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 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 283 170 158
Rank change year-on-year -113 -12 +46
Contract jobs citing Apache 129 202 273
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.72% 1.61% 1.54%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.66% 13.66% 13.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 172 248
10th Percentile £432 £450 £413
25th Percentile £500 £561 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £750 £700
Median % change year-on-year -25.33% +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £663 £838 £850
90th Percentile £745 £875 £888
England median daily rate £525 £675 £613
% change year-on-year -22.22% +10.20% +2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
England median hourly rate £80.50 £78.70 £50.25
% change year-on-year +2.29% +56.62% -35.58%

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 1,683 1,479 1,987
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.45% 11.77% 11.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,136 997 1,473
10th Percentile £363 £350 £263
25th Percentile £425 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £650
90th Percentile £725 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 8 28
10th Percentile £15.40 £25.34 £15.50
25th Percentile £17.50 £26.03 £22.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £26.73 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -5.89% -7.04% -17.86%
75th Percentile £28.88 £50.94 £34.75
90th Percentile £70.09 £53.75 £59.38
England median hourly rate £28.00 £52.50 £25.50
% change year-on-year -46.67% +105.88% -27.14%

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 5 May 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 5 May 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
West London - 15 £603 -
Central London -24 14 £575 -10.19% 13
South London -16 1 £616 +29.68%
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 79 (61.24%) Apache Spark
2 31 (24.03%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.33%) Confluence
3 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.33%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (1.55%) Apache Synapse
4 2 (1.55%) nginx
5 1 (0.78%) SAS
5 1 (0.78%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Actimize
1 1 (0.78%) Magento
1 1 (0.78%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.78%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 67 (51.94%) Azure
2 63 (48.84%) AWS
3 36 (27.91%) GCP
4 30 (23.26%) Amazon S3
5 23 (17.83%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (17.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 22 (17.05%) AWS CloudFormation
7 21 (16.28%) Power Platform
8 17 (13.18%) Collibra
8 17 (13.18%) Serverless
9 16 (12.40%) Amazon SQS
10 11 (8.53%) Azure Data Factory
10 11 (8.53%) dbt
10 11 (8.53%) GitHub
11 10 (7.75%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (7.75%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (5.43%) Snowflake
13 5 (3.88%) AWS Step Functions
14 4 (3.10%) Azure Key Vault
14 4 (3.10%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.88%) DNS
2 3 (2.33%) Firewall
3 2 (1.55%) FTP
3 2 (1.55%) Network Security
4 1 (0.78%) 4G
4 1 (0.78%) 5G
4 1 (0.78%) DHCP
4 1 (0.78%) InfiniBand
4 1 (0.78%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.78%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.78%) LAN
4 1 (0.78%) NAS
4 1 (0.78%) SAN
4 1 (0.78%) Spanning Tree
4 1 (0.78%) SSH
4 1 (0.78%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.78%) VLAN
4 1 (0.78%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (28.68%) Data Lake
2 24 (18.60%) Big Data
3 22 (17.05%) Amazon Athena
4 21 (16.28%) BigQuery
5 19 (14.73%) Power BI
6 16 (12.40%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (12.40%) Mixpanel
7 15 (11.63%) OLAP
7 15 (11.63%) OLTP
8 14 (10.85%) Delta Lake
8 14 (10.85%) Flink
8 14 (10.85%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (9.30%) Hadoop
9 12 (9.30%) NoSQL
10 10 (7.75%) SQL Server
11 9 (6.98%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (6.98%) Metadata
11 9 (6.98%) MongoDB
12 8 (6.20%) Relational Database
13 6 (4.65%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 28 (21.71%) Git
2 14 (10.85%) JIRA
3 8 (6.20%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.10%) Maven
4 4 (3.10%) MLflow
4 4 (3.10%) Mockito
5 3 (2.33%) JUnit
5 3 (2.33%) Liquibase
5 3 (2.33%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.55%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.55%) GitLab
6 2 (1.55%) Gradle
6 2 (1.55%) Selenium
7 1 (0.78%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.78%) Storybook
General
1 36 (27.91%) Finance
2 22 (17.05%) Social Skills
3 18 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (7.75%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.98%) Banking
6 7 (5.43%) Billing
7 3 (2.33%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.55%) Front Office
