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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 283 200 106
Rank change year-on-year -83 -94 +115
Contract jobs citing Apache 164 191 394
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.81% 1.39% 2.42%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.28% 12.00% 19.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 153 361
10th Percentile £403 £447 £513
25th Percentile £460 £513 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% -6.25% +28.00%
75th Percentile £663 £825 £888
90th Percentile £775 £875 -
England median daily rate £513 £600 £750
% change year-on-year -14.58% -20.00% +25.00%

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 1,981 1,592 2,028
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.82% 11.60% 12.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,315 1,088 1,519
10th Percentile £350 £331 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +1.82%
75th Percentile £619 £673 £750
90th Percentile £704 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £496 £525
% change year-on-year +0.91% -5.62% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 22 26
10th Percentile £15.50 £24.50 £18.79
25th Percentile £19.14 £26.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.75 £30.94
Median % change year-on-year -8.94% -0.60% -34.87%
75th Percentile £41.22 £52.81 £37.50
90th Percentile £73.00 £85.13 £75.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £44.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -26.97% +36.92% -31.58%

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 2 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 2 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 £550 -4.35% 10
West London -12 6 £625 +22.07%
South London -14 2 £558 +17.78% 1
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 96 (58.54%) Apache Spark
2 63 (38.41%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.83%) CloudStack
3 3 (1.83%) nginx
4 1 (0.61%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (0.61%) IIS
4 1 (0.61%) JBoss
4 1 (0.61%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.61%) Luigi
4 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.61%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Magento
1 1 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.61%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 79 (48.17%) AWS
2 77 (46.95%) Azure
3 53 (32.32%) GCP
4 36 (21.95%) dbt
5 27 (16.46%) Amazon S3
6 26 (15.85%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (12.80%) Snowflake
8 19 (11.59%) Power Platform
9 17 (10.37%) Azure Data Factory
10 15 (9.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 13 (7.93%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (7.93%) GitHub
11 13 (7.93%) Serverless
12 11 (6.71%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (6.71%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (4.88%) Amazon Kinesis
14 7 (4.27%) Amazon SQS
14 7 (4.27%) SaaS
15 6 (3.66%) Collibra
15 6 (3.66%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.88%) DNS
2 4 (2.44%) Firewall
3 3 (1.83%) HTTPS
3 3 (1.83%) Network Security
4 2 (1.22%) FTP
4 2 (1.22%) NAS
4 2 (1.22%) SAN
4 2 (1.22%) SSL
4 2 (1.22%) VLAN
4 2 (1.22%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.61%) 4G
5 1 (0.61%) 5G
5 1 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.61%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (22.56%) Data Warehouse
2 32 (19.51%) Data Lake
3 27 (16.46%) BigQuery
4 25 (15.24%) Big Data
5 24 (14.63%) Delta Lake
6 22 (13.41%) Flink
7 20 (12.20%) Metadata
8 17 (10.37%) Power BI
9 14 (8.54%) Amazon Athena
9 14 (8.54%) NoSQL
10 13 (7.93%) Hadoop
10 13 (7.93%) PostgreSQL
10 13 (7.93%) Relational Database
11 12 (7.32%) Amazon Redshift
12 11 (6.71%) Apache Iceberg
12 11 (6.71%) SQL Server
13 9 (5.49%) Spark SQL
14 8 (4.88%) MongoDB
15 7 (4.27%) Tableau
16 6 (3.66%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 27 (16.46%) Git
2 11 (6.71%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.66%) JIRA
3 6 (3.66%) SonarQube
4 5 (3.05%) GitLab
4 5 (3.05%) Maven
5 4 (2.44%) Gradle
6 2 (1.22%) JMeter
6 2 (1.22%) Selenium
7 1 (0.61%) MLflow
7 1 (0.61%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 51 (31.10%) Finance
2 33 (20.12%) Social Skills
3 22 (13.41%) Banking
4 21 (12.80%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (7.93%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.66%) Billing
7 4 (2.44%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.44%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.83%) Front Office
8 3 (1.83%) Legal
9 2 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.22%) Law
9 2 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.61%) Marketing
10 1 (0.61%) Publishing
10 1 (0.61%) Retail
10 1 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 77 (46.95%) Data Engineer
2 36 (21.95%) Senior
3 35 (21.34%) Architect
4 23 (14.02%) Senior Data Engineer
5 20 (12.20%) Developer
5 20 (12.20%) Lead
6 14 (8.54%) Java Developer
7 13 (7.93%) Data Architect
