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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 286 191 103
Rank change year-on-year -95 -88 +115
Contract jobs citing Apache 147 188 419
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.74% 1.39% 2.44%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.68% 12.07% 18.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 152 383
10th Percentile £407 £433 £456
25th Percentile £461 £513 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £738 £775
Median % change year-on-year -26.78% -4.84% +24.00%
75th Percentile £663 £825 £875
90th Percentile £717 £875 £888
England median daily rate £512 £625 £750
% change year-on-year -18.11% -16.67% +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 1,915 1,557 2,206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.63% 11.48% 12.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,259 1,047 1,660
10th Percentile £355 £343 £300
25th Percentile £425 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £666 £743
90th Percentile £707 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 18 25
10th Percentile £16.03 £23.75 £20.70
25th Percentile £19.66 £26.01 £23.80
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.75 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -8.94% -3.03% -33.24%
75th Percentile £41.33 £52.81 £40.00
90th Percentile £81.55 £70.88 £71.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £46.65 £33.04
% change year-on-year -30.33% +41.21% -31.18%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 14 £519 -12.85% 4
West London -5 8 £614 +19.87%
South London -15 1 £616 +30.03% 1
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 91 (61.90%) Apache Spark
2 53 (36.05%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.04%) CloudStack
4 2 (1.36%) Apache Synapse
4 2 (1.36%) nginx
5 1 (0.68%) IIS
5 1 (0.68%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.68%) Luigi
5 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.68%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.68%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Magento
1 1 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.68%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 74 (50.34%) Azure
2 70 (47.62%) AWS
3 46 (31.29%) GCP
4 28 (19.05%) dbt
5 27 (18.37%) Amazon S3
6 26 (17.69%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (14.29%) Power Platform
8 19 (12.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 18 (12.24%) Snowflake
10 13 (8.84%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (8.84%) Azure Data Factory
10 13 (8.84%) Serverless
11 12 (8.16%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (7.48%) GitHub
13 10 (6.80%) Amazon SQS
14 9 (6.12%) Collibra
14 9 (6.12%) GitHub Actions
15 7 (4.76%) Amazon Kinesis
16 6 (4.08%) Azure Key Vault
16 6 (4.08%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.76%) DNS
2 4 (2.72%) Firewall
3 2 (1.36%) FTP
3 2 (1.36%) NAS
3 2 (1.36%) Network Security
3 2 (1.36%) SAN
3 2 (1.36%) VLAN
3 2 (1.36%) VXLAN
4 1 (0.68%) 4G
4 1 (0.68%) 5G
4 1 (0.68%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.68%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (22.45%) Data Lake
2 30 (20.41%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (17.01%) Big Data
4 22 (14.97%) BigQuery
5 19 (12.93%) Metadata
5 19 (12.93%) Power BI
6 18 (12.24%) Flink
7 16 (10.88%) Delta Lake
8 15 (10.20%) Amazon Athena
8 15 (10.20%) NoSQL
9 13 (8.84%) Hadoop
10 12 (8.16%) PostgreSQL
11 11 (7.48%) SQL Server
12 10 (6.80%) Relational Database
13 9 (6.12%) Mixpanel
13 9 (6.12%) Spark SQL
14 8 (5.44%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (5.44%) MongoDB
14 8 (5.44%) OLAP
14 8 (5.44%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 30 (20.41%) Git
2 9 (6.12%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.08%) JIRA
3 6 (4.08%) SonarQube
4 4 (2.72%) GitLab
4 4 (2.72%) Gradle
4 4 (2.72%) Maven
5 2 (1.36%) Selenium
6 1 (0.68%) JMeter
6 1 (0.68%) MLflow
6 1 (0.68%) PHPUnit
General
1 45 (30.61%) Finance
2 21 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 19 (12.93%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (9.52%) Banking
5 10 (6.80%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.72%) Billing
7 3 (2.04%) Front Office
7 3 (2.04%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.36%) Legal
8 2 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.68%) Law
9 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.68%) Marketing
9 1 (0.68%) Retail
9 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 66 (44.90%) Data Engineer
2 30 (20.41%) Architect
2 30 (20.41%) Senior
3 20 (13.61%) Developer
4 17 (11.56%) Lead
4 17 (11.56%) Senior Data Engineer
5 14 (9.52%) Java Developer
6 11 (7.48%) Lead Data Engineer
7 10 (6.80%) Data Architect
7 10 (6.80%) Principal Engineer
