Apache Airflow Contracts in the Midlands

Apache Airflow
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 127 151
Rank change year-on-year -3 +24 +58
Contract jobs citing Apache Airflow 8 4 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.33% 0.15% 0.065%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.29% 1.65% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 2
10th Percentile £381 £375 -
25th Percentile £403 £394 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year -7.78% -6.25% -6.34%
75th Percentile £473 £481 -
90th Percentile £581 £485 -
England median daily rate £675 £800 £600
% change year-on-year -15.63% +33.33% -

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 243 243 332
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 9.87% 9.14% 10.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 161 244
10th Percentile £270 £255 £186
25th Percentile £333 £350 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £420 £425
Median % change year-on-year +1.19% -1.18% -5.56%
75th Percentile £513 £550 £540
90th Percentile £588 £638 £600
England median daily rate £493 £525 £523
% change year-on-year -6.19% +0.48% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 15 6
10th Percentile £23.11 £15.79 £17.88
25th Percentile £30.04 £22.12 £18.50
Median hourly rate £34.43 £48.56 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -29.10% +145.87% +11.27%
75th Percentile £41.39 £51.91 £21.13
90th Percentile £52.93 £53.76 £21.50
England median hourly rate £44.50 £32.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +36.92% -31.58% +115.91%

Apache Airflow
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Apache Airflow in the Midlands

Apache Airflow
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Apache Airflow in the Midlands

Apache Airflow
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache Airflow in the Midlands over the 6 months to 4 August 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 4 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
West Midlands -2 5 £402 -10.67% 16
East Midlands - 3 £420 -
Apache Airflow
England

Apache Airflow
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 5 (62.50%) Apache
2 4 (50.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (12.50%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) GCP
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (25.00%) GitHub
2 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (12.50%) dbt
3 1 (12.50%) Pulumi
3 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) SSH
1 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Big Data
1 4 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 4 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (25.00%) Apache Hive
3 2 (25.00%) Delta Lake
3 2 (25.00%) HBase
3 2 (25.00%) Metadata
3 2 (25.00%) Parquet
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (12.50%) BigQuery
4 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (12.50%) Flink
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
2 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) MLflow
2 2 (25.00%) SonarQube
2 2 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (12.50%) Poetry
3 1 (12.50%) PyCharm
3 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Hadoop Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Python Data Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Python Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Scala Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Apache NiFi
1 3 (37.50%) Kafka
1 3 (37.50%) PySpark
2 2 (25.00%) Apache Avro
2 2 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (25.00%) Flask
2 2 (25.00%) NumPy
2 2 (25.00%) Pandas
3 1 (12.50%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (25.00%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (25.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Data Pipeline
2 6 (75.00%) Data Engineering
3 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 5 (62.50%) Containerisation
4 4 (50.00%) ETL
4 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (50.00%) Workflow
5 3 (37.50%) Analytics
5 3 (37.50%) Data Integration
5 3 (37.50%) DataOps
5 3 (37.50%) Storage Management
6 2 (25.00%) Data Science
6 2 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
6 2 (25.00%) DevOps
6 2 (25.00%) MapReduce
6 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 2 (25.00%) Metadata Management
6 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (25.00%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Bash
2 2 (25.00%) Groovy
2 2 (25.00%) Scala
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
3 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) Accessibility
1 3 (37.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
2 2 (25.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (25.00%) Argo
2 2 (25.00%) Hadoop YARN
2 2 (25.00%) Istio
2 2 (25.00%) Oozie
3 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Cloudera
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat