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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 299 228 131
Rank change year-on-year -71 -97 +99
Contract jobs citing Apache 168 151 334
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.83% 1.14% 2.07%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.23% 9.82% 16.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 108 295
10th Percentile £400 £463 £513
25th Percentile £463 £500 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £633 £800
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% -20.84% +23.08%
75th Percentile £675 £825 £888
90th Percentile £776 - -
England median daily rate £513 £550 £750
% change year-on-year -6.82% -26.67% +25.00%

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 2,041 1,538 2,030
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.10% 11.57% 12.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,352 1,054 1,375
10th Percentile £313 £313 £313
25th Percentile £423 £413 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -7.08% +2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £743
90th Percentile £712 £781 £850
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 22 23
10th Percentile £19.03 £22.25 £17.26
25th Percentile £22.83 £25.36 £22.40
Median hourly rate £35.82 £33.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +6.93% +40.76% -13.45%
75th Percentile £57.00 £52.19 £36.88
90th Percentile £73.30 £88.63 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.40 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -18.87% -17.65% +41.67%

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 October 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 October 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 -18 19 £550 -4.35% 22
West London -16 3 £703 +37.30% 6
South London - 1 £500 - 1
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 96 (57.14%) Apache Spark
2 89 (52.98%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.79%) CloudStack
3 3 (1.79%) nginx
4 1 (0.60%) Confluence
4 1 (0.60%) IIS
4 1 (0.60%) JBoss
4 1 (0.60%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.60%) Luigi
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.60%) SAS
4 1 (0.60%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 89 (52.98%) AWS
2 74 (44.05%) Azure
3 61 (36.31%) GCP
4 53 (31.55%) dbt
5 34 (20.24%) Snowflake
6 28 (16.67%) Amazon S3
7 19 (11.31%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (10.12%) Azure Data Factory
9 14 (8.33%) Power Platform
9 14 (8.33%) Serverless
10 13 (7.74%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (7.74%) GitHub
11 11 (6.55%) Cloud Composer
12 10 (5.95%) Azure Databricks
13 9 (5.36%) Amazon EMR
14 8 (4.76%) Amazon Kinesis
15 7 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 7 (4.17%) Dagster
16 6 (3.57%) AWS Step Functions
16 6 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.98%) DNS
2 3 (1.79%) Firewall
2 3 (1.79%) HTTPS
2 3 (1.79%) Network Security
2 3 (1.79%) SSL
3 2 (1.19%) NAS
3 2 (1.19%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (1.19%) SAN
3 2 (1.19%) VLAN
3 2 (1.19%) VXLAN
4 1 (0.60%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (32.14%) Data Warehouse
2 37 (22.02%) BigQuery
3 32 (19.05%) Data Lake
4 27 (16.07%) Delta Lake
5 26 (15.48%) Big Data
6 24 (14.29%) Metadata
7 21 (12.50%) Flink
7 21 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
8 19 (11.31%) Amazon Redshift
9 17 (10.12%) Apache Iceberg
10 14 (8.33%) Hadoop
10 14 (8.33%) Power BI
10 14 (8.33%) Relational Database
11 11 (6.55%) NoSQL
12 10 (5.95%) SQL Server
13 8 (4.76%) MongoDB
14 7 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
15 6 (3.57%) Amazon Athena
15 6 (3.57%) Looker
15 6 (3.57%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 27 (16.07%) Git
2 9 (5.36%) GitLab
3 6 (3.57%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.38%) Maven
4 4 (2.38%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.79%) Gradle
6 2 (1.19%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.19%) JMeter
6 2 (1.19%) Selenium
6 2 (1.19%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.60%) JIRA
7 1 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 52 (30.95%) Finance
2 43 (25.60%) Social Skills
3 26 (15.48%) Banking
4 24 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.57%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.38%) Billing
7 4 (2.38%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.38%) Retail
8 3 (1.79%) Automotive
8 3 (1.79%) Legal
9 2 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.19%) Law
9 2 (1.19%) Marketing
9 2 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.19%) Publishing
9 2 (1.19%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 90 (53.57%) Data Engineer
2 41 (24.40%) Senior
3 31 (18.45%) Architect
3 31 (18.45%) Senior Data Engineer
4 15 (8.93%) Data Architect
4 15 (8.93%) Lead
5 13 (7.74%) Databricks Data Engineer
5 13 (7.74%) Databricks Engineer
5 13 (7.74%) Python Data Engineer
5 13 (7.74%) Python Engineer
6 9 (5.36%) Developer
6 9 (5.36%) GCP Engineer
7 7 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (4.17%) GCP Data Engineer
7 7 (4.17%) Java Developer
7 7 (4.17%) Lead Data Engineer
