Apache Airflow Job Trends in the South West

Apache Airflow
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Apache Airflow skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 182 216
Rank change year-on-year +6 +34 +62
Permanent jobs citing Apache Airflow 2 11 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.040% 0.26% 0.11%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.58% 2.61% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 2
10th Percentile £38,250 £63,750 £68,250
25th Percentile £39,375 £73,750 £69,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £77,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -41.94% - +44.86%
75th Percentile £51,875 £81,250 £84,375
90th Percentile £53,750 £83,125 £84,750
England median annual salary £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +18.75%

All Application Platform Skills
South West

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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 343 422 535
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 6.82% 9.82% 12.12%
Number of salaries quoted 200 246 452
10th Percentile £26,050 £30,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £30,750 £35,000 £34,760
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £50,000 £45,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.00% +9.89% +1.11%
75th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £77,250
England median annual salary £50,000 £56,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.50% +2.73% -

Apache Airflow
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Apache Airflow job vacancy trend in the South West

Apache Airflow
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Apache Airflow.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Apache Airflow

Apache Airflow
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Apache Airflow within the South West region over the 6 months to 2 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
Bristol +6 2 £45,000 -41.94% 3
Apache Airflow
England

Apache Airflow
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Superset
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) OCI
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Spark SQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Fabric
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Community of Practice
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lineage
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) SOLID
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Foundry
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Palantir