Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

airflow

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

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 855 postings naming airflow that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Data Engineer38.4%
  2. 2Software Engineer32.2%
  3. 3Data Scientist8.1%
  4. 4DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer6.9%
  5. 5Machine Learning Engineer6.8%
  6. 6AI Engineer2.5%
  7. 7Backend Engineer2.2%
  8. 8Data Analyst1.9%

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 = 550
10th
$137k
25th
$163k
Median
$196k
75th
$225k
90th
$268k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA16.7%
  2. 2New York, NY16.3%
  3. 3Remote15.3%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA6.4%
  5. 5Washington, DC3.3%
  6. 6Boston, MA2.9%
  7. 7Seattle, WA2.7%
  8. 8Chicago, IL2.2%

How we counted

967,730 live US postings read directly from 82,954 employers’ own careers pages in October 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.