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 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 283 177 386
Rank change year-on-year -106 +209 +119
Permanent jobs citing Apache Airflow 103 296 148
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.63% 1.93% 0.53%
As % of the Application Platforms category 9.45% 15.44% 5.03%
Number of salaries quoted 74 265 144
10th Percentile £61,625 £71,250 £60,600
25th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £91,250 £107,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.12% +7.50% +33.33%
75th Percentile £111,875 £122,500 £138,750
90th Percentile £137,500 £147,500 £151,625
UK median annual salary £82,500 £105,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -21.43% +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 1,090 1,917 2,943
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.65% 12.47% 10.59%
Number of salaries quoted 773 1,256 2,413
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,238 £43,750 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% -4.86%
75th Percentile £77,500 £90,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £115,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.28% +14.00% -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 21 February 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 28 (27.18%) Apache Spark
2 26 (25.24%) Apache
3 3 (2.91%) SAS
4 2 (1.94%) Confluence
5 1 (0.97%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.97%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 86 (83.50%) AWS
2 55 (53.40%) GCP
3 47 (45.63%) dbt
4 36 (34.95%) Snowflake
5 31 (30.10%) Azure
6 21 (20.39%) Dagster
7 17 (16.50%) Amazon S3
8 13 (12.62%) Vertex AI
9 12 (11.65%) Amazon Kinesis
10 9 (8.74%) Amazon SageMaker
10 9 (8.74%) Azure Machine Learning
10 9 (8.74%) Power Platform
11 6 (5.83%) Cloud Composer
11 6 (5.83%) Prefect
12 5 (4.85%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (4.85%) Matillion
12 5 (4.85%) Serverless
13 3 (2.91%) Fivetran
13 3 (2.91%) GitHub
14 2 (1.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.80%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (36.89%) Apache Iceberg
2 34 (33.01%) Amazon Athena
3 31 (30.10%) BigQuery
4 26 (25.24%) Amazon Redshift
5 23 (22.33%) Tableau
6 22 (21.36%) Metadata
7 21 (20.39%) Data Lake
8 20 (19.42%) Apache Arrow
8 20 (19.42%) Dremio
9 17 (16.50%) PostgreSQL
10 15 (14.56%) Data Warehouse
11 11 (10.68%) Delta Lake
11 11 (10.68%) Elasticsearch
12 10 (9.71%) Looker
12 10 (9.71%) Pinecone
13 9 (8.74%) Amazon QuickSight
13 9 (8.74%) Apache Ignite
13 9 (8.74%) Power BI
13 9 (8.74%) Weaviate
14 6 (5.83%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 12 (11.65%) Git
2 9 (8.74%) MLflow
3 2 (1.94%) GitLab
3 2 (1.94%) JIRA
General
1 27 (26.21%) Social Skills
2 26 (25.24%) Finance
3 20 (19.42%) Front Office
4 11 (10.68%) Banking
5 9 (8.74%) Investment Banking
6 8 (7.77%) Law
7 7 (6.80%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.88%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.91%) Retail
10 2 (1.94%) Advertising
10 2 (1.94%) Legal
11 1 (0.97%) Music Industry
11 1 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.97%) Publishing
11 1 (0.97%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 47 (45.63%) Data Engineer
2 35 (33.98%) Senior
3 28 (27.18%) Python Engineer
4 23 (22.33%) AWS Engineer
5 20 (19.42%) AWS Software Engineer
5 20 (19.42%) Python Software Engineer
5 20 (19.42%) Software Engineer
6 16 (15.53%) Lead
7 13 (12.62%) Developer
7 13 (12.62%) Senior Data Engineer
8 12 (11.65%) Lead Data Engineer
8 12 (11.65%) Python Developer
9 11 (10.68%) AWS Developer
9 11 (10.68%) Consultant
9 11 (10.68%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 9 (8.74%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
10 9 (8.74%) Data Consultant
10 9 (8.74%) Java Engineer
10 9 (8.74%) Java Software Engineer
10 9 (8.74%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (26.21%) Kafka
2 23 (22.33%) Pandas
3 21 (20.39%) NumPy
4 20 (19.42%) SciPy
5 14 (13.59%) AngularJS
5 14 (13.59%) React
6 13 (12.62%) Node.js
6 13 (12.62%) Vue
7 11 (10.68%) PyTorch
7 11 (10.68%) TensorFlow
8 9 (8.74%) Faiss
8 9 (8.74%) gRPC
8 9 (8.74%) Protocol Buffers
8 9 (8.74%) vLLM
9 2 (1.94%) CSS
9 2 (1.94%) HTML
9 2 (1.94%) PySpark
9 2 (1.94%) scikit-learn
10 1 (0.97%) Apache Beam
10 1 (0.97%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 20 (19.42%) Equities
1 20 (19.42%) Fixed Income
1 20 (19.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 15 (14.56%) Cloud Native
3 11 (10.68%) Product Ownership
4 9 (8.74%) Data Structures
4 9 (8.74%) Derivative
4 9 (8.74%) Hedge funds
4 9 (8.74%) Pricing Data
4 9 (8.74%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (5.83%) Anti-Piracy
5 6 (5.83%) Social Media
6 3 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.91%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.91%) Replication
7 2 (1.94%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.94%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.94%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.91%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (62.14%) Data Engineering
2 51 (49.51%) Analytics
3 46 (44.66%) Data Pipeline
4 44 (42.72%) ETL
5 40 (38.83%) Data Modelling
6 39 (37.86%) CI/CD
7 34 (33.01%) Agile
8 32 (31.07%) Data Governance
9 31 (30.10%) Business Intelligence
10 25 (24.27%) Data Science
10 25 (24.27%) Visualisation
11 24 (23.30%) Software Engineering
12 23 (22.33%) AI
12 23 (22.33%) Use Case
13 22 (21.36%) Roadmaps
14 21 (20.39%) Data Architecture
15 20 (19.42%) Asset Management
15 20 (19.42%) Investment Management
16 19 (18.45%) DevOps
17 18 (17.48%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 87 (84.47%) Python
2 60 (58.25%) SQL
3 29 (28.16%) Java
4 24 (23.30%) JavaScript
5 20 (19.42%) TypeScript
6 19 (18.45%) Bash
7 18 (17.48%) Scala
8 9 (8.74%) Go
9 6 (5.83%) C++
10 2 (1.94%) Ruby
10 2 (1.94%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.97%) C#
11 1 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.97%) R
11 1 (0.97%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 18 (17.48%) Degree
2 11 (10.68%) SC Cleared
2 11 (10.68%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.94%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.94%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (23.30%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.94%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.97%) GDPR
3 1 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 21 (20.39%) Docker
2 1 (0.97%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 9 (8.74%) Terraform
2 7 (6.80%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.94%) Ansible
3 2 (1.94%) Argo
3 2 (1.94%) Grafana
3 2 (1.94%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (15.53%) Databricks
2 11 (10.68%) Google
3 10 (9.71%) Palantir
4 6 (5.83%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.91%) Informatica
6 2 (1.94%) Oracle
6 2 (1.94%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.97%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.97%) Apple
7 1 (0.97%) DataRobot
7 1 (0.97%) Foundry
7 1 (0.97%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.97%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.97%) SAP
7 1 (0.97%) Spotify
7 1 (0.97%) Talend