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 20 December 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 627 614 635
Rank change year-on-year -13 +21 +269
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Data Engineer 28 105 70
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.047% 0.19% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.053% 0.20% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 23 92 68
10th Percentile £53,000 £56,375 £45,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £77,500 £62,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% -3.03%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £102,000 £142,500 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £85,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -29.41% +25.93% -10.00%

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 53,277 52,813 46,358
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.30% 93.52% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 32,837 28,309 35,975
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,979 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.71% - -

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 20 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Python Data Engineer in the UK

Python Data Engineer
Top 10 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 20 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 +4 26 £85,000 - 9
Work from Home +12 15 £85,000 -8.11% 5
London -11 15 £85,000 - 8
UK excluding London +58 11 £60,000 -29.41% 4
Midlands +25 6 £60,000 -7.69% 1
North of England +27 5 £95,000 -5.00%
West Midlands - 5 £60,000 - 1
North West - 4 £95,000 -
North East +5 1 £30,000 -70.00%
East Midlands -3 1 £37,500 -42.31%

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 28 (100.00%) Python
2 26 (92.86%) SQL
3 12 (42.86%) Databricks
3 12 (42.86%) ETL
4 11 (39.29%) AWS
4 11 (39.29%) Azure
5 10 (35.71%) Data Engineering
6 8 (28.57%) Analytics
6 8 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (28.57%) PySpark
7 7 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (25.00%) Snowflake
7 7 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (21.43%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (21.43%) Docker
9 5 (17.86%) Data Pipeline
9 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
9 5 (17.86%) Power BI
9 5 (17.86%) Power Platform
10 4 (14.29%) CI/CD
10 4 (14.29%) Dagster
10 4 (14.29%) Data Modelling
10 4 (14.29%) GCP
10 4 (14.29%) NoSQL
10 4 (14.29%) Validation
11 3 (10.71%) Agile
11 3 (10.71%) AI
11 3 (10.71%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (10.71%) 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 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (10.71%) Apache
3 2 (7.14%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 11 (39.29%) AWS
1 11 (39.29%) Azure
2 7 (25.00%) Snowflake
3 6 (21.43%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (17.86%) Power Platform
5 4 (14.29%) Dagster
5 4 (14.29%) GCP
6 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (10.71%) Prefect
7 2 (7.14%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (7.14%) dbt
7 2 (7.14%) Fivetran
7 2 (7.14%) Matillion
7 2 (7.14%) SaaS
8 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
8 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (3.57%) Datadog
8 1 (3.57%) GitHub
8 1 (3.57%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (17.86%) Power BI
3 4 (14.29%) NoSQL
4 3 (10.71%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (10.71%) Data Lake
4 3 (10.71%) Delta Lake
4 3 (10.71%) Parquet
4 3 (10.71%) SQL Server
5 2 (7.14%) Big Data
5 2 (7.14%) MongoDB
5 2 (7.14%) Relational Database
5 2 (7.14%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (3.57%) BigQuery
6 1 (3.57%) Hadoop
6 1 (3.57%) Looker
6 1 (3.57%) MySQL
6 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (3.57%) Spark SQL
6 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (3.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Git
General
1 4 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Automotive
2 3 (10.71%) Law
2 3 (10.71%) Legal
2 3 (10.71%) Retail
3 2 (7.14%) Finance
3 2 (7.14%) Front Office
4 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (28.57%) PySpark
2 3 (10.71%) Kafka
3 2 (7.14%) NumPy
3 2 (7.14%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Data Structures
2 2 (7.14%) Client/Server
2 2 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (7.14%) Hedge funds
2 2 (7.14%) Legacy Code
2 2 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.57%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (3.57%) Equities
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (42.86%) ETL
2 10 (35.71%) Data Engineering
3 8 (28.57%) Analytics
4 7 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (17.86%) Data Pipeline
7 4 (14.29%) CI/CD
7 4 (14.29%) Data Modelling
7 4 (14.29%) Validation
8 3 (10.71%) Agile
8 3 (10.71%) AI
8 3 (10.71%) Change Data Capture
8 3 (10.71%) Computer Science
8 3 (10.71%) Data Governance
8 3 (10.71%) DevOps
8 3 (10.71%) Kimball Methodology
8 3 (10.71%) Low Latency
9 2 (7.14%) Data Munging
9 2 (7.14%) Microservices
9 2 (7.14%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (100.00%) Python
2 26 (92.86%) SQL
3 3 (10.71%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.57%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (7.14%) Degree
2 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (42.86%) Databricks
2 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.14%) Talend
4 1 (3.57%) Google