Apache Airflow Contract Job Trends

Apache Airflow
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Apache Airflow skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 368 299 314
Rank change year-on-year -69 +15 +204
Contract jobs citing Apache Airflow 277 226 282
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.60% 0.77% 0.64%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.50% 6.73% 6.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 189 241
10th Percentile £369 £419 £438
25th Percentile £450 £515 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year -20.74% -3.57% +21.74%
75th Percentile £638 £838 £800
90th Percentile £830 £875 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £450 £460
% change year-on-year +9.72% -2.17% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 3
10th Percentile £51.25 - -
25th Percentile £54.06 - £31.25
Median hourly rate £64.00 - £32.50
75th Percentile £69.11 - £33.75
90th Percentile £77.11 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 - -

All Application Platform Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,260 3,359 4,208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.29% 11.50% 9.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,934 2,239 2,877
10th Percentile £306 £270 £250
25th Percentile £404 £399 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £498
Median % change year-on-year - +0.50% -2.93%
75th Percentile £588 £607 £600
90th Percentile £688 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 84 172
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.83 £13.50
25th Percentile £19.00 £23.48 £15.49
Median hourly rate £35.50 £42.50 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.47% +44.07% +18.00%
75th Percentile £73.94 £64.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £81.50 £75.00 £67.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.09 £52.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -10.30% +118.75% +9.09%

Apache Airflow
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Apache Airflow relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Apache Airflow job vacancy trend in the UK

Apache Airflow
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Apache Airflow

Apache Airflow
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache Airflow over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Apache Airflow in the UK

Apache Airflow
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Apache Airflow.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Apache Airflow

Apache Airflow
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Apache Airflow over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Apache Airflow in the UK

Apache Airflow
Top 16 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 10 April 2026. 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
England -75 238 £540 -20.00% 120
London -61 170 £575 -25.81% 66
UK excluding London -71 81 £494 +9.72% 79
Work from Home -86 77 £550 -29.03% 56
North of England -70 30 £400 -11.11% 19
North West -22 21 £380 -13.26% 9
Scotland +17 18 £499 +26.60% 2
West Midlands -51 15 £514 -20.96% 15
Midlands -53 15 £514 -8.67% 18
North East -11 7 £425 -5.56% 8
South East - 7 £700 - 24
South West -25 4 £725 +45.00% 7
East of England -36 4 £551 +74.76% 7
Yorkshire -62 2 £488 +2.63% 2
Wales - 2 £475 - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £430 - 1

