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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 307 331 369
Rank change year-on-year +24 +38 +108
Contract jobs citing Apache Airflow 57 56 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.38% 0.27% 0.29%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.42% 3.12% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 40 55
10th Percentile £330 £350 £379
25th Percentile £401 £418 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £453 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.55% -13.71% +13.51%
75th Percentile £506 £500 £644
90th Percentile £625 £551 £738
UK median daily rate £650 £750 £600
% change year-on-year -13.33% +25.00% -

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 1,666 1,793 2,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.21% 8.79% 10.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,057 1,202 1,680
10th Percentile £235 £220 £200
25th Percentile £350 £350 £337
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +2.70%
75th Percentile £556 £569 £575
90th Percentile £625 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £479 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.20% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 112 112
10th Percentile £15.45 £13.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £30.62 £16.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £49.81 £35.00 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.31% -23.08% +127.50%
75th Percentile £72.50 £55.63 £64.81
90th Percentile £78.88 £74.44 £77.75
UK median hourly rate £47.12 £32.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +44.98% -38.10% +112.72%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 +16 29 £475 +2.70% 19
Yorkshire -5 15 £513 +13.89% 4
North West +12 13 £475 -6.86% 13
Scotland -14 8 £463 +1.31% 6
South East +32 6 £384 +5.93% 37
East of England +20 6 £383 -27.14% 3
Midlands +6 6 £439 +6.30% 4
West Midlands +1 5 £402 -2.55% 4
South West +43 1 £458 -0.54% 10
Wales - 1 - - 4
North East - 1 £450 - 2
East Midlands - 1 £475 -
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 18 (31.58%) Apache
2 11 (19.30%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.75%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.75%) Maple
Cloud Services
1 32 (56.14%) AWS
2 26 (45.61%) GCP
3 19 (33.33%) Amazon S3
4 16 (28.07%) Azure
4 16 (28.07%) dbt
5 14 (24.56%) GitHub
6 13 (22.81%) Snowflake
7 9 (15.79%) Cloud Computing
8 8 (14.04%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (14.04%) Power Platform
9 6 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (10.53%) Serverless
10 4 (7.02%) Amazon EMR
10 4 (7.02%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (3.51%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (3.51%) Azure Machine Learning
12 2 (3.51%) Cloud Functions
13 1 (1.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.26%) SSH
1 3 (5.26%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.51%) DNS
2 2 (3.51%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (36.84%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (21.05%) Relational Database
3 10 (17.54%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (15.79%) Data Lake
4 9 (15.79%) Delta Lake
4 9 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (14.04%) BigQuery
5 8 (14.04%) Power BI
5 8 (14.04%) Tableau
6 7 (12.28%) Flink
6 7 (12.28%) Hadoop
7 6 (10.53%) Big Data
7 6 (10.53%) RDBMS
8 4 (7.02%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (7.02%) Oracle Database
8 4 (7.02%) Parquet
9 3 (5.26%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (5.26%) Looker
9 3 (5.26%) NoSQL
9 3 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (24.56%) Git
2 9 (15.79%) GitLab
3 8 (14.04%) Jenkins
4 4 (7.02%) MLflow
5 3 (5.26%) JIRA
5 3 (5.26%) SonarQube
6 2 (3.51%) Poetry
6 2 (3.51%) PyCharm
6 2 (3.51%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (3.51%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (1.75%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.75%) Selenium
7 1 (1.75%) Zephyr
General
1 24 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 9 (15.79%) Finance
3 8 (14.04%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.02%) Banking
4 4 (7.02%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.51%) Legal
6 1 (1.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 35 (61.40%) Data Engineer
2 10 (17.54%) Senior
2 10 (17.54%) Senior Data Engineer
3 9 (15.79%) AWS Engineer
4 8 (14.04%) Python Data Engineer
4 8 (14.04%) Python Engineer
5 7 (12.28%) Architect
6 5 (8.77%) AWS Data Engineer
6 5 (8.77%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (8.77%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (7.02%) Integration Engineer
7 4 (7.02%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 4 (7.02%) Snowflake Architect
8 3 (5.26%) AWS DevOps
8 3 (5.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) Data Architect
8 3 (5.26%) Telecoms Engineer
9 2 (3.51%) Engineering Specialist
9 2 (3.51%) Informatica Engineer
9 2 (3.51%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (21.05%) PySpark
2 7 (12.28%) Kafka
3 6 (10.53%) Apache NiFi
4 5 (8.77%) Pandas
5 4 (7.02%) Flask
5 4 (7.02%) NumPy
6 3 (5.26%) Apache Avro
6 3 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (3.51%) .NET
7 2 (3.51%) Keycloak
8 1 (1.75%) AngularJS
8 1 (1.75%) AWS CDK
8 1 (1.75%) Django
8 1 (1.75%) FastAPI
8 1 (1.75%) Great Expectations
8 1 (1.75%) LAPP Stack
8 1 (1.75%) PyTorch
8 1 (1.75%) React
8 1 (1.75%) TensorFlow
8 1 (1.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.77%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (7.02%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.02%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (5.26%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.51%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.75%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.75%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.75%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.75%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.28%) Linux
2 5 (8.77%) Unix
3 1 (1.75%) VMS
3 1 (1.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 36 (63.16%) ETL
3 25 (43.86%) Data Engineering
4 23 (40.35%) Data Modelling
4 23 (40.35%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (36.84%) Workflow
6 18 (31.58%) CI/CD
6 18 (31.58%) Containerisation
7 17 (29.82%) Analytics
8 16 (28.07%) Data Integration
9 14 (24.56%) DevOps
10 13 (22.81%) Visualisation
11 12 (21.05%) Decision-Making
12 10 (17.54%) Data Management
12 10 (17.54%) Data Transformation
13 9 (15.79%) Actionable Insight
13 9 (15.79%) Data Science
13 9 (15.79%) High Availability
14 8 (14.04%) Agile
14 8 (14.04%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 41 (71.93%) Python
2 39 (68.42%) SQL
3 4 (7.02%) Java
3 4 (7.02%) Scala
4 3 (5.26%) Bash
4 3 (5.26%) Groovy
5 2 (3.51%) ANSI SQL
5 2 (3.51%) Shell Script
5 2 (3.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (17.54%) Degree
2 6 (10.53%) Security Cleared
3 5 (8.77%) SC Cleared
4 4 (7.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (7.02%) Master's Degree
5 3 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (3.51%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.75%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (40.35%) Data Quality
2 5 (8.77%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.75%) GDPR
3 1 (1.75%) QA
System Software
1 20 (35.09%) Docker
2 1 (1.75%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (29.82%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.77%) Terraform
3 3 (5.26%) Argo
3 3 (5.26%) Istio
4 2 (3.51%) Control-M
5 1 (1.75%) Ansible
5 1 (1.75%) Grafana
5 1 (1.75%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.75%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (17.54%) Google
2 7 (12.28%) Informatica
3 5 (8.77%) Databricks
3 5 (8.77%) StreamSets
4 4 (7.02%) Oracle
5 3 (5.26%) Cloudera
5 3 (5.26%) Microsoft
6 2 (3.51%) Red Hat
6 2 (3.51%) Talend
6 2 (3.51%) Teradata
7 1 (1.75%) IBM
7 1 (1.75%) TSYS
7 1 (1.75%) Virgin Media