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

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 235 127 320
Rank change year-on-year -108 +193 +199
Permanent jobs citing Apache Airflow 143 487 150
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.94% 2.55% 0.72%
As % of the Application Platforms category 12.69% 20.96% 6.28%
Number of salaries quoted 136 461 145
10th Percentile £76,500 £72,500 £65,500
25th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £110,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year - +15.79% +15.85%
75th Percentile £137,500 £147,500 £132,500
90th Percentile - £148,750 £155,000
UK median annual salary £105,000 £110,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +15.79% +18.75%

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 1,127 2,323 2,389
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.44% 12.17% 11.52%
Number of salaries quoted 836 1,629 1,900
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -
75th Percentile £87,750 £97,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £121,250 £142,500 £95,063
UK median annual salary £51,500 £55,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.21% +0.91% -

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 2 December 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 63 (44.06%) Apache
2 16 (11.19%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.40%) Confluence
3 2 (1.40%) Luigi
4 1 (0.70%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.70%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 134 (93.71%) AWS
2 112 (78.32%) dbt
3 70 (48.95%) GCP
4 65 (45.45%) Snowflake
5 20 (13.99%) Azure
6 7 (4.90%) Prefect
7 6 (4.20%) Amazon S3
7 6 (4.20%) Power Platform
7 6 (4.20%) Vertex AI
8 5 (3.50%) Dagster
8 5 (3.50%) GitHub
9 4 (2.80%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.80%) Serverless
10 3 (2.10%) Cloud Run
10 3 (2.10%) Fivetran
10 3 (2.10%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (2.10%) Google Compute Engine
10 3 (2.10%) SaaS
10 3 (2.10%) Vercel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (72.73%) Amazon Athena
2 99 (69.23%) Apache Iceberg
3 98 (68.53%) Apache Arrow
3 98 (68.53%) Dremio
4 58 (40.56%) Data Lake
5 53 (37.06%) Apache Ignite
6 52 (36.36%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (6.29%) BigQuery
8 8 (5.59%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (5.59%) NoSQL
9 7 (4.90%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (4.90%) Tableau
10 6 (4.20%) Power BI
11 5 (3.50%) Metadata
12 4 (2.80%) MongoDB
12 4 (2.80%) Relational Database
13 3 (2.10%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (2.10%) Hadoop
13 3 (2.10%) Snowflake Schema
13 3 (2.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (2.10%) Git
2 2 (1.40%) GitLab
2 2 (1.40%) JIRA
2 2 (1.40%) MLflow
General
1 105 (73.43%) Finance
2 98 (68.53%) Front Office
3 54 (37.76%) Banking
4 53 (37.06%) Investment Banking
5 19 (13.29%) Social Skills
6 4 (2.80%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.10%) Law
7 3 (2.10%) Retail
8 2 (1.40%) Advertising
8 2 (1.40%) Legal
9 1 (0.70%) Marketing
9 1 (0.70%) Music Industry
9 1 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.70%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 102 (71.33%) Python Engineer
2 100 (69.93%) AWS Engineer
3 98 (68.53%) AWS Software Engineer
3 98 (68.53%) Software Engineer
4 94 (65.73%) Python Software Engineer
5 61 (42.66%) Senior
6 57 (39.86%) Java Engineer
6 57 (39.86%) Java Software Engineer
7 51 (35.66%) Senior Java Engineer
7 51 (35.66%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 51 (35.66%) Senior Software Engineer
8 45 (31.47%) AWS Developer
8 45 (31.47%) Developer
8 45 (31.47%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 41 (28.67%) Python Developer
10 22 (15.38%) Data Engineer
11 6 (4.20%) Lead
11 6 (4.20%) Python Data Engineer
12 4 (2.80%) Cloud Engineer
12 4 (2.80%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (72.03%) Pandas
2 99 (69.23%) NumPy
3 98 (68.53%) SciPy
4 53 (37.06%) gRPC
4 53 (37.06%) Protocol Buffers
5 48 (33.57%) AngularJS
5 48 (33.57%) React
6 47 (32.87%) Node.js
6 47 (32.87%) Vue
7 15 (10.49%) Kafka
8 6 (4.20%) scikit-learn
9 5 (3.50%) PyTorch
9 5 (3.50%) TensorFlow
10 3 (2.10%) LangChain
10 3 (2.10%) Next.js
11 2 (1.40%) CSS
11 2 (1.40%) Elastic Stack
11 2 (1.40%) Google JAX
11 2 (1.40%) HTML
11 2 (1.40%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 98 (68.53%) Equities
1 98 (68.53%) Fixed Income
1 98 (68.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 53 (37.06%) Derivative
2 53 (37.06%) Hedge funds
2 53 (37.06%) Pricing Data
3 10 (6.99%) Cloud Native
4 6 (4.20%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.50%) Data Structures
5 5 (3.50%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.10%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.40%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.40%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.70%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.70%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.70%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.70%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (76.92%) Agile
2 103 (72.03%) Software Engineering
3 98 (68.53%) Asset Management
3 98 (68.53%) Investment Management
4 48 (33.57%) Fintech
5 46 (32.17%) Risk Management
6 45 (31.47%) Order Management
6 45 (31.47%) Performance Attribution
7 26 (18.18%) Data Engineering
8 24 (16.78%) Analytics
9 22 (15.38%) AI
10 21 (14.69%) ETL
11 20 (13.99%) Data Pipeline
12 17 (11.89%) CI/CD
13 15 (10.49%) Machine Learning
14 14 (9.79%) Data Modelling
15 13 (9.09%) DevOps
16 12 (8.39%) Data Science
17 11 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
17 11 (7.69%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 131 (91.61%) Python
2 102 (71.33%) JavaScript
3 98 (68.53%) TypeScript
4 63 (44.06%) Java
5 29 (20.28%) SQL
6 4 (2.80%) Scala
7 3 (2.10%) Bash
8 2 (1.40%) Ruby
9 1 (0.70%) C#
Qualifications
1 8 (5.59%) Degree
2 5 (3.50%) SC Cleared
2 5 (3.50%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.40%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.40%) SnowPro
5 1 (0.70%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.70%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.29%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.70%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.70%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (8.39%) Docker
2 1 (0.70%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 9 (6.29%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.59%) Terraform
3 4 (2.80%) Ansible
4 2 (1.40%) Argo
4 2 (1.40%) Grafana
4 2 (1.40%) Kubeflow
4 2 (1.40%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.40%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.40%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (6.29%) Google
2 4 (2.80%) Databricks
2 4 (2.80%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.10%) Informatica
4 2 (1.40%) Oracle
4 2 (1.40%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.70%) Amplitude
5 1 (0.70%) Apple
5 1 (0.70%) DataRobot
5 1 (0.70%) SAP
5 1 (0.70%) Spotify
5 1 (0.70%) Talend