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 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 151 337
Rank change year-on-year -133 +186 +171
Permanent jobs citing Apache Airflow 99 287 238
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.59% 2.23% 0.76%
As % of the Application Platforms category 9.37% 16.29% 7.03%
Number of salaries quoted 68 262 230
10th Percentile £50,188 £75,449 £66,125
25th Percentile £62,500 £85,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,500 £110,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.27% -4.35% +35.29%
75th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £143,750
90th Percentile £109,000 £147,500 £165,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £110,000 £110,000
% change year-on-year -31.82% - +29.41%

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 1,057 1,762 3,386
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.27% 13.72% 10.88%
Number of salaries quoted 754 1,301 2,752
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £39,740
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £90,000 £74,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £97,500
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 2 April 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 26 (26.26%) Apache Spark
2 22 (22.22%) Apache
3 3 (3.03%) SAS
4 2 (2.02%) Confluence
5 1 (1.01%) Jupyter
5 1 (1.01%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 76 (76.77%) AWS
2 46 (46.46%) GCP
3 32 (32.32%) dbt
4 31 (31.31%) Snowflake
5 29 (29.29%) Azure
6 26 (26.26%) Dagster
7 22 (22.22%) Amazon S3
8 14 (14.14%) Prefect
9 13 (13.13%) Amazon Kinesis
10 12 (12.12%) Vertex AI
11 11 (11.11%) Serverless
12 10 (10.10%) Power Platform
13 9 (9.09%) Amazon SageMaker
13 9 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (9.09%) Azure Machine Learning
14 7 (7.07%) Cloud Composer
15 5 (5.05%) Matillion
16 3 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
16 3 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
16 3 (3.03%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.07%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (33.33%) BigQuery
2 32 (32.32%) Amazon Redshift
3 25 (25.25%) Metadata
4 24 (24.24%) Tableau
5 22 (22.22%) Apache Iceberg
6 18 (18.18%) Amazon Athena
6 18 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
7 16 (16.16%) Data Lake
8 10 (10.10%) Delta Lake
8 10 (10.10%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (10.10%) Looker
8 10 (10.10%) Power BI
9 9 (9.09%) Amazon QuickSight
9 9 (9.09%) Pinecone
9 9 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (9.09%) Weaviate
10 7 (7.07%) Semantic Layer
11 6 (6.06%) NoSQL
11 6 (6.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (5.05%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (17.17%) Git
2 10 (10.10%) MLflow
3 2 (2.02%) JIRA
4 1 (1.01%) GitLab
General
1 24 (24.24%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.12%) Finance
3 9 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (9.09%) Law
4 7 (7.07%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.06%) Banking
6 4 (4.04%) Front Office
6 4 (4.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.04%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.02%) Advertising
7 2 (2.02%) Legal
7 2 (2.02%) Retail
8 1 (1.01%) Music Industry
8 1 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.01%) Publishing
8 1 (1.01%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (54.55%) Data Engineer
2 33 (33.33%) Senior
3 18 (18.18%) Lead
4 15 (15.15%) Lead Data Engineer
4 15 (15.15%) Python Engineer
4 15 (15.15%) Senior Data Engineer
5 11 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
5 11 (11.11%) Consultant
6 9 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
6 9 (9.09%) Data Consultant
6 9 (9.09%) Senior Consultant
7 8 (8.08%) Architect
7 8 (8.08%) Python Data Engineer
8 7 (7.07%) AWS Data Engineer
8 7 (7.07%) Developer
9 6 (6.06%) Principal Data Engineer
9 6 (6.06%) Principal Engineer
9 6 (6.06%) Python Developer
9 6 (6.06%) Snowflake Architect
10 4 (4.04%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (31.31%) Kafka
2 15 (15.15%) PyTorch
3 14 (14.14%) TensorFlow
4 10 (10.10%) Pandas
5 9 (9.09%) Faiss
5 9 (9.09%) NumPy
5 9 (9.09%) vLLM
6 8 (8.08%) SciPy
7 5 (5.05%) OpenCV
8 4 (4.04%) Google JAX
8 4 (4.04%) gRPC
8 4 (4.04%) JAX
8 4 (4.04%) Node.js
8 4 (4.04%) Protocol Buffers
8 4 (4.04%) React
9 3 (3.03%) PySpark
9 3 (3.03%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (2.02%) AngularJS
10 2 (2.02%) HTML
10 2 (2.02%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.15%) Cloud Native
2 11 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 9 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (8.08%) Data Structures
5 6 (6.06%) Anti-Piracy
5 6 (6.06%) Social Media
6 4 (4.04%) Algorithms
6 4 (4.04%) Derivative
6 4 (4.04%) Equities
6 4 (4.04%) Fixed Income
6 4 (4.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (4.04%) Hedge funds
6 4 (4.04%) Onboarding
6 4 (4.04%) Pricing Data
7 3 (3.03%) Client/Server
7 3 (3.03%) Replication
8 2 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (2.02%) Online Gambling
8 2 (2.02%) Reference Data
8 2 (2.02%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.06%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 57 (57.58%) Data Pipeline
3 51 (51.52%) Analytics
4 49 (49.49%) ETL
5 42 (42.42%) Data Modelling
6 40 (40.40%) CI/CD
7 33 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
8 32 (32.32%) Data Governance
9 28 (28.28%) Data Science
10 26 (26.26%) Data Architecture
11 25 (25.25%) Visualisation
12 24 (24.24%) AI
13 23 (23.23%) Use Case
13 23 (23.23%) Workflow
14 21 (21.21%) Agile
14 21 (21.21%) DevOps
15 19 (19.19%) Machine Learning
15 19 (19.19%) Problem-Solving
15 19 (19.19%) Roadmaps
16 18 (18.18%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 79 (79.80%) Python
2 65 (65.66%) SQL
3 24 (24.24%) Java
4 19 (19.19%) Bash
5 17 (17.17%) Scala
6 9 (9.09%) Go
7 7 (7.07%) JavaScript
8 6 (6.06%) C++
8 6 (6.06%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.02%) Ruby
9 2 (2.02%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.01%) R
10 1 (1.01%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 23 (23.23%) Degree
2 13 (13.13%) SC Cleared
2 13 (13.13%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.02%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.02%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (29.29%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.03%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.01%) GDPR
System Software
1 27 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (13.13%) Terraform
2 10 (10.10%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.04%) Ansible
3 4 (4.04%) Argo
4 3 (3.03%) Grafana
5 2 (2.02%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.02%) Puppet
5 2 (2.02%) Salt
Vendors
1 23 (23.23%) Databricks
2 11 (11.11%) Google
3 10 (10.10%) Palantir
4 5 (5.05%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.03%) Informatica
6 2 (2.02%) Oracle
6 2 (2.02%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.02%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.01%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.01%) Apple
7 1 (1.01%) DataRobot
7 1 (1.01%) Foundry
7 1 (1.01%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.01%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.01%) SAP
7 1 (1.01%) Spotify
7 1 (1.01%) Talend