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 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 426 220 100
Rank change year-on-year -206 -120 +246
Permanent jobs citing Apache Airflow 41 222 702
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.17% 1.36% 2.99%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.77% 14.53% 24.22%
Number of salaries quoted 35 221 685
10th Percentile £47,000 £80,000 £80,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £100,000 £86,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £130,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.69% +13.04% +21.05%
75th Percentile £107,500 £137,500 £148,750
90th Percentile £115,000 - £165,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £110,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year -36.36% -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 1,478 1,528 2,898
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.03% 9.37% 12.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,120 1,030 1,917
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,767 £40,903 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £70,250 £90,000 £116,250
90th Percentile £88,750 £135,000 £147,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £53,688 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.87% -2.39% -2.70%

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 19 September 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 21 (51.22%) Apache
2 9 (21.95%) Apache Spark
3 8 (19.51%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 28 (68.29%) AWS
2 15 (36.59%) Amazon S3
3 14 (34.15%) Amazon EMR
4 12 (29.27%) GCP
5 9 (21.95%) Azure
6 8 (19.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (19.51%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (19.51%) dbt
6 8 (19.51%) SaaS
7 6 (14.63%) Amazon ECR
7 6 (14.63%) Dagster
7 6 (14.63%) GitHub
7 6 (14.63%) Snowflake
8 5 (12.20%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 5 (12.20%) Cloud Composer
8 5 (12.20%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (9.76%) Power Platform
9 4 (9.76%) Prefect
10 3 (7.32%) Serverless
11 2 (4.88%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.44%) 4G
1 1 (2.44%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (34.15%) Amazon Athena
2 13 (31.71%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (26.83%) Data Lake
4 9 (21.95%) BigQuery
5 8 (19.51%) DynamoDB
6 7 (17.07%) Apache Iceberg
7 5 (12.20%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (12.20%) SQL Server
8 4 (9.76%) Power BI
8 4 (9.76%) Semantic Layer
9 3 (7.32%) Big Data
9 3 (7.32%) Looker
9 3 (7.32%) Metadata
9 3 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (7.32%) Relational Database
10 2 (4.88%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (4.88%) MongoDB
10 2 (4.88%) MySQL
10 2 (4.88%) NoSQL
11 1 (2.44%) Flink
Development Applications
1 10 (24.39%) GitLab
2 7 (17.07%) Git
3 5 (12.20%) Poetry
4 1 (2.44%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.44%) MLflow
General
1 11 (26.83%) Public Sector
2 10 (24.39%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (21.95%) Social Skills
4 4 (9.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (7.32%) Finance
5 3 (7.32%) Legal
6 2 (4.88%) Billing
7 1 (2.44%) Tech for Good
7 1 (2.44%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.44%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 26 (63.41%) Data Engineer
2 15 (36.59%) Senior
3 14 (34.15%) Senior Data Engineer
4 8 (19.51%) Lead
5 6 (14.63%) Test Engineer
6 4 (9.76%) Lead Test Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Lead Data Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Principal Data Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Principal Engineer
8 1 (2.44%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 1 (2.44%) Associate Director
8 1 (2.44%) AWS Engineer
8 1 (2.44%) Data Scientist
8 1 (2.44%) Databricks Data Engineer
8 1 (2.44%) Databricks Engineer
8 1 (2.44%) Head of Applications
8 1 (2.44%) Head of Engineering
8 1 (2.44%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 1 (2.44%) Senior Data Scientist
8 1 (2.44%) Senior OSS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (56.10%) Terraform
2 13 (31.71%) Kafka
3 12 (29.27%) PySpark
4 3 (7.32%) Pulumi
5 2 (4.88%) Node.js
5 2 (4.88%) PyTorch
5 2 (4.88%) React
5 2 (4.88%) TensorFlow
6 1 (2.44%) Apache Beam
6 1 (2.44%) FastAPI
6 1 (2.44%) Google JAX
6 1 (2.44%) JAX
6 1 (2.44%) LangChain
6 1 (2.44%) NumPy
6 1 (2.44%) OpenCV
6 1 (2.44%) Pandas
6 1 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (2.44%) REST
6 1 (2.44%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 13 (31.71%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.32%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (7.32%) Onboarding
2 3 (7.32%) Online Gambling
2 3 (7.32%) Sports Betting
3 2 (4.88%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.44%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.44%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.44%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.44%) Clustering
4 1 (2.44%) Educational Technology
4 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.44%) IoT
4 1 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (75.61%) Data Engineering
2 29 (70.73%) Data Pipeline
3 22 (53.66%) CI/CD
4 20 (48.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (39.02%) Workflow
6 15 (36.59%) Agile
6 15 (36.59%) AI
6 15 (36.59%) Data Modelling
6 15 (36.59%) Validation
7 14 (34.15%) Analytics
8 13 (31.71%) Machine Learning
9 12 (29.27%) Observability
10 11 (26.83%) DevOps
10 11 (26.83%) ETL
11 10 (24.39%) Mentoring
11 10 (24.39%) Software Engineering
12 8 (19.51%) Coaching
12 8 (19.51%) Containerisation
12 8 (19.51%) Data Ingestion
12 8 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 38 (92.68%) Python
2 33 (80.49%) SQL
3 7 (17.07%) Java
4 6 (14.63%) Bash
5 2 (4.88%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.44%) Bicep
6 1 (2.44%) R
6 1 (2.44%) Scala
6 1 (2.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (24.39%) SC Cleared
1 10 (24.39%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.32%) Degree
3 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (56.10%) Data Quality
2 6 (14.63%) QA
3 2 (4.88%) GDPR
System Software
1 21 (51.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (14.63%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.88%) Grafana
2 2 (4.88%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.44%) Ansible
3 1 (2.44%) Argo
3 1 (2.44%) Kubeflow
3 1 (2.44%) Puppet
3 1 (2.44%) Salt
Vendors
1 6 (14.63%) Google
1 6 (14.63%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.76%) Databricks
3 1 (2.44%) New Relic
3 1 (2.44%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.44%) Splunk
3 1 (2.44%) Trend Micro