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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 188 204
Rank change year-on-year -84 +16 +34
Contract jobs citing Apache 118 173 192
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.79% 1.29% 1.04%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.73% 10.68% 9.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 138 162
10th Percentile £439 £460 £407
25th Percentile £500 £550 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £675 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +22.73% -15.38%
75th Percentile £688 £838 £788
90th Percentile £825 £888 -
England median daily rate £525 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -19.23% +18.18% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
England median hourly rate £80.50 £74.44 £41.50
% change year-on-year +8.14% +79.37% -9.61%

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 1,527 1,620 2,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.18% 12.04% 10.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,058 1,000 1,455
10th Percentile £339 £308 £263
25th Percentile £415 £408 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £625
90th Percentile £738 £810 £750
England median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 11 33
10th Percentile - £19.95 £17.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £23.80 £22.00
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% +20.69% +24.38%
75th Percentile £39.38 £40.46 £32.50
90th Percentile £89.87 £41.91 £48.17
England median hourly rate £27.21 £42.50 £25.50
% change year-on-year -35.98% +66.67% +15.91%

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 10 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 10 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 -3 15 £603 - 1
Central London -10 11 £575 -14.81% 6
South London -8 2 £507 -13.66%
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 58 (49.15%) Apache Spark
2 37 (31.36%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (5.93%) Confluence
4 6 (5.08%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (1.69%) Apache Pig
5 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.69%) nginx
5 2 (1.69%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (1.69%) SAS
5 2 (1.69%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.69%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.85%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.85%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.85%) Luigi
Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Actimize
1 1 (0.85%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 61 (51.69%) AWS
2 51 (43.22%) Azure
3 33 (27.97%) GCP
4 25 (21.19%) Amazon S3
5 23 (19.49%) Serverless
6 22 (18.64%) Power Platform
7 20 (16.95%) AWS CloudFormation
8 19 (16.10%) dbt
9 18 (15.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 15 (12.71%) Collibra
11 14 (11.86%) Amazon SQS
11 14 (11.86%) Snowflake
12 13 (11.02%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (7.63%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (5.93%) AWS Lambda
15 5 (4.24%) AWS Data Pipeline
16 4 (3.39%) GitHub
16 4 (3.39%) GitHub Actions
17 3 (2.54%) AWS Step Functions
17 3 (2.54%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.54%) Firewall
2 2 (1.69%) DNS
2 2 (1.69%) HTTP
2 2 (1.69%) SSL
3 1 (0.85%) DHCP
3 1 (0.85%) InfiniBand
3 1 (0.85%) iSCSI
3 1 (0.85%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.85%) LAN
3 1 (0.85%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (0.85%) SSH
3 1 (0.85%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.85%) VLAN
3 1 (0.85%) VPN
3 1 (0.85%) WAN
3 1 (0.85%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (30.51%) Data Lake
2 27 (22.88%) Amazon Athena
3 22 (18.64%) Big Data
3 22 (18.64%) Power BI
4 21 (17.80%) BigQuery
5 15 (12.71%) Hadoop
6 14 (11.86%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (11.86%) Mixpanel
7 13 (11.02%) OLAP
7 13 (11.02%) OLTP
8 11 (9.32%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (9.32%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (8.47%) Apache Iceberg
10 9 (7.63%) Delta Lake
10 9 (7.63%) NoSQL
11 8 (6.78%) Apache Arrow
11 8 (6.78%) Apache Ignite
11 8 (6.78%) Dremio
11 8 (6.78%) Metadata
11 8 (6.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (13.56%) Git
2 12 (10.17%) JIRA
3 4 (3.39%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.39%) Mockito
4 3 (2.54%) JUnit
4 3 (2.54%) Liquibase
4 3 (2.54%) MLflow
5 2 (1.69%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.69%) GitLab
5 2 (1.69%) Maven
6 1 (0.85%) ERwin
6 1 (0.85%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.85%) Selenium
6 1 (0.85%) Storybook
General
1 26 (22.03%) Finance
2 22 (18.64%) Social Skills
3 14 (11.86%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (10.17%) Banking
5 9 (7.63%) Investment Banking
5 9 (7.63%) Public Sector
6 8 (6.78%) Front Office
7 3 (2.54%) Billing
8 2 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.85%) Electronics
9 1 (0.85%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.85%) Law
9 1 (0.85%) Legal
