Python Data Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Python Data Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Python Data Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £65,000 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 546 729 726
Rank change year-on-year +183 -3 +109
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Data Engineer 11 37 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.030% 0.053% 0.033%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.033% 0.056% 0.037%
Number of salaries quoted 3 32 19
10th Percentile £57,500 £42,875 -
25th Percentile £59,375 £49,375 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +16.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,875 £92,500
90th Percentile £73,500 £77,500 -
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
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 33,156 66,640 54,781
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.03% 94.78% 89.23%
Number of salaries quoted 18,505 47,222 31,088
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £82,500
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Python Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Python Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python Data Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Python Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Python Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Python Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Python Data Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
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 the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring Python Data Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Python
1 11 (100.00%) Data Engineering
2 9 (81.82%) ETL
2 9 (81.82%) Law
3 8 (72.73%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (72.73%) Data Modelling
3 8 (72.73%) SQL
3 8 (72.73%) Kafka
3 8 (72.73%) Data Governance
4 7 (63.64%) Data Quality
4 7 (63.64%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (63.64%) PySpark
4 7 (63.64%) Collaborative Working
4 7 (63.64%) Data Science
4 7 (63.64%) Delta Lake
4 7 (63.64%) PyArrow
4 7 (63.64%) Accessibility
4 7 (63.64%) Apache Iceberg
4 7 (63.64%) Apache Hudi
4 7 (63.64%) Kubernetes
4 7 (63.64%) Bitbucket
4 7 (63.64%) OpenShift
4 7 (63.64%) HDFS
4 7 (63.64%) Apache Spark
4 7 (63.64%) Data Architecture
4 7 (63.64%) Hadoop
4 7 (63.64%) NoSQL
4 7 (63.64%) Unix
4 7 (63.64%) Apache
4 7 (63.64%) Red Hat

Python Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (63.64%) Apache
1 7 (63.64%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (63.64%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) OpenShift
2 2 (18.18%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
3 1 (9.09%) Datadog
3 1 (9.09%) SaaS
3 1 (9.09%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (72.73%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (63.64%) Apache Hudi
2 7 (63.64%) Apache Iceberg
2 7 (63.64%) Delta Lake
2 7 (63.64%) Hadoop
2 7 (63.64%) NoSQL
3 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
3 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) Bitbucket
General
1 9 (81.82%) Law
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (72.73%) Kafka
2 7 (63.64%) PyArrow
2 7 (63.64%) PySpark
3 1 (9.09%) Node.js
3 1 (9.09%) PyTorch
3 1 (9.09%) TensorFlow
3 1 (9.09%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Algorithms
1 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
1 1 (9.09%) Hedge funds
1 1 (9.09%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Data Engineering
2 9 (81.82%) ETL
3 8 (72.73%) Data Governance
3 8 (72.73%) Data Modelling
4 7 (63.64%) Collaborative Working
4 7 (63.64%) Data Architecture
4 7 (63.64%) Data Science
5 1 (9.09%) Agile
5 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (9.09%) Client Onboarding
5 1 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (9.09%) Data Strategy
5 1 (9.09%) LLM
5 1 (9.09%) Machine Learning
5 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
5 1 (9.09%) Microservices
5 1 (9.09%) Predictive Modelling
5 1 (9.09%) Random Forest
5 1 (9.09%) Roadmaps
5 1 (9.09%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Python
2 8 (72.73%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (63.64%) Accessibility
1 7 (63.64%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 7 (63.64%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Red Hat
2 1 (9.09%) Databricks