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 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 278 185 406
Rank change year-on-year -93 +221 +95
Permanent jobs citing Apache Airflow 107 296 135
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.67% 1.86% 0.49%
As % of the Application Platforms category 10.12% 15.33% 4.66%
Number of salaries quoted 84 266 132
10th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £60,200
25th Percentile £75,938 £80,000 £73,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% +33.33%
75th Percentile £135,000 £122,500 £134,063
90th Percentile £137,500 £147,500 £155,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £105,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -19.05% +10.53% +18.75%

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 1,057 1,931 2,899
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.63% 12.16% 10.44%
Number of salaries quoted 746 1,263 2,382
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% -4.86%
75th Percentile £80,375 £90,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.28% +14.00% -9.09%

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 7 February 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 31 (28.97%) Apache
2 25 (23.36%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.80%) SAS
4 2 (1.87%) Confluence
4 2 (1.87%) Luigi
5 1 (0.93%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.93%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 90 (84.11%) AWS
2 55 (51.40%) GCP
3 49 (45.79%) dbt
4 40 (37.38%) Snowflake
5 32 (29.91%) Azure
6 18 (16.82%) Amazon S3
7 16 (14.95%) Dagster
8 15 (14.02%) Vertex AI
9 12 (11.21%) Amazon Kinesis
10 9 (8.41%) Amazon SageMaker
10 9 (8.41%) Azure Machine Learning
11 7 (6.54%) Power Platform
12 6 (5.61%) Prefect
13 5 (4.67%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (4.67%) GitHub
13 5 (4.67%) Matillion
13 5 (4.67%) Serverless
14 3 (2.80%) Cloud Run
14 3 (2.80%) Google Compute Engine
14 3 (2.80%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.87%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (42.99%) Apache Iceberg
2 42 (39.25%) Amazon Athena
3 28 (26.17%) Apache Arrow
3 28 (26.17%) Dremio
4 27 (25.23%) BigQuery
5 26 (24.30%) Amazon Redshift
6 25 (23.36%) Data Lake
7 23 (21.50%) Tableau
8 22 (20.56%) PostgreSQL
9 17 (15.89%) Metadata
10 15 (14.02%) Data Warehouse
11 14 (13.08%) Apache Ignite
12 13 (12.15%) Elasticsearch
13 12 (11.21%) Pinecone
14 11 (10.28%) Delta Lake
15 10 (9.35%) Looker
16 9 (8.41%) Amazon QuickSight
16 9 (8.41%) Weaviate
17 7 (6.54%) NoSQL
17 7 (6.54%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (11.21%) Git
2 9 (8.41%) MLflow
3 2 (1.87%) GitLab
3 2 (1.87%) JIRA
General
1 34 (31.78%) Finance
2 28 (26.17%) Front Office
3 22 (20.56%) Social Skills
4 16 (14.95%) Banking
5 14 (13.08%) Investment Banking
6 7 (6.54%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.74%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.80%) Law
9 2 (1.87%) Advertising
9 2 (1.87%) Legal
9 2 (1.87%) Retail
10 1 (0.93%) Music Industry
10 1 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.93%) Publishing
10 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 43 (40.19%) Data Engineer
2 36 (33.64%) Python Engineer
3 35 (32.71%) Senior
4 31 (28.97%) AWS Engineer
5 28 (26.17%) AWS Software Engineer
5 28 (26.17%) Python Software Engineer
5 28 (26.17%) Software Engineer
6 16 (14.95%) Developer
7 15 (14.02%) Lead
7 15 (14.02%) Python Developer
8 14 (13.08%) AWS Developer
8 14 (13.08%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 14 (13.08%) Java Engineer
8 14 (13.08%) Java Software Engineer
9 12 (11.21%) Senior Java Engineer
9 12 (11.21%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 12 (11.21%) Senior Software Engineer
10 11 (10.28%) Consultant
10 11 (10.28%) Lead Data Engineer
11 9 (8.41%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (28.97%) Pandas
2 29 (27.10%) NumPy
3 28 (26.17%) SciPy
4 24 (22.43%) Kafka
5 17 (15.89%) AngularJS
5 17 (15.89%) React
6 16 (14.95%) Node.js
6 16 (14.95%) Vue
7 14 (13.08%) gRPC
7 14 (13.08%) Protocol Buffers
8 11 (10.28%) PyTorch
8 11 (10.28%) TensorFlow
9 9 (8.41%) Faiss
9 9 (8.41%) vLLM
10 3 (2.80%) LangChain
10 3 (2.80%) Next.js
10 3 (2.80%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (1.87%) Elastic Stack
11 2 (1.87%) HTML
11 2 (1.87%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 28 (26.17%) Equities
1 28 (26.17%) Fixed Income
1 28 (26.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 17 (15.89%) Cloud Native
3 14 (13.08%) Derivative
3 14 (13.08%) Hedge funds
3 14 (13.08%) Pricing Data
4 11 (10.28%) Product Ownership
5 9 (8.41%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (5.61%) Data Structures
7 5 (4.67%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (4.67%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.87%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.87%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.87%) Reference Data
8 2 (1.87%) Replication
9 1 (0.93%) Social Media
9 1 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.80%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (53.27%) Data Engineering
2 45 (42.06%) Analytics
3 44 (41.12%) Agile
4 41 (38.32%) CI/CD
4 41 (38.32%) Data Pipeline
5 40 (37.38%) ETL
6 35 (32.71%) Data Modelling
7 33 (30.84%) Software Engineering
8 29 (27.10%) Business Intelligence
9 28 (26.17%) Asset Management
9 28 (26.17%) Investment Management
10 27 (25.23%) AI
11 26 (24.30%) Data Governance
12 23 (21.50%) Use Case
13 22 (20.56%) Data Science
14 21 (19.63%) Data Architecture
14 21 (19.63%) DevOps
14 21 (19.63%) Roadmaps
15 19 (17.76%) Machine Learning
15 19 (17.76%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 92 (85.98%) Python
2 55 (51.40%) SQL
3 32 (29.91%) JavaScript
4 31 (28.97%) Java
5 28 (26.17%) TypeScript
6 19 (17.76%) Bash
7 15 (14.02%) Scala
8 9 (8.41%) Go
9 2 (1.87%) Ruby
10 1 (0.93%) C#
10 1 (0.93%) C++
10 1 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.93%) SPARQL
10 1 (0.93%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (17.76%) Degree
2 11 (10.28%) SC Cleared
2 11 (10.28%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.87%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.87%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (22.43%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.87%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.93%) GDPR
System Software
1 21 (19.63%) Docker
2 1 (0.93%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 11 (10.28%) Terraform
2 9 (8.41%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.74%) Ansible
4 2 (1.87%) Argo
4 2 (1.87%) Grafana
4 2 (1.87%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.87%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.87%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (14.95%) Databricks
2 12 (11.21%) Google
3 10 (9.35%) Palantir
4 5 (4.67%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.80%) Informatica
6 2 (1.87%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.93%) Apple
7 1 (0.93%) DataRobot
7 1 (0.93%) Foundry
7 1 (0.93%) Oracle
7 1 (0.93%) SAP
7 1 (0.93%) Spotify
7 1 (0.93%) Talend