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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 310 506 540
Rank change year-on-year +196 +34 -61
Contract jobs citing Apache Airflow 302 219 303
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.69% 0.36% 0.34%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.26% 3.29% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 167 200
10th Percentile £437 £438 £424
25th Percentile £500 £488 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £850 £712 £695
90th Percentile £888 £788 £750
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 4,160 6,647 11,083
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.53% 11.07% 12.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,859 4,661 7,582
10th Percentile £250 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £511 £517
Median % change year-on-year -2.64% -1.11% +8.79%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 152 212
10th Percentile £13.03 £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.42 £18.44 £16.17
Median hourly rate £28.01 £42.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.10% +93.18% -2.22%
75th Percentile £46.18 £66.00 £48.53
90th Percentile £67.70 £79.19 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.09 £26.24 £18.75
% change year-on-year -8.19% +39.95% -6.25%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 +176 271 £725 +26.09% 74
London +153 231 £725 +20.83% 56
Work from Home +161 139 £800 +36.17% 44
UK excluding London +73 53 £460 -4.17% 26
Scotland +38 19 £460 -25.20% 4
South East +18 17 £363 -36.96% 4
North of England +35 10 £510 +7.37% 7
North West +13 5 £510 +7.37% 3
Yorkshire - 5 £450 - 1
West Midlands +27 3 £381 -20.57% 4
Midlands +25 3 £381 -20.57% 5
East of England +11 3 £525 -20.75% 1
South West +8 1 £350 -20.00% 2

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
1 184 (60.93%) Apache
2 31 (10.26%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.99%) Jupyter
3 3 (0.99%) nginx
4 1 (0.33%) Confluence
4 1 (0.33%) Luigi
Applications
1 5 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 224 (74.17%) AWS
2 150 (49.67%) GCP
3 119 (39.40%) dbt
4 97 (32.12%) Snowflake
5 87 (28.81%) Azure
6 29 (9.60%) Serverless
7 25 (8.28%) AWS Lambda
8 22 (7.28%) Amazon S3
9 18 (5.96%) GitHub
10 15 (4.97%) Amazon EMR
10 15 (4.97%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (3.97%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (3.31%) Dagster
13 9 (2.98%) Amazon Kinesis
14 6 (1.99%) Amazon SQS
14 6 (1.99%) AWS Step Functions
14 6 (1.99%) Vertex AI
15 5 (1.66%) Azure DevOps
16 4 (1.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 4 (1.32%) AWS Data Pipeline
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.30%) BGP
1 13 (4.30%) Ethernet VPN
1 13 (4.30%) MPLS
1 13 (4.30%) VPN
2 12 (3.97%) Radio Access Network
3 6 (1.99%) Firewall
4 5 (1.66%) FTP
5 3 (0.99%) Network Security
5 3 (0.99%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.33%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (41.72%) Apache Ignite
2 104 (34.44%) Amazon Athena
3 93 (30.79%) Apache Arrow
3 93 (30.79%) Dremio
4 87 (28.81%) Data Lake
5 61 (20.20%) PostgreSQL
6 47 (15.56%) Big Data
7 31 (10.26%) NoSQL
8 27 (8.94%) Data Warehouse
9 20 (6.62%) BigQuery
10 17 (5.63%) MongoDB
11 16 (5.30%) Amazon Redshift
12 11 (3.64%) Hadoop
13 10 (3.31%) Metadata
14 9 (2.98%) Flink
14 9 (2.98%) KDB
14 9 (2.98%) Kdb+
15 7 (2.32%) Apache Cassandra
16 6 (1.99%) Spark SQL
16 6 (1.99%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (8.94%) Cypress.io
1 27 (8.94%) Git
2 22 (7.28%) JIRA
3 17 (5.63%) GitLab
4 13 (4.30%) Robot Framework
4 13 (4.30%) TestRail
5 10 (3.31%) Jenkins
6 8 (2.65%) MLflow
7 3 (0.99%) Poetry
8 1 (0.33%) Deequ
8 1 (0.33%) Gradle
8 1 (0.33%) kappa
8 1 (0.33%) Maven
General
1 164 (54.30%) Finance
2 146 (48.34%) Front Office
3 125 (41.39%) Banking
4 76 (25.17%) Investment Banking
5 17 (5.63%) Social Skills
6 11 (3.64%) Public Sector
7 9 (2.98%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (1.66%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.66%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (0.99%) Advertising
10 2 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.33%) Law
