Apache Airflow Contracts in the West Midlands

Apache Airflow
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Apache Airflow skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Apache Airflow over the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 104 121
Rank change year-on-year -2 +17 +62
Contract jobs citing Apache Airflow 5 4 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.30% 0.21% 0.092%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.69% 2.42% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £369 £375 -
25th Percentile £381 £394 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% -6.25% -10.70%
75th Percentile £539 £481 -
90th Percentile £620 £485 -
England median daily rate £675 £800 £600
% change year-on-year -15.63% +33.33% -

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 186 165 234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.25% 8.85% 10.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 112 175
10th Percentile £276 £257 £263
25th Percentile £363 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -8.16%
75th Percentile £538 £612 £540
90th Percentile £598 £638 £594
England median daily rate £493 £525 £523
% change year-on-year -6.19% +0.48% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile £34.10 £15.76 £17.65
25th Percentile £34.43 £15.91 £17.88
Median hourly rate £34.98 £35.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% +91.89% +10.45%
75th Percentile £47.80 £60.00 £19.25
90th Percentile £55.50 £69.00 £19.55
England median hourly rate £44.50 £32.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +36.92% -31.58% +115.91%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Apache Airflow in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Apache Airflow in the West Midlands

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 2 £387 -8.96% 6
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 3 (60.00%) Apache
2 2 (40.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (40.00%) GCP
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) SSH
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (40.00%) Big Data
2 2 (40.00%) Delta Lake
2 2 (40.00%) Hadoop
2 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (40.00%) Parquet
3 1 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (20.00%) Flink
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (40.00%) MLflow
1 2 (40.00%) SonarQube
1 2 (40.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) Poetry
2 1 (20.00%) PyCharm
2 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Python Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Python Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Apache NiFi
1 3 (60.00%) PySpark
2 2 (40.00%) Apache Avro
2 2 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (40.00%) Flask
2 2 (40.00%) NumPy
2 2 (40.00%) Pandas
3 1 (20.00%) Kafka
3 1 (20.00%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (80.00%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (60.00%) Analytics
3 3 (60.00%) Data Engineering
3 3 (60.00%) Data Integration
3 3 (60.00%) DataOps
3 3 (60.00%) ETL
3 3 (60.00%) Storage Management
3 3 (60.00%) Workflow
4 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (40.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
4 2 (40.00%) DevOps
4 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (40.00%) Secrets Management
5 1 (20.00%) Data Security
5 1 (20.00%) Dependency Management
5 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
5 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (20.00%) Memory Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Bash
2 2 (40.00%) Groovy
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Argo
2 2 (40.00%) Istio
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Cloudera
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat