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 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 198 200 249
Rank change year-on-year +2 +49 +132
Contract jobs citing Apache Airflow 184 185 158
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.29% 1.23% 0.84%
As % of the Application Platforms category 11.75% 10.29% 7.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 160 136
10th Percentile £419 £512 £450
25th Percentile £475 £600 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £775 £650
Median % change year-on-year -20.97% +19.23% -
75th Percentile £825 £888 £788
90th Percentile £875 - -
England median daily rate £525 £750 £625
% change year-on-year -30.00% +20.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £48.20 - -
25th Percentile £67.63 - -
Median hourly rate £105.00 - £85.00
75th Percentile £110.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £105.00 - £77.50
% change year-on-year - - +72.22%

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 1,566 1,797 2,062
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.96% 11.93% 10.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,082 1,165 1,441
10th Percentile £325 £303 £288
25th Percentile £413 £409 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £699 £650
90th Percentile £750 £825 £775
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 18 25
10th Percentile - £17.72 £18.60
25th Percentile £17.50 £21.70 £21.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.80 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.67% -13.45% +14.58%
75th Percentile £35.75 £41.18 £44.54
90th Percentile £60.32 £85.88 £64.50
England median hourly rate £32.77 £41.91 £25.00
% change year-on-year -21.81% +67.64% +37.17%

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 18 December 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Apache Airflow in London over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Apache Airflow in London

