Apache Airflow Job Trends

Apache Airflow
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Apache Airflow skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 504 386 243
Rank change year-on-year -118 -143 +241
Permanent jobs citing Apache Airflow 301 348 957
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.70% 1.15%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.67% 7.88% 12.42%
Number of salaries quoted 184 298 854
10th Percentile £45,000 £66,250 £79,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £92,500 £87,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,750 £110,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -39.32% -4.35% +21.05%
75th Percentile £95,000 £137,500 £147,500
90th Percentile £106,750 - £165,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £73,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% -7.53% +8.15%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,510 4,417 7,708
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.24% 8.84% 9.24%
Number of salaries quoted 3,196 2,955 5,178
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,625 £36,105 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £71,235 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £107,500 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -5.32%

Apache Airflow
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Apache Airflow job vacancy trend in the UK

Apache Airflow
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Apache Airflow

Apache Airflow
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Apache Airflow over the 6 months to 13 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Apache Airflow in the UK

Apache Airflow
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 13 August 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
England -136 270 £67,500 -38.64% 176
London -159 143 £85,000 -26.09% 125
UK excluding London -3 138 £62,500 -7.41% 75
North of England +13 68 £66,750 +18.14% 19
Work from Home -173 54 £66,250 -39.77% 69
North East -24 35 £62,500 +31.58% 6
North West +24 29 £66,750 +5.53% 8
South East -6 19 £55,000 -29.03% 25
East of England -12 18 £56,000 -21.68% 3
Midlands -31 12 £75,000 +11.11% 9
Scotland +18 10 £61,783 +17.68% 13
West Midlands -19 10 £55,000 -4.35% 3
South West -54 8 £60,000 +20.00% 6
Yorkshire -23 4 £80,000 +18.52% 5
Wales - 3 £66,000 -
East Midlands -29 2 £82,500 +22.22% 6

