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 17 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 292 205 105
Rank change year-on-year -87 -100 +123
Contract jobs citing Apache 164 165 380
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.81% 1.23% 2.35%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.86% 10.66% 18.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 122 343
10th Percentile £405 £456 £513
25th Percentile £490 £513 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £660 £800
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -17.50% +23.08%
75th Percentile £669 £825 £888
90th Percentile £775 - -
England median daily rate £513 £550 £750
% change year-on-year -6.82% -26.67% +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 2,086 1,548 2,047
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.25% 11.52% 12.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,382 1,036 1,451
10th Percentile £313 £321 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £622 £663 £756
90th Percentile £712 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 24 27
10th Percentile £19.03 £24.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £22.83 £26.00 £21.50
Median hourly rate £28.40 £33.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.24% +17.54% -0.87%
75th Percentile £41.68 £53.75 £48.13
90th Percentile £73.30 £88.38 £75.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £41.45 £47.50
% change year-on-year -21.59% -12.74% +11.76%

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -21 20 £550 -4.35% 19
South London - 2 £558 - 3
West London -23 1 £450 -12.11% 5
East London - 1 £669 - 2
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 90 (54.88%) Apache Spark
2 80 (48.78%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.83%) CloudStack
3 3 (1.83%) nginx
4 1 (0.61%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (0.61%) Confluence
4 1 (0.61%) IIS
4 1 (0.61%) JBoss
4 1 (0.61%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.61%) Luigi
4 1 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.61%) SAS
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 88 (53.66%) AWS
2 71 (43.29%) Azure
3 59 (35.98%) GCP
4 47 (28.66%) dbt
5 31 (18.90%) Snowflake
6 27 (16.46%) Amazon S3
7 20 (12.20%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (11.59%) Azure Data Factory
9 14 (8.54%) Power Platform
10 13 (7.93%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (7.93%) Serverless
11 11 (6.71%) GitHub
12 9 (5.49%) Amazon Kinesis
12 9 (5.49%) Cloud Composer
13 8 (4.88%) Amazon EMR
13 8 (4.88%) Azure Databricks
13 8 (4.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 7 (4.27%) SaaS
15 6 (3.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (3.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.66%) DNS
2 3 (1.83%) HTTPS
2 3 (1.83%) Network Security
2 3 (1.83%) SSL
3 2 (1.22%) Firewall
3 2 (1.22%) NAS
3 2 (1.22%) SAN
3 2 (1.22%) VLAN
3 2 (1.22%) VXLAN
4 1 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.61%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (29.88%) Data Warehouse
2 34 (20.73%) BigQuery
3 30 (18.29%) Data Lake
4 27 (16.46%) Delta Lake
5 24 (14.63%) Metadata
6 23 (14.02%) Big Data
7 20 (12.20%) Flink
8 17 (10.37%) PostgreSQL
9 15 (9.15%) Amazon Redshift
9 15 (9.15%) Apache Iceberg
10 14 (8.54%) Relational Database
11 13 (7.93%) Power BI
12 12 (7.32%) Hadoop
12 12 (7.32%) NoSQL
13 11 (6.71%) SQL Server
14 9 (5.49%) Elasticsearch
15 8 (4.88%) MongoDB
16 7 (4.27%) Amazon Athena
16 7 (4.27%) Spark SQL
17 6 (3.66%) Looker
Development Applications
1 28 (17.07%) Git
2 9 (5.49%) GitLab
3 7 (4.27%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.66%) SonarQube
5 5 (3.05%) Maven
6 4 (2.44%) Gradle
7 2 (1.22%) JIRA
7 2 (1.22%) JMeter
7 2 (1.22%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.61%) MLflow
8 1 (0.61%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.61%) Selenium
8 1 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 50 (30.49%) Finance
2 42 (25.61%) Social Skills
3 23 (14.02%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (12.80%) Banking
5 12 (7.32%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.44%) Billing
6 4 (2.44%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.83%) Legal
7 3 (1.83%) Marketing
8 2 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.22%) Law
8 2 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.22%) Publishing
8 2 (1.22%) Retail
9 1 (0.61%) Automotive
9 1 (0.61%) Front Office
9 1 (0.61%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.61%) Local Government
9 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 83 (50.61%) Data Engineer
2 38 (23.17%) Senior
3 33 (20.12%) Architect
4 27 (16.46%) Senior Data Engineer
5 17 (10.37%) Lead
6 15 (9.15%) Databricks Engineer
7 14 (8.54%) Data Architect
8 13 (7.93%) Databricks Data Engineer
9 12 (7.32%) Developer
10 11 (6.71%) Python Data Engineer
10 11 (6.71%) Python Engineer
11 8 (4.88%) Java Developer
11 8 (4.88%) Lead Data Engineer
12 7 (4.27%) Cloud Engineer
12 7 (4.27%) GCP Engineer
12 7 (4.27%) Snowflake Engineer