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 18 December 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
Central London +14 17 £563 -
South London -1 1 £515 -10.43% 2
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 64 (34.78%) Apache
2 34 (18.48%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.72%) Luigi
4 2 (1.09%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.54%) Apache Pig
5 1 (0.54%) Appian
5 1 (0.54%) Confluence
5 1 (0.54%) SAS
5 1 (0.54%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.54%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (1.09%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) SAP BPC
1 1 (0.54%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 134 (72.83%) AWS
2 91 (49.46%) dbt
3 69 (37.50%) Snowflake
4 51 (27.72%) Azure
4 51 (27.72%) GCP
5 42 (22.83%) GitHub
6 33 (17.93%) Amazon S3
7 32 (17.39%) GitHub Actions
8 20 (10.87%) Serverless
9 17 (9.24%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (8.15%) Power Platform
11 12 (6.52%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (5.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 9 (4.89%) Amazon EMR
13 9 (4.89%) AWS Step Functions
13 9 (4.89%) Azure Data Factory
13 9 (4.89%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (4.89%) Prefect
14 8 (4.35%) Amazon Kinesis
14 8 (4.35%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.09%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (24.46%) Amazon Athena
1 45 (24.46%) Data Lake
2 41 (22.28%) Data Warehouse
3 39 (21.20%) Apache Iceberg
4 35 (19.02%) Apache Arrow
4 35 (19.02%) Dremio
5 26 (14.13%) Amazon Redshift
6 24 (13.04%) Apache Ignite
7 23 (12.50%) BigQuery
8 20 (10.87%) PostgreSQL
9 15 (8.15%) Power BI
10 11 (5.98%) Amazon QuickSight
10 11 (5.98%) Star Schema
10 11 (5.98%) Tableau
11 10 (5.43%) Delta Lake
11 10 (5.43%) NoSQL
12 9 (4.89%) Big Data
13 8 (4.35%) Snowflake Schema
14 7 (3.80%) Relational Database
15 6 (3.26%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 29 (15.76%) Git
2 9 (4.89%) MLflow
3 8 (4.35%) GitLab
3 8 (4.35%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.09%) DBeaver
4 2 (1.09%) JIRA
4 2 (1.09%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.54%) ERwin
5 1 (0.54%) Poetry
5 1 (0.54%) Selenium
5 1 (0.54%) Terragrunt
General
1 57 (30.98%) Finance
2 36 (19.57%) Social Skills
3 35 (19.02%) Front Office
4 27 (14.67%) Banking
5 24 (13.04%) Investment Banking
6 19 (10.33%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (7.61%) Public Sector
8 7 (3.80%) Retail
9 6 (3.26%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.63%) Marketing
12 2 (1.09%) Legal
12 2 (1.09%) Military
12 2 (1.09%) Publishing
13 1 (0.54%) Advertising
13 1 (0.54%) Games
13 1 (0.54%) Law
13 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 79 (42.93%) Data Engineer
2 55 (29.89%) Senior
3 50 (27.17%) AWS Engineer
3 50 (27.17%) Python Engineer
4 35 (19.02%) AWS Software Engineer
4 35 (19.02%) Python Software Engineer
4 35 (19.02%) Software Engineer
5 25 (13.59%) Java Engineer
6 24 (13.04%) Java Software Engineer
6 24 (13.04%) Senior Data Engineer
7 23 (12.50%) Senior Java Engineer
7 23 (12.50%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 23 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
8 17 (9.24%) Developer
9 15 (8.15%) Python Developer
10 14 (7.61%) Architect
11 11 (5.98%) AWS Developer
11 11 (5.98%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 10 (5.43%) Lead
12 10 (5.43%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (23.91%) Pandas
2 40 (21.74%) NumPy
3 35 (19.02%) SciPy
4 28 (15.22%) Kafka
5 24 (13.04%) gRPC
5 24 (13.04%) Protocol Buffers
6 14 (7.61%) Node.js
6 14 (7.61%) PySpark
7 12 (6.52%) React
8 11 (5.98%) AngularJS
8 11 (5.98%) Vue
9 7 (3.80%) Jinja
9 7 (3.80%) pytest
9 7 (3.80%) PyTorch
9 7 (3.80%) Spark Streaming
10 6 (3.26%) scikit-learn
11 4 (2.17%) OAuth
11 4 (2.17%) REST
11 4 (2.17%) YAML
12 3 (1.63%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 37 (20.11%) Equities
2 35 (19.02%) Fixed Income
2 35 (19.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 28 (15.22%) Hedge funds
4 24 (13.04%) Derivative
4 24 (13.04%) Pricing Data
5 20 (10.87%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.72%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.72%) Genomics
6 5 (2.72%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.72%) Life Science
6 5 (2.72%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.63%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.63%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.09%) CUDA
9 2 (1.09%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.09%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.54%) Digital Media
10 1 (0.54%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.89%) Linux
2 1 (0.54%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (47.28%) Data Pipeline
2 69 (37.50%) Data Engineering
3 67 (36.41%) CI/CD
4 61 (33.15%) Agile
5 57 (30.98%) ETL
6 56 (30.43%) Data Modelling
7 52 (28.26%) Analytics
8 49 (26.63%) Software Engineering
9 44 (23.91%) Data Science
10 39 (21.20%) AI
10 39 (21.20%) DevOps
11 38 (20.65%) Machine Learning
12 37 (20.11%) Asset Management
13 35 (19.02%) Investment Management
14 30 (16.30%) Infrastructure as Code
15 24 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
16 23 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
17 22 (11.96%) Data Governance
18 21 (11.41%) Containerisation
19 19 (10.33%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 160 (86.96%) Python
2 102 (55.43%) SQL
3 37 (20.11%) JavaScript
4 36 (19.57%) TypeScript
5 33 (17.93%) Java
6 9 (4.89%) Scala
7 4 (2.17%) Bash
7 4 (2.17%) R
8 2 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.09%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.09%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.09%) SPARQL
9 1 (0.54%) Bicep
9 1 (0.54%) Go
9 1 (0.54%) Korn
9 1 (0.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (18.48%) Security Cleared
2 29 (15.76%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.07%) Degree
4 7 (3.80%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.63%) SnowPro
7 2 (1.09%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.54%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.54%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (19.02%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.98%) GDPR
3 5 (2.72%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.72%) QA
4 3 (1.63%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.54%) HL7
5 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.54%) SOC 2
System Software
1 40 (21.74%) Docker
2 3 (1.63%) HDFS
3 2 (1.09%) Ceph
3 2 (1.09%) Firmware
3 2 (1.09%) Lustre
3 2 (1.09%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 46 (25.00%) Terraform
2 20 (10.87%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.72%) Grafana
3 5 (2.72%) Kubeflow
4 3 (1.63%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.54%) Ansible
5 1 (0.54%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.54%) Istio
5 1 (0.54%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (13.04%) Databricks
2 16 (8.70%) Google
3 7 (3.80%) Informatica
4 5 (2.72%) Oracle
5 4 (2.17%) Microsoft
5 4 (2.17%) MicroStrategy
6 3 (1.63%) SAP
7 2 (1.09%) Cloudera
7 2 (1.09%) Dell
7 2 (1.09%) Denodo
7 2 (1.09%) Mellanox
7 2 (1.09%) New Relic
7 2 (1.09%) NVIDIA
7 2 (1.09%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.09%) SnapLogic
7 2 (1.09%) Supermicro
7 2 (1.09%) Talend
7 2 (1.09%) Teradata
8 1 (0.54%) Instagram
8 1 (0.54%) TikTok