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 6 November 2025.

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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 618 613 656
Rank change year-on-year -5 +43 +279
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Data Engineer 31 122 67
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.062% 0.18% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.069% 0.19% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 26 110 67
10th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £49,750
25th Percentile £61,563 £77,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £100,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.50% +11.11% +10.43%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £142,500 £130,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,750 £85,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -25.00% +9.68% +3.33%

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 45,153 64,335 50,468
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.08% 95.04% 95.49%
Number of salaries quoted 28,095 36,400 39,152
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,200 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,410 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.55% -4.32% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -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 6 November 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 6 November 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 +1 28 £70,000 -30.00% 21
UK excluding London +83 16 £63,750 -25.00% 17
London -46 13 £90,000 -10.00% 13
Work from Home -26 10 £70,000 -36.36% 10
Midlands +57 9 £60,000 -7.69% 1
West Midlands - 6 £60,000 - 1
North of England +17 5 £70,000 -30.00% 5
East Midlands +23 3 £67,500 +3.85%
North West - 3 £95,000 - 5
South East +29 1 - - 6
North East +3 1 £30,000 -70.00%
Yorkshire - 1 £62,500 -
Scotland - 1 - - 4

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

For the 6 months to 6 November 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 31 (100.00%) Python
2 27 (87.10%) SQL
3 18 (58.06%) Azure
3 18 (58.06%) Databricks
4 17 (54.84%) Data Engineering
5 15 (48.39%) ETL
6 14 (45.16%) Analytics
6 14 (45.16%) AWS
7 12 (38.71%) Data Pipeline
8 11 (35.48%) PySpark
8 11 (35.48%) Snowflake
9 10 (32.26%) Business Intelligence
9 10 (32.26%) Data Modelling
9 10 (32.26%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (29.03%) Azure Data Factory
11 8 (25.81%) Agile
11 8 (25.81%) DevOps
11 8 (25.81%) Power BI
11 8 (25.81%) Power Platform
12 7 (22.58%) AI
12 7 (22.58%) Apache Airflow
12 7 (22.58%) Kafka
13 6 (19.35%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (19.35%) Data Governance
13 6 (19.35%) GCP
13 6 (19.35%) Kimball Methodology
13 6 (19.35%) Microsoft
13 6 (19.35%) Scrum
13 6 (19.35%) T-SQL
14 5 (16.13%) 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 (22.58%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (16.13%) Apache
3 4 (12.90%) Apache Spark
4 1 (3.23%) Appian
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 18 (58.06%) Azure
2 14 (45.16%) AWS
3 11 (35.48%) Snowflake
4 9 (29.03%) Azure Data Factory
5 8 (25.81%) Power Platform
6 6 (19.35%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (19.35%) GCP
7 4 (12.90%) SaaS
8 3 (9.68%) GitHub
9 2 (6.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (6.45%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (6.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (6.45%) Dagster
9 2 (6.45%) Datadog
9 2 (6.45%) dbt
9 2 (6.45%) Fivetran
9 2 (6.45%) Matillion
10 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
10 1 (3.23%) Google Analytics
10 1 (3.23%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (32.26%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (25.81%) Power BI
3 5 (16.13%) NoSQL
4 4 (12.90%) MongoDB
4 4 (12.90%) Snowflake Schema
5 3 (9.68%) Big Data
5 3 (9.68%) Delta Lake
5 3 (9.68%) Parquet
5 3 (9.68%) SQL Server
6 2 (6.45%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (6.45%) Data Lake
6 2 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (3.23%) BigQuery
7 1 (3.23%) Hadoop
7 1 (3.23%) Looker
7 1 (3.23%) Redshift Spectrum
7 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
7 1 (3.23%) Spark SQL
7 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (3.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Git
2 1 (3.23%) Selenium
General
1 7 (22.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 7 (22.58%) Law
2 4 (12.90%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Automotive
3 3 (9.68%) Retail
4 2 (6.45%) Finance
4 2 (6.45%) Legal
5 1 (3.23%) Banking
5 1 (3.23%) Electronics
5 1 (3.23%) Front Office
5 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.23%) Marketing
5 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (35.48%) PySpark
2 7 (22.58%) Kafka
3 3 (9.68%) NumPy
3 3 (9.68%) Pandas
4 2 (6.45%) Great Expectations
4 2 (6.45%) pytest
5 1 (3.23%) PyTorch
5 1 (3.23%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) Data Structures
2 4 (12.90%) Legacy Code
3 3 (9.68%) Cloud Native
4 2 (6.45%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.23%) Client/Server
5 1 (3.23%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (3.23%) Equities
5 1 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (3.23%) Hedge funds
5 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (54.84%) Data Engineering
2 15 (48.39%) ETL
3 14 (45.16%) Analytics
4 12 (38.71%) Data Pipeline
5 10 (32.26%) Business Intelligence
5 10 (32.26%) Data Modelling
6 8 (25.81%) Agile
6 8 (25.81%) DevOps
7 7 (22.58%) AI
8 6 (19.35%) Data Governance
8 6 (19.35%) Kimball Methodology
8 6 (19.35%) Scrum
9 5 (16.13%) Roadmaps
10 4 (12.90%) CI/CD
10 4 (12.90%) Continuous Integration
10 4 (12.90%) Microservices
10 4 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
11 3 (9.68%) Change Data Capture
11 3 (9.68%) Data Science
11 3 (9.68%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 31 (100.00%) Python
2 27 (87.10%) SQL
3 6 (19.35%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.23%) Java
4 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) GDPR
2 1 (3.23%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (12.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) Terraform
2 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (58.06%) Databricks
2 6 (19.35%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.45%) Google
3 2 (6.45%) Talend
4 1 (3.23%) Palantir
4 1 (3.23%) SAP