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 9 May 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 804 791 1070
Rank change year-on-year -13 +279 -323
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Data Engineer 98 181 159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.099% 0.18% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.20% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 85 174 140
10th Percentile £51,750 £62,500 £49,875
25th Percentile £62,500 £85,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £125,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -44.00% +66.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £150,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £200,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,750 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +19.55% +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 93,776 92,678 150,788
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,209 58,362 84,200
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +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 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Python Data Engineer in the UK

Python Data Engineer
Top 14 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 9 May 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 +13 91 £75,000 -42.31% 9
Work from Home +42 68 £70,000 -46.15% 7
London +5 57 £80,000 -38.46% 8
UK excluding London +20 35 £65,750 +19.55%
North of England +65 17 £55,000 -38.89%
North West - 8 £55,000 -
South West -15 7 £67,500 -
Yorkshire +89 5 £85,000 -5.56%
East of England - 4 £75,000 -
North East - 4 £64,000 -
West Midlands +8 3 £57,500 +9.52%
Midlands -16 3 £57,500 +9.52%
South East +1 2 £60,000 -
Scotland - 2 - -

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 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 98 (100.00%) Python
2 72 (73.47%) SQL
3 58 (59.18%) AWS
4 44 (44.90%) Azure
5 42 (42.86%) ETL
6 35 (35.71%) Data Pipeline
7 32 (32.65%) Data Warehouse
8 31 (31.63%) Data Engineering
9 29 (29.59%) Finance
9 29 (29.59%) Analytics
10 27 (27.55%) Machine Learning
10 27 (27.55%) Databricks
10 27 (27.55%) Data Science
11 24 (24.49%) NoSQL
11 24 (24.49%) Business Intelligence
12 23 (23.47%) Agile
13 21 (21.43%) Power Platform
13 21 (21.43%) Power BI
14 20 (20.41%) Kubernetes
14 20 (20.41%) Social Skills
14 20 (20.41%) PostgreSQL
15 19 (19.39%) Data Lake
16 18 (18.37%) Apache Spark
16 18 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
16 18 (18.37%) Data Modelling
17 17 (17.35%) Amazon S3
18 16 (16.33%) Data Quality
18 16 (16.33%) Data Management
18 16 (16.33%) Platform Engineering
18 16 (16.33%) DevOps

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 (18.37%) Apache Spark
2 15 (15.31%) Apache
2 15 (15.31%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.06%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 58 (59.18%) AWS
2 44 (44.90%) Azure
3 21 (21.43%) Power Platform
4 17 (17.35%) Amazon S3
5 16 (16.33%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (12.24%) Amazon EMR
6 12 (12.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 12 (12.24%) dbt
7 10 (10.20%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (9.18%) GCP
9 8 (8.16%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
9 8 (8.16%) GitHub
10 6 (6.12%) Snowflake
11 4 (4.08%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (4.08%) Amazon EventBridge
11 4 (4.08%) Amazon Kinesis
11 4 (4.08%) AWS Step Functions
11 4 (4.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 4 (4.08%) Google Analytics
11 4 (4.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.16%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (32.65%) Data Warehouse
2 24 (24.49%) NoSQL
3 21 (21.43%) Power BI
4 20 (20.41%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (19.39%) Data Lake
6 15 (15.31%) Tableau
7 14 (14.29%) Big Data
7 14 (14.29%) Hadoop
8 13 (13.27%) SQL Server
9 12 (12.24%) Amazon Redshift
10 10 (10.20%) MongoDB
11 8 (8.16%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (8.16%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 7 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (6.12%) BigQuery
13 6 (6.12%) Data Mining
14 5 (5.10%) Metadata
14 5 (5.10%) MySQL
14 5 (5.10%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (5.10%) MLflow
2 3 (3.06%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.06%) JIRA
3 2 (2.04%) GitLab
General
1 29 (29.59%) Finance
2 20 (20.41%) Social Skills
3 14 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (13.27%) Law
5 12 (12.24%) Games
6 10 (10.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (4.08%) Agriculture
8 2 (2.04%) Marketing
8 2 (2.04%) Retail
9 1 (1.02%) Banking
9 1 (1.02%) Front Office
9 1 (1.02%) Legal
9 1 (1.02%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.22%) Kafka
2 9 (9.18%) PySpark
3 6 (6.12%) Lambda Expressions
4 4 (4.08%) Flask
4 4 (4.08%) Pandas
5 3 (3.06%) Apache Beam
5 3 (3.06%) AWS CDK
5 3 (3.06%) REST
6 2 (2.04%) FastAPI
6 2 (2.04%) NumPy
7 1 (1.02%) .NET
7 1 (1.02%) JSON
7 1 (1.02%) Middleware
7 1 (1.02%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.20%) Client/Server
2 9 (9.18%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (8.16%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (5.10%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.10%) Enterprise Cloud
5 4 (4.08%) Online Games
6 3 (3.06%) Algorithms
6 3 (3.06%) Mainframe
6 3 (3.06%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.04%) Bitcoin
8 1 (1.02%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.02%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.02%) Hedge funds
8 1 (1.02%) IoT
8 1 (1.02%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 11 (11.22%) Linux
2 10 (10.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (42.86%) ETL
2 35 (35.71%) Data Pipeline
3 31 (31.63%) Data Engineering
4 29 (29.59%) Analytics
5 27 (27.55%) Data Science
5 27 (27.55%) Machine Learning
6 24 (24.49%) Business Intelligence
7 23 (23.47%) Agile
8 18 (18.37%) Data Modelling
8 18 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (16.33%) Data Management
9 16 (16.33%) DevOps
9 16 (16.33%) Platform Engineering
10 15 (15.31%) Visualisation
11 13 (13.27%) Data Analysis
11 13 (13.27%) Data Governance
11 13 (13.27%) Data Integration
11 13 (13.27%) Data Visualisation
12 11 (11.22%) CI/CD
12 11 (11.22%) Data Extraction
Programming Languages
1 98 (100.00%) Python
2 72 (73.47%) SQL
3 8 (8.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 8 (8.16%) U-SQL
4 6 (6.12%) C#
4 6 (6.12%) Java
5 2 (2.04%) MATLAB
5 2 (2.04%) Rust
6 1 (1.02%) C
6 1 (1.02%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.02%) R
6 1 (1.02%) Scala
6 1 (1.02%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (8.16%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (3.06%) Degree
3 1 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (16.33%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.12%) QA
3 4 (4.08%) Solvency II
System Software
1 6 (6.12%) Docker
2 1 (1.02%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 20 (20.41%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (27.55%) Databricks
2 15 (15.31%) Microsoft
3 10 (10.20%) Oracle
4 7 (7.14%) Google
4 7 (7.14%) Informatica
5 4 (4.08%) YouTube
6 3 (3.06%) Teradata
7 1 (1.02%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.02%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.02%) MuleSoft