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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 292 172 351
Rank change year-on-year -120 +179 +160
Permanent jobs citing Apache Airflow 95 284 199
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.56% 2.09% 0.66%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.91% 15.58% 6.04%
Number of salaries quoted 64 256 193
10th Percentile £47,938 £71,250 £65,000
25th Percentile £62,188 £80,000 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,000 £110,000 £112,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.36% -2.22% +37.20%
75th Percentile £100,000 £123,125 £142,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £147,500 £155,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £107,500 £105,000
% change year-on-year -30.23% +2.38% +27.27%

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 1,066 1,823 3,293
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.31% 13.43% 10.97%
Number of salaries quoted 754 1,309 2,703
10th Percentile £30,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,635 £42,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £88,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £96,013
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

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 March 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 27 (28.42%) Apache Spark
2 23 (24.21%) Apache
3 3 (3.16%) SAS
4 2 (2.11%) Confluence
5 1 (1.05%) Jupyter
5 1 (1.05%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 74 (77.89%) AWS
2 44 (46.32%) GCP
3 33 (34.74%) dbt
4 30 (31.58%) Snowflake
5 29 (30.53%) Azure
6 24 (25.26%) Dagster
7 22 (23.16%) Amazon S3
8 13 (13.68%) Amazon Kinesis
9 12 (12.63%) Prefect
9 12 (12.63%) Vertex AI
10 10 (10.53%) Power Platform
11 9 (9.47%) Amazon SageMaker
11 9 (9.47%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (9.47%) Azure Machine Learning
11 9 (9.47%) Serverless
12 7 (7.37%) Cloud Composer
13 5 (5.26%) Matillion
14 3 (3.16%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (3.16%) Fivetran
14 3 (3.16%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.37%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (32.63%) BigQuery
2 30 (31.58%) Amazon Redshift
3 25 (26.32%) Metadata
4 24 (25.26%) Tableau
5 22 (23.16%) Apache Iceberg
6 19 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
7 17 (17.89%) Data Lake
8 16 (16.84%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (11.58%) Delta Lake
10 10 (10.53%) Elasticsearch
10 10 (10.53%) Looker
10 10 (10.53%) Power BI
11 9 (9.47%) Amazon QuickSight
11 9 (9.47%) Pinecone
11 9 (9.47%) PostgreSQL
11 9 (9.47%) Weaviate
12 7 (7.37%) Semantic Layer
13 6 (6.32%) NoSQL
13 6 (6.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (17.89%) Git
2 10 (10.53%) MLflow
3 2 (2.11%) GitLab
3 2 (2.11%) JIRA
General
1 25 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 10 (10.53%) Finance
3 9 (9.47%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (9.47%) Law
4 7 (7.37%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.32%) Banking
6 4 (4.21%) Front Office
6 4 (4.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.21%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.11%) Advertising
7 2 (2.11%) Legal
7 2 (2.11%) Retail
8 1 (1.05%) Music Industry
8 1 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.05%) Publishing
8 1 (1.05%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (55.79%) Data Engineer
2 34 (35.79%) Senior
3 16 (16.84%) Lead
4 15 (15.79%) Python Engineer
4 15 (15.79%) Senior Data Engineer
5 13 (13.68%) Lead Data Engineer
6 11 (11.58%) AWS Engineer
6 11 (11.58%) Consultant
7 9 (9.47%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
7 9 (9.47%) Data Consultant
7 9 (9.47%) Senior Consultant
8 8 (8.42%) Architect
8 8 (8.42%) Python Data Engineer
9 7 (7.37%) AWS Data Engineer
9 7 (7.37%) Developer
9 7 (7.37%) Principal Data Engineer
9 7 (7.37%) Principal Engineer
10 6 (6.32%) Python Developer
10 6 (6.32%) Snowflake Architect
11 4 (4.21%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (29.47%) Kafka
2 15 (15.79%) PyTorch
3 14 (14.74%) TensorFlow
4 11 (11.58%) Pandas
5 10 (10.53%) NumPy
6 9 (9.47%) Faiss
6 9 (9.47%) vLLM
7 8 (8.42%) SciPy
8 5 (5.26%) OpenCV
9 4 (4.21%) Google JAX
9 4 (4.21%) gRPC
9 4 (4.21%) JAX
9 4 (4.21%) Protocol Buffers
10 3 (3.16%) PySpark
11 2 (2.11%) AngularJS
11 2 (2.11%) CSS
11 2 (2.11%) HTML
11 2 (2.11%) Node.js
11 2 (2.11%) React
11 2 (2.11%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.84%) Cloud Native
2 11 (11.58%) Product Ownership
3 9 (9.47%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (8.42%) Data Structures
5 6 (6.32%) Anti-Piracy
5 6 (6.32%) Social Media
6 4 (4.21%) Algorithms
6 4 (4.21%) Derivative
6 4 (4.21%) Equities
6 4 (4.21%) Fixed Income
6 4 (4.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (4.21%) Hedge funds
6 4 (4.21%) Pricing Data
7 3 (3.16%) Client/Server
7 3 (3.16%) Replication
8 2 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (2.11%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (2.11%) Reference Data
8 2 (2.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.32%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (69.47%) Data Engineering
2 56 (58.95%) Data Pipeline
3 53 (55.79%) Analytics
4 49 (51.58%) ETL
5 42 (44.21%) Data Modelling
6 41 (43.16%) CI/CD
7 33 (34.74%) Business Intelligence
8 32 (33.68%) Data Governance
9 29 (30.53%) Data Science
10 25 (26.32%) Visualisation
11 24 (25.26%) Data Architecture
12 23 (24.21%) AI
12 23 (24.21%) Use Case
13 19 (20.00%) Agile
13 19 (20.00%) DevOps
13 19 (20.00%) Machine Learning
13 19 (20.00%) Roadmaps
13 19 (20.00%) Workflow
14 18 (18.95%) Computer Science
15 17 (17.89%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 79 (83.16%) Python
2 65 (68.42%) SQL
3 24 (25.26%) Java
4 19 (20.00%) Bash
5 17 (17.89%) Scala
6 9 (9.47%) Go
7 7 (7.37%) JavaScript
8 6 (6.32%) C++
9 4 (4.21%) TypeScript
10 2 (2.11%) Ruby
10 2 (2.11%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (1.05%) R
11 1 (1.05%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 23 (24.21%) Degree
2 13 (13.68%) SC Cleared
2 13 (13.68%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.11%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.11%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (31.58%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.16%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.05%) GDPR
System Software
1 28 (29.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (11.58%) Terraform
2 8 (8.42%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.16%) Grafana
4 2 (2.11%) Ansible
4 2 (2.11%) Argo
4 2 (2.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (25.26%) Databricks
2 11 (11.58%) Google
3 10 (10.53%) Palantir
4 5 (5.26%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.16%) Informatica
6 2 (2.11%) Oracle
6 2 (2.11%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.05%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.05%) Apple
7 1 (1.05%) DataRobot
7 1 (1.05%) Foundry
7 1 (1.05%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.05%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.05%) SAP
7 1 (1.05%) Spotify
7 1 (1.05%) Talend