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 26 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 264 183 378
Rank change year-on-year -81 +195 +122
Permanent jobs citing Apache Airflow 106 306 140
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.68% 1.88% 0.55%
As % of the Application Platforms category 10.34% 15.33% 5.13%
Number of salaries quoted 88 275 137
10th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £62,000
25th Percentile £81,625 £80,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £107,500 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +13.16% +22.58%
75th Percentile £135,000 £122,500 £132,500
90th Percentile £137,500 £147,500 £155,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £105,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +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 1,025 1,996 2,731
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.57% 12.23% 10.66%
Number of salaries quoted 728 1,307 2,219
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,038 £43,750 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,639 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% +10.25% -4.35%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £91,934
UK median annual salary £50,860 £55,762 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.79% +11.52% -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 26 January 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 35 (33.02%) Apache
2 21 (19.81%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.89%) Confluence
3 2 (1.89%) Luigi
4 1 (0.94%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.94%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 93 (87.74%) AWS
2 56 (52.83%) dbt
2 56 (52.83%) GCP
3 43 (40.57%) Snowflake
4 30 (28.30%) Azure
5 16 (15.09%) Amazon S3
6 13 (12.26%) Dagster
6 13 (12.26%) Vertex AI
7 11 (10.38%) Amazon Kinesis
8 7 (6.60%) Amazon SageMaker
8 7 (6.60%) Azure Machine Learning
9 6 (5.66%) Power Platform
9 6 (5.66%) Prefect
10 5 (4.72%) GitHub
10 5 (4.72%) Matillion
11 4 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (3.77%) Serverless
12 3 (2.83%) Cloud Run
12 3 (2.83%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (2.83%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.94%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (48.11%) Apache Iceberg
2 49 (46.23%) Amazon Athena
3 36 (33.96%) Apache Arrow
3 36 (33.96%) Dremio
4 30 (28.30%) Data Lake
5 24 (22.64%) BigQuery
5 24 (22.64%) PostgreSQL
6 22 (20.75%) Amazon Redshift
7 21 (19.81%) Tableau
8 19 (17.92%) Apache Ignite
9 14 (13.21%) Data Warehouse
10 13 (12.26%) Metadata
11 11 (10.38%) Elasticsearch
12 10 (9.43%) Pinecone
13 9 (8.49%) Delta Lake
14 8 (7.55%) Amazon QuickSight
14 8 (7.55%) Looker
14 8 (7.55%) NoSQL
15 7 (6.60%) Weaviate
16 6 (5.66%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (10.38%) Git
2 7 (6.60%) MLflow
3 2 (1.89%) GitLab
3 2 (1.89%) JIRA
General
1 43 (40.57%) Finance
2 36 (33.96%) Front Office
3 22 (20.75%) Social Skills
4 21 (19.81%) Banking
5 19 (17.92%) Investment Banking
6 7 (6.60%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.89%) Advertising
8 2 (1.89%) Law
8 2 (1.89%) Legal
8 2 (1.89%) Retail
9 1 (0.94%) Marketing
9 1 (0.94%) Music Industry
9 1 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.94%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.94%) Publishing
9 1 (0.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 43 (40.57%) Python Engineer
2 38 (35.85%) AWS Engineer
3 36 (33.96%) AWS Software Engineer
3 36 (33.96%) Data Engineer
3 36 (33.96%) Python Software Engineer
3 36 (33.96%) Software Engineer
4 33 (31.13%) Senior
5 19 (17.92%) Java Engineer
5 19 (17.92%) Java Software Engineer
6 18 (16.98%) Developer
7 17 (16.04%) AWS Developer
7 17 (16.04%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 17 (16.04%) Python Developer
7 17 (16.04%) Senior Java Engineer
7 17 (16.04%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 17 (16.04%) Senior Software Engineer
8 14 (13.21%) Lead
9 10 (9.43%) Lead Data Engineer
10 9 (8.49%) Consultant
11 7 (6.60%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (37.74%) Pandas
2 37 (34.91%) NumPy
3 36 (33.96%) SciPy
4 22 (20.75%) Kafka
5 20 (18.87%) AngularJS
5 20 (18.87%) React
6 19 (17.92%) gRPC
6 19 (17.92%) Node.js
6 19 (17.92%) Protocol Buffers
6 19 (17.92%) Vue
7 9 (8.49%) PyTorch
7 9 (8.49%) TensorFlow
8 7 (6.60%) Faiss
8 7 (6.60%) vLLM
9 3 (2.83%) LangChain
9 3 (2.83%) Next.js
9 3 (2.83%) scikit-learn
10 2 (1.89%) CSS
10 2 (1.89%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (1.89%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 36 (33.96%) Equities
1 36 (33.96%) Fixed Income
1 36 (33.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 19 (17.92%) Derivative
2 19 (17.92%) Hedge funds
2 19 (17.92%) Pricing Data
3 16 (15.09%) Cloud Native
4 8 (7.55%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (6.60%) Product Ownership
6 5 (4.72%) Data Structures
6 5 (4.72%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.89%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.89%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.89%) Legacy Code
8 2 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.94%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.94%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.94%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.89%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (47.17%) Data Engineering
2 48 (45.28%) Agile
3 40 (37.74%) Analytics
3 40 (37.74%) Software Engineering
4 36 (33.96%) Asset Management
4 36 (33.96%) Investment Management
5 35 (33.02%) CI/CD
5 35 (33.02%) Data Pipeline
6 34 (32.08%) ETL
7 30 (28.30%) Data Modelling
8 25 (23.58%) AI
8 25 (23.58%) Business Intelligence
9 23 (21.70%) Data Governance
10 21 (19.81%) Fintech
11 20 (18.87%) Roadmaps
11 20 (18.87%) Use Case
12 19 (17.92%) Data Architecture
12 19 (17.92%) Data Science
12 19 (17.92%) DevOps
12 19 (17.92%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 94 (88.68%) Python
2 48 (45.28%) SQL
3 40 (37.74%) JavaScript
4 36 (33.96%) TypeScript
5 33 (31.13%) Java
6 16 (15.09%) Bash
7 12 (11.32%) Scala
8 7 (6.60%) Go
9 2 (1.89%) Ruby
10 1 (0.94%) C#
10 1 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.94%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 16 (15.09%) Degree
2 8 (7.55%) SC Cleared
2 8 (7.55%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.89%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.89%) SnowPro
5 1 (0.94%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.94%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (19.81%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.89%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.94%) GDPR
System Software
1 17 (16.04%) Docker
2 1 (0.94%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 9 (8.49%) Terraform
2 8 (7.55%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.77%) Ansible
4 2 (1.89%) Argo
4 2 (1.89%) Grafana
4 2 (1.89%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.89%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.89%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (12.26%) Google
2 12 (11.32%) Databricks
3 8 (7.55%) Palantir
4 4 (3.77%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.83%) Informatica
6 2 (1.89%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.94%) Amplitude
7 1 (0.94%) Apple
7 1 (0.94%) DataRobot
7 1 (0.94%) Foundry
7 1 (0.94%) Oracle
7 1 (0.94%) SAP
7 1 (0.94%) Spotify
7 1 (0.94%) Talend