2 (1.77%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.77%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.88%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.88%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Actimize
1 1 (0.88%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 59 (52.21%) AWS
2 50 (44.25%) Azure
3 33 (29.20%) GCP
4 25 (22.12%) Amazon S3
4 25 (22.12%) Serverless
5 22 (19.47%) Power Platform
6 21 (18.58%) AWS CloudFormation
7 18 (15.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 17 (15.04%) dbt
9 15 (13.27%) Collibra
10 14 (12.39%) Amazon SQS
10 14 (12.39%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (11.50%) Snowflake
12 9 (7.96%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (7.08%) Azure Data Factory
14 5 (4.42%) AWS Data Pipeline
14 5 (4.42%) AWS Step Functions
14 5 (4.42%) GitHub
14 5 (4.42%) GitHub Actions
15 3 (2.65%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.65%) Firewall
2 2 (1.77%) DNS
2 2 (1.77%) HTTP
2 2 (1.77%) SSL
3 1 (0.88%) 4G
3 1 (0.88%) 5G
3 1 (0.88%) DHCP
3 1 (0.88%) InfiniBand
3 1 (0.88%) iSCSI
3 1 (0.88%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.88%) LAN
3 1 (0.88%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (0.88%) SSH
3 1 (0.88%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.88%) VLAN
3 1 (0.88%) VPN
3 1 (0.88%) WAN
3 1 (0.88%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (29.20%) Data Lake
2 26 (23.01%) Amazon Athena
3 22 (19.47%) Big Data
3 22 (19.47%) Power BI
4 21 (18.58%) BigQuery
5 15 (13.27%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (13.27%) Hadoop
6 14 (12.39%) Mixpanel
7 13 (11.50%) OLAP
7 13 (11.50%) OLTP
8 11 (9.73%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (9.73%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (7.96%) Metadata
10 8 (7.08%) Apache Iceberg
10 8 (7.08%) NoSQL
10 8 (7.08%) Relational Database
11 7 (6.19%) Delta Lake
11 7 (6.19%) MongoDB
11 7 (6.19%) SQL Server
12 6 (5.31%) Apache Arrow
Development Applications
1 18 (15.93%) Git
2 12 (10.62%) JIRA
3 5 (4.42%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.54%) Mockito
5 3 (2.65%) JUnit
5 3 (2.65%) Liquibase
5 3 (2.65%) MLflow
6 2 (1.77%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.77%) GitLab
6 2 (1.77%) Maven
7 1 (0.88%) ERwin
7 1 (0.88%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.88%) Selenium
7 1 (0.88%) Storybook
General
1 25 (22.12%) Finance
2 21 (18.58%) Social Skills
3 14 (12.39%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.85%) Banking
5 9 (7.96%) Public Sector
6 7 (6.19%) Investment Banking
7 6 (5.31%) Front Office
8 4 (3.54%) Billing
9 2 (1.77%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.88%) Electronics
10 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.88%) Law
10 1 (0.88%) Legal
10 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.88%) Marketing
10 1 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (44.25%) Data Engineer
2 23 (20.35%) Software Engineer
3 21 (18.58%) Senior
4 13 (11.50%) Principal Engineer
5 12 (10.62%) AWS Engineer
5 12 (10.62%) Principal Data Engineer
6 11 (9.73%) Lead
7 10 (8.85%) Senior Software Engineer
8 8 (7.08%) Data Analytics Engineer
8 8 (7.08%) Developer
8 8 (7.08%) Principal Software Engineer
8 8 (7.08%) Python Engineer
9 7 (6.19%) Senior Data Engineer
10 6 (5.31%) Architect
10 6 (5.31%) AWS Software Engineer
10 6 (5.31%) Java Engineer
10 6 (5.31%) Java Software Engineer
10 6 (5.31%) Python Software Engineer
11 5 (4.42%) Senior Java Engineer
11 5 (4.42%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (32.74%) Kafka
2 17 (15.04%) Apache NiFi
3 14 (12.39%) Great Expectations
4 12 (10.62%) PySpark
5 10 (8.85%) NumPy
5 10 (8.85%) Pandas
6 9 (7.96%) React
7 8 (7.08%) REST
8 6 (5.31%) gRPC
8 6 (5.31%) Protocol Buffers
8 6 (5.31%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (5.31%) SciPy
9 5 (4.42%) .NET
10 4 (3.54%) Node.js
11 3 (2.65%) JSON
11 3 (2.65%) Middleware
11 3 (2.65%) SOAP
11 3 (2.65%) Spark Streaming
11 3 (2.65%) Spring
