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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 475 519 506
Rank change year-on-year +44 -13 +153
Permanent jobs citing Apache Airflow 42 61 45
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.16% 0.15%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.04% 1.96% 1.36%
Number of salaries quoted 27 30 12
10th Percentile £42,000 £53,500 £48,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £58,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £74,000 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year +4.73% +16.08% -1.92%
75th Percentile £92,500 £81,250 £77,188
90th Percentile £95,500 £97,500 £82,250
UK median annual salary £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +18.75%

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 2,056 3,114 3,302
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.90% 8.36% 10.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1,412 1,694 2,464
10th Percentile £26,500 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £30,750 £33,000 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £47,500 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.63% +3.26% -3.16%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £77,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% -1.82%

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 1 January 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 1 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
South East +12 14 £72,500 -4.92% 34
North of England +31 12 £87,500 +20.69% 20
North West +29 8 £90,000 - 12
West Midlands +19 6 £53,750 -23.21%
Midlands +18 6 £53,750 -17.31% 3
Scotland - 5 £90,000 - 6
Yorkshire - 4 £85,000 - 4
East of England +23 3 - - 10
South West -1 2 £45,000 -41.94% 4
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 12 (28.57%) Apache
2 10 (23.81%) Apache Spark
3 6 (14.29%) Appian
4 1 (2.38%) Apache Superset
4 1 (2.38%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (2.38%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 28 (66.67%) AWS
2 21 (50.00%) Azure
3 17 (40.48%) Power Platform
4 15 (35.71%) GCP
5 14 (33.33%) dbt
6 11 (26.19%) Amazon S3
7 9 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (21.43%) Snowflake
8 6 (14.29%) MinIO
9 5 (11.90%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (11.90%) AWS Step Functions
9 5 (11.90%) SaaS
9 5 (11.90%) Serverless
10 4 (9.52%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (9.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (4.76%) AWS CodePipeline
11 2 (4.76%) Dagster
11 2 (4.76%) Fivetran
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (30.95%) Amazon Redshift
2 9 (21.43%) Power BI
3 8 (19.05%) BigQuery
4 7 (16.67%) Data Lake
4 7 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (14.29%) NoSQL
6 5 (11.90%) Airbyte
7 4 (9.52%) Semantic Layer
7 4 (9.52%) Snowflake Schema
7 4 (9.52%) SQL Server
7 4 (9.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (7.14%) Big Data
8 3 (7.14%) Metadata
8 3 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (7.14%) Tableau
9 2 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (4.76%) Data Vault
9 2 (4.76%) Looker
9 2 (4.76%) MongoDB
10 1 (2.38%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 6 (14.29%) Git
1 6 (14.29%) Robot Framework
1 6 (14.29%) Selenium
1 6 (14.29%) Snyk
2 2 (4.76%) GitLab
3 1 (2.38%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.38%) MLflow
General
1 19 (45.24%) Social Skills
2 10 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (16.67%) Finance
4 2 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.76%) Law
4 2 (4.76%) Legal
4 2 (4.76%) Retail
5 1 (2.38%) Banking
5 1 (2.38%) Games
5 1 (2.38%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.38%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (47.62%) Data Engineer
2 13 (30.95%) Senior
3 8 (19.05%) Architect
4 6 (14.29%) Applications Architect
4 6 (14.29%) Senior Data Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Lead
5 4 (9.52%) Python Data Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Python Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) AWS Data Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Lead Data Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Principal Data Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Principal Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Snowflake Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Data Manager
7 2 (4.76%) Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Informatica Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 1 (2.38%) Snowflake Architect
8 1 (2.38%) Snowflake Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (30.95%) Kafka
2 6 (14.29%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (7.14%) PySpark
3 3 (7.14%) REST
4 2 (4.76%) SOAP
5 1 (2.38%) .NET
5 1 (2.38%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.38%) Apache Beam
5 1 (2.38%) GeoPandas
5 1 (2.38%) JSON
5 1 (2.38%) MapLibre
5 1 (2.38%) NetworkX
5 1 (2.38%) PostGIS
5 1 (2.38%) React
5 1 (2.38%) Snowpark
5 1 (2.38%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 6 (14.29%) Low-Code
3 3 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (4.76%) Client/Server
4 2 (4.76%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (4.76%) Legacy Code
4 2 (4.76%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.38%) Data Fabric
5 1 (2.38%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.38%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.14%) Linux
2 2 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
2 22 (52.38%) Data Modelling
3 20 (47.62%) ETL
4 19 (45.24%) CI/CD
5 18 (42.86%) Agile
6 17 (40.48%) Data Engineering
7 13 (30.95%) Data Integration
7 13 (30.95%) DevOps
8 12 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (26.19%) Analytics
9 11 (26.19%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (26.19%) Technical Leadership
10 9 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
10 9 (21.43%) Microservices
10 9 (21.43%) Use Case
11 8 (19.05%) AI
11 8 (19.05%) Machine Learning
11 8 (19.05%) Workflow
12 7 (16.67%) Test Automation
12 7 (16.67%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 36 (85.71%) Python
2 28 (66.67%) SQL
3 6 (14.29%) Java
4 4 (9.52%) Scala
5 2 (4.76%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.38%) ANSI SQL
6 1 (2.38%) C#
6 1 (2.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.38%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 6 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.14%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.76%) Degree
5 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (30.95%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.76%) GDPR
3 1 (2.38%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.38%) QA
3 1 (2.38%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (11.90%) Docker
2 1 (2.38%) HDFS
2 1 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (26.19%) Terraform
2 6 (14.29%) Ansible
3 2 (4.76%) Control-M
4 1 (2.38%) Argo
4 1 (2.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (19.05%) Databricks
2 6 (14.29%) BiZZdesign
2 6 (14.29%) Black Duck
2 6 (14.29%) Google
2 6 (14.29%) UiPath
2 6 (14.29%) VMware
3 5 (11.90%) Blue Prism
3 5 (11.90%) Coverity
3 5 (11.90%) Oracle
4 2 (4.76%) Informatica
4 2 (4.76%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.38%) Foundry
5 1 (2.38%) Mapbox
5 1 (2.38%) Palantir
5 1 (2.38%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.38%) StreamSets