12 7 (4.27%) Technical Leader
13 6 (3.66%) DevOps Engineer
13 6 (3.66%) Senior Databricks Data Engineer
13 6 (3.66%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (31.10%) PySpark
2 46 (28.05%) Kafka
3 36 (21.95%) Terraform
4 14 (8.54%) REST
5 13 (7.93%) Apache Beam
6 12 (7.32%) Spring
6 12 (7.32%) Spring Boot
7 9 (5.49%) Apache NiFi
8 7 (4.27%) JSON
9 6 (3.66%) SOAP
9 6 (3.66%) Spark Streaming
10 5 (3.05%) GraphQL
11 4 (2.44%) LangChain
11 4 (2.44%) Spring Cloud
12 3 (1.83%) JSON-LD
12 3 (1.83%) NetworkX
12 3 (1.83%) Pandas
12 3 (1.83%) YAML
13 2 (1.22%) NumPy
13 2 (1.22%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (17.68%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.10%) Management Information System
2 10 (6.10%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.88%) Data Structures
4 7 (4.27%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (3.05%) AI Agents
5 5 (3.05%) Clustering
5 5 (3.05%) Data Fabric
5 5 (3.05%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.44%) Distributed Architecture
6 4 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.44%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.83%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.83%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.22%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.22%) Culture of Ownership
8 2 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.22%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (10.98%) Linux
2 7 (4.27%) Unix
3 5 (3.05%) Ubuntu
4 4 (2.44%) Windows
5 2 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.22%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.61%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.61%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (53.05%) Data Pipeline
2 79 (48.17%) CI/CD
3 77 (46.95%) Data Engineering
4 68 (41.46%) ETL
5 64 (39.02%) Analytics
6 60 (36.59%) Data Modelling
7 56 (34.15%) DevOps
8 53 (32.32%) Agile
9 48 (29.27%) AI
10 39 (23.78%) Lakehouse
10 39 (23.78%) Machine Learning
11 37 (22.56%) Data Governance
12 34 (20.73%) Infrastructure as Code
13 32 (19.51%) Migration
14 30 (18.29%) Containerisation
14 30 (18.29%) Stakeholder Management
15 29 (17.68%) Data Transformation
16 28 (17.07%) Data Architecture
17 25 (15.24%) Data Science
17 25 (15.24%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 110 (67.07%) Python
2 99 (60.37%) SQL
3 34 (20.73%) Java
4 24 (14.63%) Scala
5 14 (8.54%) Shell Script
6 10 (6.10%) Bash
7 6 (3.66%) Go
8 4 (2.44%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.44%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.83%) Cypher
9 3 (1.83%) Gremlin
9 3 (1.83%) Perl
9 3 (1.83%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.83%) R
9 3 (1.83%) Ruby
9 3 (1.83%) SPARQL
10 2 (1.22%) C#
10 2 (1.22%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.61%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 31 (18.90%) Security Cleared
2 25 (15.24%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.71%) Degree
4 9 (5.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (4.27%) DV Cleared
6 5 (3.05%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.83%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.22%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.22%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.61%) CCNP
9 1 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.61%) MBA
9 1 (0.61%) PhD
9 1 (0.61%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.61%) PMP
9 1 (0.61%) RHCSA
9 1 (0.61%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (39.02%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.88%) GDPR
3 7 (4.27%) QA
4 4 (2.44%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.83%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (1.22%) NCSC
7 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.61%) SLA
System Software
1 43 (26.22%) Docker
2 5 (3.05%) NFS
2 5 (3.05%) Varnish
3 4 (2.44%) Postfix
4 3 (1.83%) Sendmail
5 2 (1.22%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.22%) Ceph
5 2 (1.22%) KVM
5 2 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 46 (28.05%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.49%) Ansible
3 4 (2.44%) HAProxy
4 3 (1.83%) Grafana
4 3 (1.83%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.83%) Puppet
5 2 (1.22%) Control-M
5 2 (1.22%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.22%) SELinux
6 1 (0.61%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.61%) Check_MK
6 1 (0.61%) Kibana
6 1 (0.61%) systemd
Vendors
1 49 (29.88%) Databricks
2 25 (15.24%) Google
3 23 (14.02%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.88%) Informatica
5 6 (3.66%) Oracle
6 5 (3.05%) New Relic
6 5 (3.05%) Splunk
7 4 (2.44%) Cloudera
7 4 (2.44%) Guidewire
7 4 (2.44%) Talend
8 3 (1.83%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.83%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.83%) Teradata
9 2 (1.22%) Cisco
9 2 (1.22%) Confluent
9 2 (1.22%) Hitachi
9 2 (1.22%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.22%) SAP
9 2 (1.22%) Sybase
9 2 (1.22%) VMware