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 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 88 109
Rank change year-on-year -59 +21 +28
Contract jobs citing Apache Airflow 7 6 3
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.25% 0.45% 0.15%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.71% 4.35% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 2
10th Percentile £358 £489 £318
25th Percentile £369 £490 £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £533 £381
Median % change year-on-year -19.53% +39.67% -20.57%
75th Percentile £466 £609 £436
90th Percentile £494 £649 £459
England median daily rate £515 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -23.70% +3.85% +13.04%

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 410 138 150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.64% 10.38% 7.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 297 79 106
10th Percentile £363 £206 £216
25th Percentile £415 £391 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £460 £423
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +8.88% -14.65%
75th Percentile £537 £538 £600
90th Percentile £575 £590 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.11% -5.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 7
10th Percentile £21.40 £16.55 £14.94
25th Percentile £25.00 £16.88 £16.39
Median hourly rate £27.21 £18.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.17% +2.86% +25.00%
75th Percentile £36.72 £20.24 £18.63
90th Percentile £68.93 £25.64 £18.95
England median hourly rate £27.21 £42.50 £25.25
% change year-on-year -35.98% +68.32% +13.94%

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 10 March 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 10 March 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
Birmingham - 5 £380 - 5
Shropshire - 1 £455 - 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 2 (28.57%) Apache
1 2 (28.57%) Apache Spark
2 1 (14.29%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) Azure
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon S3
3 3 (42.86%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (42.86%) dbt
3 3 (42.86%) GCP
3 3 (42.86%) Serverless
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (14.29%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (28.57%) Hadoop
2 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
3 1 (14.29%) Big Data
3 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (14.29%) Metadata
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database
3 1 (14.29%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 1 (14.29%) SAS Visual Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 2 (28.57%) Banking
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Information Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Lead Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Release Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Analytics
1 6 (85.71%) ETL
2 4 (57.14%) Data Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) Data Modelling
2 4 (57.14%) Migration
3 3 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (42.86%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (42.86%) Validation
4 2 (28.57%) Data Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
4 2 (28.57%) Data Integration
4 2 (28.57%) Data Science
4 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
4 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (14.29%) Defect Management
5 1 (14.29%) DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) Metadata Management
5 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (14.29%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) SQL
2 4 (57.14%) Python
3 2 (28.57%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Control-M
1 1 (14.29%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Google
1 1 (14.29%) Informatica
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle
1 1 (14.29%) Splunk