Apache Airflow Job Trends in England

Apache Airflow
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Apache Airflow skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 441 299 430
Rank change year-on-year -142 +131 +84
Permanent jobs citing Apache Airflow 246 379 431
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.32% 1.01% 0.52%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.43% 10.31% 5.11%
Number of salaries quoted 146 324 398
10th Percentile £47,500 £71,250 £63,225
25th Percentile £56,563 £85,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £110,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.68% - +25.71%
75th Percentile £93,000 £137,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £147,500 £161,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £110,000 £110,000
% change year-on-year -31.82% - +25.71%

All Application Platform Skills
England

Apache Airflow falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring application platform skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,311 3,677 8,430
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.25% 9.84% 10.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2,425 2,666 6,476
10th Percentile £28,100 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £34,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £110,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

Apache Airflow
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Apache Airflow relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Apache Airflow job vacancy trend in England

Apache Airflow
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Apache Airflow.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Apache Airflow

Apache Airflow
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Apache Airflow in England over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Apache Airflow in England

Apache Airflow
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Apache Airflow within the England region over the 6 months to 21 April 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -124 155 £81,750 -25.68% 57
North of England -36 30 £77,500 +6.90% 15
North West -15 20 £67,500 -22.86% 9
South East -40 20 £60,000 +21.26% 20
East of England -21 16 £75,000 -16.67% 5
West Midlands -20 8 £57,500 - 6
Midlands -30 8 £57,500 -11.54% 8
South West -56 7 £51,250 -14.58% 9
Yorkshire - 6 £80,000 -
North East -35 4 £75,000 +3.45% 6
Apache Airflow
UK

