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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 256 449 572
Rank change year-on-year +193 +123 -99
Contract jobs citing Apache Airflow 391 241 274
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.91% 0.43% 0.31%
As % of the Application Platforms category 9.19% 3.93% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 352 187 183
10th Percentile £438 £438 £401
25th Percentile £513 £480 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £588 £590
Median % change year-on-year +23.40% -0.42% -1.67%
75th Percentile £850 £700 £700
90th Percentile £888 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £453 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -9.40% -6.98% +10.26%
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 4,253 6,127 10,971
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.87% 10.87% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,960 4,293 7,583
10th Percentile £258 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £408
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 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 148 206
10th Percentile £13.28 £16.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.50 £21.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £30.08 £51.25 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.31% +127.78% +9.76%
75th Percentile £50.47 £66.00 £53.94
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -25.00% +116.22% -2.63%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +175 347 £750 +25.00% 105
London +178 309 £750 +25.00% 84
Work from Home +183 200 £800 +33.33% 62
UK excluding London +43 51 £453 -9.40% 21
Scotland +53 19 £460 -16.36% 2
North of England +36 15 £475 - 8
South East +9 13 £363 -36.96% 4
Yorkshire - 9 £450 -
North West +14 6 £510 +7.37% 7
Midlands +23 2 £450 -6.25% 3
West Midlands +13 2 £450 -6.25% 1
East of England -1 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
1 259 (66.24%) Apache
2 29 (7.42%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.77%) Jupyter
3 3 (0.77%) nginx
4 2 (0.51%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 310 (79.28%) AWS
2 194 (49.62%) GCP
3 177 (45.27%) dbt
4 172 (43.99%) Snowflake
5 116 (29.67%) Azure
6 36 (9.21%) Amazon S3
7 31 (7.93%) Serverless
8 27 (6.91%) AWS Lambda
9 22 (5.63%) Amazon EMR
10 19 (4.86%) GitHub
11 16 (4.09%) Amazon EC2
12 13 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (3.07%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (2.30%) Dagster
15 7 (1.79%) AWS Step Functions
16 5 (1.28%) Amazon SQS
16 5 (1.28%) AWS Data Pipeline
16 5 (1.28%) Cloud Computing
16 5 (1.28%) Vertex AI
17 4 (1.02%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.30%) BGP
1 9 (2.30%) Ethernet VPN
1 9 (2.30%) MPLS
1 9 (2.30%) VPN
2 8 (2.05%) Radio Access Network
3 6 (1.53%) Firewall
4 5 (1.28%) FTP
5 3 (0.77%) Network Security
5 3 (0.77%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.26%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 196 (50.13%) Apache Ignite
2 162 (41.43%) Amazon Athena
3 145 (37.08%) Dremio
4 143 (36.57%) Apache Arrow
5 139 (35.55%) Data Lake
6 86 (21.99%) PostgreSQL
7 47 (12.02%) Big Data
8 34 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
9 23 (5.88%) BigQuery
10 21 (5.37%) NoSQL
11 20 (5.12%) Amazon Redshift
12 13 (3.32%) MongoDB
13 10 (2.56%) Hadoop
13 10 (2.56%) Metadata
13 10 (2.56%) Spark SQL
14 9 (2.30%) Flink
15 6 (1.53%) Apache Cassandra
15 6 (1.53%) KDB
15 6 (1.53%) Kdb+
16 5 (1.28%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 47 (12.02%) Cypress.io
2 33 (8.44%) Git
3 21 (5.37%) JIRA
4 16 (4.09%) Jenkins
5 12 (3.07%) GitLab
6 9 (2.30%) Robot Framework
6 9 (2.30%) TestRail
7 6 (1.53%) MLflow
8 2 (0.51%) Selenium
9 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.26%) Deequ
9 1 (0.26%) Gradle
9 1 (0.26%) kappa
General
1 242 (61.89%) Finance
2 215 (54.99%) Front Office
3 188 (48.08%) Banking
4 113 (28.90%) Investment Banking
5 18 (4.60%) Social Skills
6 10 (2.56%) Public Sector
7 8 (2.05%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (1.28%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.77%) Retail
