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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 246 104 317
Rank change year-on-year -142 +213 +134
Permanent jobs citing Apache Airflow 167 555 182
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.05% 2.80% 0.83%
As % of the Application Platforms category 13.61% 23.58% 7.18%
Number of salaries quoted 165 529 176
10th Percentile £78,500 £77,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £80,469
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £115,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% +21.95%
75th Percentile £137,500 £147,500 £132,500
90th Percentile - £148,750 £151,250
UK median annual salary £110,000 £111,250 £95,000
% change year-on-year -1.12% +17.11% +22.58%

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 1,227 2,354 2,536
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.74% 11.86% 11.60%
Number of salaries quoted 930 1,644 2,028
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £66,199 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.14% +10.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £87,500 £108,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £130,250 £142,500 £97,290
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -

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 6 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 77 (46.11%) Apache
2 12 (7.19%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.20%) Confluence
3 2 (1.20%) Luigi
4 1 (0.60%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.60%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 159 (95.21%) AWS
2 141 (84.43%) dbt
3 83 (49.70%) GCP
4 77 (46.11%) Snowflake
5 15 (8.98%) Azure
6 6 (3.59%) Vertex AI
7 5 (2.99%) Power Platform
8 4 (2.40%) SaaS
9 3 (1.80%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (1.80%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.80%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.80%) Cloud Run
9 3 (1.80%) Fivetran
9 3 (1.80%) GitHub
9 3 (1.80%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.80%) Google Compute Engine
9 3 (1.80%) Prefect
9 3 (1.80%) Serverless
9 3 (1.80%) Vercel
10 2 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (79.64%) Amazon Athena
2 130 (77.84%) Apache Arrow
2 130 (77.84%) Apache Iceberg
2 130 (77.84%) Dremio
3 69 (41.32%) Data Lake
4 67 (40.12%) PostgreSQL
5 65 (38.92%) Apache Ignite
6 10 (5.99%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (4.79%) NoSQL
8 6 (3.59%) BigQuery
8 6 (3.59%) Tableau
9 5 (2.99%) MongoDB
9 5 (2.99%) Power BI
10 4 (2.40%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (2.40%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.80%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.80%) Pinecone
11 3 (1.80%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (1.80%) MLflow
2 2 (1.20%) GitLab
2 2 (1.20%) JIRA
3 1 (0.60%) Git
General
1 136 (81.44%) Finance
2 130 (77.84%) Front Office
3 65 (38.92%) Banking
3 65 (38.92%) Investment Banking
4 16 (9.58%) Social Skills
5 5 (2.99%) Retail
6 4 (2.40%) Law
7 2 (1.20%) Advertising
7 2 (1.20%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.20%) Marketing
8 1 (0.60%) Legal
8 1 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 131 (78.44%) AWS Engineer
2 130 (77.84%) AWS Software Engineer
2 130 (77.84%) Software Engineer
3 125 (74.85%) Python Engineer
4 118 (70.66%) Python Software Engineer
5 77 (46.11%) Java Engineer
5 77 (46.11%) Java Software Engineer
6 72 (43.11%) Senior
7 65 (38.92%) AWS Developer
7 65 (38.92%) Developer
7 65 (38.92%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 63 (37.72%) Senior Java Engineer
8 63 (37.72%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 63 (37.72%) Senior Software Engineer
9 53 (31.74%) Python Developer
10 16 (9.58%) Data Engineer
11 12 (7.19%) Java Developer
11 12 (7.19%) Java Software Developer
12 5 (2.99%) Data Scientist
12 5 (2.99%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (80.84%) Pandas
2 132 (79.04%) NumPy
3 130 (77.84%) SciPy
4 66 (39.52%) AngularJS
4 66 (39.52%) React
5 65 (38.92%) gRPC
5 65 (38.92%) Node.js
5 65 (38.92%) Protocol Buffers
5 65 (38.92%) Vue
6 11 (6.59%) Kafka
7 6 (3.59%) scikit-learn
8 5 (2.99%) PyTorch
8 5 (2.99%) TensorFlow
9 3 (1.80%) LangChain
9 3 (1.80%) Next.js
10 2 (1.20%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (1.20%) Google JAX
10 2 (1.20%) Hugging Face
10 2 (1.20%) JAX
10 2 (1.20%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 130 (77.84%) Equities
1 130 (77.84%) Fixed Income
1 130 (77.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 65 (38.92%) Derivative
2 65 (38.92%) Hedge funds
2 65 (38.92%) Pricing Data
3 8 (4.79%) Cloud Native
4 6 (3.59%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.40%) Legacy Code
6 4 (2.40%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.20%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.60%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.60%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.60%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.60%) IoT
8 1 (0.60%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.60%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.60%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.60%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (84.43%) Agile
2 135 (80.84%) Software Engineering
3 130 (77.84%) Asset Management
3 130 (77.84%) Investment Management
4 67 (40.12%) Fintech
5 66 (39.52%) Risk Management
6 65 (38.92%) Order Management
6 65 (38.92%) Performance Attribution
7 22 (13.17%) AI
8 18 (10.78%) Data Engineering
9 16 (9.58%) ETL
9 16 (9.58%) Machine Learning
10 15 (8.98%) Analytics
11 12 (7.19%) Data Pipeline
11 12 (7.19%) Data Science
12 11 (6.59%) Data Modelling
13 10 (5.99%) CI/CD
13 10 (5.99%) Infrastructure as Code
14 9 (5.39%) MLOps
14 9 (5.39%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 150 (89.82%) Python
2 131 (78.44%) JavaScript
3 130 (77.84%) TypeScript
4 79 (47.31%) Java
5 27 (16.17%) SQL
6 3 (1.80%) Scala
7 2 (1.20%) Bash
8 1 (0.60%) C#
8 1 (0.60%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (3.59%) Degree
2 2 (1.20%) AWS Certification
2 2 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (1.20%) Master's Degree
2 2 (1.20%) PhD
2 2 (1.20%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.40%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.60%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (4.19%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 8 (4.79%) Terraform
2 6 (3.59%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.20%) Ansible
3 2 (1.20%) Kubeflow
3 2 (1.20%) Progress Chef
3 2 (1.20%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (4.79%) Google
2 5 (2.99%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.80%) Informatica
4 2 (1.20%) Databricks
4 2 (1.20%) Oracle
5 1 (0.60%) Amplitude
5 1 (0.60%) DataRobot
5 1 (0.60%) SAP
5 1 (0.60%) Talend