Python Data Engineer
UK

The median Python Data Engineer salary in the UK is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 799 788 1085
Rank change year-on-year -11 +297 -352
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Data Engineer 97 182 147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.099% 0.17% 0.095%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.19% 0.099%
Number of salaries quoted 88 175 131
10th Percentile £49,250 £62,500 -
25th Percentile £62,375 £85,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £115,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -39.13% +53.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £150,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £200,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £64,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +16.36% +4.76% -25.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 92,756 95,826 148,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.56% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,592 60,202 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Python Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Python Data Engineer in the UK

Python Data Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Python Data Engineer in the UK

Python Data Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python Data Engineer over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Python Data Engineer in the UK

Python Data Engineer
Top 13 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
England +25 92 £72,500 -38.30% 10
Work from Home +59 66 £70,000 -46.15% 5
London +29 55 £80,000 -38.46% 9
UK excluding London +30 36 £64,000 +16.36%
North of England +64 19 £55,000 -38.89%
North West - 10 £52,500 -
South West +5 8 £67,500 +8.00%
Yorkshire +92 5 £85,000 -5.56%
East of England - 4 £75,000 -
North East - 4 £64,000 -
West Midlands +22 3 £57,500 +9.52%
Midlands +2 3 £57,500 +9.52%
South East +31 2 £60,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 featuring Python Data Engineer in the job title.

1 97 (100.00%) Python
2 75 (77.32%) SQL
3 55 (56.70%) AWS
4 47 (48.45%) ETL
5 45 (46.39%) Azure
6 35 (36.08%) Data Warehouse
7 34 (35.05%) Data Pipeline
8 33 (34.02%) Data Engineering
9 28 (28.87%) Databricks
9 28 (28.87%) Machine Learning
10 27 (27.84%) Data Science
11 26 (26.80%) Analytics
12 25 (25.77%) NoSQL
13 23 (23.71%) Business Intelligence
13 23 (23.71%) Finance
14 21 (21.65%) Agile
15 20 (20.62%) Data Modelling
15 20 (20.62%) Problem-Solving
16 19 (19.59%) Power Platform
16 19 (19.59%) Social Skills
16 19 (19.59%) Power BI
16 19 (19.59%) Kubernetes
17 18 (18.56%) Apache Spark
17 18 (18.56%) Data Lake
17 18 (18.56%) Amazon S3
18 17 (17.53%) Data Quality
18 17 (17.53%) Data Management
18 17 (17.53%) PostgreSQL
18 17 (17.53%) Azure Data Factory
19 16 (16.49%) Microsoft

Python Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 18 (18.56%) Apache Spark
2 14 (14.43%) Apache
2 14 (14.43%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 55 (56.70%) AWS
2 45 (46.39%) Azure
3 19 (19.59%) Power Platform
4 18 (18.56%) Amazon S3
5 17 (17.53%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (12.37%) dbt
7 11 (11.34%) Amazon EMR
7 11 (11.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 9 (9.28%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (8.25%) GCP
10 7 (7.22%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
10 7 (7.22%) GitHub
10 7 (7.22%) Snowflake
11 5 (5.15%) Amazon Kinesis
12 4 (4.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 4 (4.12%) SaaS
12 4 (4.12%) Serverless
13 3 (3.09%) Google Analytics
14 2 (2.06%) Amazon EC2
14 2 (2.06%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.22%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (36.08%) Data Warehouse
2 25 (25.77%) NoSQL
3 19 (19.59%) Power BI
4 18 (18.56%) Data Lake
5 17 (17.53%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (16.49%) Big Data
7 15 (15.46%) Hadoop
8 14 (14.43%) SQL Server
9 12 (12.37%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (12.37%) Tableau
10 10 (10.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (9.28%) MongoDB
12 7 (7.22%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (7.22%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 6 (6.19%) Data Mining
14 5 (5.15%) Amazon Athena
14 5 (5.15%) BigQuery
14 5 (5.15%) MySQL
15 4 (4.12%) Metadata
16 3 (3.09%) Airbyte
Development Applications
1 5 (5.15%) MLflow
2 3 (3.09%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.09%) JIRA
3 2 (2.06%) GitLab
General
1 23 (23.71%) Finance
2 19 (19.59%) Social Skills
3 12 (12.37%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (12.37%) Games
4 9 (9.28%) Law
5 6 (6.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.12%) Agriculture
7 2 (2.06%) Retail
8 1 (1.03%) Banking
8 1 (1.03%) Front Office
8 1 (1.03%) Legal
8 1 (1.03%) Marketing
8 1 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.03%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.03%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.37%) Kafka
2 9 (9.28%) PySpark
3 5 (5.15%) Lambda Expressions
3 5 (5.15%) Pandas
4 4 (4.12%) Flask
5 3 (3.09%) Apache Beam
5 3 (3.09%) AWS CDK
5 3 (3.09%) NumPy
5 3 (3.09%) REST
6 2 (2.06%) FastAPI
7 1 (1.03%) .NET
7 1 (1.03%) JSON
7 1 (1.03%) Middleware
7 1 (1.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.31%) Client/Server
2 8 (8.25%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (7.22%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (5.15%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.15%) Enterprise Cloud
5 4 (4.12%) Online Games
6 3 (3.09%) Algorithms
6 3 (3.09%) Mainframe
6 3 (3.09%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.06%) Bitcoin
8 1 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.03%) Hedge funds
8 1 (1.03%) IoT
8 1 (1.03%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.31%) Linux
2 9 (9.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (48.45%) ETL
2 34 (35.05%) Data Pipeline
3 33 (34.02%) Data Engineering
4 28 (28.87%) Machine Learning
5 27 (27.84%) Data Science
6 26 (26.80%) Analytics
7 23 (23.71%) Business Intelligence
8 21 (21.65%) Agile
9 20 (20.62%) Data Modelling
9 20 (20.62%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (17.53%) Data Management
11 15 (15.46%) DevOps
12 14 (14.43%) Data Integration
13 13 (13.40%) Data Governance
13 13 (13.40%) Platform Engineering
14 12 (12.37%) Data Visualisation
14 12 (12.37%) Visualisation
15 11 (11.34%) Data Analysis
15 11 (11.34%) Data Extraction
16 10 (10.31%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 97 (100.00%) Python
2 75 (77.32%) SQL
3 7 (7.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 7 (7.22%) U-SQL
4 6 (6.19%) C#
5 4 (4.12%) Java
6 2 (2.06%) MATLAB
6 2 (2.06%) R
6 2 (2.06%) Rust
6 2 (2.06%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.03%) C
7 1 (1.03%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.03%) Scala
7 1 (1.03%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (8.25%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (5.15%) Degree
3 2 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (17.53%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.22%) QA
3 4 (4.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 5 (5.15%) Docker
2 1 (1.03%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 19 (19.59%) Kubernetes
2 8 (8.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (28.87%) Databricks
2 16 (16.49%) Microsoft
3 9 (9.28%) Oracle
4 7 (7.22%) Informatica
5 6 (6.19%) Google
6 4 (4.12%) YouTube
7 3 (3.09%) Teradata
8 1 (1.03%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.03%) Cloudera
8 1 (1.03%) MuleSoft