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 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 177 172
Rank change year-on-year -112 -5 +54
Contract jobs citing Apache 129 192 244
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.75% 1.52% 1.36%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.66% 12.98% 12.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 161 217
10th Percentile £428 £450 £407
25th Percentile £500 £563 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £750 £650
Median % change year-on-year -25.33% +15.38% -
75th Percentile £638 £838 £800
90th Percentile £750 £875 £888
England median daily rate £525 £675 £575
% change year-on-year -22.22% +17.39% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
England median hourly rate £79.00 £78.70 £38.50
% change year-on-year +0.38% +104.42% -50.64%

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 1,685 1,479 1,997
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.74% 11.68% 11.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,142 990 1,470
10th Percentile £353 £325 £263
25th Percentile £425 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year - +2.94% -7.27%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £635
90th Percentile £726 £814 £788
England median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 10 30
10th Percentile £15.30 £23.80 £20.15
25th Percentile £17.50 £26.14 £22.44
Median hourly rate £22.64 £32.73 £30.08
Median % change year-on-year -30.83% +8.79% +14.59%
75th Percentile £28.82 £41.91 £40.00
90th Percentile £55.34 £50.38 £58.13
England median hourly rate £30.00 £52.50 £28.50
% change year-on-year -42.86% +84.21% +24.92%

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 9 April 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 9 April 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 - 17 £603 -
Central London -22 15 £575 -12.21% 12
South London -21 3 £515 +8.42% 1
East London - 1 £669 -
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 74 (57.36%) Apache Spark
2 31 (24.03%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.10%) Confluence
3 4 (3.10%) Palantir Foundry
4 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.55%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.78%) nginx
6 1 (0.78%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Actimize
1 1 (0.78%) Magento
1 1 (0.78%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.78%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 70 (54.26%) AWS
2 69 (53.49%) Azure
3 39 (30.23%) GCP
4 33 (25.58%) Amazon S3
5 26 (20.16%) AWS CloudFormation
6 25 (19.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 25 (19.38%) Power Platform
7 21 (16.28%) Serverless
8 20 (15.50%) Azure DevOps
9 19 (14.73%) Collibra
10 18 (13.95%) Amazon SQS
11 12 (9.30%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (9.30%) Azure Data Factory
12 10 (7.75%) dbt
12 10 (7.75%) Snowflake
13 9 (6.98%) GitHub
13 9 (6.98%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (4.65%) AWS Step Functions
15 4 (3.10%) AWS Data Pipeline
15 4 (3.10%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.10%) DNS
2 3 (2.33%) Firewall
3 2 (1.55%) FTP
3 2 (1.55%) Network Security
4 1 (0.78%) 4G
4 1 (0.78%) 5G
4 1 (0.78%) DHCP
4 1 (0.78%) InfiniBand
4 1 (0.78%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.78%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.78%) LAN
4 1 (0.78%) Spanning Tree
4 1 (0.78%) SSH
4 1 (0.78%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.78%) VLAN
4 1 (0.78%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (31.78%) Data Lake
2 28 (21.71%) Amazon Athena
3 23 (17.83%) BigQuery
3 23 (17.83%) Power BI
4 18 (13.95%) Big Data
4 18 (13.95%) Mixpanel
5 17 (13.18%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (13.18%) OLAP
5 17 (13.18%) OLTP
6 13 (10.08%) Delta Lake
7 12 (9.30%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (9.30%) Flink
8 11 (8.53%) Metadata
8 11 (8.53%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (7.75%) Hadoop
9 10 (7.75%) NoSQL
10 8 (6.20%) Relational Database
10 8 (6.20%) SQL Server
11 7 (5.43%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (5.43%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 25 (19.38%) Git
2 15 (11.63%) JIRA
3 7 (5.43%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.10%) MLflow
4 4 (3.10%) Mockito
5 3 (2.33%) JUnit
5 3 (2.33%) Liquibase
5 3 (2.33%) Maven
6 2 (1.55%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.55%) GitLab
6 2 (1.55%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.78%) ERwin
7 1 (0.78%) Gradle
7 1 (0.78%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.78%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.78%) Selenium
7 1 (0.78%) Storybook
General
1 29 (22.48%) Finance
2 21 (16.28%) Social Skills
3 16 (12.40%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.53%) Banking
