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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 229 115 340
Rank change year-on-year -114 +225 +140
Permanent jobs citing Apache Airflow 158 526 167
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.03% 2.68% 0.78%
As % of the Application Platforms category 13.05% 22.52% 6.86%
Number of salaries quoted 152 501 161
10th Percentile £77,650 £77,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £115,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +21.05% +18.75%
75th Percentile £137,500 £147,500 £132,500
90th Percentile - £148,750 £151,250
UK median annual salary £110,000 £110,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year - +15.79% +22.58%

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 1,211 2,336 2,434
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.92% 11.89% 11.43%
Number of salaries quoted 913 1,644 1,940
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,388 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,465 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.35% +13.85% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £105,625 £77,715
90th Percentile £129,000 £142,500 £95,181
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -

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 November 2025.

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 71 (44.94%) Apache
2 14 (8.86%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.27%) Confluence
3 2 (1.27%) Luigi
4 1 (0.63%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.63%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 150 (94.94%) AWS
2 129 (81.65%) dbt
3 77 (48.73%) GCP
4 73 (46.20%) Snowflake
5 18 (11.39%) Azure
6 6 (3.80%) Power Platform
6 6 (3.80%) Prefect
6 6 (3.80%) Vertex AI
7 5 (3.16%) GitHub
8 4 (2.53%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (2.53%) Dagster
8 4 (2.53%) SaaS
8 4 (2.53%) Serverless
9 3 (1.90%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (1.90%) Cloud Run
9 3 (1.90%) Fivetran
9 3 (1.90%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.90%) Google Compute Engine
9 3 (1.90%) Vercel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (76.58%) Amazon Athena
2 116 (73.42%) Apache Arrow
2 116 (73.42%) Apache Iceberg
2 116 (73.42%) Dremio
3 65 (41.14%) Data Lake
4 62 (39.24%) PostgreSQL
5 61 (38.61%) Apache Ignite
6 9 (5.70%) NoSQL
7 8 (5.06%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (4.43%) BigQuery
9 6 (3.80%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (3.80%) Power BI
9 6 (3.80%) Tableau
10 5 (3.16%) MongoDB
11 4 (2.53%) Relational Database
11 4 (2.53%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (1.90%) Hadoop
12 3 (1.90%) Pinecone
12 3 (1.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (1.27%) GitLab
1 2 (1.27%) JIRA
1 2 (1.27%) MLflow
2 1 (0.63%) Git
General
1 122 (77.22%) Finance
2 116 (73.42%) Front Office
3 61 (38.61%) Banking
3 61 (38.61%) Investment Banking
4 18 (11.39%) Social Skills
5 4 (2.53%) Law
6 3 (1.90%) Retail
7 2 (1.27%) Advertising
7 2 (1.27%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.27%) Legal
8 1 (0.63%) Marketing
8 1 (0.63%) Music Industry
8 1 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.63%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 118 (74.68%) AWS Engineer
2 116 (73.42%) AWS Software Engineer
2 116 (73.42%) Python Engineer
2 116 (73.42%) Software Engineer
3 108 (68.35%) Python Software Engineer
4 69 (43.67%) Java Engineer
4 69 (43.67%) Java Software Engineer
4 69 (43.67%) Senior
5 59 (37.34%) Senior Java Engineer
5 59 (37.34%) Senior Java Software Engineer
5 59 (37.34%) Senior Software Engineer
6 55 (34.81%) AWS Developer
6 55 (34.81%) Developer
6 55 (34.81%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 47 (29.75%) Python Developer
8 20 (12.66%) Data Engineer
9 8 (5.06%) Java Developer
9 8 (5.06%) Java Software Developer
10 6 (3.80%) Python Data Engineer
11 5 (3.16%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (76.58%) Pandas
2 117 (74.05%) NumPy
3 116 (73.42%) SciPy
4 61 (38.61%) gRPC
4 61 (38.61%) Protocol Buffers
5 58 (36.71%) AngularJS
5 58 (36.71%) React
6 57 (36.08%) Node.js
6 57 (36.08%) Vue
7 14 (8.86%) Kafka
8 6 (3.80%) scikit-learn
9 5 (3.16%) PyTorch
9 5 (3.16%) TensorFlow
10 3 (1.90%) LangChain
10 3 (1.90%) Next.js
11 2 (1.27%) Elastic Stack
11 2 (1.27%) Google JAX
11 2 (1.27%) Hugging Face
11 2 (1.27%) JAX
11 2 (1.27%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 116 (73.42%) Equities
1 116 (73.42%) Fixed Income
1 116 (73.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 61 (38.61%) Derivative
2 61 (38.61%) Hedge funds
2 61 (38.61%) Pricing Data
3 10 (6.33%) Cloud Native
4 6 (3.80%) Data Structures
4 6 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.16%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.53%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.27%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.27%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.63%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.63%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.63%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (81.65%) Agile
2 121 (76.58%) Software Engineering
3 116 (73.42%) Asset Management
3 116 (73.42%) Investment Management
4 57 (36.08%) Fintech
5 56 (35.44%) Risk Management
6 55 (34.81%) Order Management
6 55 (34.81%) Performance Attribution
7 23 (14.56%) Data Engineering
8 22 (13.92%) AI
9 19 (12.03%) Analytics
9 19 (12.03%) Data Pipeline
10 18 (11.39%) ETL
11 15 (9.49%) CI/CD
12 13 (8.23%) Data Modelling
12 13 (8.23%) Machine Learning
13 12 (7.59%) DevOps
14 11 (6.96%) Infrastructure as Code
15 10 (6.33%) Mentoring
15 10 (6.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 142 (89.87%) Python
2 120 (75.95%) JavaScript
3 116 (73.42%) TypeScript
4 74 (46.84%) Java
5 27 (17.09%) SQL
6 3 (1.90%) Scala
7 2 (1.27%) Bash
7 2 (1.27%) Ruby
8 1 (0.63%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (4.43%) Degree
2 4 (2.53%) SC Cleared
2 4 (2.53%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.27%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.27%) SnowPro
5 1 (0.63%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.63%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.80%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
System Software
1 12 (7.59%) Docker
2 1 (0.63%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 10 (6.33%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.70%) Terraform
3 4 (2.53%) Ansible
4 2 (1.27%) Argo
4 2 (1.27%) Grafana
4 2 (1.27%) Kubeflow
4 2 (1.27%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.27%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (5.70%) Google
2 4 (2.53%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.90%) Databricks
3 3 (1.90%) Informatica
4 2 (1.27%) Oracle
4 2 (1.27%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.63%) Amplitude
5 1 (0.63%) Apple
5 1 (0.63%) DataRobot
5 1 (0.63%) SAP
5 1 (0.63%) Spotify
5 1 (0.63%) Talend