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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 191 230
Rank change year-on-year -66 +39 +9
Contract jobs citing Apache 115 183 180
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.79% 1.33% 0.97%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.68% 11.21% 8.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 144 152
10th Percentile £441 £452 £414
25th Percentile £500 £550 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £675 £564
Median % change year-on-year -12.96% +19.73% -13.27%
75th Percentile £716 £841 £788
90th Percentile £825 £888 -
England median daily rate £525 £663 £550
% change year-on-year -20.75% +20.45% -14.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
England median hourly rate £80.50 £74.22 £41.50
% change year-on-year +8.46% +78.84% -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 1,498 1,633 2,004
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.32% 11.84% 10.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,033 1,022 1,438
10th Percentile £325 £308 £262
25th Percentile £415 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £638
90th Percentile £738 £810 £750
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 14 29
10th Percentile - £17.35 £17.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.91 £21.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.80 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.67% -8.46% +15.22%
75th Percentile £45.25 £38.00 £32.50
90th Percentile £92.44 £41.91 £50.77
England median hourly rate £27.21 £45.00 £26.78
% change year-on-year -39.53% +68.04% +37.33%

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 26 January 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 26 January 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 -4 12 £603 - 1
Central London -8 11 £575 -14.81% 8
South London -5 2 £507 -13.66% 3
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 50 (43.48%) Apache Spark
2 40 (34.78%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (6.09%) Confluence
4 3 (2.61%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.74%) Apache Pig
5 2 (1.74%) Luigi
5 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.74%) nginx
5 2 (1.74%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (1.74%) SAS
5 2 (1.74%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.87%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 2 (1.74%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.87%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Actimize
1 1 (0.87%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 60 (52.17%) AWS
2 44 (38.26%) Azure
3 29 (25.22%) GCP
4 23 (20.00%) Serverless
5 20 (17.39%) Amazon S3
5 20 (17.39%) dbt
6 18 (15.65%) Power Platform
7 17 (14.78%) Snowflake
8 15 (13.04%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (12.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 12 (10.43%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (9.57%) Collibra
12 10 (8.70%) Amazon SQS
13 9 (7.83%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (6.09%) AWS Lambda
15 5 (4.35%) AWS Data Pipeline
16 4 (3.48%) GitHub
16 4 (3.48%) GitHub Actions
17 3 (2.61%) AWS Step Functions
17 3 (2.61%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.61%) Firewall
2 2 (1.74%) DNS
2 2 (1.74%) HTTP
2 2 (1.74%) SSL
3 1 (0.87%) DHCP
3 1 (0.87%) InfiniBand
3 1 (0.87%) iSCSI
3 1 (0.87%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.87%) LAN
3 1 (0.87%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (0.87%) SSH
3 1 (0.87%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.87%) VLAN
3 1 (0.87%) VPN
3 1 (0.87%) WAN
3 1 (0.87%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (31.30%) Data Lake
2 26 (22.61%) Amazon Athena
3 20 (17.39%) Big Data
4 18 (15.65%) Power BI
5 17 (14.78%) BigQuery
6 13 (11.30%) Apache Iceberg
6 13 (11.30%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (11.30%) Hadoop
7 11 (9.57%) Apache Arrow
7 11 (9.57%) Apache Ignite
7 11 (9.57%) Dremio
8 10 (8.70%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (8.70%) Mixpanel
8 10 (8.70%) OLAP
8 10 (8.70%) OLTP
8 10 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (7.83%) Delta Lake
10 8 (6.96%) Metadata
10 8 (6.96%) NoSQL
11 7 (6.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (13.04%) Git
2 12 (10.43%) JIRA
3 4 (3.48%) Mockito
4 3 (2.61%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.61%) JUnit
4 3 (2.61%) Liquibase
4 3 (2.61%) MLflow
5 2 (1.74%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.74%) GitLab
5 2 (1.74%) Maven
6 1 (0.87%) ERwin
6 1 (0.87%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.87%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.87%) Storybook
General
1 28 (24.35%) Finance
2 22 (19.13%) Social Skills
3 14 (12.17%) Banking
4 13 (11.30%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (9.57%) Front Office
5 11 (9.57%) Investment Banking
6 10 (8.70%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.61%) Billing
8 2 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.87%) Electronics
9 1 (0.87%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.87%) Law
9 1 (0.87%) Legal
