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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 418 225 101
Rank change year-on-year -193 -124 +232
Permanent jobs citing Apache Airflow 45 215 684
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.18% 1.30% 2.97%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.01% 14.26% 24.44%
Number of salaries quoted 36 214 669
10th Percentile £47,500 £80,750 £80,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £100,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £130,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +13.04% +21.05%
75th Percentile £107,500 £137,500 £148,750
90th Percentile £115,000 - £165,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £110,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year -36.36% -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 1,495 1,508 2,799
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.05% 9.15% 12.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,126 1,006 1,867
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,125 £31,700
25th Percentile £38,772 £41,250 £47,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £70,250 £90,000 £116,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £135,000 £147,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -1.79%

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 25 September 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 (53.33%) Apache
2 9 (20.00%) Apache Spark
3 8 (17.78%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 29 (64.44%) AWS
2 15 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 15 (33.33%) GCP
3 14 (31.11%) Amazon EMR
4 11 (24.44%) dbt
4 11 (24.44%) SaaS
5 9 (20.00%) Azure
6 8 (17.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (17.78%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (15.56%) Cloud Composer
7 7 (15.56%) Snowflake
8 6 (13.33%) Amazon ECR
8 6 (13.33%) Dagster
8 6 (13.33%) GitHub
9 5 (11.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 5 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (11.11%) Power Platform
10 4 (8.89%) Prefect
11 3 (6.67%) Serverless
12 2 (4.44%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.22%) 4G
1 1 (2.22%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (31.11%) Amazon Athena
1 14 (31.11%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (26.67%) BigQuery
3 11 (24.44%) Data Lake
4 8 (17.78%) DynamoDB
5 7 (15.56%) Apache Iceberg
6 6 (13.33%) SQL Server
7 5 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (11.11%) Looker
7 5 (11.11%) Power BI
8 4 (8.89%) Semantic Layer
9 3 (6.67%) Big Data
9 3 (6.67%) Flink
9 3 (6.67%) Metadata
9 3 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (6.67%) Relational Database
10 2 (4.44%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (4.44%) MongoDB
10 2 (4.44%) MySQL
10 2 (4.44%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (22.22%) GitLab
2 8 (17.78%) Git
3 5 (11.11%) Poetry
4 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.22%) JIRA
4 1 (2.22%) MLflow
General
1 11 (24.44%) Analytical Skills
1 11 (24.44%) Public Sector
2 9 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.89%) Finance
3 4 (8.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (8.89%) Legal
4 2 (4.44%) Billing
5 1 (2.22%) Tech for Good
5 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.22%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 27 (60.00%) Data Engineer
2 18 (40.00%) Senior
3 15 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
4 8 (17.78%) Lead
5 6 (13.33%) Test Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Lead Test Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Data Scientist
7 3 (6.67%) Lead Data Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Principal Data Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Principal Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) Developer
8 2 (4.44%) Senior Data Scientist
9 1 (2.22%) Analyst
9 1 (2.22%) Database Developer
9 1 (2.22%) Product Analyst
9 1 (2.22%) Python Developer
9 1 (2.22%) Senior Database Developer
9 1 (2.22%) Senior Developer
9 1 (2.22%) Senior Telecoms Engineer
9 1 (2.22%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (55.56%) Terraform
2 13 (28.89%) Kafka
2 13 (28.89%) PySpark
3 3 (6.67%) Apache Beam
3 3 (6.67%) Pulumi
4 2 (4.44%) Node.js
4 2 (4.44%) PyTorch
4 2 (4.44%) React
4 2 (4.44%) TensorFlow
5 1 (2.22%) FastAPI
5 1 (2.22%) Google JAX
5 1 (2.22%) JAX
5 1 (2.22%) LangChain
5 1 (2.22%) NumPy
5 1 (2.22%) OpenCV
5 1 (2.22%) Pandas
5 1 (2.22%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.22%) REST
5 1 (2.22%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 14 (31.11%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (6.67%) Onboarding
2 3 (6.67%) Online Gambling
2 3 (6.67%) Sports Betting
3 2 (4.44%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.22%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.22%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.22%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.22%) Clustering
4 1 (2.22%) Educational Technology
4 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.22%) IoT
4 1 (2.22%) Linked Data
4 1 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (73.33%) Data Pipeline
2 32 (71.11%) Data Engineering
3 22 (48.89%) CI/CD
4 20 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (37.78%) AI
6 16 (35.56%) Agile
6 16 (35.56%) Analytics
6 16 (35.56%) Data Modelling
6 16 (35.56%) Validation
6 16 (35.56%) Workflow
7 15 (33.33%) Machine Learning
8 14 (31.11%) Observability
9 12 (26.67%) ETL
10 11 (24.44%) DevOps
10 11 (24.44%) Software Engineering
11 10 (22.22%) Mentoring
12 9 (20.00%) Data Analysis
12 9 (20.00%) Migration
13 8 (17.78%) Coaching
13 8 (17.78%) Data Ingestion
Programming Languages
1 42 (93.33%) Python
2 36 (80.00%) SQL
3 9 (20.00%) Java
4 6 (13.33%) Bash
5 3 (6.67%) Scala
5 3 (6.67%) Shell Script
6 2 (4.44%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.22%) Bicep
7 1 (2.22%) C#
7 1 (2.22%) R
7 1 (2.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 10 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.67%) Degree
3 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (57.78%) Data Quality
2 6 (13.33%) QA
3 2 (4.44%) GDPR
System Software
1 23 (51.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (17.78%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.44%) Grafana
2 2 (4.44%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.22%) Ansible
3 1 (2.22%) Argo
3 1 (2.22%) Kubeflow
3 1 (2.22%) Puppet
3 1 (2.22%) Salt
3 1 (2.22%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 9 (20.00%) Google
2 6 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 5 (11.11%) Databricks
4 3 (6.67%) New Relic
4 3 (6.67%) Splunk
5 1 (2.22%) Cloudera
5 1 (2.22%) RedGate
5 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.22%) Trend Micro