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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 392 217 105
Rank change year-on-year -175 -112 +258
Permanent jobs citing Apache Airflow 59 247 715
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.26% 1.50% 2.83%
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.30% 13.59% 22.74%
Number of salaries quoted 44 243 701
10th Percentile £45,000 £80,000 £81,250
25th Percentile £50,938 £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 £91,563 £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 1,372 1,817 3,144
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.12% 11.01% 12.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,059 1,193 2,391
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,895 £40,000 £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 £88,000 £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 5 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 (30.51%) Apache
2 16 (27.12%) Apache Spark
3 7 (11.86%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 40 (67.80%) AWS
2 22 (37.29%) GCP
3 17 (28.81%) dbt
4 15 (25.42%) Amazon S3
4 15 (25.42%) Dagster
5 12 (20.34%) Azure
6 10 (16.95%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (16.95%) Cloud Composer
6 10 (16.95%) Prefect
7 9 (15.25%) Snowflake
8 8 (13.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (13.56%) Amazon EMR
8 8 (13.56%) Serverless
9 7 (11.86%) Power Platform
10 6 (10.17%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (8.47%) Amazon ECR
12 3 (5.08%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (5.08%) Amazon Kinesis
12 3 (5.08%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (5.08%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.17%) Broadband
2 1 (1.69%) 4G
2 1 (1.69%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (27.12%) BigQuery
2 12 (20.34%) Data Lake
2 12 (20.34%) Metadata
3 11 (18.64%) Amazon Redshift
4 10 (16.95%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (16.95%) DynamoDB
5 9 (15.25%) Amazon Athena
6 7 (11.86%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (11.86%) Power BI
6 7 (11.86%) SQL Server
7 6 (10.17%) Semantic Layer
8 4 (6.78%) MySQL
8 4 (6.78%) NoSQL
9 3 (5.08%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (5.08%) Apache Iceberg
9 3 (5.08%) Big Data
9 3 (5.08%) Looker
9 3 (5.08%) Tableau
10 2 (3.39%) Delta Lake
10 2 (3.39%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (18.64%) Git
2 8 (13.56%) GitLab
3 3 (5.08%) MLflow
4 1 (1.69%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (25.42%) Social Skills
2 14 (23.73%) Public Sector
3 12 (20.34%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (15.25%) Law
5 4 (6.78%) Finance
5 4 (6.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (5.08%) Legal
7 2 (3.39%) Billing
8 1 (1.69%) Retail
8 1 (1.69%) Tech for Good
8 1 (1.69%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.69%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 35 (59.32%) Data Engineer
2 22 (37.29%) Senior
3 18 (30.51%) Senior Data Engineer
4 9 (15.25%) Lead
5 7 (11.86%) Developer
5 7 (11.86%) Python Developer
5 7 (11.86%) Python Engineer
6 6 (10.17%) AWS Data Engineer
6 6 (10.17%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (8.47%) Lead Data Engineer
7 5 (8.47%) Test Engineer
8 4 (6.78%) Principal Data Engineer
8 4 (6.78%) Principal Engineer
8 4 (6.78%) Python Data Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Lead Test Engineer
10 2 (3.39%) Associate Director
10 2 (3.39%) Senior Developer
10 2 (3.39%) Senior Python Developer
11 1 (1.69%) Data Consultant
11 1 (1.69%) Senior Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (30.51%) Kafka
2 8 (13.56%) PyTorch
3 7 (11.86%) PySpark
3 7 (11.86%) TensorFlow
4 6 (10.17%) NumPy
4 6 (10.17%) OpenCV
4 6 (10.17%) Pandas
5 5 (8.47%) Google JAX
5 5 (8.47%) JAX
5 5 (8.47%) SciPy
6 2 (3.39%) FastAPI
6 2 (3.39%) Node.js
6 2 (3.39%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (3.39%) React
7 1 (1.69%) AWS CDK
7 1 (1.69%) OAuth
7 1 (1.69%) REST
7 1 (1.69%) RESTful
7 1 (1.69%) SQLAlchemy
7 1 (1.69%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 15 (25.42%) Cloud Native
2 8 (13.56%) Data Structures
3 6 (10.17%) Anti-Piracy
3 6 (10.17%) Social Media
4 5 (8.47%) Algorithms
5 3 (5.08%) Onboarding
5 3 (5.08%) Online Gambling
5 3 (5.08%) Sports Betting
6 2 (3.39%) AI Agents
6 2 (3.39%) Client/Server
6 2 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (3.39%) IoT
7 1 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.69%) Clustering
7 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.69%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.69%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.69%) Replication
7 1 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (67.80%) Data Pipeline
2 38 (64.41%) Data Engineering
3 24 (40.68%) Data Modelling
3 24 (40.68%) ETL
4 22 (37.29%) CI/CD
5 21 (35.59%) Infrastructure as Code
6 20 (33.90%) Analytics
6 20 (33.90%) Workflow
7 17 (28.81%) Agile
8 16 (27.12%) Validation
9 15 (25.42%) AI
10 13 (22.03%) Data Science
11 11 (18.64%) Data Architecture
11 11 (18.64%) Data Governance
11 11 (18.64%) DevOps
11 11 (18.64%) Machine Learning
11 11 (18.64%) Mentoring
11 11 (18.64%) Software Engineering
12 10 (16.95%) Business Intelligence
12 10 (16.95%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 54 (91.53%) Python
2 43 (72.88%) SQL
3 12 (20.34%) Java
4 7 (11.86%) Scala
5 6 (10.17%) Bash
5 6 (10.17%) C++
6 2 (3.39%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.69%) Bicep
7 1 (1.69%) Go
7 1 (1.69%) R
7 1 (1.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (20.34%) SC Cleared
1 12 (20.34%) Security Cleared
2 10 (16.95%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (38.98%) Data Quality
2 5 (8.47%) QA
3 1 (1.69%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 22 (37.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (35.59%) Terraform
2 8 (13.56%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.08%) Grafana
4 2 (3.39%) Ansible
4 2 (3.39%) Argo
4 2 (3.39%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.39%) Puppet
4 2 (3.39%) Salt
5 1 (1.69%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 15 (25.42%) Databricks
2 7 (11.86%) Microsoft
3 6 (10.17%) Google
4 2 (3.39%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.69%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.69%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.69%) Oracle
5 1 (1.69%) Palantir
5 1 (1.69%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.69%) Trend Micro