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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 412 218 99
Rank change year-on-year -194 -119 +242
Permanent jobs citing Apache Airflow 50 229 727
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.22% 1.38% 2.95%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.65% 13.24% 23.57%
Number of salaries quoted 43 227 712
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 1,370 1,729 3,085
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.00% 10.41% 12.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,050 1,154 2,315
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,050 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £71,176 £88,750 £108,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £122,500 £143,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £53,818
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.45% -4.75%

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 17 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 (36.00%) Apache
2 11 (22.00%) Apache Spark
3 8 (16.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 32 (64.00%) AWS
2 15 (30.00%) Amazon S3
3 14 (28.00%) GCP
4 11 (22.00%) dbt
5 10 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (20.00%) Prefect
6 9 (18.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (18.00%) Amazon EMR
6 9 (18.00%) Azure
6 9 (18.00%) Dagster
7 7 (14.00%) Serverless
7 7 (14.00%) Snowflake
8 6 (12.00%) Amazon ECR
8 6 (12.00%) Power Platform
9 5 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (10.00%) Cloud Composer
10 3 (6.00%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (6.00%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (6.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (6.00%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.00%) 4G
1 1 (2.00%) 5G
1 1 (2.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (24.00%) Data Lake
2 10 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
2 10 (20.00%) DynamoDB
3 9 (18.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (18.00%) BigQuery
3 9 (18.00%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (12.00%) Metadata
4 6 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (12.00%) Power BI
4 6 (12.00%) SQL Server
5 5 (10.00%) Semantic Layer
6 4 (8.00%) MySQL
7 3 (6.00%) Big Data
7 3 (6.00%) NoSQL
8 2 (4.00%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (4.00%) MongoDB
8 2 (4.00%) Relational Database
8 2 (4.00%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (4.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (22.00%) Git
2 9 (18.00%) GitLab
3 2 (4.00%) MLflow
4 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (28.00%) Public Sector
2 12 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (22.00%) Social Skills
4 4 (8.00%) Finance
4 4 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (6.00%) Law
5 3 (6.00%) Legal
6 2 (4.00%) Billing
7 1 (2.00%) Retail
7 1 (2.00%) Tech for Good
7 1 (2.00%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.00%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 28 (56.00%) Data Engineer
2 14 (28.00%) Senior
3 12 (24.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 9 (18.00%) Lead
5 6 (12.00%) Developer
5 6 (12.00%) Python Developer
5 6 (12.00%) Test Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) AWS Data Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) Python Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Lead Data Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Lead Test Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Principal Data Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Principal Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Python Data Engineer
9 2 (4.00%) Associate Director
10 1 (2.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 1 (2.00%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
10 1 (2.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 1 (2.00%) Senior OSS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (26.00%) Kafka
2 8 (16.00%) PySpark
3 7 (14.00%) PyTorch
4 6 (12.00%) NumPy
4 6 (12.00%) OpenCV
4 6 (12.00%) Pandas
4 6 (12.00%) TensorFlow
5 5 (10.00%) Google JAX
5 5 (10.00%) JAX
5 5 (10.00%) SciPy
6 2 (4.00%) FastAPI
6 2 (4.00%) Node.js
6 2 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (4.00%) React
7 1 (2.00%) AWS CDK
7 1 (2.00%) Hugging Face
7 1 (2.00%) LangChain
7 1 (2.00%) pytest
7 1 (2.00%) REST
7 1 (2.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 15 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (10.00%) Algorithms
3 3 (6.00%) Data Structures
3 3 (6.00%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (6.00%) Onboarding
3 3 (6.00%) Online Gambling
3 3 (6.00%) Sports Betting
4 2 (4.00%) AI Agents
4 2 (4.00%) Client/Server
4 2 (4.00%) IoT
5 1 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.00%) Anti-Piracy
5 1 (2.00%) Clustering
5 1 (2.00%) Educational Technology
5 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.00%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.00%) Replication
5 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.00%) Social Media
5 1 (2.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (68.00%) Data Pipeline
2 31 (62.00%) Data Engineering
3 21 (42.00%) CI/CD
4 20 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (36.00%) Data Modelling
5 18 (36.00%) ETL
6 17 (34.00%) Agile
7 16 (32.00%) Validation
8 15 (30.00%) Analytics
9 13 (26.00%) AI
9 13 (26.00%) Workflow
10 12 (24.00%) DevOps
10 12 (24.00%) Mentoring
11 10 (20.00%) Machine Learning
11 10 (20.00%) Migration
11 10 (20.00%) Software Engineering
12 9 (18.00%) Data Architecture
12 9 (18.00%) Decision-Making
12 9 (18.00%) Technical Leadership
12 9 (18.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 45 (90.00%) Python
2 36 (72.00%) SQL
3 7 (14.00%) Java
4 6 (12.00%) Bash
5 2 (4.00%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.00%) Bicep
6 1 (2.00%) C++
6 1 (2.00%) Scala
6 1 (2.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (24.00%) SC Cleared
1 12 (24.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (16.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (44.00%) Data Quality
2 6 (12.00%) QA
3 1 (2.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 21 (42.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (42.00%) Terraform
2 7 (14.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.00%) Grafana
4 2 (4.00%) Ansible
4 2 (4.00%) Argo
4 2 (4.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.00%) Puppet
4 2 (4.00%) Salt
5 1 (2.00%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 12 (24.00%) Databricks
2 7 (14.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (10.00%) Google
4 2 (4.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.00%) Trend Micro