Apache Airflow Contracts

Apache Airflow
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Apache Airflow skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Apache Airflow over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 282 473 582
Rank change year-on-year +191 +109 -141
Contract jobs citing Apache Airflow 357 213 277
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.84% 0.37% 0.32%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.61% 3.43% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 169 180
10th Percentile £438 £438 £400
25th Percentile £513 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £575 £590
Median % change year-on-year +26.09% -2.54% -1.67%
75th Percentile £850 £713 £695
90th Percentile £888 £788 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £457 £480 £538
% change year-on-year -4.90% -10.70% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile - £78.75 -
25th Percentile £31.25 £80.63 £51.25
Median hourly rate £32.50 £85.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -61.76% +61.90% +20.00%
75th Percentile £33.75 £88.13 £53.75
90th Percentile - £89.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Application Platform Skills
UK

Apache Airflow is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,145 6,216 10,959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.74% 10.91% 12.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,869 4,362 7,517
10th Percentile £258 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% - +7.89%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £711
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 147 220
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.09 £13.99
25th Percentile £15.45 £19.75 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.25 £45.00 £26.17
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% +71.95% +17.86%
75th Percentile £46.18 £66.00 £53.81
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.19 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.50 £27.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -10.91% +37.50% +5.26%

Apache Airflow
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Apache Airflow as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Apache Airflow in the UK

Apache Airflow
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Apache Airflow in the UK

Apache Airflow
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache Airflow over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Apache Airflow in the UK

Apache Airflow
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Apache Airflow.

Hourly rate trend for Apache Airflow in the UK

Apache Airflow
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
England +190 318 £725 +26.09% 82
London +178 279 £750 +25.00% 65
Work from Home +185 175 £800 +34.74% 58
UK excluding London +58 52 £457 -4.90% 19
Scotland +48 19 £460 -25.20% 2
South East +17 15 £363 -36.96% 6
North of England +33 14 £493 +3.68% 3
Yorkshire - 9 £450 - 1
North West +17 5 £510 +7.37% 1
Midlands +25 2 £450 -6.25% 5
West Midlands +24 2 £450 -6.25% 2
East of England +5 1 £525 -27.59%
South West -4 1 £350 -20.00% 2

