Apache Airflow Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Apache Airflow
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Apache Airflow skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 111 126
Rank change year-on-year +7 +15 +44
Contract jobs citing Apache Airflow 22 7 3
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.08% 0.39% 0.13%
As % of the Application Platforms category 12.50% 3.24% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 4 3
10th Percentile £413 £536 £423
25th Percentile £513 £553 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £663 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.09% +39.47% -9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £788 £619
90th Percentile £625 £855 £698
Central London median daily rate £563 £663 £625
% change year-on-year -15.09% +6.00% +19.05%

All Application Platform Skills
City of London

Apache Airflow 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 176 216 316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 8.68% 11.97% 13.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 117 224
10th Percentile £371 £260 £250
25th Percentile £423 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £504 £516
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -2.37% -6.14%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £588
90th Percentile £715 £689 £709
Central London median daily rate £538 £475 £513
% change year-on-year +13.16% -7.32% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.00
Median hourly rate - - £19.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.56%
75th Percentile - - £40.00
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £21.00 - £19.00
% change year-on-year - - -2.56%

Apache Airflow
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Apache Airflow relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Apache Airflow job vacancy trend in the City of London

Apache Airflow
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Apache Airflow.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Apache Airflow

Apache Airflow
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache Airflow in the City of London over the 6 months to 10 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Apache Airflow in the City of London

Apache Airflow
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 5 (22.73%) Apache
1 5 (22.73%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 3 (13.64%) BambooHR
Cloud Services
1 18 (81.82%) AWS
2 14 (63.64%) dbt
2 14 (63.64%) Snowflake
3 8 (36.36%) Azure
3 8 (36.36%) Power Platform
4 6 (27.27%) Amazon S3
4 6 (27.27%) Prefect
5 5 (22.73%) Dagster
6 4 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (18.18%) GCP
6 4 (18.18%) Serverless
7 2 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (4.55%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (4.55%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (4.55%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (4.55%) Datadog
8 1 (4.55%) Fivetran
8 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (4.55%) Matillion
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (54.55%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (31.82%) Power BI
3 6 (27.27%) Tableau
4 5 (22.73%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (22.73%) Data Lake
5 4 (18.18%) Looker
6 3 (13.64%) BigQuery
6 3 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (13.64%) Snowflake Schema
6 3 (13.64%) SQL Server
7 2 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (9.09%) Metadata
7 2 (9.09%) Relational Database
8 1 (4.55%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (4.55%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (4.55%) Data Vault
8 1 (4.55%) MySQL
8 1 (4.55%) OLAP
8 1 (4.55%) RDBMS
8 1 (4.55%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (31.82%) Git
2 4 (18.18%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.55%) GitLab
3 1 (4.55%) MLflow
General
1 7 (31.82%) Finance
2 3 (13.64%) Legal
2 3 (13.64%) Telecoms
3 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Banking
3 2 (9.09%) Retail
4 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.55%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 15 (68.18%) Data Engineer
2 6 (27.27%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 6 (27.27%) Snowflake Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) Senior
4 4 (18.18%) Lead
4 4 (18.18%) Senior Data Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Lead Data Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) AWS Data Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Architect
7 1 (4.55%) Big Data Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Data Analytics Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Data Architect
7 1 (4.55%) Hadoop Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Senior Hadoop Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Technical Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Technical Leader
7 1 (4.55%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (27.27%) Kafka
2 4 (18.18%) PySpark
3 1 (4.55%) AWS CDK
3 1 (4.55%) NumPy
3 1 (4.55%) Pandas
3 1 (4.55%) PyTorch
3 1 (4.55%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.09%) Clustering
2 2 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (72.73%) Data Pipeline
2 13 (59.09%) Data Engineering
2 13 (59.09%) ETL
3 11 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 11 (50.00%) Data Modelling
4 10 (45.45%) Performance Tuning
5 9 (40.91%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (36.36%) Analytics
7 7 (31.82%) Machine Learning
8 6 (27.27%) AI
8 6 (27.27%) Validation
9 5 (22.73%) Cost Optimisation
9 5 (22.73%) Data Science
9 5 (22.73%) Test Automation
10 4 (18.18%) Data Integration
10 4 (18.18%) Generative AI
10 4 (18.18%) Performance Optimisation
10 4 (18.18%) Use Case
11 3 (13.64%) Data Governance
11 3 (13.64%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 18 (81.82%) Python
1 18 (81.82%) SQL
2 1 (4.55%) PL/SQL
2 1 (4.55%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (4.55%) Degree
1 1 (4.55%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (59.09%) Data Quality
2 3 (13.64%) GDPR
3 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.55%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (22.73%) Terraform
2 1 (4.55%) Grafana
2 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (31.82%) Databricks
2 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.64%) Workday
3 1 (4.55%) Google
3 1 (4.55%) Informatica
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle
3 1 (4.55%) Splunk