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

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 210 105
Rank change year-on-year -85 -105 +118
Contract jobs citing Apache 160 169 396
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.79% 1.26% 2.45%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.80% 10.92% 19.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 130 362
10th Percentile £402 £456 £513
25th Percentile £453 £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 £775 - -
England median daily rate £505 £574 £800
% change year-on-year -11.98% -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 2,050 1,547 2,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.13% 11.49% 12.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,350 1,042 1,489
10th Percentile £313 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £671 £763
90th Percentile £709 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 24 25
10th Percentile £19.03 £24.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £23.00 £26.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £28.40 £33.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -15.24% +40.76% -49.89%
75th Percentile £41.56 £53.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £73.23 £88.38 £75.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £42.27 £38.00
% change year-on-year -23.11% +11.24% -20.00%

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 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 30 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 -15 18 £538 -11.56% 4
West London -15 4 £625 +22.07% 5
South London - 2 £558 - 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 94 (58.75%) Apache Spark
2 70 (43.75%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.88%) CloudStack
3 3 (1.88%) nginx
4 1 (0.63%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (0.63%) IIS
4 1 (0.63%) JBoss
4 1 (0.63%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.63%) Luigi
4 1 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.63%) SAS
4 1 (0.63%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Magento
1 1 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.63%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 80 (50.00%) AWS
2 76 (47.50%) Azure
3 54 (33.75%) GCP
4 39 (24.38%) dbt
5 25 (15.63%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (15.00%) Snowflake
7 23 (14.38%) Amazon S3
8 20 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
9 16 (10.00%) Power Platform
10 14 (8.75%) GitHub
11 13 (8.13%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (8.13%) Serverless
12 12 (7.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 10 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (5.63%) Azure Databricks
15 7 (4.38%) Amazon Kinesis
15 7 (4.38%) SaaS
16 6 (3.75%) AWS CloudFormation
16 6 (3.75%) Cloud Composer
17 5 (3.13%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.38%) DNS
2 3 (1.88%) Firewall
2 3 (1.88%) HTTPS
3 2 (1.25%) NAS
3 2 (1.25%) Network Security
3 2 (1.25%) SAN
3 2 (1.25%) SSL
3 2 (1.25%) VLAN
3 2 (1.25%) VXLAN
4 1 (0.63%) FTP
4 1 (0.63%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.63%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (26.88%) Data Warehouse
2 31 (19.38%) Data Lake
3 30 (18.75%) BigQuery
4 29 (18.13%) Delta Lake
5 23 (14.38%) Metadata
6 22 (13.75%) Big Data
7 21 (13.13%) Flink
8 15 (9.38%) Power BI
9 14 (8.75%) PostgreSQL
10 13 (8.13%) Amazon Redshift
10 13 (8.13%) Apache Iceberg
11 12 (7.50%) NoSQL
11 12 (7.50%) Relational Database
12 11 (6.88%) Amazon Athena
13 10 (6.25%) Hadoop
14 9 (5.63%) SQL Server
15 8 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
15 8 (5.00%) Spark SQL
16 6 (3.75%) Looker
16 6 (3.75%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 24 (15.00%) Git
2 8 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 7 (4.38%) GitLab
4 6 (3.75%) SonarQube
5 5 (3.13%) Maven
6 4 (2.50%) Gradle
6 4 (2.50%) JIRA
7 2 (1.25%) JMeter
7 2 (1.25%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.63%) MLflow
8 1 (0.63%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.63%) Selenium
8 1 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 52 (32.50%) Finance
2 34 (21.25%) Social Skills
3 20 (12.50%) Banking
4 18 (11.25%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (8.13%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.50%) Billing
6 4 (2.50%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.88%) Legal
8 2 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.25%) Law
8 2 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.63%) Front Office
9 1 (0.63%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.63%) Marketing
9 1 (0.63%) Publishing
9 1 (0.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 79 (49.38%) Data Engineer
2 35 (21.88%) Senior
3 33 (20.63%) Architect
4 24 (15.00%) Senior Data Engineer
5 19 (11.88%) Lead
6 16 (10.00%) Developer
7 13 (8.13%) Databricks Engineer
8 12 (7.50%) Data Architect
8 12 (7.50%) Java Developer
9 11 (6.88%) Databricks Data Engineer
9 11 (6.88%) Lead Data Engineer
10 10 (6.25%) Python Data Engineer
10 10 (6.25%) Python Engineer
