Hybrid/Remote Apache Airflow Contract Job Trends

Apache Airflow
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Apache Airflow skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 160 102
Rank change year-on-year -100 -58 +207
Contract jobs citing Apache Airflow 111 164 277
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.82% 1.66% 2.19%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.41% 14.20% 17.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 140 264
10th Percentile £363 £402 £500
25th Percentile £463 £490 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -27.33% -6.25% +29.29%
75th Percentile £634 £875 £888
90th Percentile £677 - -
UK median daily rate £529 £550 £800
% change year-on-year -3.82% -31.25% +28.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.50 -
UK median hourly rate £59.75 £105.00 -
% change year-on-year -43.10% - -

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 1,320 1,155 1,624
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 9.78% 11.72% 12.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 941 784 1,131
10th Percentile £325 £300 £319
25th Percentile £415 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +5.77%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £721
90th Percentile £668 £825 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £485 £525
% change year-on-year +3.09% -7.62% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 26 12
10th Percentile £16.33 £20.43 £13.87
25th Percentile £26.23 £20.50 £16.81
Median hourly rate £35.22 £31.78 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year +10.84% -12.34% -36.96%
75th Percentile £67.47 £64.09 £69.64
90th Percentile £88.88 £68.35 £78.63
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £36.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year -10.96% -3.95% -27.62%

Apache Airflow
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Apache Airflow and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Apache Airflow job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Apache Airflow
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Apache Airflow.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Apache Airflow

Apache Airflow
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Apache Airflow over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Apache Airflow daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Apache Airflow
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Apache Airflow.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Apache Airflow

