Which roles ask for Airflow at tech companies · 68 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026
Updated
68 roles counted that list Airflow, one per company, title and level; 201 postings in the window.
In short
Airflow: listed in 68 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 41 and preferred in 27. The largest group is data engineer roles: 32 of 68 (47%).
- Required
- 41 of 68 (60%)
- Of the roles that list Airflow
- Preferred
- 27 of 68 (40%)
- Of the roles that list Airflow
- Largest group
- 32 of 68 (47%)
- Data engineer
Roles that ask for Airflow
Roles listing Airflow, by title family. Where the role has a page, the count is also out of that role's roles whose requirements we read.
| Role | Roles | Of the role's roles we read |
|---|---|---|
| Data engineer | 32 | 32 of 99 (32%) |
| Software engineer | 14 | 14 of 719 (2%) |
| Data scientist | 6 | 6 of 112 (5%) |
| Machine learning engineer | 6 | 6 of 79 (8%) |
| Analytics engineer | 5 | 5 of 28 |
| AI engineer | 2 | 2 of 70 (3%) |
| Data analyst | 2 | 2 of 47 |
| DevOps engineer | 1 | 1 of 58 (2%) |
Companies that ask for it most
- Airbnb4 roles
- Cohere3 roles
- CoreWeave3 roles
- Snorkel AI3 roles
- Abnormal2 roles
- Anthropic2 roles
- Okta2 roles
- Socure2 roles
- FXC Intelligence1 role
- Matrix Global1 role
Asked alongside
Out of the 68 Airflow roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. At most 10 per list, those asked for most.
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Python | 60 of 68 (88%) |
| SQL | 47 of 68 (69%) |
| Data Modeling | 31 of 68 (46%) |
| AWS | 24 of 68 (35%) |
| ETL | 23 of 68 (34%) |
| Spark | 23 of 68 (34%) |
| dbt | 20 of 68 (29%) |
| Snowflake | 19 of 68 (28%) |
| AI | 17 of 68 (25%) |
| Data Warehousing | 16 of 68 (24%) |
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| dbt | 11 of 68 (16%) |
| AI | 10 of 68 (15%) |
| GCP | 10 of 68 (15%) |
| Azure | 9 of 68 (13%) |
| AWS | 8 of 68 (12%) |
| Data Infrastructure | 8 of 68 (12%) |
| Data Warehousing | 8 of 68 (12%) |
| Kafka | 8 of 68 (12%) |
| LLMs | 8 of 68 (12%) |
| AI Agents | 7 of 68 (10%) |
Experience
Of the 46 roles that state years
Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.
- 1+ year
- 46 of 46
- 2+ years
- 45 of 46
- 3+ years
- 43 of 46
- 5+ years
- 32 of 46
- 8+ years
- 12 of 46
- 10+ years
- 5 of 46
Degree
Of the 54 roles we could read for it
- Required
- 9 of 54 (17%)
- Required, or experience instead
- 8 of 54 (15%)
- Preferred
- 2 of 54 (4%)
- Not mentioned
- 35 of 54 (65%)
Pay and remote work
Of the 68 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.
- Roles stating pay
- 32 of 68 (47%)
- Remote roles
- 41 of 68 (60%)
How we count: 68 roles from 55 employers in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026, each role counted once however many boards post it. Skills are counted out of the roles whose requirements we read. Roles are not filtered by country. Methodology