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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 282 213 105
Rank change year-on-year -69 -108 +132
Contract jobs citing Apache 171 157 377
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.84% 1.17% 2.36%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.15% 10.20% 18.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 114 338
10th Percentile £400 £463 £504
25th Percentile £482 £513 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £800
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -18.75% +23.08%
75th Percentile £663 £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 2,098 1,539 2,051
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.30% 11.51% 12.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,392 1,028 1,450
10th Percentile £313 £313 £308
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £650 £750
90th Percentile £710 £802 £850
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 23 26
10th Percentile £19.03 £24.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £22.83 £26.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £28.40 £31.50 £26.15
Median % change year-on-year -9.86% +20.46% -4.91%
75th Percentile £41.68 £50.63 £37.81
90th Percentile £73.30 £88.50 £75.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £35.25 £43.00
% change year-on-year -7.80% -18.02% +1.18%

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 23 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 23 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 -14 20 £550 -4.35% 15
South London - 2 £558 - 1
West London -24 1 £450 -12.11% 9
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 93 (54.39%) Apache Spark
2 82 (47.95%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.75%) CloudStack
3 3 (1.75%) nginx
4 1 (0.58%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (0.58%) Confluence
4 1 (0.58%) IIS
4 1 (0.58%) JBoss
4 1 (0.58%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.58%) Luigi
4 1 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.58%) SAS
4 1 (0.58%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Magento
1 1 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.58%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 90 (52.63%) AWS
2 76 (44.44%) Azure
3 58 (33.92%) GCP
4 49 (28.65%) dbt
5 33 (19.30%) Snowflake
6 29 (16.96%) Amazon S3
7 21 (12.28%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
9 14 (8.19%) GitHub
9 14 (8.19%) Power Platform
10 13 (7.60%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (7.60%) Serverless
11 9 (5.26%) Amazon Kinesis
11 9 (5.26%) Azure Databricks
11 9 (5.26%) Cloud Composer
12 8 (4.68%) Amazon EMR
12 8 (4.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (4.09%) Dagster
13 7 (4.09%) SaaS
14 6 (3.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.51%) DNS
2 3 (1.75%) HTTPS
2 3 (1.75%) Network Security
2 3 (1.75%) SSL
3 2 (1.17%) Firewall
3 2 (1.17%) NAS
3 2 (1.17%) SAN
3 2 (1.17%) VLAN
3 2 (1.17%) VXLAN
4 1 (0.58%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.58%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (29.82%) Data Warehouse
2 34 (19.88%) BigQuery
3 30 (17.54%) Data Lake
4 26 (15.20%) Delta Lake
5 24 (14.04%) Flink
5 24 (14.04%) Metadata
6 23 (13.45%) Big Data
7 20 (11.70%) PostgreSQL
8 16 (9.36%) Amazon Redshift
9 15 (8.77%) Apache Iceberg
10 14 (8.19%) Relational Database
11 13 (7.60%) Power BI
12 12 (7.02%) Hadoop
12 12 (7.02%) NoSQL
13 11 (6.43%) SQL Server
14 9 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
15 8 (4.68%) MongoDB
16 7 (4.09%) Amazon Athena
16 7 (4.09%) Spark SQL
17 6 (3.51%) Looker
Development Applications
1 29 (16.96%) Git
2 9 (5.26%) GitLab
3 7 (4.09%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.51%) SonarQube
5 5 (2.92%) Maven
6 4 (2.34%) Gradle
7 2 (1.17%) JIRA
7 2 (1.17%) JMeter
7 2 (1.17%) Selenium
7 2 (1.17%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.58%) MLflow
8 1 (0.58%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 50 (29.24%) Finance
2 43 (25.15%) Social Skills
3 24 (14.04%) Banking
4 23 (13.45%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (7.60%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.34%) Billing
6 4 (2.34%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.75%) Legal
7 3 (1.75%) Marketing
7 3 (1.75%) Retail
8 2 (1.17%) Automotive
8 2 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.17%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.17%) Law
8 2 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.17%) Publishing
9 1 (0.58%) Front Office
9 1 (0.58%) Local Government
9 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 85 (49.71%) Data Engineer
2 41 (23.98%) Senior
3 34 (19.88%) Architect
4 28 (16.37%) Senior Data Engineer
5 17 (9.94%) Lead
6 15 (8.77%) Data Architect
6 15 (8.77%) Databricks Engineer
7 14 (8.19%) Developer
8 13 (7.60%) Databricks Data Engineer
9 12 (7.02%) Python Data Engineer
9 12 (7.02%) Python Engineer
10 11 (6.43%) Java Developer
11 8 (4.68%) Lead Data Engineer
12 7 (4.09%) Cloud Engineer
12 7 (4.09%) GCP Engineer
12 7 (4.09%) Snowflake Engineer