9 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.85%) Marketing
9 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (42.37%) Data Engineer
2 25 (21.19%) Software Engineer
3 22 (18.64%) Senior
4 13 (11.02%) Principal Engineer
5 12 (10.17%) AWS Engineer
5 12 (10.17%) Principal Data Engineer
5 12 (10.17%) Senior Software Engineer
6 10 (8.47%) Lead
6 10 (8.47%) Python Engineer
7 8 (6.78%) AWS Software Engineer
7 8 (6.78%) Data Analytics Engineer
7 8 (6.78%) Developer
7 8 (6.78%) Java Engineer
7 8 (6.78%) Java Software Engineer
7 8 (6.78%) Principal Software Engineer
7 8 (6.78%) Python Software Engineer
8 7 (5.93%) Senior Data Engineer
8 7 (5.93%) Senior Java Engineer
8 7 (5.93%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 6 (5.08%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (31.36%) Kafka
2 17 (14.41%) Apache NiFi
3 14 (11.86%) Great Expectations
3 14 (11.86%) PySpark
4 12 (10.17%) NumPy
4 12 (10.17%) Pandas
5 9 (7.63%) React
5 9 (7.63%) REST
6 8 (6.78%) gRPC
6 8 (6.78%) Protocol Buffers
6 8 (6.78%) SciPy
7 6 (5.08%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (4.24%) .NET
8 5 (4.24%) Node.js
9 4 (3.39%) Spark Streaming
10 3 (2.54%) Apache Beam
10 3 (2.54%) GraphQL
10 3 (2.54%) RAML
10 3 (2.54%) SOAP
10 3 (2.54%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 22 (18.64%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.47%) Equities
3 8 (6.78%) Derivative
3 8 (6.78%) Fixed Income
3 8 (6.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (6.78%) Hedge funds
3 8 (6.78%) Pricing Data
4 4 (3.39%) Algorithms
4 4 (3.39%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.54%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (2.54%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.69%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.85%) Podcast
7 1 (0.85%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.85%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.85%) Replication
7 1 (0.85%) Social Media
7 1 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.17%) Linux
2 5 (4.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (4.24%) Unix
3 3 (2.54%) CentOS
3 3 (2.54%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.85%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (43.22%) CI/CD
2 49 (41.53%) ETL
3 45 (38.14%) DevOps
4 44 (37.29%) Analytics
5 41 (34.75%) Data Modelling
6 38 (32.20%) Data Engineering
7 37 (31.36%) Agile
8 36 (30.51%) Software Engineering
9 35 (29.66%) Data Pipeline
10 31 (26.27%) Machine Learning
11 29 (24.58%) AI
11 29 (24.58%) Data Governance
12 26 (22.03%) Data Architecture
12 26 (22.03%) Infrastructure as Code
13 25 (21.19%) Business Intelligence
14 24 (20.34%) Observability
15 21 (17.80%) Problem-Solving
16 18 (15.25%) Batch Processing
17 16 (13.56%) Data Privacy
17 16 (13.56%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 80 (67.80%) Python
2 61 (51.69%) SQL
3 32 (27.12%) Java
4 21 (17.80%) C#
5 18 (15.25%) Scala
6 17 (14.41%) JavaScript
7 11 (9.32%) TypeScript
8 5 (4.24%) C++
9 4 (3.39%) Bash
10 3 (2.54%) R
11 2 (1.69%) Perl
11 2 (1.69%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.85%) C
12 1 (0.85%) Go
12 1 (0.85%) Korn
12 1 (0.85%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.85%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.85%) SPARQL
12 1 (0.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (27.12%) Security Cleared
2 24 (20.34%) SC Cleared
3 18 (15.25%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.69%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.69%) RHCE
6 1 (0.85%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.85%) CCNA
6 1 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.85%) Degree
6 1 (0.85%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (26.27%) Data Quality
2 20 (16.95%) GDPR
3 2 (1.69%) QA
4 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.85%) IFRS
4 1 (0.85%) IFRS 17
4 1 (0.85%) MiFID
4 1 (0.85%) Solvency II
System Software
1 13 (11.02%) Docker
2 4 (3.39%) HDFS
3 1 (0.85%) Ceph
3 1 (0.85%) iptables
3 1 (0.85%) KVM
3 1 (0.85%) Lustre
3 1 (0.85%) NFS
3 1 (0.85%) Samba
3 1 (0.85%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 29 (24.58%) Terraform
2 14 (11.86%) Kubernetes
3 6 (5.08%) Ansible
4 3 (2.54%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.69%) Nagios
5 2 (1.69%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.85%) Argo
6 1 (0.85%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.85%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.85%) SELinux
6 1 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (25.42%) Databricks
2 16 (13.56%) Google
3 8 (6.78%) Oracle
4 6 (5.08%) Cloudera
4 6 (5.08%) Foundry
4 6 (5.08%) Palantir
4 6 (5.08%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.39%) Informatica
5 4 (3.39%) Microsoft
5 4 (3.39%) Splunk
6 3 (2.54%) Guidewire
6 3 (2.54%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.69%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.69%) SAP
8 1 (0.85%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.85%) Cisco
8 1 (0.85%) Facebook
8 1 (0.85%) Sybase
8 1 (0.85%) Veritas
8 1 (0.85%) VMware