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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 211 103 341
Rank change year-on-year -108 +238 +63
Permanent jobs citing Apache Airflow 222 695 188
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.36% 2.97% 0.76%
As % of the Application Platforms category 14.59% 24.12% 6.66%
Number of salaries quoted 221 679 177
10th Percentile £80,000 £79,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £130,000 £115,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +21.05% +18.75%
75th Percentile £137,500 £148,750 £120,000
90th Percentile - £165,000 £151,250
UK median annual salary £110,000 £115,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +21.05% +22.58%

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 1,522 2,882 2,823
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.36% 12.33% 11.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,026 1,903 2,349
10th Percentile £31,000 £32,000 £33,250
25th Percentile £40,903 £47,500 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% +6.19%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,625 £80,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £147,500 £101,185
UK median annual salary £54,143 £55,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year -1.56% -2.65% +2.73%

Apache Airflow
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Apache Airflow as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Apache Airflow trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Apache Airflow
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Apache Airflow.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Apache Airflow

Apache Airflow
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Apache Airflow over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Apache Airflow salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Apache Airflow
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 101 (45.50%) Apache
2 13 (5.86%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.90%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 214 (96.40%) AWS
2 198 (89.19%) dbt
3 112 (50.45%) GCP
4 101 (45.50%) Snowflake
5 18 (8.11%) Azure
6 5 (2.25%) Power Platform
6 5 (2.25%) SaaS
7 4 (1.80%) GitHub
7 4 (1.80%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.35%) Cloud Run
8 3 (1.35%) Google Compute Engine
8 3 (1.35%) Vercel
8 3 (1.35%) Vertex AI
9 2 (0.90%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.90%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (0.90%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (0.90%) Prefect
10 1 (0.45%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (0.45%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.45%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (84.23%) Amazon Athena
2 186 (83.78%) Apache Arrow
2 186 (83.78%) Apache Iceberg
2 186 (83.78%) Dremio
3 99 (44.59%) PostgreSQL
4 91 (40.99%) Data Lake
5 89 (40.09%) Apache Ignite
6 8 (3.60%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (3.15%) NoSQL
8 5 (2.25%) MongoDB
8 5 (2.25%) Power BI
9 4 (1.80%) Big Data
9 4 (1.80%) BigQuery
9 4 (1.80%) Snowflake Schema
9 4 (1.80%) Tableau
10 3 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.35%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.35%) Pinecone
10 3 (1.35%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.90%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 4 (1.80%) Git
2 3 (1.35%) MLflow
3 1 (0.45%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.45%) GitLab
3 1 (0.45%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.45%) JIRA
General
1 190 (85.59%) Finance
2 186 (83.78%) Front Office
3 89 (40.09%) Banking
3 89 (40.09%) Investment Banking
4 13 (5.86%) Social Skills
5 5 (2.25%) Law
5 5 (2.25%) Retail
6 2 (0.90%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (0.90%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 186 (83.78%) AWS Engineer
1 186 (83.78%) AWS Software Engineer
1 186 (83.78%) Software Engineer
2 169 (76.13%) Python Engineer
3 162 (72.97%) Python Software Engineer
4 113 (50.90%) Java Engineer
4 113 (50.90%) Java Software Engineer
5 101 (45.50%) Senior
6 98 (44.14%) AWS Developer
6 98 (44.14%) Developer
7 97 (43.69%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 89 (40.09%) Senior Java Engineer
8 89 (40.09%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 89 (40.09%) Senior Software Engineer
9 74 (33.33%) Python Developer
10 24 (10.81%) Java Developer
10 24 (10.81%) Java Software Developer
11 16 (7.21%) Data Engineer
12 7 (3.15%) Data Scientist
13 5 (2.25%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (86.04%) Pandas
2 187 (84.23%) NumPy
3 186 (83.78%) SciPy
4 98 (44.14%) AngularJS
4 98 (44.14%) React
5 97 (43.69%) Node.js
5 97 (43.69%) Vue
6 89 (40.09%) gRPC
6 89 (40.09%) Protocol Buffers
7 11 (4.95%) Kafka
8 8 (3.60%) scikit-learn
9 6 (2.70%) PyTorch
9 6 (2.70%) TensorFlow
10 3 (1.35%) LangChain
10 3 (1.35%) Next.js
11 2 (0.90%) Elastic Stack
11 2 (0.90%) Google JAX
11 2 (0.90%) Hugging Face
11 2 (0.90%) JAX
11 2 (0.90%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 186 (83.78%) Fixed Income
2 184 (82.88%) Equities
2 184 (82.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 89 (40.09%) Derivative
3 89 (40.09%) Hedge funds
3 89 (40.09%) Pricing Data
4 7 (3.15%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.25%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.25%) Legacy Code
6 3 (1.35%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.90%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.45%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.45%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.45%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.45%) IoT
8 1 (0.45%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.45%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.45%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.90%) Linux
2 1 (0.45%) VMS
2 1 (0.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (89.19%) Agile
2 192 (86.49%) Software Engineering
3 186 (83.78%) Asset Management
3 186 (83.78%) Investment Management
4 99 (44.59%) Fintech
5 98 (44.14%) Risk Management
6 97 (43.69%) Order Management
6 97 (43.69%) Performance Attribution
7 18 (8.11%) Artificial Intelligence
7 18 (8.11%) Data Engineering
8 17 (7.66%) Machine Learning
9 14 (6.31%) Data Science
10 12 (5.41%) CI/CD
10 12 (5.41%) Data Modelling
11 11 (4.95%) Data Pipeline
11 11 (4.95%) ETL
11 11 (4.95%) MLOps
12 10 (4.50%) LLM
13 9 (4.05%) Analytics
14 8 (3.60%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 195 (87.84%) Python
2 187 (84.23%) JavaScript
3 186 (83.78%) TypeScript
4 115 (51.80%) Java
5 28 (12.61%) SQL
6 3 (1.35%) Bash
6 3 (1.35%) Scala
7 1 (0.45%) C#
7 1 (0.45%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.45%) R
7 1 (0.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (3.15%) Degree
2 3 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.90%) Master's Degree
3 2 (0.90%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.25%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.45%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (4.05%) Docker
2 1 (0.45%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.45%) HDFS
2 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (4.05%) Terraform
2 8 (3.60%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.90%) Ansible
3 2 (0.90%) Kubeflow
3 2 (0.90%) Progress Chef
3 2 (0.90%) Puppet
4 1 (0.45%) Packer
Vendors
1 5 (2.25%) Google
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.45%) Amplitude
3 1 (0.45%) Databricks
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle