Apache Airflow Contracts in the North of England

Apache Airflow
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 175 212
Rank change year-on-year +34 +37 +11
Contract jobs citing Apache Airflow 25 10 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.76% 0.21% 0.14%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.02% 2.82% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 8 6
10th Percentile £402 £435 -
25th Percentile £419 £491 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £510 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% +7.37% +18.75%
75th Percentile £488 £515 £581
90th Percentile £556 £556 £675
England median daily rate £675 £725 £575
% change year-on-year -6.90% +26.09% -4.17%

All Application Platform Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 498 355 493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.11% 7.45% 8.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 332 235 355
10th Percentile £188 £203 £200
25th Percentile £333 £313 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% -2.63% +8.57%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £610 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 38 10
10th Percentile £16.85 £13.00 £15.89
25th Percentile £24.76 £13.31 £16.63
Median hourly rate £41.00 £15.23 £22.25
Median % change year-on-year +169.21% -31.55% +20.27%
75th Percentile £57.59 £44.47 £28.06
90th Percentile £77.00 £46.18 £36.98
England median hourly rate £52.50 £27.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year +90.91% -12.00% +49.59%

Apache Airflow
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Apache Airflow in the North of England

Apache Airflow
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Apache Airflow in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Apache Airflow in the North of England

Apache Airflow
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache Airflow in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apache Airflow in the North of England

Apache Airflow
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North West +27 15 £463 -9.31% 8
Yorkshire +12 9 £538 +19.44% 3
North East - 1 £450 -
Apache Airflow
England

Apache Airflow
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 9 (36.00%) Apache
2 2 (8.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 15 (60.00%) AWS
2 7 (28.00%) GCP
3 5 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
3 5 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 5 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
3 5 (20.00%) dbt
3 5 (20.00%) GitHub
3 5 (20.00%) Snowflake
4 3 (12.00%) Azure
5 2 (8.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
6 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (28.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 6 (24.00%) Data Lake
3 5 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (20.00%) Flink
4 4 (16.00%) BigQuery
5 3 (12.00%) Looker
6 2 (8.00%) Delta Lake
6 2 (8.00%) Hadoop
7 1 (4.00%) Big Data
7 1 (4.00%) Metadata
7 1 (4.00%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (4.00%) Parquet
7 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (4.00%) Power BI
7 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
7 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) GitLab
2 3 (12.00%) Git
3 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Finance
3 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Banking
3 1 (4.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 15 (60.00%) Data Engineer
2 9 (36.00%) AWS Engineer
3 6 (24.00%) Python Data Engineer
3 6 (24.00%) Python Engineer
4 5 (20.00%) AWS Data Engineer
5 4 (16.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (16.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (16.00%) Integration Engineer
5 4 (16.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 4 (16.00%) Senior
5 4 (16.00%) Senior Data Engineer
6 3 (12.00%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (12.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Analyst
7 1 (4.00%) Analytics Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 1 (4.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Lead
7 1 (4.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) PySpark
2 2 (8.00%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (8.00%) Kafka
3 1 (4.00%) LAPP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.00%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Linux
1 1 (4.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (64.00%) Data Pipeline
2 12 (48.00%) ETL
3 10 (40.00%) Data Modelling
4 7 (28.00%) Containerisation
4 7 (28.00%) Workflow
5 6 (24.00%) Data Engineering
5 6 (24.00%) Data Management
5 6 (24.00%) DevOps
5 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
6 5 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
6 5 (20.00%) Cloud Security
6 5 (20.00%) Customer Acquisition
6 5 (20.00%) Data Lineage
6 5 (20.00%) High Availability
6 5 (20.00%) Performance Metrics
6 5 (20.00%) Process Improvement
6 5 (20.00%) Resource Allocation
6 5 (20.00%) Visualisation
6 5 (20.00%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (72.00%) Python
2 16 (64.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (32.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (32.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 7 (28.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.00%) Ansible
2 1 (4.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (4.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Google
2 2 (8.00%) Databricks
3 1 (4.00%) Virgin Media