Apache Airflow Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Apache Airflow
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Apache Airflow skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 145 128 133
Rank change year-on-year -17 +5 +59
Contract jobs citing Apache Airflow 19 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.61% 0.16% 0.037%
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.73% 1.83% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 4 1
10th Percentile £402 £470 -
25th Percentile £406 £482 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £490 £313
Median % change year-on-year +4.39% +56.64% -39.02%
75th Percentile £532 £514 £319
90th Percentile £539 £558 -
England median daily rate £525 £763 £635
% change year-on-year -31.15% +20.08% +1.60%

All Application Platform Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 402 218 235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.01% 8.69% 8.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 128 161
10th Percentile £277 £209 £200
25th Percentile £401 £354 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £453 £400
Median % change year-on-year +4.97% +13.13% -19.19%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £538
90th Percentile £588 £626 £655
England median daily rate £500 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -3.38% +3.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 14
10th Percentile £15.28 £15.44 £13.42
25th Percentile £16.25 £16.63 £17.50
Median hourly rate £23.71 £18.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.71% -2.70% +9.24%
75th Percentile £27.21 £20.24 £21.06
90th Percentile - £24.29 £29.73
England median hourly rate £33.89 £42.50 £26.39
% change year-on-year -20.27% +61.05% +35.33%

Apache Airflow
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Apache Airflow job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Apache Airflow
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Apache Airflow

Apache Airflow
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache Airflow in the Midlands over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apache Airflow in the Midlands

Apache Airflow
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 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
West Midlands -14 16 £515 +5.21% 2
East Midlands - 3 £420 - 5
Apache Airflow
England

Apache Airflow
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 11 (57.89%) Apache Spark
2 9 (47.37%) Apache
3 8 (42.11%) SAS
4 3 (15.79%) Oracle Workflow
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) AWS
1 10 (52.63%) Azure
2 5 (26.32%) PaaS
3 4 (21.05%) GCP
4 3 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (10.53%) Amazon S3
5 2 (10.53%) GitHub
5 2 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) SSH
1 2 (10.53%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.26%) DNS
2 1 (5.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (57.89%) Hadoop
2 8 (42.11%) SAS Enterprise Guide
2 8 (42.11%) SAS Visual Analytics
3 7 (36.84%) Apache Hive
3 7 (36.84%) HBase
3 7 (36.84%) NoSQL
4 6 (31.58%) Big Data
5 5 (26.32%) Oracle Database
6 3 (15.79%) Metadata
6 3 (15.79%) SAS Data Integration Studio
7 2 (10.53%) Delta Lake
7 2 (10.53%) Parquet
7 2 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Git
2 3 (15.79%) GitLab
3 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
3 2 (10.53%) MLflow
3 2 (10.53%) SonarQube
3 2 (10.53%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (5.26%) Poetry
4 1 (5.26%) PyCharm
4 1 (5.26%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 5 (26.32%) Public Sector
3 4 (21.05%) Finance
4 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (15.79%) Banking
4 3 (15.79%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Release Manager
2 4 (21.05%) Data Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Hadoop Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Hadoop Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Scala Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Configuration Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Configuration Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Environment Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Lead
5 1 (5.26%) Lead Data Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) Spark Streaming
2 3 (15.79%) Kafka
3 2 (10.53%) Apache Avro
3 2 (10.53%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (10.53%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (10.53%) Flask
3 2 (10.53%) NumPy
3 2 (10.53%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Cloud Native
1 3 (15.79%) Data Centre
1 3 (15.79%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.26%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 6 (31.58%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (84.21%) CI/CD
2 14 (73.68%) Analytics
3 12 (63.16%) Data Pipeline
4 11 (57.89%) Configuration Management
5 10 (52.63%) Data Engineering
5 10 (52.63%) DevOps
6 9 (47.37%) Data Integration
7 8 (42.11%) Migration
7 8 (42.11%) Test Strategy
7 8 (42.11%) Visual Analytics
8 6 (31.58%) Data Analytics
8 6 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (26.32%) Containerisation
9 5 (26.32%) Data Governance
9 5 (26.32%) Data Science
9 5 (26.32%) Defect Management
9 5 (26.32%) Software Testing
9 5 (26.32%) Validation
10 4 (21.05%) Data Security
10 4 (21.05%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) Python
2 5 (26.32%) Scala
3 4 (21.05%) Shell Script
3 4 (21.05%) SQL
4 2 (10.53%) Bash
4 2 (10.53%) Groovy
4 2 (10.53%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (42.11%) Security Cleared
2 7 (36.84%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (26.32%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (36.84%) HDFS
2 5 (26.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (36.84%) Hadoop YARN
2 5 (26.32%) Kubernetes
3 3 (15.79%) Ansible
3 3 (15.79%) Oozie
3 3 (15.79%) Puppet
4 2 (10.53%) Argo
4 2 (10.53%) Istio
Vendors
1 8 (42.11%) Oracle
2 7 (36.84%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.53%) Cloudera
4 1 (5.26%) Google
4 1 (5.26%) Red Hat