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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 286 191 103
Rank change year-on-year -95 -88 +129
Contract jobs citing Apache 145 188 418
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.73% 1.39% 2.40%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.65% 12.12% 18.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 152 382
10th Percentile £412 £447 £456
25th Percentile £463 £513 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £738 £756
Median % change year-on-year -25.42% -2.48% +21.00%
75th Percentile £663 £828 £875
90th Percentile £750 £875 £888
England median daily rate £512 £600 £750
% change year-on-year -14.70% -20.00% +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 1,896 1,551 2,227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.60% 11.46% 12.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,244 1,043 1,676
10th Percentile £358 £350 £300
25th Percentile £425 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.19% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £663 £738
90th Percentile £710 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 17 27
10th Percentile £16.03 £24.40 £20.65
25th Percentile £19.66 £26.04 £23.80
Median hourly rate £28.00 £31.50 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -0.66% -33.24%
75th Percentile £41.33 £53.75 £39.38
90th Percentile £81.55 £73.25 £69.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £47.12 £32.50
% change year-on-year -31.03% +44.98% -31.58%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -14 13 £525 -4.55% 3
West London -7 8 £614 +19.87%
South London -14 1 £616 +30.03% 1
East London - 1 £669 - 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 90 (62.07%) Apache Spark
2 50 (34.48%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.07%) CloudStack
4 2 (1.38%) Apache Synapse
4 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.38%) nginx
5 1 (0.69%) IIS
5 1 (0.69%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.69%) Luigi
5 1 (0.69%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.69%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Magento
1 1 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.69%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 74 (51.03%) Azure
2 69 (47.59%) AWS
3 45 (31.03%) GCP
4 26 (17.93%) Azure DevOps
4 26 (17.93%) dbt
5 25 (17.24%) Amazon S3
6 21 (14.48%) Power Platform
7 18 (12.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 17 (11.72%) Snowflake
9 13 (8.97%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (8.28%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (8.28%) Serverless
11 11 (7.59%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (7.59%) GitHub
12 9 (6.21%) Amazon SQS
12 9 (6.21%) Collibra
12 9 (6.21%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (4.83%) Amazon Kinesis
14 6 (4.14%) Azure Key Vault
14 6 (4.14%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.83%) DNS
2 4 (2.76%) Firewall
3 2 (1.38%) FTP
3 2 (1.38%) NAS
3 2 (1.38%) Network Security
3 2 (1.38%) SAN
3 2 (1.38%) VLAN
3 2 (1.38%) VXLAN
4 1 (0.69%) 4G
4 1 (0.69%) 5G
4 1 (0.69%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.69%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (22.07%) Data Lake
2 30 (20.69%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (17.24%) Big Data
4 21 (14.48%) BigQuery
5 19 (13.10%) Power BI
6 17 (11.72%) Flink
7 16 (11.03%) Delta Lake
7 16 (11.03%) Metadata
7 16 (11.03%) NoSQL
8 15 (10.34%) Amazon Athena
9 14 (9.66%) Hadoop
10 12 (8.28%) PostgreSQL
10 12 (8.28%) SQL Server
11 11 (7.59%) Relational Database
12 9 (6.21%) Mixpanel
12 9 (6.21%) MongoDB
12 9 (6.21%) Spark SQL
13 8 (5.52%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (5.52%) Apache Iceberg
13 8 (5.52%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 30 (20.69%) Git
2 10 (6.90%) Jenkins
3 7 (4.83%) JIRA
4 6 (4.14%) SonarQube
5 5 (3.45%) Maven
6 4 (2.76%) GitLab
6 4 (2.76%) Gradle
7 2 (1.38%) Selenium
8 1 (0.69%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.69%) JMeter
8 1 (0.69%) MLflow
8 1 (0.69%) PHPUnit
General
1 44 (30.34%) Finance
2 21 (14.48%) Social Skills
3 20 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (8.97%) Banking
5 9 (6.21%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.76%) Billing
7 3 (2.07%) Front Office
7 3 (2.07%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.38%) Legal
8 2 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.69%) Law
9 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.69%) Marketing
9 1 (0.69%) Retail
9 1 (0.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 66 (45.52%) Data Engineer
2 31 (21.38%) Senior
3 27 (18.62%) Architect
4 20 (13.79%) Developer
5 19 (13.10%) Senior Data Engineer
6 17 (11.72%) Lead
7 14 (9.66%) Java Developer
8 11 (7.59%) Lead Data Engineer
9 10 (6.90%) Principal Engineer
10 9 (6.21%) Principal Data Engineer
11 8 (5.52%) Data Architect
12 6 (4.14%) Senior Developer
