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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 177 363
Rank change year-on-year -83 +186 +127
Permanent jobs citing Apache Airflow 114 306 128
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.76% 1.86% 0.59%
As % of the Application Platforms category 11.61% 15.53% 5.50%
Number of salaries quoted 100 277 128
10th Percentile £70,900 £71,250 £65,000
25th Percentile £87,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £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 £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +20.63%

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 982 1,970 2,329
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.57% 11.99% 10.70%
Number of salaries quoted 709 1,301 1,856
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £116,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -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 12 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 42 (36.84%) Apache
2 19 (16.67%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.75%) Confluence
3 2 (1.75%) Luigi
4 1 (0.88%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.88%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 101 (88.60%) AWS
2 69 (60.53%) dbt
3 59 (51.75%) GCP
4 49 (42.98%) Snowflake
5 27 (23.68%) Azure
6 14 (12.28%) Amazon S3
7 11 (9.65%) Dagster
7 11 (9.65%) Vertex AI
8 9 (7.89%) Amazon Kinesis
9 6 (5.26%) Power Platform
9 6 (5.26%) Prefect
10 5 (4.39%) Amazon SageMaker
10 5 (4.39%) Azure Machine Learning
10 5 (4.39%) GitHub
11 4 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (3.51%) Serverless
12 3 (2.63%) Cloud Run
12 3 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (2.63%) Google Compute Engine
12 3 (2.63%) Matillion
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (55.26%) Amazon Athena
1 63 (55.26%) Apache Iceberg
2 52 (45.61%) Apache Arrow
2 52 (45.61%) Dremio
3 40 (35.09%) Data Lake
4 30 (26.32%) PostgreSQL
5 29 (25.44%) Apache Ignite
6 21 (18.42%) BigQuery
7 18 (15.79%) Amazon Redshift
8 17 (14.91%) Tableau
9 11 (9.65%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (8.77%) Metadata
11 9 (7.89%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (7.02%) Pinecone
13 7 (6.14%) Delta Lake
13 7 (6.14%) NoSQL
14 6 (5.26%) Amazon QuickSight
14 6 (5.26%) Looker
14 6 (5.26%) Power BI
15 5 (4.39%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 8 (7.02%) Git
2 5 (4.39%) MLflow
3 2 (1.75%) GitLab
3 2 (1.75%) JIRA
General
1 59 (51.75%) Finance
2 52 (45.61%) Front Office
3 31 (27.19%) Banking
4 29 (25.44%) Investment Banking
5 20 (17.54%) Social Skills
6 7 (6.14%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.75%) Advertising
8 2 (1.75%) Law
8 2 (1.75%) Legal
8 2 (1.75%) Retail
9 1 (0.88%) Marketing
9 1 (0.88%) Music Industry
9 1 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.88%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.88%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 58 (50.88%) Python Engineer
2 54 (47.37%) AWS Engineer
3 52 (45.61%) AWS Software Engineer
3 52 (45.61%) Python Software Engineer
3 52 (45.61%) Software Engineer
4 39 (34.21%) Senior
5 32 (28.07%) Data Engineer
6 29 (25.44%) Java Engineer
6 29 (25.44%) Java Software Engineer
7 27 (23.68%) Senior Java Engineer
7 27 (23.68%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 27 (23.68%) Senior Software Engineer
8 24 (21.05%) Developer
9 23 (20.18%) AWS Developer
9 23 (20.18%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 23 (20.18%) Python Developer
10 12 (10.53%) Lead
11 8 (7.02%) Lead Data Engineer
12 7 (6.14%) Consultant
12 7 (6.14%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (50.00%) Pandas
2 53 (46.49%) NumPy
3 52 (45.61%) SciPy
4 29 (25.44%) gRPC
4 29 (25.44%) Protocol Buffers
5 26 (22.81%) AngularJS
5 26 (22.81%) React
6 25 (21.93%) Node.js
6 25 (21.93%) Vue
7 19 (16.67%) Kafka
8 8 (7.02%) PyTorch
8 8 (7.02%) TensorFlow
9 5 (4.39%) Faiss
9 5 (4.39%) vLLM
10 4 (3.51%) scikit-learn
11 3 (2.63%) LangChain
11 3 (2.63%) Next.js
12 2 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
12 2 (1.75%) PySpark
12 2 (1.75%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 52 (45.61%) Equities
1 52 (45.61%) Fixed Income
1 52 (45.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 29 (25.44%) Derivative
2 29 (25.44%) Hedge funds
2 29 (25.44%) Pricing Data
3 13 (11.40%) Cloud Native
4 6 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (4.39%) Onboarding
5 5 (4.39%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.51%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.51%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.75%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.75%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.75%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.88%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.88%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.88%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (55.26%) Agile
2 55 (48.25%) Software Engineering
3 52 (45.61%) Asset Management
3 52 (45.61%) Investment Management
4 42 (36.84%) Data Engineering
5 36 (31.58%) Analytics
6 30 (26.32%) Data Pipeline
6 30 (26.32%) ETL
7 29 (25.44%) CI/CD
8 27 (23.68%) Fintech
9 25 (21.93%) Data Modelling
10 23 (20.18%) AI
10 23 (20.18%) Order Management
10 23 (20.18%) Performance Attribution
10 23 (20.18%) Risk Management
11 21 (18.42%) Business Intelligence
12 18 (15.79%) Machine Learning
13 17 (14.91%) Data Governance
13 17 (14.91%) Data Science
13 17 (14.91%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 104 (91.23%) Python
2 56 (49.12%) JavaScript
3 52 (45.61%) TypeScript
4 43 (37.72%) SQL
5 41 (35.96%) Java
6 11 (9.65%) Bash
7 10 (8.77%) Scala
8 5 (4.39%) Go
9 2 (1.75%) Ruby
10 1 (0.88%) C#
10 1 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.88%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 14 (12.28%) Degree
2 8 (7.02%) SC Cleared
2 8 (7.02%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.75%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.75%) SnowPro
5 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.88%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (14.91%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.88%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.88%) GDPR
System Software
1 15 (13.16%) Docker
2 1 (0.88%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 8 (7.02%) Terraform
2 7 (6.14%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.51%) Ansible
4 2 (1.75%) Argo
4 2 (1.75%) Grafana
4 2 (1.75%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.75%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.75%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (11.40%) Google
2 10 (8.77%) Databricks
3 6 (5.26%) Palantir
4 4 (3.51%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.63%) Informatica
6 2 (1.75%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.88%) Amplitude
7 1 (0.88%) Apple
7 1 (0.88%) DataRobot
7 1 (0.88%) Foundry
7 1 (0.88%) Oracle
7 1 (0.88%) SAP
7 1 (0.88%) Spotify
7 1 (0.88%) Talend