Apache Airflow Job Trends in Scotland

Apache Airflow
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Apache Airflow skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 - 166
Rank change year-on-year - - +22
Permanent jobs citing Apache Airflow 6 0 28
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.22% - 0.93%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.33% - 6.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £85,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 - -
75th Percentile £95,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +18.75%

All Application Platform Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 180 201 440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 6.61% 7.54% 14.66%
Number of salaries quoted 45 101 166
10th Percentile £26,500 - £31,250
25th Percentile £29,750 £31,250 £37,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £64,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £91,934
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.77% -3.64%

Apache Airflow
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Apache Airflow job vacancy trend in Scotland

Apache Airflow
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Apache Airflow.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Apache Airflow

Apache Airflow
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Apache Airflow within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 3 January 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
Edinburgh - 6 £90,000 - 4
Apache Airflow
UK

Apache Airflow
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (50.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 3 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (50.00%) AWS Step Functions
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) dbt
2 3 (50.00%) GCP
2 3 (50.00%) SaaS
2 3 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Informatica Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Lead Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Data Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Kafka
1 3 (50.00%) REST
1 3 (50.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
1 3 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (50.00%) Analytics
2 3 (50.00%) API Integration
2 3 (50.00%) BDD
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 3 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 3 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 3 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (50.00%) Workflow
3 2 (33.33%) Data Science
3 2 (33.33%) Data Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
1 3 (50.00%) Python
1 3 (50.00%) Shell Script
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Databricks
1 3 (50.00%) Informatica
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle