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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 213 217
Rank change year-on-year -111 +4 +195
Permanent jobs citing Apache Airflow 92 245 478
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.48% 1.66% 1.44%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.12% 13.35% 12.92%
Number of salaries quoted 64 234 465
10th Percentile £45,375 £80,000 £72,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £100,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £110,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.55% -4.35% +21.05%
75th Percentile £97,188 £137,500 £148,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £138,750 £165,000
UK median annual salary £68,750 £110,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year -37.50% -4.35% +27.78%

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 1,133 1,835 3,699
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 5.90% 12.40% 11.14%
Number of salaries quoted 842 1,189 2,885
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £88,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £122,500
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 30 May 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 (28.26%) Apache Spark
2 24 (26.09%) Apache
3 7 (7.61%) Jupyter
4 2 (2.17%) SAS
5 1 (1.09%) Palantir Foundry
Cloud Services
1 69 (75.00%) AWS
2 41 (44.57%) GCP
3 26 (28.26%) Amazon S3
4 25 (27.17%) dbt
4 25 (27.17%) Snowflake
5 24 (26.09%) Azure
5 24 (26.09%) Dagster
6 11 (11.96%) Amazon Kinesis
6 11 (11.96%) Prefect
7 10 (10.87%) Amazon EC2
7 10 (10.87%) Cloud Composer
8 9 (9.78%) Amazon SageMaker
8 9 (9.78%) Azure Machine Learning
8 9 (9.78%) Vertex AI
9 8 (8.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (8.70%) Amazon EMR
9 8 (8.70%) Serverless
10 6 (6.52%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (6.52%) Power Platform
11 5 (5.43%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.61%) Broadband
2 1 (1.09%) 4G
2 1 (1.09%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (35.87%) BigQuery
2 26 (28.26%) Amazon Redshift
3 21 (22.83%) Metadata
4 19 (20.65%) Apache Iceberg
5 18 (19.57%) Tableau
6 17 (18.48%) Amazon Athena
6 17 (18.48%) Data Lake
7 16 (17.39%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (10.87%) DynamoDB
8 10 (10.87%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (10.87%) Semantic Layer
9 9 (9.78%) Delta Lake
9 9 (9.78%) Looker
9 9 (9.78%) Pinecone
9 9 (9.78%) Weaviate
10 8 (8.70%) Amazon QuickSight
11 6 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (6.52%) Power BI
12 5 (5.43%) MySQL
12 5 (5.43%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (17.39%) Git
2 10 (10.87%) MLflow
3 8 (8.70%) GitLab
General
1 17 (18.48%) Public Sector
2 16 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 13 (14.13%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (9.78%) Law
5 5 (5.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.35%) Finance
7 3 (3.26%) Legal
8 2 (2.17%) Banking
8 2 (2.17%) Retail
8 2 (2.17%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.09%) Billing
9 1 (1.09%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 55 (59.78%) Data Engineer
2 31 (33.70%) Senior
3 18 (19.57%) Lead
3 18 (19.57%) Senior Data Engineer
4 14 (15.22%) Lead Data Engineer
5 10 (10.87%) Python Engineer
6 9 (9.78%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
6 9 (9.78%) Consultant
6 9 (9.78%) Data Consultant
6 9 (9.78%) Senior Consultant
7 8 (8.70%) Developer
7 8 (8.70%) Principal Data Engineer
7 8 (8.70%) Principal Engineer
8 7 (7.61%) Architect
8 7 (7.61%) Python Developer
9 6 (6.52%) AWS Data Engineer
9 6 (6.52%) AWS Engineer
9 6 (6.52%) Python Data Engineer
9 6 (6.52%) Snowflake Architect
10 5 (5.43%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (30.43%) Kafka
2 15 (16.30%) PyTorch
3 14 (15.22%) TensorFlow
4 9 (9.78%) Faiss
4 9 (9.78%) vLLM
5 6 (6.52%) NumPy
5 6 (6.52%) OpenCV
5 6 (6.52%) Pandas
5 6 (6.52%) PySpark
6 5 (5.43%) Google JAX
6 5 (5.43%) JAX
6 5 (5.43%) SciPy
7 3 (3.26%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (2.17%) Node.js
8 2 (2.17%) React
9 1 (1.09%) Apache Beam
9 1 (1.09%) Celery
9 1 (1.09%) OAuth2
9 1 (1.09%) pytest
9 1 (1.09%) Ray
Miscellaneous
1 21 (22.83%) Cloud Native
2 11 (11.96%) Product Ownership
3 10 (10.87%) Data Structures
4 8 (8.70%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (6.52%) Anti-Piracy
5 6 (6.52%) Social Media
6 5 (5.43%) Algorithms
7 3 (3.26%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (3.26%) Online Gambling
7 3 (3.26%) Replication
7 3 (3.26%) Sports Betting
8 2 (2.17%) AI Agents
8 2 (2.17%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (2.17%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.17%) Reference Data
8 2 (2.17%) Virtual Team
9 1 (1.09%) Clustering
9 1 (1.09%) Data Fabric
9 1 (1.09%) Educational Technology
9 1 (1.09%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.61%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (76.09%) Data Engineering
2 57 (61.96%) Data Pipeline
3 42 (45.65%) CI/CD
4 41 (44.57%) Analytics
4 41 (44.57%) ETL
5 40 (43.48%) Data Modelling
6 30 (32.61%) Data Governance
7 26 (28.26%) Workflow
8 24 (26.09%) Business Intelligence
8 24 (26.09%) Data Architecture
9 23 (25.00%) Data Science
10 21 (22.83%) Agile
10 21 (22.83%) AI
11 20 (21.74%) DevOps
11 20 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
11 20 (21.74%) Use Case
11 20 (21.74%) Visualisation
12 19 (20.65%) Validation
13 18 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
14 17 (18.48%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 78 (84.78%) Python
2 69 (75.00%) SQL
3 23 (25.00%) Bash
4 21 (22.83%) Java
5 16 (17.39%) Scala
6 9 (9.78%) Go
7 6 (6.52%) C++
8 2 (2.17%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.17%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.09%) R
9 1 (1.09%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 21 (22.83%) Degree
2 17 (18.48%) SC Cleared
2 17 (18.48%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (36.96%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.43%) QA
3 2 (2.17%) Accessibility
System Software
1 30 (32.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (21.74%) Terraform
2 6 (6.52%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.26%) Grafana
4 2 (2.17%) Ansible
4 2 (2.17%) Argo
4 2 (2.17%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.17%) Puppet
4 2 (2.17%) Salt
Vendors
1 21 (22.83%) Databricks
2 10 (10.87%) Palantir
3 9 (9.78%) Google
4 4 (4.35%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.17%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.09%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.09%) Foundry
6 1 (1.09%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.09%) Oracle
6 1 (1.09%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.09%) Trend Micro