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 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 198 101
Rank change year-on-year -83 -97 +123
Contract jobs citing Apache 165 180 399
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.82% 1.33% 2.46%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.16% 11.55% 19.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 140 365
10th Percentile £402 £455 £513
25th Percentile £454 £513 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £725 £800
Median % change year-on-year -24.14% -9.38% +23.08%
75th Percentile £663 £825 £888
90th Percentile £775 £875 -
England median daily rate £513 £600 £750
% change year-on-year -14.58% -20.00% +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 2,021 1,558 2,041
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.01% 11.53% 12.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,337 1,060 1,522
10th Percentile £334 £325 £320
25th Percentile £425 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £673 £763
90th Percentile £711 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 22 24
10th Percentile £16.80 £24.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.25 £26.00 £21.75
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.75 £26.15
Median % change year-on-year -8.94% +17.59% -44.95%
75th Percentile £41.44 £52.81 £43.44
90th Percentile £73.15 £85.13 £75.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £42.27 £36.25
% change year-on-year -23.11% +16.61% -19.44%

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 15 August 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 15 August 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 -12 19 £550 -14.13% 9
West London -14 5 £625 +22.07%
South London -7 2 £558 +17.78% 1
East London - 1 £669 -
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 97 (58.79%) Apache Spark
2 68 (41.21%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.82%) CloudStack
3 3 (1.82%) nginx
4 1 (0.61%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (0.61%) IIS
4 1 (0.61%) JBoss
4 1 (0.61%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.61%) Luigi
4 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.61%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Magento
1 1 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.61%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 81 (49.09%) AWS
2 77 (46.67%) Azure
3 55 (33.33%) GCP
4 37 (22.42%) dbt
5 25 (15.15%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (14.55%) Amazon S3
6 24 (14.55%) Snowflake
7 20 (12.12%) Azure Data Factory
8 17 (10.30%) Power Platform
9 14 (8.48%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (8.48%) GitHub
9 14 (8.48%) Serverless
10 13 (7.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 10 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (4.85%) Amazon Kinesis
12 8 (4.85%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (4.24%) AWS Step Functions
13 7 (4.24%) SaaS
14 6 (3.64%) Cloud Composer
14 6 (3.64%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.85%) DNS
2 4 (2.42%) Firewall
3 3 (1.82%) HTTPS
3 3 (1.82%) Network Security
4 2 (1.21%) FTP
4 2 (1.21%) NAS
4 2 (1.21%) SAN
4 2 (1.21%) SSL
4 2 (1.21%) VLAN
4 2 (1.21%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.61%) 4G
5 1 (0.61%) 5G
5 1 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.61%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (25.45%) Data Warehouse
2 33 (20.00%) Data Lake
3 29 (17.58%) BigQuery
4 26 (15.76%) Delta Lake
5 23 (13.94%) Big Data
5 23 (13.94%) Flink
6 22 (13.33%) Metadata
7 15 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
7 15 (9.09%) Power BI
8 14 (8.48%) Apache Iceberg
9 13 (7.88%) Amazon Athena
9 13 (7.88%) Amazon Redshift
9 13 (7.88%) NoSQL
9 13 (7.88%) Relational Database
10 10 (6.06%) Hadoop
10 10 (6.06%) SQL Server
11 8 (4.85%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (4.85%) Spark SQL
12 7 (4.24%) MongoDB
13 6 (3.64%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 27 (16.36%) Git
2 9 (5.45%) Jenkins
3 7 (4.24%) GitLab
4 6 (3.64%) JIRA
4 6 (3.64%) SonarQube
5 5 (3.03%) Maven
6 4 (2.42%) Gradle
7 2 (1.21%) JMeter
8 1 (0.61%) MLflow
8 1 (0.61%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.61%) Selenium
8 1 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 52 (31.52%) Finance
2 34 (20.61%) Social Skills
3 22 (13.33%) Banking
4 20 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (7.88%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.64%) Billing
7 4 (2.42%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.82%) Front Office
8 3 (1.82%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.82%) Legal
9 2 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.21%) Law
9 2 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.61%) Marketing
10 1 (0.61%) Publishing
10 1 (0.61%) Retail
10 1 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 81 (49.09%) Data Engineer
2 36 (21.82%) Senior
3 34 (20.61%) Architect
4 25 (15.15%) Senior Data Engineer
5 20 (12.12%) Lead
6 19 (11.52%) Developer
7 14 (8.48%) Java Developer
