Apache Airflow Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Apache Airflow
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Apache Airflow skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 109 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Contract jobs citing Apache Airflow 14 5 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.76% 0.26% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.67% 3.27% -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 0
10th Percentile £398 £403 -
25th Percentile £505 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £489 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.67% - -
75th Percentile £536 £490 -
90th Percentile £540 £549 -
England median daily rate £550 £800 £625
% change year-on-year -31.25% +28.00% -

All Application Platform Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 247 153 192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.49% 7.99% 9.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 96 142
10th Percentile £275 £250 £275
25th Percentile £375 £322 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £540
90th Percentile £595 £638 £606
England median daily rate £493 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -6.19% +0.96% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 6
10th Percentile £34.10 £23.80 £17.31
25th Percentile £34.43 £35.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £34.98 £55.00 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -36.40% +201.37% +10.94%
75th Percentile £47.80 £65.00 £19.13
90th Percentile £55.50 £71.00 £19.50
England median hourly rate £41.45 £47.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -12.74% +5.56% +120.91%

Apache Airflow
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Apache Airflow as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Apache Airflow in the West Midlands

Apache Airflow
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Apache Airflow
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache Airflow in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apache Airflow in the West Midlands

Apache Airflow
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
Shropshire - 8 £534 -
Birmingham +9 6 £402 -5.41% 1
Apache Airflow
England

Apache Airflow
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 8 (57.14%) SAS
2 6 (42.86%) Apache Spark
3 4 (28.57%) Apache
4 3 (21.43%) Oracle Workflow
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) AWS
1 8 (57.14%) Azure
2 5 (35.71%) PaaS
3 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 2 (14.29%) GCP
4 2 (14.29%) GitHub
4 2 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) SSH
1 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.14%) DNS
2 1 (7.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (57.14%) SAS Enterprise Guide
1 8 (57.14%) SAS Visual Analytics
2 6 (42.86%) Hadoop
3 5 (35.71%) Oracle Database
4 4 (28.57%) Apache Hive
4 4 (28.57%) HBase
5 3 (21.43%) SAS Data Integration Studio
6 2 (14.29%) Big Data
6 2 (14.29%) Delta Lake
6 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
6 2 (14.29%) Parquet
6 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) GitLab
2 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 2 (14.29%) MLflow
2 2 (14.29%) SonarQube
2 2 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (7.14%) Git
3 1 (7.14%) Poetry
3 1 (7.14%) PyCharm
3 1 (7.14%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 5 (35.71%) Public Sector
2 3 (21.43%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Release Manager
2 3 (21.43%) Hadoop Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Configuration Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Configuration Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Environment Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Hadoop Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) Spark Streaming
2 2 (14.29%) Apache Avro
2 2 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (14.29%) Flask
2 2 (14.29%) NumPy
2 2 (14.29%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
1 3 (21.43%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) CI/CD
2 12 (85.71%) Analytics
3 11 (78.57%) Configuration Management
4 10 (71.43%) DevOps
5 8 (57.14%) Data Integration
5 8 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
5 8 (57.14%) Migration
5 8 (57.14%) Test Strategy
5 8 (57.14%) Visual Analytics
6 6 (42.86%) Data Engineering
7 5 (35.71%) Containerisation
7 5 (35.71%) Defect Management
7 5 (35.71%) Software Testing
7 5 (35.71%) Validation
8 4 (28.57%) Data Analytics
8 4 (28.57%) Data Governance
8 4 (28.57%) Integration Patterns
8 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 4 (28.57%) Use Case
9 3 (21.43%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) Python
2 4 (28.57%) Shell Script
3 2 (14.29%) Bash
3 2 (14.29%) Groovy
3 2 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 7 (50.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Docker
2 4 (28.57%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Kubernetes
2 4 (28.57%) Hadoop YARN
3 3 (21.43%) Ansible
3 3 (21.43%) Puppet
4 2 (14.29%) Argo
4 2 (14.29%) Istio
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Oracle
2 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (14.29%) Cloudera
4 1 (7.14%) Red Hat