Apache Airflow Contract Job Trends in London

Apache Airflow
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Apache Airflow skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 159 119
Rank change year-on-year -65 -40 +154
Contract jobs citing Apache Airflow 242 221 363
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.20% 1.64% 2.23%
As % of the Application Platforms category 11.67% 14.20% 17.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 175 338
10th Percentile £413 £450 £538
25th Percentile £500 £513 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £715 £800
Median % change year-on-year -20.98% -10.63% +28.00%
75th Percentile £666 £825 £888
90th Percentile £753 £875 -
England median daily rate £535 £550 £800
% change year-on-year -2.73% -31.25% +28.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £48.20 -
25th Percentile £61.00 £67.63 -
Median hourly rate £67.00 £105.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -36.19% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £110.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £105.00 -
% change year-on-year -36.19% - -

All Application Platform Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 2,073 1,556 2,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.25% 11.57% 12.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,376 1,040 1,464
10th Percentile £313 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £617 £669 £763
90th Percentile £709 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 24 28
10th Percentile £19.03 £24.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £22.83 £26.00 £21.75
Median hourly rate £28.40 £33.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.24% +9.84% -3.17%
75th Percentile £41.68 £53.75 £43.44
90th Percentile £73.30 £88.38 £75.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £41.45 £47.50
% change year-on-year -21.59% -12.74% +2.86%

Apache Airflow
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Apache Airflow relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Apache Airflow job vacancy trend in London

Apache Airflow
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Apache Airflow
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache Airflow in London over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Apache Airflow in London

Apache Airflow
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Apache Airflow.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Apache Airflow

Apache Airflow
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 13 September 2026. 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
Central London -6 33 £575 +4.55% 15
West London -17 5 £500 +0.76% 6
Apache Airflow
England

