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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 288 307 490
Rank change year-on-year +19 +183 +80
Contract jobs citing Apache Airflow 261 315 219
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.89% 0.73% 0.37%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.84% 7.54% 3.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 273 170
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 £714
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 3,330 4,176 6,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.36% 9.63% 10.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,224 2,869 4,540
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% -0.49%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £718 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £455 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +1.11% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 160 151
10th Percentile £16.55 £13.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.00 £15.42 £18.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £26.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.72% -41.11% +102.25%
75th Percentile £64.50 £46.18 £66.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £68.88 £79.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.18 £23.50 £26.48
% change year-on-year +96.51% -11.25% +43.14%

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 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 4 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
England +37 247 £675 -6.90% 252
London +22 204 £750 - 187
Work from Home +48 147 £775 -3.13% 152
UK excluding London +58 44 £463 +0.54% 105
North of England +29 25 £475 -6.86% 22
North West +25 15 £463 -9.31% 17
Yorkshire +12 9 £538 +19.44% 5
Scotland +3 9 £394 -14.40% 5
East of England +37 5 £315 -40.00% 9
Midlands +16 4 £563 +25.00% 6
West Midlands +17 3 £650 +44.44% 4
South West +40 1 £500 +42.86% 10
North East - 1 £450 -
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
1 132 (50.57%) Apache
2 54 (20.69%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.15%) Luigi
4 2 (0.77%) Confluence
4 2 (0.77%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.38%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.38%) OpenEdge
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 197 (75.48%) AWS
2 169 (64.75%) dbt
3 102 (39.08%) Snowflake
4 89 (34.10%) GCP
5 49 (18.77%) Azure
6 47 (18.01%) Amazon ECS
7 39 (14.94%) Serverless
8 38 (14.56%) AWS Lambda
9 33 (12.64%) Amazon EC2
10 31 (11.88%) Amazon EKS
10 31 (11.88%) GitHub
11 30 (11.49%) Dagster
11 30 (11.49%) OpenShift
12 27 (10.34%) Amazon S3
13 15 (5.75%) Power Platform
14 9 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
15 6 (2.30%) Cloud Composer
15 6 (2.30%) Cloud Computing
16 5 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 5 (1.92%) Amazon EMR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (46.36%) Amazon Athena
2 117 (44.83%) Apache Iceberg
3 113 (43.30%) Dremio
4 102 (39.08%) Apache Arrow
5 69 (26.44%) Apache Ignite
6 61 (23.37%) Data Lake
7 45 (17.24%) Data Warehouse
8 29 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
9 26 (9.96%) BigQuery
10 21 (8.05%) Amazon Redshift
11 20 (7.66%) Big Data
12 15 (5.75%) Power BI
12 15 (5.75%) Tableau
13 13 (4.98%) Hadoop
14 12 (4.60%) Flink
15 11 (4.21%) Snowflake Schema
16 9 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
16 9 (3.45%) Relational Database
17 8 (3.07%) Looker
17 8 (3.07%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 28 (10.73%) Artifactory
2 18 (6.90%) Git
3 17 (6.51%) GitLab
4 5 (1.92%) SonarQube
5 4 (1.53%) Terragrunt
6 3 (1.15%) JIRA
7 2 (0.77%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.77%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.77%) MLflow
8 1 (0.38%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.38%) JMeter
8 1 (0.38%) Selenium
8 1 (0.38%) Zephyr
General
1 136 (52.11%) Finance
2 114 (43.68%) Front Office
3 66 (25.29%) Banking
4 47 (18.01%) Investment Banking
5 35 (13.41%) Social Skills
6 14 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (3.07%) Public Sector
8 5 (1.92%) Retail
9 4 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.15%) Legal
10 3 (1.15%) Police
11 1 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.38%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 141 (54.02%) Data Engineer
2 130 (49.81%) AWS Engineer
