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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 257 166 345
Rank change year-on-year -91 +179 +141
Permanent jobs citing Apache Airflow 122 345 131
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.81% 2.02% 0.64%
As % of the Application Platforms category 11.84% 16.36% 5.86%
Number of salaries quoted 112 316 130
10th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £66,250
25th Percentile £87,500 £81,875 £80,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £107,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +7.50% +25.00%
75th Percentile £135,000 £138,750 £132,500
90th Percentile £137,500 £148,125 £155,000
UK median annual salary £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +18.75%

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 1,030 2,109 2,234
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.80% 12.32% 10.99%
Number of salaries quoted 755 1,443 1,782
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,738 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,639 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% +5.46% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £116,250 £97,290
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% -1.82%

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 31 December 2025.

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 49 (40.16%) Apache
2 19 (15.57%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.64%) Confluence
3 2 (1.64%) Luigi
4 1 (0.82%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.82%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 110 (90.16%) AWS
2 82 (67.21%) dbt
3 61 (50.00%) GCP
4 54 (44.26%) Snowflake
5 24 (19.67%) Azure
6 11 (9.02%) Amazon S3
7 9 (7.38%) Vertex AI
8 8 (6.56%) Dagster
9 7 (5.74%) Amazon Kinesis
9 7 (5.74%) Prefect
10 6 (4.92%) Power Platform
11 5 (4.10%) GitHub
12 4 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (3.28%) Serverless
13 3 (2.46%) Amazon SageMaker
13 3 (2.46%) Azure Machine Learning
13 3 (2.46%) Cloud Run
13 3 (2.46%) Google Compute Engine
13 3 (2.46%) Matillion
13 3 (2.46%) Vercel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (61.48%) Amazon Athena
2 73 (59.84%) Apache Iceberg
3 66 (54.10%) Apache Arrow
3 66 (54.10%) Dremio
4 46 (37.70%) Data Lake
5 37 (30.33%) Apache Ignite
6 36 (29.51%) PostgreSQL
7 17 (13.93%) BigQuery
8 14 (11.48%) Amazon Redshift
9 13 (10.66%) Tableau
10 9 (7.38%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (6.56%) Metadata
12 7 (5.74%) NoSQL
13 6 (4.92%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (4.92%) Pinecone
13 6 (4.92%) Power BI
14 5 (4.10%) Delta Lake
15 4 (3.28%) Amazon QuickSight
15 4 (3.28%) Looker
15 4 (3.28%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 6 (4.92%) Git
2 5 (4.10%) MLflow
3 2 (1.64%) GitLab
3 2 (1.64%) JIRA
General
1 72 (59.02%) Finance
2 66 (54.10%) Front Office
3 38 (31.15%) Banking
4 37 (30.33%) Investment Banking
5 22 (18.03%) Social Skills
6 6 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.64%) Advertising
8 2 (1.64%) Law
8 2 (1.64%) Legal
8 2 (1.64%) Retail
9 1 (0.82%) Marketing
9 1 (0.82%) Music Industry
9 1 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.82%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 73 (59.84%) Python Engineer
2 68 (55.74%) AWS Engineer
3 66 (54.10%) AWS Software Engineer
3 66 (54.10%) Python Software Engineer
3 66 (54.10%) Software Engineer
4 46 (37.70%) Senior
5 37 (30.33%) Java Engineer
5 37 (30.33%) Java Software Engineer
6 35 (28.69%) Senior Java Engineer
6 35 (28.69%) Senior Java Software Engineer
6 35 (28.69%) Senior Software Engineer
7 30 (24.59%) Developer
8 29 (23.77%) AWS Developer
8 29 (23.77%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 29 (23.77%) Python Developer
9 26 (21.31%) Data Engineer
10 8 (6.56%) Lead
11 6 (4.92%) Principal Engineer
12 5 (4.10%) Architect
12 5 (4.10%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (58.20%) Pandas
2 67 (54.92%) NumPy
3 66 (54.10%) SciPy
4 37 (30.33%) gRPC
4 37 (30.33%) Protocol Buffers
5 32 (26.23%) AngularJS
5 32 (26.23%) React
6 31 (25.41%) Node.js
6 31 (25.41%) Vue
7 17 (13.93%) Kafka
8 8 (6.56%) PyTorch
8 8 (6.56%) TensorFlow
9 6 (4.92%) scikit-learn
10 3 (2.46%) Faiss
10 3 (2.46%) LangChain
10 3 (2.46%) Next.js
10 3 (2.46%) vLLM
11 2 (1.64%) Google JAX
11 2 (1.64%) Hugging Face
11 2 (1.64%) JAX
Miscellaneous
1 66 (54.10%) Equities
1 66 (54.10%) Fixed Income
1 66 (54.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 37 (30.33%) Derivative
2 37 (30.33%) Hedge funds
2 37 (30.33%) Pricing Data
3 13 (10.66%) Cloud Native
4 6 (4.92%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (4.10%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.28%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.46%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.64%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.64%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.64%) Legacy Code
8 2 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.82%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.82%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.82%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.82%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (62.30%) Agile
2 71 (58.20%) Software Engineering
3 66 (54.10%) Asset Management
3 66 (54.10%) Investment Management
4 35 (28.69%) Data Engineering
5 32 (26.23%) Fintech
6 30 (24.59%) Analytics
7 29 (23.77%) Order Management
7 29 (23.77%) Performance Attribution
7 29 (23.77%) Risk Management
8 26 (21.31%) ETL
9 25 (20.49%) Data Pipeline
10 24 (19.67%) CI/CD
11 23 (18.85%) AI
12 22 (18.03%) Data Modelling
13 17 (13.93%) Business Intelligence
13 17 (13.93%) DevOps
13 17 (13.93%) Machine Learning
14 15 (12.30%) Data Science
15 14 (11.48%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 112 (91.80%) Python
2 70 (57.38%) JavaScript
3 66 (54.10%) TypeScript
4 46 (37.70%) Java
5 38 (31.15%) SQL
6 9 (7.38%) Bash
7 7 (5.74%) Scala
8 3 (2.46%) Go
9 2 (1.64%) Ruby
10 1 (0.82%) C#
10 1 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 11 (9.02%) Degree
2 7 (5.74%) SC Cleared
2 7 (5.74%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.64%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.64%) SnowPro
5 1 (0.82%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.82%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.48%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.82%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.82%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (11.48%) Docker
2 1 (0.82%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 9 (7.38%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.56%) Terraform
3 4 (3.28%) Ansible
4 2 (1.64%) Argo
4 2 (1.64%) Grafana
4 2 (1.64%) Kubeflow
4 2 (1.64%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.64%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.64%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (9.84%) Google
2 7 (5.74%) Databricks
3 4 (3.28%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.46%) Informatica
4 3 (2.46%) Palantir
5 2 (1.64%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.82%) Amplitude
6 1 (0.82%) Apple
6 1 (0.82%) DataRobot
6 1 (0.82%) Oracle
6 1 (0.82%) SAP
6 1 (0.82%) Spotify
6 1 (0.82%) Talend