Apache Airflow Jobs

Apache Airflow
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Apache Airflow skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Apache Airflow over the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 404 326 522
Rank change year-on-year -78 +196 -70
Permanent jobs citing Apache Airflow 359 893 472
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.64% 0.80% 0.52%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.89% 8.39% 4.65%
Number of salaries quoted 308 747 281
10th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £58,500
25th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £115,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +27.78% +16.13%
75th Percentile £137,500 £143,750 £120,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £165,000 £151,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,750 £71,500 £62,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +15.32% +7.83%

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 4,550 10,640 10,148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.10% 9.53% 11.09%
Number of salaries quoted 2,869 7,154 7,206
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,043
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.16% +0.08%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -13.27% +6.52%

Apache Airflow
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Apache Airflow as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Apache Airflow in the UK

Apache Airflow
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Apache Airflow.

Salary trend for Apache Airflow in the UK

Apache Airflow
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Apache Airflow over the 6 months to 20 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Apache Airflow in the UK

Apache Airflow
Top 15 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 20 June 2025. 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 -55 345 £110,000 -4.35% 819
London -48 307 £110,000 -4.35% 585
Work from Home -66 248 £110,000 -4.35% 354
UK excluding London +74 46 £68,750 -3.85% 299
Scotland +27 12 £75,360 - 25
South East +102 9 £71,500 -4.67% 79
North of England +43 9 £56,500 -31.52% 77
East of England +39 7 £71,500 -22.70% 37
South West +110 5 £60,000 +12.15% 33
Midlands +93 5 £67,500 -7.53% 30
East Midlands +59 4 £67,500 - 10
North West +11 4 £64,500 -21.82% 48
North East +38 3 £47,500 -42.42% 4
Yorkshire +58 2 £67,500 - 25
West Midlands +73 1 £42,500 -41.78% 20

