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

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 298 183 107
Rank change year-on-year -115 -76 +109
Contract jobs citing Apache 135 186 418
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.69% 1.40% 2.38%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.34% 12.13% 18.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 150 384
10th Percentile £415 £445 £450
25th Percentile £477 £518 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £750 £750
Median % change year-on-year -25.33% - +20.00%
75th Percentile £663 £838 £875
90th Percentile £745 £875 £888
England median daily rate £524 £626 £750
% change year-on-year -16.23% -16.60% +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 1,839 1,533 2,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.47% 11.54% 12.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,217 1,027 1,687
10th Percentile £358 £352 £300
25th Percentile £425 £415 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £671 £738
90th Percentile £700 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 16 29
10th Percentile £15.85 £26.00 £19.50
25th Percentile £19.25 £26.35 £23.75
Median hourly rate £28.00 £34.50 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year -18.84% +14.39% -7.20%
75th Percentile £41.44 £53.75 £33.75
90th Percentile £82.78 £75.63 £59.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £48.56 £32.12
% change year-on-year -33.07% +51.21% -33.78%

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 6 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 6 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 -20 11 £525 -4.55% 12
West London -13 9 £603 +17.68% 1
South London -7 1 £616 +30.03%
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 88 (65.19%) Apache Spark
2 43 (31.85%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.22%) CloudStack
3 3 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.48%) Apache Synapse
4 2 (1.48%) nginx
5 1 (0.74%) IIS
5 1 (0.74%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.74%) Luigi
5 1 (0.74%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.74%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Magento
1 1 (0.74%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.74%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 72 (53.33%) Azure
2 66 (48.89%) AWS
3 39 (28.89%) GCP
4 27 (20.00%) Amazon S3
5 25 (18.52%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (14.81%) dbt
6 20 (14.81%) Power Platform
7 18 (13.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 14 (10.37%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (10.37%) Snowflake
9 12 (8.89%) Serverless
10 11 (8.15%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (8.15%) Azure Data Factory
11 10 (7.41%) Amazon SQS
11 10 (7.41%) Collibra
11 10 (7.41%) GitHub
12 8 (5.93%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (4.44%) Amazon Kinesis
13 6 (4.44%) Azure Key Vault
13 6 (4.44%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.19%) DNS
2 3 (2.22%) Firewall
3 2 (1.48%) FTP
3 2 (1.48%) NAS
3 2 (1.48%) Network Security
3 2 (1.48%) SAN
3 2 (1.48%) VLAN
3 2 (1.48%) VXLAN
4 1 (0.74%) 4G
4 1 (0.74%) 5G
4 1 (0.74%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.74%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (22.96%) Data Lake
2 25 (18.52%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (16.30%) Big Data
4 18 (13.33%) BigQuery
4 18 (13.33%) Power BI
5 17 (12.59%) NoSQL
6 16 (11.85%) Amazon Athena
6 16 (11.85%) Delta Lake
7 15 (11.11%) Flink
7 15 (11.11%) Hadoop
8 14 (10.37%) PostgreSQL
9 13 (9.63%) SQL Server
10 12 (8.89%) Metadata
11 11 (8.15%) MongoDB
11 11 (8.15%) Relational Database
12 10 (7.41%) Mixpanel
13 9 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (6.67%) OLAP
13 9 (6.67%) OLTP
14 8 (5.93%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 30 (22.22%) Git
2 9 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 8 (5.93%) JIRA
4 6 (4.44%) SonarQube
5 5 (3.70%) Maven
6 4 (2.96%) GitLab
6 4 (2.96%) Gradle
7 2 (1.48%) MLflow
7 2 (1.48%) Selenium
8 1 (0.74%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.74%) JMeter
8 1 (0.74%) PHPUnit
General
1 43 (31.85%) Finance
2 19 (14.07%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (14.07%) Social Skills
3 12 (8.89%) Banking
4 10 (7.41%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.70%) Billing
6 3 (2.22%) Front Office
6 3 (2.22%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.48%) Legal
8 1 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.74%) Marketing
8 1 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.74%) Retail
8 1 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 62 (45.93%) Data Engineer
2 25 (18.52%) Senior
3 23 (17.04%) Architect
4 20 (14.81%) Developer
5 17 (12.59%) Lead
5 17 (12.59%) Senior Data Engineer
6 14 (10.37%) Java Developer
7 11 (8.15%) Lead Data Engineer