9 1 (0.87%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.87%) Marketing
9 1 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.87%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 44 (38.26%) Data Engineer
2 26 (22.61%) Software Engineer
3 22 (19.13%) Senior
4 15 (13.04%) AWS Engineer
4 15 (13.04%) Senior Software Engineer
5 13 (11.30%) Python Engineer
6 11 (9.57%) AWS Software Engineer
6 11 (9.57%) Java Engineer
6 11 (9.57%) Java Software Engineer
6 11 (9.57%) Python Software Engineer
7 10 (8.70%) Senior Java Engineer
7 10 (8.70%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 9 (7.83%) Principal Data Engineer
8 9 (7.83%) Principal Engineer
9 8 (6.96%) Data Analytics Engineer
9 8 (6.96%) Developer
10 7 (6.09%) Architect
10 7 (6.09%) Lead
10 7 (6.09%) Principal Software Engineer
11 5 (4.35%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (27.83%) Kafka
2 18 (15.65%) Apache NiFi
3 14 (12.17%) NumPy
3 14 (12.17%) Pandas
3 14 (12.17%) PySpark
4 11 (9.57%) gRPC
4 11 (9.57%) Protocol Buffers
4 11 (9.57%) SciPy
5 10 (8.70%) Great Expectations
6 9 (7.83%) REST
7 8 (6.96%) React
8 6 (5.22%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (4.35%) .NET
9 5 (4.35%) Node.js
10 4 (3.48%) JSON
11 3 (2.61%) Middleware
11 3 (2.61%) OAuth
11 3 (2.61%) OAuth2
11 3 (2.61%) SOAP
11 3 (2.61%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.65%) Cloud Native
2 13 (11.30%) Equities
3 11 (9.57%) Derivative
3 11 (9.57%) Fixed Income
3 11 (9.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 11 (9.57%) Hedge funds
3 11 (9.57%) Pricing Data
4 4 (3.48%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.61%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.61%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.61%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.74%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.87%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.87%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.87%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.87%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.87%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.43%) Linux
2 6 (5.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.61%) CentOS
3 3 (2.61%) Ubuntu
3 3 (2.61%) Unix
4 1 (0.87%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (40.00%) ETL
2 43 (37.39%) CI/CD
3 41 (35.65%) Agile
4 40 (34.78%) DevOps
5 37 (32.17%) Analytics
5 37 (32.17%) Data Modelling
5 37 (32.17%) Software Engineering
6 34 (29.57%) Data Pipeline
7 32 (27.83%) Data Engineering
8 26 (22.61%) Machine Learning
9 25 (21.74%) Data Governance
10 23 (20.00%) AI
10 23 (20.00%) Data Architecture
11 22 (19.13%) Business Intelligence
11 22 (19.13%) Problem-Solving
12 20 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
12 20 (17.39%) Observability
13 15 (13.04%) Batch Processing
14 14 (12.17%) Microservices
15 13 (11.30%) Data Privacy
Programming Languages
1 76 (66.09%) Python
2 54 (46.96%) SQL
3 34 (29.57%) Java
4 20 (17.39%) JavaScript
5 17 (14.78%) C#
6 16 (13.91%) Scala
7 13 (11.30%) TypeScript
8 5 (4.35%) C++
9 4 (3.48%) Bash
10 3 (2.61%) R
11 2 (1.74%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.74%) SPARQL
12 1 (0.87%) C
12 1 (0.87%) Go
12 1 (0.87%) Korn
12 1 (0.87%) Perl
12 1 (0.87%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.87%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.87%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (30.43%) Security Cleared
2 25 (21.74%) SC Cleared
3 20 (17.39%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.48%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.74%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.74%) Degree
5 2 (1.74%) RHCE
6 1 (0.87%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.87%) CCNA
6 1 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.87%) MCP
6 1 (0.87%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (22.61%) Data Quality
2 16 (13.91%) GDPR
3 2 (1.74%) QA
4 1 (0.87%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.87%) IFRS
4 1 (0.87%) IFRS 17
4 1 (0.87%) MiFID
4 1 (0.87%) Solvency II
System Software
1 13 (11.30%) Docker
2 3 (2.61%) HDFS
3 1 (0.87%) Ceph
3 1 (0.87%) iptables
3 1 (0.87%) KVM
3 1 (0.87%) Lustre
3 1 (0.87%) NFS
3 1 (0.87%) Samba
3 1 (0.87%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 25 (21.74%) Terraform
2 14 (12.17%) Kubernetes
3 6 (5.22%) Ansible
4 3 (2.61%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.74%) Nagios
5 2 (1.74%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.87%) Argo
6 1 (0.87%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.87%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.87%) SELinux
6 1 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (20.00%) Databricks
2 12 (10.43%) Google
3 8 (6.96%) Oracle
4 6 (5.22%) Cloudera
4 6 (5.22%) Foundry
4 6 (5.22%) Palantir
4 6 (5.22%) ServiceNow
5 5 (4.35%) Splunk
6 4 (3.48%) Informatica
6 4 (3.48%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.61%) Guidewire
8 2 (1.74%) Microsoft
8 2 (1.74%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.74%) SAP
8 2 (1.74%) Sparx
9 1 (0.87%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.87%) Confluent
9 1 (0.87%) Instagram
9 1 (0.87%) TikTok
9 1 (0.87%) YouTube