8 9 (6.12%) Principal Data Engineer
9 6 (4.08%) Senior Developer
9 6 (4.08%) Senior Java Developer
10 5 (3.40%) Analyst
10 5 (3.40%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 5 (3.40%) Big Data Engineer
11 4 (2.72%) Azure Architect
11 4 (2.72%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (2.72%) Hadoop Engineer
11 4 (2.72%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (31.97%) Kafka
2 31 (21.09%) PySpark
3 15 (10.20%) REST
3 15 (10.20%) Spring
4 12 (8.16%) JSON
4 12 (8.16%) Spring Boot
5 11 (7.48%) Great Expectations
6 8 (5.44%) Apache Beam
7 5 (3.40%) GraphQL
8 4 (2.72%) Apache NiFi
8 4 (2.72%) LangChain
8 4 (2.72%) SOAP
8 4 (2.72%) Spark Streaming
8 4 (2.72%) Spring Cloud
9 3 (2.04%) Apache Avro
9 3 (2.04%) JSON-LD
9 3 (2.04%) NetworkX
9 3 (2.04%) Pandas
9 3 (2.04%) Protocol Buffers
9 3 (2.04%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 34 (23.13%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.08%) Management Information System
3 6 (4.08%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.40%) AI Agents
4 5 (3.40%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.40%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.04%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.04%) Data Fabric
5 3 (2.04%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.04%) Distributed Applications
5 3 (2.04%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.04%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.04%) Taxonomies
5 3 (2.04%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.36%) Clustering
6 2 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.36%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 22 (14.97%) Linux
2 15 (10.20%) Unix
3 4 (2.72%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.36%) Windows
5 1 (0.68%) CentOS
5 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (51.02%) CI/CD
2 67 (45.58%) Data Pipeline
3 63 (42.86%) Data Engineering
4 61 (41.50%) ETL
5 59 (40.14%) DevOps
6 55 (37.41%) Analytics
7 54 (36.73%) Data Modelling
8 46 (31.29%) AI
9 34 (23.13%) Agile
9 34 (23.13%) Data Governance
9 34 (23.13%) Machine Learning
10 31 (21.09%) Infrastructure as Code
11 30 (20.41%) Containerisation
12 29 (19.73%) Data Architecture
13 27 (18.37%) Migration
13 27 (18.37%) Observability
14 24 (16.33%) Business Intelligence
15 22 (14.97%) Performance Optimisation
16 20 (13.61%) Problem-Solving
17 18 (12.24%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 103 (70.07%) Python
2 98 (66.67%) SQL
3 39 (26.53%) Java
4 25 (17.01%) Scala
5 14 (9.52%) Shell Script
6 11 (7.48%) C#
7 10 (6.80%) Bash
8 7 (4.76%) R
9 6 (4.08%) Go
10 5 (3.40%) Perl
11 4 (2.72%) Ruby
11 4 (2.72%) TypeScript
12 3 (2.04%) Cypher
12 3 (2.04%) Gremlin
12 3 (2.04%) PHP
12 3 (2.04%) PL/SQL
12 3 (2.04%) SPARQL
12 3 (2.04%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.68%) Groovy
13 1 (0.68%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 29 (19.73%) Security Cleared
2 27 (18.37%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (6.12%) Degree
4 4 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.04%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.04%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.36%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.36%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.36%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.68%) CCNP
7 1 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.68%) MBA
7 1 (0.68%) PhD
7 1 (0.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (34.01%) Data Quality
2 14 (9.52%) GDPR
3 6 (4.08%) QA
4 4 (2.72%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.68%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 35 (23.81%) Docker
2 7 (4.76%) NFS
2 7 (4.76%) Varnish
3 6 (4.08%) Postfix
4 4 (2.72%) Sendmail
5 2 (1.36%) Ceph
5 2 (1.36%) HDFS
5 2 (1.36%) KVM
5 2 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.68%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.68%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (24.49%) Kubernetes
2 31 (21.09%) Terraform
3 9 (6.12%) Ansible
4 6 (4.08%) HAProxy
5 2 (1.36%) Grafana
5 2 (1.36%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.36%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.36%) SELinux
6 1 (0.68%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.68%) Check_MK
6 1 (0.68%) Kibana
6 1 (0.68%) Puppet
Vendors
1 36 (24.49%) Databricks
2 25 (17.01%) Google
3 16 (10.88%) Microsoft
4 8 (5.44%) Cloudera
5 6 (4.08%) Informatica
6 5 (3.40%) Confluent
7 4 (2.72%) Hortonworks
7 4 (2.72%) Oracle
8 3 (2.04%) Guidewire
8 3 (2.04%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.04%) Splunk
9 2 (1.36%) Cisco
9 2 (1.36%) Foundry
9 2 (1.36%) Hitachi
9 2 (1.36%) New Relic
9 2 (1.36%) Teradata
9 2 (1.36%) VMware
10 1 (0.68%) Commvault
10 1 (0.68%) MicroStrategy
10 1 (0.68%) Red Hat