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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 121 145
Rank change year-on-year +12 +24 +48
Contract jobs citing Apache Airflow 14 6 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.78% 0.29% 0.55%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.42% 2.52% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 13
10th Percentile £268 £553 £493
25th Percentile - £631 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £725 £625
Median % change year-on-year -24.14% +16.00% +10.13%
75th Percentile £588 £775 £700
90th Percentile £613 - £808
Central London median daily rate £550 £725 £625
% change year-on-year -24.14% +16.00% +10.62%

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 218 238 374
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 12.12% 11.50% 12.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 156 233
10th Percentile £275 £350 £260
25th Percentile £393 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.28% -0.27% +1.57%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £663
90th Percentile £725 £768 £754
Central London median daily rate £515 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -3.74% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £63.75 - -
25th Percentile £67.50 £112.50 £21.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 £125.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +455.56% -14.84%
75th Percentile £82.50 £137.50 £23.75
90th Percentile £86.25 - -
Central London median hourly rate £62.50 £35.00 £24.25
% change year-on-year +78.57% +44.33% -8.49%

Apache Airflow
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Apache Airflow as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Apache Airflow 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 10 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apache Airflow in the City of London

Apache Airflow
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (21.43%) Apache Spark
1 3 (21.43%) Luigi
2 2 (14.29%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 12 (85.71%) AWS
2 9 (64.29%) Azure
3 4 (28.57%) GCP
3 4 (28.57%) Snowflake
4 3 (21.43%) dbt
5 2 (14.29%) GitHub
6 1 (7.14%) Alation
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
6 1 (7.14%) ChatGPT
6 1 (7.14%) Dagster
6 1 (7.14%) Fivetran
6 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (7.14%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (7.14%) Matillion
6 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 4 (28.57%) Data Mining
2 4 (28.57%) Metadata
3 3 (21.43%) Big Data
3 3 (21.43%) Hadoop
4 2 (14.29%) MongoDB
4 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (14.29%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (7.14%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
5 1 (7.14%) Data Vault
5 1 (7.14%) Power BI
5 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
5 1 (7.14%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) Terragrunt
General
1 6 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Finance
2 4 (28.57%) Police
3 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (85.71%) Data Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) AWS Data Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Data Science Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Senior
2 2 (14.29%) Senior Data Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Snowflake Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Data Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Python Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) Kafka
2 1 (7.14%) GraphQL
2 1 (7.14%) JWT
2 1 (7.14%) Node.js
2 1 (7.14%) OAuth
2 1 (7.14%) OAuth2
2 1 (7.14%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) Data Modelling
2 10 (71.43%) Data Engineering
3 9 (64.29%) Data Pipeline
4 7 (50.00%) Analytics
4 7 (50.00%) Data Science
5 6 (42.86%) Data Governance
5 6 (42.86%) Data Integration
5 6 (42.86%) Decision-Making
5 6 (42.86%) ETL
6 5 (35.71%) Actionable Insight
7 4 (28.57%) Data Lineage
7 4 (28.57%) Data Management
7 4 (28.57%) Data Security
7 4 (28.57%) Data Strategy
7 4 (28.57%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 4 (28.57%) Metadata Management
7 4 (28.57%) Workflow
8 3 (21.43%) API Integration
8 3 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 13 (92.86%) Python
2 12 (85.71%) SQL
3 3 (21.43%) Java
4 2 (14.29%) R
4 2 (14.29%) Scala
5 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 1 (7.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) SnowPro
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) Data Quality
2 2 (14.29%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
1 1 (7.14%) MicroStrategy
1 1 (7.14%) Talend
1 1 (7.14%) Workday