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

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 435 346 452
Rank change year-on-year -89 +106 +76
Permanent jobs citing Apache Airflow 216 414 264
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.76% 0.51%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.25% 8.28% 4.46%
Number of salaries quoted 163 351 221
10th Percentile £57,750 £70,000 £60,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +18.75%
75th Percentile £135,000 £122,500 £132,500
90th Percentile £137,500 £147,500 £147,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% +25.00% -7.69%

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 3,456 4,998 5,918
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.84% 9.13% 11.36%
Number of salaries quoted 2,324 2,958 4,414
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £30,663
25th Percentile £33,500 £38,750 £36,913
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +3.77% -3.64%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,500 £47,500 £46,000
% change year-on-year -12.63% +3.26% -3.16%

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 3 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Apache Airflow in the UK

Apache Airflow
Top 13 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 3 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
England -85 202 £100,000 -4.76% 88
London -63 156 £110,000 +2.33% 52
Work from Home -60 121 £110,000 +2.33% 50
UK excluding London +47 43 £77,500 +3.33% 57
South East +8 14 £72,500 -4.92% 31
North of England +32 12 £87,500 +20.69% 13
North West +38 8 £90,000 - 7
West Midlands +33 6 £53,750 -23.21%
Midlands +17 6 £53,750 -17.31% 1
Scotland - 6 £90,000 - 4
Yorkshire - 4 £85,000 - 3
East of England +23 3 - - 7
South West +2 2 £45,000 -41.94% 3

