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 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 166 294
Rank change year-on-year -128 +128 +158
Permanent jobs citing Apache Airflow 98 282 329
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.54% 2.09% 1.01%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.85% 15.75% 9.08%
Number of salaries quoted 66 266 320
10th Percentile £46,250 £76,875 £68,175
25th Percentile £61,250 £98,750 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,500 £110,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.82% -4.35% +35.29%
75th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £143,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £138,750 £165,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £110,000 £112,500
% change year-on-year -34.09% -2.22% +30.43%

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 1,107 1,791 3,623
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.11% 13.30% 11.14%
Number of salaries quoted 796 1,300 2,818
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £90,000 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 30 April 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 27 (27.55%) Apache Spark
2 20 (20.41%) Apache
3 2 (2.04%) Jupyter
3 2 (2.04%) SAS
4 1 (1.02%) Confluence
4 1 (1.02%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 74 (75.51%) AWS
2 48 (48.98%) GCP
3 30 (30.61%) Azure
4 27 (27.55%) Dagster
4 27 (27.55%) dbt
5 25 (25.51%) Snowflake
6 23 (23.47%) Amazon S3
7 15 (15.31%) Prefect
8 12 (12.24%) Amazon Kinesis
9 10 (10.20%) Vertex AI
10 9 (9.18%) Amazon SageMaker
10 9 (9.18%) Azure Machine Learning
10 9 (9.18%) Power Platform
10 9 (9.18%) Serverless
11 8 (8.16%) Cloud Composer
12 7 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (5.10%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (5.10%) Matillion
14 3 (3.06%) Amazon EMR
14 3 (3.06%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.14%) Broadband
2 1 (1.02%) 4G
2 1 (1.02%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (34.69%) BigQuery
2 31 (31.63%) Amazon Redshift
3 24 (24.49%) Metadata
4 22 (22.45%) Tableau
5 19 (19.39%) Apache Iceberg
6 17 (17.35%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (15.31%) Amazon Athena
8 13 (13.27%) Data Lake
9 11 (11.22%) PostgreSQL
10 10 (10.20%) Elasticsearch
10 10 (10.20%) Looker
11 9 (9.18%) Amazon QuickSight
11 9 (9.18%) Delta Lake
11 9 (9.18%) Pinecone
11 9 (9.18%) Power BI
11 9 (9.18%) Weaviate
12 8 (8.16%) NoSQL
12 8 (8.16%) Semantic Layer
13 7 (7.14%) DynamoDB
13 7 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (19.39%) Git
2 10 (10.20%) MLflow
3 3 (3.06%) GitLab
4 1 (1.02%) JIRA
General
1 21 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.24%) Public Sector
3 10 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (9.18%) Law
5 6 (6.12%) Finance
6 4 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.08%) Legal
7 2 (2.04%) Banking
7 2 (2.04%) Retail
7 2 (2.04%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.02%) Advertising
8 1 (1.02%) Billing
8 1 (1.02%) Music Industry
8 1 (1.02%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 57 (58.16%) Data Engineer
2 34 (34.69%) Senior
3 19 (19.39%) Lead
4 18 (18.37%) Senior Data Engineer
5 16 (16.33%) Lead Data Engineer
6 12 (12.24%) Python Engineer
7 10 (10.20%) Consultant
8 9 (9.18%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
8 9 (9.18%) Data Consultant
8 9 (9.18%) Senior Consultant
9 8 (8.16%) AWS Data Engineer
9 8 (8.16%) AWS Engineer
9 8 (8.16%) Developer
9 8 (8.16%) Python Data Engineer
10 7 (7.14%) Architect
10 7 (7.14%) Python Developer
11 6 (6.12%) Principal Data Engineer
11 6 (6.12%) Principal Engineer
11 6 (6.12%) Snowflake Architect
12 4 (4.08%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (33.67%) Kafka
2 16 (16.33%) PyTorch
3 15 (15.31%) TensorFlow
4 9 (9.18%) Faiss
4 9 (9.18%) vLLM
5 7 (7.14%) Pandas
6 6 (6.12%) NumPy
6 6 (6.12%) OpenCV
7 5 (5.10%) Google JAX
7 5 (5.10%) JAX
7 5 (5.10%) SciPy
8 4 (4.08%) Node.js
8 4 (4.08%) React
9 3 (3.06%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (2.04%) AngularJS
10 2 (2.04%) CSS
10 2 (2.04%) HTML
10 2 (2.04%) PySpark
10 2 (2.04%) Vue
11 1 (1.02%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 17 (17.35%) Cloud Native
2 11 (11.22%) Product Ownership
3 9 (9.18%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (8.16%) Data Structures
5 6 (6.12%) Anti-Piracy
5 6 (6.12%) Social Media
6 5 (5.10%) Algorithms
7 4 (4.08%) Onboarding
8 3 (3.06%) Client/Server
8 3 (3.06%) Online Gambling
8 3 (3.06%) Replication
8 3 (3.06%) Sports Betting
9 2 (2.04%) AI Agents
9 2 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (2.04%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (2.04%) Reference Data
9 2 (2.04%) Virtual Team
10 1 (1.02%) Data Fabric
10 1 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (72.45%) Data Engineering
2 60 (61.22%) Data Pipeline
3 49 (50.00%) ETL
4 48 (48.98%) Analytics
5 43 (43.88%) CI/CD
6 40 (40.82%) Data Modelling
7 30 (30.61%) Data Governance
8 29 (29.59%) Business Intelligence
9 27 (27.55%) Data Architecture
9 27 (27.55%) Data Science
10 25 (25.51%) Workflow
11 24 (24.49%) Visualisation
12 21 (21.43%) AI
12 21 (21.43%) Use Case
13 20 (20.41%) DevOps
13 20 (20.41%) Problem-Solving
14 19 (19.39%) Agile
14 19 (19.39%) Validation
15 18 (18.37%) Computer Science
15 18 (18.37%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 81 (82.65%) Python
2 70 (71.43%) SQL
3 22 (22.45%) Java
4 21 (21.43%) Bash
5 17 (17.35%) Scala
6 9 (9.18%) Go
7 6 (6.12%) C++
8 3 (3.06%) JavaScript
9 2 (2.04%) Ruby
9 2 (2.04%) T-SQL
9 2 (2.04%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.02%) R
10 1 (1.02%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 24 (24.49%) Degree
2 16 (16.33%) SC Cleared
2 16 (16.33%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (34.69%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.06%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.04%) QA
4 1 (1.02%) GDPR
System Software
1 29 (29.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (15.31%) Terraform
2 10 (10.20%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.10%) Grafana
4 4 (4.08%) Ansible
4 4 (4.08%) Argo
4 4 (4.08%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.04%) Puppet
5 2 (2.04%) Salt
Vendors
1 23 (23.47%) Databricks
2 10 (10.20%) Google
2 10 (10.20%) Palantir
3 5 (5.10%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.04%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.04%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.02%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.02%) Apple
5 1 (1.02%) Foundry
5 1 (1.02%) Informatica
5 1 (1.02%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.02%) Oracle
5 1 (1.02%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.02%) Spotify
5 1 (1.02%) Trend Micro