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

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 114 124
Rank change year-on-year +3 +10 +56
Contract jobs citing Apache Airflow 17 7 6
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.93% 0.36% 0.25%
As % of the Application Platforms category 9.24% 3.26% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 6
10th Percentile £513 £536 £519
25th Percentile £516 £553 £539
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £663 £610
Median % change year-on-year -13.21% +8.61% +16.19%
75th Percentile £588 £788 £638
90th Percentile £663 £855 £694
Central London median daily rate £575 £663 £625
% change year-on-year -13.21% +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 184 215 310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 10.10% 11.20% 12.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 115 200
10th Percentile £312 £290 £262
25th Percentile £413 £358 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.78%
75th Percentile £588 £628 £588
90th Percentile £675 £725 £694
Central London median daily rate £525 £524 £525
% change year-on-year +0.24% -0.24% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £112.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate - £125.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year - +557.89% +12.19%
75th Percentile - £137.50 £21.00
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £19.00 £80.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -76.25% +321.05% +12.19%

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 9 January 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 (29.41%) Apache
2 4 (23.53%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 16 (94.12%) AWS
2 9 (52.94%) dbt
2 9 (52.94%) Snowflake
3 6 (35.29%) Azure
4 3 (17.65%) Amazon S3
5 2 (11.76%) Dagster
5 2 (11.76%) Fivetran
5 2 (11.76%) GCP
5 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
5 2 (11.76%) Prefect
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (5.88%) ChatGPT
6 1 (5.88%) GitHub
6 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.88%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (5.88%) Matillion
6 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (47.06%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (23.53%) Data Lake
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon QuickSight
3 2 (11.76%) Apache Iceberg
3 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (11.76%) Power BI
3 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
3 2 (11.76%) Star Schema
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (5.88%) MySQL
4 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.88%) OLAP
4 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.88%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (5.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Git
2 3 (17.65%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.88%) MLflow
General
1 4 (23.53%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Retail
3 1 (5.88%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (70.59%) Data Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Lead
2 4 (23.53%) Senior
2 4 (23.53%) Senior Data Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Snowflake Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) AWS Data Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Lead Data Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Data Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Integration Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Snowflake Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Leader
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) Kafka
1 3 (17.65%) PySpark
2 1 (5.88%) AWS CDK
2 1 (5.88%) GraphQL
2 1 (5.88%) JWT
2 1 (5.88%) Node.js
2 1 (5.88%) NumPy
2 1 (5.88%) OAuth
2 1 (5.88%) OAuth2
2 1 (5.88%) Pandas
2 1 (5.88%) PyTorch
2 1 (5.88%) REST
2 1 (5.88%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.76%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) Data Pipeline
2 8 (47.06%) Data Engineering
2 8 (47.06%) Data Modelling
2 8 (47.06%) ETL
3 6 (35.29%) CI/CD
3 6 (35.29%) Machine Learning
4 5 (29.41%) AI
4 5 (29.41%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (23.53%) Analytics
5 4 (23.53%) Data Integration
5 4 (23.53%) Data Science
5 4 (23.53%) Generative AI
5 4 (23.53%) Workflow
6 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (17.65%) Line Management
6 3 (17.65%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (17.65%) Validation
7 2 (11.76%) Data Transformation
7 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 14 (82.35%) Python
1 14 (82.35%) SQL
2 1 (5.88%) Java
2 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.88%) PL/SQL
2 1 (5.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) SnowPro
2 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (11.76%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (41.18%) Data Quality
2 2 (11.76%) GDPR
3 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Databricks
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle
2 1 (5.88%) Talend
2 1 (5.88%) Workday