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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 211 118
Rank change year-on-year -168 -93 +269
Permanent jobs citing Apache Airflow 66 249 707
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.30% 1.51% 2.46%
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.92% 13.70% 20.27%
Number of salaries quoted 49 242 693
10th Percentile £45,000 £77,750 £81,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £100,000 £90,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £110,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -38.64% -4.35% +21.05%
75th Percentile £91,250 £137,500 £148,750
90th Percentile £105,500 - £165,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £110,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year -38.64% -4.35% +24.32%

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 1,342 1,818 3,488
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.19% 11.03% 12.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,036 1,187 2,707
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £31,780
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% -4.07% +2.50%
75th Percentile £70,250 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £122,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +7.84% -7.52%

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 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 18 (27.27%) Apache
1 18 (27.27%) Apache Spark
2 7 (10.61%) Jupyter
3 2 (3.03%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 46 (69.70%) AWS
2 25 (37.88%) GCP
3 19 (28.79%) dbt
4 16 (24.24%) Amazon S3
4 16 (24.24%) Dagster
5 15 (22.73%) Azure
6 11 (16.67%) Snowflake
7 10 (15.15%) Amazon EC2
7 10 (15.15%) Cloud Composer
8 9 (13.64%) Prefect
9 8 (12.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (12.12%) Amazon EMR
9 8 (12.12%) Power Platform
9 8 (12.12%) Serverless
10 6 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (7.58%) Amazon ECR
12 4 (6.06%) Amazon Kinesis
13 3 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (4.55%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.09%) Broadband
2 1 (1.52%) 4G
2 1 (1.52%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (25.76%) BigQuery
2 15 (22.73%) Metadata
3 13 (19.70%) Amazon Redshift
4 12 (18.18%) Data Lake
5 10 (15.15%) Amazon Athena
5 10 (15.15%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (15.15%) DynamoDB
6 8 (12.12%) Power BI
7 7 (10.61%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (10.61%) SQL Server
8 6 (9.09%) Semantic Layer
9 5 (7.58%) Apache Iceberg
9 5 (7.58%) MySQL
9 5 (7.58%) Relational Database
9 5 (7.58%) Tableau
10 4 (6.06%) NoSQL
11 3 (4.55%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (4.55%) Big Data
11 3 (4.55%) Looker
11 3 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (16.67%) Git
2 8 (12.12%) GitLab
3 3 (4.55%) MLflow
4 1 (1.52%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (24.24%) Public Sector
1 16 (24.24%) Social Skills
2 11 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (13.64%) Law
4 4 (6.06%) Finance
4 4 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.55%) Legal
6 2 (3.03%) Billing
6 2 (3.03%) Retail
7 1 (1.52%) Tech for Good
7 1 (1.52%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.52%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 42 (63.64%) Data Engineer
2 27 (40.91%) Senior
3 21 (31.82%) Senior Data Engineer
4 9 (13.64%) Lead
5 8 (12.12%) Python Engineer
6 7 (10.61%) Developer
6 7 (10.61%) Python Developer
7 6 (9.09%) AWS Data Engineer
7 6 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (9.09%) Lead Data Engineer
8 5 (7.58%) Test Engineer
9 4 (6.06%) Principal Data Engineer
9 4 (6.06%) Principal Engineer
9 4 (6.06%) Python Data Engineer
10 3 (4.55%) Lead Test Engineer
11 2 (3.03%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
11 2 (3.03%) Data Consultant
11 2 (3.03%) Database Engineer
11 2 (3.03%) SAS Engineer
11 2 (3.03%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (30.30%) Kafka
2 9 (13.64%) PyTorch
3 8 (12.12%) TensorFlow
4 7 (10.61%) PySpark
5 6 (9.09%) NumPy
5 6 (9.09%) OpenCV
5 6 (9.09%) Pandas
6 5 (7.58%) Google JAX
6 5 (7.58%) JAX
6 5 (7.58%) SciPy
7 3 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (3.03%) Faiss
8 2 (3.03%) Node.js
8 2 (3.03%) React
8 2 (3.03%) vLLM
9 1 (1.52%) AWS CDK
9 1 (1.52%) Celery
9 1 (1.52%) FastAPI
9 1 (1.52%) JWT
9 1 (1.52%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 16 (24.24%) Cloud Native
2 10 (15.15%) Data Structures
3 6 (9.09%) Anti-Piracy
3 6 (9.09%) Social Media
4 5 (7.58%) Algorithms
5 4 (6.06%) Product Ownership
6 3 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (4.55%) Onboarding
6 3 (4.55%) Online Gambling
6 3 (4.55%) Replication
6 3 (4.55%) Sports Betting
7 2 (3.03%) AI Agents
7 2 (3.03%) Client/Server
7 2 (3.03%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (3.03%) Reference Data
7 2 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.52%) Data Fabric
8 1 (1.52%) Educational Technology
8 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (69.70%) Data Pipeline
2 45 (68.18%) Data Engineering
3 29 (43.94%) ETL
4 28 (42.42%) Data Modelling
5 27 (40.91%) CI/CD
6 26 (39.39%) Analytics
7 22 (33.33%) Agile
7 22 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
8 20 (30.30%) Workflow
9 16 (24.24%) AI
10 15 (22.73%) Data Science
10 15 (22.73%) Validation
11 14 (21.21%) Data Governance
11 14 (21.21%) Mentoring
12 13 (19.70%) Business Intelligence
12 13 (19.70%) DevOps
13 12 (18.18%) Data Architecture
13 12 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (16.67%) Software Engineering
15 10 (15.15%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 57 (86.36%) Python
2 48 (72.73%) SQL
3 13 (19.70%) Java
4 8 (12.12%) Bash
4 8 (12.12%) Scala
5 6 (9.09%) C++
6 2 (3.03%) Go
6 2 (3.03%) T-SQL
6 2 (3.03%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.52%) Bicep
7 1 (1.52%) R
Qualifications
1 14 (21.21%) SC Cleared
1 14 (21.21%) Security Cleared
2 12 (18.18%) Degree
3 1 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (37.88%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.58%) QA
3 1 (1.52%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.52%) GDPR
System Software
1 23 (34.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (33.33%) Terraform
2 8 (12.12%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.55%) Grafana
4 2 (3.03%) Ansible
4 2 (3.03%) Argo
4 2 (3.03%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.03%) Puppet
4 2 (3.03%) Salt
Vendors
1 16 (24.24%) Databricks
2 7 (10.61%) Microsoft
3 6 (9.09%) Google
4 2 (3.03%) Palantir
4 2 (3.03%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.52%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.52%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.52%) Oracle
5 1 (1.52%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.52%) Trend Micro