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 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 183 214
Rank change year-on-year -88 +31 +27
Contract jobs citing Apache 111 180 188
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.76% 1.32% 1.01%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.42% 10.97% 9.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 142 160
10th Percentile £435 £451 £413
25th Percentile £500 £541 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £675 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +22.73% -15.38%
75th Percentile £688 £838 £778
90th Percentile £825 £888 £788
England median daily rate £525 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -19.23% +18.18% -13.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
England median hourly rate £80.50 £74.44 £41.50
% change year-on-year +8.14% +79.37% -9.61%

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 1,496 1,641 2,051
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.20% 12.00% 11.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,036 1,014 1,470
10th Percentile £325 £305 £262
25th Percentile £415 £405 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £503
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +9.34% -8.55%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £630
90th Percentile £738 £810 £750
England median daily rate £500 £500 £498
% change year-on-year - +0.50% -5.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 12 31
10th Percentile - £18.19 £17.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £22.84 £21.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £29.40 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% +6.91% +21.52%
75th Percentile £43.00 £39.73 £36.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £41.91 £49.08
England median hourly rate £27.21 £45.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -39.53% +76.47% +30.77%

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 2 February 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 2 February 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 -10 13 £603 - 1
Central London -10 11 £575 -14.81% 12
South London -4 2 £507 -13.66%
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 52 (46.85%) Apache Spark
2 37 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (6.31%) Confluence
4 6 (5.41%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (1.80%) Apache Pig
5 2 (1.80%) Luigi
5 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.80%) nginx
5 2 (1.80%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (1.80%) SAS
5 2 (1.80%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.80%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.90%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.90%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.90%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Actimize
1 1 (0.90%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 58 (52.25%) AWS
2 46 (41.44%) Azure
3 31 (27.93%) GCP
4 23 (20.72%) Serverless
5 22 (19.82%) Amazon S3
6 20 (18.02%) Power Platform
7 17 (15.32%) AWS CloudFormation
7 17 (15.32%) dbt
8 16 (14.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 14 (12.61%) Snowflake
10 13 (11.71%) Collibra
11 12 (10.81%) Amazon SQS
11 12 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (8.11%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (6.31%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (4.50%) AWS Data Pipeline
15 4 (3.60%) GitHub
15 4 (3.60%) GitHub Actions
16 3 (2.70%) AWS Step Functions
16 3 (2.70%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.70%) Firewall
2 2 (1.80%) DNS
2 2 (1.80%) HTTP
2 2 (1.80%) SSL
3 1 (0.90%) DHCP
3 1 (0.90%) InfiniBand
3 1 (0.90%) iSCSI
3 1 (0.90%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.90%) LAN
3 1 (0.90%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (0.90%) SSH
3 1 (0.90%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.90%) VLAN
3 1 (0.90%) VPN
3 1 (0.90%) WAN
3 1 (0.90%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (30.63%) Data Lake
2 25 (22.52%) Amazon Athena
3 20 (18.02%) Big Data
3 20 (18.02%) Power BI
4 19 (17.12%) BigQuery
5 13 (11.71%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (11.71%) Hadoop
6 12 (10.81%) Mixpanel
7 11 (9.91%) OLAP
7 11 (9.91%) OLTP
8 10 (9.01%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (9.01%) Apache Iceberg
8 10 (9.01%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (8.11%) Delta Lake
10 8 (7.21%) Apache Arrow
10 8 (7.21%) Apache Ignite
10 8 (7.21%) Dremio
10 8 (7.21%) Metadata
10 8 (7.21%) NoSQL
11 7 (6.31%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (13.51%) Git
2 12 (10.81%) JIRA
3 4 (3.60%) Mockito
4 3 (2.70%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.70%) JUnit
4 3 (2.70%) Liquibase
4 3 (2.70%) MLflow
5 2 (1.80%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.80%) GitLab
5 2 (1.80%) Maven
6 1 (0.90%) ERwin
6 1 (0.90%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.90%) Storybook
General
1 25 (22.52%) Finance
2 22 (19.82%) Social Skills
3 13 (11.71%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (9.91%) Banking
5 9 (8.11%) Public Sector
6 8 (7.21%) Front Office
6 8 (7.21%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.70%) Billing
