Apache Airflow Contracts

Apache Airflow
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 292 313 494
Rank change year-on-year +21 +181 +73
Contract jobs citing Apache Airflow 250 308 221
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.86% 0.71% 0.37%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.56% 7.37% 3.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 267 172
10th Percentile £425 £438 £438
25th Percentile £513 £505 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £700 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +21.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £838 £850 £711
90th Percentile £875 £888 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £460 £480
% change year-on-year +0.54% -4.17% -10.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - - £78.75
25th Percentile - £31.25 £80.63
Median hourly rate - £32.50 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year - -61.76% +61.90%
75th Percentile - £33.75 £88.13
90th Percentile - - £89.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 3,308 4,179 6,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.31% 9.59% 10.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,205 2,874 4,603
10th Percentile £275 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.97%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £713 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £453 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +0.72% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 161 147
10th Percentile £16.65 £13.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.25 £15.42 £18.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £27.52 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.01% -31.21% +81.82%
75th Percentile £64.13 £46.18 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.50 £68.00 £78.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.18 £23.75 £26.24
% change year-on-year +94.44% -9.49% +41.84%

Apache Airflow
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Apache Airflow in the UK

Apache Airflow
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Apache Airflow in the UK

Apache Airflow
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache Airflow over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apache Airflow in the UK

Apache Airflow
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Apache Airflow.

Hourly rate trend for Apache Airflow in the UK

Apache Airflow
Top 14 Contract 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 30 April 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
England +27 237 £675 -6.90% 161
London +8 194 £750 +3.45% 112
Work from Home +45 142 £775 -3.13% 98
UK excluding London +45 44 £463 +0.54% 47
North of England +43 25 £475 -6.86% 13
North West +21 15 £463 -9.31% 9
Yorkshire +19 9 £538 +19.44% 3
Scotland -1 9 £394 -14.40% 1
East of England +35 5 £315 -40.00% 5
Midlands +25 4 £563 +47.54% 4
West Midlands +16 3 £650 +70.49% 3
South West +45 1 £500 +42.86% 12
North East - 1 £450 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £475 - 1

