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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 285 207 103
Rank change year-on-year -78 -104 +110
Contract jobs citing Apache 164 168 397
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.82% 1.27% 2.44%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.00% 10.99% 19.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 130 362
10th Percentile £402 £456 £513
25th Percentile £459 £513 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £700 £800
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% -12.50% +23.08%
75th Percentile £663 £825 £888
90th Percentile £750 - -
England median daily rate £513 £574 £800
% change year-on-year -10.68% -28.28% +33.33%

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 2,049 1,528 2,036
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.23% 11.51% 12.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,353 1,025 1,488
10th Percentile £313 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £616 £673 £763
90th Percentile £707 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 24 25
10th Percentile £19.03 £24.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £23.16 £26.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £28.40 £33.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -15.24% +40.76% -42.30%
75th Percentile £41.44 £53.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £73.15 £88.38 £75.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £43.80 £37.50
% change year-on-year -25.79% +16.79% -19.94%

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 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 2 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 -13 18 £538 -11.56% 10
West London -13 3 £625 +22.07% 7
South London - 2 £558 - 4
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 94 (57.32%) Apache Spark
2 74 (45.12%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.83%) CloudStack
3 3 (1.83%) 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%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.61%) SAS
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 83 (50.61%) AWS
2 78 (47.56%) Azure
3 57 (34.76%) GCP
4 41 (25.00%) dbt
5 29 (17.68%) Snowflake
6 25 (15.24%) Azure DevOps
7 23 (14.02%) Amazon S3
8 22 (13.41%) Azure Data Factory
9 15 (9.15%) Power Platform
10 14 (8.54%) GitHub
11 12 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (7.32%) Serverless
12 11 (6.71%) Azure Databricks
12 11 (6.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 10 (6.10%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (4.88%) Amazon Kinesis
15 7 (4.27%) SaaS
16 6 (3.66%) AWS Step Functions
16 6 (3.66%) Cloud Composer
17 5 (3.05%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.27%) DNS
2 3 (1.83%) Firewall
2 3 (1.83%) HTTPS
2 3 (1.83%) Network Security
2 3 (1.83%) SSL
3 2 (1.22%) NAS
3 2 (1.22%) SAN
3 2 (1.22%) VLAN
3 2 (1.22%) VXLAN
4 1 (0.61%) FTP
4 1 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.61%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (28.05%) Data Warehouse
2 31 (18.90%) BigQuery
3 30 (18.29%) Data Lake
4 28 (17.07%) Delta Lake
5 26 (15.85%) Big Data
6 23 (14.02%) Metadata
7 22 (13.41%) Flink
8 16 (9.76%) PostgreSQL
9 14 (8.54%) Amazon Redshift
9 14 (8.54%) Apache Iceberg
9 14 (8.54%) NoSQL
9 14 (8.54%) Power BI
9 14 (8.54%) Relational Database
10 12 (7.32%) Hadoop
11 11 (6.71%) SQL Server
12 9 (5.49%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (4.88%) Elasticsearch
13 8 (4.88%) MongoDB
13 8 (4.88%) Spark SQL
14 6 (3.66%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 27 (16.46%) Git
2 8 (4.88%) Jenkins
3 7 (4.27%) GitLab
4 6 (3.66%) SonarQube
5 5 (3.05%) Maven
6 4 (2.44%) Gradle
6 4 (2.44%) JIRA
7 2 (1.22%) JMeter
7 2 (1.22%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.61%) MLflow
8 1 (0.61%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.61%) Selenium
8 1 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 51 (31.10%) Finance
2 36 (21.95%) Social Skills
3 22 (13.41%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (12.20%) Banking
5 14 (8.54%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.44%) Billing
6 4 (2.44%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.83%) Legal
8 2 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.22%) Law
8 2 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.61%) Front Office
9 1 (0.61%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.61%) Local Government
9 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.61%) Marketing
9 1 (0.61%) Publishing
9 1 (0.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 84 (51.22%) Data Engineer
2 37 (22.56%) Senior
3 32 (19.51%) Architect
4 26 (15.85%) Senior Data Engineer
5 19 (11.59%) Lead
6 16 (9.76%) Databricks Engineer
6 16 (9.76%) Developer
7 14 (8.54%) Databricks Data Engineer
8 12 (7.32%) Java Developer
9 11 (6.71%) Data Architect
9 11 (6.71%) Python Data Engineer
9 11 (6.71%) Python Engineer
10 10 (6.10%) Lead Data Engineer