Apache Airflow
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 194 (54.04%) Apache
2 87 (24.23%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.23%) Luigi
4 5 (1.39%) Appian
5 3 (0.84%) SAS
6 2 (0.56%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.28%) CMS
7 1 (0.28%) IIS
7 1 (0.28%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (1.39%) InDesign
2 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 306 (85.24%) AWS
2 263 (73.26%) dbt
3 137 (38.16%) Snowflake
4 130 (36.21%) GCP
5 61 (16.99%) Azure
6 60 (16.71%) Amazon ECS
7 56 (15.60%) AWS Lambda
7 56 (15.60%) Serverless
8 54 (15.04%) OpenShift
9 24 (6.69%) Amazon S3
10 23 (6.41%) Dagster
11 18 (5.01%) GitHub
11 18 (5.01%) Power Platform
12 16 (4.46%) Amazon EC2
13 11 (3.06%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (2.51%) Amazon Kinesis
14 9 (2.51%) Azure DevOps
15 6 (1.67%) Amazon EMR
15 6 (1.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 6 (1.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.84%) PuTTY
2 1 (0.28%) DNS
2 1 (0.28%) FTP
2 1 (0.28%) HTTP
2 1 (0.28%) Internet
2 1 (0.28%) SMTP
2 1 (0.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 239 (66.57%) Apache Iceberg
2 238 (66.30%) Amazon Athena
3 229 (63.79%) Dremio
4 221 (61.56%) Apache Arrow
5 119 (33.15%) Apache Ignite
6 77 (21.45%) Data Lake
6 77 (21.45%) PostgreSQL
7 39 (10.86%) Data Warehouse
8 24 (6.69%) NoSQL
9 23 (6.41%) Relational Database
10 21 (5.85%) Big Data
11 20 (5.57%) BigQuery
12 18 (5.01%) Amazon Redshift
12 18 (5.01%) Hadoop
13 13 (3.62%) Power BI
13 13 (3.62%) Tableau
14 11 (3.06%) SQL Server
15 10 (2.79%) Apache Hive
16 9 (2.51%) RDBMS
17 8 (2.23%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 51 (14.21%) Artifactory
2 22 (6.13%) Git
3 15 (4.18%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.51%) CircleCI
5 7 (1.95%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.39%) JIRA
6 5 (1.39%) Robot Framework
6 5 (1.39%) Selenium
6 5 (1.39%) Snyk
7 4 (1.11%) Terragrunt
8 3 (0.84%) MLflow
9 2 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.28%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.28%) Log4Net
10 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio
General
1 263 (73.26%) Finance
2 229 (63.79%) Front Office
3 115 (32.03%) Banking
4 95 (26.46%) Investment Banking
5 45 (12.53%) Social Skills
6 23 (6.41%) Law
7 21 (5.85%) Analytical Skills
8 16 (4.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (3.62%) Marketing
10 8 (2.23%) Retail
11 5 (1.39%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.11%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.11%) Music Industry
13 3 (0.84%) Advertising
14 2 (0.56%) Games
15 1 (0.28%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.28%) Electronics
15 1 (0.28%) Legal
15 1 (0.28%) Military
15 1 (0.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 224 (62.40%) AWS Engineer
2 187 (52.09%) Python Engineer
3 177 (49.30%) Software Engineer
4 173 (48.19%) AWS Software Engineer
5 125 (34.82%) Developer
6 122 (33.98%) Python Software Engineer
7 119 (33.15%) Data Engineer
8 111 (30.92%) AWS Developer
9 110 (30.64%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 103 (28.69%) Java Engineer
10 103 (28.69%) Java Software Engineer
11 99 (27.58%) Senior
12 76 (21.17%) Python Developer
13 58 (16.16%) Senior Java Engineer
13 58 (16.16%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 58 (16.16%) Senior Software Engineer
14 48 (13.37%) AWS DevOps
14 48 (13.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 48 (13.37%) DevOps Engineer
15 40 (11.14%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (46.52%) Pandas
2 155 (43.18%) NumPy
3 149 (41.50%) SciPy
4 119 (33.15%) PySpark
5 97 (27.02%) Kafka
6 82 (22.84%) AngularJS
7 80 (22.28%) React
8 78 (21.73%) Node.js
8 78 (21.73%) Vue
9 71 (19.78%) gRPC
9 71 (19.78%) Protocol Buffers
10 48 (13.37%) J2EE
11 10 (2.79%) RESTful
12 9 (2.51%) Redux
13 8 (2.23%) Apache NiFi
13 8 (2.23%) scikit-learn
14 6 (1.67%) PyArrow
14 6 (1.67%) TensorFlow
15 5 (1.39%) PyTorch
15 5 (1.39%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 181 (50.42%) Fixed Income
2 165 (45.96%) Equities
3 157 (43.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 95 (26.46%) Derivative
4 95 (26.46%) Hedge funds
5 52 (14.48%) Pricing Data
6 26 (7.24%) Cloud Native
7 16 (4.46%) Data Structures
8 11 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (2.79%) Algorithms
10 9 (2.51%) Product Ownership
11 6 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.39%) Distributed Applications
12 5 (1.39%) Low-Code
13 4 (1.11%) Distributed Architecture
13 4 (1.11%) Mobile Banking
14 3 (0.84%) Legacy Code
14 3 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
15 2 (0.56%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.06%) Unix
2 9 (2.51%) Linux
3 4 (1.11%) Windows
4 3 (0.84%) VMS
5 1 (0.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 270 (75.21%) Agile
2 265 (73.82%) Software Engineering
3 236 (65.74%) Asset Management
4 139 (38.72%) Investment Management
5 118 (32.87%) Data Engineering
6 105 (29.25%) CI/CD
7 86 (23.96%) DevOps
8 85 (23.68%) Fintech
9 78 (21.73%) Performance Attribution
10 73 (20.33%) Risk Management
11 70 (19.50%) Order Management
12 63 (17.55%) Data Pipeline
13 58 (16.16%) ETL
14 53 (14.76%) Open Source
15 49 (13.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 46 (12.81%) Data Modelling
17 45 (12.53%) Data Science
18 43 (11.98%) Data Management
19 34 (9.47%) Analytics
19 34 (9.47%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 305 (84.96%) Python
2 192 (53.48%) Java
3 147 (40.95%) JavaScript
4 144 (40.11%) TypeScript
5 120 (33.43%) SQL
6 50 (13.93%) Go
7 10 (2.79%) Bash
7 10 (2.79%) Scala
8 5 (1.39%) C#
8 5 (1.39%) R
8 5 (1.39%) SPARQL
9 4 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.84%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.84%) PROC SQL
11 2 (0.56%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.28%) C
12 1 (0.28%) C++
Qualifications
1 30 (8.36%) Degree
2 19 (5.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (1.67%) Master's Degree
3 6 (1.67%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.39%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.11%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.11%) PhD
6 3 (0.84%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.56%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.56%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (9.47%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.23%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.95%) QA
4 3 (0.84%) GDPR
System Software
1 78 (21.73%) Docker
2 9 (2.51%) HDFS
3 8 (2.23%) Apache Flume
4 4 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 89 (24.79%) Terraform
2 81 (22.56%) Kubernetes
3 9 (2.51%) Ansible
4 8 (2.23%) Oozie
5 3 (0.84%) Kibana
5 3 (0.84%) logstash
5 3 (0.84%) Packer
6 1 (0.28%) Grafana
6 1 (0.28%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 21 (5.85%) Databricks
2 10 (2.79%) Google
3 8 (2.23%) Microsoft
4 7 (1.95%) Informatica
5 6 (1.67%) Red Hat
6 5 (1.39%) Adobe
6 5 (1.39%) BiZZdesign
6 5 (1.39%) Black Duck
6 5 (1.39%) Cloudera
6 5 (1.39%) Oracle
6 5 (1.39%) StreamSets
6 5 (1.39%) UiPath
6 5 (1.39%) VMware
7 4 (1.11%) IBM
7 4 (1.11%) IBM Sterling
7 4 (1.11%) SAP
8 3 (0.84%) MicroStrategy
8 3 (0.84%) Snowplow
8 3 (0.84%) Talend
9 2 (0.56%) Splunk