11 7 (4.38%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (4.38%) Technical Leader
12 6 (3.75%) Senior Developer
12 6 (3.75%) Senior Java Developer
12 6 (3.75%) Snowflake Engineer
13 5 (3.13%) Principal Data Engineer
13 5 (3.13%) Senior Databricks Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (30.63%) Kafka
2 48 (30.00%) PySpark
3 32 (20.00%) Terraform
4 15 (9.38%) REST
5 12 (7.50%) JSON
5 12 (7.50%) Spring
5 12 (7.50%) Spring Boot
6 11 (6.88%) Apache Beam
7 6 (3.75%) Spark Streaming
8 5 (3.13%) GraphQL
8 5 (3.13%) Great Expectations
8 5 (3.13%) SOAP
9 4 (2.50%) Apache NiFi
9 4 (2.50%) LangChain
9 4 (2.50%) Spring Cloud
10 3 (1.88%) Apache Avro
10 3 (1.88%) JSON-LD
10 3 (1.88%) NetworkX
10 3 (1.88%) Protocol Buffers
10 3 (1.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (19.38%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 9 (5.63%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.38%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.75%) Data Structures
6 5 (3.13%) AI Agents
6 5 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (3.13%) Public Cloud
6 5 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (2.50%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.88%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.88%) Data Fabric
8 3 (1.88%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.88%) Taxonomies
9 2 (1.25%) Clustering
9 2 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.25%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.25%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 23 (14.38%) Linux
2 11 (6.88%) Unix
3 5 (3.13%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.88%) Windows
5 2 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.63%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.63%) CentOS
6 1 (0.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (53.75%) Data Pipeline
2 76 (47.50%) CI/CD
3 71 (44.38%) Data Engineering
4 64 (40.00%) ETL
5 62 (38.75%) DevOps
6 61 (38.13%) Analytics
6 61 (38.13%) Data Modelling
7 50 (31.25%) Agile
8 43 (26.88%) AI
9 38 (23.75%) Machine Learning
10 36 (22.50%) Lakehouse
11 33 (20.63%) Data Architecture
11 33 (20.63%) Data Governance
12 30 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
12 30 (18.75%) Migration
13 29 (18.13%) Containerisation
14 27 (16.88%) Data Transformation
15 25 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
16 24 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
17 23 (14.38%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 111 (69.38%) Python
2 105 (65.63%) SQL
3 38 (23.75%) Java
4 23 (14.38%) Scala
5 17 (10.63%) Shell Script
6 10 (6.25%) Bash
7 7 (4.38%) R
8 6 (3.75%) Go
9 5 (3.13%) C#
10 4 (2.50%) Perl
10 4 (2.50%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.88%) Cypher
11 3 (1.88%) Gremlin
11 3 (1.88%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.88%) Ruby
11 3 (1.88%) SPARQL
11 3 (1.88%) TypeScript
12 2 (1.25%) PHP
12 2 (1.25%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.63%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 30 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 28 (17.50%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.88%) Degree
4 9 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.88%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.25%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.25%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.25%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.25%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.63%) CCNP
7 1 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.63%) MBA
7 1 (0.63%) PhD
7 1 (0.63%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.63%) PMP
7 1 (0.63%) RHCSA
7 1 (0.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (38.75%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.63%) GDPR
3 8 (5.00%) QA
4 4 (2.50%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.88%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.63%) SLA
System Software
1 47 (29.38%) Docker
2 6 (3.75%) NFS
2 6 (3.75%) Varnish
3 5 (3.13%) Postfix
4 3 (1.88%) Sendmail
5 2 (1.25%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.25%) Ceph
5 2 (1.25%) KVM
5 2 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 49 (30.63%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.63%) Ansible
3 5 (3.13%) HAProxy
4 3 (1.88%) Grafana
4 3 (1.88%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.88%) Puppet
5 2 (1.25%) Control-M
5 2 (1.25%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.25%) SELinux
6 1 (0.63%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.63%) Check_MK
6 1 (0.63%) Kibana
6 1 (0.63%) systemd
Vendors
1 47 (29.38%) Databricks
2 22 (13.75%) Google
3 21 (13.13%) Microsoft
4 8 (5.00%) Cloudera
4 8 (5.00%) Informatica
5 6 (3.75%) Splunk
6 5 (3.13%) Confluent
6 5 (3.13%) New Relic
7 4 (2.50%) Guidewire
7 4 (2.50%) Hortonworks
7 4 (2.50%) Oracle
8 3 (1.88%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.88%) Talend
8 3 (1.88%) Teradata
9 2 (1.25%) Cisco
9 2 (1.25%) Foundry
9 2 (1.25%) Hitachi
9 2 (1.25%) SAP
9 2 (1.25%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.25%) VMware