11 3 (2.65%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 22 (19.47%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.08%) Equities
3 6 (5.31%) Derivative
3 6 (5.31%) Fixed Income
3 6 (5.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (5.31%) Hedge funds
3 6 (5.31%) Pricing Data
4 5 (4.42%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.54%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.54%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.65%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (2.65%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.77%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.88%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.88%) Autonomous Agent
8 1 (0.88%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.88%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.88%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.62%) Linux
2 5 (4.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (4.42%) Unix
3 3 (2.65%) CentOS
3 3 (2.65%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.88%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (44.25%) CI/CD
2 46 (40.71%) ETL
3 45 (39.82%) Analytics
3 45 (39.82%) DevOps
4 41 (36.28%) Data Modelling
5 40 (35.40%) Data Engineering
6 34 (30.09%) Agile
6 34 (30.09%) Data Pipeline
6 34 (30.09%) Software Engineering
7 32 (28.32%) Machine Learning
8 30 (26.55%) AI
8 30 (26.55%) Data Governance
9 26 (23.01%) Data Architecture
9 26 (23.01%) Infrastructure as Code
10 25 (22.12%) Business Intelligence
11 22 (19.47%) Observability
12 19 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
13 18 (15.93%) Batch Processing
14 16 (14.16%) Disaster Recovery
14 16 (14.16%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 74 (65.49%) Python
2 59 (52.21%) SQL
3 29 (25.66%) Java
4 21 (18.58%) C#
5 18 (15.93%) Scala
6 15 (13.27%) JavaScript
7 9 (7.96%) TypeScript
8 5 (4.42%) C++
9 4 (3.54%) Bash
10 3 (2.65%) R
11 2 (1.77%) Perl
11 2 (1.77%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.88%) C
12 1 (0.88%) Go
12 1 (0.88%) Korn
12 1 (0.88%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.88%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (26.55%) Security Cleared
2 23 (20.35%) SC Cleared
3 18 (15.93%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.54%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.77%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.77%) RHCE
6 1 (0.88%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.88%) CCNA
6 1 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.88%) Degree
6 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.88%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (28.32%) Data Quality
2 19 (16.81%) GDPR
3 2 (1.77%) QA
4 1 (0.88%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.88%) IFRS
4 1 (0.88%) IFRS 17
4 1 (0.88%) MiFID
4 1 (0.88%) Solvency II
System Software
1 12 (10.62%) Docker
2 4 (3.54%) HDFS
3 1 (0.88%) Ceph
3 1 (0.88%) iptables
3 1 (0.88%) KVM
3 1 (0.88%) Lustre
3 1 (0.88%) NFS
3 1 (0.88%) Samba
3 1 (0.88%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 30 (26.55%) Terraform
2 13 (11.50%) Kubernetes
3 6 (5.31%) Ansible
4 3 (2.65%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.77%) Nagios
5 2 (1.77%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.88%) Argo
6 1 (0.88%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.88%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.88%) SELinux
6 1 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (25.66%) Databricks
2 16 (14.16%) Google
3 8 (7.08%) Oracle
4 6 (5.31%) Cloudera
4 6 (5.31%) Foundry
4 6 (5.31%) Palantir
4 6 (5.31%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.54%) Informatica
5 4 (3.54%) Microsoft
5 4 (3.54%) Splunk
6 3 (2.65%) Guidewire
6 3 (2.65%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.77%) SAP
8 1 (0.88%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.88%) Cisco
8 1 (0.88%) Facebook
8 1 (0.88%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.88%) Sybase
8 1 (0.88%) Veritas
8 1 (0.88%) VMware