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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 227 121 330
Rank change year-on-year -106 +209 +186
Permanent jobs citing Apache Airflow 147 496 154
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.96% 2.52% 0.74%
As % of the Application Platforms category 12.43% 20.90% 6.40%
Number of salaries quoted 141 470 149
10th Percentile £76,500 £75,875 £66,000
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% +15.50%
75th Percentile £137,500 £146,250 £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 1,183 2,373 2,408
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.75% 12.07% 11.50%
Number of salaries quoted 884 1,668 1,912
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 £87,500 £97,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £116,750 £142,500 £96,131
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.41% +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 29 November 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 (42.86%) Apache
2 16 (10.88%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.36%) Confluence
3 2 (1.36%) Luigi
4 1 (0.68%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.68%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 138 (93.88%) AWS
2 118 (80.27%) dbt
3 74 (50.34%) GCP
4 65 (44.22%) Snowflake
5 20 (13.61%) Azure
6 7 (4.76%) Power Platform
7 6 (4.08%) Prefect
7 6 (4.08%) Vertex AI
8 5 (3.40%) Amazon S3
8 5 (3.40%) GitHub
9 4 (2.72%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (2.72%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.72%) Dagster
9 4 (2.72%) Serverless
10 3 (2.04%) Cloud Run
10 3 (2.04%) Fivetran
10 3 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (2.04%) Google Compute Engine
10 3 (2.04%) SaaS
10 3 (2.04%) Vercel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (74.15%) Amazon Athena
2 104 (70.75%) Apache Iceberg
3 103 (70.07%) Apache Arrow
3 103 (70.07%) Dremio
4 57 (38.78%) Data Lake
4 57 (38.78%) PostgreSQL
5 53 (36.05%) Apache Ignite
6 8 (5.44%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (5.44%) BigQuery
6 8 (5.44%) NoSQL
6 8 (5.44%) Tableau
7 7 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (4.76%) Power BI
8 5 (3.40%) Metadata
9 4 (2.72%) MongoDB
9 4 (2.72%) Relational Database
10 3 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (2.04%) Hadoop
10 3 (2.04%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (2.04%) Git
2 2 (1.36%) GitLab
2 2 (1.36%) JIRA
2 2 (1.36%) MLflow
General
1 110 (74.83%) Finance
2 103 (70.07%) Front Office
3 53 (36.05%) Banking
3 53 (36.05%) Investment Banking
4 19 (12.93%) Social Skills
5 3 (2.04%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.04%) Law
5 3 (2.04%) Retail
6 2 (1.36%) Advertising
6 2 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.36%) Legal
7 1 (0.68%) Marketing
7 1 (0.68%) Music Industry
7 1 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.68%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 105 (71.43%) AWS Engineer
2 104 (70.75%) Python Engineer
3 103 (70.07%) AWS Software Engineer
3 103 (70.07%) Software Engineer
4 97 (65.99%) Python Software Engineer
5 62 (42.18%) Senior
6 59 (40.14%) Java Engineer
6 59 (40.14%) Java Software Engineer
7 51 (34.69%) Senior Java Engineer
7 51 (34.69%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 51 (34.69%) Senior Software Engineer
8 50 (34.01%) AWS Developer
8 50 (34.01%) Developer
8 50 (34.01%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 44 (29.93%) Python Developer
10 21 (14.29%) Data Engineer
11 6 (4.08%) Java Developer
11 6 (4.08%) Java Software Developer
11 6 (4.08%) Lead
12 5 (3.40%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (73.47%) Pandas
2 104 (70.75%) NumPy
3 103 (70.07%) SciPy
4 53 (36.05%) AngularJS
4 53 (36.05%) gRPC
4 53 (36.05%) Protocol Buffers
4 53 (36.05%) React
5 52 (35.37%) Node.js
5 52 (35.37%) Vue
6 15 (10.20%) Kafka
7 6 (4.08%) scikit-learn
8 5 (3.40%) PyTorch
8 5 (3.40%) TensorFlow
9 3 (2.04%) LangChain
9 3 (2.04%) Next.js
10 2 (1.36%) CSS
10 2 (1.36%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (1.36%) Google JAX
10 2 (1.36%) HTML
10 2 (1.36%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 103 (70.07%) Equities
1 103 (70.07%) Fixed Income
1 103 (70.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 53 (36.05%) Derivative
2 53 (36.05%) Hedge funds
2 53 (36.05%) Pricing Data
3 10 (6.80%) Cloud Native
4 6 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.40%) Data Structures
5 5 (3.40%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.04%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.36%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.36%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.68%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.68%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.68%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.68%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.68%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (78.91%) Agile
2 108 (73.47%) Software Engineering
3 103 (70.07%) Asset Management
3 103 (70.07%) Investment Management
4 52 (35.37%) Fintech
5 51 (34.69%) Risk Management
6 50 (34.01%) Order Management
6 50 (34.01%) Performance Attribution
7 24 (16.33%) Data Engineering
8 22 (14.97%) AI
8 22 (14.97%) Analytics
9 19 (12.93%) Data Pipeline
9 19 (12.93%) ETL
10 17 (11.56%) CI/CD
11 15 (10.20%) Machine Learning
12 14 (9.52%) Data Modelling
13 13 (8.84%) DevOps
14 12 (8.16%) Business Intelligence
14 12 (8.16%) Data Science
15 11 (7.48%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 133 (90.48%) Python
2 107 (72.79%) JavaScript
3 103 (70.07%) TypeScript
4 65 (44.22%) Java
5 28 (19.05%) SQL
6 4 (2.72%) Scala
7 3 (2.04%) Bash
8 2 (1.36%) Ruby
9 1 (0.68%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (4.76%) Degree
2 4 (2.72%) SC Cleared
2 4 (2.72%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.36%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.36%) SnowPro
5 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.68%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.44%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.68%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.68%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (8.16%) Docker
2 1 (0.68%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 10 (6.80%) Kubernetes
2 9 (6.12%) Terraform
3 4 (2.72%) Ansible
4 2 (1.36%) Argo
4 2 (1.36%) Grafana
4 2 (1.36%) Kubeflow
4 2 (1.36%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.36%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.36%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (6.12%) Google
2 4 (2.72%) Databricks
2 4 (2.72%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.04%) Informatica
4 2 (1.36%) Oracle
4 2 (1.36%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.68%) Amplitude
5 1 (0.68%) Apple
5 1 (0.68%) DataRobot
5 1 (0.68%) SAP
5 1 (0.68%) Spotify
5 1 (0.68%) Talend