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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 357 410 545
Rank change year-on-year +53 +135 -67
Permanent jobs citing Apache Airflow 384 606 520
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.74% 0.62% 0.50%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.64% 5.65% 4.35%
Number of salaries quoted 335 453 258
10th Percentile £70,000 £64,480 £57,425
25th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £112,500 £86,250
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +30.43% +7.81%
75th Percentile £137,500 £142,500 £116,250
90th Percentile £143,750 £165,000 £151,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,750 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -1.79% +3.70% +17.39%

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 4,444 10,730 11,949
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.52% 10.91% 11.49%
Number of salaries quoted 3,060 7,087 7,898
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £34,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +1.85%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £106,500 £92,295 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,628 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +7.36% -10.53% +5.56%

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 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Apache Airflow in the UK

Apache Airflow
Top 14 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 30 April 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 +87 367 £110,000 -2.22% 161
London +35 333 £110,000 -4.35% 112
Work from Home +132 282 £110,000 -4.35% 98
UK excluding London +78 39 £68,750 -1.79% 47
South East +121 12 - - 11
Scotland +23 7 £75,360 - 1
South West +114 6 £60,000 +12.15% 12
Midlands +62 6 £65,000 -10.96% 4
North of England +58 5 £72,500 +1.40% 13
North West +23 4 £87,500 +45.83% 9
East Midlands - 4 £65,000 - 1
East of England +58 3 £90,000 -2.70% 5
West Midlands +48 2 - - 3
North East +39 1 £72,500 -12.12% 1