11 7 (4.27%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (4.27%) Snowflake Engineer
11 7 (4.27%) Technical Leader
12 6 (3.66%) Senior Databricks Data Engineer
12 6 (3.66%) Senior Developer
12 6 (3.66%) Senior Java Developer
13 5 (3.05%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (30.49%) Kafka
2 48 (29.27%) PySpark
3 32 (19.51%) Terraform
4 15 (9.15%) REST
5 13 (7.93%) Apache Beam
6 12 (7.32%) JSON
6 12 (7.32%) Spring
6 12 (7.32%) Spring Boot
7 6 (3.66%) Spark Streaming
8 5 (3.05%) Apache NiFi
8 5 (3.05%) GraphQL
8 5 (3.05%) SOAP
9 4 (2.44%) Great Expectations
9 4 (2.44%) LangChain
9 4 (2.44%) Spring Cloud
10 3 (1.83%) Apache Avro
10 3 (1.83%) JSON-LD
10 3 (1.83%) NetworkX
10 3 (1.83%) Protocol Buffers
10 3 (1.83%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (20.12%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.10%) Management Information System
3 9 (5.49%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.88%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.66%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.05%) AI Agents
6 5 (3.05%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.05%) Public Cloud
6 5 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.44%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.83%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.83%) Data Fabric
8 3 (1.83%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.83%) Taxonomies
9 2 (1.22%) Clustering
9 2 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.22%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.22%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 23 (14.02%) Linux
2 11 (6.71%) Unix
3 5 (3.05%) Ubuntu
4 4 (2.44%) Windows
5 2 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.22%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.61%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.61%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (55.49%) Data Pipeline
2 76 (46.34%) CI/CD
3 71 (43.29%) Data Engineering
4 67 (40.85%) ETL
5 65 (39.63%) Data Modelling
6 62 (37.80%) Analytics
6 62 (37.80%) DevOps
7 52 (31.71%) Agile
8 46 (28.05%) AI
9 39 (23.78%) Machine Learning
10 35 (21.34%) Lakehouse
11 33 (20.12%) Data Governance
12 32 (19.51%) Data Architecture
13 31 (18.90%) Migration
14 29 (17.68%) Containerisation
15 28 (17.07%) Data Transformation
15 28 (17.07%) Infrastructure as Code
16 25 (15.24%) Data Science
17 24 (14.63%) Stakeholder Management
18 23 (14.02%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 114 (69.51%) Python
2 109 (66.46%) SQL
3 38 (23.17%) Java
4 24 (14.63%) Scala
5 17 (10.37%) Shell Script
6 10 (6.10%) Bash
7 7 (4.27%) R
8 6 (3.66%) Go
9 4 (2.44%) C#
9 4 (2.44%) Perl
9 4 (2.44%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.83%) Cypher
10 3 (1.83%) Gremlin
10 3 (1.83%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.83%) Ruby
10 3 (1.83%) SPARQL
10 3 (1.83%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.22%) PHP
11 2 (1.22%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.61%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 32 (19.51%) Security Cleared
2 30 (18.29%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.71%) Degree
4 9 (5.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.83%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.22%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.22%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.22%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.61%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
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%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (38.41%) Data Quality
2 10 (6.10%) GDPR
3 7 (4.27%) QA
4 4 (2.44%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.83%) 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 (28.66%) Docker
2 6 (3.66%) NFS
2 6 (3.66%) Varnish
3 5 (3.05%) Postfix
4 3 (1.83%) Sendmail
5 2 (1.22%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.22%) Ceph
5 2 (1.22%) KVM
5 2 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 49 (29.88%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.49%) Ansible
3 5 (3.05%) HAProxy
4 3 (1.83%) Grafana
4 3 (1.83%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.83%) Puppet
5 2 (1.22%) Control-M
5 2 (1.22%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.22%) SELinux
6 1 (0.61%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.61%) Check_MK
6 1 (0.61%) Kibana
6 1 (0.61%) systemd
Vendors
1 51 (31.10%) Databricks
2 24 (14.63%) Google
3 23 (14.02%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.88%) Cloudera
4 8 (4.88%) Informatica
5 6 (3.66%) Splunk
6 5 (3.05%) Confluent
6 5 (3.05%) New Relic
6 5 (3.05%) Oracle
7 4 (2.44%) Guidewire
7 4 (2.44%) Hortonworks
7 4 (2.44%) Talend
8 3 (1.83%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.83%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.83%) Teradata
9 2 (1.22%) Cisco
9 2 (1.22%) Hitachi
9 2 (1.22%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.22%) Sybase
9 2 (1.22%) VMware