Apache Airflow Contracts in England

Apache Airflow
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Apache Airflow skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Apache Airflow over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 259 285 450
Rank change year-on-year +26 +165 +92
Contract jobs citing Apache Airflow 239 281 206
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.98% 0.76% 0.41%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.48% 8.12% 3.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 249 163
10th Percentile £450 £462 £438
25th Percentile £513 £538 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £725 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +26.09% -4.17%
75th Percentile £838 £850 £700
90th Percentile £875 £888 £788
UK median daily rate £675 £720 £575
% change year-on-year -6.25% +25.22% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £78.75
25th Percentile - £31.25 £80.63
Median hourly rate - £32.50 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year - -61.76% -
75th Percentile - £33.75 £88.13
90th Percentile - - £89.25
UK median hourly rate - £32.50 £85.00
% change year-on-year - -61.76% +61.90%

All Application Platform Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 2,817 3,461 5,453
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.57% 9.31% 10.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,884 2,471 3,915
10th Percentile £283 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £360 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
75th Percentile £625 £608 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £754
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 139 128
10th Percentile £16.25 £13.00 £15.38
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.00 £18.13
Median hourly rate £52.50 £27.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +90.91% -12.00% +49.59%
75th Percentile £64.50 £45.59 £66.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £65.00 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £27.52 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.01% -31.21% +81.82%

Apache Airflow
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Apache Airflow in England

Apache Airflow
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Apache Airflow in England.

Daily rate trend for Apache Airflow in England

Apache Airflow
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache Airflow in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apache Airflow in England

Apache Airflow
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Apache Airflow in England.

Hourly rate trend for Apache Airflow in England

Apache Airflow
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Apache Airflow within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +2 196 £750 +3.45% 139
North of England +34 25 £475 -6.86% 11
North West +27 15 £463 -9.31% 8
Yorkshire +12 9 £538 +19.44% 3
East of England +32 5 £315 -40.00% 9
Midlands +24 4 £563 +25.00% 3
West Midlands +15 3 £650 +44.44% 2
South West +46 1 £500 +42.86% 11
North East - 1 £450 -
East Midlands - 1 £475 - 1
Apache Airflow
UK

