Apache Airflow Contracts

Apache Airflow
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Apache Airflow skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Apache Airflow over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 299 504 567
Rank change year-on-year +205 +63 -96
Contract jobs citing Apache Airflow 315 220 296
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.73% 0.37% 0.33%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.58% 3.39% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 171 194
10th Percentile £438 £438 £413
25th Percentile £505 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £575 £595
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -3.36% -0.83%
75th Percentile £850 £713 £688
90th Percentile £888 £788 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £480 £538
% change year-on-year -4.17% -10.70% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile - £78.75 -
25th Percentile £31.25 £80.63 £51.25
Median hourly rate £32.50 £85.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -61.76% +61.90% +5.00%
75th Percentile £33.75 £88.13 £53.75
90th Percentile - £89.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Application Platform Skills
UK

Apache Airflow is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,156 6,483 11,122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.63% 10.96% 12.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,857 4,533 7,612
10th Percentile £250 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +8.42%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 152 211
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.55 £14.00
25th Percentile £15.42 £18.50 £16.24
Median hourly rate £26.50 £42.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.65% +88.89% +2.81%
75th Percentile £46.18 £66.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £68.88 £79.19 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.50 £26.48 £18.50
% change year-on-year -11.25% +43.14% -2.63%

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 4 May 2024.

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 13 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 4 May 2024. 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 +165 282 £725 +26.09% 82
London +146 240 £750 +25.00% 58
Work from Home +170 144 £800 +34.74% 45
UK excluding London +72 55 £460 -4.17% 23
Scotland +53 19 £460 -25.20%
South East +28 17 £363 -36.96% 6
North of England +32 13 £510 +7.37% 4
Yorkshire - 8 £450 - 1
North West +17 5 £510 +7.37% 1
East of England +9 3 £525 -27.59% 3
Midlands +27 2 £450 -6.25% 6
West Midlands +23 2 £450 -6.25% 3
South West +9 1 £350 -20.00% 4

