Apache Airflow Job Trends in London

Apache Airflow
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Apache Airflow skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 140 198
Rank change year-on-year -112 +58 +121
Permanent jobs citing Apache Airflow 155 339 380
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.80% 2.62% 1.64%
As % of the Application Platforms category 12.93% 20.73% 12.48%
Number of salaries quoted 86 309 354
10th Percentile £51,250 £77,250 £72,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £96,000 £87,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,750 £110,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.68% -4.35% +21.05%
75th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £143,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £147,500 £165,000
England median annual salary £76,250 £110,000 £110,000
% change year-on-year -30.68% - +25.71%

All Application Platform Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,199 1,635 3,046
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 6.18% 12.65% 13.15%
Number of salaries quoted 820 1,198 2,131
10th Percentile £33,250 £40,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,250 £71,125 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.64% +5.37% -1.17%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £115,250 £124,125 £122,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -11.11%

Apache Airflow
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Apache Airflow job vacancy trend in London

Apache Airflow
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Apache Airflow.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Apache Airflow

Apache Airflow
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Apache Airflow in London over the 6 months to 20 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Apache Airflow in London

Apache Airflow
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Apache Airflow within the London region over the 6 months to 20 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
Central London +26 25 £85,000 - 17
South London - 10 - -
West London - 8 £82,500 - 3
East London - 6 - - 3
Apache Airflow
England

