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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 291 198 107
Rank change year-on-year -93 -91 +106
Contract jobs citing Apache 160 179 398
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.80% 1.34% 2.45%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.92% 11.46% 19.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 137 364
10th Percentile £402 £449 £516
25th Percentile £450 £513 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £700 £800
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% -12.50% +28.00%
75th Percentile £663 £825 £888
90th Percentile £775 £830 -
England median daily rate £500 £575 £756
% change year-on-year -13.04% -23.97% +26.04%

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 2,020 1,562 2,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.06% 11.65% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,332 1,059 1,511
10th Percentile £315 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £671 £761
90th Percentile £713 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 23 24
10th Percentile £18.67 £24.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £20.89 £26.00 £21.75
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £26.15
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +14.72% -25.29%
75th Percentile £41.44 £51.88 £43.44
90th Percentile £73.15 £82.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £41.45 £36.25
% change year-on-year -21.59% +14.34% -20.33%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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
Central London -10 18 £538 -11.56% 4
West London -18 4 £625 +22.07%
South London -8 2 £558 +17.78%
East London - 1 £669 - 1
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 94 (58.75%) Apache Spark
2 67 (41.88%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.88%) CloudStack
3 3 (1.88%) nginx
4 1 (0.63%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (0.63%) IIS
4 1 (0.63%) JBoss
4 1 (0.63%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.63%) Luigi
4 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.63%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Magento
1 1 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.63%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 78 (48.75%) AWS
2 76 (47.50%) Azure
3 53 (33.13%) GCP
4 37 (23.13%) dbt
5 25 (15.63%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (14.38%) Snowflake
7 21 (13.13%) Amazon S3
8 20 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
9 15 (9.38%) Power Platform
10 14 (8.75%) GitHub
11 12 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (7.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 12 (7.50%) Serverless
12 10 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (4.38%) Amazon Kinesis
13 7 (4.38%) SaaS
14 6 (3.75%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (3.75%) Cloud Composer
14 6 (3.75%) IaaS
15 5 (3.13%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.00%) DNS
2 4 (2.50%) Firewall
3 3 (1.88%) HTTPS
3 3 (1.88%) Network Security
4 2 (1.25%) FTP
4 2 (1.25%) NAS
4 2 (1.25%) SAN
4 2 (1.25%) SSL
4 2 (1.25%) VLAN
4 2 (1.25%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.63%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.63%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (26.25%) Data Warehouse
2 31 (19.38%) Data Lake
3 29 (18.13%) BigQuery
4 27 (16.88%) Delta Lake
5 23 (14.38%) Big Data
6 22 (13.75%) Flink
7 21 (13.13%) Metadata
8 15 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
9 14 (8.75%) Power BI
10 13 (8.13%) Amazon Redshift
10 13 (8.13%) Apache Iceberg
10 13 (8.13%) NoSQL
10 13 (8.13%) Relational Database
11 11 (6.88%) Amazon Athena
12 10 (6.25%) Hadoop
12 10 (6.25%) SQL Server
13 8 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
13 8 (5.00%) Spark SQL
14 7 (4.38%) MongoDB
15 6 (3.75%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 24 (15.00%) Git
2 9 (5.63%) Jenkins
3 7 (4.38%) GitLab
4 6 (3.75%) SonarQube
5 5 (3.13%) JIRA
5 5 (3.13%) Maven
6 4 (2.50%) Gradle
7 2 (1.25%) JMeter
8 1 (0.63%) MLflow
8 1 (0.63%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.63%) Selenium
8 1 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.63%) Terragrunt
General
1 52 (32.50%) Finance
2 33 (20.63%) Social Skills
3 21 (13.13%) Banking
4 18 (11.25%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (8.13%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.50%) Billing
6 4 (2.50%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.88%) Legal
8 2 (1.25%) Front Office
8 2 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.25%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.25%) Law
8 2 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.63%) Marketing
9 1 (0.63%) Publishing
9 1 (0.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 77 (48.13%) Data Engineer
2 36 (22.50%) Senior
3 34 (21.25%) Architect
4 25 (15.63%) Senior Data Engineer
5 19 (11.88%) Lead
6 17 (10.63%) Developer
7 13 (8.13%) Java Developer
8 12 (7.50%) Data Architect
9 11 (6.88%) Lead Data Engineer