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
1 199 (63.17%) Apache
2 29 (9.21%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.95%) Jupyter
3 3 (0.95%) nginx
4 1 (0.32%) Confluence
4 1 (0.32%) Luigi
Applications
1 5 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 237 (75.24%) AWS
2 156 (49.52%) GCP
3 127 (40.32%) dbt
4 113 (35.87%) Snowflake
5 91 (28.89%) Azure
6 29 (9.21%) Serverless
7 26 (8.25%) Amazon S3
8 25 (7.94%) AWS Lambda
9 18 (5.71%) GitHub
10 15 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
10 15 (4.76%) Amazon EMR
10 15 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (3.17%) Dagster
12 9 (2.86%) Amazon Kinesis
13 6 (1.90%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (1.90%) AWS Step Functions
13 6 (1.90%) Cloud Computing
13 6 (1.90%) Vertex AI
14 5 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
15 4 (1.27%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.13%) BGP
1 13 (4.13%) Ethernet VPN
1 13 (4.13%) MPLS
1 13 (4.13%) VPN
2 12 (3.81%) Radio Access Network
3 6 (1.90%) Firewall
4 5 (1.59%) FTP
5 3 (0.95%) Network Security
5 3 (0.95%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.32%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (44.13%) Apache Ignite
2 112 (35.56%) Amazon Athena
3 100 (31.75%) Apache Arrow
3 100 (31.75%) Dremio
4 98 (31.11%) Data Lake
5 70 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
6 47 (14.92%) Big Data
7 29 (9.21%) NoSQL
8 26 (8.25%) Data Warehouse
9 20 (6.35%) BigQuery
10 17 (5.40%) MongoDB
11 16 (5.08%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (3.17%) Metadata
13 9 (2.86%) Flink
13 9 (2.86%) Hadoop
13 9 (2.86%) KDB
13 9 (2.86%) Kdb+
14 7 (2.22%) Apache Cassandra
14 7 (2.22%) Tableau
15 6 (1.90%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 33 (10.48%) Cypress.io
2 29 (9.21%) Git
3 22 (6.98%) JIRA
4 16 (5.08%) GitLab
5 13 (4.13%) Robot Framework
5 13 (4.13%) TestRail
6 10 (3.17%) Jenkins
7 7 (2.22%) MLflow
8 3 (0.95%) Poetry
9 1 (0.32%) Deequ
9 1 (0.32%) Gradle
9 1 (0.32%) kappa
9 1 (0.32%) Maven
General
1 177 (56.19%) Finance
2 157 (49.84%) Front Office
3 138 (43.81%) Banking
4 81 (25.71%) Investment Banking
5 16 (5.08%) Social Skills
6 10 (3.17%) Public Sector
7 9 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (1.59%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.95%) Advertising
11 1 (0.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.32%) Legal
11 1 (0.32%) Marketing
11 1 (0.32%) Retail
11 1 (0.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 114 (36.19%) Software Engineer
2 111 (35.24%) Developer
3 104 (33.02%) Python Engineer
4 93 (29.52%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 88 (27.94%) Python Software Engineer
6 79 (25.08%) Python Developer
7 73 (23.17%) Data Engineer
8 57 (18.10%) AWS Engineer
9 53 (16.83%) React Developer
10 42 (13.33%) Lead
10 42 (13.33%) Senior
11 31 (9.84%) AWS Software Engineer
12 28 (8.89%) Senior Software Engineer
13 27 (8.57%) Java Engineer
14 26 (8.25%) Architect
14 26 (8.25%) Software Developer
15 25 (7.94%) Full Stack Developer
15 25 (7.94%) Full Stack Engineer
15 25 (7.94%) Full Stack Software Engineer
15 25 (7.94%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (50.48%) gRPC
1 159 (50.48%) Protocol Buffers
2 108 (34.29%) Pandas
3 100 (31.75%) NumPy
4 87 (27.62%) SciPy
5 68 (21.59%) React
6 62 (19.68%) Redux
7 55 (17.46%) Material-UI
8 29 (9.21%) PySpark
9 25 (7.94%) Kafka
10 17 (5.40%) REST
11 13 (4.13%) NETCONF
11 13 (4.13%) RESTCONF
11 13 (4.13%) SOAP
12 12 (3.81%) YANG
13 11 (3.49%) AngularJS
13 11 (3.49%) scikit-learn
13 11 (3.49%) Vue
14 10 (3.17%) Node.js
15 9 (2.86%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 145 (46.03%) Fixed Income
2 139 (44.13%) Hedge funds
3 112 (35.56%) Equities
4 83 (26.35%) Derivative
5 81 (25.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 12 (3.81%) Clustering
6 12 (3.81%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (1.90%) Pricing Data
8 4 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.95%) Algorithms
9 3 (0.95%) Cloud Native
9 3 (0.95%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.63%) Blockchain
10 2 (0.63%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.63%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.32%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.32%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.32%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.86%) Linux
1 9 (2.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (57.46%) Agile
2 171 (54.29%) Software Engineering
3 162 (51.43%) Asset Management
4 139 (44.13%) Investment Management
5 67 (21.27%) Machine Learning
6 66 (20.95%) CI/CD
7 61 (19.37%) Artificial Intelligence
8 60 (19.05%) Data Pipeline
9 57 (18.10%) DevOps
10 54 (17.14%) Full Stack Development
11 49 (15.56%) Automated Trading
12 47 (14.92%) Data Engineering
13 38 (12.06%) Analytics
14 37 (11.75%) Data Modelling
15 36 (11.43%) Line Management
16 32 (10.16%) Test Automation
17 30 (9.52%) Containerisation
17 30 (9.52%) Data Science
17 30 (9.52%) Workflow
18 29 (9.21%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 300 (95.24%) Python
2 146 (46.35%) TypeScript
3 129 (40.95%) Java
4 112 (35.56%) JavaScript
5 110 (34.92%) SQL
6 34 (10.79%) Scala
7 18 (5.71%) C#
7 18 (5.71%) Go
8 10 (3.17%) Ruby
9 5 (1.59%) Bash
9 5 (1.59%) Groovy
10 4 (1.27%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.63%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.63%) R
11 2 (0.63%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.32%) C++
Qualifications
1 14 (4.44%) Degree
2 12 (3.81%) Security Cleared
3 4 (1.27%) DV Cleared
3 4 (1.27%) SC Cleared
4 3 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (15.56%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.27%) QA
3 1 (0.32%) GDPR
System Software
1 47 (14.92%) Docker
2 4 (1.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (0.95%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 58 (18.41%) Terraform
2 52 (16.51%) Kubernetes
3 17 (5.40%) Prometheus
4 9 (2.86%) Grafana
5 7 (2.22%) Kubeflow
6 6 (1.90%) Ansible
7 5 (1.59%) Argo
8 3 (0.95%) Puppet
9 1 (0.32%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.32%) Podman
Vendors
1 57 (18.10%) Google
2 23 (7.30%) Databricks
3 11 (3.49%) Informatica
4 6 (1.90%) Talend
5 5 (1.59%) Splunk
6 3 (0.95%) Bloomberg
7 2 (0.63%) Confluent
7 2 (0.63%) IBM
7 2 (0.63%) StreamSets
8 1 (0.32%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.32%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.32%) SAP
8 1 (0.32%) TIBCO