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

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 293 187 101
Rank change year-on-year -106 -86 +114
Contract jobs citing Apache 163 185 396
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.80% 1.35% 2.45%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.08% 11.84% 19.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 148 363
10th Percentile £402 £449 £513
25th Percentile £456 £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 2,018 1,562 2,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.96% 11.43% 12.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,340 1,068 1,518
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -6.67% +2.27%
75th Percentile £618 £671 £750
90th Percentile £710 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 22 26
10th Percentile £17.03 £24.50 £18.79
25th Percentile £19.66 £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 £41.33 £52.81 £37.50
90th Percentile £73.08 £85.13 £75.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £43.09 £33.04
% change year-on-year -18.77% +30.44% -28.33%

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 9 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 9 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 -16 18 £550 -4.35% 13
West London -14 5 £625 +22.07% 1
South London -14 2 £558 +17.78%
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 96 (58.90%) Apache Spark
2 66 (40.49%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.84%) CloudStack
3 3 (1.84%) 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 81 (49.69%) AWS
2 76 (46.63%) Azure
3 55 (33.74%) GCP
4 36 (22.09%) dbt
5 25 (15.34%) Amazon S3
5 25 (15.34%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (14.72%) Snowflake
7 18 (11.04%) Azure Data Factory
7 18 (11.04%) Power Platform
8 14 (8.59%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (8.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 14 (8.59%) GitHub
8 14 (8.59%) Serverless
9 11 (6.75%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (5.52%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (4.91%) Amazon Kinesis
12 7 (4.29%) AWS Step Functions
12 7 (4.29%) SaaS
13 6 (3.68%) Cloud Composer
13 6 (3.68%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.91%) DNS
2 4 (2.45%) Firewall
3 3 (1.84%) HTTPS
3 3 (1.84%) Network Security
4 2 (1.23%) FTP
4 2 (1.23%) NAS
4 2 (1.23%) SAN
4 2 (1.23%) SSL
4 2 (1.23%) VLAN
4 2 (1.23%) 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 40 (24.54%) Data Warehouse
2 32 (19.63%) Data Lake
3 29 (17.79%) BigQuery
4 26 (15.95%) Delta Lake
5 24 (14.72%) Big Data
6 22 (13.50%) Flink
7 21 (12.88%) Metadata
8 16 (9.82%) Power BI
9 14 (8.59%) Amazon Athena
9 14 (8.59%) NoSQL
9 14 (8.59%) PostgreSQL
10 13 (7.98%) Amazon Redshift
10 13 (7.98%) Apache Iceberg
10 13 (7.98%) Relational Database
11 12 (7.36%) Hadoop
12 10 (6.13%) SQL Server
13 9 (5.52%) Spark SQL
14 7 (4.29%) Elasticsearch
14 7 (4.29%) MongoDB
15 6 (3.68%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 27 (16.56%) Git
2 10 (6.13%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.68%) GitLab
3 6 (3.68%) JIRA
3 6 (3.68%) SonarQube
4 5 (3.07%) Maven
5 4 (2.45%) Gradle
6 2 (1.23%) JMeter
7 1 (0.61%) MLflow
7 1 (0.61%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.61%) Selenium
7 1 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 53 (32.52%) Finance
2 34 (20.86%) Social Skills
3 21 (12.88%) Banking
4 20 (12.27%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (7.98%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.68%) Billing
7 4 (2.45%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.84%) Front Office
8 3 (1.84%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.84%) Legal
9 2 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.23%) Law
9 2 (1.23%) 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 78 (47.85%) Data Engineer
2 36 (22.09%) Senior
3 35 (21.47%) Architect
4 24 (14.72%) Senior Data Engineer
5 21 (12.88%) Lead
6 20 (12.27%) Developer
7 14 (8.59%) Java Developer
8 13 (7.98%) Data Architect
8 13 (7.98%) Lead Data Engineer
9 9 (5.52%) Python Data Engineer
9 9 (5.52%) Python Engineer
10 7 (4.29%) Snowflake Engineer
11 6 (3.68%) Principal Data Engineer
11 6 (3.68%) Principal Engineer
11 6 (3.68%) Senior Developer
11 6 (3.68%) Senior Java Developer
11 6 (3.68%) Technical Leader
12 5 (3.07%) Analyst
12 5 (3.07%) AWS Engineer
12 5 (3.07%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (31.90%) Kafka
2 44 (26.99%) PySpark
3 16 (9.82%) REST
4 14 (8.59%) Spring
5 12 (7.36%) JSON
5 12 (7.36%) Spring Boot