10 10 (6.25%) Python Data Engineer
10 10 (6.25%) Python Engineer
11 7 (4.38%) Technical Leader
12 6 (3.75%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (3.75%) Senior Developer
12 6 (3.75%) Senior Java Developer
12 6 (3.75%) Snowflake Engineer
13 5 (3.13%) Analyst
13 5 (3.13%) GCP Engineer
14 4 (2.50%) Principal Engineer
14 4 (2.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (31.88%) Kafka
2 46 (28.75%) PySpark
3 31 (19.38%) Terraform
4 15 (9.38%) REST
5 13 (8.13%) Spring
6 12 (7.50%) JSON
6 12 (7.50%) Spring Boot
7 11 (6.88%) Apache Beam
8 6 (3.75%) Spark Streaming
9 5 (3.13%) GraphQL
9 5 (3.13%) Great Expectations
9 5 (3.13%) SOAP
10 4 (2.50%) Apache NiFi
10 4 (2.50%) LangChain
10 4 (2.50%) Spring Cloud
11 3 (1.88%) Apache Avro
11 3 (1.88%) JSON-LD
11 3 (1.88%) LAMP
11 3 (1.88%) NetworkX
11 3 (1.88%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 30 (18.75%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 8 (5.00%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.38%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.75%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.75%) Public Cloud
6 5 (3.13%) AI Agents
6 5 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (3.13%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.88%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.88%) Data Fabric
8 3 (1.88%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.88%) Taxonomies
9 2 (1.25%) Clustering
9 2 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.25%) Life Science
9 2 (1.25%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (15.63%) Linux
2 13 (8.13%) Unix
3 5 (3.13%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.88%) Windows
5 2 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.63%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.63%) CentOS
6 1 (0.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (52.50%) Data Pipeline
2 75 (46.88%) CI/CD
3 68 (42.50%) Data Engineering
4 64 (40.00%) ETL
5 62 (38.75%) DevOps
6 61 (38.13%) Analytics
7 59 (36.88%) Data Modelling
8 49 (30.63%) Agile
9 41 (25.63%) AI
10 37 (23.13%) Machine Learning
11 32 (20.00%) Data Architecture
12 31 (19.38%) Data Governance
13 30 (18.75%) Containerisation
13 30 (18.75%) Migration
14 28 (17.50%) Infrastructure as Code
15 26 (16.25%) Data Transformation
16 24 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
17 23 (14.38%) Business Intelligence
17 23 (14.38%) Data Science
17 23 (14.38%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 110 (68.75%) Python
2 104 (65.00%) SQL
3 39 (24.38%) Java
4 23 (14.38%) Scala
5 18 (11.25%) Shell Script
6 11 (6.88%) Bash
7 7 (4.38%) R
8 6 (3.75%) Go
9 5 (3.13%) C#
9 5 (3.13%) Perl
10 4 (2.50%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.50%) Ruby
11 3 (1.88%) Cypher
11 3 (1.88%) Gremlin
11 3 (1.88%) PHP
11 3 (1.88%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.88%) SPARQL
11 3 (1.88%) TypeScript
12 2 (1.25%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.63%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 31 (19.38%) Security Cleared
2 29 (18.13%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.88%) Degree
4 9 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.88%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.25%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.25%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.25%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.25%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.63%) CCNP
7 1 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.63%) MBA
7 1 (0.63%) PhD
7 1 (0.63%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.63%) PMP
7 1 (0.63%) RHCSA
7 1 (0.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (38.75%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.63%) GDPR
3 8 (5.00%) QA
4 4 (2.50%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.88%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.63%) SLA
System Software
1 48 (30.00%) Docker
2 7 (4.38%) NFS
2 7 (4.38%) Varnish
3 6 (3.75%) Postfix
4 4 (2.50%) Sendmail
5 2 (1.25%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.25%) Ceph
5 2 (1.25%) KVM
5 2 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 50 (31.25%) Kubernetes
2 10 (6.25%) Ansible
3 6 (3.75%) HAProxy
4 3 (1.88%) Grafana
4 3 (1.88%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.88%) Puppet
5 2 (1.25%) Control-M
5 2 (1.25%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.25%) SELinux
6 1 (0.63%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.63%) Check_MK
6 1 (0.63%) Kibana
6 1 (0.63%) systemd
Vendors
1 44 (27.50%) Databricks
2 21 (13.13%) Google
3 20 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 9 (5.63%) Informatica
5 8 (5.00%) Cloudera
6 6 (3.75%) Splunk
7 5 (3.13%) Confluent
7 5 (3.13%) New Relic
8 4 (2.50%) Guidewire
8 4 (2.50%) Hortonworks
9 3 (1.88%) Oracle
9 3 (1.88%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.88%) Talend
10 2 (1.25%) Cisco
10 2 (1.25%) Foundry
10 2 (1.25%) Hitachi
10 2 (1.25%) SAP
10 2 (1.25%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.25%) Teradata
10 2 (1.25%) VMware