8 2 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.90%) Electronics
9 1 (0.90%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.90%) Law
9 1 (0.90%) Legal
9 1 (0.90%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.90%) Marketing
9 1 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 45 (40.54%) Data Engineer
2 24 (21.62%) Software Engineer
3 19 (17.12%) Senior
4 12 (10.81%) AWS Engineer
4 12 (10.81%) Senior Software Engineer
5 11 (9.91%) Principal Engineer
6 10 (9.01%) Principal Data Engineer
6 10 (9.01%) Python Engineer
7 8 (7.21%) AWS Software Engineer
7 8 (7.21%) Data Analytics Engineer
7 8 (7.21%) Java Engineer
7 8 (7.21%) Java Software Engineer
7 8 (7.21%) Lead
7 8 (7.21%) Principal Software Engineer
7 8 (7.21%) Python Software Engineer
8 7 (6.31%) Architect
8 7 (6.31%) Developer
8 7 (6.31%) Senior Java Engineer
8 7 (6.31%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 5 (4.50%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (30.63%) Kafka
2 17 (15.32%) Apache NiFi
3 14 (12.61%) PySpark
4 12 (10.81%) Great Expectations
5 11 (9.91%) NumPy
5 11 (9.91%) Pandas
6 8 (7.21%) gRPC
6 8 (7.21%) Protocol Buffers
6 8 (7.21%) React
6 8 (7.21%) REST
6 8 (7.21%) SciPy
7 6 (5.41%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (4.50%) .NET
8 5 (4.50%) Node.js
9 3 (2.70%) GraphQL
9 3 (2.70%) JSON
9 3 (2.70%) Middleware
9 3 (2.70%) RAML
9 3 (2.70%) SOAP
9 3 (2.70%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 20 (18.02%) Cloud Native
2 10 (9.01%) Equities
3 8 (7.21%) Derivative
3 8 (7.21%) Fixed Income
3 8 (7.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (7.21%) Hedge funds
3 8 (7.21%) Pricing Data
4 4 (3.60%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.70%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.70%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.70%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.80%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.90%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.90%) Autonomous Agent
7 1 (0.90%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.90%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.90%) Podcast
7 1 (0.90%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.90%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.91%) Linux
2 5 (4.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.70%) CentOS
3 3 (2.70%) Ubuntu
3 3 (2.70%) Unix
4 1 (0.90%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (42.34%) ETL
2 45 (40.54%) CI/CD
3 41 (36.94%) DevOps
4 39 (35.14%) Analytics
5 38 (34.23%) Data Modelling
6 36 (32.43%) Agile
7 35 (31.53%) Software Engineering
8 34 (30.63%) Data Engineering
8 34 (30.63%) Data Pipeline
9 28 (25.23%) Machine Learning
10 27 (24.32%) Data Governance
11 25 (22.52%) AI
12 24 (21.62%) Data Architecture
13 23 (20.72%) Business Intelligence
14 22 (19.82%) Infrastructure as Code
14 22 (19.82%) Observability
14 22 (19.82%) Problem-Solving
15 16 (14.41%) Batch Processing
16 14 (12.61%) Data Privacy
16 14 (12.61%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 75 (67.57%) Python
2 55 (49.55%) SQL
3 31 (27.93%) Java
4 19 (17.12%) C#
5 16 (14.41%) JavaScript
5 16 (14.41%) Scala
6 10 (9.01%) TypeScript
7 5 (4.50%) C++
8 4 (3.60%) Bash
9 3 (2.70%) R
10 2 (1.80%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.90%) C
11 1 (0.90%) Go
11 1 (0.90%) Korn
11 1 (0.90%) Perl
11 1 (0.90%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.90%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.90%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.90%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (28.83%) Security Cleared
2 24 (21.62%) SC Cleared
3 18 (16.22%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.80%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.80%) Degree
5 2 (1.80%) RHCE
6 1 (0.90%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.90%) CCNA
6 1 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.90%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (25.23%) Data Quality
2 18 (16.22%) GDPR
3 2 (1.80%) QA
4 1 (0.90%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.90%) IFRS
4 1 (0.90%) IFRS 17
4 1 (0.90%) MiFID
4 1 (0.90%) Solvency II
System Software
1 13 (11.71%) Docker
2 3 (2.70%) HDFS
3 1 (0.90%) Ceph
3 1 (0.90%) iptables
3 1 (0.90%) KVM
3 1 (0.90%) Lustre
3 1 (0.90%) NFS
3 1 (0.90%) Samba
3 1 (0.90%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 27 (24.32%) Terraform
2 14 (12.61%) Kubernetes
3 6 (5.41%) Ansible
4 3 (2.70%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.80%) Nagios
5 2 (1.80%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.90%) Argo
6 1 (0.90%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.90%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.90%) SELinux
6 1 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (22.52%) Databricks
2 14 (12.61%) Google
3 7 (6.31%) Oracle
4 6 (5.41%) Cloudera
4 6 (5.41%) Foundry
4 6 (5.41%) Palantir
4 6 (5.41%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.60%) Informatica
5 4 (3.60%) Splunk
6 3 (2.70%) Guidewire
6 3 (2.70%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.80%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.80%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.80%) SAP
8 1 (0.90%) Cisco
8 1 (0.90%) Confluent
8 1 (0.90%) Instagram
8 1 (0.90%) Sparx
8 1 (0.90%) TikTok
8 1 (0.90%) YouTube