Apache Airflow Contracts in the North West

Apache Airflow
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 123 143
Rank change year-on-year +13 +20 +42
Contract jobs citing Apache Airflow 13 2 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.59% 0.084% 0.27%
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.32% 1.07% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 2 7
10th Percentile £400 £369 -
25th Percentile £419 £378 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £413 £725
Median % change year-on-year +15.15% -43.10% +132.00%
75th Percentile £496 £453 £738
90th Percentile £542 £466 -
England median daily rate £675 £800 £600
% change year-on-year -15.63% +33.33% -

All Application Platform Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 301 187 254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 13.70% 7.85% 8.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 126 181
10th Percentile £264 £225 £206
25th Percentile £350 £325 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £488 £538 £575
90th Percentile £609 £640 £673
England median daily rate £493 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -6.19% +0.96% -0.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 12 11
10th Percentile £34.50 £13.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £37.80 £13.75 £16.44
Median hourly rate £45.11 £28.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.23% +27.95% -68.57%
75th Percentile £71.09 £45.00 £24.27
90th Percentile £76.75 £48.38 £28.75
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 North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Apache Airflow in the North West

Apache Airflow
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Apache Airflow in the North West

Apache Airflow
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache Airflow in the North West over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apache Airflow in the North West

Apache Airflow
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 3 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
Manchester +12 7 £475 +15.15% 11
Cheshire - 4 £402 - 1
Lancashire - 1 £530 - 8
Apache Airflow
England

Apache Airflow
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (7.69%) Apache
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (46.15%) Amazon S3
2 6 (46.15%) GitHub
3 5 (38.46%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (38.46%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (23.08%) Azure
5 2 (15.38%) GCP
5 2 (15.38%) Snowflake
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (7.69%) AWS Data Pipeline
6 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (7.69%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) Data Lake
2 3 (23.08%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (7.69%) Big Data
3 1 (7.69%) BigQuery
3 1 (7.69%) Delta Lake
3 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
3 1 (7.69%) Parquet
3 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) GitLab
2 1 (7.69%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) MLflow
General
1 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) AWS Engineer
2 7 (53.85%) Data Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) AWS Data Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) Integration Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) Python Data Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) Python Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) Senior
3 4 (30.77%) Senior Data Engineer
4 3 (23.08%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (23.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Data Analytics Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Kafka
2 1 (7.69%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (7.69%) PySpark
2 1 (7.69%) PyTorch
2 1 (7.69%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
1 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
1 1 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Data Pipeline
2 6 (46.15%) DevOps
3 5 (38.46%) Actionable Insight
3 5 (38.46%) Capacity Planning
3 5 (38.46%) Cloud Security
3 5 (38.46%) Containerisation
3 5 (38.46%) Customer Acquisition
3 5 (38.46%) High Availability
3 5 (38.46%) Performance Metrics
3 5 (38.46%) Process Improvement
3 5 (38.46%) Resource Allocation
4 2 (15.38%) Data Science
4 2 (15.38%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (7.69%) Analytics
5 1 (7.69%) Data Analytics
5 1 (7.69%) Data Engineering
5 1 (7.69%) Data Ingestion
5 1 (7.69%) Data Transformation
5 1 (7.69%) Machine Learning
5 1 (7.69%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Python
1 6 (46.15%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Databricks
1 1 (7.69%) Virgin Media