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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 173 148
Rank change year-on-year -108 -25 +63
Contract jobs citing Apache 131 198 294
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.74% 1.59% 1.67%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.91% 13.65% 14.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 169 266
10th Percentile £438 £450 £416
25th Percentile £512 £556 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £750 £706
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% +6.19% +8.65%
75th Percentile £663 £838 £850
90th Percentile £768 £875 £888
England median daily rate £525 £675 £625
% change year-on-year -22.22% +8.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
England median hourly rate £80.50 £78.70 £50.25
% change year-on-year +2.29% +56.62% -35.58%

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 1,656 1,451 2,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.33% 11.62% 11.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,104 977 1,494
10th Percentile £363 £355 £263
25th Percentile £425 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £650
90th Percentile £725 £830 £825
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 9 27
10th Percentile £15.35 £25.56 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.65 £26.04 £22.00
Median hourly rate £24.16 £27.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.54% -5.26% -18.57%
75th Percentile £28.78 £50.00 £36.50
90th Percentile £66.53 £53.75 £60.50
England median hourly rate £27.50 £52.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year -47.62% +98.11% -33.75%

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 12 May 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 12 May 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 -12 15 £603 +17.68%
Central London -26 12 £575 -10.19% 10
South London -14 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 82 (62.60%) Apache Spark
2 33 (25.19%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.29%) Confluence
3 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.29%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (1.53%) Apache Synapse
4 2 (1.53%) nginx
5 1 (0.76%) SAS
5 1 (0.76%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Actimize
1 1 (0.76%) Magento
1 1 (0.76%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.76%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 66 (50.38%) Azure
2 64 (48.85%) AWS
3 39 (29.77%) GCP
4 29 (22.14%) Amazon S3
5 22 (16.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 21 (16.03%) AWS CloudFormation
6 21 (16.03%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (15.27%) Power Platform
8 17 (12.98%) Collibra
9 16 (12.21%) Amazon SQS
10 15 (11.45%) Serverless
11 10 (7.63%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (7.63%) Azure Data Factory
11 10 (7.63%) dbt
11 10 (7.63%) GitHub
12 9 (6.87%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (4.58%) Snowflake
14 5 (3.82%) AWS Step Functions
14 5 (3.82%) Azure Key Vault
15 4 (3.05%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.58%) DNS
2 3 (2.29%) Firewall
3 2 (1.53%) FTP
3 2 (1.53%) Network Security
4 1 (0.76%) 4G
4 1 (0.76%) 5G
4 1 (0.76%) DHCP
4 1 (0.76%) InfiniBand
4 1 (0.76%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.76%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.76%) LAN
4 1 (0.76%) NAS
4 1 (0.76%) SAN
4 1 (0.76%) Spanning Tree
4 1 (0.76%) SSH
4 1 (0.76%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.76%) VLAN
4 1 (0.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (26.72%) Data Lake
2 25 (19.08%) Big Data
3 22 (16.79%) Amazon Athena
4 21 (16.03%) BigQuery
5 18 (13.74%) Power BI
6 16 (12.21%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (12.21%) Flink
6 16 (12.21%) Mixpanel
7 15 (11.45%) OLAP
7 15 (11.45%) OLTP
8 13 (9.92%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (9.16%) Delta Lake
9 12 (9.16%) Hadoop
9 12 (9.16%) NoSQL
10 10 (7.63%) SQL Server
11 9 (6.87%) Metadata
11 9 (6.87%) MongoDB
12 8 (6.11%) Relational Database
13 7 (5.34%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (4.58%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 29 (22.14%) Git
2 14 (10.69%) JIRA
3 9 (6.87%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.58%) Maven
5 5 (3.82%) SonarQube
6 4 (3.05%) Gradle
6 4 (3.05%) MLflow
7 2 (1.53%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.53%) GitLab
7 2 (1.53%) Mockito
7 2 (1.53%) Selenium
8 1 (0.76%) JUnit
8 1 (0.76%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.76%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.76%) Storybook
General
1 38 (29.01%) Finance
2 20 (15.27%) Social Skills
3 18 (13.74%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (7.63%) Banking
5 8 (6.11%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.34%) Billing
7 3 (2.29%) Front Office
7 3 (2.29%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.76%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.76%) Law