Apache Airflow
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 69 (24.91%) Apache
2 58 (20.94%) Apache Spark
3 15 (5.42%) SAS
4 9 (3.25%) Jupyter
5 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.08%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.72%) Luigi
7 1 (0.36%) Appian
7 1 (0.36%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (3.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.08%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.72%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (1.81%) BambooHR
2 4 (1.44%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 206 (74.37%) AWS
2 100 (36.10%) Azure
3 95 (34.30%) dbt
4 93 (33.57%) Snowflake
5 67 (24.19%) GCP
6 62 (22.38%) Amazon S3
7 45 (16.25%) GitHub
8 42 (15.16%) Dagster
9 40 (14.44%) Serverless
10 39 (14.08%) AWS Lambda
11 38 (13.72%) Power Platform
12 37 (13.36%) GitHub Actions
13 28 (10.11%) Prefect
14 21 (7.58%) Azure Data Factory
15 20 (7.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 17 (6.14%) Amazon Kinesis
16 17 (6.14%) Amazon SageMaker
16 17 (6.14%) AWS CloudFormation
17 14 (5.05%) Amazon EC2
17 14 (5.05%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.08%) HTTP
2 2 (0.72%) InfiniBand
3 1 (0.36%) 4G
3 1 (0.36%) 5G
3 1 (0.36%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (29.96%) Data Warehouse
2 45 (16.25%) Amazon Redshift
3 43 (15.52%) Data Lake
4 33 (11.91%) Power BI
5 29 (10.47%) Big Data
6 28 (10.11%) Snowflake Schema
7 27 (9.75%) BigQuery
8 21 (7.58%) Amazon Athena
8 21 (7.58%) Metadata
9 20 (7.22%) Delta Lake
10 19 (6.86%) PostgreSQL
10 19 (6.86%) Tableau
11 16 (5.78%) SQL Server
12 13 (4.69%) Data Vault
12 13 (4.69%) Relational Database
13 12 (4.33%) Hadoop
13 12 (4.33%) NoSQL
13 12 (4.33%) SAS Visual Analytics
14 11 (3.97%) SAS Enterprise Guide
15 9 (3.25%) Looker
Development Applications
1 50 (18.05%) Git
2 26 (9.39%) GitLab
3 25 (9.03%) MLflow
4 13 (4.69%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.53%) JIRA
6 5 (1.81%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.08%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.36%) DBeaver
8 1 (0.36%) Poetry
8 1 (0.36%) Selenium
8 1 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 50 (18.05%) Finance
2 42 (15.16%) Social Skills
3 36 (13.00%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (8.30%) Public Sector
5 15 (5.42%) Banking
6 10 (3.61%) Retail
7 7 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.81%) Legal
9 5 (1.81%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.08%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.08%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.08%) Marketing
10 3 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.72%) Billing
11 2 (0.72%) Front Office
11 2 (0.72%) iGaming
11 2 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.36%) Aviation
12 1 (0.36%) Dutch Language
Job Titles
1 149 (53.79%) Data Engineer
2 50 (18.05%) Senior
3 41 (14.80%) AWS Engineer
4 34 (12.27%) Senior Data Engineer
5 33 (11.91%) Snowflake Engineer
6 31 (11.19%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 27 (9.75%) Python Engineer
8 24 (8.66%) AWS Data Engineer
9 18 (6.50%) Architect
10 17 (6.14%) Lead
11 13 (4.69%) Data Scientist
11 13 (4.69%) Developer
12 12 (4.33%) DevOps Engineer
12 12 (4.33%) Machine Learning Engineer
13 11 (3.97%) Data Architect
13 11 (3.97%) GCP Engineer
14 10 (3.61%) GCP Data Engineer
15 9 (3.25%) Python Data Engineer
16 8 (2.89%) Python Developer
17 7 (2.53%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (16.61%) Kafka
2 33 (11.91%) Pandas
3 30 (10.83%) NumPy
4 29 (10.47%) PySpark
5 23 (8.30%) scikit-learn
6 16 (5.78%) PyTorch
7 9 (3.25%) OAuth
7 9 (3.25%) REST
8 8 (2.89%) Seaborn
8 8 (2.89%) TensorFlow
9 7 (2.53%) AWS CDK
9 7 (2.53%) pytest
10 5 (1.81%) Apache Beam
10 5 (1.81%) FastAPI
10 5 (1.81%) Matplotlib
11 4 (1.44%) OpenID
12 3 (1.08%) boto
12 3 (1.08%) OpenCV
12 3 (1.08%) React
12 3 (1.08%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 37 (13.36%) Cloud Native
2 18 (6.50%) Algorithms
3 15 (5.42%) Clustering
4 10 (3.61%) Data Structures
5 8 (2.89%) Public Cloud
6 6 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (2.17%) Hedge funds
6 6 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.81%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.44%) Equities
8 4 (1.44%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.08%) Life Science
10 2 (0.72%) Acoustics
10 2 (0.72%) CUDA
10 2 (0.72%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.72%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.72%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.72%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.42%) Linux
2 4 (1.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (55.23%) Data Pipeline
2 129 (46.57%) Data Engineering
3 128 (46.21%) Analytics
4 127 (45.85%) CI/CD
5 121 (43.68%) ETL
6 104 (37.55%) Data Modelling
7 86 (31.05%) Data Science
8 76 (27.44%) Machine Learning
9 67 (24.19%) DevOps
10 62 (22.38%) Agile
11 60 (21.66%) AI
12 55 (19.86%) Data Governance
13 51 (18.41%) Business Intelligence
14 50 (18.05%) Infrastructure as Code
15 49 (17.69%) Containerisation
15 49 (17.69%) Workflow
16 47 (16.97%) Performance Tuning
17 46 (16.61%) Problem-Solving
18 43 (15.52%) Migration
19 38 (13.72%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 206 (74.37%) Python
2 171 (61.73%) SQL
3 28 (10.11%) Java
4 13 (4.69%) Scala
5 7 (2.53%) PL/SQL
6 6 (2.17%) TypeScript
7 5 (1.81%) Bash
7 5 (1.81%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.44%) C#
9 3 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.72%) AWK
10 2 (0.72%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.72%) R
11 1 (0.36%) Bicep
11 1 (0.36%) Cypher
11 1 (0.36%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 66 (23.83%) Security Cleared
2 52 (18.77%) SC Cleared
3 25 (9.03%) Degree
4 17 (6.14%) Master's Degree
5 6 (2.17%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.81%) SnowPro
7 4 (1.44%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.08%) IBM Certification
9 2 (0.72%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.36%) PhD
10 1 (0.36%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (30.32%) Data Quality
2 17 (6.14%) GDPR
3 6 (2.17%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.81%) QA
5 3 (1.08%) SLA
6 2 (0.72%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 63 (22.74%) Docker
2 2 (0.72%) Ceph
2 2 (0.72%) Firmware
2 2 (0.72%) Lustre
2 2 (0.72%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 52 (18.77%) Terraform
2 40 (14.44%) Kubernetes
3 13 (4.69%) Grafana
3 13 (4.69%) Kubeflow
4 8 (2.89%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.72%) Ansible
5 2 (0.72%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.36%) Control-M
6 1 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 48 (17.33%) Databricks
2 26 (9.39%) Google
3 23 (8.30%) Microsoft
4 22 (7.94%) Oracle
5 17 (6.14%) Informatica
6 8 (2.89%) Talend
7 6 (2.17%) Cloudera
7 6 (2.17%) Denodo
8 5 (1.81%) MicroStrategy
8 5 (1.81%) SAP
8 5 (1.81%) Workday
9 4 (1.44%) Splunk
10 3 (1.08%) Hortonworks
10 3 (1.08%) IBM
11 2 (0.72%) Dell
11 2 (0.72%) Mellanox
11 2 (0.72%) NVIDIA
11 2 (0.72%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.72%) Supermicro
11 2 (0.72%) UiPath