Python Data Engineer Jobs in England

Python Data Engineer
UK > England

The median Python Data Engineer salary in England is £92,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 601 731 771
Rank change year-on-year +130 +40 +228
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Data Engineer 47 91 180
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.10% 0.11% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.11% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 35 82 174
10th Percentile £70,000 £47,750 £62,500
25th Percentile £77,500 £62,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £73,750 £117,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.42% -37.23% +56.67%
75th Percentile £115,000 £87,500 £150,000
90th Percentile £133,750 £120,000 £200,000
UK median annual salary £92,500 £70,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year +32.14% -39.13% +53.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 41,506 80,486 84,681
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 94.46% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 24,507 60,251 53,657
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
Median % change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Python Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Python Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Python Data Engineer in England

Python Data Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python Data Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Python Data Engineer in England

Python Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python Data Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Python Data Engineer in England

Python Data Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python Data Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +91 36 £92,500 +15.63% 4
South East +114 7 - -
North of England +69 3 £63,750 +15.91% 2
Yorkshire +73 2 £63,750 -25.00%
Midlands +80 1 £65,000 +13.04% 1
North East +47 1 - - 1
East Midlands - 1 £65,000 - 1
Python Data Engineer
UK

Python Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Python Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Python Data Engineer in the job title.

1 47 (100.00%) Python
2 42 (89.36%) Data Engineering
3 33 (70.21%) PySpark
4 31 (65.96%) Software Engineering
4 31 (65.96%) AWS
5 30 (63.83%) Apache Airflow
5 30 (63.83%) Apache Iceberg
6 29 (61.70%) dbt
7 28 (59.57%) Dremio
7 28 (59.57%) Azure
8 26 (55.32%) Finance
8 26 (55.32%) Analytics
9 25 (53.19%) Agile
10 24 (51.06%) Front Office
11 23 (48.94%) Java
11 23 (48.94%) Banking
11 23 (48.94%) Asset Management
11 23 (48.94%) Investment Management
11 23 (48.94%) SciPy
11 23 (48.94%) NumPy
11 23 (48.94%) Pandas
11 23 (48.94%) GCP
11 23 (48.94%) Amazon Athena
11 23 (48.94%) Roadmaps
11 23 (48.94%) Dagster
12 20 (42.55%) Degree
13 19 (40.43%) Product Ownership
14 18 (38.30%) Quantitative Analysis
14 18 (38.30%) Portfolio Management
14 18 (38.30%) Fixed Income

Python Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 30 (63.83%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (23.40%) Apache Spark
3 7 (14.89%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 31 (65.96%) AWS
2 29 (61.70%) dbt
3 28 (59.57%) Azure
4 23 (48.94%) Dagster
4 23 (48.94%) GCP
5 7 (14.89%) OpenShift
5 7 (14.89%) Power Platform
6 6 (12.77%) Amazon S3
7 5 (10.64%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (10.64%) AWS Step Functions
7 5 (10.64%) Serverless
8 2 (4.26%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (4.26%) GitHub
8 2 (4.26%) Snowflake
9 1 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (2.13%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (2.13%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (2.13%) Datadog
9 1 (2.13%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (63.83%) Apache Iceberg
2 28 (59.57%) Dremio
3 23 (48.94%) Amazon Athena
4 16 (34.04%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (29.79%) Data Lake
6 8 (17.02%) Hadoop
7 7 (14.89%) Apache Hudi
7 7 (14.89%) Delta Lake
7 7 (14.89%) NoSQL
7 7 (14.89%) Power BI
8 2 (4.26%) Big Data
8 2 (4.26%) OLAP
9 1 (2.13%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (14.89%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.13%) Git
General
1 26 (55.32%) Finance
2 24 (51.06%) Front Office
3 23 (48.94%) Banking
4 9 (19.15%) Law
5 2 (4.26%) Social Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (70.21%) PySpark
2 23 (48.94%) NumPy
2 23 (48.94%) Pandas
2 23 (48.94%) SciPy
3 11 (23.40%) Kafka
4 7 (14.89%) PyArrow
5 2 (4.26%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (4.26%) Spark Streaming
6 1 (2.13%) Great Expectations
6 1 (2.13%) Node.js
6 1 (2.13%) pytest
6 1 (2.13%) PyTorch
6 1 (2.13%) TensorFlow
6 1 (2.13%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 19 (40.43%) Product Ownership
2 18 (38.30%) Equities
2 18 (38.30%) Fixed Income
3 2 (4.26%) Hedge funds
3 2 (4.26%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.13%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.13%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.13%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.13%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (89.36%) Data Engineering
2 31 (65.96%) Software Engineering
3 26 (55.32%) Analytics
4 25 (53.19%) Agile
5 23 (48.94%) Asset Management
5 23 (48.94%) Investment Management
5 23 (48.94%) Roadmaps
6 18 (38.30%) ETL
6 18 (38.30%) Front End Development
6 18 (38.30%) Portfolio Management
6 18 (38.30%) Quantitative Analysis
6 18 (38.30%) Risk Analytics
7 12 (25.53%) Data Modelling
8 11 (23.40%) Data Pipeline
9 10 (21.28%) Data Governance
10 9 (19.15%) Data Science
11 8 (17.02%) Collaborative Working
12 7 (14.89%) Data Architecture
12 7 (14.89%) Data Management
13 6 (12.77%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 47 (100.00%) Python
2 23 (48.94%) Java
3 18 (38.30%) SQL
4 2 (4.26%) C#
4 2 (4.26%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (42.55%) Degree
2 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.89%) Accessibility
1 7 (14.89%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.13%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (14.89%) HDFS
2 2 (4.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (14.89%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (14.89%) Red Hat
2 6 (12.77%) Databricks
3 1 (2.13%) Microsoft