11 2 (0.51%) Advertising
11 2 (0.51%) Marketing
12 1 (0.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 158 (40.41%) Software Engineer
2 137 (35.04%) Developer
3 136 (34.78%) Python Engineer
4 123 (31.46%) Python Software Engineer
5 122 (31.20%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 103 (26.34%) Python Developer
7 86 (21.99%) AWS Engineer
8 85 (21.74%) Data Engineer
9 73 (18.67%) React Developer
10 61 (15.60%) Lead
11 59 (15.09%) Senior
12 48 (12.28%) AWS Software Engineer
13 45 (11.51%) Java Engineer
14 44 (11.25%) Senior Software Engineer
15 40 (10.23%) Java Software Engineer
16 37 (9.46%) Architect
17 33 (8.44%) Full Stack Developer
17 33 (8.44%) Full Stack Engineer
17 33 (8.44%) Full Stack Software Engineer
17 33 (8.44%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 222 (56.78%) gRPC
1 222 (56.78%) Protocol Buffers
2 143 (36.57%) Pandas
3 137 (35.04%) NumPy
4 123 (31.46%) SciPy
5 92 (23.53%) React
6 86 (21.99%) Redux
7 71 (18.16%) Material-UI
8 41 (10.49%) PySpark
9 24 (6.14%) Kafka
10 18 (4.60%) Node.js
11 15 (3.84%) AngularJS
11 15 (3.84%) Vue
12 13 (3.32%) REST
13 9 (2.30%) NETCONF
13 9 (2.30%) RESTCONF
13 9 (2.30%) SOAP
14 8 (2.05%) YANG
15 7 (1.79%) scikit-learn
15 7 (1.79%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 205 (52.43%) Fixed Income
2 197 (50.38%) Hedge funds
3 159 (40.66%) Equities
4 119 (30.43%) Derivative
5 117 (29.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 18 (4.60%) Clustering
7 15 (3.84%) Distributed Systems
8 14 (3.58%) Pricing Data
9 5 (1.28%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.77%) Cloud Native
10 3 (0.77%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.77%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.51%) Blockchain
11 2 (0.51%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.51%) Public Cloud
12 1 (0.26%) Distributed Computing
12 1 (0.26%) Legacy Applications
12 1 (0.26%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (0.26%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.30%) Linux
2 6 (1.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (63.17%) Agile
2 227 (58.06%) Software Engineering
3 225 (57.54%) Asset Management
4 189 (48.34%) Investment Management
5 79 (20.20%) Machine Learning
6 77 (19.69%) Artificial Intelligence
7 74 (18.93%) Full Stack Development
8 71 (18.16%) Data Pipeline
9 68 (17.39%) DevOps
10 66 (16.88%) CI/CD
11 65 (16.62%) Automated Trading
12 56 (14.32%) Data Engineering
13 52 (13.30%) Line Management
14 41 (10.49%) ETL
15 37 (9.46%) Greeks
16 35 (8.95%) Data Modelling
17 34 (8.70%) Analytics
18 25 (6.39%) Data Science
19 24 (6.14%) Containerisation
20 23 (5.88%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 366 (93.61%) Python
2 203 (51.92%) TypeScript
3 171 (43.73%) Java
4 159 (40.66%) JavaScript
5 116 (29.67%) SQL
6 37 (9.46%) Scala
7 24 (6.14%) Go
8 15 (3.84%) C#
9 9 (2.30%) Ruby
10 5 (1.28%) Bash
10 5 (1.28%) Groovy
11 2 (0.51%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.51%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.26%) C++
12 1 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (3.07%) Security Cleared
2 11 (2.81%) Degree
3 4 (1.02%) DV Cleared
3 4 (1.02%) SC Cleared
4 3 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (14.07%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.02%) QA
3 1 (0.26%) GDPR
System Software
1 44 (11.25%) Docker
2 3 (0.77%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (0.51%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 67 (17.14%) Kubernetes
2 62 (15.86%) Terraform
3 24 (6.14%) Prometheus
4 10 (2.56%) Grafana
5 9 (2.30%) Ansible
6 5 (1.28%) Argo
6 5 (1.28%) Kubeflow
7 3 (0.77%) Puppet
Vendors
1 76 (19.44%) Google
2 22 (5.63%) Databricks
3 10 (2.56%) Informatica
4 9 (2.30%) Splunk
5 8 (2.05%) Ab Initio
6 5 (1.28%) Talend
7 2 (0.51%) Confluent
7 2 (0.51%) IBM
7 2 (0.51%) StreamSets
8 1 (0.26%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.26%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.26%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.26%) SnapLogic
8 1 (0.26%) TIBCO