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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 255 198 375
Rank change year-on-year -57 +177 +152
Contract jobs citing Apache Airflow 283 422 250
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.02% 1.27% 0.56%
As % of the Application Platforms category 9.21% 12.05% 5.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 388 206
10th Percentile £412 £460 £435
25th Percentile £475 £650 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £800 £600
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +33.33% -
75th Percentile £825 £888 £704
90th Percentile £875 - £788
UK median daily rate £575 £800 £600
% change year-on-year -28.13% +33.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £100.00 £31.25 £76.25
Median hourly rate £105.00 £32.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +223.08% -59.38% +45.45%
75th Percentile £110.00 £33.75 £85.00
90th Percentile - - £88.00
UK median hourly rate £105.00 £32.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year +223.08% -59.38% +45.45%

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 3,072 3,503 4,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.11% 10.51% 10.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,033 2,490 3,236
10th Percentile £280 £290 £258
25th Percentile £400 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £850 £750
UK median daily rate £485 £520 £513
% change year-on-year -6.73% +1.46% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 91 139
10th Percentile £17.15 £16.00 £14.92
25th Percentile £26.00 £23.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £42.27 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.77% -22.22% +104.55%
75th Percentile £66.44 £70.00 £71.38
90th Percentile £78.88 £75.00 £78.84
UK median hourly rate £43.09 £32.50 £48.50
% change year-on-year +32.58% -32.99% +115.56%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -61 216 £750 -6.25% 189
North of England +2 29 £475 +5.56% 14
North West +3 14 £475 +5.56% 13
Midlands -1 14 £515 +14.44% 10
Yorkshire -9 14 £425 -4.23% 1
West Midlands -3 12 £519 +15.22% 10
South East +26 9 £500 +37.93% 42
East of England +15 5 £450 -14.29% 2
South West +28 3 £253 -45.00% 7
East Midlands - 2 £415 -
North East - 1 £450 -
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
1 101 (35.69%) Apache
2 35 (12.37%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.83%) SAS
4 6 (2.12%) Luigi
5 3 (1.06%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.35%) Confluence
6 1 (0.35%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.71%) Abaqus
1 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) Maple
2 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.71%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.35%) Endur
2 1 (0.35%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 212 (74.91%) AWS
2 174 (61.48%) dbt
3 113 (39.93%) Snowflake
4 90 (31.80%) GCP
5 71 (25.09%) Azure
6 49 (17.31%) GitHub
7 35 (12.37%) Amazon S3
8 25 (8.83%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (6.71%) Power Platform
10 16 (5.65%) Serverless
11 15 (5.30%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (5.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 12 (4.24%) Azure Data Factory
13 11 (3.89%) Azure DevOps
14 10 (3.53%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (3.53%) Cloud Computing
15 9 (3.18%) Amazon EKS
16 8 (2.83%) PaaS
17 7 (2.47%) Amazon EMR
18 6 (2.12%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.06%) SSH
1 3 (1.06%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.71%) DNS
2 2 (0.71%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (34.98%) Amazon Athena
2 93 (32.86%) Apache Iceberg
3 91 (32.16%) Apache Arrow
3 91 (32.16%) Dremio
4 67 (23.67%) Data Lake
5 60 (21.20%) Data Warehouse
6 45 (15.90%) Apache Ignite
7 44 (15.55%) PostgreSQL
8 32 (11.31%) BigQuery
9 28 (9.89%) Amazon Redshift
10 20 (7.07%) Tableau
11 19 (6.71%) Power BI
12 18 (6.36%) Big Data
13 17 (6.01%) NoSQL
13 17 (6.01%) Relational Database
14 15 (5.30%) Snowflake Schema
15 14 (4.95%) Hadoop
16 12 (4.24%) Delta Lake
16 12 (4.24%) Metadata
17 11 (3.89%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 28 (9.89%) Git
2 15 (5.30%) MLflow
3 12 (4.24%) GitLab
4 10 (3.53%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.77%) JIRA
5 5 (1.77%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.41%) Terragrunt
7 2 (0.71%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.71%) Poetry
7 2 (0.71%) PyCharm
7 2 (0.71%) Snakemake
7 2 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.35%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.35%) ERwin
General
1 108 (38.16%) Finance
2 91 (32.16%) Front Office
3 64 (22.61%) Social Skills
4 59 (20.85%) Banking
5 56 (19.79%) Investment Banking
6 24 (8.48%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (5.30%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.12%) Advertising
8 6 (2.12%) Marketing
9 4 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.41%) Police
9 4 (1.41%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.06%) Legal
