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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 400 229 98
Rank change year-on-year -171 -131 +251
Permanent jobs citing Apache Airflow 55 226 733
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.24% 1.36% 2.95%
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.01% 12.87% 23.53%
Number of salaries quoted 43 223 718
10th Percentile £45,000 £80,000 £81,250
25th Percentile £50,625 £100,000 £96,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £110,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -40.91% -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 1,371 1,756 3,115
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.04% 10.57% 12.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,050 1,156 2,352
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,050
25th Percentile £39,050 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% -9.38% +6.67%
75th Percentile £70,813 £88,750 £108,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £118,750 £143,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £53,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -6.19%

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 14 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 (32.73%) Apache
2 15 (27.27%) Apache Spark
3 8 (14.55%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 37 (67.27%) AWS
2 19 (34.55%) GCP
3 16 (29.09%) dbt
4 15 (27.27%) Amazon S3
5 13 (23.64%) Dagster
6 10 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (18.18%) Azure
6 10 (18.18%) Prefect
7 9 (16.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (16.36%) Amazon EMR
7 9 (16.36%) Cloud Composer
8 8 (14.55%) Snowflake
9 7 (12.73%) Power Platform
9 7 (12.73%) Serverless
10 6 (10.91%) Amazon ECR
11 5 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (5.45%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (5.45%) Amazon Kinesis
12 3 (5.45%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (5.45%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.09%) Broadband
2 1 (1.82%) 4G
2 1 (1.82%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (23.64%) BigQuery
2 12 (21.82%) Data Lake
3 10 (18.18%) Amazon Athena
3 10 (18.18%) DynamoDB
3 10 (18.18%) Metadata
4 9 (16.36%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (16.36%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (12.73%) Power BI
5 7 (12.73%) SQL Server
6 6 (10.91%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (9.09%) Semantic Layer
8 4 (7.27%) Big Data
8 4 (7.27%) MySQL
8 4 (7.27%) NoSQL
9 2 (3.64%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (3.64%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (3.64%) MongoDB
9 2 (3.64%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (3.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (3.64%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (20.00%) Git
2 9 (16.36%) GitLab
3 2 (3.64%) MLflow
4 1 (1.82%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 14 (25.45%) Public Sector
3 12 (21.82%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (12.73%) Law
5 4 (7.27%) Finance
5 4 (7.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (5.45%) Legal
7 2 (3.64%) Billing
8 1 (1.82%) Retail
8 1 (1.82%) Tech for Good
8 1 (1.82%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.82%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 32 (58.18%) Data Engineer
2 18 (32.73%) Senior
3 16 (29.09%) Senior Data Engineer
4 9 (16.36%) Lead
5 6 (10.91%) Developer
5 6 (10.91%) Python Developer
5 6 (10.91%) Test Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) AWS Data Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) Python Engineer
7 4 (7.27%) Lead Data Engineer
7 4 (7.27%) Lead Test Engineer
7 4 (7.27%) Principal Data Engineer
7 4 (7.27%) Principal Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) Python Data Engineer
9 2 (3.64%) Associate Director
10 1 (1.82%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 1 (1.82%) Head of Applications
10 1 (1.82%) Head of Engineering
10 1 (1.82%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (30.91%) Kafka
2 8 (14.55%) PySpark
3 7 (12.73%) PyTorch
4 6 (10.91%) NumPy
4 6 (10.91%) OpenCV
4 6 (10.91%) Pandas
4 6 (10.91%) TensorFlow
5 5 (9.09%) Google JAX
5 5 (9.09%) JAX
5 5 (9.09%) SciPy
6 2 (3.64%) FastAPI
6 2 (3.64%) Node.js
6 2 (3.64%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (3.64%) React
7 1 (1.82%) OAuth
7 1 (1.82%) OAuth2
7 1 (1.82%) pytest
7 1 (1.82%) REST
7 1 (1.82%) RESTful
7 1 (1.82%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 15 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 7 (12.73%) Data Structures
3 5 (9.09%) Algorithms
3 5 (9.09%) Anti-Piracy
3 5 (9.09%) Social Media
4 3 (5.45%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (5.45%) Onboarding
4 3 (5.45%) Online Gambling
4 3 (5.45%) Sports Betting
5 2 (3.64%) AI Agents
5 2 (3.64%) Client/Server
5 2 (3.64%) IoT
6 1 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.82%) Clustering
6 1 (1.82%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.82%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.82%) Replication
6 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.91%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (69.09%) Data Pipeline
2 36 (65.45%) Data Engineering
3 23 (41.82%) Data Modelling
4 22 (40.00%) ETL
5 21 (38.18%) CI/CD
6 20 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
7 19 (34.55%) Analytics
8 17 (30.91%) Agile
8 17 (30.91%) Workflow
9 16 (29.09%) Validation
10 13 (23.64%) AI
11 12 (21.82%) DevOps
11 12 (21.82%) Mentoring
12 10 (18.18%) Data Architecture
12 10 (18.18%) Data Governance
12 10 (18.18%) Data Science
12 10 (18.18%) Machine Learning
12 10 (18.18%) Migration
12 10 (18.18%) Software Engineering
13 9 (16.36%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 50 (90.91%) Python
2 40 (72.73%) SQL
3 11 (20.00%) Java
4 6 (10.91%) Bash
5 5 (9.09%) C++
5 5 (9.09%) Scala
6 2 (3.64%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.82%) Bicep
7 1 (1.82%) R
7 1 (1.82%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (21.82%) SC Cleared
1 12 (21.82%) Security Cleared
2 8 (14.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 6 (10.91%) QA
3 1 (1.82%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.82%) GDPR
System Software
1 21 (38.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (38.18%) Terraform
2 7 (12.73%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.45%) Grafana
4 2 (3.64%) Ansible
4 2 (3.64%) Argo
4 2 (3.64%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.64%) Puppet
4 2 (3.64%) Salt
5 1 (1.82%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 12 (21.82%) Databricks
2 7 (12.73%) Microsoft
3 5 (9.09%) Google
4 2 (3.64%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.82%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.82%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.82%) Oracle
5 1 (1.82%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.82%) Trend Micro