Apache Airflow
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 125 (52.30%) Apache
2 51 (21.34%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.26%) Luigi
4 2 (0.84%) Confluence
4 2 (0.84%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 185 (77.41%) AWS
2 161 (67.36%) dbt
3 90 (37.66%) Snowflake
4 83 (34.73%) GCP
5 47 (19.67%) Amazon ECS
6 42 (17.57%) Azure
7 38 (15.90%) Serverless
8 37 (15.48%) AWS Lambda
9 32 (13.39%) Amazon EC2
10 30 (12.55%) Amazon EKS
10 30 (12.55%) Dagster
10 30 (12.55%) GitHub
10 30 (12.55%) OpenShift
11 22 (9.21%) Amazon S3
12 13 (5.44%) Power Platform
13 8 (3.35%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (2.51%) Cloud Computing
15 4 (1.67%) Alation
15 4 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 4 (1.67%) Amazon Kinesis
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (48.54%) Amazon Athena
2 114 (47.70%) Apache Iceberg
3 111 (46.44%) Dremio
4 100 (41.84%) Apache Arrow
5 68 (28.45%) Apache Ignite
6 55 (23.01%) Data Lake
7 38 (15.90%) Data Warehouse
8 25 (10.46%) PostgreSQL
9 24 (10.04%) BigQuery
10 20 (8.37%) Amazon Redshift
11 17 (7.11%) Big Data
12 15 (6.28%) Tableau
13 13 (5.44%) Power BI
14 10 (4.18%) Flink
14 10 (4.18%) Snowflake Schema
15 9 (3.77%) Hadoop
16 8 (3.35%) Looker
17 7 (2.93%) Amazon RDS
17 7 (2.93%) Data Vault
17 7 (2.93%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (11.72%) Artifactory
2 15 (6.28%) Git
3 11 (4.60%) GitLab
4 4 (1.67%) SonarQube
4 4 (1.67%) Terragrunt
5 2 (0.84%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.84%) MLflow
6 1 (0.42%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.42%) JIRA
General
1 128 (53.56%) Finance
2 112 (46.86%) Front Office
3 59 (24.69%) Banking
4 45 (18.83%) Investment Banking
5 30 (12.55%) Social Skills
6 13 (5.44%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (3.35%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (1.67%) Retail
9 3 (1.26%) Legal
10 2 (0.84%) Police
11 1 (0.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.42%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 129 (53.97%) Data Engineer
2 126 (52.72%) AWS Engineer
3 99 (41.42%) Python Engineer
4 72 (30.13%) AWS Software Engineer
4 72 (30.13%) Software Engineer
5 52 (21.76%) Developer
6 47 (19.67%) Python Software Engineer
7 45 (18.83%) Senior
8 43 (17.99%) AWS Developer
8 43 (17.99%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 41 (17.15%) DevOps Engineer
10 37 (15.48%) AWS DevOps
10 37 (15.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 37 (15.48%) Java Engineer
10 37 (15.48%) Java Software Engineer
11 33 (13.81%) Python Developer
12 25 (10.46%) Snowflake Engineer
13 21 (8.79%) Python Data Engineer
13 21 (8.79%) Senior Software Engineer
14 20 (8.37%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (35.98%) PySpark
2 70 (29.29%) NumPy
2 70 (29.29%) Pandas
3 67 (28.03%) SciPy
4 50 (20.92%) Kafka
5 40 (16.74%) gRPC
5 40 (16.74%) Protocol Buffers
6 31 (12.97%) AngularJS
6 31 (12.97%) React
7 28 (11.72%) J2EE
7 28 (11.72%) Node.js
8 27 (11.30%) Vue
9 11 (4.60%) Redux
10 8 (3.35%) Apache NiFi
10 8 (3.35%) pytest
11 5 (2.09%) Jinja
12 3 (1.26%) Keycloak
13 2 (0.84%) AWS CDK
13 2 (0.84%) Polars
13 2 (0.84%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 74 (30.96%) Fixed Income
2 55 (23.01%) Equities
2 55 (23.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 45 (18.83%) Derivative
3 45 (18.83%) Hedge funds
4 12 (5.02%) Pricing Data
5 9 (3.77%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.51%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.09%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.84%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.84%) Educational Technology
9 2 (0.84%) Genomics
9 2 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.84%) Omics
9 2 (0.84%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.42%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.42%) Blockchain
10 1 (0.42%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.42%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.77%) Linux
2 3 (1.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (50.21%) Agile
2 116 (48.54%) Software Engineering
3 111 (46.44%) Asset Management
4 78 (32.64%) Data Engineering
5 69 (28.87%) Data Pipeline
6 57 (23.85%) ETL
7 54 (22.59%) CI/CD
8 53 (22.18%) Analytics
9 51 (21.34%) DevOps
10 48 (20.08%) Investment Management
11 44 (18.41%) Data Modelling
12 39 (16.32%) Fintech
13 33 (13.81%) Data Management
14 32 (13.39%) Open Source
15 28 (11.72%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 27 (11.30%) Data Science
16 27 (11.30%) Performance Attribution
17 24 (10.04%) Migration
18 22 (9.21%) Visualisation
19 21 (8.79%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 208 (87.03%) Python
2 102 (42.68%) SQL
3 100 (41.84%) Java
4 58 (24.27%) JavaScript
5 56 (23.43%) TypeScript
6 28 (11.72%) Go
7 7 (2.93%) Scala
8 5 (2.09%) R
9 2 (0.84%) C#
10 1 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (10.46%) Security Cleared
2 21 (8.79%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.09%) DV Cleared
4 4 (1.67%) AWS Certification
4 4 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (1.67%) Degree
5 3 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.42%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (12.55%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.93%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.93%) GDPR
3 4 (1.67%) QA
4 1 (0.42%) HIPAA
System Software
1 47 (19.67%) Docker
2 2 (0.84%) HDFS
3 1 (0.42%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 54 (22.59%) Terraform
2 53 (22.18%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.42%) Ansible
3 1 (0.42%) Argo
3 1 (0.42%) Kubeflow
3 1 (0.42%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.42%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (7.11%) Google
2 8 (3.35%) Databricks
3 6 (2.51%) Informatica
3 6 (2.51%) Palantir
4 4 (1.67%) MicroStrategy
5 3 (1.26%) Microsoft
5 3 (1.26%) Virgin Media
6 2 (0.84%) Confluent
6 2 (0.84%) Cribl.io
6 2 (0.84%) IBM
6 2 (0.84%) New Relic
6 2 (0.84%) Splunk
6 2 (0.84%) Talend
6 2 (0.84%) Teradata
7 1 (0.42%) Checkmarx
7 1 (0.42%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.42%) GoldenSource
7 1 (0.42%) SAP
7 1 (0.42%) TSYS
7 1 (0.42%) VMware