Apache Airflow Contracts in the UK excluding London

Apache Airflow
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 292 347 413
Rank change year-on-year +55 +66 +51
Contract jobs citing Apache Airflow 44 52 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.34% 0.25% 0.20%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.95% 2.92% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 34 38
10th Percentile £319 £365 £375
25th Percentile £404 £435 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £460 £480
Median % change year-on-year +0.54% -4.17% -10.70%
75th Percentile £488 £515 £588
90th Percentile £567 £571 £676
UK median daily rate £675 £720 £575
% change year-on-year -6.25% +25.22% -4.17%

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,494 1,779 2,683
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.70% 8.56% 11.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 977 1,187 1,925
10th Percentile £213 £213 £201
25th Percentile £350 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £625 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 123 98
10th Percentile £16.25 £13.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.30 £14.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £46.18 £23.75 £26.24
Median % change year-on-year +94.44% -9.49% +41.84%
75th Percentile £64.50 £46.18 £65.44
90th Percentile £77.50 £69.75 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £27.52 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.01% -31.21% +81.82%

Apache Airflow
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Apache Airflow in the UK excluding London

Apache Airflow
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Apache Airflow in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Apache Airflow in the UK excluding London

Apache Airflow
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache Airflow in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apache Airflow in the UK excluding London

Apache Airflow
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Apache Airflow in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Apache Airflow in the UK excluding London

Apache Airflow
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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 of England +34 25 £475 -6.86% 65
North West +27 15 £463 -9.31% 33
Yorkshire +12 9 £538 +19.44% 24
Scotland +3 9 £394 -14.40% 11
East of England +32 5 £315 -40.00% 46
Midlands +24 4 £563 +25.00% 48
West Midlands +15 3 £650 +44.44% 26
South West +46 1 £500 +42.86% 37
North East - 1 £450 - 8
East Midlands - 1 £475 - 19
Apache Airflow
UK

Apache Airflow
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 20 (45.45%) Apache
2 4 (9.09%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.27%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 22 (50.00%) AWS
2 15 (34.09%) GCP
3 13 (29.55%) Snowflake
4 11 (25.00%) Amazon S3
5 10 (22.73%) Azure
6 9 (20.45%) dbt
7 8 (18.18%) GitHub
8 7 (15.91%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (13.64%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (11.36%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (11.36%) Power Platform
11 3 (6.82%) Amazon EMR
11 3 (6.82%) Vertex AI
12 2 (4.55%) AWS Data Pipeline
13 1 (2.27%) Amazon Cognito
13 1 (2.27%) AWS CodePipeline
13 1 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
13 1 (2.27%) Pulumi
13 1 (2.27%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (20.45%) Amazon Redshift
2 9 (20.45%) BigQuery
3 7 (15.91%) Data Lake
3 7 (15.91%) Flink
4 6 (13.64%) Looker
4 6 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (11.36%) Hadoop
5 5 (11.36%) Power BI
6 4 (9.09%) Tableau
7 3 (6.82%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (6.82%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (6.82%) Big Data
7 3 (6.82%) Delta Lake
7 3 (6.82%) SQL Server
8 2 (4.55%) Apache Hive
8 2 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (4.55%) Metadata
8 2 (4.55%) PowerCenter
8 2 (4.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (27.27%) GitLab
2 4 (9.09%) Git
3 2 (4.55%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.27%) JIRA
4 1 (2.27%) JMeter
4 1 (2.27%) Selenium
4 1 (2.27%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.27%) Zephyr
General
1 14 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 10 (22.73%) Finance
3 6 (13.64%) Banking
4 4 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.55%) Legal
6 1 (2.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (68.18%) Data Engineer
2 10 (22.73%) AWS Engineer
3 9 (20.45%) Python Data Engineer
3 9 (20.45%) Python Engineer
4 8 (18.18%) Senior
4 8 (18.18%) Senior Data Engineer
5 6 (13.64%) AWS Data Engineer
5 6 (13.64%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) Integration Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (6.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Analyst
8 2 (4.55%) GCP Data Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) GCP Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Test Specialist
9 1 (2.27%) DBA
9 1 (2.27%) Developer
9 1 (2.27%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (27.27%) PySpark
2 8 (18.18%) Kafka
3 6 (13.64%) Apache NiFi
4 4 (9.09%) AngularJS
4 4 (9.09%) Pandas
4 4 (9.09%) React
5 3 (6.82%) Keycloak
5 3 (6.82%) NumPy
6 1 (2.27%) Great Expectations
6 1 (2.27%) LAPP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.36%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 4 (9.09%) Onboarding
3 3 (6.82%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.55%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.27%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.27%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.27%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.27%) Linux
1 1 (2.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (65.91%) Data Pipeline
2 24 (54.55%) ETL
3 16 (36.36%) Workflow
4 15 (34.09%) Analytics
5 14 (31.82%) Data Engineering
6 13 (29.55%) Data Modelling
6 13 (29.55%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (27.27%) Containerisation
8 10 (22.73%) CI/CD
8 10 (22.73%) Data Management
9 9 (20.45%) Data Governance
9 9 (20.45%) Visualisation
10 8 (18.18%) Decision-Making
10 8 (18.18%) Workflow Management
11 7 (15.91%) Customer Acquisition
12 6 (13.64%) Agile
12 6 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
12 6 (13.64%) Data Integration
12 6 (13.64%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 6 (13.64%) DataOps
Programming Languages
1 30 (68.18%) Python
2 28 (63.64%) SQL
3 4 (9.09%) Java
4 2 (4.55%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.27%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 7 (15.91%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.82%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (6.82%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.55%) Degree
5 1 (2.27%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (34.09%) Data Quality
2 5 (11.36%) Accessibility
3 4 (9.09%) GDPR
4 1 (2.27%) QA
System Software
1 14 (31.82%) Docker
2 1 (2.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 5 (11.36%) Terraform
3 1 (2.27%) Ansible
3 1 (2.27%) Grafana
3 1 (2.27%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (18.18%) Google
2 4 (9.09%) Informatica
3 2 (4.55%) Databricks
3 2 (4.55%) IBM
3 2 (4.55%) StreamSets
3 2 (4.55%) Teradata
4 1 (2.27%) Checkmarx
4 1 (2.27%) Confluent
4 1 (2.27%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.27%) TSYS
4 1 (2.27%) Virgin Media