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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 293 169 172
Rank change year-on-year -124 +3 +43
Contract jobs citing Apache 127 195 256
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.73% 1.54% 1.43%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.48% 13.19% 12.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 163 230
10th Percentile £422 £450 £412
25th Percentile £483 £569 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £750 £700
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £632 £838 £800
90th Percentile £743 £875 £888
England median daily rate £525 £675 £575
% change year-on-year -22.22% +17.39% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
England median hourly rate £79.00 £78.70 £38.50
% change year-on-year +0.38% +104.42% -50.64%

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 1,698 1,478 2,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.79% 11.67% 11.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,150 994 1,482
10th Percentile £353 £325 £263
25th Percentile £425 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year - +2.44% -6.82%
75th Percentile £625 £674 £638
90th Percentile £726 £825 £788
England median daily rate £500 £500 £496
% change year-on-year - +0.91% -5.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 9 31
10th Percentile £15.35 £25.59 £15.50
25th Percentile £17.50 £26.45 £22.00
Median hourly rate £24.08 £39.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.27% +30.00% +4.35%
75th Percentile £30.60 £41.91 £40.00
90th Percentile £70.45 £50.75 £63.75
England median hourly rate £35.00 £52.50 £27.51
% change year-on-year -33.33% +90.86% +10.03%

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 17 April 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 17 April 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
West London - 17 £603 -
Central London -14 15 £575 -10.23% 14
South London -15 2 £566 +19.05%
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 76 (59.84%) Apache Spark
2 29 (22.83%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.15%) Confluence
3 4 (3.15%) Palantir Foundry
4 3 (2.36%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.57%) Apache Synapse
5 2 (1.57%) nginx
6 1 (0.79%) SAS
6 1 (0.79%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Actimize
1 1 (0.79%) Magento
1 1 (0.79%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.79%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 70 (55.12%) Azure
2 68 (53.54%) AWS
3 37 (29.13%) GCP
4 35 (27.56%) Amazon S3
5 27 (21.26%) AWS CloudFormation
6 26 (20.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 24 (18.90%) Power Platform
8 23 (18.11%) Serverless
9 22 (17.32%) Azure DevOps
10 19 (14.96%) Collibra
11 18 (14.17%) Amazon SQS
12 14 (11.02%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (9.45%) Azure Data Factory
14 9 (7.09%) GitHub
14 9 (7.09%) GitHub Actions
15 7 (5.51%) AWS Step Functions
15 7 (5.51%) dbt
15 7 (5.51%) Snowflake
16 4 (3.15%) Azure Key Vault
16 4 (3.15%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.94%) DNS
2 3 (2.36%) Firewall
3 2 (1.57%) FTP
3 2 (1.57%) Network Security
4 1 (0.79%) 4G
4 1 (0.79%) 5G
4 1 (0.79%) DHCP
4 1 (0.79%) InfiniBand
4 1 (0.79%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.79%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.79%) LAN
4 1 (0.79%) NAS
4 1 (0.79%) SAN
4 1 (0.79%) Spanning Tree
4 1 (0.79%) SSH
4 1 (0.79%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.79%) VLAN
4 1 (0.79%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (29.13%) Data Lake
2 27 (21.26%) Amazon Athena
3 23 (18.11%) BigQuery
4 22 (17.32%) Power BI
5 19 (14.96%) Big Data
6 18 (14.17%) Mixpanel
7 17 (13.39%) OLAP
7 17 (13.39%) OLTP
8 16 (12.60%) Data Warehouse
9 14 (11.02%) Delta Lake
10 13 (10.24%) Amazon Redshift
11 12 (9.45%) Flink
11 12 (9.45%) PostgreSQL
12 10 (7.87%) Hadoop
12 10 (7.87%) Metadata
12 10 (7.87%) NoSQL
13 9 (7.09%) Relational Database
14 8 (6.30%) SQL Server
15 7 (5.51%) Elasticsearch
15 7 (5.51%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 28 (22.05%) Git
2 15 (11.81%) JIRA
3 8 (6.30%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.15%) MLflow
4 4 (3.15%) Mockito
5 3 (2.36%) JUnit
5 3 (2.36%) Liquibase
5 3 (2.36%) Maven
6 2 (1.57%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.57%) GitLab
6 2 (1.57%) Selenium
6 2 (1.57%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.79%) ERwin
7 1 (0.79%) Gradle
7 1 (0.79%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.79%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.79%) Storybook
General
1 27 (21.26%) Finance
2 22 (17.32%) Social Skills
3 15 (11.81%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (9.45%) Public Sector
5 9 (7.09%) Banking
6 5 (3.94%) Billing
7 3 (2.36%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.57%) Front Office
8 2 (1.57%) Marketing
8 2 (1.57%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.79%) Electronics
9 1 (0.79%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.79%) Law
