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 7 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 150 189
Rank change year-on-year -2 +39 +69
Contract jobs citing Apache Airflow 28 15 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.71% 0.36% 0.26%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.31% 4.09% 2.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 9 10
10th Percentile £330 £360 £400
25th Percentile £402 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £483
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -6.74% -3.50%
75th Percentile £514 £475 £738
90th Percentile £598 £510 -
England median daily rate £625 £800 £600
% change year-on-year -21.88% +33.33% -

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 527 367 469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 13.30% 8.87% 8.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 356 239 320
10th Percentile £235 £278 £199
25th Percentile £350 £400 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £501 £569 £575
90th Percentile £600 £667 £664
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 15
10th Percentile £34.50 £13.08 £16.25
25th Percentile £37.80 £13.50 £17.56
Median hourly rate £47.12 £24.40 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +93.11% +10.91% -2.22%
75th Percentile £70.73 £42.50 £23.14
90th Percentile £76.50 £47.63 £27.65
England median hourly rate £43.80 £32.75 £46.84
% change year-on-year +33.73% -30.08% +115.36%

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 7 August 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 7 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
Yorkshire -12 14 £425 -5.56%
North West 0 13 £475 +15.15% 14
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 (32.14%) Apache
2 4 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.57%) Maple
Cloud Services
1 15 (53.57%) AWS
2 14 (50.00%) GCP
3 9 (32.14%) GitHub
4 8 (28.57%) Azure
5 6 (21.43%) Amazon S3
5 6 (21.43%) dbt
6 5 (17.86%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (17.86%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (17.86%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (10.71%) Power Platform
8 2 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (7.14%) Cloud Functions
8 2 (7.14%) Snowflake
9 1 (3.57%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (3.57%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (3.57%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (32.14%) Data Lake
2 8 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (21.43%) BigQuery
4 5 (17.86%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (17.86%) Flink
5 4 (14.29%) Delta Lake
6 3 (10.71%) Power BI
6 3 (10.71%) Relational Database
6 3 (10.71%) Tableau
7 2 (7.14%) Bigtable
7 2 (7.14%) DataStage
7 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 2 (7.14%) Looker
7 2 (7.14%) RDBMS
7 2 (7.14%) Star Schema
8 1 (3.57%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (3.57%) Hadoop
8 1 (3.57%) Metadata
8 1 (3.57%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (3.57%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 8 (28.57%) Git
2 5 (17.86%) GitLab
3 3 (10.71%) Jenkins
4 2 (7.14%) JIRA
5 1 (3.57%) MLflow
General
1 9 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Finance
3 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Banking
3 1 (3.57%) Legal
Job Titles
1 15 (53.57%) Data Engineer
2 8 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) Python Data Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) Python Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) Senior
3 5 (17.86%) Senior Data Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) AWS Data Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Integration Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Architect
5 3 (10.71%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (10.71%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Data Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Engineering Specialist
6 2 (7.14%) GCP Architect
6 2 (7.14%) GCP Data Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Report Specialist
7 1 (3.57%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.86%) PySpark
2 4 (14.29%) Kafka
3 2 (7.14%) .NET
3 2 (7.14%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (3.57%) PyTorch
4 1 (3.57%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) Cloud Native
1 2 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.57%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (67.86%) Data Pipeline
2 15 (53.57%) ETL
3 11 (39.29%) Data Modelling
4 10 (35.71%) Workflow
5 9 (32.14%) DevOps
6 8 (28.57%) Visualisation
7 7 (25.00%) Agile
7 7 (25.00%) Analytics
7 7 (25.00%) Data Engineering
8 6 (21.43%) CI/CD
8 6 (21.43%) Containerisation
8 6 (21.43%) Data Management
8 6 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (17.86%) Actionable Insight
9 5 (17.86%) Capacity Planning
9 5 (17.86%) Cloud Security
9 5 (17.86%) Data Integration
9 5 (17.86%) High Availability
9 5 (17.86%) Process Improvement
9 5 (17.86%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (71.43%) SQL
2 19 (67.86%) Python
3 4 (14.29%) Scala
4 3 (10.71%) Java
5 2 (7.14%) ANSI SQL
5 2 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (35.71%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.14%) Control-M
Vendors
1 8 (28.57%) Google
2 5 (17.86%) Databricks
3 2 (7.14%) Informatica
3 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.14%) Talend
4 1 (3.57%) Virgin Media