12 7 (4.09%) Technical Leader
13 6 (3.51%) DevOps Engineer
13 6 (3.51%) Senior Developer
13 6 (3.51%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (30.41%) Kafka
1 52 (30.41%) PySpark
2 40 (23.39%) Terraform
3 17 (9.94%) Spring
4 16 (9.36%) Spring Boot
5 15 (8.77%) REST
6 13 (7.60%) Apache Beam
7 9 (5.26%) Apache NiFi
8 7 (4.09%) JSON
9 6 (3.51%) SOAP
9 6 (3.51%) Spark Streaming
10 5 (2.92%) GraphQL
10 5 (2.92%) OAuth
11 4 (2.34%) LangChain
11 4 (2.34%) Pandas
11 4 (2.34%) Spring Cloud
12 3 (1.75%) JSON-LD
12 3 (1.75%) NetworkX
12 3 (1.75%) NumPy
12 3 (1.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (17.54%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.85%) Management Information System
2 10 (5.85%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.68%) Data Structures
3 8 (4.68%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.09%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.92%) AI Agents
5 5 (2.92%) Clustering
5 5 (2.92%) Data Fabric
5 5 (2.92%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.34%) Distributed Architecture
6 4 (2.34%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.75%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.75%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.17%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.17%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.17%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (10.53%) Linux
2 7 (4.09%) Unix
3 5 (2.92%) Ubuntu
4 4 (2.34%) Windows
5 2 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.17%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.58%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.58%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (52.05%) Data Pipeline
2 83 (48.54%) CI/CD
3 78 (45.61%) Data Engineering
4 70 (40.94%) ETL
5 65 (38.01%) Analytics
6 61 (35.67%) Data Modelling
7 57 (33.33%) DevOps
8 53 (30.99%) Agile
9 50 (29.24%) AI
10 41 (23.98%) Machine Learning
11 39 (22.81%) Lakehouse
12 37 (21.64%) Data Governance
13 34 (19.88%) Infrastructure as Code
14 32 (18.71%) Migration
15 30 (17.54%) Containerisation
16 29 (16.96%) Data Architecture
16 29 (16.96%) Data Transformation
16 29 (16.96%) Stakeholder Management
17 26 (15.20%) Technical Leadership
18 25 (14.62%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 111 (64.91%) Python
2 101 (59.06%) SQL
3 39 (22.81%) Java
4 24 (14.04%) Scala
5 14 (8.19%) Shell Script
6 10 (5.85%) Bash
7 6 (3.51%) Go
8 4 (2.34%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.34%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.75%) Cypher
9 3 (1.75%) Gremlin
9 3 (1.75%) Perl
9 3 (1.75%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.75%) R
9 3 (1.75%) Ruby
9 3 (1.75%) SPARQL
10 2 (1.17%) C#
10 2 (1.17%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.58%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 31 (18.13%) Security Cleared
2 25 (14.62%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.43%) Degree
4 9 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (4.09%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.92%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.75%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.17%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.17%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.58%) CCNP
9 1 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.58%) MBA
9 1 (0.58%) PhD
9 1 (0.58%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.58%) PMP
9 1 (0.58%) RHCSA
9 1 (0.58%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (37.43%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.68%) GDPR
3 7 (4.09%) QA
4 4 (2.34%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.75%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (1.17%) NCSC
7 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.58%) SLA
System Software
1 47 (27.49%) Docker
2 5 (2.92%) NFS
2 5 (2.92%) Varnish
3 4 (2.34%) Postfix
4 3 (1.75%) Sendmail
5 2 (1.17%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.17%) Ceph
5 2 (1.17%) KVM
5 2 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.58%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 50 (29.24%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.26%) Ansible
3 4 (2.34%) HAProxy
4 3 (1.75%) Grafana
4 3 (1.75%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.75%) Puppet
5 2 (1.17%) Control-M
5 2 (1.17%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.17%) SELinux
6 1 (0.58%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.58%) Check_MK
6 1 (0.58%) Kibana
6 1 (0.58%) systemd
Vendors
1 51 (29.82%) Databricks
2 25 (14.62%) Google
3 24 (14.04%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.68%) Informatica
5 7 (4.09%) Oracle
6 5 (2.92%) New Relic
6 5 (2.92%) Splunk
7 4 (2.34%) Cloudera
7 4 (2.34%) Guidewire
7 4 (2.34%) Talend
8 3 (1.75%) Confluent
8 3 (1.75%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.75%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.75%) Teradata
9 2 (1.17%) Cisco
9 2 (1.17%) Hitachi
9 2 (1.17%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.17%) SAP
9 2 (1.17%) Sybase
9 2 (1.17%) VMware