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 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 122 138
Rank change year-on-year +22 +16 +54
Contract jobs citing Apache Airflow 16 4 11
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.94% 0.19% 0.38%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.16% 1.65% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 2 9
10th Percentile £301 £545 £447
25th Percentile £513 £575 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -16.35% +4.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £588 £725 £638
90th Percentile - £755 £708
Central London median daily rate £544 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -16.35% +4.00% +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 196 243 354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 11.56% 11.53% 12.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 137 218
10th Percentile £276 £264 £262
25th Percentile £389 £350 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £539
Median % change year-on-year - -2.55% -2.05%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £650
90th Percentile £684 £766 £738
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £63.75 - -
25th Percentile £67.50 £112.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £75.00 £125.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +557.89% +4.30%
75th Percentile £82.50 £137.50 £21.69
90th Percentile £86.25 - £22.93
Central London median hourly rate £75.00 £80.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -6.25% +321.05% -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 21 October 2025.

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 (31.25%) Apache Spark
2 3 (18.75%) Apache
2 3 (18.75%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 15 (93.75%) AWS
2 8 (50.00%) Azure
3 7 (43.75%) Snowflake
4 5 (31.25%) dbt
5 4 (25.00%) GCP
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
6 1 (6.25%) ChatGPT
6 1 (6.25%) Dagster
6 1 (6.25%) Fivetran
6 1 (6.25%) GitHub
6 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (6.25%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (6.25%) Matillion
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (31.25%) NoSQL
3 2 (12.50%) Apache Iceberg
3 2 (12.50%) Big Data
3 2 (12.50%) Data Lake
3 2 (12.50%) Data Mining
3 2 (12.50%) Hadoop
3 2 (12.50%) Metadata
3 2 (12.50%) MongoDB
3 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (6.25%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (6.25%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Git
2 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Police
3 2 (12.50%) Retail
4 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (75.00%) Data Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Lead
3 3 (18.75%) AWS Data Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Lead Data Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Snowflake Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Data Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Senior
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Data Science Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Integration Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Snowflake Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Leader
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) Kafka
2 2 (12.50%) PySpark
3 1 (6.25%) GraphQL
3 1 (6.25%) JWT
3 1 (6.25%) Node.js
3 1 (6.25%) OAuth
3 1 (6.25%) OAuth2
3 1 (6.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Cloud Native
2 2 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Data Engineering
1 11 (68.75%) Data Modelling
2 10 (62.50%) Data Pipeline
3 7 (43.75%) Data Integration
4 6 (37.50%) Machine Learning
5 5 (31.25%) Analytics
5 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
5 5 (31.25%) Data Science
5 5 (31.25%) ETL
6 4 (25.00%) AI
6 4 (25.00%) Workflow
7 3 (18.75%) API Integration
7 3 (18.75%) Data Governance
7 3 (18.75%) Decision-Making
7 3 (18.75%) Generative AI
7 3 (18.75%) Line Management
7 3 (18.75%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
8 2 (12.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 15 (93.75%) Python
2 13 (81.25%) SQL
3 3 (18.75%) Java
4 2 (12.50%) R
4 2 (12.50%) Scala
5 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) SnowPro
3 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (37.50%) Data Quality
2 2 (12.50%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Databricks
2 1 (6.25%) Talend
2 1 (6.25%) Workday