8 12 (7.32%) Lead Data Engineer
9 7 (4.27%) Principal Data Engineer
9 7 (4.27%) Principal Engineer
9 7 (4.27%) Python Data Engineer
9 7 (4.27%) Python Engineer
9 7 (4.27%) Snowflake Engineer
10 6 (3.66%) Analyst
10 6 (3.66%) Senior Developer
10 6 (3.66%) Senior Java Developer
11 5 (3.05%) AWS Engineer
11 5 (3.05%) Big Data Engineer
11 5 (3.05%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (30.49%) Kafka
2 42 (25.61%) PySpark
3 17 (10.37%) REST
4 15 (9.15%) Spring
5 12 (7.32%) JSON
5 12 (7.32%) Spring Boot
6 11 (6.71%) Apache Beam
7 8 (4.88%) Great Expectations
8 6 (3.66%) SOAP
9 5 (3.05%) GraphQL
9 5 (3.05%) Spark Streaming
10 4 (2.44%) Apache NiFi
10 4 (2.44%) LangChain
10 4 (2.44%) Spring Cloud
11 3 (1.83%) Apache Avro
11 3 (1.83%) JSON-LD
11 3 (1.83%) NetworkX
11 3 (1.83%) Pandas
11 3 (1.83%) Protocol Buffers
11 3 (1.83%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 33 (20.12%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.10%) Management Information System
3 7 (4.27%) Data Structures
3 7 (4.27%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (3.66%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.66%) Public Cloud
5 5 (3.05%) AI Agents
5 5 (3.05%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.05%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.83%) Clustering
6 3 (1.83%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.83%) Data Fabric
6 3 (1.83%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (1.83%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.83%) Private Cloud
6 3 (1.83%) Taxonomies
6 3 (1.83%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 24 (14.63%) Linux
2 15 (9.15%) Unix
3 5 (3.05%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.83%) Windows
5 2 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.61%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.61%) CentOS
6 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (49.39%) Data Pipeline
2 79 (48.17%) CI/CD
3 70 (42.68%) Data Engineering
4 64 (39.02%) ETL
5 63 (38.41%) Analytics
5 63 (38.41%) Data Modelling
5 63 (38.41%) DevOps
6 45 (27.44%) Agile
7 43 (26.22%) AI
8 36 (21.95%) Data Governance
9 35 (21.34%) Data Architecture
10 34 (20.73%) Machine Learning
11 32 (19.51%) Infrastructure as Code
12 30 (18.29%) Containerisation
12 30 (18.29%) Migration
13 27 (16.46%) Business Intelligence
14 25 (15.24%) Performance Optimisation
15 24 (14.63%) Observability
16 22 (13.41%) Data Science
16 22 (13.41%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 111 (67.68%) Python
2 107 (65.24%) SQL
3 42 (25.61%) Java
4 24 (14.63%) Scala
5 19 (11.59%) Shell Script
6 11 (6.71%) Bash
7 8 (4.88%) C#
8 7 (4.27%) R
9 6 (3.66%) Go
9 6 (3.66%) Perl
10 4 (2.44%) Ruby
10 4 (2.44%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.83%) Cypher
11 3 (1.83%) Gremlin
11 3 (1.83%) PHP
11 3 (1.83%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.83%) SPARQL
12 2 (1.22%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.22%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.61%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 31 (18.90%) Security Cleared
2 29 (17.68%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (5.49%) Degree
4 3 (1.83%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.22%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.22%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.22%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.22%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.61%) CCNP
6 1 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.61%) MBA
6 1 (0.61%) PhD
6 1 (0.61%) RHCSA
6 1 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (39.02%) Data Quality
2 12 (7.32%) GDPR
3 7 (4.27%) QA
4 4 (2.44%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.83%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.61%) SLA
System Software
1 44 (26.83%) Docker
2 7 (4.27%) NFS
2 7 (4.27%) Varnish
3 6 (3.66%) Postfix
4 4 (2.44%) Sendmail
5 2 (1.22%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.22%) Ceph
5 2 (1.22%) HDFS
5 2 (1.22%) KVM
5 2 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 46 (28.05%) Kubernetes
2 32 (19.51%) Terraform
3 10 (6.10%) Ansible
4 6 (3.66%) HAProxy
5 3 (1.83%) Grafana
5 3 (1.83%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.22%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.22%) SELinux
7 1 (0.61%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.61%) Check_MK
7 1 (0.61%) Kibana
7 1 (0.61%) Puppet
7 1 (0.61%) systemd
Vendors
1 43 (26.22%) Databricks
2 26 (15.85%) Google
3 22 (13.41%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.88%) Cloudera
5 7 (4.27%) Informatica
6 6 (3.66%) Splunk
7 5 (3.05%) Confluent
7 5 (3.05%) Guidewire
7 5 (3.05%) New Relic
8 4 (2.44%) Hortonworks
8 4 (2.44%) Oracle
9 3 (1.83%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.83%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.22%) Cisco
10 2 (1.22%) Foundry
10 2 (1.22%) Hitachi
10 2 (1.22%) SAP
10 2 (1.22%) Sybase
10 2 (1.22%) Teradata
10 2 (1.22%) VMware