9 1 (0.78%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.78%) Law
9 1 (0.78%) Marketing
9 1 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 57 (44.19%) Data Engineer
2 20 (15.50%) Developer
2 20 (15.50%) Lead
3 18 (13.95%) Senior
4 16 (12.40%) Architect
4 16 (12.40%) Principal Engineer
5 15 (11.63%) Principal Data Engineer
6 11 (8.53%) Java Developer
6 11 (8.53%) Lead Data Engineer
6 11 (8.53%) Software Engineer
7 10 (7.75%) Senior Data Engineer
8 6 (4.65%) Principal Software Engineer
9 5 (3.88%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (3.88%) Big Data Engineer
9 5 (3.88%) Data Analytics Engineer
9 5 (3.88%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (3.10%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 4 (3.10%) AWS Data Engineer
10 4 (3.10%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (3.10%) Hadoop Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (32.56%) Kafka
2 25 (19.38%) PySpark
3 18 (13.95%) Great Expectations
4 13 (10.08%) REST
5 11 (8.53%) JSON
5 11 (8.53%) Spring
6 8 (6.20%) Spring Boot
7 7 (5.43%) SOAP
8 6 (4.65%) Apache NiFi
9 4 (3.10%) React
10 3 (2.33%) Apache Avro
10 3 (2.33%) Apache Beam
10 3 (2.33%) LAMP
10 3 (2.33%) NumPy
10 3 (2.33%) Pandas
10 3 (2.33%) Protocol Buffers
10 3 (2.33%) RAML
10 3 (2.33%) WireMock
11 2 (1.55%) Node.js
11 2 (1.55%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 33 (25.58%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.65%) Management Information System
3 5 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.88%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.10%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (3.10%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.10%) Public Cloud
4 4 (3.10%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.33%) Distributed Applications
5 3 (2.33%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.55%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.55%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.55%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.55%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.78%) Clustering
7 1 (0.78%) Equities
7 1 (0.78%) FMCG
7 1 (0.78%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 17 (13.18%) Linux
2 12 (9.30%) Unix
3 1 (0.78%) CentOS
3 1 (0.78%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (51.16%) CI/CD
2 57 (44.19%) DevOps
3 51 (39.53%) Analytics
4 50 (38.76%) Data Modelling
4 50 (38.76%) ETL
5 49 (37.98%) Data Engineering
6 47 (36.43%) Data Pipeline
7 40 (31.01%) AI
8 38 (29.46%) Machine Learning
9 32 (24.81%) Infrastructure as Code
10 31 (24.03%) Observability
11 30 (23.26%) Data Governance
12 29 (22.48%) Agile
12 29 (22.48%) Data Architecture
13 24 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
14 22 (17.05%) Software Engineering
15 21 (16.28%) Batch Processing
15 21 (16.28%) Business Intelligence
16 20 (15.50%) Containerisation
16 20 (15.50%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 84 (65.12%) SQL
2 79 (61.24%) Python
3 34 (26.36%) Java
4 20 (15.50%) Scala
5 18 (13.95%) C#
6 8 (6.20%) Shell Script
7 7 (5.43%) R
8 5 (3.88%) Bash
9 4 (3.10%) Perl
9 4 (3.10%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.33%) JavaScript
10 3 (2.33%) PHP
11 2 (1.55%) Ruby
12 1 (0.78%) C
12 1 (0.78%) C++
12 1 (0.78%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.78%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (25.58%) Security Cleared
2 28 (21.71%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.65%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.10%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.33%) Degree
6 2 (1.55%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.78%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.78%) CCNA
7 1 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (29.46%) Data Quality
2 18 (13.95%) GDPR
3 4 (3.10%) QA
4 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.78%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.78%) MiFID
System Software
1 22 (17.05%) Docker
2 5 (3.88%) NFS
2 5 (3.88%) Varnish
3 4 (3.10%) Postfix
4 3 (2.33%) Sendmail
5 2 (1.55%) HDFS
6 1 (0.78%) Ceph
6 1 (0.78%) iptables
6 1 (0.78%) KVM
6 1 (0.78%) Lustre
6 1 (0.78%) Samba
6 1 (0.78%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 33 (25.58%) Terraform
2 25 (19.38%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.88%) Ansible
3 5 (3.88%) HAProxy
4 1 (0.78%) Grafana
4 1 (0.78%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.78%) Puppet
4 1 (0.78%) SELinux
Vendors
1 38 (29.46%) Databricks
2 19 (14.73%) Google
3 8 (6.20%) Cloudera
3 8 (6.20%) Microsoft
4 7 (5.43%) ServiceNow
5 6 (4.65%) Confluent
5 6 (4.65%) Guidewire
6 5 (3.88%) Informatica
7 4 (3.10%) Hortonworks
8 3 (2.33%) Foundry
8 3 (2.33%) Oracle
8 3 (2.33%) Palantir
9 2 (1.55%) Splunk
10 1 (0.78%) Cisco
10 1 (0.78%) Proofpoint
10 1 (0.78%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.78%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.78%) SAP
10 1 (0.78%) Sybase
10 1 (0.78%) Veritas