Apache Airflow Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Apache Airflow
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 202 376
Rank change year-on-year +38 +174 +104
Contract jobs citing Apache Airflow 143 146 101
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.44% 0.95% 0.39%
As % of the Application Platforms category 12.67% 9.36% 3.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 136 84
10th Percentile £465 £459 £438
25th Percentile £638 £663 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £800 £594
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +34.74% +0.64%
75th Percentile £875 £850 £738
90th Percentile - £888 £788
UK median daily rate £675 £720 £575
% change year-on-year -6.25% +25.22% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £78.75
25th Percentile - - £80.63
Median hourly rate - - £85.00
75th Percentile - - £88.13
90th Percentile - - £89.25
UK median hourly rate - £32.50 £85.00
% change year-on-year - -61.76% +61.90%

All Application Platform Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,129 1,560 2,932
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.40% 10.17% 11.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 811 1,093 2,063
10th Percentile £313 £300 £313
25th Percentile £406 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year - -1.38% -2.50%
75th Percentile £633 £608 £638
90th Percentile £825 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 39 72
10th Percentile £27.03 £16.28 £19.33
25th Percentile £38.39 £22.55 £22.16
Median hourly rate £57.00 £30.16 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.99% -45.16% +57.14%
75th Percentile £64.50 £47.94 £66.69
90th Percentile £66.00 £71.50 £82.40
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £27.52 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.01% -31.21% +81.82%

Apache Airflow
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Apache Airflow as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Apache Airflow trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Apache Airflow
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Apache Airflow.

Apache Airflow daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Apache Airflow
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Apache Airflow over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Apache Airflow daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Apache Airflow
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Apache Airflow.

Apache Airflow hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Apache Airflow
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 89 (62.24%) Apache
2 29 (20.28%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.40%) Confluence
4 1 (0.70%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 125 (87.41%) AWS
2 120 (83.92%) dbt
3 65 (45.45%) GCP
4 58 (40.56%) Snowflake
5 45 (31.47%) Amazon ECS
6 28 (19.58%) AWS Lambda
6 28 (19.58%) OpenShift
6 28 (19.58%) Serverless
7 27 (18.88%) Dagster
8 23 (16.08%) Azure
9 18 (12.59%) Amazon EC2
10 17 (11.89%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (4.90%) GitHub
12 5 (3.50%) Cloud Composer
12 5 (3.50%) Power Platform
13 3 (2.10%) Amazon S3
13 3 (2.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 3 (2.10%) GitHub Actions
14 2 (1.40%) Alation
14 2 (1.40%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (72.73%) Amazon Athena
1 104 (72.73%) Apache Iceberg
2 103 (72.03%) Dremio
3 92 (64.34%) Apache Arrow
4 68 (47.55%) Apache Ignite
5 44 (30.77%) Data Lake
6 18 (12.59%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (6.29%) BigQuery
9 6 (4.20%) Snowflake Schema
10 5 (3.50%) Data Vault
10 5 (3.50%) Power BI
11 4 (2.80%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (2.80%) Tableau
12 3 (2.10%) Hadoop
12 3 (2.10%) Looker
13 2 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (1.40%) Big Data
13 2 (1.40%) Metabase
13 2 (1.40%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 28 (19.58%) Artifactory
2 5 (3.50%) Git
3 4 (2.80%) GitLab
4 2 (1.40%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.40%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.70%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.70%) JMeter
General
1 108 (75.52%) Finance
2 103 (72.03%) Front Office
3 55 (38.46%) Banking
4 37 (25.87%) Investment Banking
5 7 (4.90%) Social Skills
6 5 (3.50%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.10%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.40%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.40%) Retail
9 1 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 99 (69.23%) AWS Engineer
2 82 (57.34%) Python Engineer
3 66 (46.15%) Data Engineer
4 64 (44.76%) AWS Software Engineer
4 64 (44.76%) Software Engineer
5 43 (30.07%) Python Software Engineer
6 40 (27.97%) Developer
7 35 (24.48%) AWS Developer
7 35 (24.48%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 33 (23.08%) Java Engineer
8 33 (23.08%) Java Software Engineer
9 30 (20.98%) AWS DevOps
9 30 (20.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 30 (20.98%) DevOps Engineer
10 28 (19.58%) Python Developer
11 25 (17.48%) Senior
12 21 (14.69%) Senior Software Engineer
13 18 (12.59%) Senior Java Engineer
13 18 (12.59%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 12 (8.39%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (46.15%) NumPy
1 66 (46.15%) Pandas
2 65 (45.45%) SciPy
3 64 (44.76%) PySpark
4 40 (27.97%) gRPC
4 40 (27.97%) Protocol Buffers
5 34 (23.78%) Kafka
6 28 (19.58%) AngularJS
6 28 (19.58%) J2EE
6 28 (19.58%) Node.js
6 28 (19.58%) React
7 27 (18.88%) Vue
8 11 (7.69%) Redux
9 2 (1.40%) Jinja
9 2 (1.40%) pytest
9 2 (1.40%) WPF
10 1 (0.70%) Apache NiFi
10 1 (0.70%) Django
10 1 (0.70%) Flask
10 1 (0.70%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 66 (46.15%) Fixed Income
2 47 (32.87%) Equities
2 47 (32.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 37 (25.87%) Derivative
3 37 (25.87%) Hedge funds
4 12 (8.39%) Pricing Data
5 4 (2.80%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.40%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.40%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.40%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.70%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.70%) FMCG
7 1 (0.70%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.40%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (74.13%) Software Engineering
2 104 (72.73%) Agile
3 103 (72.03%) Asset Management
4 48 (33.57%) Investment Management
5 46 (32.17%) Data Engineering
6 39 (27.27%) Fintech
7 34 (23.78%) CI/CD
8 33 (23.08%) DevOps
9 29 (20.28%) Open Source
10 28 (19.58%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 27 (18.88%) Performance Attribution
12 26 (18.18%) Analytics
13 22 (15.38%) Migration
14 18 (12.59%) Data Pipeline
14 18 (12.59%) ETL
15 17 (11.89%) Data Modelling
16 16 (11.19%) Order Management
16 16 (11.19%) Risk Management
17 12 (8.39%) Data Science
18 11 (7.69%) Credit Risk Analysis
Programming Languages
1 126 (88.11%) Python
2 84 (58.74%) Java
3 58 (40.56%) JavaScript
4 56 (39.16%) TypeScript
5 36 (25.17%) SQL
6 28 (19.58%) Go
7 2 (1.40%) C#
8 1 (0.70%) Groovy
8 1 (0.70%) R
8 1 (0.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (3.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (2.80%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.70%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (0.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.29%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.40%) QA
3 1 (0.70%) GDPR
System Software
1 31 (21.68%) Docker
2 1 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 35 (24.48%) Terraform
2 31 (21.68%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (4.90%) Google
2 3 (2.10%) Informatica
3 2 (1.40%) Cribl.io
3 2 (1.40%) Databricks
3 2 (1.40%) MicroStrategy
3 2 (1.40%) New Relic
3 2 (1.40%) Splunk
3 2 (1.40%) Teradata
4 1 (0.70%) Confluent
4 1 (0.70%) IBM
4 1 (0.70%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.70%) StreamSets