Python Data Engineer Job Trends

Python Data Engineer
UK

The median Python Data Engineer salary in the UK is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 617 627 630
Rank change year-on-year +10 +3 +267
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Data Engineer 26 101 73
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.043% 0.18% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.048% 0.19% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 21 87 71
10th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £61,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.68% -8.82%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £142,500 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £85,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -23.53% +25.93% -11.48%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 54,268 52,045 49,528
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.45% 93.40% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 33,559 27,623 38,199
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,125 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,450 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

Python Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Python Data Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Python Data Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Python Data Engineer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Python Data Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Python Data Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Python Data Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python Data Engineer over the 6 months to 27 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Python Data Engineer in the UK

Python Data Engineer
Top 9 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 December 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
England +13 24 £85,000 - 17
Work from Home +40 15 £85,000 - 11
London -23 14 £85,000 - 13
UK excluding London +46 10 £65,000 -23.53% 4
Midlands +35 6 £60,000 -7.69% 1
West Midlands - 5 £60,000 - 1
North of England +18 4 £95,000 -5.00% 1
North West - 4 £95,000 - 1
East Midlands -5 1 £37,500 -42.31%

Python Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 27 December 2025, Python Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Python Data Engineer in the job title.

1 26 (100.00%) Python
2 24 (92.31%) SQL
3 12 (46.15%) ETL
4 11 (42.31%) AWS
4 11 (42.31%) Databricks
5 10 (38.46%) Azure
6 9 (34.62%) Data Engineering
7 8 (30.77%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (26.92%) Analytics
8 7 (26.92%) Apache Airflow
8 7 (26.92%) PySpark
8 7 (26.92%) Snowflake
8 7 (26.92%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (23.08%) Docker
10 5 (19.23%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (19.23%) Business Intelligence
10 5 (19.23%) Data Pipeline
10 5 (19.23%) Microsoft
11 4 (15.38%) CI/CD
11 4 (15.38%) Dagster
11 4 (15.38%) Data Modelling
11 4 (15.38%) GCP
11 4 (15.38%) NoSQL
11 4 (15.38%) Power BI
11 4 (15.38%) Power Platform
11 4 (15.38%) Validation
12 3 (11.54%) Agile
12 3 (11.54%) AI
12 3 (11.54%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (11.54%) Apache

Python Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (26.92%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (11.54%) Apache
3 2 (7.69%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 11 (42.31%) AWS
2 10 (38.46%) Azure
3 7 (26.92%) Snowflake
4 5 (19.23%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (15.38%) Dagster
5 4 (15.38%) GCP
5 4 (15.38%) Power Platform
6 3 (11.54%) Prefect
7 2 (7.69%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (7.69%) dbt
7 2 (7.69%) Fivetran
7 2 (7.69%) Matillion
7 2 (7.69%) SaaS
8 1 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (3.85%) Datadog
8 1 (3.85%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (30.77%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (15.38%) NoSQL
2 4 (15.38%) Power BI
3 3 (11.54%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (11.54%) Data Lake
3 3 (11.54%) Delta Lake
3 3 (11.54%) Parquet
3 3 (11.54%) SQL Server
4 2 (7.69%) Big Data
4 2 (7.69%) MongoDB
4 2 (7.69%) Relational Database
4 2 (7.69%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (3.85%) BigQuery
5 1 (3.85%) Hadoop
5 1 (3.85%) Looker
5 1 (3.85%) MySQL
5 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.85%) Redshift Spectrum
5 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (3.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Git
General
1 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Automotive
2 3 (11.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (11.54%) Law
2 3 (11.54%) Legal
2 3 (11.54%) Retail
3 2 (7.69%) Finance
3 2 (7.69%) Front Office
4 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (26.92%) PySpark
2 3 (11.54%) Kafka
3 2 (7.69%) NumPy
3 2 (7.69%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Data Structures
2 2 (7.69%) Client/Server
2 2 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (7.69%) Legacy Code
2 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.85%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (3.85%) Equities
3 1 (3.85%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (46.15%) ETL
2 9 (34.62%) Data Engineering
3 7 (26.92%) Analytics
3 7 (26.92%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (19.23%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (19.23%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (15.38%) CI/CD
5 4 (15.38%) Data Modelling
5 4 (15.38%) Validation
6 3 (11.54%) Agile
6 3 (11.54%) AI
6 3 (11.54%) Change Data Capture
6 3 (11.54%) Computer Science
6 3 (11.54%) Data Governance
6 3 (11.54%) Low Latency
7 2 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (7.69%) Data Munging
7 2 (7.69%) DevOps
7 2 (7.69%) Microservices
7 2 (7.69%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (100.00%) Python
2 24 (92.31%) SQL
3 2 (7.69%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.85%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (42.31%) Databricks
2 5 (19.23%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.69%) Talend
4 1 (3.85%) Google