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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 417 221 94
Rank change year-on-year -196 -127 +245
Permanent jobs citing Apache Airflow 42 221 713
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.18% 1.36% 3.05%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.93% 14.42% 24.54%
Number of salaries quoted 38 220 697
10th Percentile £48,500 £80,000 £81,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £100,000 £93,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £122,500 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.65% +6.52% +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% +22.67%

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 1,435 1,533 2,906
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.00% 9.41% 12.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,098 1,041 1,964
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,563 £40,600 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £66,199
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -9.36% +10.33%
75th Percentile £70,250 £90,000 £116,250
90th Percentile £88,750 £135,000 £147,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £53,688 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.87% -2.39% -2.70%

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 13 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 21 (50.00%) Apache
2 9 (21.43%) Apache Spark
3 8 (19.05%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 30 (71.43%) AWS
2 16 (38.10%) Amazon S3
3 14 (33.33%) Amazon EMR
4 10 (23.81%) GCP
5 9 (21.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (21.43%) Azure
6 8 (19.05%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (16.67%) dbt
7 7 (16.67%) SaaS
8 6 (14.29%) Amazon ECR
8 6 (14.29%) Dagster
8 6 (14.29%) Snowflake
9 5 (11.90%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 5 (11.90%) GitHub
9 5 (11.90%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (9.52%) Power Platform
10 4 (9.52%) Prefect
10 4 (9.52%) Serverless
11 3 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (7.14%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) 4G
1 1 (2.38%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
2 12 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (26.19%) Data Lake
4 8 (19.05%) DynamoDB
5 7 (16.67%) Apache Iceberg
5 7 (16.67%) BigQuery
6 5 (11.90%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (11.90%) SQL Server
7 4 (9.52%) Power BI
7 4 (9.52%) Semantic Layer
8 3 (7.14%) Big Data
8 3 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (4.76%) Looker
9 2 (4.76%) Metadata
9 2 (4.76%) MongoDB
9 2 (4.76%) MySQL
9 2 (4.76%) NoSQL
9 2 (4.76%) Relational Database
10 1 (2.38%) Airbyte
Development Applications
1 9 (21.43%) GitLab
2 7 (16.67%) Git
3 5 (11.90%) Poetry
4 2 (4.76%) MLflow
5 1 (2.38%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 10 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (21.43%) Social Skills
4 4 (9.52%) Finance
4 4 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (7.14%) Legal
6 2 (4.76%) Billing
7 1 (2.38%) Tech for Good
7 1 (2.38%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.38%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 25 (59.52%) Data Engineer
2 16 (38.10%) Senior
3 14 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
4 8 (19.05%) Lead
5 6 (14.29%) Test Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Lead Test Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Lead Data Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Principal Data Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Principal Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Associate Director
8 2 (4.76%) Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Python Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Python Engineer
9 1 (2.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 1 (2.38%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
9 1 (2.38%) AWS Data Engineer
9 1 (2.38%) AWS Engineer
9 1 (2.38%) Head of Applications
9 1 (2.38%) Head of Engineering
9 1 (2.38%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (54.76%) Terraform
2 14 (33.33%) Kafka
3 12 (28.57%) PySpark
4 3 (7.14%) Pulumi
4 3 (7.14%) PyTorch
5 2 (4.76%) FastAPI
5 2 (4.76%) Node.js
5 2 (4.76%) NumPy
5 2 (4.76%) OpenCV
5 2 (4.76%) Pandas
5 2 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (4.76%) React
5 2 (4.76%) TensorFlow
6 1 (2.38%) OAuth
6 1 (2.38%) OAuth2
6 1 (2.38%) REST
6 1 (2.38%) RESTful
6 1 (2.38%) SciPy
6 1 (2.38%) SQLAlchemy
6 1 (2.38%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 14 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 3 (7.14%) Online Gambling
2 3 (7.14%) Sports Betting
3 2 (4.76%) AI Agents
3 2 (4.76%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.38%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.38%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.38%) Clustering
4 1 (2.38%) Educational Technology
4 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.38%) IoT
4 1 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (71.43%) Data Engineering
2 28 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
3 23 (54.76%) CI/CD
4 22 (52.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (40.48%) Workflow
6 16 (38.10%) AI
7 15 (35.71%) Agile
7 15 (35.71%) Analytics
8 14 (33.33%) Data Modelling
8 14 (33.33%) Validation
9 13 (30.95%) Machine Learning
10 12 (28.57%) Observability
11 11 (26.19%) DevOps
11 11 (26.19%) ETL
11 11 (26.19%) Software Engineering
12 10 (23.81%) Mentoring
13 9 (21.43%) Containerisation
13 9 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
14 8 (19.05%) Data Ingestion
14 8 (19.05%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 38 (90.48%) Python
2 32 (76.19%) SQL
3 6 (14.29%) Bash
3 6 (14.29%) Java
4 2 (4.76%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.38%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 10 (23.81%) SC Cleared
1 10 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 6 (14.29%) QA
3 1 (2.38%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.38%) GDPR
System Software
1 20 (47.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.14%) Grafana
3 2 (4.76%) Ansible
3 2 (4.76%) Argo
3 2 (4.76%) Prometheus
3 2 (4.76%) Puppet
3 2 (4.76%) Salt
4 1 (2.38%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 6 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.52%) Databricks
2 4 (9.52%) Google
3 2 (4.76%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.38%) Trend Micro