9 1 (0.79%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 55 (43.31%) Data Engineer
2 21 (16.54%) Developer
3 19 (14.96%) Lead
3 19 (14.96%) Senior
4 18 (14.17%) Principal Engineer
5 17 (13.39%) Principal Data Engineer
6 14 (11.02%) Software Engineer
7 12 (9.45%) Architect
8 11 (8.66%) Lead Data Engineer
8 11 (8.66%) Senior Data Engineer
9 10 (7.87%) Java Developer
10 8 (6.30%) Principal Software Engineer
11 7 (5.51%) Data Analytics Engineer
12 5 (3.94%) AWS Engineer
12 5 (3.94%) Solutions Architect
13 4 (3.15%) Analyst
13 4 (3.15%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 4 (3.15%) AWS Data Engineer
13 4 (3.15%) Azure Engineer
13 4 (3.15%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (33.86%) Kafka
2 21 (16.54%) PySpark
3 20 (15.75%) Great Expectations
4 11 (8.66%) JSON
4 11 (8.66%) REST
5 8 (6.30%) Apache NiFi
6 6 (4.72%) Spring
7 5 (3.94%) NumPy
7 5 (3.94%) Pandas
7 5 (3.94%) React
7 5 (3.94%) SOAP
8 3 (2.36%) Apache Avro
8 3 (2.36%) Apache Beam
8 3 (2.36%) LAMP
8 3 (2.36%) Protocol Buffers
8 3 (2.36%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (2.36%) RAML
8 3 (2.36%) Spring Boot
8 3 (2.36%) WireMock
9 2 (1.57%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 34 (26.77%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.72%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.15%) Distributed Computing
3 4 (3.15%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.15%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.15%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.36%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.36%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.36%) Distributed Applications
4 3 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.57%) Equities
5 2 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.57%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.57%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.57%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.79%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.79%) Autonomous Agent
6 1 (0.79%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 16 (12.60%) Linux
2 11 (8.66%) Unix
3 1 (0.79%) CentOS
3 1 (0.79%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (52.76%) CI/CD
2 59 (46.46%) DevOps
3 55 (43.31%) Analytics
3 55 (43.31%) ETL
4 52 (40.94%) Data Modelling
5 50 (39.37%) Data Engineering
5 50 (39.37%) Data Pipeline
6 40 (31.50%) AI
6 40 (31.50%) Machine Learning
7 37 (29.13%) Infrastructure as Code
8 34 (26.77%) Data Governance
9 32 (25.20%) Data Architecture
9 32 (25.20%) Observability
10 29 (22.83%) Agile
11 26 (20.47%) Business Intelligence
12 25 (19.69%) Software Engineering
13 24 (18.90%) Problem-Solving
14 22 (17.32%) Batch Processing
14 22 (17.32%) LLM
15 21 (16.54%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 87 (68.50%) SQL
2 82 (64.57%) Python
3 31 (24.41%) Java
4 21 (16.54%) C#
5 20 (15.75%) Scala
6 7 (5.51%) Shell Script
7 6 (4.72%) R
8 5 (3.94%) Bash
9 4 (3.15%) JavaScript
9 4 (3.15%) Perl
9 4 (3.15%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.36%) PHP
11 2 (1.57%) C++
11 2 (1.57%) Ruby
12 1 (0.79%) C
12 1 (0.79%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.79%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (29.13%) Security Cleared
2 32 (25.20%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.30%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.15%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.57%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.57%) Degree
6 1 (0.79%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.79%) CCNA
6 1 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.79%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (31.50%) Data Quality
2 21 (16.54%) GDPR
3 4 (3.15%) QA
4 2 (1.57%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.79%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.79%) IFRS
5 1 (0.79%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.79%) MiFID
5 1 (0.79%) Solvency II
System Software
1 22 (17.32%) Docker
2 5 (3.94%) NFS
2 5 (3.94%) Varnish
3 4 (3.15%) Postfix
4 3 (2.36%) Sendmail
5 2 (1.57%) HDFS
6 1 (0.79%) Ceph
6 1 (0.79%) iptables
6 1 (0.79%) KVM
6 1 (0.79%) Lustre
6 1 (0.79%) Samba
6 1 (0.79%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 38 (29.92%) Terraform
2 20 (15.75%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.94%) Ansible
3 5 (3.94%) HAProxy
4 1 (0.79%) Grafana
4 1 (0.79%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.79%) Puppet
4 1 (0.79%) SELinux
Vendors
1 40 (31.50%) Databricks
2 21 (16.54%) Google
3 8 (6.30%) Cloudera
3 8 (6.30%) Microsoft
4 6 (4.72%) Confluent
4 6 (4.72%) ServiceNow
5 5 (3.94%) Informatica
6 4 (3.15%) Foundry
6 4 (3.15%) Guidewire
6 4 (3.15%) Oracle
6 4 (3.15%) Palantir
7 3 (2.36%) Hortonworks
8 2 (1.57%) SAP
8 2 (1.57%) Splunk
9 1 (0.79%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.79%) Cisco
9 1 (0.79%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.79%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.79%) Sybase
9 1 (0.79%) Veritas