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 9 October 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 755 649 661
Rank change year-on-year -106 +12 +6
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Data Engineer 53 31 107
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.045% 0.062% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.049% 0.069% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 50 26 98
10th Percentile £63,750 £55,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £77,500 £63,438 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -22.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £94,375 £142,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £63,750 £92,500
% change year-on-year +33.33% -31.08% +2.78%

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 109,260 44,699 69,182
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.68% 89.81% 95.36%
Number of salaries quoted 74,288 25,844 39,771
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,750 £35,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,210 £53,688 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.42% -2.39% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.57% -8.00% -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 9 October 2026.

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 9 October 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 -115 46 £85,000 +21.43% 43
UK excluding London -116 34 £85,000 +33.33% 33
West Midlands -26 20 £85,000 +41.67%
Midlands -34 20 £85,000 +30.77% 2
South West - 14 £85,000 - 1
London -65 13 £95,000 +5.56% 27
North East -54 12 £100,000 +233.33%
North of England -64 12 £100,000 +60.00% 6
Work from Home -30 9 £85,000 +21.43% 22
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 9 October 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 53 (100.00%) Python
2 33 (62.26%) Azure
3 32 (60.38%) Data Pipeline
4 30 (56.60%) SQL
5 23 (43.40%) AWS
6 21 (39.62%) ETL
7 20 (37.74%) Elasticsearch
7 20 (37.74%) Kafka
8 19 (35.85%) PostgreSQL
9 17 (32.08%) Analytics
10 16 (30.19%) Apache Airflow
10 16 (30.19%) Security Cleared
11 15 (28.30%) AI
11 15 (28.30%) SC Cleared
12 14 (26.42%) Azure Data Factory
12 14 (26.42%) Data Engineering
12 14 (26.42%) Data Quality
12 14 (26.42%) Data Security
12 14 (26.42%) Databricks
12 14 (26.42%) Decision-Making
12 14 (26.42%) DevOps
12 14 (26.42%) DV Cleared
12 14 (26.42%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (26.42%) Workflow
13 13 (24.53%) Azure Certification
13 13 (24.53%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 13 (24.53%) ETL Development
13 13 (24.53%) Go
13 13 (24.53%) Keycloak
14 11 (20.75%) Snowflake

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 16 (30.19%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (15.09%) Apache Spark
3 7 (13.21%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 33 (62.26%) Azure
2 23 (43.40%) AWS
3 14 (26.42%) Azure Data Factory
4 11 (20.75%) Snowflake
5 10 (18.87%) GCP
5 10 (18.87%) SaaS
6 7 (13.21%) Azure Stack
7 6 (11.32%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 5 (9.43%) Power Platform
9 3 (5.66%) Amazon S3
10 2 (3.77%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (3.77%) Serverless
11 1 (1.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (1.89%) Amazon EventBridge
11 1 (1.89%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (1.89%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (37.74%) Elasticsearch
2 19 (35.85%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (9.43%) Metadata
3 5 (9.43%) MySQL
3 5 (9.43%) NoSQL
3 5 (9.43%) Power BI
3 5 (9.43%) Relational Database
4 4 (7.55%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (7.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (5.66%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (5.66%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (3.77%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (3.77%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.89%) Big Data
7 1 (1.89%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.89%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.89%) Flink
7 1 (1.89%) Parquet
7 1 (1.89%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (1.89%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Git
General
1 4 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (7.55%) Finance
2 3 (5.66%) Social Skills
3 1 (1.89%) Public Sector
3 1 (1.89%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (37.74%) Kafka
2 13 (24.53%) Keycloak
3 5 (9.43%) PySpark
4 2 (3.77%) Terraform
5 1 (1.89%) Apache Avro
5 1 (1.89%) JSON
5 1 (1.89%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 13 (24.53%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (16.98%) Distributed Computing
3 4 (7.55%) Educational Technology
4 3 (5.66%) Hedge funds
5 2 (3.77%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.77%) Equities
6 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (60.38%) Data Pipeline
2 21 (39.62%) ETL
3 17 (32.08%) Analytics
4 15 (28.30%) AI
5 14 (26.42%) Data Engineering
5 14 (26.42%) Data Security
5 14 (26.42%) Decision-Making
5 14 (26.42%) DevOps
5 14 (26.42%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (26.42%) Workflow
6 13 (24.53%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 13 (24.53%) ETL Development
7 8 (15.09%) Data Modelling
8 7 (13.21%) Machine Learning
8 7 (13.21%) Observability
8 7 (13.21%) Validation
9 6 (11.32%) Data Governance
9 6 (11.32%) Data Ingestion
9 6 (11.32%) Mentoring
10 5 (9.43%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 53 (100.00%) Python
2 30 (56.60%) SQL
3 13 (24.53%) Go
4 1 (1.89%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (30.19%) Security Cleared
2 15 (28.30%) SC Cleared
3 14 (26.42%) DV Cleared
4 13 (24.53%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.77%) Degree
6 1 (1.89%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (26.42%) Data Quality
2 5 (9.43%) GDPR
3 4 (7.55%) COPPA
System Software
1 1 (1.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.77%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.89%) Kibana
Vendors
1 14 (26.42%) Databricks
2 2 (3.77%) Microsoft