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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 205 161
Rank change year-on-year -159 -44 +230
Permanent jobs citing Apache Airflow 77 254 670
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.37% 1.59% 2.00%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.96% 13.72% 17.20%
Number of salaries quoted 54 247 655
10th Percentile £45,000 £79,000 £78,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £100,000 £86,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £110,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.68% -4.35% +21.05%
75th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £148,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £138,750 £165,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £110,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year -36.36% -4.35% +27.78%

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 1,293 1,851 3,896
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.21% 11.59% 11.64%
Number of salaries quoted 981 1,209 3,049
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,790 £40,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +1.69% -1.67%
75th Percentile £72,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £115,000 £142,500
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 2 July 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 22 (28.57%) Apache Spark
2 21 (27.27%) Apache
3 7 (9.09%) Jupyter
4 2 (2.60%) SAS
5 1 (1.30%) Palantir Foundry
Cloud Services
1 57 (74.03%) AWS
2 31 (40.26%) GCP
3 21 (27.27%) Dagster
3 21 (27.27%) dbt
4 20 (25.97%) Amazon S3
5 18 (23.38%) Azure
6 15 (19.48%) Snowflake
7 10 (12.99%) Amazon EC2
7 10 (12.99%) Cloud Composer
7 10 (12.99%) Prefect
8 8 (10.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (10.39%) Amazon EMR
8 8 (10.39%) Amazon Kinesis
8 8 (10.39%) Serverless
9 7 (9.09%) Power Platform
10 6 (7.79%) Amazon SageMaker
10 6 (7.79%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (7.79%) Azure Machine Learning
10 6 (7.79%) Vertex AI
11 5 (6.49%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.09%) Broadband
2 1 (1.30%) 4G
2 1 (1.30%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (29.87%) BigQuery
2 20 (25.97%) Amazon Redshift
3 18 (23.38%) Metadata
4 14 (18.18%) Amazon Athena
5 13 (16.88%) Apache Iceberg
5 13 (16.88%) Data Lake
5 13 (16.88%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (16.88%) Tableau
6 10 (12.99%) DynamoDB
7 7 (9.09%) Delta Lake
7 7 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (9.09%) Looker
7 7 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (9.09%) Power BI
7 7 (9.09%) Semantic Layer
8 6 (7.79%) Pinecone
8 6 (7.79%) SQL Server
8 6 (7.79%) Weaviate
9 5 (6.49%) MySQL
9 5 (6.49%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (16.88%) Git
2 8 (10.39%) GitLab
3 7 (9.09%) MLflow
General
1 17 (22.08%) Public Sector
2 16 (20.78%) Social Skills
3 10 (12.99%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (11.69%) Law
5 5 (6.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (5.19%) Finance
7 3 (3.90%) Legal
8 2 (2.60%) Retail
8 2 (2.60%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.30%) Banking
9 1 (1.30%) Billing
9 1 (1.30%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 46 (59.74%) Data Engineer
2 31 (40.26%) Senior
3 21 (27.27%) Senior Data Engineer
4 14 (18.18%) Lead
5 10 (12.99%) Lead Data Engineer
6 9 (11.69%) Python Engineer
7 7 (9.09%) Developer
7 7 (9.09%) Python Developer
8 6 (7.79%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
8 6 (7.79%) AWS Data Engineer
8 6 (7.79%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (7.79%) Consultant
8 6 (7.79%) Data Consultant
8 6 (7.79%) Senior Consultant
9 5 (6.49%) Principal Data Engineer
9 5 (6.49%) Principal Engineer
9 5 (6.49%) Python Data Engineer
9 5 (6.49%) Test Engineer
10 3 (3.90%) Architect
10 3 (3.90%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (32.47%) Kafka
2 13 (16.88%) PyTorch
3 12 (15.58%) TensorFlow
4 7 (9.09%) PySpark
5 6 (7.79%) Faiss
5 6 (7.79%) NumPy
5 6 (7.79%) OpenCV
5 6 (7.79%) Pandas
5 6 (7.79%) vLLM
6 5 (6.49%) Google JAX
6 5 (6.49%) JAX
6 5 (6.49%) SciPy
7 3 (3.90%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (2.60%) Node.js
8 2 (2.60%) React
9 1 (1.30%) AWS CDK
9 1 (1.30%) FastAPI
9 1 (1.30%) Hugging Face
9 1 (1.30%) JWT
9 1 (1.30%) Ray
Miscellaneous
1 18 (23.38%) Cloud Native
2 10 (12.99%) Data Structures
3 8 (10.39%) Product Ownership
4 6 (7.79%) Anti-Piracy
4 6 (7.79%) Social Media
5 5 (6.49%) Algorithms
5 5 (6.49%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (3.90%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.90%) Online Gambling
6 3 (3.90%) Replication
6 3 (3.90%) Sports Betting
7 2 (2.60%) AI Agents
7 2 (2.60%) Client/Server
7 2 (2.60%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (2.60%) Reference Data
7 2 (2.60%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.30%) Clustering
8 1 (1.30%) Data Fabric
8 1 (1.30%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (74.03%) Data Engineering
2 52 (67.53%) Data Pipeline
3 35 (45.45%) CI/CD
4 33 (42.86%) ETL
5 31 (40.26%) Analytics
5 31 (40.26%) Data Modelling
6 23 (29.87%) Workflow
7 21 (27.27%) Agile
7 21 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
8 20 (25.97%) AI
8 20 (25.97%) Data Governance
9 19 (24.68%) Business Intelligence
9 19 (24.68%) Data Architecture
9 19 (24.68%) Data Science
10 16 (20.78%) DevOps
10 16 (20.78%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (18.18%) Coaching
11 14 (18.18%) Machine Learning
11 14 (18.18%) Mentoring
11 14 (18.18%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 66 (85.71%) Python
2 57 (74.03%) SQL
3 17 (22.08%) Bash
3 17 (22.08%) Java
4 12 (15.58%) Scala
5 6 (7.79%) C++
5 6 (7.79%) Go
6 2 (2.60%) T-SQL
6 2 (2.60%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.30%) Bicep
7 1 (1.30%) R
7 1 (1.30%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 17 (22.08%) Degree
2 14 (18.18%) SC Cleared
2 14 (18.18%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (36.36%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.49%) QA
3 2 (2.60%) Accessibility
System Software
1 27 (35.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (27.27%) Terraform
2 7 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.90%) Grafana
4 2 (2.60%) Ansible
4 2 (2.60%) Argo
4 2 (2.60%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.60%) Puppet
4 2 (2.60%) Salt
Vendors
1 19 (24.68%) Databricks
2 7 (9.09%) Palantir
3 6 (7.79%) Google
4 5 (6.49%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.60%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.30%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.30%) Foundry
6 1 (1.30%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.30%) Oracle
6 1 (1.30%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.30%) Trend Micro