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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 418 226 99
Rank change year-on-year -192 -127 +230
Permanent jobs citing Apache Airflow 40 221 700
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.17% 1.36% 3.00%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.77% 14.53% 24.28%
Number of salaries quoted 36 220 684
10th Percentile £47,500 £80,000 £81,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £100,000 £95,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £130,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.69% +13.04% +21.05%
75th Percentile £108,125 £137,500 £148,750
90th Percentile £115,000 - £165,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £110,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year -36.36% -4.35% +21.05%

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 1,444 1,521 2,883
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 5.99% 9.36% 12.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,106 1,027 1,911
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,756 £40,903 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,250 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.58% -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £70,813 £90,375 £116,250
90th Percentile £88,750 £135,000 £147,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -1.79%

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 September 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 20 (50.00%) Apache
2 9 (22.50%) Apache Spark
3 8 (20.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 28 (70.00%) AWS
2 15 (37.50%) Amazon S3
3 14 (35.00%) Amazon EMR
4 10 (25.00%) GCP
5 8 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 8 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (20.00%) Azure
6 7 (17.50%) dbt
6 7 (17.50%) SaaS
7 6 (15.00%) Amazon ECR
7 6 (15.00%) Snowflake
8 5 (12.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 5 (12.50%) Dagster
8 5 (12.50%) GitHub
8 5 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (10.00%) Power Platform
9 4 (10.00%) Prefect
10 3 (7.50%) Cloud Composer
10 3 (7.50%) Serverless
11 2 (5.00%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) 4G
1 1 (2.50%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (35.00%) Amazon Athena
2 12 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (27.50%) Data Lake
4 8 (20.00%) DynamoDB
5 7 (17.50%) Apache Iceberg
5 7 (17.50%) BigQuery
6 5 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (12.50%) SQL Server
7 4 (10.00%) Power BI
7 4 (10.00%) Semantic Layer
8 3 (7.50%) Big Data
8 3 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (5.00%) Looker
9 2 (5.00%) Metadata
9 2 (5.00%) MongoDB
9 2 (5.00%) MySQL
9 2 (5.00%) NoSQL
9 2 (5.00%) Relational Database
10 1 (2.50%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 9 (22.50%) GitLab
2 6 (15.00%) Git
3 5 (12.50%) Poetry
4 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.50%) MLflow
General
1 11 (27.50%) Public Sector
2 10 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (22.50%) Social Skills
4 4 (10.00%) Finance
4 4 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (7.50%) Legal
6 2 (5.00%) Billing
7 1 (2.50%) Tech for Good
7 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.50%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 25 (62.50%) Data Engineer
2 14 (35.00%) Senior
2 14 (35.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 8 (20.00%) Lead
4 6 (15.00%) Test Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Lead Test Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Lead Data Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Principal Data Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Associate Director
8 1 (2.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) AWS Data Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) Databricks Data Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) Databricks Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) Head of Applications
8 1 (2.50%) Head of Engineering
8 1 (2.50%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) OSS Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) Python Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) Senior Databricks Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (55.00%) Terraform
2 14 (35.00%) Kafka
3 12 (30.00%) PySpark
4 3 (7.50%) Pulumi
5 2 (5.00%) Node.js
5 2 (5.00%) PyTorch
5 2 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (5.00%) React
5 2 (5.00%) TensorFlow
6 1 (2.50%) FastAPI
6 1 (2.50%) Google JAX
6 1 (2.50%) JAX
6 1 (2.50%) LangChain
6 1 (2.50%) NumPy
6 1 (2.50%) OpenCV
6 1 (2.50%) Pandas
6 1 (2.50%) REST
6 1 (2.50%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 12 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.50%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (7.50%) Onboarding
2 3 (7.50%) Online Gambling
2 3 (7.50%) Sports Betting
3 2 (5.00%) AI Agents
3 2 (5.00%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.50%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.50%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.50%) Clustering
4 1 (2.50%) Educational Technology
4 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.50%) IoT
4 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (75.00%) Data Engineering
2 27 (67.50%) Data Pipeline
3 21 (52.50%) CI/CD
4 20 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (40.00%) Workflow
6 15 (37.50%) AI
7 14 (35.00%) Agile
7 14 (35.00%) Analytics
7 14 (35.00%) Data Modelling
7 14 (35.00%) Validation
8 12 (30.00%) Machine Learning
9 11 (27.50%) Observability
10 10 (25.00%) DevOps
10 10 (25.00%) ETL
10 10 (25.00%) Mentoring
11 9 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (22.50%) Software Engineering
12 8 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
12 8 (20.00%) Decision-Making
12 8 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 36 (90.00%) Python
2 31 (77.50%) SQL
3 6 (15.00%) Bash
3 6 (15.00%) Java
4 2 (5.00%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.50%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 10 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 10 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (52.50%) Data Quality
2 6 (15.00%) QA
3 1 (2.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 19 (47.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.00%) Ansible
2 2 (5.00%) Argo
2 2 (5.00%) Grafana
2 2 (5.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (5.00%) Puppet
2 2 (5.00%) Salt
3 1 (2.50%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 6 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.00%) Databricks
2 4 (10.00%) Google
3 2 (5.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.50%) Trend Micro