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 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 106 116
Rank change year-on-year -14 +10 +62
Contract jobs citing Apache Airflow 16 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.80% 0.26% 0.052%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.28% 3.11% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 1
10th Percentile £402 £403 -
25th Percentile £453 £463 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £489 £313
Median % change year-on-year +5.32% +56.48% -40.48%
75th Percentile £536 £490 £319
90th Percentile £540 £549 -
England median daily rate £530 £800 £650
% change year-on-year -33.81% +23.08% +4.00%

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 303 161 187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.06% 8.53% 9.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 99 135
10th Percentile £300 £210 £236
25th Percentile £402 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £446 £425
Median % change year-on-year +9.86% +4.95% -14.14%
75th Percentile £538 £563 £550
90th Percentile £588 £638 £662
England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 8
10th Percentile £20.11 £34.63 £17.39
25th Percentile - £39.69 £17.50
Median hourly rate £27.21 £51.25 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -46.91% +180.82% +21.79%
75th Percentile £32.21 £64.69 £19.25
90th Percentile £34.43 £70.88 £19.40
England median hourly rate £41.00 £42.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year -3.53% +57.41% +35.00%

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 3 November 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 3 November 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
Birmingham +2 8 £402 -5.41%
Shropshire - 8 £534 - 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 8 (50.00%) Apache Spark
1 8 (50.00%) SAS
2 6 (37.50%) Apache
3 3 (18.75%) Oracle Workflow
Cloud Services
1 10 (62.50%) AWS
1 10 (62.50%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) PaaS
3 4 (25.00%) GCP
4 3 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon S3
5 2 (12.50%) GitHub
5 2 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) SSH
1 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 1 (6.25%) DNS
2 1 (6.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 8 (50.00%) SAS Enterprise Guide
1 8 (50.00%) SAS Visual Analytics
2 5 (31.25%) Oracle Database
3 4 (25.00%) Apache Hive
3 4 (25.00%) HBase
3 4 (25.00%) NoSQL
4 3 (18.75%) Big Data
4 3 (18.75%) SAS Data Integration Studio
5 2 (12.50%) Delta Lake
5 2 (12.50%) Parquet
5 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) GitLab
2 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (12.50%) MLflow
2 2 (12.50%) SonarQube
2 2 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (6.25%) Git
3 1 (6.25%) Poetry
3 1 (6.25%) PyCharm
3 1 (6.25%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 5 (31.25%) Public Sector
2 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Finance
4 2 (12.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Release Manager
2 4 (25.00%) Data Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Hadoop Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Configuration Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Configuration Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Environment Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Hadoop Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Lead
5 1 (6.25%) Lead Data Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) Spark Streaming
2 2 (12.50%) Apache Avro
2 2 (12.50%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (12.50%) Flask
2 2 (12.50%) NumPy
2 2 (12.50%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Cloud Native
1 3 (18.75%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) Analytics
2 13 (81.25%) CI/CD
3 11 (68.75%) Configuration Management
4 10 (62.50%) DevOps
5 9 (56.25%) Data Integration
5 9 (56.25%) Data Pipeline
6 8 (50.00%) Migration
6 8 (50.00%) Test Strategy
6 8 (50.00%) Visual Analytics
7 7 (43.75%) Data Engineering
8 6 (37.50%) Data Analytics
9 5 (31.25%) Containerisation
9 5 (31.25%) Data Governance
9 5 (31.25%) Defect Management
9 5 (31.25%) Software Testing
9 5 (31.25%) Validation
10 4 (25.00%) Data Security
10 4 (25.00%) ETL
10 4 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
10 4 (25.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (25.00%) Shell Script
2 4 (25.00%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) Bash
3 2 (12.50%) Groovy
3 2 (12.50%) Java
3 2 (12.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (43.75%) SC Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Docker
2 4 (25.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Kubernetes
2 4 (25.00%) Hadoop YARN
3 3 (18.75%) Ansible
3 3 (18.75%) Puppet
4 2 (12.50%) Argo
4 2 (12.50%) Istio
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) Oracle
2 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
3 2 (12.50%) Cloudera
4 1 (6.25%) Google
4 1 (6.25%) Red Hat