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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 182 366
Rank change year-on-year -72 +184 +122
Permanent jobs citing Apache Airflow 117 306 127
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.76% 1.86% 0.58%
As % of the Application Platforms category 11.58% 15.51% 5.48%
Number of salaries quoted 102 277 127
10th Percentile £71,400 £71,250 £63,750
25th Percentile £85,500 £80,000 £77,500
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 £95,000 £105,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +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 1,010 1,973 2,318
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.60% 12.02% 10.66%
Number of salaries quoted 728 1,301 1,849
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 £95,063
UK median annual salary £50,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.18% +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 16 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 (35.90%) Apache
2 20 (17.09%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.71%) Confluence
3 2 (1.71%) Luigi
4 1 (0.85%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.85%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 104 (88.89%) AWS
2 70 (59.83%) dbt
3 60 (51.28%) GCP
4 51 (43.59%) Snowflake
5 28 (23.93%) Azure
6 15 (12.82%) Amazon S3
7 12 (10.26%) Dagster
7 12 (10.26%) Vertex AI
8 10 (8.55%) Amazon Kinesis
9 6 (5.13%) Amazon SageMaker
9 6 (5.13%) Azure Machine Learning
9 6 (5.13%) Power Platform
9 6 (5.13%) Prefect
10 5 (4.27%) GitHub
10 5 (4.27%) Matillion
11 4 (3.42%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (3.42%) Serverless
12 3 (2.56%) Cloud Run
12 3 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (2.56%) Google Compute Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (54.70%) Apache Iceberg
2 63 (53.85%) Amazon Athena
3 51 (43.59%) Apache Arrow
3 51 (43.59%) Dremio
4 39 (33.33%) Data Lake
5 30 (25.64%) PostgreSQL
6 28 (23.93%) Apache Ignite
7 22 (18.80%) BigQuery
8 20 (17.09%) Amazon Redshift
9 19 (16.24%) Tableau
10 12 (10.26%) Data Warehouse
11 11 (9.40%) Metadata
12 10 (8.55%) Elasticsearch
13 9 (7.69%) Pinecone
14 8 (6.84%) Delta Lake
15 7 (5.98%) Amazon QuickSight
15 7 (5.98%) Looker
15 7 (5.98%) NoSQL
16 6 (5.13%) Power BI
16 6 (5.13%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 9 (7.69%) Git
2 6 (5.13%) MLflow
3 2 (1.71%) GitLab
3 2 (1.71%) JIRA
General
1 58 (49.57%) Finance
2 51 (43.59%) Front Office
3 30 (25.64%) Banking
4 28 (23.93%) Investment Banking
5 22 (18.80%) Social Skills
6 7 (5.98%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.71%) Advertising
8 2 (1.71%) Law
8 2 (1.71%) Legal
8 2 (1.71%) Retail
9 1 (0.85%) Marketing
9 1 (0.85%) Music Industry
9 1 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.85%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.85%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 57 (48.72%) Python Engineer
2 53 (45.30%) AWS Engineer
3 51 (43.59%) AWS Software Engineer
3 51 (43.59%) Python Software Engineer
3 51 (43.59%) Software Engineer
4 39 (33.33%) Senior
5 33 (28.21%) Data Engineer
6 28 (23.93%) Java Engineer
6 28 (23.93%) Java Software Engineer
7 26 (22.22%) Senior Java Engineer
7 26 (22.22%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 26 (22.22%) Senior Software Engineer
8 24 (20.51%) Developer
9 23 (19.66%) AWS Developer
9 23 (19.66%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 23 (19.66%) Python Developer
10 13 (11.11%) Lead
11 9 (7.69%) Lead Data Engineer
12 8 (6.84%) Consultant
13 7 (5.98%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (47.86%) Pandas
2 52 (44.44%) NumPy
3 51 (43.59%) SciPy
4 28 (23.93%) gRPC
4 28 (23.93%) Protocol Buffers
5 26 (22.22%) AngularJS
5 26 (22.22%) React
6 25 (21.37%) Node.js
6 25 (21.37%) Vue
7 20 (17.09%) Kafka
8 9 (7.69%) PyTorch
8 9 (7.69%) TensorFlow
9 6 (5.13%) Faiss
9 6 (5.13%) vLLM
10 4 (3.42%) scikit-learn
11 3 (2.56%) LangChain
11 3 (2.56%) Next.js
12 2 (1.71%) Elastic Stack
12 2 (1.71%) PySpark
12 2 (1.71%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 51 (43.59%) Equities
1 51 (43.59%) Fixed Income
1 51 (43.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 28 (23.93%) Derivative
2 28 (23.93%) Hedge funds
2 28 (23.93%) Pricing Data
3 15 (12.82%) Cloud Native
4 7 (5.98%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (5.13%) Product Ownership
6 5 (4.27%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.42%) Data Structures
7 4 (3.42%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.71%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.71%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.71%) Legacy Code
8 2 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.85%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.85%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (52.99%) Agile
2 54 (46.15%) Software Engineering
3 51 (43.59%) Asset Management
3 51 (43.59%) Investment Management
4 46 (39.32%) Data Engineering
5 37 (31.62%) Analytics
6 32 (27.35%) Data Pipeline
7 31 (26.50%) CI/CD
7 31 (26.50%) ETL
8 28 (23.93%) Data Modelling
9 27 (23.08%) Fintech
10 24 (20.51%) AI
11 23 (19.66%) Business Intelligence
11 23 (19.66%) Order Management
11 23 (19.66%) Performance Attribution
11 23 (19.66%) Risk Management
12 20 (17.09%) Data Governance
13 19 (16.24%) Machine Learning
13 19 (16.24%) Roadmaps
14 18 (15.38%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 105 (89.74%) Python
2 55 (47.01%) JavaScript
3 51 (43.59%) TypeScript
4 45 (38.46%) SQL
5 41 (35.04%) Java
6 13 (11.11%) Bash
7 11 (9.40%) Scala
8 6 (5.13%) Go
9 2 (1.71%) Ruby
10 1 (0.85%) C#
10 1 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.85%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 15 (12.82%) Degree
2 8 (6.84%) SC Cleared
2 8 (6.84%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.71%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.71%) SnowPro
5 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.85%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (15.38%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 16 (13.68%) Docker
2 1 (0.85%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 8 (6.84%) Terraform
2 7 (5.98%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.42%) Ansible
4 2 (1.71%) Argo
4 2 (1.71%) Grafana
4 2 (1.71%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.71%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.71%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (11.11%) Google
2 11 (9.40%) Databricks
3 7 (5.98%) Palantir
4 4 (3.42%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.56%) Informatica
6 2 (1.71%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.85%) Amplitude
7 1 (0.85%) Apple
7 1 (0.85%) DataRobot
7 1 (0.85%) Foundry
7 1 (0.85%) Oracle
7 1 (0.85%) SAP
7 1 (0.85%) Spotify
7 1 (0.85%) Talend