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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 115 123
Rank change year-on-year +4 +8 +25
Contract jobs citing Apache Airflow 26 12 6
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.08% 0.64% 0.29%
As % of the Application Platforms category 12.21% 5.50% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 8 5
10th Percentile £450 £263 £448
25th Percentile £463 £482 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £700
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -21.43% +12.00%
75th Percentile £588 £559 £775
90th Percentile £750 £590 -
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £700
% change year-on-year +4.55% -21.43% +12.00%

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 213 218 247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 8.88% 11.68% 12.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 130 176
10th Percentile £292 £289 £345
25th Percentile £425 £384 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £542
Median % change year-on-year +3.30% -6.27% -1.41%
75th Percentile £638 £609 £638
90th Percentile £746 £726 £725
Central London median daily rate £523 £475 £533
% change year-on-year +10.00% -10.80% -3.18%
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% +233.33%
75th Percentile £22.83 £82.50 £137.50
90th Percentile £23.03 £86.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £62.50 £125.00
% change year-on-year -62.94% -50.00% +233.33%

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 7 August 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 6 (23.08%) Apache
2 5 (19.23%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.85%) Confluence
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 5 (19.23%) BambooHR
Cloud Services
1 20 (76.92%) Snowflake
2 16 (61.54%) dbt
3 15 (57.69%) AWS
4 11 (42.31%) Power Platform
4 11 (42.31%) Prefect
5 8 (30.77%) Azure
6 7 (26.92%) Dagster
6 7 (26.92%) GCP
7 6 (23.08%) Amazon S3
8 3 (11.54%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (11.54%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (11.54%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (11.54%) Serverless
9 2 (7.69%) Fivetran
9 2 (7.69%) GitHub
10 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (3.85%) Datadog
10 1 (3.85%) OpenShift
10 1 (3.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (38.46%) Power BI
3 8 (30.77%) Tableau
4 7 (26.92%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (23.08%) BigQuery
5 6 (23.08%) Snowflake Schema
6 5 (19.23%) Looker
7 4 (15.38%) SQL Server
8 2 (7.69%) Delta Lake
8 2 (7.69%) Metadata
8 2 (7.69%) MongoDB
8 2 (7.69%) NoSQL
8 2 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (7.69%) Spark SQL
8 2 (7.69%) Star Schema
9 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (3.85%) Data Lake
9 1 (3.85%) Data Vault
9 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Git
2 2 (7.69%) GitLab
3 1 (3.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (3.85%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.85%) JIRA
General
1 13 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (19.23%) Legal
3 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Telecoms
4 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.85%) Front Office
5 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 19 (73.08%) Data Engineer
2 9 (34.62%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 9 (34.62%) Snowflake Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) AWS Data Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Senior
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) AWS DevOps
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Data Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Big Data Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Business Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Data Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Data Business Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Hadoop Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Senior Hadoop Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Site Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Validation Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (34.62%) Kafka
2 3 (11.54%) PySpark
3 2 (7.69%) Spring
3 2 (7.69%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.85%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Cloud Native
2 3 (11.54%) Clustering
3 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.85%) Fixed Income
3 1 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.85%) Hedge funds
3 1 (3.85%) Pricing Data
3 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.85%) Reference Data
3 1 (3.85%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (73.08%) Analytics
2 17 (65.38%) Data Engineering
3 16 (61.54%) Data Pipeline
4 14 (53.85%) CI/CD
4 14 (53.85%) ETL
5 13 (50.00%) Data Modelling
6 12 (46.15%) Business Intelligence
7 11 (42.31%) DevOps
8 9 (34.62%) Data Governance
9 8 (30.77%) Test Automation
9 8 (30.77%) Validation
10 6 (23.08%) Decision-Making
11 5 (19.23%) AI
11 5 (19.23%) Dimensional Modelling
11 5 (19.23%) Migration
11 5 (19.23%) People Analytics
11 5 (19.23%) Performance Optimisation
11 5 (19.23%) Performance Tuning
11 5 (19.23%) Thought Leadership
11 5 (19.23%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 23 (88.46%) Python
2 20 (76.92%) SQL
3 2 (7.69%) Java
4 1 (3.85%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) DBS Check
2 2 (7.69%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 7 (26.92%) GDPR
3 2 (7.69%) EMIR
3 2 (7.69%) MiFID
4 1 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (19.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (15.38%) Kubernetes
1 4 (15.38%) Terraform
2 1 (3.85%) Ansible
2 1 (3.85%) Grafana
2 1 (3.85%) Packer
2 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) Databricks
2 6 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 5 (19.23%) Workday
4 3 (11.54%) Google
4 3 (11.54%) Informatica
5 1 (3.85%) Bloomberg
5 1 (3.85%) HubSpot
5 1 (3.85%) OpenAI
5 1 (3.85%) Refinitiv
5 1 (3.85%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.85%) Splunk