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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 191 212
Rank change year-on-year -98 +21 +24
Contract jobs citing Apache 116 173 193
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.74% 1.28% 1.05%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.50% 10.69% 9.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 138 165
10th Percentile £436 £454 £400
25th Percentile £500 £541 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £675 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +22.73% -15.38%
75th Percentile £678 £838 £788
90th Percentile £787 £888 -
England median daily rate £525 £675 £530
% change year-on-year -22.22% +27.36% -15.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
England median hourly rate £80.50 £74.44 £30.50
% change year-on-year +8.14% +144.07% +74.59%

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 1,547 1,619 2,004
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.89% 11.95% 10.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,070 1,012 1,435
10th Percentile £348 £308 £262
25th Percentile £415 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £625 £655 £625
90th Percentile £738 £810 £750
England median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 11 32
10th Percentile - £19.95 £17.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £23.80 £22.00
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% +16.67% +32.57%
75th Percentile £39.38 £40.46 £34.38
90th Percentile £89.87 £41.91 £48.63
England median hourly rate £27.21 £47.50 £25.75
% change year-on-year -42.72% +84.47% +17.05%

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 20 February 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 20 February 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 -6 16 £603 -
Central London -13 10 £575 -10.16% 7
South London -14 2 £507 -13.66% 2
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 59 (50.86%) Apache Spark
2 31 (26.72%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (6.03%) Confluence
4 6 (5.17%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (1.72%) Apache Pig
5 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.72%) nginx
5 2 (1.72%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (1.72%) SAS
5 2 (1.72%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.72%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.86%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.86%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.86%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Actimize
1 1 (0.86%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 59 (50.86%) AWS
2 51 (43.97%) Azure
3 35 (30.17%) GCP
4 26 (22.41%) Amazon S3
5 25 (21.55%) Serverless
6 23 (19.83%) Power Platform
7 22 (18.97%) AWS CloudFormation
8 19 (16.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 16 (13.79%) Collibra
9 16 (13.79%) dbt
10 15 (12.93%) Amazon SQS
11 14 (12.07%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (10.34%) Snowflake
13 9 (7.76%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (6.90%) Azure Data Factory
15 5 (4.31%) AWS Data Pipeline
15 5 (4.31%) AWS Step Functions
15 5 (4.31%) GitHub
15 5 (4.31%) GitHub Actions
16 3 (2.59%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.59%) Firewall
2 2 (1.72%) DNS
2 2 (1.72%) HTTP
2 2 (1.72%) SSL
3 1 (0.86%) 4G
3 1 (0.86%) 5G
3 1 (0.86%) DHCP
3 1 (0.86%) InfiniBand
3 1 (0.86%) iSCSI
3 1 (0.86%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.86%) LAN
3 1 (0.86%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (0.86%) SSH
3 1 (0.86%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.86%) VLAN
3 1 (0.86%) VPN
3 1 (0.86%) WAN
3 1 (0.86%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (28.45%) Data Lake
2 26 (22.41%) Amazon Athena
3 23 (19.83%) Power BI
4 22 (18.97%) Big Data
4 22 (18.97%) BigQuery
5 15 (12.93%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (12.93%) Hadoop
5 15 (12.93%) Mixpanel
6 14 (12.07%) OLAP
6 14 (12.07%) OLTP
7 11 (9.48%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (9.48%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (7.76%) Metadata
9 8 (6.90%) NoSQL
9 8 (6.90%) Relational Database
10 7 (6.03%) Apache Iceberg
10 7 (6.03%) Delta Lake
10 7 (6.03%) MongoDB
10 7 (6.03%) SQL Server
11 6 (5.17%) Apache Ignite
Development Applications
1 19 (16.38%) Git
2 13 (11.21%) JIRA
3 5 (4.31%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.45%) Mockito
5 3 (2.59%) JUnit
5 3 (2.59%) Liquibase
5 3 (2.59%) MLflow
6 2 (1.72%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.72%) GitLab
6 2 (1.72%) Maven
7 1 (0.86%) ERwin
7 1 (0.86%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.86%) Selenium
7 1 (0.86%) Storybook
General
1 24 (20.69%) Finance
2 22 (18.97%) Social Skills
3 15 (12.93%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.62%) Banking
5 9 (7.76%) Public Sector
6 7 (6.03%) Investment Banking
7 6 (5.17%) Front Office
8 5 (4.31%) Billing
9 2 (1.72%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.86%) Electronics
10 1 (0.86%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.86%) Law
10 1 (0.86%) Legal
