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 19 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 264 190 221
Rank change year-on-year -74 +31 +14
Contract jobs citing Apache 114 179 176
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.80% 1.29% 0.97%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.71% 10.95% 9.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 141 145
10th Percentile £438 £450 £425
25th Percentile £500 £550 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £675 £588
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +14.89% -9.62%
75th Percentile £750 £850 £788
90th Percentile £825 £888 -
England median daily rate £534 £675 £570
% change year-on-year -20.89% +18.42% -12.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
England median hourly rate £80.50 £74.22 £41.50
% change year-on-year +8.46% +78.84% -9.61%

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 1,478 1,634 1,949
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.35% 11.77% 10.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,021 1,031 1,382
10th Percentile £325 £308 £263
25th Percentile £415 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £638
90th Percentile £738 £810 £750
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 15 29
10th Percentile - £17.45 £17.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £21.87 £21.50
Median hourly rate £25.08 £23.80 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.36% -8.46% +15.56%
75th Percentile £41.19 £40.46 £32.50
90th Percentile £67.10 £55.01 £50.77
England median hourly rate £27.21 £42.50 £24.50
% change year-on-year -35.98% +73.47% +34.43%

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 19 January 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 19 January 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 -5 11 £575 -14.81% 8
West London -6 11 £603 - 1
South London -4 2 £507 -13.66% 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 43 (37.72%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (36.84%) Apache Spark
3 8 (7.02%) Confluence
4 4 (3.51%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.75%) Apache Pig
5 2 (1.75%) Luigi
5 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.75%) nginx
5 2 (1.75%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (1.75%) SAS
5 2 (1.75%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.88%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 2 (1.75%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.88%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Actimize
1 1 (0.88%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 61 (53.51%) AWS
2 37 (32.46%) Azure
3 27 (23.68%) GCP
4 25 (21.93%) Serverless
5 22 (19.30%) dbt
6 19 (16.67%) Amazon S3
6 19 (16.67%) Snowflake
7 17 (14.91%) Power Platform
8 14 (12.28%) AWS CloudFormation
9 12 (10.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 10 (8.77%) Collibra
11 9 (7.89%) Amazon SQS
12 8 (7.02%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (6.14%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (6.14%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (4.39%) AWS Data Pipeline
15 4 (3.51%) Azure AKS
15 4 (3.51%) GitHub
15 4 (3.51%) GitHub Actions
16 3 (2.63%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.63%) Firewall
2 2 (1.75%) DNS
2 2 (1.75%) HTTP
2 2 (1.75%) SSL
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 37 (32.46%) Data Lake
2 28 (24.56%) Amazon Athena
3 21 (18.42%) Big Data
4 17 (14.91%) Power BI
5 16 (14.04%) Apache Iceberg
5 16 (14.04%) BigQuery
6 14 (12.28%) Apache Arrow
6 14 (12.28%) Apache Ignite
6 14 (12.28%) Dremio
6 14 (12.28%) Hadoop
7 13 (11.40%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (9.65%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (8.77%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (7.89%) Delta Lake
10 9 (7.89%) Mixpanel
10 9 (7.89%) OLAP
10 9 (7.89%) OLTP
11 8 (7.02%) Metadata
11 8 (7.02%) NoSQL
12 7 (6.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (11.40%) JIRA
2 11 (9.65%) Git
3 5 (4.39%) Mockito
4 4 (3.51%) JUnit
5 3 (2.63%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.63%) Liquibase
5 3 (2.63%) MLflow
6 2 (1.75%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.75%) GitLab
6 2 (1.75%) Maven
6 2 (1.75%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.88%) ERwin
7 1 (0.88%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.88%) Storybook
General
1 26 (22.81%) Finance
2 23 (20.18%) Social Skills
3 16 (14.04%) Banking
4 14 (12.28%) Front Office
4 14 (12.28%) Investment Banking
5 10 (8.77%) Public Sector
6 8 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.63%) Billing
8 2 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.88%) Electronics
9 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.88%) Law
9 1 (0.88%) Legal