8 12 (7.27%) Data Architect
8 12 (7.27%) Lead Data Engineer
9 9 (5.45%) Python Data Engineer
9 9 (5.45%) Python Engineer
10 7 (4.24%) Snowflake Engineer
11 6 (3.64%) Senior Developer
11 6 (3.64%) Senior Java Developer
11 6 (3.64%) Technical Leader
12 5 (3.03%) Analyst
12 5 (3.03%) AWS Engineer
12 5 (3.03%) Cloud Engineer
12 5 (3.03%) Principal Data Engineer
12 5 (3.03%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (32.12%) Kafka
2 45 (27.27%) PySpark
3 16 (9.70%) REST
4 14 (8.48%) Spring
5 12 (7.27%) JSON
5 12 (7.27%) Spring Boot
6 11 (6.67%) Apache Beam
7 6 (3.64%) Great Expectations
7 6 (3.64%) SOAP
7 6 (3.64%) Spark Streaming
8 5 (3.03%) GraphQL
9 4 (2.42%) Apache NiFi
9 4 (2.42%) LangChain
9 4 (2.42%) Spring Cloud
10 3 (1.82%) Apache Avro
10 3 (1.82%) JSON-LD
10 3 (1.82%) LAMP
10 3 (1.82%) NetworkX
10 3 (1.82%) Protocol Buffers
10 3 (1.82%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 7 (4.24%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (4.24%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.64%) Data Structures
4 6 (3.64%) Public Cloud
5 5 (3.03%) AI Agents
5 5 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.03%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.42%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.82%) Clustering
7 3 (1.82%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.82%) Data Fabric
7 3 (1.82%) Distributed Applications
7 3 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.82%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.82%) Taxonomies
7 3 (1.82%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 25 (15.15%) Linux
2 13 (7.88%) Unix
3 5 (3.03%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.82%) Windows
5 2 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.61%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.61%) CentOS
6 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (52.12%) Data Pipeline
2 78 (47.27%) CI/CD
3 71 (43.03%) Data Engineering
4 66 (40.00%) ETL
5 64 (38.79%) Analytics
6 63 (38.18%) DevOps
7 61 (36.97%) Data Modelling
8 48 (29.09%) Agile
9 42 (25.45%) AI
10 37 (22.42%) Machine Learning
11 34 (20.61%) Data Governance
12 33 (20.00%) Data Architecture
13 30 (18.18%) Containerisation
13 30 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
13 30 (18.18%) Migration
14 26 (15.76%) Performance Optimisation
15 25 (15.15%) Business Intelligence
15 25 (15.15%) Data Transformation
15 25 (15.15%) Observability
16 24 (14.55%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 112 (67.88%) Python
2 108 (65.45%) SQL
3 42 (25.45%) Java
4 23 (13.94%) Scala
5 18 (10.91%) Shell Script
6 11 (6.67%) Bash
7 7 (4.24%) R
8 6 (3.64%) C#
8 6 (3.64%) Go
9 5 (3.03%) Perl
10 4 (2.42%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.42%) Ruby
11 3 (1.82%) Cypher
11 3 (1.82%) Gremlin
11 3 (1.82%) PHP
11 3 (1.82%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.82%) SPARQL
11 3 (1.82%) TypeScript
12 2 (1.21%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.61%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 31 (18.79%) Security Cleared
2 29 (17.58%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.67%) Degree
4 9 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.82%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.21%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.21%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.21%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.21%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.61%) CCNP
7 1 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.61%) MBA
7 1 (0.61%) PhD
7 1 (0.61%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.61%) PMP
7 1 (0.61%) RHCSA
7 1 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (38.79%) Data Quality
2 10 (6.06%) GDPR
3 8 (4.85%) QA
4 4 (2.42%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.82%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.61%) SLA
System Software
1 47 (28.48%) Docker
2 7 (4.24%) NFS
2 7 (4.24%) Varnish
3 6 (3.64%) Postfix
4 4 (2.42%) Sendmail
5 2 (1.21%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.21%) Ceph
5 2 (1.21%) KVM
5 2 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 49 (29.70%) Kubernetes
2 32 (19.39%) Terraform
3 10 (6.06%) Ansible
4 6 (3.64%) HAProxy
5 3 (1.82%) Grafana
5 3 (1.82%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.82%) Puppet
6 2 (1.21%) Control-M
6 2 (1.21%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.21%) SELinux
7 1 (0.61%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.61%) Check_MK
7 1 (0.61%) Kibana
7 1 (0.61%) systemd
Vendors
1 43 (26.06%) Databricks
2 24 (14.55%) Google
3 21 (12.73%) Microsoft
4 9 (5.45%) Informatica
5 8 (4.85%) Cloudera
6 6 (3.64%) Splunk
7 5 (3.03%) Confluent
7 5 (3.03%) Guidewire
7 5 (3.03%) New Relic
8 4 (2.42%) Hortonworks
9 3 (1.82%) Oracle
9 3 (1.82%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.82%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.82%) Talend
10 2 (1.21%) Cisco
10 2 (1.21%) Foundry
10 2 (1.21%) Hitachi
10 2 (1.21%) SAP
10 2 (1.21%) Teradata
10 2 (1.21%) VMware