11 1 (0.33%) Legal
11 1 (0.33%) Marketing
11 1 (0.33%) Retail
11 1 (0.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 107 (35.43%) Developer
2 106 (35.10%) Software Engineer
3 95 (31.46%) Python Engineer
4 89 (29.47%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 79 (26.16%) Python Software Engineer
6 77 (25.50%) Data Engineer
7 73 (24.17%) Python Developer
8 55 (18.21%) AWS Engineer
9 45 (14.90%) React Developer
10 39 (12.91%) Senior
11 37 (12.25%) Lead
12 31 (10.26%) AWS Software Engineer
13 26 (8.61%) Senior Software Engineer
13 26 (8.61%) Software Developer
14 24 (7.95%) Architect
14 24 (7.95%) Java Engineer
15 22 (7.28%) Java Software Engineer
16 21 (6.95%) Full Stack Developer
16 21 (6.95%) Full Stack Engineer
16 21 (6.95%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (48.34%) gRPC
1 146 (48.34%) Protocol Buffers
2 106 (35.10%) Pandas
3 95 (31.46%) NumPy
4 82 (27.15%) SciPy
5 62 (20.53%) React
6 54 (17.88%) Redux
7 49 (16.23%) Material-UI
8 30 (9.93%) PySpark
9 26 (8.61%) Kafka
10 17 (5.63%) REST
11 13 (4.30%) AngularJS
11 13 (4.30%) NETCONF
11 13 (4.30%) RESTCONF
11 13 (4.30%) SOAP
11 13 (4.30%) Vue
12 12 (3.97%) YANG
13 11 (3.64%) scikit-learn
14 10 (3.31%) Node.js
15 9 (2.98%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 130 (43.05%) Fixed Income
2 120 (39.74%) Hedge funds
3 99 (32.78%) Equities
4 76 (25.17%) Derivative
5 74 (24.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 12 (3.97%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (3.31%) Clustering
8 4 (1.32%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.32%) Pricing Data
9 3 (0.99%) Cloud Native
9 3 (0.99%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.99%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (0.99%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.66%) Blockchain
10 2 (0.66%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.33%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.33%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.33%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.98%) Linux
1 9 (2.98%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (56.62%) Agile
2 159 (52.65%) Software Engineering
3 149 (49.34%) Asset Management
4 124 (41.06%) Investment Management
5 64 (21.19%) CI/CD
5 64 (21.19%) Data Pipeline
6 61 (20.20%) Machine Learning
7 55 (18.21%) DevOps
8 54 (17.88%) Artificial Intelligence
9 48 (15.89%) Data Engineering
10 46 (15.23%) Full Stack Development
11 45 (14.90%) Analytics
12 41 (13.58%) Automated Trading
13 37 (12.25%) Data Modelling
14 34 (11.26%) Data Science
15 32 (10.60%) Line Management
15 32 (10.60%) Test Automation
16 31 (10.26%) Containerisation
16 31 (10.26%) Workflow
17 30 (9.93%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 287 (95.03%) Python
2 135 (44.70%) TypeScript
3 123 (40.73%) Java
4 109 (36.09%) SQL
5 107 (35.43%) JavaScript
6 36 (11.92%) Scala
7 18 (5.96%) C#
8 16 (5.30%) Go
9 12 (3.97%) Ruby
10 5 (1.66%) Groovy
11 4 (1.32%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.66%) Bash
12 2 (0.66%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.66%) R
12 2 (0.66%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 13 (4.30%) Security Cleared
2 12 (3.97%) Degree
3 5 (1.66%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.32%) DV Cleared
5 3 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (16.23%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.32%) QA
3 1 (0.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 47 (15.56%) Docker
2 4 (1.32%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (0.99%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 57 (18.87%) Terraform
2 48 (15.89%) Kubernetes
3 14 (4.64%) Prometheus
4 8 (2.65%) Grafana
5 7 (2.32%) Kubeflow
6 6 (1.99%) Ansible
7 5 (1.66%) Argo
8 3 (0.99%) Puppet
9 1 (0.33%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.33%) Podman
Vendors
1 49 (16.23%) Google
2 23 (7.62%) Databricks
3 8 (2.65%) Informatica
4 6 (1.99%) Talend
5 4 (1.32%) Splunk
6 3 (0.99%) Bloomberg
7 2 (0.66%) Confluent
7 2 (0.66%) IBM
7 2 (0.66%) StreamSets
8 1 (0.33%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.33%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.33%) Oracle
8 1 (0.33%) SAP
8 1 (0.33%) TIBCO