Apache Airflow
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 131 (52.40%) Apache
2 54 (21.60%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.20%) Luigi
4 2 (0.80%) Confluence
4 2 (0.80%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Pulsar
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 190 (76.00%) AWS
2 160 (64.00%) dbt
3 97 (38.80%) Snowflake
4 88 (35.20%) GCP
5 47 (18.80%) Amazon ECS
6 46 (18.40%) Azure
7 39 (15.60%) Serverless
8 38 (15.20%) AWS Lambda
9 33 (13.20%) Amazon EC2
10 31 (12.40%) Amazon EKS
11 30 (12.00%) Dagster
11 30 (12.00%) GitHub
11 30 (12.00%) OpenShift
12 27 (10.80%) Amazon S3
13 13 (5.20%) Power Platform
14 8 (3.20%) GitHub Actions
15 6 (2.40%) Cloud Composer
15 6 (2.40%) Cloud Computing
16 5 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 5 (2.00%) Amazon EMR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (47.20%) Amazon Athena
2 114 (45.60%) Apache Iceberg
3 110 (44.00%) Dremio
4 99 (39.60%) Apache Arrow
5 68 (27.20%) Apache Ignite
6 56 (22.40%) Data Lake
7 43 (17.20%) Data Warehouse
8 27 (10.80%) PostgreSQL
9 26 (10.40%) BigQuery
10 21 (8.40%) Amazon Redshift
11 20 (8.00%) Big Data
12 15 (6.00%) Tableau
13 13 (5.20%) Hadoop
13 13 (5.20%) Power BI
14 12 (4.80%) Flink
15 10 (4.00%) Snowflake Schema
16 9 (3.60%) Amazon RDS
17 8 (3.20%) Looker
17 8 (3.20%) Relational Database
18 7 (2.80%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 28 (11.20%) Artifactory
2 17 (6.80%) Git
2 17 (6.80%) GitLab
3 5 (2.00%) SonarQube
4 4 (1.60%) Terragrunt
5 2 (0.80%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.80%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.80%) JIRA
5 2 (0.80%) MLflow
6 1 (0.40%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.40%) JMeter
6 1 (0.40%) Selenium
6 1 (0.40%) Zephyr
General
1 133 (53.20%) Finance
2 111 (44.40%) Front Office
3 64 (25.60%) Banking
4 45 (18.00%) Investment Banking
5 34 (13.60%) Social Skills
6 13 (5.20%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (3.20%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.00%) Retail
9 4 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.20%) Legal
11 2 (0.80%) Police
12 1 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.40%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 136 (54.40%) Data Engineer
2 126 (50.40%) AWS Engineer
3 100 (40.00%) Python Engineer
4 71 (28.40%) AWS Software Engineer
4 71 (28.40%) Software Engineer
5 51 (20.40%) Developer
6 47 (18.80%) Python Software Engineer
7 46 (18.40%) Senior
8 42 (16.80%) AWS Developer
8 42 (16.80%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 41 (16.40%) DevOps Engineer
10 37 (14.80%) AWS DevOps
10 37 (14.80%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 36 (14.40%) Java Engineer
11 36 (14.40%) Java Software Engineer
12 33 (13.20%) Python Developer
13 25 (10.00%) Snowflake Engineer
14 22 (8.80%) Python Data Engineer
15 21 (8.40%) Senior Data Engineer
15 21 (8.40%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (35.20%) PySpark
2 71 (28.40%) Pandas
3 70 (28.00%) NumPy
4 66 (26.40%) SciPy
5 53 (21.20%) Kafka
6 40 (16.00%) gRPC
6 40 (16.00%) Protocol Buffers
7 30 (12.00%) AngularJS
7 30 (12.00%) React
8 28 (11.20%) J2EE
9 27 (10.80%) Node.js
10 26 (10.40%) Vue
11 11 (4.40%) Redux
12 9 (3.60%) Apache NiFi
13 8 (3.20%) pytest
14 5 (2.00%) Jinja
15 3 (1.20%) Keycloak
16 2 (0.80%) AWS CDK
16 2 (0.80%) Great Expectations
16 2 (0.80%) Polars
Miscellaneous
1 73 (29.20%) Fixed Income
2 54 (21.60%) Equities
2 54 (21.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 45 (18.00%) Derivative
3 45 (18.00%) Hedge funds
4 12 (4.80%) Pricing Data
5 11 (4.40%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.40%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.80%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.80%) Educational Technology
8 2 (0.80%) Genomics
8 2 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.80%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.80%) Omics
8 2 (0.80%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.40%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.40%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.40%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.60%) Linux
2 3 (1.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (48.00%) Agile
2 115 (46.00%) Software Engineering
3 110 (44.00%) Asset Management
4 80 (32.00%) Data Engineering
5 75 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
6 67 (26.80%) ETL
7 59 (23.60%) Analytics
7 59 (23.60%) CI/CD
8 52 (20.80%) DevOps
9 49 (19.60%) Data Modelling
10 47 (18.80%) Investment Management
11 38 (15.20%) Fintech
12 33 (13.20%) Data Management
12 33 (13.20%) Open Source
13 30 (12.00%) Data Science
14 28 (11.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 27 (10.80%) Migration
16 26 (10.40%) Performance Attribution
17 25 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
18 24 (9.60%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 214 (85.60%) Python
2 113 (45.20%) SQL
3 101 (40.40%) Java
4 57 (22.80%) JavaScript
5 55 (22.00%) TypeScript
6 28 (11.20%) Go
7 7 (2.80%) Scala
8 5 (2.00%) R
9 3 (1.20%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.80%) C#
11 1 (0.40%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 25 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 21 (8.40%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.00%) AWS Certification
3 5 (2.00%) Degree
3 5 (2.00%) DV Cleared
4 4 (1.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.80%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (13.20%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.20%) GDPR
3 7 (2.80%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.00%) QA
5 2 (0.80%) HIPAA
System Software
1 49 (19.60%) Docker
2 2 (0.80%) HDFS
3 1 (0.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 55 (22.00%) Terraform
2 54 (21.60%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.80%) Grafana
4 1 (0.40%) Ansible
4 1 (0.40%) Argo
4 1 (0.40%) Istio
4 1 (0.40%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.40%) linkerd
4 1 (0.40%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.40%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.40%) Puppet
4 1 (0.40%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 20 (8.00%) Google
2 10 (4.00%) Informatica
3 8 (3.20%) Databricks
4 6 (2.40%) Palantir
5 5 (2.00%) IBM
6 4 (1.60%) Confluent
6 4 (1.60%) MicroStrategy
6 4 (1.60%) Teradata
7 3 (1.20%) Microsoft
7 3 (1.20%) Splunk
7 3 (1.20%) Virgin Media
8 2 (0.80%) Cribl.io
8 2 (0.80%) New Relic
8 2 (0.80%) StreamSets
8 2 (0.80%) Talend
8 2 (0.80%) TSYS
9 1 (0.40%) Checkmarx
9 1 (0.40%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.40%) SAP
9 1 (0.40%) VMware