4 11 (8.53%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.88%) Billing
5 5 (3.88%) Investment Banking
6 4 (3.10%) Front Office
7 2 (1.55%) Marketing
7 2 (1.55%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.78%) Electronics
8 1 (0.78%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.78%) Law
8 1 (0.78%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 58 (44.96%) Data Engineer
2 20 (15.50%) Developer
2 20 (15.50%) Senior
3 18 (13.95%) Lead
3 18 (13.95%) Principal Engineer
4 17 (13.18%) Principal Data Engineer
5 16 (12.40%) Software Engineer
6 11 (8.53%) Architect
6 11 (8.53%) Lead Data Engineer
6 11 (8.53%) Senior Data Engineer
7 10 (7.75%) Java Developer
8 8 (6.20%) AWS Engineer
8 8 (6.20%) Principal Software Engineer
9 7 (5.43%) Data Analytics Engineer
10 5 (3.88%) AWS Data Engineer
10 5 (3.88%) Solutions Architect
11 4 (3.10%) Analyst
11 4 (3.10%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (3.10%) Data Architect
11 4 (3.10%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (34.11%) Kafka
2 20 (15.50%) PySpark
3 19 (14.73%) Great Expectations
4 11 (8.53%) JSON
4 11 (8.53%) REST
5 9 (6.98%) Apache NiFi
6 6 (4.65%) NumPy
6 6 (4.65%) Pandas
6 6 (4.65%) Spring
7 5 (3.88%) Protocol Buffers
7 5 (3.88%) React
7 5 (3.88%) SOAP
8 3 (2.33%) Apache Avro
8 3 (2.33%) Apache Beam
8 3 (2.33%) LAMP
8 3 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (2.33%) RAML
8 3 (2.33%) Spring Boot
8 3 (2.33%) WireMock
9 2 (1.55%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 33 (25.58%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.10%) Distributed Computing
3 4 (3.10%) Equities
3 4 (3.10%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.10%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.10%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.33%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.33%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.33%) Distributed Applications
4 3 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.55%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.55%) Pricing Data
5 2 (1.55%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.55%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (11.63%) Linux
2 11 (8.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (50.39%) CI/CD
2 56 (43.41%) Analytics
2 56 (43.41%) DevOps
3 55 (42.64%) ETL
4 53 (41.09%) Data Modelling
5 52 (40.31%) Data Engineering
6 49 (37.98%) Data Pipeline
7 39 (30.23%) AI
7 39 (30.23%) Machine Learning
8 36 (27.91%) Data Governance
9 34 (26.36%) Infrastructure as Code
10 33 (25.58%) Data Architecture
11 32 (24.81%) Observability
12 29 (22.48%) Agile
13 27 (20.93%) Business Intelligence
13 27 (20.93%) Software Engineering
14 23 (17.83%) Batch Processing
14 23 (17.83%) Problem-Solving
15 21 (16.28%) Dimensional Modelling
15 21 (16.28%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 84 (65.12%) SQL
2 82 (63.57%) Python
3 33 (25.58%) Java
4 21 (16.28%) C#
5 20 (15.50%) Scala
6 7 (5.43%) Shell Script
7 6 (4.65%) JavaScript
7 6 (4.65%) R
7 6 (4.65%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.10%) Bash
8 4 (3.10%) Perl
9 3 (2.33%) PHP
10 2 (1.55%) C++
10 2 (1.55%) Ruby
11 1 (0.78%) C
11 1 (0.78%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.78%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (27.91%) Security Cleared
2 31 (24.03%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.98%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.10%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.55%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.55%) Degree
6 1 (0.78%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.78%) CCNA
6 1 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (31.78%) Data Quality
2 21 (16.28%) GDPR
3 4 (3.10%) QA
4 2 (1.55%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.78%) IFRS
5 1 (0.78%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.78%) MiFID
5 1 (0.78%) Solvency II
System Software
1 20 (15.50%) Docker
2 5 (3.88%) NFS
2 5 (3.88%) Varnish
3 4 (3.10%) Postfix
4 3 (2.33%) Sendmail
5 2 (1.55%) HDFS
6 1 (0.78%) Ceph
6 1 (0.78%) iptables
6 1 (0.78%) KVM
6 1 (0.78%) Lustre
6 1 (0.78%) Samba
6 1 (0.78%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 35 (27.13%) Terraform
2 19 (14.73%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.88%) HAProxy
4 4 (3.10%) Ansible
5 1 (0.78%) Grafana
5 1 (0.78%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.78%) SELinux
Vendors
1 39 (30.23%) Databricks
2 22 (17.05%) Google
3 8 (6.20%) Cloudera
4 7 (5.43%) Microsoft
4 7 (5.43%) ServiceNow
5 6 (4.65%) Confluent
6 5 (3.88%) Informatica
7 4 (3.10%) Foundry
7 4 (3.10%) Guidewire
7 4 (3.10%) Oracle
7 4 (3.10%) Palantir
8 3 (2.33%) Hortonworks
9 2 (1.55%) SAP
9 2 (1.55%) Splunk
10 1 (0.78%) Adobe
10 1 (0.78%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.78%) Cisco
10 1 (0.78%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.78%) Sybase
10 1 (0.78%) Veritas