Apache Airflow Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Apache Airflow
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Apache Airflow skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 102 150
Rank change year-on-year +2 +48 +27
Contract jobs citing Apache Airflow 15 15 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.94% 0.80% 0.040%
As % of the Application Platforms category 9.04% 6.20% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 1
10th Percentile £424 £450 -
25th Percentile £456 £453 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £460 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -16.36% +67.94%
75th Percentile £525 £500 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £545 £800 £625
% change year-on-year -31.88% +28.00% +4.17%

All Application Platform Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 166 242 308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 10.42% 12.94% 12.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 158 211
10th Percentile £264 £190 £213
25th Percentile £315 £350 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 £436 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% -12.85% +7.76%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £613
90th Percentile £625 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £480 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -8.57% +2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 2
10th Percentile £25.13 £15.44 £30.50
25th Percentile £35.87 £18.14 £35.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £22.23 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +158.63% -50.59% +153.95%
75th Percentile £66.88 £24.18 £55.00
90th Percentile £70.25 - £59.50
UK median hourly rate £41.45 £47.50 £54.00
% change year-on-year -12.74% -12.04% +125.00%

Apache Airflow
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Apache Airflow in Scotland

Apache Airflow
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Apache Airflow

Apache Airflow
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 9 September 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
Edinburgh +17 11 £463 - 5
Glasgow -19 4 £500 +8.70% 1
Apache Airflow
UK

Apache Airflow
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (60.00%) Apache
2 6 (40.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 11 (73.33%) Snowflake
2 10 (66.67%) AWS
3 8 (53.33%) Amazon S3
4 4 (26.67%) Amazon EMR
4 4 (26.67%) Power Platform
5 3 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (20.00%) Azure
5 3 (20.00%) GCP
6 2 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (13.33%) Serverless
7 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (6.67%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (53.33%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (40.00%) Big Data
2 6 (40.00%) Hadoop
3 4 (26.67%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (26.67%) Power BI
4 3 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (13.33%) PowerCenter
5 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
6 1 (6.67%) Apache Hive
6 1 (6.67%) Data Mart
6 1 (6.67%) Delta Lake
6 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Git
1 5 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (6.67%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) Selenium
2 1 (6.67%) Zephyr
General
1 8 (53.33%) Finance
2 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Banking
4 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Marketing
5 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (80.00%) Data Engineer
2 6 (40.00%) Python Data Engineer
2 6 (40.00%) Python Engineer
3 5 (33.33%) Senior
3 5 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Data Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Informatica Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Snowflake Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Data Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Open Source Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Test Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) REST
2 4 (26.67%) RESTful
3 3 (20.00%) PySpark
4 2 (13.33%) Pandas
5 1 (6.67%) AWS CDK
5 1 (6.67%) boto
5 1 (6.67%) FastAPI
5 1 (6.67%) Great Expectations
5 1 (6.67%) Hugging Face
5 1 (6.67%) JWT
5 1 (6.67%) NumPy
5 1 (6.67%) OAuth
5 1 (6.67%) OpenCV
5 1 (6.67%) PyTorch
5 1 (6.67%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (13.33%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
2 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) ETL
2 8 (53.33%) Data Integration
3 7 (46.67%) Agile
3 7 (46.67%) Data Modelling
4 6 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (40.00%) Data Engineering
4 6 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
4 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (33.33%) Analytics
5 5 (33.33%) API Integration
5 5 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (26.67%) Clean Code
6 4 (26.67%) Performance Monitoring
6 4 (26.67%) Sprint Planning
6 4 (26.67%) Sprint Review
6 4 (26.67%) Visualisation
7 3 (20.00%) Data Governance
7 3 (20.00%) Data Science
7 3 (20.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) Python
2 6 (40.00%) SQL
3 2 (13.33%) T-SQL
4 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Grafana
2 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Informatica
2 4 (26.67%) Databricks
2 4 (26.67%) ServiceNow
3 2 (13.33%) Teradata
4 1 (6.67%) Google
4 1 (6.67%) IBM
4 1 (6.67%) StreamSets
4 1 (6.67%) TSYS