Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

airflow

854 live US technical postings name airflow in September 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 854 postings naming airflow that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Data Engineer39.7%
  2. 2Software Engineer32%
  3. 3Data Scientist7.5%
  4. 4Machine Learning Engineer7.3%
  5. 5DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer6.3%
  6. 6AI Engineer2.3%
  7. 7Data Analyst2%
  8. 8Backend Engineer1.9%

What postings asking for it pay

Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.

Disclosed pay where airflow is named
n = 539
10th
$140k
25th
$165k
Median
$195k
75th
$225k
90th
$262k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA18.4%
  2. 2New York, NY16.9%
  3. 3Remote15.9%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA6.8%
  5. 5Boston, MA3.2%
  6. 6Washington, DC2.7%
  7. 7Seattle, WA2.2%
  8. 8Austin, TX2.1%

How we counted

668,970 live US postings read directly from 79,892 employers’ own careers pages in September 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.