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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 291 222 114
Rank change year-on-year -69 -108 +117
Contract jobs citing Apache 166 151 358
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.82% 1.13% 2.23%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.97% 9.88% 17.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 108 319
10th Percentile £400 £463 £513
25th Percentile £463 £512 £578
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 £510 £550 £750
% change year-on-year -7.27% -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 2,084 1,529 2,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.25% 11.43% 12.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,380 1,030 1,411
10th Percentile £313 £313 £310
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £649 £750
90th Percentile £701 £788 £850
England median daily rate £500 £492 £525
% change year-on-year +1.63% -6.29% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 21 25
10th Percentile £19.03 £24.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £22.83 £26.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £28.40 £35.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -20.01% +49.16% -13.45%
75th Percentile £41.68 £53.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £73.30 £88.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.70 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.01% -6.67% -11.76%

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 30 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 30 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 -21 19 £550 -2.22% 17
South London - 2 £558 - 1
West London -25 1 £450 -12.11% 9
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 (54.82%) Apache Spark
2 83 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.81%) CloudStack
3 3 (1.81%) nginx
4 1 (0.60%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (0.60%) Confluence
4 1 (0.60%) IIS
4 1 (0.60%) JBoss
4 1 (0.60%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.60%) Luigi
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.60%) SAS
4 1 (0.60%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Magento
1 1 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.60%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 85 (51.20%) AWS
2 72 (43.37%) Azure
3 57 (34.34%) GCP
4 51 (30.72%) dbt
5 34 (20.48%) Snowflake
6 27 (16.27%) Amazon S3
7 19 (11.45%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (10.84%) Azure Data Factory
9 14 (8.43%) Power Platform
10 13 (7.83%) GitHub
11 12 (7.23%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (7.23%) Serverless
12 11 (6.63%) Cloud Composer
13 9 (5.42%) Amazon Kinesis
13 9 (5.42%) Azure Databricks
14 8 (4.82%) Amazon EMR
14 8 (4.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 7 (4.22%) Dagster
16 6 (3.61%) AWS Step Functions
16 6 (3.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.61%) DNS
2 3 (1.81%) HTTPS
2 3 (1.81%) Network Security
2 3 (1.81%) SSL
3 2 (1.20%) Firewall
3 2 (1.20%) NAS
3 2 (1.20%) SAN
3 2 (1.20%) VLAN
3 2 (1.20%) VXLAN
4 1 (0.60%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.60%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (32.53%) Data Warehouse
2 36 (21.69%) BigQuery
3 32 (19.28%) Data Lake
4 26 (15.66%) Delta Lake
5 25 (15.06%) Metadata
6 23 (13.86%) Big Data
7 21 (12.65%) Flink
7 21 (12.65%) PostgreSQL
8 17 (10.24%) Amazon Redshift
9 16 (9.64%) Apache Iceberg
10 14 (8.43%) Relational Database
11 13 (7.83%) Power BI
12 12 (7.23%) Hadoop
13 11 (6.63%) NoSQL
14 10 (6.02%) SQL Server
15 8 (4.82%) Elasticsearch
15 8 (4.82%) MongoDB
16 7 (4.22%) Spark SQL
17 6 (3.61%) Amazon Athena
17 6 (3.61%) Looker
Development Applications
1 30 (18.07%) Git
2 9 (5.42%) GitLab
3 7 (4.22%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.01%) SonarQube
5 4 (2.41%) Maven
6 3 (1.81%) Gradle
7 2 (1.20%) JMeter
7 2 (1.20%) Selenium
7 2 (1.20%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.60%) JIRA
8 1 (0.60%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 49 (29.52%) Finance
2 43 (25.90%) Social Skills
3 25 (15.06%) Banking
4 24 (14.46%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (7.83%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.41%) Billing
6 4 (2.41%) Financial Institution
6 4 (2.41%) Retail
7 3 (1.81%) Automotive
7 3 (1.81%) Legal
7 3 (1.81%) Marketing
8 2 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.20%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.20%) Law
8 2 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.20%) Publishing
9 1 (0.60%) Front Office
9 1 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 83 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 37 (22.29%) Senior
3 33 (19.88%) Architect
4 26 (15.66%) Senior Data Engineer
5 16 (9.64%) Lead
6 15 (9.04%) Data Architect
6 15 (9.04%) Databricks Engineer
7 13 (7.83%) Databricks Data Engineer
8 12 (7.23%) Developer
8 12 (7.23%) Python Data Engineer
8 12 (7.23%) Python Engineer
9 9 (5.42%) GCP Engineer
9 9 (5.42%) Java Developer
10 7 (4.22%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (4.22%) GCP Data Engineer
