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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 210 108
Rank change year-on-year -84 -102 +119
Contract jobs citing Apache 164 167 384
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.81% 1.25% 2.37%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.95% 10.82% 18.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 124 348
10th Percentile £402 £456 £513
25th Percentile £463 £513 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £660 £800
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -17.50% +23.08%
75th Percentile £663 £825 £888
90th Percentile £775 - -
England median daily rate £513 £551 £781
% change year-on-year -6.99% -29.47% +30.21%

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 2,062 1,543 2,048
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.23% 11.56% 12.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,368 1,032 1,463
10th Percentile £313 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £668 £761
90th Percentile £711 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 24 27
10th Percentile £19.03 £24.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £22.83 £26.00 £21.50
Median hourly rate £28.40 £33.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.24% +17.54% -9.52%
75th Percentile £41.68 £53.75 £48.13
90th Percentile £73.30 £88.38 £75.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £41.45 £47.50
% change year-on-year -21.59% -12.74% +2.86%

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 14 September 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 14 September 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 20 £550 -4.35% 12
West London -21 2 £538 +4.98% 8
South London - 2 £558 - 4
East London - 1 £669 - 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 87 (53.05%) Apache Spark
2 79 (48.17%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.83%) CloudStack
3 3 (1.83%) nginx
4 1 (0.61%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (0.61%) Confluence
4 1 (0.61%) IIS
4 1 (0.61%) JBoss
4 1 (0.61%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.61%) Luigi
4 1 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.61%) SAS
4 1 (0.61%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Magento
1 1 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.61%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 88 (53.66%) AWS
2 73 (44.51%) Azure
3 60 (36.59%) GCP
4 47 (28.66%) dbt
5 31 (18.90%) Snowflake
6 25 (15.24%) Amazon S3
7 22 (13.41%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (11.59%) Azure Data Factory
9 15 (9.15%) Power Platform
10 13 (7.93%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (7.93%) Serverless
11 11 (6.71%) GitHub
12 9 (5.49%) Amazon Kinesis
12 9 (5.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 9 (5.49%) Cloud Composer
13 8 (4.88%) Azure Databricks
14 7 (4.27%) SaaS
15 6 (3.66%) AWS Step Functions
15 6 (3.66%) Dagster
15 6 (3.66%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.66%) DNS
2 3 (1.83%) Firewall
2 3 (1.83%) HTTPS
2 3 (1.83%) Network Security
2 3 (1.83%) SSL
3 2 (1.22%) NAS
3 2 (1.22%) SAN
3 2 (1.22%) VLAN
3 2 (1.22%) VXLAN
4 1 (0.61%) FTP
4 1 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.61%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (29.88%) Data Warehouse
2 35 (21.34%) BigQuery
3 28 (17.07%) Data Lake
4 27 (16.46%) Delta Lake
5 24 (14.63%) Metadata
6 23 (14.02%) Big Data
7 22 (13.41%) Flink
8 17 (10.37%) PostgreSQL
9 15 (9.15%) Amazon Redshift
9 15 (9.15%) Apache Iceberg
10 14 (8.54%) NoSQL
10 14 (8.54%) Power BI
10 14 (8.54%) Relational Database
11 12 (7.32%) Hadoop
12 11 (6.71%) SQL Server
13 9 (5.49%) Elasticsearch
14 8 (4.88%) Amazon Athena
14 8 (4.88%) MongoDB
15 7 (4.27%) Spark SQL
16 6 (3.66%) Looker
Development Applications
1 30 (18.29%) Git
2 7 (4.27%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.66%) GitLab
3 6 (3.66%) SonarQube
4 5 (3.05%) JIRA
4 5 (3.05%) Maven
5 4 (2.44%) Gradle
6 2 (1.22%) JMeter
6 2 (1.22%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.61%) MLflow
7 1 (0.61%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.61%) Selenium
7 1 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 51 (31.10%) Finance
2 39 (23.78%) Social Skills
3 23 (14.02%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (12.80%) Banking
5 13 (7.93%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.44%) Billing
6 4 (2.44%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.83%) Legal
7 3 (1.83%) Marketing
8 2 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.22%) Law
8 2 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.22%) Publishing
8 2 (1.22%) Retail
9 1 (0.61%) Automotive
9 1 (0.61%) Front Office
9 1 (0.61%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.61%) Local Government
9 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 83 (50.61%) Data Engineer
2 38 (23.17%) Senior
3 33 (20.12%) Architect
4 27 (16.46%) Senior Data Engineer
5 18 (10.98%) Lead
6 15 (9.15%) Databricks Engineer
7 14 (8.54%) Data Architect
8 13 (7.93%) Databricks Data Engineer
9 12 (7.32%) Developer
10 11 (6.71%) Python Data Engineer
10 11 (6.71%) Python Engineer
11 9 (5.49%) Lead Data Engineer