Apache Airflow
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 233 (65.27%) Apache
2 26 (7.28%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.84%) Jupyter
3 3 (0.84%) nginx
4 2 (0.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 278 (77.87%) AWS
2 178 (49.86%) GCP
3 154 (43.14%) dbt
4 146 (40.90%) Snowflake
5 106 (29.69%) Azure
6 32 (8.96%) Amazon S3
6 32 (8.96%) Serverless
7 28 (7.84%) AWS Lambda
8 19 (5.32%) Amazon EMR
9 16 (4.48%) Amazon EC2
9 16 (4.48%) GitHub
10 13 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (2.24%) Dagster
12 7 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (1.68%) Vertex AI
14 5 (1.40%) Amazon Kinesis
14 5 (1.40%) Amazon SQS
14 5 (1.40%) AWS Data Pipeline
14 5 (1.40%) AWS Step Functions
14 5 (1.40%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.08%) BGP
1 11 (3.08%) Ethernet VPN
1 11 (3.08%) MPLS
1 11 (3.08%) VPN
2 10 (2.80%) Radio Access Network
3 6 (1.68%) Firewall
4 5 (1.40%) FTP
5 3 (0.84%) Network Security
5 3 (0.84%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.28%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (48.46%) Apache Ignite
2 140 (39.22%) Amazon Athena
3 124 (34.73%) Apache Arrow
3 124 (34.73%) Dremio
4 118 (33.05%) Data Lake
5 81 (22.69%) PostgreSQL
6 43 (12.04%) Big Data
7 31 (8.68%) Data Warehouse
8 23 (6.44%) NoSQL
9 20 (5.60%) Amazon Redshift
10 19 (5.32%) BigQuery
11 15 (4.20%) MongoDB
12 10 (2.80%) Metadata
13 9 (2.52%) KDB
13 9 (2.52%) Kdb+
14 8 (2.24%) Flink
14 8 (2.24%) Hadoop
15 6 (1.68%) Apache Cassandra
15 6 (1.68%) Relational Database
15 6 (1.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 43 (12.04%) Cypress.io
2 31 (8.68%) Git
3 20 (5.60%) JIRA
4 14 (3.92%) GitLab
5 12 (3.36%) Jenkins
6 11 (3.08%) Robot Framework
6 11 (3.08%) TestRail
7 7 (1.96%) MLflow
8 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.28%) Deequ
8 1 (0.28%) Gradle
8 1 (0.28%) kappa
8 1 (0.28%) Poetry
General
1 216 (60.50%) Finance
2 192 (53.78%) Front Office
3 168 (47.06%) Banking
4 99 (27.73%) Investment Banking
5 14 (3.92%) Social Skills
6 10 (2.80%) Public Sector
7 8 (2.24%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (1.40%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (0.84%) Advertising
9 3 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.28%) Legal
10 1 (0.28%) Marketing
10 1 (0.28%) Retail
10 1 (0.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 141 (39.50%) Software Engineer
2 130 (36.41%) Developer
3 123 (34.45%) Python Engineer
4 113 (31.65%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 110 (30.81%) Python Software Engineer
6 95 (26.61%) Python Developer
7 75 (21.01%) AWS Engineer
8 71 (19.89%) Data Engineer
9 67 (18.77%) React Developer
10 53 (14.85%) Lead
11 51 (14.29%) Senior
12 41 (11.48%) AWS Software Engineer
13 36 (10.08%) Java Engineer
13 36 (10.08%) Senior Software Engineer
14 33 (9.24%) Java Software Engineer
15 31 (8.68%) Architect
15 31 (8.68%) Full Stack Developer
15 31 (8.68%) Full Stack Engineer
15 31 (8.68%) Full Stack Python Developer
15 31 (8.68%) Full Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (55.18%) gRPC
1 197 (55.18%) Protocol Buffers
2 124 (34.73%) Pandas
3 117 (32.77%) NumPy
4 105 (29.41%) SciPy
5 84 (23.53%) React
6 78 (21.85%) Redux
7 67 (18.77%) Material-UI
8 33 (9.24%) PySpark
9 23 (6.44%) Kafka
10 15 (4.20%) REST
11 14 (3.92%) Node.js
12 13 (3.64%) AngularJS
12 13 (3.64%) Vue
13 11 (3.08%) NETCONF
13 11 (3.08%) RESTCONF
13 11 (3.08%) SOAP
14 10 (2.80%) YANG
15 9 (2.52%) scikit-learn
16 8 (2.24%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 179 (50.14%) Fixed Income
2 173 (48.46%) Hedge funds
3 140 (39.22%) Equities
4 101 (28.29%) Derivative
5 99 (27.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 16 (4.48%) Clustering
7 15 (4.20%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (2.80%) Pricing Data
9 3 (0.84%) Algorithms
9 3 (0.84%) Cloud Native
9 3 (0.84%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.84%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.56%) Blockchain
10 2 (0.56%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.56%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.28%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.28%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.28%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.28%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.80%) Linux
2 9 (2.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (61.06%) Agile
2 203 (56.86%) Software Engineering
3 199 (55.74%) Asset Management
4 168 (47.06%) Investment Management
5 77 (21.57%) Machine Learning
6 74 (20.73%) Artificial Intelligence
7 68 (19.05%) Full Stack Development
8 65 (18.21%) CI/CD
9 63 (17.65%) Data Pipeline
10 61 (17.09%) Automated Trading
10 61 (17.09%) DevOps
11 53 (14.85%) Data Engineering
12 44 (12.32%) Line Management
13 40 (11.20%) Data Modelling
14 38 (10.64%) ETL
15 37 (10.36%) Analytics
16 31 (8.68%) Greeks
17 28 (7.84%) Test Automation
18 26 (7.28%) Containerisation
19 25 (7.00%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 340 (95.24%) Python
2 180 (50.42%) TypeScript
3 151 (42.30%) Java
4 138 (38.66%) JavaScript
5 115 (32.21%) SQL
6 39 (10.92%) Scala
7 22 (6.16%) Go
8 18 (5.04%) C#
9 10 (2.80%) Ruby
10 5 (1.40%) Bash
10 5 (1.40%) Groovy
11 3 (0.84%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.56%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.56%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.28%) C++
13 1 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.28%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (3.64%) Degree
2 12 (3.36%) Security Cleared
3 4 (1.12%) DV Cleared
3 4 (1.12%) SC Cleared
4 3 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (14.85%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.12%) QA
3 1 (0.28%) GDPR
System Software
1 43 (12.04%) Docker
2 3 (0.84%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (0.56%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 60 (16.81%) Kubernetes
1 60 (16.81%) Terraform
2 22 (6.16%) Prometheus
3 10 (2.80%) Grafana
4 9 (2.52%) Ansible
5 6 (1.68%) Kubeflow
6 5 (1.40%) Argo
7 3 (0.84%) Puppet
8 1 (0.28%) Podman
Vendors
1 69 (19.33%) Google
2 21 (5.88%) Databricks
3 10 (2.80%) Informatica
3 10 (2.80%) Splunk
4 7 (1.96%) Ab Initio
5 5 (1.40%) Talend
6 2 (0.56%) Bloomberg
6 2 (0.56%) Confluent
6 2 (0.56%) IBM
6 2 (0.56%) StreamSets
7 1 (0.28%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.28%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.28%) TIBCO