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 6 August 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 736 665 716
Rank change year-on-year -71 +51 -19
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Data Engineer 58 30 101
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.055% 0.061% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.059% 0.067% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 56 26 91
10th Percentile £61,250 £58,750 £62,500
25th Percentile £75,000 £66,250 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year - -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £115,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £118,750 £142,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £66,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year +28.30% +10.42% -22.58%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 98,527 44,645 79,471
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.16% 90.04% 94.94%
Number of salaries quoted 67,450 26,505 53,682
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,991
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -6.54%

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 6 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Python Data Engineer in the UK

Python Data Engineer
Top 11 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 6 August 2026. 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 -59 57 £85,000 - 13
London -39 29 £85,000 -8.11% 10
UK excluding London -71 29 £85,000 +28.30% 2
West Midlands -15 15 £75,000 +20.00%
Midlands -27 15 £75,000 +11.11%
North of England -29 13 £100,000 +60.00% 1
North East -41 12 £100,000 +233.33% 1
Work from Home -35 9 £62,500 -10.71% 4
South West - 5 £85,000 - 1
North West -3 1 £95,000 +35.71%
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 6 August 2026, 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 58 (100.00%) Python
2 39 (67.24%) SQL
3 28 (48.28%) Data Pipeline
4 27 (46.55%) Azure
5 26 (44.83%) AWS
6 22 (37.93%) Apache Airflow
7 21 (36.21%) ETL
8 18 (31.03%) AI
9 17 (29.31%) PostgreSQL
9 17 (29.31%) SaaS
10 16 (27.59%) Databricks
11 15 (25.86%) Data Engineering
11 15 (25.86%) Data Quality
11 15 (25.86%) Kafka
12 13 (22.41%) Elasticsearch
12 13 (22.41%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (20.69%) Apache
14 10 (17.24%) Analytics
14 10 (17.24%) GCP
14 10 (17.24%) Snowflake
15 9 (15.52%) Apache Spark
15 9 (15.52%) Business Intelligence
15 9 (15.52%) Data Ingestion
16 8 (13.79%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 8 (13.79%) ETL Development
16 8 (13.79%) MySQL
16 8 (13.79%) NoSQL
16 8 (13.79%) Observability
16 8 (13.79%) Power Platform
16 8 (13.79%) Relational Database

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 22 (37.93%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (20.69%) Apache
3 9 (15.52%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 27 (46.55%) Azure
2 26 (44.83%) AWS
3 17 (29.31%) SaaS
4 10 (17.24%) GCP
4 10 (17.24%) Snowflake
5 8 (13.79%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 8 (13.79%) Power Platform
6 7 (12.07%) Azure Stack
7 5 (8.62%) Amazon S3
7 5 (8.62%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (6.90%) Serverless
9 3 (5.17%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.72%) Amazon EMR
10 1 (1.72%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (1.72%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (1.72%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (1.72%) Dagster
10 1 (1.72%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (29.31%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (22.41%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (13.79%) MySQL
3 8 (13.79%) NoSQL
3 8 (13.79%) Relational Database
4 7 (12.07%) Power BI
4 7 (12.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (8.62%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (6.90%) DynamoDB
6 4 (6.90%) Metadata
7 3 (5.17%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (5.17%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (1.72%) Apache Hudi
9 1 (1.72%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (1.72%) Big Data
9 1 (1.72%) Delta Lake
9 1 (1.72%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.72%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Git
General
1 4 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (5.17%) Finance
2 3 (5.17%) Law
2 3 (5.17%) Public Sector
2 3 (5.17%) Social Skills
3 1 (1.72%) Advertising
3 1 (1.72%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (25.86%) Kafka
2 7 (12.07%) PySpark
3 5 (8.62%) Keycloak
4 2 (3.45%) Pandas
5 1 (1.72%) Apache Avro
5 1 (1.72%) Celery
5 1 (1.72%) JSON
5 1 (1.72%) NumPy
5 1 (1.72%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.24%) Distributed Computing
2 5 (8.62%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (5.17%) Hedge funds
4 2 (3.45%) Equities
4 2 (3.45%) Robotics
5 1 (1.72%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.72%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.72%) IoT
5 1 (1.72%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.72%) PropTech
5 1 (1.72%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (48.28%) Data Pipeline
2 21 (36.21%) ETL
3 18 (31.03%) AI
4 15 (25.86%) Data Engineering
5 13 (22.41%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (17.24%) Analytics
7 9 (15.52%) Business Intelligence
7 9 (15.52%) Data Ingestion
8 8 (13.79%) ETL Development
8 8 (13.79%) Observability
9 7 (12.07%) Decision-Making
9 7 (12.07%) DevOps
9 7 (12.07%) Innovative Thinking
10 6 (10.34%) Data Modelling
11 5 (8.62%) Agile
11 5 (8.62%) Data Security
11 5 (8.62%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 5 (8.62%) Investment Management
11 5 (8.62%) Validation
11 5 (8.62%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 58 (100.00%) Python
2 39 (67.24%) SQL
3 5 (8.62%) Go
4 1 (1.72%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (13.79%) SC Cleared
1 8 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.34%) Azure Certification
2 6 (10.34%) Degree
3 5 (8.62%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.72%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (25.86%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (6.90%) Terraform
2 2 (3.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (27.59%) Databricks