Apache Airflow Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Apache Airflow
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Apache Airflow skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 75 94
Rank change year-on-year +17 +19 +37
Contract jobs citing Apache Airflow 11 5 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.75% 0.62% 0.092%
As % of the Application Platforms category 17.19% 6.17% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £456 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +67.94%
75th Percentile £484 - -
90th Percentile £494 - -
Scotland median daily rate £500 £460 £550
% change year-on-year +8.70% -16.36% +67.94%

All Application Platform Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 64 81 122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 10.19% 9.99% 11.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 37 86
10th Percentile £207 £149 £164
25th Percentile £411 £178 £286
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% -11.11% -3.12%
75th Percentile £506 £450 £520
90th Percentile £583 £546 £600
Scotland median daily rate £442 £436 £500
% change year-on-year +1.32% -12.85% +7.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile £55.13 £15.44 -
25th Percentile £57.19 £18.14 £57.50
Median hourly rate £63.75 £22.23 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +186.74% -62.95% +236.04%
75th Percentile £69.69 £24.18 £62.50
90th Percentile £71.38 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £57.50 £22.23 £45.00
% change year-on-year +158.63% -50.59% +153.95%

Apache Airflow
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Apache Airflow as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Apache Airflow in Edinburgh

Apache Airflow
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Apache Airflow.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Apache Airflow

Apache Airflow
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 5 (45.45%) Apache
2 2 (18.18%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) AWS
2 8 (72.73%) Amazon S3
3 7 (63.64%) Snowflake
4 4 (36.36%) Amazon EMR
5 3 (27.27%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (27.27%) Azure
5 3 (27.27%) GCP
6 2 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (18.18%) Serverless
7 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (9.09%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (36.36%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (18.18%) Big Data
3 2 (18.18%) Hadoop
3 2 (18.18%) PowerCenter
3 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
4 1 (9.09%) Apache Hive
4 1 (9.09%) Data Mart
4 1 (9.09%) Delta Lake
4 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) GitLab
2 1 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) Selenium
2 1 (9.09%) Zephyr
General
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Banking
2 4 (36.36%) Finance
3 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Marketing
4 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Data Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) Senior
2 5 (45.45%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Data Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Informatica Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Python Data Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Python Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Snowflake Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Data Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Open Source Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Test Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) PySpark
2 2 (18.18%) Pandas
3 1 (9.09%) AWS CDK
3 1 (9.09%) boto
3 1 (9.09%) FastAPI
3 1 (9.09%) Great Expectations
3 1 (9.09%) Hugging Face
3 1 (9.09%) JWT
3 1 (9.09%) NumPy
3 1 (9.09%) OAuth
3 1 (9.09%) OpenCV
3 1 (9.09%) PyTorch
3 1 (9.09%) REST
3 1 (9.09%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (18.18%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
2 1 (9.09%) Algorithms
2 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 1 (9.09%) Mobile App
2 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) ETL
2 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
2 6 (54.55%) Data Engineering
2 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (45.45%) Analytics
3 5 (45.45%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (36.36%) Data Integration
5 3 (27.27%) Agile
5 3 (27.27%) Data Governance
5 3 (27.27%) Data Management
5 3 (27.27%) Data Migration
5 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
5 3 (27.27%) Data Science
5 3 (27.27%) Migration
6 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
6 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
6 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
6 2 (18.18%) Validation
6 2 (18.18%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) SQL
2 5 (45.45%) Python
3 2 (18.18%) T-SQL
4 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) Data Quality
2 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Grafana
2 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Informatica
2 2 (18.18%) Teradata
3 1 (9.09%) Google
3 1 (9.09%) IBM
3 1 (9.09%) StreamSets
3 1 (9.09%) TSYS