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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 256 183 373
Rank change year-on-year -73 +190 +123
Permanent jobs citing Apache Airflow 112 306 134
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.72% 1.87% 0.55%
As % of the Application Platforms category 10.87% 15.32% 5.18%
Number of salaries quoted 95 277 133
10th Percentile £70,400 £71,250 £62,000
25th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £107,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +7.50% +33.33%
75th Percentile £135,000 £122,500 £132,500
90th Percentile £137,500 £147,500 £155,000
UK median annual salary £92,500 £105,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -11.90% +10.53% +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 1,030 1,998 2,588
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.63% 12.19% 10.62%
Number of salaries quoted 738 1,312 2,093
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £91,934
UK median annual salary £51,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.36% +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 23 January 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 39 (34.82%) Apache
2 22 (19.64%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.79%) Confluence
3 2 (1.79%) Luigi
4 1 (0.89%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.89%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 99 (88.39%) AWS
2 62 (55.36%) dbt
3 59 (52.68%) GCP
4 47 (41.96%) Snowflake
5 29 (25.89%) Azure
6 16 (14.29%) Amazon S3
7 13 (11.61%) Dagster
7 13 (11.61%) Vertex AI
8 11 (9.82%) Amazon Kinesis
9 7 (6.25%) Amazon SageMaker
9 7 (6.25%) Azure Machine Learning
10 6 (5.36%) Power Platform
10 6 (5.36%) Prefect
11 5 (4.46%) GitHub
11 5 (4.46%) Matillion
12 4 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (3.57%) Serverless
13 3 (2.68%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (2.68%) Google Compute Engine
13 3 (2.68%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.89%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (51.79%) Apache Iceberg
2 56 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
3 43 (38.39%) Apache Arrow
3 43 (38.39%) Dremio
4 34 (30.36%) Data Lake
5 27 (24.11%) PostgreSQL
6 24 (21.43%) BigQuery
7 23 (20.54%) Apache Ignite
8 22 (19.64%) Amazon Redshift
9 21 (18.75%) Tableau
10 14 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
11 12 (10.71%) Metadata
12 11 (9.82%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (8.93%) Pinecone
14 9 (8.04%) Delta Lake
15 8 (7.14%) Amazon QuickSight
15 8 (7.14%) Looker
15 8 (7.14%) NoSQL
16 7 (6.25%) Weaviate
17 6 (5.36%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (9.82%) Git
2 7 (6.25%) MLflow
3 2 (1.79%) GitLab
3 2 (1.79%) JIRA
General
1 50 (44.64%) Finance
2 43 (38.39%) Front Office
3 25 (22.32%) Banking
4 23 (20.54%) Investment Banking
5 22 (19.64%) Social Skills
6 7 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.79%) Advertising
8 2 (1.79%) Law
8 2 (1.79%) Legal
8 2 (1.79%) Retail
9 1 (0.89%) Marketing
9 1 (0.89%) Music Industry
9 1 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.89%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.89%) Publishing
9 1 (0.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 49 (43.75%) Python Engineer
2 45 (40.18%) AWS Engineer
3 43 (38.39%) AWS Software Engineer
3 43 (38.39%) Python Software Engineer
3 43 (38.39%) Software Engineer
4 36 (32.14%) Senior
5 35 (31.25%) Data Engineer
6 23 (20.54%) Java Engineer
6 23 (20.54%) Java Software Engineer
7 21 (18.75%) Developer
7 21 (18.75%) Senior Java Engineer
7 21 (18.75%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 21 (18.75%) Senior Software Engineer
8 20 (17.86%) AWS Developer
8 20 (17.86%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 20 (17.86%) Python Developer
9 14 (12.50%) Lead
10 10 (8.93%) Lead Data Engineer
11 9 (8.04%) Consultant
12 7 (6.25%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (42.86%) Pandas
2 44 (39.29%) NumPy
3 43 (38.39%) SciPy
4 23 (20.54%) AngularJS
4 23 (20.54%) gRPC
4 23 (20.54%) Protocol Buffers
4 23 (20.54%) React
5 22 (19.64%) Kafka
5 22 (19.64%) Node.js
5 22 (19.64%) Vue
6 10 (8.93%) PyTorch
6 10 (8.93%) TensorFlow
7 7 (6.25%) Faiss
7 7 (6.25%) vLLM
8 4 (3.57%) scikit-learn
9 3 (2.68%) LangChain
9 3 (2.68%) Next.js
10 2 (1.79%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (1.79%) PySpark
10 2 (1.79%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 43 (38.39%) Equities
1 43 (38.39%) Fixed Income
1 43 (38.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 23 (20.54%) Derivative
2 23 (20.54%) Hedge funds
2 23 (20.54%) Pricing Data
3 15 (13.39%) Cloud Native
4 8 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (6.25%) Product Ownership
6 5 (4.46%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.57%) Data Structures
7 4 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.79%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.79%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.79%) Legacy Code
8 2 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.89%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.89%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.89%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.79%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (48.21%) Agile
2 49 (43.75%) Data Engineering
3 46 (41.07%) Software Engineering
4 43 (38.39%) Asset Management
4 43 (38.39%) Investment Management
5 39 (34.82%) Analytics
6 34 (30.36%) CI/CD
6 34 (30.36%) Data Pipeline
7 33 (29.46%) ETL
8 29 (25.89%) Data Modelling
9 25 (22.32%) AI
9 25 (22.32%) Business Intelligence
10 24 (21.43%) Fintech
11 22 (19.64%) Data Governance
12 21 (18.75%) Roadmaps
13 20 (17.86%) Machine Learning
13 20 (17.86%) Order Management
13 20 (17.86%) Performance Attribution
13 20 (17.86%) Risk Management
14 19 (16.96%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 100 (89.29%) Python
2 48 (42.86%) SQL
3 47 (41.96%) JavaScript
4 43 (38.39%) TypeScript
5 37 (33.04%) Java
6 16 (14.29%) Bash
7 12 (10.71%) Scala
8 7 (6.25%) Go
9 2 (1.79%) Ruby
10 1 (0.89%) C#
10 1 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.89%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 17 (15.18%) Degree
2 8 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 8 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.79%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.79%) SnowPro
5 1 (0.89%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.89%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (17.86%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.79%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.89%) GDPR
System Software
1 17 (15.18%) Docker
2 1 (0.89%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 9 (8.04%) Terraform
2 7 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.57%) Ansible
4 2 (1.79%) Argo
4 2 (1.79%) Grafana
4 2 (1.79%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.79%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.79%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (11.61%) Google
2 12 (10.71%) Databricks
3 8 (7.14%) Palantir
4 4 (3.57%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.68%) Informatica
6 2 (1.79%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.89%) Amplitude
7 1 (0.89%) Apple
7 1 (0.89%) DataRobot
7 1 (0.89%) Foundry
7 1 (0.89%) Oracle
7 1 (0.89%) SAP
7 1 (0.89%) Spotify
7 1 (0.89%) Talend