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 80 (37.04%) Apache
2 40 (18.52%) Apache Spark
3 10 (4.63%) Appian
4 4 (1.85%) Apache Superset
5 3 (1.39%) Luigi
6 2 (0.93%) Confluence
6 2 (0.93%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.93%) nginx
6 2 (0.93%) SAS
7 1 (0.46%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.46%) Notion
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 172 (79.63%) AWS
2 107 (49.54%) dbt
3 99 (45.83%) GCP
4 76 (35.19%) Snowflake
5 62 (28.70%) Azure
6 33 (15.28%) Amazon S3
7 24 (11.11%) Power Platform
8 18 (8.33%) GitHub
9 17 (7.87%) Prefect
10 15 (6.94%) Dagster
11 13 (6.02%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (5.56%) Amazon Kinesis
12 12 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (5.56%) Serverless
13 10 (4.63%) Amazon SQS
13 10 (4.63%) Vertex AI
14 9 (4.17%) AWS Step Functions
14 9 (4.17%) Azure Machine Learning
15 8 (3.70%) Amazon SageMaker
15 8 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.93%) BGP
1 2 (0.93%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (0.93%) Firewall
1 2 (0.93%) MQTT
1 2 (0.93%) OSPF
1 2 (0.93%) Reverse Proxy
1 2 (0.93%) RTMP
1 2 (0.93%) TCP/IP
1 2 (0.93%) VLAN
1 2 (0.93%) VPN
1 2 (0.93%) WAN
1 2 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (0.93%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (34.26%) Amazon Athena
1 74 (34.26%) Apache Iceberg
2 62 (28.70%) Apache Arrow
2 62 (28.70%) Dremio
3 55 (25.46%) Data Lake
4 48 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
5 37 (17.13%) BigQuery
6 33 (15.28%) Amazon Redshift
6 33 (15.28%) Apache Ignite
7 27 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
8 21 (9.72%) Tableau
9 16 (7.41%) Power BI
10 13 (6.02%) Metadata
11 12 (5.56%) NoSQL
12 11 (5.09%) Pinecone
13 9 (4.17%) Looker
13 9 (4.17%) SQL Server
14 8 (3.70%) Big Data
14 8 (3.70%) Weaviate
15 7 (3.24%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 24 (11.11%) Git
2 17 (7.87%) MLflow
3 9 (4.17%) GitLab
4 7 (3.24%) Selenium
5 6 (2.78%) Robot Framework
5 6 (2.78%) Snyk
6 5 (2.31%) Jenkins
7 3 (1.39%) JIRA
8 2 (0.93%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.93%) Jaeger
8 2 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 88 (40.74%) Finance
2 63 (29.17%) Front Office
3 57 (26.39%) Social Skills
4 35 (16.20%) Banking
5 34 (15.74%) Investment Banking
6 21 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (4.63%) Law
8 8 (3.70%) Marketing
9 7 (3.24%) Games
10 5 (2.31%) Advertising
10 5 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.85%) Legal
11 4 (1.85%) Retail
12 3 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.39%) Public Sector
13 2 (0.93%) Agriculture
13 2 (0.93%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.93%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.46%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 72 (33.33%) Python Engineer
2 67 (31.02%) AWS Engineer
2 67 (31.02%) Software Engineer
3 62 (28.70%) AWS Software Engineer
3 62 (28.70%) Data Engineer
3 62 (28.70%) Python Software Engineer
4 57 (26.39%) Senior
5 41 (18.98%) Developer
6 33 (15.28%) Java Engineer
6 33 (15.28%) Java Software Engineer
7 31 (14.35%) Senior Java Engineer
7 31 (14.35%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 31 (14.35%) Senior Software Engineer
8 29 (13.43%) AWS Developer
8 29 (13.43%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 29 (13.43%) Python Developer
9 20 (9.26%) Architect
10 13 (6.02%) Lead
11 10 (4.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 10 (4.63%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (37.04%) Pandas
2 65 (30.09%) NumPy
3 62 (28.70%) SciPy
4 50 (23.15%) Kafka
5 37 (17.13%) React
6 36 (16.67%) Node.js
7 33 (15.28%) AngularJS
7 33 (15.28%) gRPC
7 33 (15.28%) Protocol Buffers
8 32 (14.81%) Vue
9 15 (6.94%) PyTorch
9 15 (6.94%) TensorFlow
10 11 (5.09%) scikit-learn
10 11 (5.09%) Spring
11 10 (4.63%) Hibernate
11 10 (4.63%) JPA
11 10 (4.63%) RESTful
11 10 (4.63%) Spring Boot
12 8 (3.70%) REST
13 7 (3.24%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 63 (29.17%) Equities
1 63 (29.17%) Fixed Income
2 62 (28.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 37 (17.13%) Cloud Native
4 34 (15.74%) Derivative
4 34 (15.74%) Hedge funds
5 33 (15.28%) Pricing Data
6 18 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (6.02%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (5.09%) Distributed Architecture
9 9 (4.17%) Product Ownership
9 9 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (3.70%) Onboarding
11 7 (3.24%) Algorithms
12 6 (2.78%) Data Structures
12 6 (2.78%) Low-Code
13 4 (1.85%) Hackathon
14 3 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
14 3 (1.39%) Distributed Computing
14 3 (1.39%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.78%) Linux
2 3 (1.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (44.91%) Agile
2 92 (42.59%) Data Pipeline
3 89 (41.20%) CI/CD
4 85 (39.35%) Software Engineering
5 82 (37.96%) Data Engineering
6 65 (30.09%) Analytics
7 62 (28.70%) Asset Management
7 62 (28.70%) Investment Management
8 60 (27.78%) Data Modelling
8 60 (27.78%) ETL
9 55 (25.46%) AI
9 55 (25.46%) DevOps
10 45 (20.83%) Fintech
10 45 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
11 41 (18.98%) Machine Learning
12 39 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
13 38 (17.59%) Containerisation
14 34 (15.74%) Business Intelligence
15 31 (14.35%) Data Governance
15 31 (14.35%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 191 (88.43%) Python
2 88 (40.74%) SQL
3 71 (32.87%) JavaScript
4 67 (31.02%) TypeScript
5 64 (29.63%) Java
6 12 (5.56%) Bash
6 12 (5.56%) Scala
7 8 (3.70%) Go
8 4 (1.85%) ANSI SQL
9 3 (1.39%) C#
9 3 (1.39%) Ruby
9 3 (1.39%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.46%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.46%) R
10 1 (0.46%) SPARQL
10 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (10.65%) Degree
2 17 (7.87%) Security Cleared
3 15 (6.94%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.24%) Master's Degree
5 6 (2.78%) AWS Certification
5 6 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.78%) PhD
6 4 (1.85%) SnowPro
7 3 (1.39%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.39%) MCP
8 2 (0.93%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (22.69%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.31%) SLA
3 3 (1.39%) GDPR
3 3 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.93%) QA
5 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.46%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 51 (23.61%) Docker
2 2 (0.93%) NFS
3 1 (0.46%) HDFS
3 1 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 46 (21.30%) Terraform
2 38 (17.59%) Kubernetes
3 16 (7.41%) Ansible
4 8 (3.70%) Grafana
4 8 (3.70%) Prometheus
5 7 (3.24%) Kubeflow
6 6 (2.78%) Argo
7 3 (1.39%) Control-M
8 2 (0.93%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.93%) Puppet
Vendors
1 22 (10.19%) Databricks
2 20 (9.26%) Google
3 9 (4.17%) Oracle
4 7 (3.24%) Microsoft
5 6 (2.78%) BiZZdesign
5 6 (2.78%) Black Duck
5 6 (2.78%) Informatica
5 6 (2.78%) UiPath
5 6 (2.78%) VMware
6 5 (2.31%) Blue Prism
6 5 (2.31%) Coverity
6 5 (2.31%) OpenAI
6 5 (2.31%) Palantir
7 3 (1.39%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.39%) SAP
8 2 (0.93%) Cisco
8 2 (0.93%) Confluent
8 2 (0.93%) NETGEAR
8 2 (0.93%) Sonatype
8 2 (0.93%) Talend