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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 210 177
Rank change year-on-year -130 -33 +225
Permanent jobs citing Apache Airflow 83 248 610
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.41% 1.60% 1.76%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.83% 13.43% 15.69%
Number of salaries quoted 58 240 596
10th Percentile £45,000 £80,000 £77,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £100,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £110,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.68% -4.35% +21.05%
75th Percentile £98,125 £137,500 £148,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £138,750 £165,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £110,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year -36.36% -4.35% +27.78%

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 1,215 1,847 3,887
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.03% 11.94% 11.19%
Number of salaries quoted 917 1,197 3,016
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,903 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £115,000 £130,625
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.16%

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 20 June 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 24 (28.92%) Apache Spark
2 22 (26.51%) Apache
3 7 (8.43%) Jupyter
4 2 (2.41%) SAS
5 1 (1.20%) Palantir Foundry
Cloud Services
1 61 (73.49%) AWS
2 37 (44.58%) GCP
3 22 (26.51%) Amazon S3
3 22 (26.51%) Azure
3 22 (26.51%) dbt
4 21 (25.30%) Dagster
5 18 (21.69%) Snowflake
6 10 (12.05%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (12.05%) Cloud Composer
6 10 (12.05%) Prefect
7 9 (10.84%) Amazon Kinesis
8 8 (9.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (9.64%) Amazon EMR
8 8 (9.64%) Serverless
9 7 (8.43%) Amazon SageMaker
9 7 (8.43%) Azure Machine Learning
9 7 (8.43%) Power Platform
9 7 (8.43%) Vertex AI
10 6 (7.23%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (6.02%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.43%) Broadband
2 1 (1.20%) 4G
2 1 (1.20%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (33.73%) BigQuery
2 22 (26.51%) Amazon Redshift
3 19 (22.89%) Metadata
4 15 (18.07%) Amazon Athena
4 15 (18.07%) Apache Iceberg
4 15 (18.07%) Tableau
5 14 (16.87%) Data Lake
5 14 (16.87%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (12.05%) DynamoDB
7 9 (10.84%) Semantic Layer
8 8 (9.64%) Delta Lake
8 8 (9.64%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (9.64%) Looker
9 7 (8.43%) Pinecone
9 7 (8.43%) Power BI
9 7 (8.43%) Weaviate
10 6 (7.23%) Amazon QuickSight
10 6 (7.23%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (7.23%) SQL Server
11 5 (6.02%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 14 (16.87%) Git
2 8 (9.64%) GitLab
2 8 (9.64%) MLflow
General
1 17 (20.48%) Public Sector
2 15 (18.07%) Social Skills
3 12 (14.46%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.84%) Law
5 5 (6.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.61%) Finance
6 3 (3.61%) Legal
7 2 (2.41%) Retail
7 2 (2.41%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.20%) Banking
8 1 (1.20%) Billing
8 1 (1.20%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 51 (61.45%) Data Engineer
2 31 (37.35%) Senior
3 20 (24.10%) Senior Data Engineer
4 16 (19.28%) Lead
5 12 (14.46%) Lead Data Engineer
6 9 (10.84%) Python Engineer
7 7 (8.43%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
7 7 (8.43%) Consultant
7 7 (8.43%) Data Consultant
7 7 (8.43%) Developer
7 7 (8.43%) Principal Data Engineer
7 7 (8.43%) Principal Engineer
7 7 (8.43%) Python Developer
7 7 (8.43%) Senior Consultant
8 6 (7.23%) AWS Data Engineer
8 6 (7.23%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (6.02%) Python Data Engineer
9 5 (6.02%) Test Engineer
10 3 (3.61%) Lead Test Engineer
10 3 (3.61%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (32.53%) Kafka
2 14 (16.87%) PyTorch
3 13 (15.66%) TensorFlow
4 7 (8.43%) Faiss
4 7 (8.43%) PySpark
4 7 (8.43%) vLLM
5 6 (7.23%) NumPy
5 6 (7.23%) OpenCV
5 6 (7.23%) Pandas
6 5 (6.02%) Google JAX
6 5 (6.02%) JAX
6 5 (6.02%) SciPy
7 3 (3.61%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (2.41%) Node.js
8 2 (2.41%) React
9 1 (1.20%) Celery
9 1 (1.20%) OAuth2
9 1 (1.20%) pytest
9 1 (1.20%) RESTful
9 1 (1.20%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 18 (21.69%) Cloud Native
2 10 (12.05%) Data Structures
3 9 (10.84%) Product Ownership
4 6 (7.23%) Anti-Piracy
4 6 (7.23%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (7.23%) Social Media
5 5 (6.02%) Algorithms
6 3 (3.61%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (3.61%) Online Gambling
6 3 (3.61%) Replication
6 3 (3.61%) Sports Betting
7 2 (2.41%) AI Agents
7 2 (2.41%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (2.41%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.41%) Reference Data
7 2 (2.41%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.20%) Client/Server
8 1 (1.20%) Clustering
8 1 (1.20%) Educational Technology
8 1 (1.20%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (75.90%) Data Engineering
2 53 (63.86%) Data Pipeline
3 37 (44.58%) CI/CD
4 36 (43.37%) ETL
5 35 (42.17%) Analytics
6 33 (39.76%) Data Modelling
7 24 (28.92%) Workflow
8 23 (27.71%) Data Governance
9 21 (25.30%) Agile
9 21 (25.30%) AI
9 21 (25.30%) Business Intelligence
9 21 (25.30%) Data Science
9 21 (25.30%) Infrastructure as Code
10 19 (22.89%) Data Architecture
11 17 (20.48%) DevOps
11 17 (20.48%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (19.28%) Machine Learning
12 16 (19.28%) Use Case
12 16 (19.28%) Validation
13 15 (18.07%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 72 (86.75%) Python
2 62 (74.70%) SQL
3 19 (22.89%) Bash
3 19 (22.89%) Java
4 14 (16.87%) Scala
5 7 (8.43%) Go
6 6 (7.23%) C++
7 2 (2.41%) T-SQL
7 2 (2.41%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.20%) Bicep
8 1 (1.20%) R
8 1 (1.20%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 18 (21.69%) Degree
2 16 (19.28%) SC Cleared
2 16 (19.28%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (36.14%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.02%) QA
3 2 (2.41%) Accessibility
System Software
1 28 (33.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (25.30%) Terraform
2 7 (8.43%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.61%) Grafana
4 2 (2.41%) Ansible
4 2 (2.41%) Argo
4 2 (2.41%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.41%) Puppet
4 2 (2.41%) Salt
Vendors
1 21 (25.30%) Databricks
2 8 (9.64%) Google
2 8 (9.64%) Palantir
3 5 (6.02%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.41%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.20%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.20%) Foundry
5 1 (1.20%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.20%) Oracle
5 1 (1.20%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.20%) Trend Micro