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
1 246 (64.06%) Apache
2 111 (28.91%) Apache Spark
3 11 (2.86%) Luigi
4 2 (0.52%) Confluence
5 1 (0.26%) CMS
5 1 (0.26%) IIS
5 1 (0.26%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (1.30%) InDesign
2 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 313 (81.51%) AWS
2 293 (76.30%) dbt
3 144 (37.50%) GCP
4 140 (36.46%) Snowflake
5 106 (27.60%) Amazon ECS
6 80 (20.83%) OpenShift
7 77 (20.05%) AWS Lambda
7 77 (20.05%) Serverless
8 73 (19.01%) Azure
9 58 (15.10%) Dagster
10 39 (10.16%) Amazon EC2
11 34 (8.85%) Amazon EKS
12 17 (4.43%) GitHub
13 12 (3.13%) Amazon S3
14 9 (2.34%) Power Platform
15 8 (2.08%) Amazon Kinesis
16 7 (1.82%) Azure Data Factory
16 7 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
16 7 (1.82%) SaaS
17 5 (1.30%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.52%) Internet
2 1 (0.26%) DNS
2 1 (0.26%) FTP
2 1 (0.26%) HTTP
2 1 (0.26%) SMTP
2 1 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 267 (69.53%) Apache Iceberg
2 265 (69.01%) Amazon Athena
3 258 (67.19%) Dremio
4 233 (60.68%) Apache Arrow
5 171 (44.53%) Apache Ignite
6 98 (25.52%) Data Lake
7 46 (11.98%) PostgreSQL
8 44 (11.46%) Data Warehouse
9 27 (7.03%) SQL Server
10 24 (6.25%) NoSQL
11 19 (4.95%) Amazon Redshift
11 19 (4.95%) Big Data
11 19 (4.95%) Relational Database
12 17 (4.43%) BigQuery
12 17 (4.43%) Hadoop
13 15 (3.91%) Apache Hive
14 10 (2.60%) RDBMS
15 9 (2.34%) Delta Lake
15 9 (2.34%) MongoDB
15 9 (2.34%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 74 (19.27%) Artifactory
2 27 (7.03%) Git
3 22 (5.73%) Jenkins
4 11 (2.86%) Bitbucket
5 10 (2.60%) CircleCI
6 5 (1.30%) JIRA
7 3 (0.78%) MLflow
8 2 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.26%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.26%) GitLab
9 1 (0.26%) Log4Net
9 1 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.26%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 290 (75.52%) Finance
2 263 (68.49%) Front Office
3 135 (35.16%) Banking
4 105 (27.34%) Investment Banking
5 31 (8.07%) Social Skills
6 16 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (2.86%) Law
8 10 (2.60%) Retail
9 5 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.78%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.52%) Marketing
12 1 (0.26%) Advertising
12 1 (0.26%) Military
Job Titles
1 235 (61.20%) AWS Engineer
2 221 (57.55%) Python Engineer
3 167 (43.49%) Software Engineer
4 162 (42.19%) AWS Software Engineer
4 162 (42.19%) Data Engineer
5 113 (29.43%) Python Software Engineer
6 112 (29.17%) Developer
7 98 (25.52%) Senior
8 94 (24.48%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 90 (23.44%) AWS Developer
10 88 (22.92%) Java Engineer
10 88 (22.92%) Java Software Engineer
11 73 (19.01%) AWS DevOps
11 73 (19.01%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 73 (19.01%) DevOps Engineer
12 69 (17.97%) Python Developer
13 57 (14.84%) Senior Software Engineer
14 51 (13.28%) Senior Java Engineer
14 51 (13.28%) Senior Java Software Engineer
15 34 (8.85%) Snowflake Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (46.09%) PySpark
2 168 (43.75%) Pandas
3 163 (42.45%) NumPy
4 155 (40.36%) SciPy
5 105 (27.34%) Kafka
6 100 (26.04%) gRPC
6 100 (26.04%) Protocol Buffers
7 71 (18.49%) J2EE
7 71 (18.49%) React
8 62 (16.15%) Node.js
9 61 (15.89%) AngularJS
10 57 (14.84%) Vue
11 35 (9.11%) Redux
12 10 (2.60%) REST
13 9 (2.34%) PyArrow
13 9 (2.34%) scikit-learn
14 8 (2.08%) GraphQL
15 6 (1.56%) PyTorch
15 6 (1.56%) TensorFlow
16 5 (1.30%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 185 (48.18%) Fixed Income
2 150 (39.06%) Equities
3 132 (34.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 105 (27.34%) Derivative
4 105 (27.34%) Hedge funds
5 39 (10.16%) Pricing Data
6 19 (4.95%) Product Ownership
7 9 (2.34%) Cloud Native
8 8 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.82%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.30%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.30%) Distributed Applications
10 5 (1.30%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.04%) Public Cloud
12 3 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (0.78%) NHS
12 3 (0.78%) Onboarding
13 2 (0.52%) Educational Technology
14 1 (0.26%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.39%) Unix
2 12 (3.13%) Linux
3 7 (1.82%) Windows
4 3 (0.78%) Ubuntu
4 3 (0.78%) VMS
5 1 (0.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 290 (75.52%) Agile
2 285 (74.22%) Software Engineering
3 271 (70.57%) Asset Management
4 150 (39.06%) Data Engineering
5 132 (34.38%) Investment Management
6 107 (27.86%) CI/CD
7 101 (26.30%) DevOps
8 77 (20.05%) Open Source
9 72 (18.75%) Fintech
9 72 (18.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 62 (16.15%) Performance Attribution
11 58 (15.10%) ETL
12 56 (14.58%) Analytics
12 56 (14.58%) Data Pipeline
13 42 (10.94%) Data Modelling
14 41 (10.68%) Data Science
14 41 (10.68%) Migration
15 39 (10.16%) Data Management
16 37 (9.64%) Machine Learning
17 35 (9.11%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 341 (88.80%) Python
2 220 (57.29%) Java
3 144 (37.50%) JavaScript
4 138 (35.94%) TypeScript
5 117 (30.47%) SQL
6 73 (19.01%) Go
7 11 (2.86%) Scala
8 7 (1.82%) Bash
9 6 (1.56%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.30%) C#
10 5 (1.30%) SPARQL
11 4 (1.04%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.04%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.52%) C++
13 2 (0.52%) R
Qualifications
1 44 (11.46%) Degree
2 17 (4.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (1.30%) Master's Degree
4 4 (1.04%) Security Cleared
5 3 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.52%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.26%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.26%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 15 (3.91%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.30%) GDPR
4 2 (0.52%) QA
System Software
1 106 (27.60%) Docker
2 9 (2.34%) HDFS
3 5 (1.30%) Apache Flume
4 3 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 109 (28.39%) Kubernetes
2 102 (26.56%) Terraform
3 9 (2.34%) Oozie
4 5 (1.30%) Ansible
5 3 (0.78%) Packer
Vendors
1 28 (7.29%) Databricks
2 13 (3.39%) Microsoft
3 12 (3.13%) Red Hat
4 7 (1.82%) Google
5 5 (1.30%) Adobe
5 5 (1.30%) Cloudera
6 4 (1.04%) IBM
6 4 (1.04%) IBM Sterling
7 3 (0.78%) Informatica
7 3 (0.78%) Snowplow
7 3 (0.78%) StreamSets
8 2 (0.52%) Cribl.io
8 2 (0.52%) Oracle
8 2 (0.52%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.52%) Talend
9 1 (0.26%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.26%) PayPal
9 1 (0.26%) Splunk