10 3 (1.06%) Retail
11 2 (0.71%) Military
11 2 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.35%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.35%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.35%) Publishing
12 1 (0.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 114 (40.28%) AWS Engineer
2 109 (38.52%) Data Engineer
3 91 (32.16%) Python Engineer
3 91 (32.16%) Senior
4 89 (31.45%) AWS Software Engineer
4 89 (31.45%) Software Engineer
5 70 (24.73%) Python Software Engineer
6 62 (21.91%) Java Engineer
7 61 (21.55%) Java Software Engineer
8 58 (20.49%) Developer
9 46 (16.25%) AWS Developer
9 46 (16.25%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 43 (15.19%) Senior Java Engineer
10 43 (15.19%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 43 (15.19%) Senior Software Engineer
11 39 (13.78%) Senior Data Engineer
12 32 (11.31%) Python Developer
13 24 (8.48%) Snowflake Engineer
14 20 (7.07%) Architect
15 18 (6.36%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (28.98%) Pandas
2 81 (28.62%) NumPy
3 77 (27.21%) SciPy
4 43 (15.19%) gRPC
4 43 (15.19%) Protocol Buffers
5 36 (12.72%) Node.js
6 34 (12.01%) AngularJS
6 34 (12.01%) React
6 34 (12.01%) Vue
7 31 (10.95%) Kafka
8 27 (9.54%) PySpark
9 8 (2.83%) Jinja
10 7 (2.47%) Apache NiFi
10 7 (2.47%) Flask
11 6 (2.12%) Great Expectations
12 5 (1.77%) GraphQL
12 5 (1.77%) pytest
13 4 (1.41%) FastAPI
14 3 (1.06%) AWS CDK
14 3 (1.06%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 89 (31.45%) Fixed Income
2 85 (30.04%) Equities
2 85 (30.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 55 (19.43%) Derivative
3 55 (19.43%) Hedge funds
4 42 (14.84%) Pricing Data
5 24 (8.48%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.12%) Digital Media
6 6 (2.12%) Marketing Technology
6 6 (2.12%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.77%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.41%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.06%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.06%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.71%) Educational Technology
10 2 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.71%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.41%) Linux
2 2 (0.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (41.70%) Agile
2 100 (35.34%) Software Engineering
3 99 (34.98%) Data Pipeline
4 92 (32.51%) Asset Management
5 84 (29.68%) ETL
6 77 (27.21%) Data Modelling
7 76 (26.86%) Investment Management
8 73 (25.80%) CI/CD
9 72 (25.44%) Analytics
9 72 (25.44%) Data Engineering
10 51 (18.02%) Data Science
11 48 (16.96%) DevOps
12 40 (14.13%) Fintech
12 40 (14.13%) Order Management
13 36 (12.72%) Problem-Solving
14 35 (12.37%) Risk Management
15 34 (12.01%) Data Integration
15 34 (12.01%) Performance Attribution
16 33 (11.66%) Data Governance
16 33 (11.66%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 219 (77.39%) Python
2 126 (44.52%) SQL
3 80 (28.27%) Java
4 77 (27.21%) JavaScript
4 77 (27.21%) TypeScript
5 15 (5.30%) Scala
6 4 (1.41%) Bash
7 3 (1.06%) Groovy
7 3 (1.06%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.71%) ANSI SQL
8 2 (0.71%) C++
8 2 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.71%) Go
8 2 (0.71%) R
8 2 (0.71%) SPARQL
8 2 (0.71%) Tcl
9 1 (0.35%) Korn
9 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (14.49%) Security Cleared
2 37 (13.07%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.30%) Degree
4 8 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.47%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.77%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.71%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.35%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.35%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.35%) PMP
10 1 (0.35%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (18.02%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.47%) GDPR
2 7 (2.47%) QA
3 6 (2.12%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.06%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.35%) HL7
6 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 37 (13.07%) Docker
2 2 (0.71%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.71%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 38 (13.43%) Terraform
2 28 (9.89%) Kubernetes
3 9 (3.18%) Kubeflow
4 3 (1.06%) Argo
4 3 (1.06%) Grafana
4 3 (1.06%) Istio
4 3 (1.06%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.71%) Control-M
5 2 (0.71%) Hadoop YARN
5 2 (0.71%) Oozie
6 1 (0.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (7.42%) Google
2 19 (6.71%) Databricks
3 14 (4.95%) Oracle
4 13 (4.59%) Microsoft
5 11 (3.89%) Informatica
6 7 (2.47%) Teradata
7 6 (2.12%) MicroStrategy
8 5 (1.77%) StreamSets
9 4 (1.41%) Palantir
9 4 (1.41%) Talend
10 3 (1.06%) Cloudera
10 3 (1.06%) Virgin Media
11 2 (0.71%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.71%) SAP
12 1 (0.35%) GoldenSource
12 1 (0.35%) Salesforce
12 1 (0.35%) SnapLogic
12 1 (0.35%) TSYS
12 1 (0.35%) Zoomdata