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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 427 237 106
Rank change year-on-year -190 -131 +225
Permanent jobs citing Apache Airflow 40 201 652
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.16% 1.20% 2.94%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.69% 13.48% 23.98%
Number of salaries quoted 30 200 635
10th Percentile £49,375 £80,000 £77,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £100,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £120,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -40.63% +4.35% +21.05%
75th Percentile £97,813 £137,500 £148,750
90th Percentile £115,000 - £165,000
UK median annual salary £68,750 £110,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year -37.50% -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 1,489 1,491 2,719
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 5.99% 8.87% 12.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,114 985 1,811
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,903 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £70,000 £90,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £85,525 £135,000 £147,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £55,762
% change year-on-year -7.41% -3.16% +1.31%

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 5 October 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 (60.00%) Apache
2 9 (22.50%) Apache Spark
3 8 (20.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 26 (65.00%) AWS
2 15 (37.50%) Amazon S3
3 14 (35.00%) Amazon EMR
3 14 (35.00%) dbt
4 11 (27.50%) GCP
4 11 (27.50%) SaaS
5 8 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 8 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (20.00%) Azure
6 7 (17.50%) Cloud Composer
6 7 (17.50%) Power Platform
6 7 (17.50%) Snowflake
7 6 (15.00%) Amazon ECR
7 6 (15.00%) GitHub
8 5 (12.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 5 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (7.50%) Dagster
10 2 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (5.00%) Prefect
10 2 (5.00%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) 4G
1 1 (2.50%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (35.00%) Amazon Athena
1 14 (35.00%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (25.00%) Data Lake
3 9 (22.50%) BigQuery
4 7 (17.50%) Apache Iceberg
4 7 (17.50%) DynamoDB
4 7 (17.50%) Power BI
4 7 (17.50%) SQL Server
5 5 (12.50%) Looker
6 4 (10.00%) Semantic Layer
7 3 (7.50%) Big Data
7 3 (7.50%) Flink
7 3 (7.50%) Metadata
7 3 (7.50%) OLTP
7 3 (7.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (7.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (7.50%) SSDT
8 2 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (27.50%) GitLab
2 9 (22.50%) Git
3 5 (12.50%) Poetry
4 3 (7.50%) JIRA
5 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.50%) MLflow
General
1 13 (32.50%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 9 (22.50%) Social Skills
4 5 (12.50%) Finance
5 4 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (10.00%) Legal
6 2 (5.00%) Billing
7 1 (2.50%) Tech for Good
7 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.50%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 24 (60.00%) Data Engineer
2 20 (50.00%) Senior
3 15 (37.50%) Senior Data Engineer
4 6 (15.00%) Test Engineer
5 5 (12.50%) Lead
6 4 (10.00%) Lead Test Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Data Scientist
7 3 (7.50%) Database Developer
7 3 (7.50%) Developer
7 3 (7.50%) Principal Data Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Principal Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Senior Database Developer
7 3 (7.50%) Senior Developer
8 2 (5.00%) Senior Data Scientist
9 1 (2.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 1 (2.50%) Databricks Data Engineer
9 1 (2.50%) Databricks Engineer
9 1 (2.50%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 1 (2.50%) Python Engineer
9 1 (2.50%) Senior Databricks Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (55.00%) Terraform
2 13 (32.50%) PySpark
3 9 (22.50%) Kafka
4 3 (7.50%) Apache Beam
5 1 (2.50%) FastAPI
5 1 (2.50%) LangChain
5 1 (2.50%) PyTorch
5 1 (2.50%) REST
5 1 (2.50%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 14 (35.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.50%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.00%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.50%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.50%) Clustering
4 1 (2.50%) Credit Risk
4 1 (2.50%) Educational Technology
4 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.50%) IoT
4 1 (2.50%) Linked Data
4 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (80.00%) Data Pipeline
2 29 (72.50%) Data Engineering
3 23 (57.50%) CI/CD
4 19 (47.50%) Analytics
4 19 (47.50%) Data Modelling
5 17 (42.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 16 (40.00%) Agile
6 16 (40.00%) AI
6 16 (40.00%) Validation
7 15 (37.50%) Machine Learning
8 13 (32.50%) Observability
9 12 (30.00%) Workflow
10 10 (25.00%) Mentoring
10 10 (25.00%) Migration
10 10 (25.00%) Software Engineering
11 9 (22.50%) Data Analysis
11 9 (22.50%) DevOps
11 9 (22.50%) ETL
11 9 (22.50%) Root Cause Analysis
12 8 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 40 (100.00%) Python
2 35 (87.50%) SQL
3 9 (22.50%) Java
4 6 (15.00%) Bash
5 3 (7.50%) C#
5 3 (7.50%) Scala
5 3 (7.50%) Shell Script
5 3 (7.50%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.50%) Bicep
6 1 (2.50%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 10 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.00%) Degree
3 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (62.50%) Data Quality
2 6 (15.00%) QA
3 2 (5.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 22 (55.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (15.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.50%) SQL Sentry
3 1 (2.50%) Grafana
3 1 (2.50%) Kubeflow
3 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (22.50%) Google
2 6 (15.00%) Databricks
3 5 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 3 (7.50%) New Relic
4 3 (7.50%) RedGate
4 3 (7.50%) Splunk
5 1 (2.50%) Cloudera
5 1 (2.50%) Trend Micro