12 6 (4.14%) Senior Java Developer
13 5 (3.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 5 (3.45%) Big Data Engineer
14 4 (2.76%) Azure Architect
14 4 (2.76%) Azure Engineer
14 4 (2.76%) Hadoop Engineer
14 4 (2.76%) Kubernetes Engineer
14 4 (2.76%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (31.72%) Kafka
2 30 (20.69%) PySpark
3 16 (11.03%) Spring
4 14 (9.66%) REST
5 13 (8.97%) Spring Boot
6 12 (8.28%) JSON
7 11 (7.59%) Great Expectations
8 8 (5.52%) Apache Beam
9 4 (2.76%) GraphQL
9 4 (2.76%) LangChain
9 4 (2.76%) SOAP
9 4 (2.76%) Spark Streaming
9 4 (2.76%) Spring Cloud
10 3 (2.07%) Apache Avro
10 3 (2.07%) Apache NiFi
10 3 (2.07%) Pandas
10 3 (2.07%) Protocol Buffers
10 3 (2.07%) Web Services
11 2 (1.38%) cloud-init
11 2 (1.38%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 33 (22.76%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.83%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (4.14%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.14%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.45%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.45%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.76%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.07%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.07%) Data Fabric
6 3 (2.07%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (2.07%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.07%) Private Cloud
6 3 (2.07%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.38%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.38%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.38%) Life Science
7 2 (1.38%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 22 (15.17%) Linux
2 15 (10.34%) Unix
3 4 (2.76%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.38%) Windows
5 1 (0.69%) CentOS
5 1 (0.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (51.03%) CI/CD
2 65 (44.83%) Data Pipeline
3 62 (42.76%) Data Engineering
4 61 (42.07%) DevOps
5 59 (40.69%) ETL
6 53 (36.55%) Analytics
7 51 (35.17%) Data Modelling
8 45 (31.03%) AI
9 34 (23.45%) Machine Learning
10 33 (22.76%) Agile
11 31 (21.38%) Containerisation
11 31 (21.38%) Data Governance
12 30 (20.69%) Infrastructure as Code
13 27 (18.62%) Data Architecture
13 27 (18.62%) Migration
13 27 (18.62%) Observability
14 23 (15.86%) Business Intelligence
15 22 (15.17%) Problem-Solving
16 20 (13.79%) Performance Optimisation
17 19 (13.10%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 101 (69.66%) Python
2 95 (65.52%) SQL
3 39 (26.90%) Java
4 24 (16.55%) Scala
5 12 (8.28%) Shell Script
6 11 (7.59%) C#
7 9 (6.21%) Bash
8 7 (4.83%) R
9 6 (4.14%) Go
10 5 (3.45%) Perl
11 4 (2.76%) Ruby
11 4 (2.76%) TypeScript
12 3 (2.07%) PHP
12 3 (2.07%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.38%) Cypher
13 2 (1.38%) Gremlin
13 2 (1.38%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.38%) SPARQL
14 1 (0.69%) Bicep
14 1 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 29 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 26 (17.93%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (6.21%) Degree
4 4 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.07%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.07%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.38%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.38%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.38%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.69%) CCNP
7 1 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.69%) MBA
7 1 (0.69%) PhD
7 1 (0.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (31.72%) Data Quality
2 14 (9.66%) GDPR
3 6 (4.14%) QA
4 3 (2.07%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.69%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 34 (23.45%) Docker
2 7 (4.83%) NFS
2 7 (4.83%) Varnish
3 6 (4.14%) Postfix
4 4 (2.76%) Sendmail
5 2 (1.38%) Ceph
5 2 (1.38%) HDFS
5 2 (1.38%) KVM
5 2 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.69%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (24.14%) Kubernetes
2 29 (20.00%) Terraform
3 9 (6.21%) Ansible
4 6 (4.14%) HAProxy
5 2 (1.38%) Grafana
5 2 (1.38%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.38%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.38%) SELinux
6 1 (0.69%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.69%) Check_MK
6 1 (0.69%) Kibana
6 1 (0.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 36 (24.83%) Databricks
2 24 (16.55%) Google
3 16 (11.03%) Microsoft
4 7 (4.83%) Cloudera
4 7 (4.83%) Informatica
5 5 (3.45%) Confluent
6 4 (2.76%) Hortonworks
6 4 (2.76%) Oracle
7 3 (2.07%) Guidewire
7 3 (2.07%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.38%) Cisco
8 2 (1.38%) Foundry
8 2 (1.38%) Hitachi
8 2 (1.38%) Splunk
8 2 (1.38%) Teradata
8 2 (1.38%) VMware
9 1 (0.69%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.69%) MicroStrategy
9 1 (0.69%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.69%) Veeam