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 25 June 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 702 636 788
Rank change year-on-year -66 +152 -70
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Data Engineer 56 35 109
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.059% 0.077% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.063% 0.086% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 53 27 96
10th Percentile £57,500 £62,000 £58,750
25th Percentile £63,750 £68,125 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £92,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +15.63% -27.27%
75th Percentile £95,000 £118,750 £110,000
90th Percentile £114,000 £143,750 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £66,250 £64,000
% change year-on-year +13.21% +3.52% -8.57%

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 89,296 40,583 101,492
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.03% 89.54% 94.74%
Number of salaries quoted 61,271 23,147 73,313
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £38,734
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 25 June 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 25 June 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 -49 55 £85,000 -8.11% 1
London -31 31 £85,000 -8.11%
UK excluding London -57 25 £75,000 +13.21% 1
West Midlands -5 14 £65,000 -
Midlands -12 14 £65,000 -3.70%
North of England -32 10 £100,000 +66.67%
Work from Home -6 9 £62,500 -9.09%
North East -38 9 £100,000 +233.33%
North West - 1 £95,000 -
South West - 1 £85,000 - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 25 June 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 56 (100.00%) Python
2 41 (73.21%) SQL
3 27 (48.21%) Data Pipeline
4 26 (46.43%) AWS
5 22 (39.29%) Azure
6 21 (37.50%) ETL
7 20 (35.71%) Apache Airflow
8 18 (32.14%) AI
9 17 (30.36%) SaaS
10 15 (26.79%) Data Engineering
10 15 (26.79%) Data Quality
11 13 (23.21%) Databricks
11 13 (23.21%) PostgreSQL
11 13 (23.21%) Snowflake
12 12 (21.43%) Apache
12 12 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
13 11 (19.64%) Kafka
13 11 (19.64%) Power Platform
14 10 (17.86%) Innovative Thinking
14 10 (17.86%) Power BI
14 10 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
14 10 (17.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 9 (16.07%) Apache Spark
15 9 (16.07%) Data Ingestion
15 9 (16.07%) Elasticsearch
15 9 (16.07%) Relational Database
16 8 (14.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 8 (14.29%) MySQL
16 8 (14.29%) NoSQL
16 8 (14.29%) Observability

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 20 (35.71%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (21.43%) Apache
3 9 (16.07%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 26 (46.43%) AWS
2 22 (39.29%) Azure
3 17 (30.36%) SaaS
4 13 (23.21%) Snowflake
5 11 (19.64%) Power Platform
6 8 (14.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 7 (12.50%) Azure Stack
7 7 (12.50%) GCP
8 5 (8.93%) Amazon S3
9 4 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (7.14%) Serverless
10 3 (5.36%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (3.57%) Dagster
11 2 (3.57%) Prefect
12 1 (1.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (1.79%) Amazon EventBridge
12 1 (1.79%) Amazon Kinesis
12 1 (1.79%) Amazon SQS
12 1 (1.79%) AWS Step Functions
12 1 (1.79%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (23.21%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (17.86%) Power BI
2 10 (17.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 9 (16.07%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (16.07%) Relational Database
4 8 (14.29%) MySQL
4 8 (14.29%) NoSQL
5 5 (8.93%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (7.14%) DynamoDB
6 4 (7.14%) Metadata
7 3 (5.36%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (5.36%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (3.57%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (3.57%) Data Lake
8 2 (3.57%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (1.79%) Apache Hudi
9 1 (1.79%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (1.79%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Git
General
1 4 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (7.14%) Finance
2 3 (5.36%) Law
2 3 (5.36%) Public Sector
3 2 (3.57%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.79%) Advertising
4 1 (1.79%) Banking
4 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.79%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (19.64%) Kafka
2 7 (12.50%) PySpark
3 2 (3.57%) Celery
3 2 (3.57%) Pandas
3 2 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.79%) Apache Avro
4 1 (1.79%) JSON
4 1 (1.79%) Keycloak
4 1 (1.79%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.50%) Distributed Computing
2 3 (5.36%) Hedge funds
3 2 (3.57%) Robotics
4 1 (1.79%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.79%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.79%) Equities
4 1 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.79%) IoT
4 1 (1.79%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.79%) PropTech
4 1 (1.79%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (48.21%) Data Pipeline
2 21 (37.50%) ETL
3 18 (32.14%) AI
4 15 (26.79%) Data Engineering
5 12 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
6 10 (17.86%) Innovative Thinking
6 10 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (16.07%) Data Ingestion
8 8 (14.29%) Observability
9 7 (12.50%) Analytics
10 6 (10.71%) Data Modelling
10 6 (10.71%) Validation
11 5 (8.93%) Agile
11 5 (8.93%) Computer Science
11 5 (8.93%) Data Transformation
12 4 (7.14%) CI/CD
12 4 (7.14%) Data Validation
12 4 (7.14%) ETL Development
12 4 (7.14%) Investment Management
12 4 (7.14%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 56 (100.00%) Python
2 41 (73.21%) SQL
3 1 (1.79%) Go
Qualifications
1 6 (10.71%) Degree
2 4 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 4 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.57%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.79%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.79%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (26.79%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (5.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (7.14%) Terraform
2 2 (3.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (23.21%) Databricks