# Airflow Survey 2020

DevFeed: [Airflow Survey 2020](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/airflow-survey-2020-32544.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://airflow.apache.org/blog/airflow-survey-2020/>)

Author: Apache Airflow

Published: 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Apache Airflow Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/apache-airflow-blog.md>)

Topics: [airflow](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/airflow.md>), [data-processing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-processing.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>)

Tags: [airflow](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/airflow.md>), [apache-airflow](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apache-airflow.md>), [community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community.md>), [data-processing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-processing.md>), [ml](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ml.md>), [survey](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/survey.md>), [users](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/users.md>)

## AI overview

The Apache Airflow Survey 2020 reports continued growth in Airflow users and active contributors. Most respondents were data engineers, scientists, or analysts, and 79% used Airflow daily. While 85.71% were happy with Airflow, 14.29% considered moving to another workflow engine, citing workflow-writing experience, UI/UX, and scheduler speed.

## Source excerpt

Apache Airflow Survey 2020 World of data processing tools is growing steadily. Apache Airflow seems to be already considered as crucial component of this complex ecosystem. We observe steady growth in number of users as well as in an amount of active contributors. So listening and understanding our community is of high importance. It's worth to note that the 2020 survey was still mostly about 1.10.X version of Apache Airflow and possibly many drawbacks were addressed in the 2.0 version that was released in December 2020. But if this is true, we will learn next year! Overview of the user What best describes your current occupation? (single choice) No. % Data Engineer 115 56.65 Developer 28 13.79 DevOps 17 8.37 Solutions Architect 14 6.9 Data Scientist 12 5.91 Other 10 4.93 Data Analyst 4 1.97 Support Engineer 3 1.48 Those results are not a surprise as Airflow is a tool dedicated to data-related tasks. The majority of our users are data engineers, scientists or analysts. The 2020 results are similar to those from 2019 with visible slight increase in ML use cases. Additionally, 79% of users uses Airflow on daily basis and 16% interacts with it at least once a week. How many people work in your company? (single choice) No. % 200+ 107 52.71 51-200 44 21.67 11-50 37 18.23 1-10 15 7.39 How many people in your company use Airflow? (single choice) No. % 1-5 84 41.38 6-20 75 36.95 21-50 23 11.33 50+ 21 10.34 Airflow is a software that is used and trusted by big companies. We can also see that Airflow can work fine for teams of different sizes. However, in some cases users may use multiple Airflow instances. Are you considering moving to other workflow engines? (single choice) No. % No, we are happy with Airflow 174 85.71 Yes 29 14.29 Nearly 1 out of 7 users is considering migrating to other workflow engines. Their decision is usually justified by need of easier workflow writing experience (12.32%), better UI/UX and faster scheduler (8.37% both). While the first point may be a