8 1 (0.76%) Marketing
8 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (45.04%) Data Engineer
2 23 (17.56%) Developer
3 20 (15.27%) Senior
4 18 (13.74%) Lead
5 16 (12.21%) Architect
5 16 (12.21%) Principal Engineer
6 15 (11.45%) Principal Data Engineer
7 14 (10.69%) Java Developer
8 11 (8.40%) Lead Data Engineer
8 11 (8.40%) Software Engineer
9 10 (7.63%) Senior Data Engineer
10 6 (4.58%) Principal Software Engineer
10 6 (4.58%) Senior Developer
10 6 (4.58%) Senior Java Developer
11 5 (3.82%) Big Data Engineer
11 5 (3.82%) Data Analytics Engineer
12 4 (3.05%) AWS Data Engineer
12 4 (3.05%) Azure Architect
12 4 (3.05%) Hadoop Engineer
12 4 (3.05%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (32.82%) Kafka
2 26 (19.85%) PySpark
3 18 (13.74%) Great Expectations
4 14 (10.69%) Spring
5 11 (8.40%) JSON
5 11 (8.40%) REST
5 11 (8.40%) Spring Boot
6 7 (5.34%) SOAP
7 6 (4.58%) Apache NiFi
8 4 (3.05%) Apache Beam
8 4 (3.05%) React
8 4 (3.05%) Spring Cloud
9 3 (2.29%) Apache Avro
9 3 (2.29%) LAMP
9 3 (2.29%) NumPy
9 3 (2.29%) Pandas
9 3 (2.29%) Protocol Buffers
9 3 (2.29%) Web Services
10 2 (1.53%) Node.js
10 2 (1.53%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 31 (23.66%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.58%) Management Information System
3 5 (3.82%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (3.82%) Public Cloud
3 5 (3.82%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (3.05%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (3.05%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.05%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.05%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.29%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (1.53%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.53%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.53%) Equities
6 2 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.53%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.76%) Clustering
7 1 (0.76%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.76%) FMCG
7 1 (0.76%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 18 (13.74%) Linux
2 13 (9.92%) Unix
3 1 (0.76%) CentOS
3 1 (0.76%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (48.09%) CI/CD
2 54 (41.22%) DevOps
3 50 (38.17%) Data Modelling
3 50 (38.17%) ETL
4 49 (37.40%) Analytics
4 49 (37.40%) Data Engineering
5 47 (35.88%) Data Pipeline
6 42 (32.06%) AI
7 37 (28.24%) Machine Learning
8 30 (22.90%) Infrastructure as Code
8 30 (22.90%) Observability
9 29 (22.14%) Data Governance
10 28 (21.37%) Agile
11 27 (20.61%) Data Architecture
12 23 (17.56%) Containerisation
12 23 (17.56%) Problem-Solving
12 23 (17.56%) Software Engineering
13 21 (16.03%) Batch Processing
14 20 (15.27%) Business Intelligence
14 20 (15.27%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 85 (64.89%) SQL
2 80 (61.07%) Python
3 37 (28.24%) Java
4 21 (16.03%) Scala
5 18 (13.74%) C#
6 9 (6.87%) Shell Script
7 7 (5.34%) R
8 6 (4.58%) Bash
9 5 (3.82%) Perl
10 4 (3.05%) TypeScript
11 3 (2.29%) JavaScript
11 3 (2.29%) PHP
11 3 (2.29%) Ruby
12 1 (0.76%) C
12 1 (0.76%) C++
12 1 (0.76%) Go
12 1 (0.76%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.76%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (24.43%) Security Cleared
2 27 (20.61%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.58%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.82%) Degree
5 4 (3.05%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.53%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.76%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.76%) CCNA
7 1 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.76%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (29.01%) Data Quality
2 18 (13.74%) GDPR
3 4 (3.05%) QA
4 1 (0.76%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.76%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.76%) MiFID
System Software
1 24 (18.32%) Docker
2 6 (4.58%) NFS
2 6 (4.58%) Varnish
3 5 (3.82%) Postfix
4 4 (3.05%) Sendmail
5 2 (1.53%) HDFS
6 1 (0.76%) Ceph
6 1 (0.76%) iptables
6 1 (0.76%) KVM
6 1 (0.76%) Lustre
6 1 (0.76%) Samba
6 1 (0.76%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (22.90%) Terraform
2 28 (21.37%) Kubernetes
3 6 (4.58%) Ansible
3 6 (4.58%) HAProxy
4 1 (0.76%) Grafana
4 1 (0.76%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.76%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.76%) Puppet
4 1 (0.76%) SELinux
Vendors
1 36 (27.48%) Databricks
2 20 (15.27%) Google
3 8 (6.11%) Cloudera
4 7 (5.34%) Microsoft
4 7 (5.34%) ServiceNow
5 6 (4.58%) Guidewire
6 5 (3.82%) Confluent
6 5 (3.82%) Informatica
7 4 (3.05%) Hortonworks
8 3 (2.29%) Foundry
8 3 (2.29%) Oracle
8 3 (2.29%) Palantir
9 1 (0.76%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.76%) Cisco
9 1 (0.76%) Hitachi
9 1 (0.76%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.76%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.76%) SAP
9 1 (0.76%) Sybase
9 1 (0.76%) Veritas