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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 416 234 102
Rank change year-on-year -182 -132 +229
Permanent jobs citing Apache Airflow 41 194 639
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.16% 1.17% 2.96%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.76% 13.32% 24.37%
Number of salaries quoted 30 193 622
10th Percentile £49,375 £80,000 £77,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £100,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £130,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -44.23% +13.04% +21.05%
75th Percentile £97,813 £137,500 £147,500
90th Percentile £115,000 - £165,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £110,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year -36.36% -4.35% +21.05%

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 1,483 1,457 2,622
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 5.96% 8.77% 12.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,103 980 1,773
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £31,300
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,903 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £70,000 £88,750 £115,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £135,000 £143,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £56,763
% change year-on-year -4.76% -7.51% +3.20%

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 11 October 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 25 (60.98%) Apache
2 9 (21.95%) Apache Spark
2 9 (21.95%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 26 (63.41%) AWS
2 16 (39.02%) Amazon S3
3 15 (36.59%) Amazon EMR
3 15 (36.59%) dbt
4 12 (29.27%) GCP
4 12 (29.27%) SaaS
5 9 (21.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (21.95%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (19.51%) Azure
6 8 (19.51%) Cloud Composer
6 8 (19.51%) Snowflake
7 7 (17.07%) Amazon ECR
7 7 (17.07%) Power Platform
8 6 (14.63%) GitHub
9 5 (12.20%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 5 (12.20%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (7.32%) Dagster
10 3 (7.32%) Textract
11 2 (4.88%) AWS Step Functions
11 2 (4.88%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.44%) 4G
1 1 (2.44%) 5G
1 1 (2.44%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (36.59%) Amazon Athena
2 14 (34.15%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (24.39%) BigQuery
4 9 (21.95%) Data Lake
5 7 (17.07%) Apache Iceberg
5 7 (17.07%) Power BI
6 6 (14.63%) DynamoDB
6 6 (14.63%) Looker
6 6 (14.63%) SQL Server
7 4 (9.76%) Flink
7 4 (9.76%) Semantic Layer
8 3 (7.32%) Big Data
8 3 (7.32%) Metadata
8 3 (7.32%) OLTP
8 3 (7.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (7.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (7.32%) SSDT
9 2 (4.88%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (4.88%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (2.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (26.83%) GitLab
2 9 (21.95%) Git
3 5 (12.20%) Poetry
4 3 (7.32%) JIRA
5 1 (2.44%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.44%) MLflow
General
1 15 (36.59%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (24.39%) Social Skills
3 9 (21.95%) Public Sector
4 5 (12.20%) Finance
4 5 (12.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (12.20%) Legal
5 2 (4.88%) Billing
6 1 (2.44%) Tech for Good
6 1 (2.44%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.44%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 25 (60.98%) Data Engineer
2 19 (46.34%) Senior
3 14 (34.15%) Senior Data Engineer
4 6 (14.63%) Test Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Lead
6 4 (9.76%) Data Scientist
6 4 (9.76%) Lead Test Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Database Developer
7 3 (7.32%) Developer
7 3 (7.32%) Principal Data Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Principal Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Senior Database Developer
7 3 (7.32%) Senior Developer
8 2 (4.88%) Senior Data Scientist
9 1 (2.44%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 1 (2.44%) AWS Data Engineer
9 1 (2.44%) Databricks Engineer
9 1 (2.44%) GCP Data Engineer
9 1 (2.44%) GCP Engineer
9 1 (2.44%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (56.10%) Terraform
2 14 (34.15%) PySpark
3 8 (19.51%) Kafka
4 4 (9.76%) Apache Beam
5 1 (2.44%) FastAPI
5 1 (2.44%) LangChain
5 1 (2.44%) PyTorch
5 1 (2.44%) REST
5 1 (2.44%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 14 (34.15%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.32%) Data Structures
2 3 (7.32%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.44%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.44%) Clustering
3 1 (2.44%) Credit Risk
3 1 (2.44%) Educational Technology
3 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.44%) IoT
3 1 (2.44%) Linked Data
3 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (80.49%) Data Pipeline
2 29 (70.73%) Data Engineering
3 25 (60.98%) CI/CD
4 20 (48.78%) Analytics
4 20 (48.78%) Data Modelling
5 18 (43.90%) AI
5 18 (43.90%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (41.46%) Machine Learning
7 16 (39.02%) Agile
7 16 (39.02%) Validation
8 13 (31.71%) Observability
9 12 (29.27%) Workflow
10 11 (26.83%) Data Analysis
10 11 (26.83%) DevOps
11 10 (24.39%) Mentoring
11 10 (24.39%) Migration
11 10 (24.39%) Root Cause Analysis
11 10 (24.39%) Software Engineering
12 9 (21.95%) Containerisation
13 8 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 40 (97.56%) Python
2 36 (87.80%) SQL
3 10 (24.39%) Java
4 6 (14.63%) Bash
5 4 (9.76%) Scala
5 4 (9.76%) Shell Script
6 3 (7.32%) C#
6 3 (7.32%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.44%) Bicep
7 1 (2.44%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (24.39%) SC Cleared
1 10 (24.39%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.88%) Degree
3 1 (2.44%) CISM
3 1 (2.44%) CISSP
3 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (63.41%) Data Quality
2 6 (14.63%) QA
3 3 (7.32%) GDPR
4 1 (2.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.44%) SOC 2
System Software
1 23 (56.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (17.07%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.32%) SQL Sentry
3 1 (2.44%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 10 (24.39%) Google
2 7 (17.07%) Databricks
3 4 (9.76%) Microsoft
3 4 (9.76%) New Relic
3 4 (9.76%) Splunk
4 3 (7.32%) RedGate
5 1 (2.44%) Cloudera