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 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 394 215 104
Rank change year-on-year -179 -111 +266
Permanent jobs citing Apache Airflow 60 250 715
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.27% 1.51% 2.83%
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.42% 13.69% 22.84%
Number of salaries quoted 46 246 701
10th Percentile £45,000 £80,000 £81,250
25th Percentile £50,313 £100,000 £93,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £110,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -39.77% -4.35% +21.05%
75th Percentile £91,250 £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 1,357 1,826 3,131
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.09% 11.01% 12.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,051 1,201 2,393
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £32,100
25th Percentile £39,495 £40,250 £44,738
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 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% -4.81%

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 2 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 18 (30.00%) Apache
2 17 (28.33%) Apache Spark
3 7 (11.67%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 41 (68.33%) AWS
2 22 (36.67%) GCP
3 16 (26.67%) dbt
4 15 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 15 (25.00%) Dagster
5 12 (20.00%) Azure
6 10 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (16.67%) Cloud Composer
6 10 (16.67%) Prefect
7 9 (15.00%) Snowflake
8 8 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (13.33%) Amazon EMR
8 8 (13.33%) Power Platform
8 8 (13.33%) Serverless
9 6 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (8.33%) Amazon ECR
11 3 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (5.00%) Amazon Kinesis
11 3 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (5.00%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.00%) Broadband
2 1 (1.67%) 4G
2 1 (1.67%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (26.67%) BigQuery
2 12 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 12 (20.00%) Metadata
3 11 (18.33%) Amazon Redshift
4 10 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (16.67%) DynamoDB
5 9 (15.00%) Amazon Athena
6 8 (13.33%) Power BI
6 8 (13.33%) SQL Server
7 7 (11.67%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (10.00%) Semantic Layer
9 5 (8.33%) MySQL
10 4 (6.67%) NoSQL
11 3 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (5.00%) Apache Iceberg
11 3 (5.00%) Big Data
11 3 (5.00%) Relational Database
11 3 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (5.00%) Tableau
12 2 (3.33%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 11 (18.33%) Git
2 8 (13.33%) GitLab
3 3 (5.00%) MLflow
4 1 (1.67%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (23.33%) Public Sector
3 11 (18.33%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (15.00%) Law
5 4 (6.67%) Finance
5 4 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (5.00%) Legal
7 2 (3.33%) Billing
7 2 (3.33%) Retail
8 1 (1.67%) Tech for Good
8 1 (1.67%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.67%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 37 (61.67%) Data Engineer
2 22 (36.67%) Senior
3 18 (30.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 8 (13.33%) Lead
5 7 (11.67%) Developer
5 7 (11.67%) Python Developer
5 7 (11.67%) Python Engineer
6 6 (10.00%) AWS Data Engineer
6 6 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (8.33%) Lead Data Engineer
7 5 (8.33%) Test Engineer
8 4 (6.67%) Principal Data Engineer
8 4 (6.67%) Principal Engineer
8 4 (6.67%) Python Data Engineer
9 3 (5.00%) Lead Test Engineer
10 2 (3.33%) Associate Director
10 2 (3.33%) Database Engineer
10 2 (3.33%) Senior Developer
10 2 (3.33%) Senior Python Developer
11 1 (1.67%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (31.67%) Kafka
2 8 (13.33%) PyTorch
3 7 (11.67%) PySpark
3 7 (11.67%) TensorFlow
4 6 (10.00%) NumPy
4 6 (10.00%) OpenCV
4 6 (10.00%) Pandas
5 5 (8.33%) Google JAX
5 5 (8.33%) JAX
5 5 (8.33%) SciPy
6 3 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (3.33%) FastAPI
7 2 (3.33%) Node.js
7 2 (3.33%) React
8 1 (1.67%) Faiss
8 1 (1.67%) Hugging Face
8 1 (1.67%) JWT
8 1 (1.67%) LangChain
8 1 (1.67%) Ray
8 1 (1.67%) vLLM
Miscellaneous
1 15 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 8 (13.33%) Data Structures
3 6 (10.00%) Anti-Piracy
3 6 (10.00%) Social Media
4 5 (8.33%) Algorithms
5 3 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (5.00%) Onboarding
5 3 (5.00%) Online Gambling
5 3 (5.00%) Replication
5 3 (5.00%) Sports Betting
6 2 (3.33%) AI Agents
6 2 (3.33%) Client/Server
6 2 (3.33%) IoT
6 2 (3.33%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.67%) Clustering
7 1 (1.67%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (68.33%) Data Pipeline
2 39 (65.00%) Data Engineering
3 25 (41.67%) ETL
4 24 (40.00%) Data Modelling
5 23 (38.33%) CI/CD
6 21 (35.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (35.00%) Workflow
7 20 (33.33%) Analytics
8 17 (28.33%) Agile
9 16 (26.67%) Validation
10 14 (23.33%) AI
11 13 (21.67%) Data Science
12 12 (20.00%) DevOps
13 11 (18.33%) Business Intelligence
13 11 (18.33%) Data Architecture
13 11 (18.33%) Data Governance
13 11 (18.33%) Mentoring
13 11 (18.33%) Migration
13 11 (18.33%) Software Engineering
14 10 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 54 (90.00%) Python
2 44 (73.33%) SQL
3 12 (20.00%) Java
4 7 (11.67%) Scala
5 6 (10.00%) Bash
5 6 (10.00%) C++
6 2 (3.33%) T-SQL
6 2 (3.33%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.67%) Bicep
7 1 (1.67%) Go
7 1 (1.67%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 12 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (18.33%) Degree
3 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (38.33%) Data Quality
2 5 (8.33%) QA
3 1 (1.67%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 23 (38.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (36.67%) Terraform
2 8 (13.33%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.00%) Grafana
4 2 (3.33%) Ansible
4 2 (3.33%) Argo
4 2 (3.33%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.33%) Puppet
4 2 (3.33%) Salt
5 1 (1.67%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 15 (25.00%) Databricks
2 8 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 6 (10.00%) Google
4 2 (3.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.67%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.67%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.67%) Oracle
5 1 (1.67%) Palantir
5 1 (1.67%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.67%) Trend Micro