3 102 (39.08%) Python Engineer
4 74 (28.35%) AWS Software Engineer
4 74 (28.35%) Software Engineer
5 53 (20.31%) Developer
6 50 (19.16%) Senior
7 49 (18.77%) Python Software Engineer
8 43 (16.48%) AWS Developer
8 43 (16.48%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 41 (15.71%) DevOps Engineer
10 39 (14.94%) Java Engineer
10 39 (14.94%) Java Software Engineer
11 37 (14.18%) AWS DevOps
11 37 (14.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 33 (12.64%) Python Developer
13 27 (10.34%) Snowflake Engineer
14 23 (8.81%) Senior Data Engineer
14 23 (8.81%) Senior Software Engineer
15 22 (8.43%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (33.72%) PySpark
2 74 (28.35%) Pandas
3 73 (27.97%) NumPy
4 69 (26.44%) SciPy
5 54 (20.69%) Kafka
6 41 (15.71%) gRPC
6 41 (15.71%) Protocol Buffers
7 31 (11.88%) AngularJS
7 31 (11.88%) React
8 28 (10.73%) J2EE
8 28 (10.73%) Node.js
9 27 (10.34%) Vue
10 10 (3.83%) Apache NiFi
10 10 (3.83%) Redux
11 8 (3.07%) pytest
12 5 (1.92%) Jinja
13 3 (1.15%) Keycloak
14 2 (0.77%) AWS CDK
14 2 (0.77%) Great Expectations
14 2 (0.77%) Polars
Miscellaneous
1 76 (29.12%) Fixed Income
2 58 (22.22%) Equities
2 58 (22.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 47 (18.01%) Derivative
3 47 (18.01%) Hedge funds
4 14 (5.36%) Pricing Data
5 11 (4.21%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.30%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.77%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.77%) Educational Technology
8 2 (0.77%) Genomics
8 2 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.77%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.77%) Omics
8 2 (0.77%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.38%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.38%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.38%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.45%) Linux
2 3 (1.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (47.89%) Agile
2 118 (45.21%) Software Engineering
3 113 (43.30%) Asset Management
4 82 (31.42%) Data Engineering
5 78 (29.89%) Data Pipeline
6 70 (26.82%) ETL
7 62 (23.75%) Analytics
8 60 (22.99%) CI/CD
9 54 (20.69%) DevOps
10 53 (20.31%) Data Modelling
11 50 (19.16%) Investment Management
12 39 (14.94%) Fintech
13 34 (13.03%) Data Management
14 33 (12.64%) Open Source
15 31 (11.88%) Data Science
16 29 (11.11%) Migration
17 28 (10.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 27 (10.34%) Performance Attribution
19 26 (9.96%) Data Governance
20 25 (9.58%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 222 (85.06%) Python
2 117 (44.83%) SQL
3 104 (39.85%) Java
4 60 (22.99%) JavaScript
5 58 (22.22%) TypeScript
6 28 (10.73%) Go
7 7 (2.68%) Scala
8 5 (1.92%) R
9 3 (1.15%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.77%) C#
10 2 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.38%) Bash
11 1 (0.38%) Groovy
11 1 (0.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 25 (9.58%) Security Cleared
2 21 (8.05%) SC Cleared
3 5 (1.92%) AWS Certification
3 5 (1.92%) Degree
3 5 (1.92%) DV Cleared
4 4 (1.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.77%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.38%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.38%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (13.41%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.07%) GDPR
3 7 (2.68%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.92%) QA
5 2 (0.77%) HIPAA
System Software
1 49 (18.77%) Docker
2 2 (0.77%) HDFS
3 1 (0.38%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 55 (21.07%) Terraform
2 54 (20.69%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.77%) Grafana
4 1 (0.38%) Ansible
4 1 (0.38%) Argo
4 1 (0.38%) Istio
4 1 (0.38%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.38%) linkerd
4 1 (0.38%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.38%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.38%) Puppet
4 1 (0.38%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 20 (7.66%) Google
2 10 (3.83%) Databricks
2 10 (3.83%) Informatica
3 6 (2.30%) Palantir
4 5 (1.92%) IBM
5 4 (1.53%) Confluent
5 4 (1.53%) MicroStrategy
5 4 (1.53%) Teradata
6 3 (1.15%) Microsoft
6 3 (1.15%) Splunk
6 3 (1.15%) Virgin Media
7 2 (0.77%) Cribl.io
7 2 (0.77%) New Relic
7 2 (0.77%) StreamSets
7 2 (0.77%) Talend
7 2 (0.77%) TSYS
8 1 (0.38%) Checkmarx
8 1 (0.38%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.38%) SAP
8 1 (0.38%) VMware