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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 107 109
Rank change year-on-year -35 +2 -
Contract jobs citing Apache Airflow 23 14 5
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.66% 0.76% 0.26%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.53% 5.67% 3.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 10 5
10th Percentile £456 £398 £403
25th Percentile £515 £505 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £517 £489
Median % change year-on-year +3.92% +5.67% -
75th Percentile £565 £536 £490
90th Percentile £662 £540 £549
England median daily rate £535 £550 £800
% change year-on-year -2.73% -31.25% +28.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £59.75 £105.00 -
% change year-on-year -43.10% - -

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 416 247 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.85% 13.48% 7.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 173 96
10th Percentile £350 £275 £250
25th Percentile £413 £375 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £551 £538 £575
90th Percentile £667 £595 £638
England median daily rate £500 £499 £525
% change year-on-year +0.20% -4.95% +0.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 3 3
10th Percentile - £34.10 £23.80
25th Percentile £16.25 £34.43 £35.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £34.98 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.09% -36.40% +201.37%
75th Percentile £53.75 £47.80 £65.00
90th Percentile £61.75 £55.50 £71.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £41.45 £47.50
% change year-on-year -21.59% -12.74% +5.56%

Apache Airflow
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Apache Airflow relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Apache Airflow job vacancy trend 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 18 September 2026.

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 18 September 2026. 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 -33 18 £540 +1.12% 1
Birmingham -13 3 £374 -7.03% 1
Warwickshire - 1 - -
Apache Airflow
England

Apache Airflow
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 20 (86.96%) SAS
2 3 (13.04%) Apache Spark
2 3 (13.04%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (8.70%) Apache
4 1 (4.35%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 23 (100.00%) AWS
2 19 (82.61%) Azure
3 10 (43.48%) PaaS
4 4 (17.39%) Snowflake
5 2 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (4.35%) GitHub
6 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (78.26%) SAS Enterprise Guide
1 18 (78.26%) SAS Visual Analytics
2 9 (39.13%) Oracle Database
3 5 (21.74%) SAS Data Integration Studio
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.35%) Data Vault
4 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 7 (30.43%) GitLab
2 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
General
1 17 (73.91%) Public Sector
2 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Military
4 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) Release Manager
2 4 (17.39%) Architect
2 4 (17.39%) Configuration Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) SAS Architect
2 4 (17.39%) SAS Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Technical Architect
3 1 (4.35%) Data Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) DataOps Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Java Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Python Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Python Software Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Scala Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Senior
3 1 (4.35%) Senior Scala Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) Terraform
2 1 (4.35%) Play Framework
2 1 (4.35%) PySpark
2 1 (4.35%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (34.78%) Cloud Native
2 4 (17.39%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (17.39%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (91.30%) CI/CD
2 19 (82.61%) DevOps
2 19 (82.61%) Migration
3 18 (78.26%) Analytics
3 18 (78.26%) Visual Analytics
4 17 (73.91%) Data Integration
5 13 (56.52%) Configuration Management
5 13 (56.52%) Validation
6 12 (52.17%) Test Strategy
7 11 (47.83%) Containerisation
7 11 (47.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 10 (43.48%) Defect Management
8 10 (43.48%) Software Testing
9 7 (30.43%) Integration Patterns
9 7 (30.43%) Release Management
10 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure as Code
11 5 (21.74%) High Availability
11 5 (21.74%) Performance Optimisation
12 4 (17.39%) Data Governance
12 4 (17.39%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.04%) Python
1 3 (13.04%) SQL
2 1 (4.35%) Java
2 1 (4.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (91.30%) Security Cleared
2 19 (82.61%) SC Cleared
3 4 (17.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (17.39%) Degree
3 4 (17.39%) SAS Certification
System Software
1 7 (30.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (39.13%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.35%) Grafana
2 1 (4.35%) Kibana
Vendors
1 15 (65.22%) Oracle
2 5 (21.74%) Databricks
3 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.35%) Informatica
4 1 (4.35%) Trend Micro