Python Data Engineer Jobs

Python Data Engineer
UK

The median Python Data Engineer salary in the UK is £76,250 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 801 766 1095
Rank change year-on-year -35 +329 -337
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Data Engineer 106 182 167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.19% 0.099%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.21% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 94 175 142
10th Percentile £54,000 £62,500 -
25th Percentile £62,500 £84,375 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £115,000 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year -33.70% +46.03% +12.50%
75th Percentile £108,750 £150,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £200,000 £108,600
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £68,750 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +30.95% -22.22%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python Data Engineer.

Salary trend for Python Data Engineer in the UK

Python Data Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python Data Engineer over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Python Data Engineer in the UK

Python Data Engineer
Top 14 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 1 June 2024. 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 -44 100 £78,750 -32.98% 10
Work from Home +19 74 £80,000 -38.46% 4
London +29 69 £92,500 -28.85% 8
UK excluding London -23 32 £67,500 -1.82% 3
North of England +38 14 £64,000 -28.89%
South West -20 7 £67,500 - 1
North West - 7 £55,000 -
East of England +2 4 £75,000 -3.23%
North East - 4 £64,000 -
Yorkshire +57 3 £85,000 -5.56%
West Midlands -18 3 £57,500 +9.52%
Midlands -19 3 £57,500 +9.52%
South East -6 2 £60,000 - 2
Scotland - 2 - -

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, 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.

1 106 (100.00%) Python
2 79 (74.53%) SQL
3 60 (56.60%) AWS
4 58 (54.72%) Azure
5 38 (35.85%) ETL
6 37 (34.91%) Finance
6 37 (34.91%) Analytics
6 37 (34.91%) Data Engineering
7 36 (33.96%) Data Pipeline
8 33 (31.13%) Databricks
9 31 (29.25%) Agile
10 28 (26.42%) Data Warehouse
10 28 (26.42%) Data Science
11 27 (25.47%) Data Lake
12 26 (24.53%) Business Intelligence
13 25 (23.58%) Power Platform
13 25 (23.58%) Power BI
14 24 (22.64%) Machine Learning
14 24 (22.64%) NoSQL
15 22 (20.75%) PySpark
16 21 (19.81%) Apache Airflow
16 21 (19.81%) Social Skills
16 21 (19.81%) PostgreSQL
17 20 (18.87%) Azure Data Factory
17 20 (18.87%) Kubernetes
18 18 (16.98%) dbt
19 17 (16.04%) Problem-Solving
19 17 (16.04%) Apache Spark
19 17 (16.04%) Data Modelling
19 17 (16.04%) Tableau

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 21 (19.81%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (16.04%) Apache Spark
3 15 (14.15%) Apache
4 3 (2.83%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 60 (56.60%) AWS
2 58 (54.72%) Azure
3 25 (23.58%) Power Platform
4 20 (18.87%) Azure Data Factory
5 18 (16.98%) dbt
6 14 (13.21%) Amazon S3
7 13 (12.26%) GCP
8 12 (11.32%) Amazon EMR
8 12 (11.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 11 (10.38%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (9.43%) Dagster
11 9 (8.49%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
12 8 (7.55%) GitHub
13 7 (6.60%) Snowflake
14 4 (3.77%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (3.77%) Amazon EventBridge
14 4 (3.77%) Amazon Kinesis
14 4 (3.77%) AWS Step Functions
14 4 (3.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 4 (3.77%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.49%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (26.42%) Data Warehouse
2 27 (25.47%) Data Lake
3 25 (23.58%) Power BI
4 24 (22.64%) NoSQL
5 21 (19.81%) PostgreSQL
6 17 (16.04%) Tableau
7 14 (13.21%) SQL Server
8 13 (12.26%) Amazon Athena
8 13 (12.26%) Big Data
9 12 (11.32%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (11.32%) Hadoop
10 11 (10.38%) MongoDB
11 9 (8.49%) Azure SQL Database
11 9 (8.49%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 7 (6.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (5.66%) BigQuery
13 6 (5.66%) Dremio
14 5 (4.72%) Relational Database
15 4 (3.77%) Looker
15 4 (3.77%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 5 (4.72%) MLflow
2 3 (2.83%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.83%) JIRA
3 2 (1.89%) GitLab
General
1 37 (34.91%) Finance
2 21 (19.81%) Social Skills
3 15 (14.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (13.21%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (10.38%) Games
6 10 (9.43%) Law
7 8 (7.55%) Banking
8 7 (6.60%) Front Office
9 4 (3.77%) Agriculture
10 2 (1.89%) Marketing
10 2 (1.89%) Retail
11 1 (0.94%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (20.75%) PySpark
2 10 (9.43%) Kafka
2 10 (9.43%) Pandas
3 8 (7.55%) NumPy
4 6 (5.66%) Lambda Expressions
4 6 (5.66%) SciPy
5 3 (2.83%) Apache Beam
5 3 (2.83%) AWS CDK
6 2 (1.89%) FastAPI
6 2 (1.89%) Flask
7 1 (0.94%) .NET
7 1 (0.94%) CSS
7 1 (0.94%) HTML
7 1 (0.94%) JSON
7 1 (0.94%) Middleware
7 1 (0.94%) REST
7 1 (0.94%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.43%) Client/Server
2 9 (8.49%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (8.49%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (4.72%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.77%) Online Games
5 3 (2.83%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.83%) Mainframe
5 3 (2.83%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.89%) Bitcoin
6 2 (1.89%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.94%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.94%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.94%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.94%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 12 (11.32%) Linux
2 11 (10.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (35.85%) ETL
2 37 (34.91%) Analytics
2 37 (34.91%) Data Engineering
3 36 (33.96%) Data Pipeline
4 31 (29.25%) Agile
5 28 (26.42%) Data Science
6 26 (24.53%) Business Intelligence
7 24 (22.64%) Machine Learning
8 17 (16.04%) Data Modelling
8 17 (16.04%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (15.09%) Platform Engineering
9 16 (15.09%) Visualisation
10 15 (14.15%) DevOps
11 14 (13.21%) Data Visualisation
11 14 (13.21%) Software Engineering
12 13 (12.26%) Data Integration
12 13 (12.26%) Data Management
13 12 (11.32%) CI/CD
13 12 (11.32%) Data Governance
14 11 (10.38%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 106 (100.00%) Python
2 79 (74.53%) SQL
3 12 (11.32%) Java
4 9 (8.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 9 (8.49%) U-SQL
5 6 (5.66%) C#
6 2 (1.89%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.89%) MATLAB
6 2 (1.89%) Rust
7 1 (0.94%) C
7 1 (0.94%) R
7 1 (0.94%) Scala
7 1 (0.94%) VB
Qualifications
1 9 (8.49%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (1.89%) Degree
3 1 (0.94%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.94%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (15.09%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.72%) QA
3 4 (3.77%) Solvency II
System Software
1 6 (5.66%) Docker
2 1 (0.94%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 20 (18.87%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.66%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (31.13%) Databricks
2 16 (15.09%) Microsoft
3 11 (10.38%) Oracle
4 5 (4.72%) Google
5 4 (3.77%) Informatica
6 3 (2.83%) Teradata
6 3 (2.83%) YouTube
7 1 (0.94%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.94%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.94%) MuleSoft