diff --git a/airflow/providers/sftp/hooks/sftp.py b/airflow/providers/sftp/hooks/sftp.py
index 93eb3d52d45ea..85edeee46ef68 100644
--- a/airflow/providers/sftp/hooks/sftp.py
+++ b/airflow/providers/sftp/hooks/sftp.py
@@ -159,15 +159,16 @@ def list_directory(self, path: str) -> list[str]:
         files = sorted(conn.listdir(path))
         return files
 
-    def mkdir(self, path: str, mode: int = 777) -> None:
+    def mkdir(self, path: str, mode: int = 0o777) -> None:
         """
         Creates a directory on the remote system.
+        The default mode is 0777, but on some systems, the current umask value is first masked out.
 
         :param path: full path to the remote directory to create
-        :param mode: permissions to set the directory with
+        :param mode: int permissions of octal mode for directory
         """
         conn = self.get_conn()
-        conn.mkdir(path, mode=int(str(mode), 8))
+        conn.mkdir(path, mode=mode)
 
     def isdir(self, path: str) -> bool:
         """
@@ -195,12 +196,13 @@ def isfile(self, path: str) -> bool:
             result = False
         return result
 
-    def create_directory(self, path: str, mode: int = 777) -> None:
+    def create_directory(self, path: str, mode: int = 0o777) -> None:
         """
         Creates a directory on the remote system.
+        The default mode is 0777, but on some systems, the current umask value is first masked out.
 
         :param path: full path to the remote directory to create
-        :param mode: int representation of octal mode for directory
+        :param mode: int permissions of octal mode for directory
         """
         conn = self.get_conn()
         if self.isdir(path):
diff --git a/tests/providers/sftp/hooks/test_sftp.py b/tests/providers/sftp/hooks/test_sftp.py
index f3af70cc16d11..b471dc88b053f 100644
--- a/tests/providers/sftp/hooks/test_sftp.py
+++ b/tests/providers/sftp/hooks/test_sftp.py
@@ -107,12 +107,20 @@ def test_mkdir(self):
         self.hook.mkdir(os.path.join(TMP_PATH, TMP_DIR_FOR_TESTS, new_dir_name))
         output = self.hook.describe_directory(os.path.join(TMP_PATH, TMP_DIR_FOR_TESTS))
         assert new_dir_name in output
+        # test the directory has default permissions to 777 - umask
+        umask = 0o022
+        output = self.hook.get_conn().lstat(os.path.join(TMP_PATH, TMP_DIR_FOR_TESTS, new_dir_name))
+        assert output.st_mode & 0o777 == 0o777 - umask
 
     def test_create_and_delete_directory(self):
         new_dir_name = "new_dir"
         self.hook.create_directory(os.path.join(TMP_PATH, TMP_DIR_FOR_TESTS, new_dir_name))
         output = self.hook.describe_directory(os.path.join(TMP_PATH, TMP_DIR_FOR_TESTS))
         assert new_dir_name in output
+        # test the directory has default permissions to 777
+        umask = 0o022
+        output = self.hook.get_conn().lstat(os.path.join(TMP_PATH, TMP_DIR_FOR_TESTS, new_dir_name))
+        assert output.st_mode & 0o777 == 0o777 - umask
         # test directory already exists for code coverage, should not raise an exception
         self.hook.create_directory(os.path.join(TMP_PATH, TMP_DIR_FOR_TESTS, new_dir_name))
         # test path already exists and is a file, should raise an exception