12 8 (4.88%) Java Developer
13 7 (4.27%) Cloud Engineer
13 7 (4.27%) GCP Engineer
13 7 (4.27%) Snowflake Engineer
13 7 (4.27%) Technical Leader
14 6 (3.66%) Senior Databricks Data Engineer
14 6 (3.66%) Senior Developer
14 6 (3.66%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (29.88%) Kafka
2 48 (29.27%) PySpark
3 34 (20.73%) Terraform
4 14 (8.54%) REST
5 13 (7.93%) Apache Beam
6 12 (7.32%) Spring
6 12 (7.32%) Spring Boot
7 9 (5.49%) Apache NiFi
7 9 (5.49%) JSON
8 6 (3.66%) SOAP
8 6 (3.66%) Spark Streaming
9 5 (3.05%) GraphQL
10 4 (2.44%) Apache Avro
10 4 (2.44%) LangChain
10 4 (2.44%) Spring Cloud
11 3 (1.83%) Great Expectations
11 3 (1.83%) JSON-LD
11 3 (1.83%) NetworkX
11 3 (1.83%) Pandas
11 3 (1.83%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 30 (18.29%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.10%) Management Information System
2 10 (6.10%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.88%) Data Structures
4 6 (3.66%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.05%) AI Agents
5 5 (3.05%) Clustering
5 5 (3.05%) Data Fabric
6 4 (2.44%) Distributed Architecture
6 4 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.44%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.83%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.83%) Distributed Applications
7 3 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.83%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.22%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.22%) Life Science
8 2 (1.22%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (11.59%) Linux
2 8 (4.88%) Unix
3 5 (3.05%) Ubuntu
4 4 (2.44%) Windows
5 2 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.22%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.61%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.61%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (53.66%) Data Pipeline
2 77 (46.95%) CI/CD
3 74 (45.12%) Data Engineering
4 69 (42.07%) ETL
5 63 (38.41%) Data Modelling
6 62 (37.80%) Analytics
7 56 (34.15%) DevOps
8 52 (31.71%) Agile
9 49 (29.88%) AI
10 40 (24.39%) Machine Learning
11 39 (23.78%) Lakehouse
12 38 (23.17%) Data Governance
13 32 (19.51%) Infrastructure as Code
14 30 (18.29%) Containerisation
15 29 (17.68%) Data Architecture
15 29 (17.68%) Data Transformation
15 29 (17.68%) Migration
16 27 (16.46%) Stakeholder Management
17 25 (15.24%) Data Science
18 24 (14.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 107 (65.24%) Python
2 103 (62.80%) SQL
3 34 (20.73%) Java
4 24 (14.63%) Scala
5 14 (8.54%) Shell Script
6 10 (6.10%) Bash
7 6 (3.66%) Go
8 4 (2.44%) Perl
8 4 (2.44%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.44%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.83%) C#
9 3 (1.83%) Cypher
9 3 (1.83%) Gremlin
9 3 (1.83%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.83%) R
9 3 (1.83%) Ruby
9 3 (1.83%) SPARQL
10 2 (1.22%) PHP
10 2 (1.22%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.61%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 29 (17.68%) Security Cleared
2 23 (14.02%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.71%) Degree
4 9 (5.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.66%) DV Cleared
6 5 (3.05%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.83%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.22%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.22%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.61%) CCNP
9 1 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.61%) MBA
9 1 (0.61%) PhD
9 1 (0.61%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.61%) PMP
9 1 (0.61%) RHCSA
9 1 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (39.63%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.49%) GDPR
3 7 (4.27%) QA
4 4 (2.44%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.83%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (1.22%) NCSC
7 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.61%) SLA
System Software
1 45 (27.44%) Docker
2 5 (3.05%) NFS
2 5 (3.05%) Varnish
3 4 (2.44%) Postfix
4 3 (1.83%) Sendmail
5 2 (1.22%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.22%) Ceph
5 2 (1.22%) KVM
5 2 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 47 (28.66%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.49%) Ansible
3 4 (2.44%) HAProxy
4 3 (1.83%) Grafana
4 3 (1.83%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.83%) Puppet
5 2 (1.22%) Control-M
5 2 (1.22%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.22%) SELinux
6 1 (0.61%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.61%) Check_MK
6 1 (0.61%) Kibana
6 1 (0.61%) systemd
Vendors
1 50 (30.49%) Databricks
2 26 (15.85%) Google
3 23 (14.02%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.88%) Informatica
5 6 (3.66%) Oracle
6 5 (3.05%) New Relic
6 5 (3.05%) Splunk
7 4 (2.44%) Cloudera
7 4 (2.44%) Confluent
7 4 (2.44%) Guidewire
7 4 (2.44%) Talend
8 3 (1.83%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.83%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.83%) Teradata
9 2 (1.22%) Cisco
9 2 (1.22%) Hitachi
9 2 (1.22%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.22%) SAP
9 2 (1.22%) Sybase
9 2 (1.22%) VMware