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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 280 189 103
Rank change year-on-year -91 -86 +119
Contract jobs citing Apache 153 190 405
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.77% 1.39% 2.45%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.94% 12.07% 19.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 154 371
10th Percentile £405 £436 £468
25th Percentile £461 £513 £572
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 £765 £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 1,927 1,574 2,081
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.69% 11.51% 12.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,276 1,070 1,558
10th Percentile £350 £331 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £672 £750
90th Percentile £708 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 21 26
10th Percentile £15.45 £24.50 £20.75
25th Percentile £19.09 £26.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £27.75 £30.00 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -5.39% -33.24%
75th Percentile £41.00 £53.75 £39.69
90th Percentile £64.68 £87.50 £75.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £43.09 £31.71
% change year-on-year -24.58% +35.89% -31.33%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 -12 17 £550 -4.35% 6
West London -13 6 £625 +22.07%
South London -14 2 £558 +17.78% 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 91 (59.48%) Apache Spark
2 58 (37.91%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.96%) CloudStack
4 2 (1.31%) nginx
5 1 (0.65%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.65%) IIS
5 1 (0.65%) JBoss
5 1 (0.65%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.65%) Luigi
5 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.65%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Magento
1 1 (0.65%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.65%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 73 (47.71%) AWS
2 71 (46.41%) Azure
3 46 (30.07%) GCP
4 32 (20.92%) dbt
5 26 (16.99%) Amazon S3
6 23 (15.03%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (12.42%) Power Platform
7 19 (12.42%) Snowflake
8 16 (10.46%) Azure Data Factory
9 15 (9.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 13 (8.50%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (8.50%) Serverless
11 11 (7.19%) GitHub
12 10 (6.54%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (5.23%) Amazon Kinesis
15 7 (4.58%) Amazon SQS
16 6 (3.92%) AWS Step Functions
16 6 (3.92%) IaaS
16 6 (3.92%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.58%) DNS
2 4 (2.61%) Firewall
3 3 (1.96%) Network Security
4 2 (1.31%) FTP
4 2 (1.31%) NAS
4 2 (1.31%) SAN
4 2 (1.31%) VLAN
4 2 (1.31%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.65%) 4G
5 1 (0.65%) 5G
5 1 (0.65%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.65%) SSL
5 1 (0.65%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (21.57%) Data Warehouse
2 31 (20.26%) Data Lake
3 25 (16.34%) Big Data
4 21 (13.73%) BigQuery
5 20 (13.07%) Delta Lake
6 19 (12.42%) Flink
6 19 (12.42%) Metadata
7 17 (11.11%) Power BI
8 14 (9.15%) NoSQL
9 13 (8.50%) Amazon Athena
9 13 (8.50%) Hadoop
9 13 (8.50%) PostgreSQL
10 12 (7.84%) Relational Database
11 11 (7.19%) SQL Server
12 9 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
12 9 (5.88%) Apache Iceberg
12 9 (5.88%) Spark SQL
13 8 (5.23%) MongoDB
14 7 (4.58%) Tableau
15 6 (3.92%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 25 (16.34%) Git
2 9 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.92%) JIRA
3 6 (3.92%) SonarQube
4 4 (2.61%) GitLab
4 4 (2.61%) Gradle
4 4 (2.61%) Maven
5 2 (1.31%) Selenium
6 1 (0.65%) JMeter
6 1 (0.65%) MLflow
6 1 (0.65%) PHPUnit
General
1 47 (30.72%) Finance
2 30 (19.61%) Social Skills
3 19 (12.42%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (12.42%) Banking
4 12 (7.84%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.92%) Billing
6 3 (1.96%) Front Office
6 3 (1.96%) Investment Banking
6 3 (1.96%) Legal
7 2 (1.31%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.31%) Law
7 2 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.65%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.65%) Marketing
8 1 (0.65%) Retail
8 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 71 (46.41%) Data Engineer
2 33 (21.57%) Architect
2 33 (21.57%) Senior
3 20 (13.07%) Developer
3 20 (13.07%) Senior Data Engineer
4 18 (11.76%) Lead
5 14 (9.15%) Java Developer
6 12 (7.84%) Data Architect
7 10 (6.54%) Lead Data Engineer
8 7 (4.58%) Principal Data Engineer
8 7 (4.58%) Principal Engineer
9 6 (3.92%) Analyst
9 6 (3.92%) Senior Developer
9 6 (3.92%) Senior Java Developer
9 6 (3.92%) Snowflake Engineer