Apache Airflow
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 64 (41.29%) Apache Spark
2 56 (36.13%) Apache
3 4 (2.58%) Appian
4 3 (1.94%) Apache Superset
5 2 (1.29%) Confluence
5 2 (1.29%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.65%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (5.81%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.65%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 113 (72.90%) AWS
2 75 (48.39%) dbt
3 52 (33.55%) Snowflake
4 51 (32.90%) GCP
5 48 (30.97%) Amazon S3
6 47 (30.32%) Azure
7 25 (16.13%) Power Platform
8 19 (12.26%) OpenShift
8 19 (12.26%) Serverless
9 18 (11.61%) Amazon Kinesis
9 18 (11.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 17 (10.97%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (10.32%) Prefect
12 11 (7.10%) Dagster
12 11 (7.10%) Matillion
13 10 (6.45%) Fivetran
13 10 (6.45%) GitHub
14 8 (5.16%) Amazon EMR
15 7 (4.52%) GitHub Actions
15 7 (4.52%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.23%) Broadband
2 1 (0.65%) 4G
2 1 (0.65%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (32.90%) Data Warehouse
2 47 (30.32%) Tableau
3 44 (28.39%) Amazon Redshift
4 37 (23.87%) BigQuery
5 27 (17.42%) Data Lake
6 25 (16.13%) Power BI
7 22 (14.19%) Elasticsearch
7 22 (14.19%) Snowflake Schema
8 21 (13.55%) Metadata
9 18 (11.61%) Looker
9 18 (11.61%) PostgreSQL
10 16 (10.32%) Amazon Athena
10 16 (10.32%) Apache Hive
10 16 (10.32%) Impala
10 16 (10.32%) Oracle Database
10 16 (10.32%) Parquet
10 16 (10.32%) Relational Database
10 16 (10.32%) Spark SQL
11 11 (7.10%) Apache Iceberg
11 11 (7.10%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 45 (29.03%) Git
2 21 (13.55%) MLflow
3 16 (10.32%) IBM UrbanCode
4 4 (2.58%) GitLab
5 2 (1.29%) JIRA
6 1 (0.65%) Yeoman
General
1 46 (29.68%) Analytical Skills
2 36 (23.23%) Finance
3 34 (21.94%) Social Skills
4 19 (12.26%) Banking
5 15 (9.68%) Investment Banking
6 8 (5.16%) Law
7 7 (4.52%) Legal
8 5 (3.23%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.58%) Advertising
9 4 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.94%) Marketing
11 2 (1.29%) Automotive
11 2 (1.29%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.65%) Billing
12 1 (0.65%) Front Office
12 1 (0.65%) Games
12 1 (0.65%) Music Industry
12 1 (0.65%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 75 (48.39%) Data Engineer
2 35 (22.58%) Senior
3 22 (14.19%) Lead
4 19 (12.26%) AWS Engineer
5 18 (11.61%) AWS Data Engineer
5 18 (11.61%) Python Engineer
6 17 (10.97%) Lead Data Engineer
6 17 (10.97%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 16 (10.32%) Analyst
7 16 (10.32%) Systems Engineer
8 14 (9.03%) Transformation Analyst
9 13 (8.39%) Banking Analyst
10 12 (7.74%) Python Data Engineer
10 12 (7.74%) Senior Data Engineer
11 11 (7.10%) Architect
12 10 (6.45%) Cloud Engineer
13 9 (5.81%) Business Analyst
14 8 (5.16%) Data Business Analyst
15 7 (4.52%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
15 7 (4.52%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (48.39%) Kafka
2 24 (15.48%) PySpark
3 22 (14.19%) PyTorch
3 22 (14.19%) TensorFlow
4 21 (13.55%) scikit-learn
5 20 (12.90%) LangChain
6 18 (11.61%) Pandas
7 16 (10.32%) LlamaIndex
7 16 (10.32%) pgvector
8 8 (5.16%) Node.js
8 8 (5.16%) React
9 7 (4.52%) Spring
9 7 (4.52%) Spring Boot
10 6 (3.87%) NumPy
11 4 (2.58%) AWS CDK
11 4 (2.58%) Django
11 4 (2.58%) FastAPI
11 4 (2.58%) LangGraph
11 4 (2.58%) Model Context Protocol
11 4 (2.58%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 41 (26.45%) Cloud Native
2 16 (10.32%) Clustering
2 16 (10.32%) Public Cloud
3 9 (5.81%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (5.16%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (5.16%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.23%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (2.58%) Anti-Piracy
6 4 (2.58%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.58%) Hackathon
6 4 (2.58%) Social Media
7 2 (1.29%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.29%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.29%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.29%) Replication
7 2 (1.29%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.65%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.65%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.58%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (72.26%) Data Pipeline
2 103 (66.45%) Analytics
3 93 (60.00%) Data Engineering
4 92 (59.35%) ETL
5 89 (57.42%) CI/CD
6 82 (52.90%) Data Modelling
7 74 (47.74%) Data Governance
8 72 (46.45%) AI
9 48 (30.97%) Business Intelligence
10 42 (27.10%) Agile
11 36 (23.23%) Performance Tuning
11 36 (23.23%) Use Case
12 35 (22.58%) Data Science
12 35 (22.58%) Visualisation
13 34 (21.94%) Data Transformation
13 34 (21.94%) Machine Learning
13 34 (21.94%) Problem-Solving
14 31 (20.00%) Data Architecture
15 30 (19.35%) Infrastructure as Code
15 30 (19.35%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 135 (87.10%) Python
2 114 (73.55%) SQL
3 17 (10.97%) Java
4 11 (7.10%) Bash
5 7 (4.52%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.87%) TypeScript
7 4 (2.58%) C++
7 4 (2.58%) Go
7 4 (2.58%) Scala
8 3 (1.94%) ANSI SQL
9 2 (1.29%) C#
9 2 (1.29%) Ruby
10 1 (0.65%) Bicep
10 1 (0.65%) PHP
10 1 (0.65%) R
10 1 (0.65%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 20 (12.90%) Degree
2 12 (7.74%) SC Cleared
2 12 (7.74%) Security Cleared
3 9 (5.81%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.58%) Master's Degree
4 4 (2.58%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 3 (1.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.29%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.65%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (41.94%) Data Quality
2 24 (15.48%) GDPR
3 23 (14.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 7 (4.52%) HIPAA
5 5 (3.23%) SLA
6 2 (1.29%) Accessibility
System Software
1 35 (22.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 42 (27.10%) Terraform
2 32 (20.65%) Kubernetes
3 11 (7.10%) Grafana
3 11 (7.10%) Prometheus
4 7 (4.52%) Ansible
5 4 (2.58%) Argo
6 2 (1.29%) Puppet
6 2 (1.29%) Salt
Vendors
1 27 (17.42%) Databricks
2 18 (11.61%) Red Hat
3 17 (10.97%) Oracle
4 16 (10.32%) Cloudera
4 16 (10.32%) Dell
5 6 (3.87%) Google
6 5 (3.23%) Talend
7 4 (2.58%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.94%) Confluent
8 3 (1.94%) Microsoft
8 3 (1.94%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.29%) Foundry
9 2 (1.29%) Palantir
9 2 (1.29%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.29%) WSO2
10 1 (0.65%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.65%) Apple
10 1 (0.65%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.65%) Informatica
10 1 (0.65%) Salesforce