Apache Airflow Job Trends in the North of England

Apache Airflow
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Apache Airflow skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 293 357
Rank change year-on-year +9 +64 +35
Permanent jobs citing Apache Airflow 51 9 30
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.26% 0.11% 0.15%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.95% 1.52% 2.12%
Number of salaries quoted 49 9 26
10th Percentile £51,250 £45,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £46,250 £56,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,750 £56,500 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year +18.14% -28.25% +31.25%
75th Percentile £92,500 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £84,000 £111,250
England median annual salary £72,500 £110,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year -34.09% -4.35% +27.78%

All Application Platform Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 734 592 1,414
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.68% 7.24% 7.15%
Number of salaries quoted 615 393 1,116
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £31,200 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.22%
75th Percentile £63,125 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,840 £75,772
England median annual salary £51,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.27% +10.00% -13.04%

Apache Airflow
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Apache Airflow job vacancy trend in the North of England

Apache Airflow
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Apache Airflow.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Apache Airflow

Apache Airflow
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Apache Airflow in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Apache Airflow in the North of England

Apache Airflow
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 17 June 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
North West +18 24 £66,750 +3.49% 14
North East -29 21 £62,500 +31.58% 11
Yorkshire -38 6 £80,000 +18.52% 1
Apache Airflow
England

Apache Airflow
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 13 (25.49%) Apache
2 12 (23.53%) Apache Spark
3 10 (19.61%) Jupyter
4 2 (3.92%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 39 (76.47%) AWS
2 29 (56.86%) GCP
3 24 (47.06%) Azure
4 18 (35.29%) dbt
5 10 (19.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 10 (19.61%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (19.61%) Amazon EMR
5 10 (19.61%) Amazon S3
6 9 (17.65%) Power Platform
6 9 (17.65%) Snowflake
7 8 (15.69%) Amazon ECR
8 6 (11.76%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (11.76%) Dagster
9 5 (9.80%) Textract
10 4 (7.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 2 (3.92%) Cloud Composer
12 2 (3.92%) Prefect
12 2 (3.92%) Pulumi
12 2 (3.92%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (41.18%) BigQuery
2 12 (23.53%) Data Lake
3 10 (19.61%) Amazon Athena
3 10 (19.61%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (19.61%) DynamoDB
4 9 (17.65%) Power BI
5 7 (13.73%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (13.73%) Data Vault
5 7 (13.73%) Semantic Layer
6 6 (11.76%) Metadata
6 6 (11.76%) Tableau
7 5 (9.80%) MongoDB
8 4 (7.84%) Looker
8 4 (7.84%) SQL Server
9 3 (5.88%) Amazon QuickSight
9 3 (5.88%) Big Data
9 3 (5.88%) Delta Lake
10 2 (3.92%) NoSQL
10 2 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (3.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (19.61%) GitLab
2 8 (15.69%) Git
3 2 (3.92%) JIRA
4 1 (1.96%) MLflow
General
1 17 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 11 (21.57%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (17.65%) Public Sector
4 7 (13.73%) Finance
5 6 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (9.80%) Retail
7 3 (5.88%) Legal
7 3 (5.88%) Telecoms
8 2 (3.92%) Games
9 1 (1.96%) Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (66.67%) Data Engineer
2 14 (27.45%) Lead
2 14 (27.45%) Senior
3 13 (25.49%) Senior Data Engineer
4 9 (17.65%) Lead Data Engineer
5 5 (9.80%) Python Data Engineer
5 5 (9.80%) Python Engineer
5 5 (9.80%) Test Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) Analyst
6 4 (7.84%) Data Analyst
7 3 (5.88%) Architect
7 3 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Consultant
7 3 (5.88%) Data Architect
7 3 (5.88%) Data Consultant
7 3 (5.88%) Principal Architect
7 3 (5.88%) Principal Consultant
7 3 (5.88%) Principal Data Architect
7 3 (5.88%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (13.73%) PySpark
2 3 (5.88%) JSON
2 3 (5.88%) Kafka
3 1 (1.96%) LangChain
3 1 (1.96%) LlamaIndex
3 1 (1.96%) pgvector
3 1 (1.96%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.96%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.96%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (23.53%) Cloud Native
2 6 (11.76%) Data Structures
3 5 (9.80%) Distributed Computing
3 5 (9.80%) Sports Betting
4 3 (5.88%) Hedge funds
4 3 (5.88%) Online Gambling
5 2 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.92%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (3.92%) Replication
6 1 (1.96%) Clustering
6 1 (1.96%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.96%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (58.82%) Data Engineering
2 25 (49.02%) Agile
3 21 (41.18%) Data Pipeline
4 19 (37.25%) CI/CD
5 18 (35.29%) Data Modelling
6 17 (33.33%) ETL
7 16 (31.37%) Analytics
8 15 (29.41%) Mentoring
9 14 (27.45%) Infrastructure as Code
9 14 (27.45%) Validation
10 13 (25.49%) Data Governance
10 13 (25.49%) DevOps
11 12 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (19.61%) Workflow
13 9 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
14 8 (15.69%) Coaching
14 8 (15.69%) Containerisation
14 8 (15.69%) Test Automation
15 7 (13.73%) Continuous Improvement
15 7 (13.73%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 43 (84.31%) SQL
2 41 (80.39%) Python
3 8 (15.69%) Java
4 5 (9.80%) Bash
5 2 (3.92%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (21.57%) Security Cleared
2 10 (19.61%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.84%) Azure Certification
3 4 (7.84%) Degree
4 3 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (31.37%) Data Quality
2 10 (19.61%) QA
3 1 (1.96%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.96%) GDPR
System Software
1 13 (25.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (39.22%) Terraform
2 2 (3.92%) Grafana
2 2 (3.92%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (29.41%) Databricks
2 7 (13.73%) Google
2 7 (13.73%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.96%) Alteryx
3 1 (1.96%) Cloudera
3 1 (1.96%) Dataiku
3 1 (1.96%) Dell