Hybrid/Remote Apache Airflow Job Trends

Apache Airflow
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Apache Airflow skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 409 219 96
Rank change year-on-year -190 -123 +245
Permanent jobs citing Apache Airflow 55 239 725
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.24% 1.45% 2.91%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.98% 13.23% 23.13%
Number of salaries quoted 43 235 711
10th Percentile £45,000 £80,000 £81,250
25th Percentile £50,625 £100,000 £94,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £110,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -38.64% -4.35% +21.05%
75th Percentile £91,875 £137,500 £148,750
90th Percentile £107,500 - £165,000
UK median annual salary £66,750 £110,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year -39.32% -4.35% +21.05%

All Application Platform Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring application platform skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,381 1,807 3,135
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.09% 10.96% 12.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,064 1,180 2,382
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,900 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,150 £40,000 £44,942
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £70,250 £90,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £122,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £53,688 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.87% +2.26% -5.11%

Apache Airflow
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Apache Airflow and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Apache Airflow job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Apache Airflow
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Apache Airflow.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Apache Airflow

Apache Airflow
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Apache Airflow over the 6 months to 8 August 2026.

Apache Airflow salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Apache Airflow
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 17 (30.91%) Apache
2 14 (25.45%) Apache Spark
3 7 (12.73%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 36 (65.45%) AWS
2 20 (36.36%) GCP
3 16 (29.09%) dbt
4 14 (25.45%) Amazon S3
5 13 (23.64%) Dagster
6 10 (18.18%) Azure
6 10 (18.18%) Prefect
7 9 (16.36%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (16.36%) Cloud Composer
8 8 (14.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (14.55%) Amazon EMR
8 8 (14.55%) Snowflake
9 7 (12.73%) Power Platform
9 7 (12.73%) Serverless
10 5 (9.09%) Amazon ECR
10 5 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (5.45%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (5.45%) Amazon Kinesis
11 3 (5.45%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (5.45%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.09%) Broadband
2 1 (1.82%) 4G
2 1 (1.82%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (25.45%) BigQuery
2 12 (21.82%) Data Lake
3 10 (18.18%) Metadata
4 9 (16.36%) Amazon Athena
4 9 (16.36%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (16.36%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (16.36%) DynamoDB
5 7 (12.73%) Power BI
5 7 (12.73%) SQL Server
6 6 (10.91%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (10.91%) Semantic Layer
7 4 (7.27%) MySQL
7 4 (7.27%) NoSQL
8 3 (5.45%) Big Data
9 2 (3.64%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (3.64%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (3.64%) MongoDB
9 2 (3.64%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (3.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (3.64%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (20.00%) Git
2 8 (14.55%) GitLab
3 2 (3.64%) MLflow
4 1 (1.82%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (25.45%) Social Skills
2 13 (23.64%) Public Sector
3 11 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (12.73%) Law
5 4 (7.27%) Finance
5 4 (7.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (5.45%) Legal
7 2 (3.64%) Billing
8 1 (1.82%) Retail
8 1 (1.82%) Tech for Good
8 1 (1.82%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.82%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 33 (60.00%) Data Engineer
2 18 (32.73%) Senior
3 16 (29.09%) Senior Data Engineer
4 9 (16.36%) Lead
5 6 (10.91%) Developer
5 6 (10.91%) Python Developer
6 5 (9.09%) AWS Data Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) Lead Data Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) Python Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) Test Engineer
7 4 (7.27%) Principal Data Engineer
7 4 (7.27%) Principal Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) Lead Test Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) Python Data Engineer
9 2 (3.64%) Associate Director
10 1 (1.82%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 1 (1.82%) Head of Applications
10 1 (1.82%) Head of Engineering
10 1 (1.82%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (30.91%) Kafka
2 7 (12.73%) PySpark
2 7 (12.73%) PyTorch
3 6 (10.91%) NumPy
3 6 (10.91%) OpenCV
3 6 (10.91%) Pandas
3 6 (10.91%) TensorFlow
4 5 (9.09%) Google JAX
4 5 (9.09%) JAX
4 5 (9.09%) SciPy
5 2 (3.64%) FastAPI
5 2 (3.64%) Node.js
5 2 (3.64%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (3.64%) React
6 1 (1.82%) OAuth
6 1 (1.82%) OAuth2
6 1 (1.82%) pytest
6 1 (1.82%) REST
6 1 (1.82%) RESTful
6 1 (1.82%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 14 (25.45%) Cloud Native
2 7 (12.73%) Data Structures
3 5 (9.09%) Algorithms
3 5 (9.09%) Anti-Piracy
3 5 (9.09%) Social Media
4 3 (5.45%) Onboarding
4 3 (5.45%) Online Gambling
4 3 (5.45%) Sports Betting
5 2 (3.64%) AI Agents
5 2 (3.64%) Client/Server
5 2 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.64%) IoT
6 1 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.82%) Clustering
6 1 (1.82%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.82%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.82%) Replication
6 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.91%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (67.27%) Data Pipeline
2 36 (65.45%) Data Engineering
3 22 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 22 (40.00%) ETL
4 20 (36.36%) CI/CD
5 19 (34.55%) Analytics
5 19 (34.55%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (30.91%) Workflow
7 16 (29.09%) Agile
8 15 (27.27%) Validation
9 13 (23.64%) AI
10 11 (20.00%) DevOps
10 11 (20.00%) Mentoring
11 10 (18.18%) Data Architecture
11 10 (18.18%) Data Governance
11 10 (18.18%) Data Science
11 10 (18.18%) Machine Learning
11 10 (18.18%) Migration
11 10 (18.18%) Software Engineering
12 9 (16.36%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 50 (90.91%) Python
2 40 (72.73%) SQL
3 10 (18.18%) Java
4 5 (9.09%) Bash
4 5 (9.09%) C++
4 5 (9.09%) Scala
5 2 (3.64%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.82%) Bicep
6 1 (1.82%) R
6 1 (1.82%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 11 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (14.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 5 (9.09%) QA
3 1 (1.82%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.82%) GDPR
System Software
1 20 (36.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (36.36%) Terraform
2 7 (12.73%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.45%) Grafana
4 2 (3.64%) Ansible
4 2 (3.64%) Argo
4 2 (3.64%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.64%) Puppet
4 2 (3.64%) Salt
5 1 (1.82%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 12 (21.82%) Databricks
2 7 (12.73%) Microsoft
3 6 (10.91%) Google
4 2 (3.64%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.82%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.82%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.82%) Oracle
5 1 (1.82%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.82%) Trend Micro