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 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 283 176 360
Rank change year-on-year -107 +184 +156
Permanent jobs citing Apache Airflow 98 283 189
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.58% 2.05% 0.63%
As % of the Application Platforms category 9.10% 15.31% 5.78%
Number of salaries quoted 67 255 183
10th Percentile £49,625 £71,250 £64,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £80,000 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £110,000 £112,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% -2.22% +37.61%
75th Percentile £100,000 £123,750 £142,500
90th Percentile £111,000 £147,500 £155,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £107,500 £105,000
% change year-on-year -27.91% +2.38% +27.27%

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 1,077 1,848 3,268
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.40% 13.36% 10.91%
Number of salaries quoted 761 1,299 2,680
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,625 £42,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £88,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,063
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

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 14 March 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 27 (27.55%) Apache Spark
2 24 (24.49%) Apache
3 3 (3.06%) SAS
4 2 (2.04%) Confluence
5 1 (1.02%) Jupyter
5 1 (1.02%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 77 (78.57%) AWS
2 46 (46.94%) GCP
3 36 (36.73%) dbt
4 31 (31.63%) Snowflake
5 29 (29.59%) Azure
6 24 (24.49%) Dagster
7 22 (22.45%) Amazon S3
8 13 (13.27%) Amazon Kinesis
9 12 (12.24%) Prefect
9 12 (12.24%) Vertex AI
10 10 (10.20%) Power Platform
11 9 (9.18%) Amazon SageMaker
11 9 (9.18%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (9.18%) Azure Machine Learning
11 9 (9.18%) Serverless
12 7 (7.14%) Cloud Composer
13 5 (5.10%) Matillion
14 3 (3.06%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (3.06%) AWS CloudFormation
14 3 (3.06%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.14%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (31.63%) BigQuery
2 30 (30.61%) Amazon Redshift
3 25 (25.51%) Apache Iceberg
3 25 (25.51%) Metadata
4 24 (24.49%) Tableau
5 22 (22.45%) Amazon Athena
6 18 (18.37%) Data Lake
7 16 (16.33%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (11.22%) Delta Lake
8 11 (11.22%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (10.20%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (10.20%) Looker
9 10 (10.20%) Power BI
10 9 (9.18%) Amazon QuickSight
10 9 (9.18%) Pinecone
10 9 (9.18%) Weaviate
11 7 (7.14%) Apache Arrow
11 7 (7.14%) Dremio
11 7 (7.14%) Semantic Layer
12 6 (6.12%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (17.35%) Git
2 10 (10.20%) MLflow
3 2 (2.04%) GitLab
3 2 (2.04%) JIRA
General
1 25 (25.51%) Social Skills
2 13 (13.27%) Finance
3 9 (9.18%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (9.18%) Law
4 7 (7.14%) Banking
4 7 (7.14%) Front Office
4 7 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.10%) Investment Banking
6 4 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.04%) Advertising
7 2 (2.04%) Legal
7 2 (2.04%) Retail
8 1 (1.02%) Music Industry
8 1 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.02%) Publishing
8 1 (1.02%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (54.08%) Data Engineer
2 35 (35.71%) Senior
3 18 (18.37%) Python Engineer
4 16 (16.33%) Lead
5 15 (15.31%) Senior Data Engineer
6 14 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
7 13 (13.27%) Lead Data Engineer
8 11 (11.22%) Consultant
9 9 (9.18%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
9 9 (9.18%) Data Consultant
9 9 (9.18%) Developer
9 9 (9.18%) Senior Consultant
10 8 (8.16%) Architect
10 8 (8.16%) Python Data Engineer
10 8 (8.16%) Python Developer
11 7 (7.14%) AWS Data Engineer
11 7 (7.14%) Principal Data Engineer
11 7 (7.14%) Principal Engineer
11 7 (7.14%) Python Software Engineer
11 7 (7.14%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (28.57%) Kafka
2 15 (15.31%) PyTorch
3 14 (14.29%) Pandas
3 14 (14.29%) TensorFlow
4 13 (13.27%) NumPy
5 11 (11.22%) SciPy
6 9 (9.18%) Faiss
6 9 (9.18%) vLLM
7 5 (5.10%) gRPC
7 5 (5.10%) OpenCV
7 5 (5.10%) Protocol Buffers
8 4 (4.08%) AngularJS
8 4 (4.08%) Google JAX
8 4 (4.08%) JAX
8 4 (4.08%) Node.js
8 4 (4.08%) React
8 4 (4.08%) Vue
9 3 (3.06%) PySpark
10 2 (2.04%) CSS
10 2 (2.04%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.33%) Cloud Native
2 11 (11.22%) Product Ownership
3 9 (9.18%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (8.16%) Data Structures
5 7 (7.14%) Equities
5 7 (7.14%) Fixed Income
5 7 (7.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (6.12%) Anti-Piracy
6 6 (6.12%) Social Media
7 5 (5.10%) Derivative
7 5 (5.10%) Hedge funds
7 5 (5.10%) Pricing Data
8 4 (4.08%) Algorithms
9 3 (3.06%) Client/Server
9 3 (3.06%) Replication
10 2 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (2.04%) Onboarding
10 2 (2.04%) Reference Data
10 2 (2.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.12%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (67.35%) Data Engineering
2 56 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
3 53 (54.08%) Analytics
4 49 (50.00%) ETL
5 42 (42.86%) Data Modelling
6 41 (41.84%) CI/CD
7 33 (33.67%) Business Intelligence
8 32 (32.65%) Data Governance
9 29 (29.59%) Data Science
10 25 (25.51%) Visualisation
11 24 (24.49%) Data Architecture
12 23 (23.47%) AI
12 23 (23.47%) Use Case
13 22 (22.45%) Agile
14 19 (19.39%) DevOps
14 19 (19.39%) Machine Learning
14 19 (19.39%) Roadmaps
14 19 (19.39%) Workflow
15 18 (18.37%) Computer Science
16 17 (17.35%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 82 (83.67%) Python
2 65 (66.33%) SQL
3 25 (25.51%) Java
4 19 (19.39%) Bash
5 17 (17.35%) Scala
6 10 (10.20%) JavaScript
7 9 (9.18%) Go
8 7 (7.14%) TypeScript
9 6 (6.12%) C++
10 2 (2.04%) Ruby
10 2 (2.04%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (1.02%) R
11 1 (1.02%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 23 (23.47%) Degree
2 13 (13.27%) SC Cleared
2 13 (13.27%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.04%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.04%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (30.61%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.06%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.02%) GDPR
System Software
1 28 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (11.22%) Terraform
2 8 (8.16%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.06%) Grafana
4 2 (2.04%) Ansible
4 2 (2.04%) Argo
4 2 (2.04%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (24.49%) Databricks
2 11 (11.22%) Google
3 10 (10.20%) Palantir
4 5 (5.10%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.06%) Informatica
6 2 (2.04%) Oracle
6 2 (2.04%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.02%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.02%) Apple
7 1 (1.02%) DataRobot
7 1 (1.02%) Foundry
7 1 (1.02%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.02%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.02%) SAP
7 1 (1.02%) Spotify
7 1 (1.02%) Talend