7 11 (8.15%) Principal Engineer
8 10 (7.41%) Principal Data Engineer
9 7 (5.19%) Data Architect
10 6 (4.44%) Senior Developer
10 6 (4.44%) Senior Java Developer
11 5 (3.70%) Big Data Engineer
11 5 (3.70%) Software Engineer
12 4 (2.96%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 4 (2.96%) Azure Architect
12 4 (2.96%) Azure Engineer
12 4 (2.96%) Hadoop Engineer
12 4 (2.96%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (31.85%) Kafka
2 27 (20.00%) PySpark
3 16 (11.85%) Spring
4 13 (9.63%) Spring Boot
5 12 (8.89%) Great Expectations
5 12 (8.89%) JSON
5 12 (8.89%) REST
6 7 (5.19%) Apache Beam
7 5 (3.70%) SOAP
8 4 (2.96%) GraphQL
8 4 (2.96%) Spring Cloud
9 3 (2.22%) Apache Avro
9 3 (2.22%) Pandas
9 3 (2.22%) Protocol Buffers
9 3 (2.22%) Web Services
10 2 (1.48%) Jinja
10 2 (1.48%) LAMP
10 2 (1.48%) NumPy
10 2 (1.48%) pytest
10 2 (1.48%) React
Miscellaneous
1 27 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (4.44%) Management Information System
2 6 (4.44%) Public Cloud
3 5 (3.70%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (2.96%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.22%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.22%) Data Fabric
5 3 (2.22%) Distributed Applications
5 3 (2.22%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (2.22%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.22%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.48%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.48%) Clustering
6 2 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.48%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.48%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.48%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 21 (15.56%) Linux
2 15 (11.11%) Unix
3 4 (2.96%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.48%) Windows
5 1 (0.74%) CentOS
5 1 (0.74%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (51.85%) CI/CD
2 58 (42.96%) DevOps
3 57 (42.22%) Data Engineering
3 57 (42.22%) Data Pipeline
3 57 (42.22%) ETL
4 50 (37.04%) Analytics
5 48 (35.56%) Data Modelling
6 41 (30.37%) AI
7 32 (23.70%) Machine Learning
8 29 (21.48%) Containerisation
9 28 (20.74%) Agile
9 28 (20.74%) Data Governance
9 28 (20.74%) Infrastructure as Code
10 25 (18.52%) Observability
11 24 (17.78%) Data Architecture
11 24 (17.78%) Migration
12 21 (15.56%) Business Intelligence
12 21 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
13 20 (14.81%) Performance Optimisation
14 17 (12.59%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 91 (67.41%) Python
1 91 (67.41%) SQL
2 38 (28.15%) Java
3 21 (15.56%) Scala
4 11 (8.15%) C#
4 11 (8.15%) Shell Script
5 8 (5.93%) Bash
6 7 (5.19%) R
7 5 (3.70%) Go
7 5 (3.70%) Perl
8 4 (2.96%) Ruby
8 4 (2.96%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.22%) PHP
9 3 (2.22%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.48%) Cypher
10 2 (1.48%) Gremlin
10 2 (1.48%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.48%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.74%) Bicep
11 1 (0.74%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 29 (21.48%) Security Cleared
2 25 (18.52%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (5.19%) Degree
4 4 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.22%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.48%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.48%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.74%) CCNP
7 1 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.74%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.74%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (29.63%) Data Quality
2 15 (11.11%) GDPR
3 4 (2.96%) QA
4 3 (2.22%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.74%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 32 (23.70%) Docker
2 7 (5.19%) NFS
2 7 (5.19%) Varnish
3 6 (4.44%) Postfix
4 4 (2.96%) Sendmail
5 2 (1.48%) Ceph
5 2 (1.48%) HDFS
5 2 (1.48%) KVM
5 2 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.74%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.74%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (23.70%) Kubernetes
2 28 (20.74%) Terraform
3 8 (5.93%) Ansible
4 6 (4.44%) HAProxy
5 2 (1.48%) Grafana
5 2 (1.48%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.48%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.48%) SELinux
6 1 (0.74%) Check_MK
6 1 (0.74%) Puppet
Vendors
1 35 (25.93%) Databricks
2 18 (13.33%) Google
3 13 (9.63%) Microsoft
4 6 (4.44%) Cloudera
4 6 (4.44%) Informatica
5 5 (3.70%) Confluent
6 4 (2.96%) Guidewire
6 4 (2.96%) Hortonworks
6 4 (2.96%) Oracle
6 4 (2.96%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.48%) Cisco
7 2 (1.48%) Hitachi
7 2 (1.48%) Teradata
7 2 (1.48%) VMware
8 1 (0.74%) Adobe
8 1 (0.74%) Commvault
8 1 (0.74%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.74%) Progress
8 1 (0.74%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.74%) Sybase