Apache Airflow
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 94 (38.21%) Apache Spark
2 80 (32.52%) Apache
3 4 (1.63%) Appian
3 4 (1.63%) Confluence
4 3 (1.22%) Apache Superset
4 3 (1.22%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (0.81%) SAS
6 1 (0.41%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (5.28%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.41%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 171 (69.51%) AWS
2 108 (43.90%) dbt
3 92 (37.40%) GCP
4 79 (32.11%) Azure
5 76 (30.89%) Snowflake
6 60 (24.39%) Amazon S3
7 49 (19.92%) Power Platform
8 30 (12.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 29 (11.79%) OpenShift
10 26 (10.57%) Prefect
11 22 (8.94%) Amazon Kinesis
11 22 (8.94%) Dagster
11 22 (8.94%) Serverless
12 20 (8.13%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (5.28%) GitHub
14 12 (4.88%) Fivetran
15 11 (4.47%) Matillion
16 10 (4.07%) Amazon EKS
17 9 (3.66%) AWS Step Functions
17 9 (3.66%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.85%) Broadband
2 1 (0.41%) 4G
2 1 (0.41%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (28.05%) Data Warehouse
1 69 (28.05%) Tableau
2 65 (26.42%) Amazon Redshift
2 65 (26.42%) BigQuery
3 47 (19.11%) Power BI
4 46 (18.70%) Data Lake
5 32 (13.01%) Elasticsearch
6 31 (12.60%) Looker
6 31 (12.60%) Snowflake Schema
7 29 (11.79%) Metadata
8 28 (11.38%) PostgreSQL
9 26 (10.57%) Spark SQL
10 25 (10.16%) Apache Hive
10 25 (10.16%) Impala
10 25 (10.16%) Oracle Database
10 25 (10.16%) Parquet
11 23 (9.35%) NoSQL
12 21 (8.54%) Relational Database
13 18 (7.32%) Amazon Athena
14 14 (5.69%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 70 (28.46%) Git
2 28 (11.38%) MLflow
3 25 (10.16%) IBM UrbanCode
4 6 (2.44%) GitLab
5 5 (2.03%) JIRA
6 2 (0.81%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.41%) Yeoman
General
1 70 (28.46%) Analytical Skills
2 62 (25.20%) Social Skills
3 59 (23.98%) Finance
4 33 (13.41%) Banking
5 25 (10.16%) Investment Banking
6 14 (5.69%) Legal
7 11 (4.47%) Law
8 9 (3.66%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.63%) Advertising
9 4 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.63%) Marketing
10 3 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.22%) Retail
10 3 (1.22%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.81%) Automotive
11 2 (0.81%) Games
11 2 (0.81%) Publishing
12 1 (0.41%) Billing
12 1 (0.41%) Front Office
12 1 (0.41%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 123 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 63 (25.61%) Senior
3 33 (13.41%) Lead
4 29 (11.79%) Analyst
5 26 (10.57%) Senior Data Engineer
6 25 (10.16%) Lead Data Engineer
7 24 (9.76%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 23 (9.35%) Systems Engineer
8 23 (9.35%) Transformation Analyst
9 22 (8.94%) Banking Analyst
10 21 (8.54%) AWS Engineer
11 20 (8.13%) AWS Data Engineer
11 20 (8.13%) Python Engineer
12 15 (6.10%) Cloud Engineer
12 15 (6.10%) Developer
13 14 (5.69%) Python Data Engineer
14 13 (5.28%) Architect
14 13 (5.28%) Business Analyst
15 12 (4.88%) Data Business Analyst
15 12 (4.88%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (39.84%) Kafka
2 36 (14.63%) PySpark
3 33 (13.41%) PyTorch
3 33 (13.41%) TensorFlow
4 32 (13.01%) Pandas
5 28 (11.38%) scikit-learn
6 27 (10.98%) LangChain
7 23 (9.35%) LlamaIndex
7 23 (9.35%) pgvector
8 14 (5.69%) Spring
9 13 (5.28%) Spring Boot
10 10 (4.07%) NumPy
11 9 (3.66%) Node.js
11 9 (3.66%) React
12 8 (3.25%) Hibernate
12 8 (3.25%) JPA
12 8 (3.25%) RESTful
13 5 (2.03%) Google JAX
13 5 (2.03%) OpenCV
13 5 (2.03%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 60 (24.39%) Cloud Native
2 23 (9.35%) Clustering
2 23 (9.35%) Public Cloud
3 10 (4.07%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (4.07%) Onboarding
3 10 (4.07%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (3.66%) Algorithms
5 8 (3.25%) Distributed Architecture
5 8 (3.25%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (2.85%) Data Structures
7 6 (2.44%) Anti-Piracy
7 6 (2.44%) Social Media
8 5 (2.03%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (2.03%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.63%) Hackathon
9 4 (1.63%) Replication
10 3 (1.22%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.22%) Online Gambling
10 3 (1.22%) Sports Betting
11 2 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.66%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (69.11%) Data Pipeline
2 153 (62.20%) Analytics
3 152 (61.79%) Data Engineering
4 143 (58.13%) ETL
5 123 (50.00%) CI/CD
6 115 (46.75%) Data Modelling
7 110 (44.72%) Data Governance
8 101 (41.06%) AI
9 78 (31.71%) Agile
10 70 (28.46%) Business Intelligence
11 59 (23.98%) Data Science
12 53 (21.54%) Data Transformation
13 51 (20.73%) Machine Learning
14 50 (20.33%) Performance Tuning
15 47 (19.11%) Use Case
16 46 (18.70%) Data Architecture
16 46 (18.70%) DevOps
16 46 (18.70%) Infrastructure as Code
17 45 (18.29%) Problem-Solving
18 44 (17.89%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 211 (85.77%) Python
2 179 (72.76%) SQL
3 32 (13.01%) Java
4 11 (4.47%) Bash
4 11 (4.47%) JavaScript
5 10 (4.07%) Scala
5 10 (4.07%) TypeScript
6 6 (2.44%) C++
7 4 (1.63%) ANSI SQL
7 4 (1.63%) Go
8 3 (1.22%) Ruby
9 2 (0.81%) C#
9 2 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.81%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.41%) Bicep
10 1 (0.41%) PHP
10 1 (0.41%) R
10 1 (0.41%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 30 (12.20%) Degree
2 18 (7.32%) Security Cleared
3 15 (6.10%) SC Cleared
4 11 (4.47%) AWS Certification
5 8 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.25%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (1.63%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 3 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.81%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.81%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.41%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.41%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (39.84%) Data Quality
2 38 (15.45%) GDPR
3 35 (14.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (4.88%) HIPAA
5 5 (2.03%) SLA
6 2 (0.81%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.81%) QA
7 1 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 56 (22.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 60 (24.39%) Terraform
2 45 (18.29%) Kubernetes
3 15 (6.10%) Grafana
4 14 (5.69%) Prometheus
5 8 (3.25%) Ansible
6 6 (2.44%) Argo
7 2 (0.81%) Puppet
7 2 (0.81%) Salt
Vendors
1 52 (21.14%) Databricks
2 28 (11.38%) Red Hat
3 27 (10.98%) Oracle
4 23 (9.35%) Cloudera
4 23 (9.35%) Dell
5 19 (7.72%) Google
6 8 (3.25%) Microsoft
7 6 (2.44%) Confluent
8 5 (2.03%) Talend
9 4 (1.63%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.22%) Foundry
10 3 (1.22%) MuleSoft
10 3 (1.22%) Palantir
11 2 (0.81%) Alteryx
11 2 (0.81%) Informatica
11 2 (0.81%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.81%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.81%) WSO2
12 1 (0.41%) Apple
12 1 (0.41%) Bloomberg