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

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 183 353
Rank change year-on-year -71 +170 +141
Permanent jobs citing Apache Airflow 116 309 130
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.77% 1.86% 0.62%
As % of the Application Platforms category 11.60% 15.40% 5.70%
Number of salaries quoted 104 280 129
10th Percentile £72,200 £71,250 £65,000
25th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
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 £126,563 £132,500
90th Percentile £137,500 £147,500 £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 1,000 2,006 2,280
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.60% 12.06% 10.89%
Number of salaries quoted 729 1,338 1,813
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -2.61%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £116,250 £95,063
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 8 January 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 45 (38.79%) Apache
2 18 (15.52%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.72%) Confluence
3 2 (1.72%) Luigi
4 1 (0.86%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.86%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 104 (89.66%) AWS
2 76 (65.52%) dbt
3 59 (50.86%) GCP
4 52 (44.83%) Snowflake
5 25 (21.55%) Azure
6 13 (11.21%) Amazon S3
7 10 (8.62%) Vertex AI
8 9 (7.76%) Dagster
9 8 (6.90%) Amazon Kinesis
10 6 (5.17%) Power Platform
11 5 (4.31%) GitHub
11 5 (4.31%) Prefect
12 4 (3.45%) Amazon SageMaker
12 4 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (3.45%) Azure Machine Learning
12 4 (3.45%) Serverless
13 3 (2.59%) Cloud Run
13 3 (2.59%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (2.59%) Matillion
13 3 (2.59%) Vercel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (59.48%) Amazon Athena
2 68 (58.62%) Apache Iceberg
3 59 (50.86%) Apache Arrow
3 59 (50.86%) Dremio
4 42 (36.21%) Data Lake
5 33 (28.45%) Apache Ignite
5 33 (28.45%) PostgreSQL
6 19 (16.38%) BigQuery
7 16 (13.79%) Amazon Redshift
8 15 (12.93%) Tableau
9 10 (8.62%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (7.76%) Metadata
11 7 (6.03%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (6.03%) NoSQL
11 7 (6.03%) Pinecone
12 6 (5.17%) Delta Lake
12 6 (5.17%) Power BI
13 5 (4.31%) Amazon QuickSight
13 5 (4.31%) Looker
14 4 (3.45%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 7 (6.03%) Git
2 4 (3.45%) MLflow
3 2 (1.72%) GitLab
3 2 (1.72%) JIRA
General
1 65 (56.03%) Finance
2 59 (50.86%) Front Office
3 34 (29.31%) Banking
4 33 (28.45%) Investment Banking
5 20 (17.24%) Social Skills
6 7 (6.03%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.72%) Advertising
8 2 (1.72%) Law
8 2 (1.72%) Legal
8 2 (1.72%) Retail
9 1 (0.86%) Marketing
9 1 (0.86%) Music Industry
9 1 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.86%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 64 (55.17%) Python Engineer
2 61 (52.59%) AWS Engineer
3 59 (50.86%) AWS Software Engineer
3 59 (50.86%) Python Software Engineer
3 59 (50.86%) Software Engineer
4 42 (36.21%) Senior
5 33 (28.45%) Java Engineer
5 33 (28.45%) Java Software Engineer
6 31 (26.72%) Senior Java Engineer
6 31 (26.72%) Senior Java Software Engineer
6 31 (26.72%) Senior Software Engineer
7 29 (25.00%) Data Engineer
8 27 (23.28%) Developer
9 26 (22.41%) AWS Developer
9 26 (22.41%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 26 (22.41%) Python Developer
10 10 (8.62%) Lead
11 7 (6.03%) Lead Data Engineer
12 6 (5.17%) Consultant
12 6 (5.17%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (55.17%) Pandas
2 60 (51.72%) NumPy
3 59 (50.86%) SciPy
4 33 (28.45%) gRPC
4 33 (28.45%) Protocol Buffers
5 29 (25.00%) AngularJS
5 29 (25.00%) React
6 28 (24.14%) Node.js
6 28 (24.14%) Vue
7 17 (14.66%) Kafka
8 7 (6.03%) PyTorch
8 7 (6.03%) TensorFlow
9 4 (3.45%) Faiss
9 4 (3.45%) scikit-learn
9 4 (3.45%) vLLM
10 3 (2.59%) LangChain
10 3 (2.59%) Next.js
11 2 (1.72%) CSS
11 2 (1.72%) Elastic Stack
11 2 (1.72%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 59 (50.86%) Equities
1 59 (50.86%) Fixed Income
1 59 (50.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 33 (28.45%) Derivative
2 33 (28.45%) Hedge funds
2 33 (28.45%) Pricing Data
3 13 (11.21%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.31%) Onboarding
4 5 (4.31%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.45%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.45%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.72%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.72%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.72%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.86%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.86%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.86%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (59.48%) Agile
2 62 (53.45%) Software Engineering
3 59 (50.86%) Asset Management
3 59 (50.86%) Investment Management
4 37 (31.90%) Data Engineering
5 33 (28.45%) Analytics
6 29 (25.00%) Fintech
7 28 (24.14%) ETL
8 27 (23.28%) Data Pipeline
9 26 (22.41%) CI/CD
9 26 (22.41%) Order Management
9 26 (22.41%) Performance Attribution
9 26 (22.41%) Risk Management
10 24 (20.69%) Data Modelling
11 21 (18.10%) AI
12 19 (16.38%) Business Intelligence
13 16 (13.79%) Data Governance
13 16 (13.79%) Data Science
13 16 (13.79%) DevOps
13 16 (13.79%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 106 (91.38%) Python
2 63 (54.31%) JavaScript
3 59 (50.86%) TypeScript
4 44 (37.93%) Java
5 38 (32.76%) SQL
6 9 (7.76%) Bash
6 9 (7.76%) Scala
7 4 (3.45%) Go
8 2 (1.72%) Ruby
9 1 (0.86%) C#
9 1 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 12 (10.34%) Degree
2 8 (6.90%) SC Cleared
2 8 (6.90%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.72%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.72%) SnowPro
5 1 (0.86%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.86%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.79%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.86%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.86%) GDPR
System Software
1 13 (11.21%) Docker
2 1 (0.86%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 8 (6.90%) Terraform
2 7 (6.03%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.45%) Ansible
4 2 (1.72%) Argo
4 2 (1.72%) Grafana
4 2 (1.72%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.72%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.72%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (10.34%) Google
2 9 (7.76%) Databricks
3 4 (3.45%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.45%) Palantir
4 3 (2.59%) Informatica
5 2 (1.72%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.86%) Amplitude
6 1 (0.86%) Apple
6 1 (0.86%) DataRobot
6 1 (0.86%) Oracle
6 1 (0.86%) SAP
6 1 (0.86%) Spotify
6 1 (0.86%) Talend