10 1 (0.86%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.86%) Marketing
10 1 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (44.83%) Data Engineer
2 22 (18.97%) Software Engineer
3 21 (18.10%) Senior
4 14 (12.07%) Principal Engineer
5 13 (11.21%) Principal Data Engineer
6 12 (10.34%) Lead
7 11 (9.48%) AWS Engineer
8 10 (8.62%) Developer
9 9 (7.76%) Senior Software Engineer
10 8 (6.90%) Data Analytics Engineer
10 8 (6.90%) Principal Software Engineer
10 8 (6.90%) Senior Data Engineer
11 7 (6.03%) Python Engineer
12 6 (5.17%) Architect
12 6 (5.17%) Lead Data Engineer
13 5 (4.31%) AWS Data Engineer
13 5 (4.31%) AWS Software Engineer
13 5 (4.31%) Java Engineer
13 5 (4.31%) Java Software Engineer
13 5 (4.31%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (33.62%) Kafka
2 17 (14.66%) Apache NiFi
3 15 (12.93%) Great Expectations
4 12 (10.34%) PySpark
5 9 (7.76%) NumPy
5 9 (7.76%) Pandas
5 9 (7.76%) React
5 9 (7.76%) REST
6 6 (5.17%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (4.31%) .NET
7 5 (4.31%) gRPC
7 5 (4.31%) Protocol Buffers
7 5 (4.31%) SciPy
8 4 (3.45%) Node.js
8 4 (3.45%) SOAP
8 4 (3.45%) Spring
9 3 (2.59%) JSON
9 3 (2.59%) Middleware
9 3 (2.59%) RAML
9 3 (2.59%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 24 (20.69%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.03%) Equities
3 5 (4.31%) Derivative
3 5 (4.31%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.31%) Fixed Income
3 5 (4.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (4.31%) Hedge funds
3 5 (4.31%) Pricing Data
4 4 (3.45%) Algorithms
4 4 (3.45%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.45%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.59%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.72%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.72%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.72%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.86%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.86%) Autonomous Agent
7 1 (0.86%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.86%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.34%) Linux
2 5 (4.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (4.31%) Unix
3 3 (2.59%) CentOS
3 3 (2.59%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.86%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (44.83%) CI/CD
2 47 (40.52%) ETL
3 46 (39.66%) Analytics
3 46 (39.66%) DevOps
4 43 (37.07%) Data Modelling
5 42 (36.21%) Data Engineering
6 35 (30.17%) Data Pipeline
7 33 (28.45%) Agile
7 33 (28.45%) Machine Learning
7 33 (28.45%) Software Engineering
8 31 (26.72%) AI
8 31 (26.72%) Data Governance
9 27 (23.28%) Data Architecture
9 27 (23.28%) Infrastructure as Code
10 26 (22.41%) Business Intelligence
11 24 (20.69%) Observability
12 21 (18.10%) Problem-Solving
13 20 (17.24%) Batch Processing
14 17 (14.66%) Disaster Recovery
14 17 (14.66%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 75 (64.66%) Python
2 62 (53.45%) SQL
3 30 (25.86%) Java
4 22 (18.97%) C#
5 18 (15.52%) Scala
6 14 (12.07%) JavaScript
7 8 (6.90%) TypeScript
8 5 (4.31%) C++
9 4 (3.45%) Bash
10 3 (2.59%) R
11 2 (1.72%) Perl
11 2 (1.72%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.86%) C
12 1 (0.86%) Go
12 1 (0.86%) Korn
12 1 (0.86%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.86%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (25.86%) Security Cleared
2 23 (19.83%) SC Cleared
3 18 (15.52%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.72%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.72%) RHCE
6 1 (0.86%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.86%) CCNA
6 1 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.86%) Degree
6 1 (0.86%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.86%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (28.45%) Data Quality
2 20 (17.24%) GDPR
3 2 (1.72%) QA
4 1 (0.86%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.86%) IFRS
4 1 (0.86%) IFRS 17
4 1 (0.86%) MiFID
4 1 (0.86%) Solvency II
System Software
1 12 (10.34%) Docker
2 4 (3.45%) HDFS
3 1 (0.86%) Ceph
3 1 (0.86%) iptables
3 1 (0.86%) KVM
3 1 (0.86%) Lustre
3 1 (0.86%) NFS
3 1 (0.86%) Samba
3 1 (0.86%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 31 (26.72%) Terraform
2 13 (11.21%) Kubernetes
3 6 (5.17%) Ansible
4 3 (2.59%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.72%) Nagios
5 2 (1.72%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.86%) Argo
6 1 (0.86%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.86%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.86%) SELinux
6 1 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (25.86%) Databricks
2 18 (15.52%) Google
3 8 (6.90%) Oracle
4 7 (6.03%) ServiceNow
5 6 (5.17%) Cloudera
5 6 (5.17%) Foundry
5 6 (5.17%) Palantir
6 4 (3.45%) Guidewire
6 4 (3.45%) Informatica
6 4 (3.45%) Microsoft
6 4 (3.45%) Splunk
7 3 (2.59%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.72%) SAP
9 1 (0.86%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.86%) Cisco
9 1 (0.86%) Facebook
9 1 (0.86%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.86%) Sybase
9 1 (0.86%) Veritas
9 1 (0.86%) VMware