10 5 (3.27%) AWS Data Engineer
10 5 (3.27%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (3.27%) Big Data Engineer
10 5 (3.27%) Python Data Engineer
10 5 (3.27%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (30.07%) Kafka
2 38 (24.84%) PySpark
3 17 (11.11%) REST
4 15 (9.80%) Spring
5 12 (7.84%) JSON
5 12 (7.84%) Spring Boot
6 9 (5.88%) Apache Beam
7 8 (5.23%) Great Expectations
8 6 (3.92%) SOAP
9 5 (3.27%) GraphQL
10 4 (2.61%) Apache NiFi
10 4 (2.61%) LangChain
10 4 (2.61%) Spark Streaming
10 4 (2.61%) Spring Cloud
11 3 (1.96%) Apache Avro
11 3 (1.96%) JSON-LD
11 3 (1.96%) LAMP
11 3 (1.96%) NetworkX
11 3 (1.96%) Protocol Buffers
11 3 (1.96%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 32 (20.92%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 7 (4.58%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (3.92%) Data Structures
4 6 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.92%) Public Cloud
5 5 (3.27%) AI Agents
5 5 (3.27%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.96%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.96%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (1.96%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.96%) Private Cloud
6 3 (1.96%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.96%) Taxonomies
6 3 (1.96%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.31%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.31%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 23 (15.03%) Linux
2 15 (9.80%) Unix
3 4 (2.61%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.96%) Windows
5 1 (0.65%) CentOS
5 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (48.37%) Data Pipeline
2 71 (46.41%) CI/CD
3 66 (43.14%) Data Engineering
4 60 (39.22%) ETL
5 59 (38.56%) Analytics
5 59 (38.56%) Data Modelling
6 57 (37.25%) DevOps
7 41 (26.80%) Agile
8 40 (26.14%) AI
9 34 (22.22%) Data Governance
10 31 (20.26%) Data Architecture
11 30 (19.61%) Containerisation
12 29 (18.95%) Infrastructure as Code
13 28 (18.30%) Machine Learning
13 28 (18.30%) Migration
14 25 (16.34%) Business Intelligence
15 23 (15.03%) Performance Optimisation
16 21 (13.73%) Observability
17 18 (11.76%) Data Science
17 18 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 104 (67.97%) Python
2 99 (64.71%) SQL
3 39 (25.49%) Java
4 22 (14.38%) Scala
5 16 (10.46%) Shell Script
6 10 (6.54%) Bash
7 8 (5.23%) C#
8 6 (3.92%) Go
8 6 (3.92%) Perl
8 6 (3.92%) R
9 4 (2.61%) Ruby
9 4 (2.61%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.96%) Cypher
10 3 (1.96%) Gremlin
10 3 (1.96%) PHP
10 3 (1.96%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.96%) SPARQL
11 2 (1.31%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.65%) ActionScript
12 1 (0.65%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 31 (20.26%) Security Cleared
2 29 (18.95%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (5.88%) Degree
4 3 (1.96%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.31%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.31%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.31%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.31%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.65%) CCNP
6 1 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.65%) MBA
6 1 (0.65%) PhD
6 1 (0.65%) RHCSA
6 1 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (37.25%) Data Quality
2 12 (7.84%) GDPR
3 7 (4.58%) QA
4 4 (2.61%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.96%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.65%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (24.84%) Docker
2 7 (4.58%) NFS
2 7 (4.58%) Varnish
3 6 (3.92%) Postfix
4 4 (2.61%) Sendmail
5 2 (1.31%) Ceph
5 2 (1.31%) HDFS
5 2 (1.31%) KVM
5 2 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.65%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.65%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 39 (25.49%) Kubernetes
2 29 (18.95%) Terraform
3 9 (5.88%) Ansible
4 6 (3.92%) HAProxy
5 2 (1.31%) Grafana
5 2 (1.31%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.31%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.31%) SELinux
6 1 (0.65%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.65%) Check_MK
6 1 (0.65%) Kibana
6 1 (0.65%) Puppet
Vendors
1 39 (25.49%) Databricks
2 23 (15.03%) Google
3 21 (13.73%) Microsoft
4 8 (5.23%) Cloudera
5 6 (3.92%) Informatica
6 5 (3.27%) Confluent
6 5 (3.27%) Guidewire
7 4 (2.61%) Hortonworks
7 4 (2.61%) Oracle
7 4 (2.61%) Splunk
8 3 (1.96%) New Relic
8 3 (1.96%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.31%) Cisco
9 2 (1.31%) Foundry
9 2 (1.31%) Hitachi
9 2 (1.31%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.31%) SAP
9 2 (1.31%) Sybase
9 2 (1.31%) Teradata
9 2 (1.31%) VMware