Python Data Engineer Job Trends

Python Data Engineer
UK

The median Python Data Engineer salary in the UK is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 646 691 666
Rank change year-on-year +45 -25 +340
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Data Engineer 30 105 111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.061% 0.13% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.068% 0.14% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 26 95 109
10th Percentile £55,000 £56,750 £62,500
25th Percentile £61,563 £77,500 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £100,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.50% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £140,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £142,500 £160,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £92,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year -32.43% +2.78% +46.94%

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 44,338 74,395 56,728
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.65% 95.25% 94.13%
Number of salaries quoted 26,053 44,780 43,966
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -

Python Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Python Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Python Data Engineer 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 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Python Data Engineer in the UK

Python Data Engineer
Top 13 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 18 September 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 +37 29 £77,500 -22.50% 5
UK excluding London +123 15 £62,500 -32.43% 5
London -16 15 £90,000 -18.18% 1
Midlands +59 9 £65,000 +52.94% 3
Work from Home +7 7 £68,750 -37.50% 4
West Midlands +50 5 £60,000 +41.18% 1
North of England +24 4 £60,000 -40.00% 1
East Midlands - 4 £67,500 - 2
Yorkshire - 2 £60,000 -
South East +50 1 - - 1
Scotland +42 1 - -
North East +19 1 £30,000 -70.00% 1
North West - 1 £70,000 -

Python Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, Python Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Python Data Engineer in the job title.

1 30 (100.00%) Python
2 22 (73.33%) SQL
3 20 (66.67%) Databricks
4 19 (63.33%) Data Engineering
5 17 (56.67%) Azure
6 16 (53.33%) ETL
7 14 (46.67%) AWS
7 14 (46.67%) Data Pipeline
8 13 (43.33%) PySpark
8 13 (43.33%) Analytics
9 12 (40.00%) Data Modelling
10 10 (33.33%) Agile
10 10 (33.33%) DevOps
10 10 (33.33%) Kafka
10 10 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
10 10 (33.33%) Snowflake
11 9 (30.00%) Law
11 9 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
11 9 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (26.67%) Scrum
12 8 (26.67%) Power Platform
12 8 (26.67%) Power BI
12 8 (26.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (23.33%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (23.33%) Kimball Methodology
13 7 (23.33%) T-SQL
13 7 (23.33%) Artificial Intelligence
14 6 (20.00%) Data Governance
14 6 (20.00%) Apache Spark
14 6 (20.00%) Roadmaps

Python Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (20.00%) Apache Spark
2 5 (16.67%) Apache
2 5 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.33%) Appian
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 17 (56.67%) Azure
2 14 (46.67%) AWS
3 10 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 10 (33.33%) Snowflake
4 8 (26.67%) Power Platform
5 7 (23.33%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (16.67%) SaaS
7 3 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (10.00%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (10.00%) Datadog
7 3 (10.00%) GCP
7 3 (10.00%) GitHub
8 2 (6.67%) Amazon S3
9 1 (3.33%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (26.67%) Power BI
3 5 (16.67%) MongoDB
4 4 (13.33%) NoSQL
4 4 (13.33%) Snowflake Schema
5 3 (10.00%) Data Lake
5 3 (10.00%) Delta Lake
5 3 (10.00%) Parquet
5 3 (10.00%) SQL Server
6 2 (6.67%) Big Data
6 2 (6.67%) OLAP
7 1 (3.33%) Hadoop
7 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (3.33%) Spark SQL
7 1 (3.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Git
1 1 (3.33%) Selenium
General
1 9 (30.00%) Law
2 8 (26.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.00%) Automotive
3 3 (10.00%) Retail
4 2 (6.67%) Finance
5 1 (3.33%) Banking
5 1 (3.33%) Electronics
5 1 (3.33%) Front Office
5 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.33%) Marketing
5 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.33%) Social Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (43.33%) PySpark
2 10 (33.33%) Kafka
3 3 (10.00%) Great Expectations
3 3 (10.00%) pytest
4 2 (6.67%) NumPy
4 2 (6.67%) Pandas
4 2 (6.67%) Spark Streaming
5 1 (3.33%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (3.33%) PyTorch
5 1 (3.33%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Data Structures
1 5 (16.67%) Legacy Code
2 4 (13.33%) Cloud Native
3 3 (10.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.33%) Equities
4 1 (3.33%) Hedge funds
4 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (63.33%) Data Engineering
2 16 (53.33%) ETL
3 14 (46.67%) Data Pipeline
4 13 (43.33%) Analytics
5 12 (40.00%) Data Modelling
6 10 (33.33%) Agile
6 10 (33.33%) DevOps
7 9 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (26.67%) Scrum
9 7 (23.33%) Artificial Intelligence
9 7 (23.33%) Kimball Methodology
10 6 (20.00%) Data Governance
10 6 (20.00%) Roadmaps
11 5 (16.67%) CI/CD
11 5 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
11 5 (16.67%) Insurtech
11 5 (16.67%) Mentoring
11 5 (16.67%) Microservices
12 3 (10.00%) Data Science
12 3 (10.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 30 (100.00%) Python
2 22 (73.33%) SQL
3 7 (23.33%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.33%) C#
4 1 (3.33%) Java
4 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) GDPR
2 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (66.67%) Databricks
2 4 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.33%) Google
3 1 (3.33%) Palantir
3 1 (3.33%) SAP