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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 176 221
Rank change year-on-year -92 +45 +19
Contract jobs citing Apache 116 183 185
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.78% 1.33% 1.01%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.64% 11.03% 9.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 144 157
10th Percentile £447 £450 £410
25th Percentile £500 £534 £456
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 £640 £530
% change year-on-year -17.97% +20.75% -15.20%
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 1,518 1,659 2,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.18% 12.10% 10.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,051 1,023 1,442
10th Percentile £325 £308 £263
25th Percentile £415 £405 £381
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 £491
% change year-on-year - +1.78% -6.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 12 31
10th Percentile - £18.19 £17.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £22.84 £21.75
Median hourly rate £23.68 £29.40 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.46% +6.91% +21.52%
75th Percentile £41.19 £39.73 £36.25
90th Percentile £92.44 £41.91 £49.08
England median hourly rate £25.42 £45.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -43.52% +76.47% +22.89%

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 5 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 5 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 -7 14 £603 - 1
Central London -10 11 £575 -14.81% 9
South London -11 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 56 (48.28%) Apache Spark
2 37 (31.90%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (6.03%) Confluence
4 6 (5.17%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (1.72%) Apache Pig
5 2 (1.72%) Luigi
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 49 (42.24%) Azure
3 32 (27.59%) GCP
4 23 (19.83%) Amazon S3
4 23 (19.83%) Serverless
5 21 (18.10%) Power Platform
6 19 (16.38%) AWS CloudFormation
6 19 (16.38%) dbt
7 17 (14.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 14 (12.07%) Collibra
8 14 (12.07%) Snowflake
9 13 (11.21%) Amazon SQS
10 12 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (7.76%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (6.03%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (4.31%) AWS Data Pipeline
14 4 (3.45%) GitHub
14 4 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
15 3 (2.59%) AWS Step Functions
15 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%) 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 35 (30.17%) Data Lake
2 26 (22.41%) Amazon Athena
3 21 (18.10%) Big Data
3 21 (18.10%) Power BI
4 20 (17.24%) BigQuery
5 14 (12.07%) Hadoop
6 13 (11.21%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (11.21%) Mixpanel
7 12 (10.34%) OLAP
7 12 (10.34%) OLTP
8 11 (9.48%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (8.62%) Apache Iceberg
9 10 (8.62%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (7.76%) Delta Lake
11 8 (6.90%) Apache Arrow
11 8 (6.90%) Apache Ignite
11 8 (6.90%) Dremio
11 8 (6.90%) Metadata
11 8 (6.90%) NoSQL
11 8 (6.90%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (12.93%) Git
2 12 (10.34%) JIRA
3 4 (3.45%) Mockito
4 3 (2.59%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.59%) JUnit
4 3 (2.59%) Liquibase
4 3 (2.59%) MLflow
5 2 (1.72%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.72%) GitLab
5 2 (1.72%) Maven
6 1 (0.86%) ERwin
6 1 (0.86%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.86%) Storybook
General
1 26 (22.41%) Finance
2 22 (18.97%) Social Skills
3 15 (12.93%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (10.34%) Banking
5 9 (7.76%) Investment Banking
5 9 (7.76%) Public Sector
6 8 (6.90%) Front Office
7 3 (2.59%) Billing
8 2 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.86%) Electronics
9 1 (0.86%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.86%) Law
9 1 (0.86%) Legal
9 1 (0.86%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.86%) Marketing
9 1 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (41.38%) Data Engineer
2 25 (21.55%) Software Engineer
3 21 (18.10%) Senior
4 12 (10.34%) AWS Engineer
4 12 (10.34%) Principal Engineer
4 12 (10.34%) Senior Software Engineer
5 11 (9.48%) Principal Data Engineer
6 10 (8.62%) Python Engineer
7 9 (7.76%) Lead
8 8 (6.90%) AWS Software Engineer
8 8 (6.90%) Data Analytics Engineer
8 8 (6.90%) Java Engineer
8 8 (6.90%) Java Software Engineer
8 8 (6.90%) Principal Software Engineer
8 8 (6.90%) Python Software Engineer
9 7 (6.03%) Architect
9 7 (6.03%) Developer
9 7 (6.03%) Senior Java Engineer
9 7 (6.03%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 6 (5.17%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (31.03%) Kafka
2 17 (14.66%) Apache NiFi
3 14 (12.07%) PySpark
4 13 (11.21%) Great Expectations
5 11 (9.48%) NumPy
5 11 (9.48%) Pandas
6 9 (7.76%) React
6 9 (7.76%) REST
7 8 (6.90%) gRPC
7 8 (6.90%) Protocol Buffers
7 8 (6.90%) SciPy
8 6 (5.17%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (4.31%) .NET
9 5 (4.31%) Node.js
10 3 (2.59%) JSON
10 3 (2.59%) Middleware
10 3 (2.59%) RAML
10 3 (2.59%) SOAP
10 3 (2.59%) Spring
10 3 (2.59%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 21 (18.10%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.62%) Equities
3 8 (6.90%) Derivative
3 8 (6.90%) Fixed Income
3 8 (6.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (6.90%) Hedge funds
3 8 (6.90%) Pricing Data
4 4 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.59%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.59%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.59%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (2.59%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.72%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.86%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.86%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.86%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.86%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.34%) Linux
2 5 (4.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (3.45%) Unix
4 3 (2.59%) CentOS
4 3 (2.59%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.86%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (42.24%) CI/CD
2 48 (41.38%) ETL
3 43 (37.07%) Analytics
3 43 (37.07%) DevOps
4 41 (35.34%) Data Modelling
5 37 (31.90%) Agile
5 37 (31.90%) Data Engineering
6 36 (31.03%) Data Pipeline
6 36 (31.03%) Software Engineering
7 30 (25.86%) Machine Learning
8 28 (24.14%) AI
8 28 (24.14%) Data Governance
9 25 (21.55%) Data Architecture
9 25 (21.55%) Infrastructure as Code
10 24 (20.69%) Business Intelligence
11 23 (19.83%) Observability
12 22 (18.97%) Problem-Solving
13 17 (14.66%) Batch Processing
14 15 (12.93%) Data Privacy
14 15 (12.93%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 79 (68.10%) Python
2 58 (50.00%) SQL
3 32 (27.59%) Java
4 20 (17.24%) C#
5 17 (14.66%) JavaScript
5 17 (14.66%) Scala
6 11 (9.48%) TypeScript
7 5 (4.31%) C++
8 4 (3.45%) Bash
9 3 (2.59%) R
10 2 (1.72%) Perl
10 2 (1.72%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.86%) C
11 1 (0.86%) Go
11 1 (0.86%) Korn
11 1 (0.86%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.86%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.86%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (27.59%) Security Cleared
2 24 (20.69%) 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%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.72%) Degree
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%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (26.72%) Data Quality
2 19 (16.38%) 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 13 (11.21%) Docker
2 3 (2.59%) 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 28 (24.14%) Terraform
2 14 (12.07%) 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 28 (24.14%) Databricks
2 15 (12.93%) Google
3 8 (6.90%) Oracle
4 6 (5.17%) Cloudera
4 6 (5.17%) Foundry
4 6 (5.17%) Palantir
4 6 (5.17%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.45%) Informatica
5 4 (3.45%) Microsoft
5 4 (3.45%) Splunk
6 3 (2.59%) Guidewire
6 3 (2.59%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.72%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.72%) SAP
8 1 (0.86%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.86%) Cisco
8 1 (0.86%) Facebook
8 1 (0.86%) Sybase
8 1 (0.86%) Veritas
8 1 (0.86%) VMware