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 August 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 729 665 696
Rank change year-on-year -64 +31 -21
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Data Engineer 57 27 108
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.053% 0.054% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.056% 0.060% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 55 23 98
10th Percentile £61,250 £55,000 £61,750
25th Percentile £75,000 £61,875 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year - -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £93,750 £142,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £62,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +36.00% -16.67% -16.67%

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 101,050 44,873 78,946
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.99% 89.93% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 69,068 26,506 52,274
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,171 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.77% -4.00% -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 20 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 20 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 -66 56 £85,000 - 7
UK excluding London -78 31 £85,000 +36.00% 2
London -38 26 £85,000 -5.56% 4
West Midlands -15 17 £75,000 +25.00%
Midlands -16 17 £75,000 +15.38%
North of England -26 13 £100,000 +66.67% 1
North East -48 12 £100,000 +233.33%
Work from Home -20 8 £62,500 -9.09% 3
South West - 7 £85,000 -
North West -15 1 £95,000 +35.71% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 57 (100.00%) Python
2 36 (63.16%) SQL
3 29 (50.88%) Azure
4 28 (49.12%) Data Pipeline
5 24 (42.11%) AWS
6 22 (38.60%) ETL
7 21 (36.84%) Apache Airflow
8 18 (31.58%) PostgreSQL
9 17 (29.82%) AI
9 17 (29.82%) Kafka
9 17 (29.82%) SaaS
10 15 (26.32%) Databricks
10 15 (26.32%) Elasticsearch
11 14 (24.56%) Data Engineering
12 13 (22.81%) Data Quality
13 12 (21.05%) Analytics
13 12 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (19.30%) Apache
15 10 (17.54%) GCP
15 10 (17.54%) Snowflake
16 9 (15.79%) Apache Spark
16 9 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
16 9 (15.79%) Data Ingestion
16 9 (15.79%) Decision-Making
16 9 (15.79%) DevOps
16 9 (15.79%) ETL Development
16 9 (15.79%) SC Cleared
16 9 (15.79%) Security Cleared
17 8 (14.04%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 8 (14.04%) Azure Certification

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 21 (36.84%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (19.30%) Apache
3 9 (15.79%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 29 (50.88%) Azure
2 24 (42.11%) AWS
3 17 (29.82%) SaaS
4 10 (17.54%) GCP
4 10 (17.54%) Snowflake
5 8 (14.04%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 8 (14.04%) Power Platform
6 7 (12.28%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (12.28%) Azure Stack
7 4 (7.02%) Amazon S3
8 3 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (5.26%) Serverless
9 2 (3.51%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.75%) Amazon EventBridge
10 1 (1.75%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (1.75%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (1.75%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (1.75%) Dagster
10 1 (1.75%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (31.58%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (26.32%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (14.04%) MySQL
3 8 (14.04%) NoSQL
4 7 (12.28%) Power BI
4 7 (12.28%) Relational Database
4 7 (12.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (7.02%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (7.02%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (5.26%) DynamoDB
6 3 (5.26%) Metadata
7 2 (3.51%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (3.51%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.75%) Apache Hudi
8 1 (1.75%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (1.75%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.75%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.75%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Git
General
1 3 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (5.26%) Finance
1 3 (5.26%) Social Skills
2 2 (3.51%) Law
2 2 (3.51%) Public Sector
3 1 (1.75%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (29.82%) Kafka
2 7 (12.28%) Keycloak
2 7 (12.28%) PySpark
3 3 (5.26%) Terraform
4 2 (3.51%) Pandas
5 1 (1.75%) Apache Avro
5 1 (1.75%) JSON
5 1 (1.75%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.54%) Distributed Computing
2 7 (12.28%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (5.26%) Hedge funds
4 2 (3.51%) Equities
5 1 (1.75%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.75%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.75%) IoT
5 1 (1.75%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.75%) PropTech
5 1 (1.75%) Robotics
5 1 (1.75%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (49.12%) Data Pipeline
2 22 (38.60%) ETL
3 17 (29.82%) AI
4 14 (24.56%) Data Engineering
5 12 (21.05%) Analytics
5 12 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
6 9 (15.79%) Data Ingestion
6 9 (15.79%) Decision-Making
6 9 (15.79%) DevOps
6 9 (15.79%) ETL Development
7 8 (14.04%) Observability
8 7 (12.28%) Data Security
8 7 (12.28%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 7 (12.28%) Innovative Thinking
8 7 (12.28%) Workflow
9 5 (8.77%) Data Modelling
9 5 (8.77%) Investment Management
10 4 (7.02%) Agile
10 4 (7.02%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 57 (100.00%) Python
2 36 (63.16%) SQL
3 7 (12.28%) Go
4 1 (1.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (15.79%) SC Cleared
1 9 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 8 (14.04%) Azure Certification
3 7 (12.28%) DV Cleared
4 4 (7.02%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (22.81%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (3.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.51%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (26.32%) Databricks