Apache Airflow
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 79 (32.64%) Apache
2 63 (26.03%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.65%) Confluence
3 4 (1.65%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.83%) SAS
5 1 (0.41%) Luigi
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.41%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 5 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.83%) BambooHR
1 2 (0.83%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.41%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 162 (66.94%) AWS
2 131 (54.13%) dbt
3 114 (47.11%) Snowflake
4 107 (44.21%) Azure
5 81 (33.47%) GCP
6 56 (23.14%) Amazon S3
7 41 (16.94%) GitHub
8 35 (14.46%) AWS Lambda
9 31 (12.81%) Serverless
10 30 (12.40%) Azure Data Factory
11 29 (11.98%) Dagster
12 28 (11.57%) GitHub Actions
12 28 (11.57%) Power Platform
13 27 (11.16%) Azure DevOps
14 24 (9.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 17 (7.02%) Prefect
16 13 (5.37%) Amazon Kinesis
17 11 (4.55%) Fivetran
18 10 (4.13%) Amazon EMR
19 9 (3.72%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.83%) Network Security
2 1 (0.41%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.41%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (38.84%) Data Warehouse
2 47 (19.42%) BigQuery
3 36 (14.88%) Data Lake
4 35 (14.46%) Amazon Redshift
5 29 (11.98%) Delta Lake
5 29 (11.98%) Metadata
6 28 (11.57%) Power BI
7 27 (11.16%) PostgreSQL
8 21 (8.68%) Big Data
8 21 (8.68%) Snowflake Schema
9 19 (7.85%) SQL Server
10 17 (7.02%) Data Vault
10 17 (7.02%) Tableau
11 16 (6.61%) NoSQL
12 14 (5.79%) MongoDB
13 12 (4.96%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (4.96%) Relational Database
14 11 (4.55%) Looker
15 10 (4.13%) Amazon Athena
15 10 (4.13%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 52 (21.49%) Git
2 17 (7.02%) Jenkins
3 13 (5.37%) GitLab
4 9 (3.72%) Terragrunt
5 7 (2.89%) MLflow
6 6 (2.48%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.65%) JIRA
8 3 (1.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (1.24%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.41%) Selenium
General
1 82 (33.88%) Finance
2 48 (19.83%) Social Skills
3 44 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (10.33%) Banking
5 11 (4.55%) Retail
6 9 (3.72%) Marketing
7 8 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.48%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.07%) Billing
9 5 (2.07%) Legal
10 4 (1.65%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.65%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.24%) Aviation
11 3 (1.24%) Back Office
11 3 (1.24%) Front Office
11 3 (1.24%) Local Government
11 3 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.24%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.83%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 148 (61.16%) Data Engineer
2 55 (22.73%) Senior
3 43 (17.77%) Senior Data Engineer
4 31 (12.81%) Snowflake Engineer
5 28 (11.57%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 25 (10.33%) Architect
7 24 (9.92%) AWS Engineer
8 22 (9.09%) Lead
9 18 (7.44%) AWS Data Engineer
10 16 (6.61%) Data Architect
10 16 (6.61%) Databricks Data Engineer
10 16 (6.61%) Databricks Engineer
11 12 (4.96%) GCP Engineer
12 11 (4.55%) Lead Data Engineer
12 11 (4.55%) Python Engineer
13 10 (4.13%) GCP Data Engineer
13 10 (4.13%) Python Data Engineer
14 9 (3.72%) Technical Leader
15 7 (2.89%) Developer
16 6 (2.48%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (24.79%) Terraform
2 57 (23.55%) Kafka
3 50 (20.66%) PySpark
4 13 (5.37%) Pandas
5 12 (4.96%) REST
6 10 (4.13%) NumPy
6 10 (4.13%) scikit-learn
7 9 (3.72%) Spring
7 9 (3.72%) Spring Boot
8 8 (3.31%) Apache Beam
8 8 (3.31%) GraphQL
9 6 (2.48%) pytest
10 5 (2.07%) Apache NiFi
10 5 (2.07%) CSS
10 5 (2.07%) HTML
10 5 (2.07%) OAuth
10 5 (2.07%) OpenID
10 5 (2.07%) Play Framework
11 4 (1.65%) Matplotlib
11 4 (1.65%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 47 (19.42%) Cloud Native
2 18 (7.44%) Product Ownership
3 11 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (3.72%) Reinsurance
5 7 (2.89%) AI Agents
5 7 (2.89%) Algorithms
6 6 (2.48%) Clustering
6 6 (2.48%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.65%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.65%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.65%) Reference Data
7 4 (1.65%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.24%) Replication
8 3 (1.24%) Taxonomies
9 2 (0.83%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.83%) Music Streaming
9 2 (0.83%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.79%) Linux
2 10 (4.13%) Unix
3 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.41%) Robot Operating System
3 1 (0.41%) Windows
3 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (54.96%) Data Engineering
2 131 (54.13%) CI/CD
3 129 (53.31%) Data Pipeline
4 116 (47.93%) Analytics
5 110 (45.45%) Data Modelling
6 101 (41.74%) ETL
7 72 (29.75%) AI
8 68 (28.10%) Agile
9 65 (26.86%) DevOps
10 58 (23.97%) Data Governance
11 55 (22.73%) Machine Learning
12 47 (19.42%) Data Science
13 45 (18.60%) Data Transformation
13 45 (18.60%) Infrastructure as Code
14 43 (17.77%) Lakehouse
15 42 (17.36%) Data Architecture
16 40 (16.53%) Performance Optimisation
17 38 (15.70%) Stakeholder Management
17 38 (15.70%) Test Automation
17 38 (15.70%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 183 (75.62%) Python
2 170 (70.25%) SQL
3 42 (17.36%) Java
4 28 (11.57%) Scala
5 14 (5.79%) Bash
6 9 (3.72%) Shell Script
7 8 (3.31%) JavaScript
8 5 (2.07%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.24%) Cypher
9 3 (1.24%) Gremlin
9 3 (1.24%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.24%) SPARQL
10 2 (0.83%) Bicep
10 2 (0.83%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.83%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.41%) C#
11 1 (0.41%) COBOL
11 1 (0.41%) Go
11 1 (0.41%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.41%) LookML
Qualifications
1 19 (7.85%) Security Cleared
2 14 (5.79%) Degree
3 12 (4.96%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (2.07%) DBS Check
5 4 (1.65%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.65%) SnowPro
6 3 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.83%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.83%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.41%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.41%) CISM
8 1 (0.41%) CISSP
8 1 (0.41%) PhD
8 1 (0.41%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.41%) PMP
8 1 (0.41%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (42.15%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.13%) GDPR
3 8 (3.31%) QA
4 5 (2.07%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.83%) EMIR
5 2 (0.83%) MiFID
6 1 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.41%) GRC
6 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 59 (24.38%) Docker
2 2 (0.83%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 40 (16.53%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.89%) Grafana
3 6 (2.48%) Control-M
4 5 (2.07%) Ansible
4 5 (2.07%) Kibana
5 4 (1.65%) Kubeflow
5 4 (1.65%) Puppet
6 2 (0.83%) Packer
6 2 (0.83%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 79 (32.64%) Databricks
2 25 (10.33%) Google
3 22 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 17 (7.02%) Informatica
5 10 (4.13%) Splunk
6 8 (3.31%) MicroStrategy
6 8 (3.31%) Talend
7 6 (2.48%) Oracle
7 6 (2.48%) Teradata
8 5 (2.07%) Cloudera
8 5 (2.07%) Denodo
8 5 (2.07%) New Relic
8 5 (2.07%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.65%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.83%) GoldenSource
10 2 (0.83%) Hitachi
10 2 (0.83%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.83%) SAP
10 2 (0.83%) Workday
11 1 (0.41%) Refinitiv