Apache Airflow
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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
1 101 (33.55%) Apache Spark
2 99 (32.89%) Apache
3 16 (5.32%) Jupyter
4 4 (1.33%) Luigi
5 3 (1.00%) Confluence
5 3 (1.00%) SAS
6 2 (0.66%) Tornado
7 1 (0.33%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 13 (4.32%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 199 (66.11%) AWS
2 128 (42.52%) dbt
3 123 (40.86%) GCP
4 107 (35.55%) Azure
5 79 (26.25%) Snowflake
6 56 (18.60%) Amazon S3
7 44 (14.62%) Power Platform
8 28 (9.30%) Amazon EMR
8 28 (9.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 28 (9.30%) Dagster
9 26 (8.64%) OpenShift
9 26 (8.64%) Prefect
10 21 (6.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 20 (6.64%) GitHub
12 19 (6.31%) Serverless
13 18 (5.98%) Cloud Composer
14 17 (5.65%) AWS Lambda
14 17 (5.65%) SaaS
15 16 (5.32%) Amazon EC2
16 14 (4.65%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.66%) Broadband
2 2 (0.66%) 4G
2 2 (0.66%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (26.58%) BigQuery
2 69 (22.92%) Data Warehouse
3 56 (18.60%) Tableau
4 52 (17.28%) Amazon Redshift
4 52 (17.28%) Data Lake
5 44 (14.62%) Power BI
6 36 (11.96%) Elasticsearch
7 35 (11.63%) PostgreSQL
8 34 (11.30%) Looker
9 27 (8.97%) Parquet
9 27 (8.97%) Spark SQL
10 26 (8.64%) DynamoDB
10 26 (8.64%) Snowflake Schema
11 25 (8.31%) Amazon Athena
11 25 (8.31%) Apache Hive
11 25 (8.31%) Impala
11 25 (8.31%) Oracle Database
12 23 (7.64%) Metadata
12 23 (7.64%) NoSQL
13 21 (6.98%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 78 (25.91%) Git
2 29 (9.63%) MLflow
3 25 (8.31%) IBM UrbanCode
4 21 (6.98%) GitLab
5 8 (2.66%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.33%) JIRA
7 2 (0.66%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.66%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.33%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.33%) Yeoman
General
1 75 (24.92%) Finance
2 71 (23.59%) Social Skills
3 69 (22.92%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (11.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 31 (10.30%) Banking
6 24 (7.97%) Investment Banking
7 19 (6.31%) Legal
8 18 (5.98%) Law
9 17 (5.65%) Public Sector
10 11 (3.65%) Marketing
11 9 (2.99%) Games
12 6 (1.99%) Retail
12 6 (1.99%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.33%) Advertising
13 4 (1.33%) Publishing
14 3 (1.00%) Billing
15 2 (0.66%) Health Technology
16 1 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
16 1 (0.33%) Tech for Good
16 1 (0.33%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 173 (57.48%) Data Engineer
2 82 (27.24%) Senior
3 44 (14.62%) Senior Data Engineer
4 42 (13.95%) Lead
5 35 (11.63%) Analyst
6 25 (8.31%) Lead Data Engineer
6 25 (8.31%) Python Engineer
7 24 (7.97%) AWS Engineer
7 24 (7.97%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 23 (7.64%) AWS Data Engineer
8 23 (7.64%) Systems Engineer
8 23 (7.64%) Transformation Analyst
9 22 (7.31%) Banking Analyst
10 21 (6.98%) Python Data Engineer
11 14 (4.65%) Principal Data Engineer
11 14 (4.65%) Principal Engineer
12 13 (4.32%) Business Analyst
13 12 (3.99%) Data Business Analyst
13 12 (3.99%) Technical Analyst
14 11 (3.65%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (31.23%) Kafka
2 50 (16.61%) PySpark
3 31 (10.30%) Pandas
4 30 (9.97%) PyTorch
4 30 (9.97%) TensorFlow
5 26 (8.64%) scikit-learn
6 24 (7.97%) LangChain
6 24 (7.97%) pgvector
7 23 (7.64%) LlamaIndex
8 10 (3.32%) NumPy
9 9 (2.99%) Spring
9 9 (2.99%) Spring Boot
10 7 (2.33%) FastAPI
11 6 (1.99%) OpenCV
12 5 (1.66%) Google JAX
12 5 (1.66%) GraphQL
12 5 (1.66%) JAX
12 5 (1.66%) RESTful
12 5 (1.66%) SciPy
13 4 (1.33%) ONNX
Miscellaneous
1 75 (24.92%) Cloud Native
2 24 (7.97%) Clustering
3 23 (7.64%) Public Cloud
4 18 (5.98%) Data Structures
5 14 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (4.32%) Distributed Computing
7 11 (3.65%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (3.65%) Sports Betting
8 10 (3.32%) Product Ownership
9 9 (2.99%) Algorithms
9 9 (2.99%) Social Media
10 5 (1.66%) Anti-Piracy
10 5 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.66%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.66%) Online Gambling
11 4 (1.33%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.33%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (1.33%) Hedge funds
12 3 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (0.66%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (66.11%) Data Pipeline
2 175 (58.14%) Data Engineering
3 144 (47.84%) Analytics
4 136 (45.18%) ETL
5 133 (44.19%) CI/CD
6 130 (43.19%) Data Modelling
7 128 (42.52%) AI
8 115 (38.21%) Agile
9 105 (34.88%) Data Governance
10 69 (22.92%) Machine Learning
11 66 (21.93%) Business Intelligence
12 61 (20.27%) Data Science
13 60 (19.93%) Validation
14 59 (19.60%) Infrastructure as Code
15 56 (18.60%) Mentoring
16 54 (17.94%) Problem-Solving
17 48 (15.95%) Decision-Making
18 46 (15.28%) Data Transformation
19 45 (14.95%) Scrum
20 44 (14.62%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 269 (89.37%) Python
2 233 (77.41%) SQL
3 32 (10.63%) Java
4 13 (4.32%) Scala
5 8 (2.66%) Bash
6 6 (1.99%) Kotlin
7 5 (1.66%) C++
8 4 (1.33%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.66%) Bicep
10 2 (0.66%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.66%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.33%) R
Qualifications
1 40 (13.29%) Degree
2 27 (8.97%) Security Cleared
3 24 (7.97%) SC Cleared
4 14 (4.65%) Master's Degree
5 12 (3.99%) DBS Check
6 7 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.99%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.33%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.66%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (43.85%) Data Quality
2 42 (13.95%) GDPR
3 35 (11.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (3.99%) HIPAA
5 11 (3.65%) QA
6 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 75 (24.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 87 (28.90%) Terraform
2 38 (12.62%) Kubernetes
3 10 (3.32%) Grafana
4 7 (2.33%) Argo
4 7 (2.33%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.66%) Ansible
5 5 (1.66%) Kubeflow
6 2 (0.66%) Puppet
6 2 (0.66%) Salt
Vendors
1 84 (27.91%) Databricks
2 32 (10.63%) Google
3 26 (8.64%) Oracle
4 25 (8.31%) Red Hat
5 23 (7.64%) Cloudera
5 23 (7.64%) Dell
6 18 (5.98%) Microsoft
7 8 (2.66%) Talend
8 5 (1.66%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.33%) WSO2
10 3 (1.00%) Confluent
10 3 (1.00%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.00%) Splunk
11 2 (0.66%) Alteryx
11 2 (0.66%) Amplitude
11 2 (0.66%) MicroStrategy
11 2 (0.66%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.66%) SAP
11 2 (0.66%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.33%) Informatica