6 11 (6.75%) Apache Beam
7 7 (4.29%) Great Expectations
8 6 (3.68%) SOAP
8 6 (3.68%) Spark Streaming
9 5 (3.07%) GraphQL
10 4 (2.45%) Apache NiFi
10 4 (2.45%) LangChain
10 4 (2.45%) Spring Cloud
11 3 (1.84%) Apache Avro
11 3 (1.84%) JSON-LD
11 3 (1.84%) LAMP
11 3 (1.84%) NetworkX
11 3 (1.84%) Protocol Buffers
12 2 (1.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 32 (19.63%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.13%) Management Information System
3 7 (4.29%) Data Structures
3 7 (4.29%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (4.29%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.68%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.68%) Public Cloud
5 5 (3.07%) AI Agents
5 5 (3.07%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.84%) Clustering
6 3 (1.84%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.84%) Data Fabric
6 3 (1.84%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (1.84%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.84%) Private Cloud
6 3 (1.84%) Taxonomies
6 3 (1.84%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 24 (14.72%) Linux
2 14 (8.59%) Unix
3 5 (3.07%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.84%) Windows
5 2 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.61%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.61%) CentOS
6 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (50.92%) Data Pipeline
2 78 (47.85%) CI/CD
3 70 (42.94%) Data Engineering
4 66 (40.49%) ETL
5 63 (38.65%) DevOps
6 62 (38.04%) Analytics
6 62 (38.04%) Data Modelling
7 47 (28.83%) Agile
8 41 (25.15%) AI
9 35 (21.47%) Data Governance
9 35 (21.47%) Machine Learning
10 34 (20.86%) Data Architecture
11 30 (18.40%) Containerisation
11 30 (18.40%) Infrastructure as Code
12 29 (17.79%) Migration
13 26 (15.95%) Business Intelligence
13 26 (15.95%) Performance Optimisation
14 25 (15.34%) Observability
15 24 (14.72%) Data Transformation
15 24 (14.72%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 110 (67.48%) Python
2 107 (65.64%) SQL
3 42 (25.77%) Java
4 24 (14.72%) Scala
5 19 (11.66%) Shell Script
6 11 (6.75%) Bash
7 7 (4.29%) C#
7 7 (4.29%) R
8 6 (3.68%) Go
9 5 (3.07%) Perl
10 4 (2.45%) Ruby
11 3 (1.84%) Cypher
11 3 (1.84%) Gremlin
11 3 (1.84%) PHP
11 3 (1.84%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.84%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.84%) SPARQL
11 3 (1.84%) TypeScript
12 2 (1.23%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.61%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 31 (19.02%) Security Cleared
2 29 (17.79%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.13%) Degree
4 9 (5.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.84%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.23%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.23%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.23%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.23%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.61%) CCNP
7 1 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.61%) MBA
7 1 (0.61%) PhD
7 1 (0.61%) RHCSA
7 1 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (39.26%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.75%) GDPR
3 8 (4.91%) QA
4 4 (2.45%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.84%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.61%) SLA
System Software
1 47 (28.83%) Docker
2 7 (4.29%) NFS
2 7 (4.29%) Varnish
3 6 (3.68%) Postfix
4 4 (2.45%) Sendmail
5 2 (1.23%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.23%) Ceph
5 2 (1.23%) HDFS
5 2 (1.23%) KVM
5 2 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 49 (30.06%) Kubernetes
2 32 (19.63%) Terraform
3 10 (6.13%) Ansible
4 6 (3.68%) HAProxy
5 3 (1.84%) Grafana
5 3 (1.84%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.23%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.23%) Puppet
6 2 (1.23%) SELinux
7 1 (0.61%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.61%) Check_MK
7 1 (0.61%) Control-M
7 1 (0.61%) Kibana
7 1 (0.61%) systemd
Vendors
1 42 (25.77%) Databricks
2 25 (15.34%) Google
3 20 (12.27%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.91%) Cloudera
4 8 (4.91%) Informatica
5 6 (3.68%) Splunk
6 5 (3.07%) Confluent
6 5 (3.07%) Guidewire
6 5 (3.07%) New Relic
7 4 (2.45%) Hortonworks
8 3 (1.84%) Oracle
8 3 (1.84%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.84%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.23%) Cisco
9 2 (1.23%) Foundry
9 2 (1.23%) Hitachi
9 2 (1.23%) SAP
9 2 (1.23%) Talend
9 2 (1.23%) Teradata
9 2 (1.23%) VMware