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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 104 122
Rank change year-on-year -8 +18 +17
Contract jobs citing Apache Airflow 25 14 3
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.16% 0.81% 0.14%
As % of the Application Platforms category 11.79% 7.14% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 9 1
10th Percentile £428 £268 -
25th Percentile £473 £519 £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £750
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% -26.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £647 £588 £775
90th Percentile £725 £613 -
Central London median daily rate £600 £550 £750
% change year-on-year +9.09% -26.67% +20.00%

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 212 196 243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.81% 11.41% 11.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 128 141
10th Percentile £287 £275 £265
25th Percentile £425 £384 £354
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.67%
75th Percentile £633 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £688 £775
Central London median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £19.90 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £20.88 £67.50 £112.50
Median hourly rate £22.50 £75.00 £125.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.00% -40.00% +557.89%
75th Percentile £22.83 £82.50 £137.50
90th Percentile £23.03 £86.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £29.49 £75.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -60.68% -6.25% +285.54%

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 6 October 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 10 (40.00%) Apache Spark
2 7 (28.00%) Apache
3 3 (12.00%) Confluence
4 2 (8.00%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) BambooHR
Cloud Services
1 19 (76.00%) AWS
2 17 (68.00%) dbt
3 15 (60.00%) Snowflake
4 11 (44.00%) Azure
5 10 (40.00%) GCP
6 5 (20.00%) Amazon S3
6 5 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (16.00%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (16.00%) GitHub
7 4 (16.00%) Serverless
8 3 (12.00%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (12.00%) Power Platform
8 3 (12.00%) Prefect
9 2 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (8.00%) Azure Databricks
9 2 (8.00%) Dagster
10 1 (4.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
10 1 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (4.00%) Cloud Composer
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (44.00%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (20.00%) BigQuery
2 5 (20.00%) Delta Lake
3 4 (16.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (16.00%) Metadata
4 3 (12.00%) Power BI
4 3 (12.00%) SQL Server
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (8.00%) Data Vault
5 2 (8.00%) Hadoop
5 2 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (8.00%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (8.00%) Spark SQL
6 1 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (4.00%) Flink
6 1 (4.00%) Looker
6 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
6 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
6 1 (4.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) Git
2 3 (12.00%) JIRA
3 2 (8.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (8.00%) Bitbucket
4 1 (4.00%) GitLab
4 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.00%) Terragrunt
General
1 11 (44.00%) Finance
2 10 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (12.00%) Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Billing
5 1 (4.00%) Front Office
5 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.00%) Legal
5 1 (4.00%) Marketing
5 1 (4.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 16 (64.00%) Data Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) AWS Data Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Senior
3 4 (16.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Snowflake Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Data Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Data Manager
5 2 (8.00%) Databricks Data Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Databricks Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) GCP Data Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) GCP Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Business Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Data Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Delivery Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Engineering Manager
6 1 (4.00%) GCP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (36.00%) Kafka
2 6 (24.00%) Terraform
3 5 (20.00%) PySpark
4 2 (8.00%) Spring
4 2 (8.00%) Spring Boot
5 1 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (4.00%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 9 (36.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (16.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.00%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (8.00%) Reinsurance
4 1 (4.00%) Clustering
4 1 (4.00%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.00%) Digital Media
4 1 (4.00%) Fixed Income
4 1 (4.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (4.00%) Hedge funds
4 1 (4.00%) Pricing Data
4 1 (4.00%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (68.00%) Data Engineering
2 15 (60.00%) Analytics
3 14 (56.00%) CI/CD
4 13 (52.00%) Data Governance
5 11 (44.00%) DevOps
5 11 (44.00%) ETL
6 10 (40.00%) Data Modelling
6 10 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
7 9 (36.00%) Agile
8 8 (32.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (28.00%) Lakehouse
9 7 (28.00%) Migration
9 7 (28.00%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (24.00%) Translating Business Requirements
11 5 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (20.00%) Decision-Making
11 5 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
11 5 (20.00%) Software Engineering
11 5 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 18 (72.00%) Python
2 17 (68.00%) SQL
3 4 (16.00%) Java
4 2 (8.00%) Scala
5 1 (4.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) DBS Check
2 1 (4.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (4.00%) PMP
2 1 (4.00%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (48.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (12.00%) GDPR
3 2 (8.00%) EMIR
3 2 (8.00%) MiFID
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.00%) Ansible
2 1 (4.00%) Packer
Vendors
1 10 (40.00%) Databricks
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) Oracle
2 2 (8.00%) Teradata
3 1 (4.00%) Bloomberg
3 1 (4.00%) Google
3 1 (4.00%) HubSpot
3 1 (4.00%) Informatica
3 1 (4.00%) OpenAI
3 1 (4.00%) Refinitiv
3 1 (4.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.00%) Talend
3 1 (4.00%) Workday