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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 288 184 375
Rank change year-on-year -104 +191 +139
Permanent jobs citing Apache Airflow 95 283 179
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.57% 1.92% 0.61%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.85% 14.91% 5.67%
Number of salaries quoted 64 255 174
10th Percentile £58,625 £71,250 £62,000
25th Percentile £74,375 £80,000 £79,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £88,500 £107,500 £112,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.67% -4.44% +45.16%
75th Percentile £100,625 £122,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £136,750 £145,500 £155,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £106,250 £100,000
% change year-on-year -24.71% +6.25% +22.70%

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 1,074 1,898 3,156
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.41% 12.87% 10.79%
Number of salaries quoted 757 1,298 2,597
10th Percentile £30,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £77,424 £87,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
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 7 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 28 (29.47%) Apache Spark
2 24 (25.26%) Apache
3 3 (3.16%) SAS
4 2 (2.11%) Confluence
5 1 (1.05%) Jupyter
5 1 (1.05%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 79 (83.16%) AWS
2 49 (51.58%) GCP
3 39 (41.05%) dbt
4 32 (33.68%) Snowflake
5 29 (30.53%) Azure
6 22 (23.16%) Dagster
7 20 (21.05%) Amazon S3
8 12 (12.63%) Amazon Kinesis
8 12 (12.63%) Vertex AI
9 10 (10.53%) Power Platform
10 9 (9.47%) Amazon SageMaker
10 9 (9.47%) Azure Machine Learning
11 8 (8.42%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (8.42%) Serverless
12 7 (7.37%) Prefect
13 6 (6.32%) Cloud Composer
14 5 (5.26%) Matillion
15 3 (3.16%) Amazon EC2
15 3 (3.16%) Fivetran
15 3 (3.16%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.37%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (31.58%) BigQuery
2 29 (30.53%) Amazon Redshift
2 29 (30.53%) Apache Iceberg
3 25 (26.32%) Amazon Athena
3 25 (26.32%) Metadata
4 24 (25.26%) Tableau
5 18 (18.95%) Data Lake
6 15 (15.79%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (13.68%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (11.58%) Apache Arrow
8 11 (11.58%) Delta Lake
8 11 (11.58%) Dremio
9 10 (10.53%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (10.53%) Looker
9 10 (10.53%) Power BI
10 9 (9.47%) Amazon QuickSight
10 9 (9.47%) Pinecone
10 9 (9.47%) Weaviate
11 6 (6.32%) Apache Ignite
11 6 (6.32%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 12 (12.63%) Git
2 9 (9.47%) MLflow
3 2 (2.11%) GitLab
3 2 (2.11%) JIRA
General
1 25 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 17 (17.89%) Finance
3 11 (11.58%) Front Office
4 9 (9.47%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (9.47%) Law
5 8 (8.42%) Banking
6 6 (6.32%) Investment Banking
6 6 (6.32%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.11%) Advertising
8 2 (2.11%) Legal
8 2 (2.11%) Retail
9 1 (1.05%) Music Industry
9 1 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.05%) Publishing
9 1 (1.05%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 51 (53.68%) Data Engineer
2 34 (35.79%) Senior
3 20 (21.05%) Python Engineer
4 17 (17.89%) AWS Engineer
5 16 (16.84%) Lead
6 15 (15.79%) Senior Data Engineer
7 13 (13.68%) Lead Data Engineer
8 11 (11.58%) AWS Software Engineer
8 11 (11.58%) Consultant
8 11 (11.58%) Python Software Engineer
8 11 (11.58%) Software Engineer
9 9 (9.47%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
9 9 (9.47%) Data Consultant
9 9 (9.47%) Senior Consultant
10 8 (8.42%) Architect
11 7 (7.37%) Developer
11 7 (7.37%) Principal Engineer
11 7 (7.37%) Python Data Engineer
12 6 (6.32%) AWS Data Engineer
12 6 (6.32%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (28.42%) Kafka
2 14 (14.74%) Pandas
3 12 (12.63%) NumPy
4 11 (11.58%) PyTorch
4 11 (11.58%) SciPy
4 11 (11.58%) TensorFlow
5 9 (9.47%) Faiss
5 9 (9.47%) vLLM
6 7 (7.37%) AngularJS
6 7 (7.37%) Node.js
6 7 (7.37%) React
6 7 (7.37%) Vue
7 6 (6.32%) gRPC
7 6 (6.32%) Protocol Buffers
8 3 (3.16%) PySpark
9 2 (2.11%) CSS
9 2 (2.11%) HTML
9 2 (2.11%) scikit-learn
10 1 (1.05%) Apache Beam
10 1 (1.05%) Ray
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.68%) Cloud Native
2 11 (11.58%) Equities
2 11 (11.58%) Fixed Income
2 11 (11.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 11 (11.58%) Product Ownership
3 9 (9.47%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (8.42%) Data Structures
5 6 (6.32%) Anti-Piracy
5 6 (6.32%) Derivative
5 6 (6.32%) Hedge funds
5 6 (6.32%) Pricing Data
5 6 (6.32%) Social Media
6 3 (3.16%) Replication
7 2 (2.11%) Client/Server
7 2 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.11%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.11%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.11%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (68.42%) Data Engineering
2 52 (54.74%) Analytics
3 50 (52.63%) Data Pipeline
4 48 (50.53%) ETL
5 42 (44.21%) Data Modelling
6 38 (40.00%) CI/CD
7 32 (33.68%) Business Intelligence
7 32 (33.68%) Data Governance
8 29 (30.53%) Data Science
9 25 (26.32%) Agile
9 25 (26.32%) Visualisation
10 24 (25.26%) Data Architecture
11 23 (24.21%) Use Case
12 22 (23.16%) AI
13 20 (21.05%) Roadmaps
14 18 (18.95%) Computer Science
14 18 (18.95%) DevOps
14 18 (18.95%) Machine Learning
14 18 (18.95%) Workflow
15 17 (17.89%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 79 (83.16%) Python
2 63 (66.32%) SQL
3 26 (27.37%) Java
4 19 (20.00%) Bash
5 17 (17.89%) Scala
6 14 (14.74%) JavaScript
7 11 (11.58%) TypeScript
8 9 (9.47%) Go
9 6 (6.32%) C++
10 2 (2.11%) Ruby
10 2 (2.11%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (1.05%) R
11 1 (1.05%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 20 (21.05%) Degree
2 13 (13.68%) SC Cleared
2 13 (13.68%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.11%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.11%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (29.47%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.11%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.05%) GDPR
System Software
1 22 (23.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (9.47%) Terraform
2 6 (6.32%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.11%) Ansible
3 2 (2.11%) Argo
3 2 (2.11%) Grafana
3 2 (2.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (21.05%) Databricks
2 10 (10.53%) Google
2 10 (10.53%) Palantir
3 5 (5.26%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.16%) Informatica
5 2 (2.11%) Oracle
5 2 (2.11%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.05%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.05%) Apple
6 1 (1.05%) DataRobot
6 1 (1.05%) Foundry
6 1 (1.05%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.05%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.05%) SAP
6 1 (1.05%) Spotify
6 1 (1.05%) Talend