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 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 106 119
Rank change year-on-year +7 +13 +38
Contract jobs citing Apache Airflow 28 11 7
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.18% 0.65% 0.32%
As % of the Application Platforms category 14.89% 5.64% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 8 6
10th Percentile £420 £468 £438
25th Percentile £450 - £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -8.33% -15.79%
75th Percentile £588 £635 £744
90th Percentile £661 £795 £763
Central London median daily rate £563 £550 £625
% change year-on-year +2.27% -12.00% -12.28%

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 188 195 294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 7.90% 11.44% 13.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 103 219
10th Percentile £361 £313 £252
25th Percentile £431 £398 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £504 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £613 £624
90th Percentile £725 £725 £725
Central London median daily rate £525 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £19.64 - -
25th Percentile £20.23 £86.25 -
Median hourly rate £21.33 £87.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -75.62% +118.75% -23.81%
75th Percentile £22.31 £88.75 -
90th Percentile £22.82 - -
Central London median hourly rate £23.00 £56.98 £40.00
% change year-on-year -59.63% +42.44% -23.81%

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 8 June 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 (21.43%) Apache
1 6 (21.43%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 5 (17.86%) BambooHR
Cloud Services
1 20 (71.43%) Snowflake
2 18 (64.29%) AWS
3 15 (53.57%) dbt
4 12 (42.86%) Power Platform
5 10 (35.71%) Azure
5 10 (35.71%) Prefect
6 7 (25.00%) Amazon S3
6 7 (25.00%) GCP
7 6 (21.43%) Dagster
8 4 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (10.71%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (10.71%) Serverless
10 2 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (7.14%) Fivetran
10 2 (7.14%) GitHub
11 1 (3.57%) Amazon SageMaker
11 1 (3.57%) AWS CodePipeline
11 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (39.29%) Power BI
3 9 (32.14%) Tableau
4 6 (21.43%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (21.43%) Looker
4 6 (21.43%) Snowflake Schema
5 5 (17.86%) BigQuery
5 5 (17.86%) SQL Server
6 3 (10.71%) Data Lake
7 2 (7.14%) Delta Lake
7 2 (7.14%) Metadata
7 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (7.14%) Spark SQL
7 2 (7.14%) Star Schema
8 1 (3.57%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (3.57%) Big Data
8 1 (3.57%) Data Vault
8 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
8 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
8 1 (3.57%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (21.43%) Git
2 2 (7.14%) GitLab
3 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.57%) MLflow
General
1 13 (46.43%) Finance
2 5 (17.86%) Legal
3 4 (14.29%) Telecoms
4 2 (7.14%) Banking
5 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (75.00%) Data Engineer
2 11 (39.29%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 11 (39.29%) Snowflake Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) AWS Data Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Senior
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) AWS DevOps
7 1 (3.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Data Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Big Data Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Data Analytics Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Hadoop Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Senior Big Data Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Senior Hadoop Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Site Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (32.14%) Kafka
2 4 (14.29%) PySpark
3 2 (7.14%) Spring
3 2 (7.14%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.57%) FastAPI
4 1 (3.57%) NumPy
4 1 (3.57%) Pandas
4 1 (3.57%) PyTorch
4 1 (3.57%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 4 (14.29%) Clustering
3 1 (3.57%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.57%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (67.86%) Data Pipeline
2 18 (64.29%) Data Engineering
3 17 (60.71%) Analytics
3 17 (60.71%) CI/CD
4 16 (57.14%) ETL
5 13 (46.43%) Data Modelling
6 12 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
7 11 (39.29%) DevOps
8 9 (32.14%) Validation
9 8 (28.57%) Test Automation
10 7 (25.00%) AI
10 7 (25.00%) Data Governance
10 7 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
11 6 (21.43%) Performance Optimisation
11 6 (21.43%) Use Case
12 5 (17.86%) Data Science
12 5 (17.86%) Decision-Making
12 5 (17.86%) Migration
12 5 (17.86%) People Analytics
12 5 (17.86%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 26 (92.86%) Python
2 21 (75.00%) SQL
3 2 (7.14%) Java
4 1 (3.57%) C#
4 1 (3.57%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) DBS Check
2 2 (7.14%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 7 (25.00%) GDPR
3 2 (7.14%) EMIR
3 2 (7.14%) MiFID
4 1 (3.57%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (17.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.71%) Terraform
3 1 (3.57%) Ansible
3 1 (3.57%) Grafana
3 1 (3.57%) Packer
3 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (28.57%) Databricks
2 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.86%) Workday
3 3 (10.71%) Google
3 3 (10.71%) Informatica
4 1 (3.57%) HubSpot
4 1 (3.57%) OpenAI
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle
4 1 (3.57%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.57%) Splunk