9 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.88%) Marketing
9 1 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 43 (37.72%) Data Engineer
2 30 (26.32%) Software Engineer
3 26 (22.81%) Senior
4 19 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
5 18 (15.79%) AWS Engineer
6 16 (14.04%) Python Engineer
7 14 (12.28%) AWS Software Engineer
7 14 (12.28%) Java Engineer
7 14 (12.28%) Java Software Engineer
7 14 (12.28%) Python Software Engineer
8 13 (11.40%) Senior Java Engineer
8 13 (11.40%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 10 (8.77%) Developer
10 8 (7.02%) Data Analytics Engineer
10 8 (7.02%) Principal Data Engineer
10 8 (7.02%) Principal Engineer
11 7 (6.14%) Principal Software Engineer
12 6 (5.26%) Architect
12 6 (5.26%) Lead
13 5 (4.39%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (28.95%) Kafka
2 20 (17.54%) Apache NiFi
3 17 (14.91%) NumPy
3 17 (14.91%) Pandas
4 14 (12.28%) gRPC
4 14 (12.28%) Protocol Buffers
4 14 (12.28%) PySpark
4 14 (12.28%) SciPy
5 11 (9.65%) REST
6 9 (7.89%) Great Expectations
6 9 (7.89%) React
7 7 (6.14%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (5.26%) .NET
9 5 (4.39%) JSON
9 5 (4.39%) Node.js
10 4 (3.51%) OAuth
10 4 (3.51%) OAuth2
10 4 (3.51%) RAML
10 4 (3.51%) WireMock
11 3 (2.63%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.79%) Cloud Native
2 16 (14.04%) Equities
3 14 (12.28%) Derivative
3 14 (12.28%) Fixed Income
3 14 (12.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 14 (12.28%) Hedge funds
3 14 (12.28%) Pricing Data
4 5 (4.39%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.63%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.63%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.63%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.75%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.75%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.88%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.88%) Autonomous Agent
7 1 (0.88%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.88%) Podcast
7 1 (0.88%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.88%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 13 (11.40%) Linux
2 7 (6.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.63%) CentOS
3 3 (2.63%) Ubuntu
3 3 (2.63%) Unix
4 1 (0.88%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (40.35%) Agile
2 42 (36.84%) Software Engineering
3 41 (35.96%) ETL
4 37 (32.46%) CI/CD
5 35 (30.70%) Data Modelling
6 34 (29.82%) Data Pipeline
7 33 (28.95%) Analytics
7 33 (28.95%) DevOps
8 30 (26.32%) Data Engineering
9 23 (20.18%) Data Governance
10 22 (19.30%) Business Intelligence
11 21 (18.42%) Data Architecture
12 18 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
12 18 (15.79%) Machine Learning
12 18 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
13 17 (14.91%) Microservices
14 16 (14.04%) AI
15 14 (12.28%) Asset Management
15 14 (12.28%) Investment Management
15 14 (12.28%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 73 (64.04%) Python
2 47 (41.23%) SQL
3 38 (33.33%) Java
4 25 (21.93%) JavaScript
5 17 (14.91%) C#
6 16 (14.04%) TypeScript
7 11 (9.65%) Scala
8 6 (5.26%) C++
9 5 (4.39%) Bash
10 2 (1.75%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.75%) R
10 2 (1.75%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.88%) C
11 1 (0.88%) Go
11 1 (0.88%) Korn
11 1 (0.88%) Perl
11 1 (0.88%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 39 (34.21%) Security Cleared
2 28 (24.56%) SC Cleared
3 22 (19.30%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.63%) Degree
5 2 (1.75%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.75%) RHCE
6 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.88%) CCNA
6 1 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.88%) MCP
6 1 (0.88%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (21.93%) Data Quality
2 14 (12.28%) GDPR
3 1 (0.88%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.88%) IFRS
3 1 (0.88%) IFRS 17
3 1 (0.88%) MiFID
3 1 (0.88%) QA
3 1 (0.88%) Solvency II
System Software
1 14 (12.28%) Docker
2 3 (2.63%) 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 23 (20.18%) Terraform
2 15 (13.16%) Kubernetes
3 6 (5.26%) Ansible
4 3 (2.63%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.75%) Nagios
5 2 (1.75%) 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 22 (19.30%) Databricks
2 11 (9.65%) Google
3 9 (7.89%) Oracle
4 7 (6.14%) Cloudera
4 7 (6.14%) Foundry
4 7 (6.14%) Palantir
5 6 (5.26%) ServiceNow
6 5 (4.39%) Red Hat
6 5 (4.39%) Splunk
7 4 (3.51%) Informatica
8 3 (2.63%) Guidewire
8 3 (2.63%) Microsoft
9 2 (1.75%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.75%) SAP
9 2 (1.75%) Sparx
10 1 (0.88%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.88%) Cisco
10 1 (0.88%) Facebook
10 1 (0.88%) Veritas
10 1 (0.88%) VMware