Apache Airflow Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Apache Airflow
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Apache Airflow skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 544 514 577
Rank change year-on-year -30 +63 -24
Permanent jobs citing Apache Airflow 113 40 75
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.12% 0.14%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.73% 1.68% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 94 27 35
10th Percentile £45,225 £45,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,500 £53,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% -3.45% +7.41%
75th Percentile £92,313 £76,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £104,250 £89,500 £87,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £110,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year -36.36% -4.35% +21.05%

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,026 2,380 4,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.62% 6.95% 7.41%
Number of salaries quoted 2,184 1,597 2,208
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,000 £32,500 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -0.12%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,381 £73,750 £71,991
UK median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% -1.82% -2.65%

Apache Airflow
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Apache Airflow job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Apache Airflow
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Apache Airflow.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Apache Airflow

Apache Airflow
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Apache Airflow in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Apache Airflow in the UK excluding London

Apache Airflow
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 September 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 of England -2 65 £66,750 +9.88% 54
North East -28 36 £65,000 +36.84% 12
North West +1 26 £66,750 -4.64% 36
South East -37 13 £55,000 -30.16% 27
Midlands -45 10 £82,500 +20.00% 14
Scotland +7 8 £72,500 - 33
East of England -27 8 £56,000 -21.68% 18
West Midlands -34 8 £72,500 +3.57% 9
South West -76 7 £62,500 +25.00% 17
Yorkshire -44 3 £80,000 +18.52% 6
Wales - 3 £66,000 - 2
East Midlands -29 2 £82,500 +22.22% 5
Apache Airflow
UK

Apache Airflow
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 35 (30.97%) Apache
2 26 (23.01%) Apache Spark
3 16 (14.16%) Jupyter
4 3 (2.65%) SAS
5 2 (1.77%) Confluence
5 2 (1.77%) Luigi
Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 85 (75.22%) AWS
2 56 (49.56%) Azure
3 52 (46.02%) GCP
4 46 (40.71%) dbt
5 36 (31.86%) Snowflake
6 17 (15.04%) Amazon S3
7 16 (14.16%) Amazon EMR
8 15 (13.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 15 (13.27%) Amazon EC2
8 15 (13.27%) Power Platform
9 14 (12.39%) Dagster
9 14 (12.39%) GitHub
10 13 (11.50%) Amazon ECR
10 13 (11.50%) Prefect
11 9 (7.96%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (7.96%) Textract
12 8 (7.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (6.19%) GitHub Copilot
14 5 (4.42%) Azure DevOps
15 4 (3.54%) AWS Lambda
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (24.78%) BigQuery
1 28 (24.78%) Data Warehouse
2 24 (21.24%) DynamoDB
3 18 (15.93%) Amazon Redshift
4 15 (13.27%) Amazon Athena
4 15 (13.27%) Power BI
5 14 (12.39%) Data Lake
6 12 (10.62%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (9.73%) Data Vault
8 9 (7.96%) Looker
9 8 (7.08%) Big Data
10 7 (6.19%) Tableau
11 6 (5.31%) NoSQL
11 6 (5.31%) SQL Server
12 5 (4.42%) Metadata
12 5 (4.42%) MongoDB
12 5 (4.42%) Relational Database
13 4 (3.54%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (3.54%) Milvus
13 4 (3.54%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 32 (28.32%) Git
2 19 (16.81%) GitLab
3 7 (6.19%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.54%) MLflow
5 2 (1.77%) JIRA
General
1 35 (30.97%) Social Skills
2 19 (16.81%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (15.04%) Finance
4 15 (13.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (8.85%) Public Sector
6 9 (7.96%) Games
6 9 (7.96%) Law
7 4 (3.54%) Marketing
8 3 (2.65%) Legal
8 3 (2.65%) Retail
8 3 (2.65%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.77%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.88%) Banking
10 1 (0.88%) Billing
10 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.88%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 74 (65.49%) Data Engineer
2 27 (23.89%) Senior
3 20 (17.70%) Senior Data Engineer
4 18 (15.93%) Lead
5 9 (7.96%) Databricks Data Engineer
5 9 (7.96%) Databricks Engineer
5 9 (7.96%) Lead Data Engineer
5 9 (7.96%) Python Data Engineer
5 9 (7.96%) Python Engineer
6 7 (6.19%) AWS Data Engineer
6 7 (6.19%) AWS DevOps
6 7 (6.19%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (5.31%) Test Engineer
8 5 (4.42%) Analyst
8 5 (4.42%) Software Engineer
9 4 (3.54%) Architect
9 4 (3.54%) Data Analyst
9 4 (3.54%) Lead Test Engineer
9 4 (3.54%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 4 (3.54%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (38.94%) Terraform
2 22 (19.47%) PySpark
3 13 (11.50%) Kafka
4 6 (5.31%) TensorFlow
5 5 (4.42%) PyTorch
5 5 (4.42%) scikit-learn
6 4 (3.54%) LangChain
6 4 (3.54%) LlamaIndex
6 4 (3.54%) pgvector
7 3 (2.65%) .NET
7 3 (2.65%) Pulumi
7 3 (2.65%) Spring
7 3 (2.65%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.88%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.88%) Great Expectations
8 1 (0.88%) Memcached
8 1 (0.88%) NumPy
8 1 (0.88%) OpenCV
8 1 (0.88%) Pandas
8 1 (0.88%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 28 (24.78%) Cloud Native
2 14 (12.39%) Data Structures
3 11 (9.73%) Sports Betting
4 9 (7.96%) Distributed Computing
5 7 (6.19%) Product Ownership
6 5 (4.42%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (4.42%) Online Gambling
7 4 (3.54%) Algorithms
7 4 (3.54%) Clustering
7 4 (3.54%) Public Cloud
8 3 (2.65%) Hedge funds
9 2 (1.77%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.88%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.88%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.88%) Life Science
10 1 (0.88%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (61.06%) Data Pipeline
2 67 (59.29%) Data Engineering
3 57 (50.44%) Data Modelling
4 55 (48.67%) Agile
5 46 (40.71%) Analytics
6 44 (38.94%) CI/CD
7 40 (35.40%) ETL
8 33 (29.20%) Infrastructure as Code
9 32 (28.32%) AI
10 31 (27.43%) Mentoring
11 29 (25.66%) Validation
12 26 (23.01%) Problem-Solving
13 25 (22.12%) DevOps
14 24 (21.24%) Decision-Making
14 24 (21.24%) Machine Learning
15 20 (17.70%) Business Intelligence
16 18 (15.93%) Continuous Improvement
16 18 (15.93%) Workflow
17 17 (15.04%) Generative AI
18 16 (14.16%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 102 (90.27%) Python
2 100 (88.50%) SQL
3 18 (15.93%) Java
4 8 (7.08%) Bash
5 6 (5.31%) Scala
6 2 (1.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.77%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (16.81%) Degree
2 18 (15.93%) Security Cleared
3 16 (14.16%) SC Cleared
4 10 (8.85%) Master's Degree
5 6 (5.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (3.54%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.65%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.88%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (42.48%) Data Quality
2 10 (8.85%) QA
3 8 (7.08%) GDPR
4 4 (3.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 30 (26.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (9.73%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.31%) Grafana
3 5 (4.42%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.65%) Ansible
4 3 (2.65%) Argo
Vendors
1 47 (41.59%) Databricks
2 15 (13.27%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.19%) Google
4 4 (3.54%) Cloudera
4 4 (3.54%) Dell
4 4 (3.54%) Dynatrace
4 4 (3.54%) Splunk
5 2 (1.77%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (0.88%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.88%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.88%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.88%) Oracle