7 7 (4.17%) Senior Databricks Data Engineer
7 7 (4.17%) Technical Leader
8 6 (3.57%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (3.57%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (36.31%) PySpark
2 54 (32.14%) Kafka
3 41 (24.40%) Terraform
4 16 (9.52%) Spring
5 15 (8.93%) Spring Boot
6 14 (8.33%) REST
7 13 (7.74%) Apache Beam
8 9 (5.36%) Apache NiFi
9 6 (3.57%) Spark Streaming
10 5 (2.98%) OAuth
10 5 (2.98%) SOAP
11 4 (2.38%) GraphQL
11 4 (2.38%) JSON
11 4 (2.38%) Pandas
11 4 (2.38%) PyTorch
11 4 (2.38%) TensorFlow
12 3 (1.79%) JSON-LD
12 3 (1.79%) LangChain
12 3 (1.79%) NetworkX
12 3 (1.79%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 32 (19.05%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 10 (5.95%) Management Information System
4 8 (4.76%) Data Structures
4 8 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (4.17%) Clustering
5 7 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.98%) AI Agents
6 5 (2.98%) Data Fabric
7 4 (2.38%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.38%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.79%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.79%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.79%) Robotics
8 3 (1.79%) Self-Driving Car
8 3 (1.79%) Taxonomies
9 2 (1.19%) Culture of Ownership
9 2 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.19%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 16 (9.52%) Linux
2 5 (2.98%) Ubuntu
2 5 (2.98%) Unix
2 5 (2.98%) Windows
3 2 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.19%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.60%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.60%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (54.17%) Data Pipeline
2 86 (51.19%) CI/CD
3 83 (49.40%) Data Engineering
4 75 (44.64%) ETL
5 67 (39.88%) Analytics
6 60 (35.71%) Data Modelling
7 56 (33.33%) Agile
8 55 (32.74%) DevOps
9 53 (31.55%) AI
10 48 (28.57%) Machine Learning
11 42 (25.00%) Lakehouse
12 38 (22.62%) Data Governance
13 33 (19.64%) Infrastructure as Code
14 32 (19.05%) Migration
15 30 (17.86%) Data Architecture
16 29 (17.26%) Data Science
16 29 (17.26%) Stakeholder Management
17 28 (16.67%) Data Transformation
18 25 (14.88%) Containerisation
18 25 (14.88%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 110 (65.48%) Python
2 102 (60.71%) SQL
3 35 (20.83%) Java
4 23 (13.69%) Scala
5 12 (7.14%) Shell Script
6 10 (5.95%) Bash
7 6 (3.57%) Go
8 5 (2.98%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.79%) Cypher
9 3 (1.79%) Gremlin
9 3 (1.79%) Perl
9 3 (1.79%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.79%) SPARQL
10 2 (1.19%) C#
10 2 (1.19%) R
10 2 (1.19%) Ruby
10 2 (1.19%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.19%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.60%) ActionScript 2.0
11 1 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 27 (16.07%) Security Cleared
2 19 (11.31%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.55%) Degree
4 9 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (5.36%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.98%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.79%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.19%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.60%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.60%) CCNP
8 1 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.60%) MBA
8 1 (0.60%) PhD
8 1 (0.60%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.60%) PMP
8 1 (0.60%) RHCSA
8 1 (0.60%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (41.67%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.76%) GDPR
3 6 (3.57%) QA
4 3 (1.79%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.79%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (1.19%) NCSC
6 1 (0.60%) GLBA
6 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.60%) NIST
6 1 (0.60%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.60%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (27.38%) Docker
2 3 (1.79%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.79%) NFS
3 2 (1.19%) Ceph
3 2 (1.19%) KVM
3 2 (1.19%) Postfix
3 2 (1.19%) Varnish
3 2 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.60%) Sendmail
4 1 (0.60%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 52 (30.95%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.76%) Ansible
3 4 (2.38%) Grafana
3 4 (2.38%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.79%) Progress Chef
4 3 (1.79%) Puppet
5 2 (1.19%) Control-M
5 2 (1.19%) HAProxy
5 2 (1.19%) SELinux
6 1 (0.60%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.60%) Check_MK
6 1 (0.60%) Kibana
6 1 (0.60%) systemd
Vendors
1 53 (31.55%) Databricks
2 28 (16.67%) Google
3 23 (13.69%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.76%) Informatica
4 8 (4.76%) Oracle
5 5 (2.98%) New Relic
5 5 (2.98%) Splunk
6 4 (2.38%) Guidewire
6 4 (2.38%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.38%) Talend
7 3 (1.79%) Cloudera
7 3 (1.79%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.79%) Teradata
8 2 (1.19%) Cisco
8 2 (1.19%) Confluent
8 2 (1.19%) Hitachi
8 2 (1.19%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.19%) Sybase
8 2 (1.19%) VMware
9 1 (0.60%) Commvault