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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 421 239 97
Rank change year-on-year -182 -142 +235
Permanent jobs citing Apache Airflow 46 206 664
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.19% 1.24% 2.96%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.08% 13.83% 24.02%
Number of salaries quoted 36 205 648
10th Percentile £47,500 £80,000 £77,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £100,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £130,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -40.38% +13.04% +21.05%
75th Percentile £105,625 £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 1,493 1,489 2,764
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.01% 8.99% 12.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,117 983 1,821
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £41,000 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £70,250 £90,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £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 29 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 24 (52.17%) Apache
2 9 (19.57%) Apache Spark
3 8 (17.39%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 31 (67.39%) AWS
2 15 (32.61%) Amazon S3
2 15 (32.61%) GCP
3 14 (30.43%) Amazon EMR
4 13 (28.26%) dbt
5 12 (26.09%) SaaS
6 9 (19.57%) Azure
6 9 (19.57%) Snowflake
7 8 (17.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (17.39%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (15.22%) Cloud Composer
9 6 (13.04%) Amazon ECR
9 6 (13.04%) Dagster
9 6 (13.04%) GitHub
9 6 (13.04%) Power Platform
10 5 (10.87%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 5 (10.87%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (6.52%) Prefect
11 3 (6.52%) Serverless
12 2 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.17%) 4G
1 1 (2.17%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (34.78%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (30.43%) Amazon Athena
3 12 (26.09%) BigQuery
4 11 (23.91%) Data Lake
5 8 (17.39%) DynamoDB
6 7 (15.22%) Apache Iceberg
6 7 (15.22%) SQL Server
7 6 (13.04%) Power BI
8 5 (10.87%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (10.87%) Looker
9 4 (8.70%) Semantic Layer
10 3 (6.52%) Big Data
10 3 (6.52%) Flink
10 3 (6.52%) Metadata
10 3 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (6.52%) Relational Database
11 2 (4.35%) MongoDB
11 2 (4.35%) NoSQL
11 2 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (4.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (23.91%) GitLab
2 9 (19.57%) Git
3 5 (10.87%) Poetry
4 2 (4.35%) JIRA
5 1 (2.17%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.17%) MLflow
General
1 12 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (23.91%) Public Sector
3 9 (19.57%) Social Skills
4 4 (8.70%) Finance
4 4 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (8.70%) Legal
5 2 (4.35%) Billing
6 1 (2.17%) Tech for Good
6 1 (2.17%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.17%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 28 (60.87%) Data Engineer
2 20 (43.48%) Senior
3 16 (34.78%) Senior Data Engineer
4 8 (17.39%) Lead
5 6 (13.04%) Test Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Lead Test Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Data Scientist
7 3 (6.52%) Developer
7 3 (6.52%) Lead Data Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Principal Data Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Principal Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Database Developer
8 2 (4.35%) Senior Data Scientist
8 2 (4.35%) Senior Database Developer
8 2 (4.35%) Senior Developer
9 1 (2.17%) AWS Data Engineer
9 1 (2.17%) GCP Data Engineer
9 1 (2.17%) GCP Engineer
9 1 (2.17%) Python Engineer
9 1 (2.17%) SEO Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (54.35%) Terraform
2 13 (28.26%) PySpark
3 12 (26.09%) Kafka
4 3 (6.52%) Apache Beam
4 3 (6.52%) Pulumi
5 2 (4.35%) Node.js
5 2 (4.35%) PyTorch
5 2 (4.35%) React
5 2 (4.35%) TensorFlow
6 1 (2.17%) FastAPI
6 1 (2.17%) Google JAX
6 1 (2.17%) JAX
6 1 (2.17%) LangChain
6 1 (2.17%) NumPy
6 1 (2.17%) OpenCV
6 1 (2.17%) Pandas
6 1 (2.17%) REST
6 1 (2.17%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 15 (32.61%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.52%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (6.52%) Onboarding
2 3 (6.52%) Online Gambling
2 3 (6.52%) Sports Betting
3 2 (4.35%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.17%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.17%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.17%) Clustering
4 1 (2.17%) Credit Risk
4 1 (2.17%) Educational Technology
4 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.17%) IoT
4 1 (2.17%) Linked Data
4 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (76.09%) Data Pipeline
2 33 (71.74%) Data Engineering
3 23 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 20 (43.48%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (39.13%) Agile
5 18 (39.13%) Analytics
5 18 (39.13%) Data Modelling
6 17 (36.96%) Validation
7 16 (34.78%) AI
8 15 (32.61%) Machine Learning
8 15 (32.61%) Workflow
9 14 (30.43%) Observability
10 13 (28.26%) ETL
11 11 (23.91%) DevOps
11 11 (23.91%) Software Engineering
12 10 (21.74%) Mentoring
12 10 (21.74%) Migration
13 9 (19.57%) Data Analysis
14 8 (17.39%) Coaching
14 8 (17.39%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 44 (95.65%) Python
2 38 (82.61%) SQL
3 9 (19.57%) Java
4 6 (13.04%) Bash
5 3 (6.52%) Scala
5 3 (6.52%) Shell Script
6 2 (4.35%) C#
6 2 (4.35%) T-SQL
6 2 (4.35%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.17%) Bicep
7 1 (2.17%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (21.74%) SC Cleared
1 10 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.52%) Degree
3 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (56.52%) Data Quality
2 6 (13.04%) QA
3 2 (4.35%) GDPR
System Software
1 23 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (17.39%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.35%) Grafana
2 2 (4.35%) Prometheus
2 2 (4.35%) SQL Sentry
3 1 (2.17%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 9 (19.57%) Google
2 6 (13.04%) Databricks
2 6 (13.04%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.52%) New Relic
3 3 (6.52%) Splunk
4 2 (4.35%) RedGate
5 1 (2.17%) Cloudera
5 1 (2.17%) Trend Micro