Apache Airflow
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 49 (44.14%) Apache Spark
2 47 (42.34%) Apache
3 17 (15.32%) Jupyter
4 9 (8.11%) SAS
5 6 (5.41%) Confluence
6 3 (2.70%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.90%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.80%) BambooHR
Cloud Services
1 85 (76.58%) AWS
2 40 (36.04%) Azure
2 40 (36.04%) dbt
3 37 (33.33%) GCP
4 28 (25.23%) Snowflake
5 26 (23.42%) Amazon S3
6 17 (15.32%) Amazon EMR
6 17 (15.32%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (10.81%) Serverless
8 9 (8.11%) Prefect
9 8 (7.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (7.21%) Power Platform
10 7 (6.31%) GitHub
11 6 (5.41%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (4.50%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (4.50%) Amazon ECR
12 5 (4.50%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (4.50%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (4.50%) Cloud Composer
12 5 (4.50%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.90%) Cisco IPT
1 1 (0.90%) Network Security
1 1 (0.90%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (19.82%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (15.32%) BigQuery
3 13 (11.71%) Amazon Redshift
3 13 (11.71%) Big Data
4 10 (9.01%) Metadata
4 10 (9.01%) Tableau
5 9 (8.11%) Amazon Athena
5 9 (8.11%) Data Lake
5 9 (8.11%) Delta Lake
5 9 (8.11%) Looker
5 9 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (7.21%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (7.21%) DynamoDB
6 8 (7.21%) Power BI
6 8 (7.21%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 8 (7.21%) SAS Visual Analytics
7 7 (6.31%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (5.41%) MongoDB
8 6 (5.41%) NoSQL
8 6 (5.41%) Presto
Development Applications
1 27 (24.32%) GitLab
2 13 (11.71%) Git
3 12 (10.81%) MLflow
4 6 (5.41%) Jenkins
4 6 (5.41%) JIRA
5 1 (0.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.90%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.90%) RStudio
General
1 26 (23.42%) Public Sector
2 20 (18.02%) Finance
3 16 (14.41%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (14.41%) Social Skills
4 8 (7.21%) Banking
5 4 (3.60%) Marketing
6 3 (2.70%) Financial Institution
6 3 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.70%) Legal
6 3 (2.70%) Military
7 2 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.80%) Local Government
8 1 (0.90%) Aviation
8 1 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.90%) Dutch Language
8 1 (0.90%) French Language
8 1 (0.90%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.90%) Publishing
8 1 (0.90%) Retail
8 1 (0.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 49 (44.14%) Data Engineer
2 16 (14.41%) Senior
3 10 (9.01%) Lead
3 10 (9.01%) Senior Data Engineer
4 9 (8.11%) Architect
5 7 (6.31%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (6.31%) Developer
6 6 (5.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 6 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (5.41%) Lead Data Engineer
6 6 (5.41%) Scala Engineer
7 5 (4.50%) Data Architect
7 5 (4.50%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 5 (4.50%) Python Developer
8 4 (3.60%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 4 (3.60%) GCP Engineer
8 4 (3.60%) Operations Engineer
8 4 (3.60%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (3.60%) Release Manager
8 4 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (31.53%) Terraform
2 29 (26.13%) PySpark
3 14 (12.61%) Kafka
4 6 (5.41%) CSS
4 6 (5.41%) HTML
4 6 (5.41%) Play Framework
4 6 (5.41%) REST
4 6 (5.41%) scikit-learn
4 6 (5.41%) YAML
5 5 (4.50%) Pandas
5 5 (4.50%) RESTful
6 3 (2.70%) Apache Beam
6 3 (2.70%) Gherkin
6 3 (2.70%) LangChain
6 3 (2.70%) LangGraph
6 3 (2.70%) Matplotlib
6 3 (2.70%) Next.js
6 3 (2.70%) PyTorch
6 3 (2.70%) TensorFlow
6 3 (2.70%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 29 (26.13%) Cloud Native
2 13 (11.71%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.60%) Data Structures
3 4 (3.60%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (3.60%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.60%) Replication
4 3 (2.70%) AI Agents
4 3 (2.70%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.70%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (2.70%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (1.80%) BYOD
5 2 (1.80%) Credit Risk
5 2 (1.80%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (0.90%) Clustering
6 1 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.90%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.90%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.90%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.81%) Linux
2 6 (5.41%) Unix
3 1 (0.90%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 50 (45.05%) Analytics
3 49 (44.14%) Data Engineering
4 46 (41.44%) Data Pipeline
5 39 (35.14%) DevOps
6 34 (30.63%) AI
7 33 (29.73%) Agile
7 33 (29.73%) Infrastructure as Code
8 30 (27.03%) Data Modelling
9 29 (26.13%) ETL
9 29 (26.13%) Machine Learning
10 26 (23.42%) Containerisation
11 25 (22.52%) Data Governance
12 23 (20.72%) Software Engineering
13 21 (18.92%) Migration
14 20 (18.02%) Data Science
15 19 (17.12%) Validation
16 18 (16.22%) Data Transformation
17 17 (15.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 16 (14.41%) Lakehouse
Programming Languages
1 81 (72.97%) Python
2 65 (58.56%) SQL
3 16 (14.41%) Java
4 14 (12.61%) Scala
5 7 (6.31%) Bash
5 7 (6.31%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.80%) Bicep
6 2 (1.80%) R
6 2 (1.80%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.90%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.90%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 38 (34.23%) SC Cleared
1 38 (34.23%) Security Cleared
2 6 (5.41%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (3.60%) Degree
4 3 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.70%) CSPO
4 3 (2.70%) SAS Certification
4 3 (2.70%) SnowPro
5 2 (1.80%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.80%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.90%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.90%) CISM
6 1 (0.90%) CISSP
6 1 (0.90%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.90%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.90%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (31.53%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.41%) GDPR
3 1 (0.90%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.90%) GRC
3 1 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.90%) SOC 2
System Software
1 36 (32.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (17.12%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.41%) Grafana
2 6 (5.41%) Kibana
3 4 (3.60%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.90%) Ansible
4 1 (0.90%) Control-M
Vendors
1 36 (32.43%) Databricks
2 18 (16.22%) Google
3 9 (8.11%) Splunk
3 9 (8.11%) Trend Micro
4 8 (7.21%) Oracle
5 4 (3.60%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.70%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.80%) Cloudera
7 2 (1.80%) Informatica
7 2 (1.80%) New Relic
7 2 (1.80%) Teradata
7 2 (1.80%) Workday