10 7 (4.22%) Lead Data Engineer
10 7 (4.22%) Technical Leader
11 6 (3.61%) DevOps Engineer
11 6 (3.61%) Senior Databricks Data Engineer
11 6 (3.61%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (31.93%) PySpark
2 51 (30.72%) Kafka
3 40 (24.10%) Terraform
4 16 (9.64%) Spring
5 15 (9.04%) REST
5 15 (9.04%) Spring Boot
6 13 (7.83%) Apache Beam
7 9 (5.42%) Apache NiFi
8 6 (3.61%) SOAP
9 5 (3.01%) GraphQL
9 5 (3.01%) JSON
9 5 (3.01%) OAuth
9 5 (3.01%) Spark Streaming
10 4 (2.41%) Pandas
11 3 (1.81%) JSON-LD
11 3 (1.81%) LangChain
11 3 (1.81%) NetworkX
11 3 (1.81%) NumPy
11 3 (1.81%) Spring Cloud
11 3 (1.81%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (19.28%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.63%) Product Ownership
3 10 (6.02%) Management Information System
4 8 (4.82%) Data Structures
4 8 (4.82%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (4.22%) Clustering
5 7 (4.22%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.01%) AI Agents
6 5 (3.01%) Data Fabric
7 4 (2.41%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (2.41%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.41%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.81%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.81%) Robotics
8 3 (1.81%) Self-Driving Car
8 3 (1.81%) Taxonomies
9 2 (1.20%) Culture of Ownership
9 2 (1.20%) Lidar
9 2 (1.20%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 18 (10.84%) Linux
2 7 (4.22%) Unix
3 5 (3.01%) Ubuntu
4 4 (2.41%) Windows
5 2 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.20%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.60%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.60%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (50.60%) Data Pipeline
2 82 (49.40%) CI/CD
3 77 (46.39%) Data Engineering
4 68 (40.96%) ETL
5 64 (38.55%) Analytics
6 59 (35.54%) Data Modelling
7 54 (32.53%) DevOps
8 52 (31.33%) Agile
9 50 (30.12%) AI
10 41 (24.70%) Machine Learning
11 38 (22.89%) Lakehouse
12 37 (22.29%) Data Governance
13 34 (20.48%) Migration
14 32 (19.28%) Infrastructure as Code
15 31 (18.67%) Stakeholder Management
16 29 (17.47%) Data Architecture
17 28 (16.87%) Data Transformation
18 27 (16.27%) Containerisation
19 26 (15.66%) Data Science
20 25 (15.06%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 107 (64.46%) Python
2 99 (59.64%) SQL
3 36 (21.69%) Java
4 23 (13.86%) Scala
5 14 (8.43%) Shell Script
6 10 (6.02%) Bash
7 6 (3.61%) Go
8 4 (2.41%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.81%) Cypher
9 3 (1.81%) Gremlin
9 3 (1.81%) Perl
9 3 (1.81%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.81%) Ruby
9 3 (1.81%) SPARQL
10 2 (1.20%) R
10 2 (1.20%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.20%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.60%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.60%) C#
11 1 (0.60%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 30 (18.07%) Security Cleared
2 24 (14.46%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.02%) Degree
4 8 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (4.22%) DV Cleared
6 5 (3.01%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.81%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.20%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.20%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.60%) CCNP
9 1 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.60%) MBA
9 1 (0.60%) PhD
9 1 (0.60%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.60%) PMP
9 1 (0.60%) RHCSA
9 1 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (39.16%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.82%) GDPR
3 7 (4.22%) QA
4 4 (2.41%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.81%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (1.20%) NCSC
7 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.60%) SLA
System Software
1 43 (25.90%) Docker
2 5 (3.01%) NFS
2 5 (3.01%) Varnish
3 4 (2.41%) Postfix
4 3 (1.81%) Sendmail
5 2 (1.20%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.20%) Ceph
5 2 (1.20%) KVM
5 2 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.60%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 46 (27.71%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.82%) Ansible
3 4 (2.41%) HAProxy
4 3 (1.81%) Grafana
4 3 (1.81%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.81%) Puppet
5 2 (1.20%) Control-M
5 2 (1.20%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.20%) SELinux
6 1 (0.60%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.60%) Check_MK
6 1 (0.60%) Kibana
6 1 (0.60%) systemd
Vendors
1 51 (30.72%) Databricks
2 27 (16.27%) Google
3 23 (13.86%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.82%) Informatica
4 8 (4.82%) Oracle
5 5 (3.01%) New Relic
5 5 (3.01%) Splunk
6 4 (2.41%) Guidewire
6 4 (2.41%) Talend
7 3 (1.81%) Cloudera
7 3 (1.81%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.81%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.81%) Teradata
8 2 (1.20%) Cisco
8 2 (1.20%) Confluent
8 2 (1.20%) Hitachi
8 2 (1.20%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.20%) SAP
8 2 (1.20%) Sybase
8 2 (1.20%) VMware