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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 204 249
Rank change year-on-year -117 +45 +186
Permanent jobs citing Apache Airflow 89 266 416
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.47% 1.76% 1.28%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.05% 13.94% 11.37%
Number of salaries quoted 61 254 403
10th Percentile £46,250 £77,500 £72,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £100,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £110,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% -4.35% +27.78%
75th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £143,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £138,750 £165,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £110,000 £112,500
% change year-on-year -36.36% -2.22% +28.57%

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 1,106 1,908 3,660
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 5.88% 12.64% 11.24%
Number of salaries quoted 807 1,255 2,844
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,837 £90,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -10.18%

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 20 May 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 (26.97%) Apache Spark
2 19 (21.35%) Apache
3 3 (3.37%) Jupyter
4 2 (2.25%) SAS
5 1 (1.12%) Palantir Foundry
Cloud Services
1 66 (74.16%) AWS
2 43 (48.31%) GCP
3 26 (29.21%) Azure
4 25 (28.09%) dbt
4 25 (28.09%) Snowflake
5 23 (25.84%) Amazon S3
5 23 (25.84%) Dagster
6 12 (13.48%) Amazon Kinesis
7 11 (12.36%) Prefect
8 10 (11.24%) Cloud Composer
9 9 (10.11%) Amazon SageMaker
9 9 (10.11%) Azure Machine Learning
9 9 (10.11%) Vertex AI
10 8 (8.99%) Serverless
11 7 (7.87%) Power Platform
12 6 (6.74%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (6.74%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (5.62%) Matillion
14 4 (4.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (4.49%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.87%) Broadband
2 1 (1.12%) 4G
2 1 (1.12%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (37.08%) BigQuery
2 28 (31.46%) Amazon Redshift
3 23 (25.84%) Metadata
4 20 (22.47%) Tableau
5 19 (21.35%) Apache Iceberg
6 16 (17.98%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (16.85%) Data Lake
8 14 (15.73%) Amazon Athena
9 10 (11.24%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (11.24%) Looker
9 10 (11.24%) Semantic Layer
10 9 (10.11%) Amazon QuickSight
10 9 (10.11%) Delta Lake
10 9 (10.11%) Pinecone
10 9 (10.11%) Weaviate
11 8 (8.99%) DynamoDB
12 7 (7.87%) Power BI
13 6 (6.74%) PostgreSQL
14 5 (5.62%) MySQL
14 5 (5.62%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (20.22%) Git
2 10 (11.24%) MLflow
3 4 (4.49%) GitLab
General
1 15 (16.85%) Social Skills
2 13 (14.61%) Public Sector
3 10 (11.24%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.11%) Law
5 5 (5.62%) Finance
5 5 (5.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.37%) Legal
7 2 (2.25%) Banking
7 2 (2.25%) Retail
7 2 (2.25%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.12%) Billing
Job Titles
1 53 (59.55%) Data Engineer
2 30 (33.71%) Senior
3 18 (20.22%) Lead
4 16 (17.98%) Lead Data Engineer
4 16 (17.98%) Senior Data Engineer
5 10 (11.24%) Python Engineer
6 9 (10.11%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
6 9 (10.11%) Consultant
6 9 (10.11%) Data Consultant
6 9 (10.11%) Senior Consultant
7 8 (8.99%) Developer
7 8 (8.99%) Principal Data Engineer
7 8 (8.99%) Principal Engineer
8 7 (7.87%) Architect
8 7 (7.87%) Python Developer
9 6 (6.74%) AWS Data Engineer
9 6 (6.74%) AWS Engineer
9 6 (6.74%) Python Data Engineer
9 6 (6.74%) Snowflake Architect
10 3 (3.37%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (33.71%) Kafka
2 15 (16.85%) PyTorch
3 14 (15.73%) TensorFlow
4 9 (10.11%) Faiss
4 9 (10.11%) vLLM
5 6 (6.74%) NumPy
5 6 (6.74%) OpenCV
5 6 (6.74%) Pandas
6 5 (5.62%) Google JAX
6 5 (5.62%) JAX
6 5 (5.62%) SciPy
7 3 (3.37%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (2.25%) Node.js
8 2 (2.25%) PySpark
8 2 (2.25%) React
9 1 (1.12%) Apache Beam
9 1 (1.12%) Celery
9 1 (1.12%) OAuth2
9 1 (1.12%) pytest
9 1 (1.12%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 17 (19.10%) Cloud Native
2 11 (12.36%) Product Ownership
3 9 (10.11%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (8.99%) Data Structures
5 6 (6.74%) Anti-Piracy
5 6 (6.74%) Social Media
6 5 (5.62%) Algorithms
7 3 (3.37%) Online Gambling
7 3 (3.37%) Replication
7 3 (3.37%) Sports Betting
8 2 (2.25%) AI Agents
8 2 (2.25%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (2.25%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.25%) Reference Data
8 2 (2.25%) Virtual Team
9 1 (1.12%) Client/Server
9 1 (1.12%) Data Fabric
9 1 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.12%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.87%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (75.28%) Data Engineering
2 53 (59.55%) Data Pipeline
3 43 (48.31%) ETL
4 40 (44.94%) Analytics
4 40 (44.94%) CI/CD
5 37 (41.57%) Data Modelling
6 30 (33.71%) Data Governance
7 26 (29.21%) Business Intelligence
8 25 (28.09%) Data Architecture
8 25 (28.09%) Data Science
9 24 (26.97%) Workflow
10 21 (23.60%) Visualisation
11 20 (22.47%) Use Case
12 19 (21.35%) AI
13 18 (20.22%) Agile
14 17 (19.10%) DevOps
14 17 (19.10%) Machine Learning
14 17 (19.10%) Problem-Solving
15 16 (17.98%) Performance Optimisation
15 16 (17.98%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 75 (84.27%) Python
2 66 (74.16%) SQL
3 22 (24.72%) Bash
4 20 (22.47%) Java
5 17 (19.10%) Scala
6 9 (10.11%) Go
7 6 (6.74%) C++
8 2 (2.25%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.25%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.12%) R
9 1 (1.12%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 21 (23.60%) Degree
2 13 (14.61%) SC Cleared
2 13 (14.61%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (37.08%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.37%) QA
3 2 (2.25%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.12%) GDPR
System Software
1 26 (29.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (17.98%) Terraform
2 6 (6.74%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.37%) Grafana
4 2 (2.25%) Ansible
4 2 (2.25%) Argo
4 2 (2.25%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.25%) Puppet
4 2 (2.25%) Salt
Vendors
1 22 (24.72%) Databricks
2 10 (11.24%) Palantir
3 9 (10.11%) Google
4 4 (4.49%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.25%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.12%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.12%) Foundry
6 1 (1.12%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.12%) Oracle
6 1 (1.12%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.12%) Trend Micro