Python Data Engineer
UK

The median Python Data Engineer salary in the UK is £73,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 783 790 1083
Rank change year-on-year +7 +293 -320
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Data Engineer 101 185 159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.19% 0.098%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.20% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 88 178 138
10th Percentile £52,500 £62,500 -
25th Percentile £62,500 £85,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £117,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -37.23% +56.67% +11.11%
75th Percentile £100,000 £150,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £200,000 £109,300
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £61,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.20% +16.67% -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 94,627 91,047 156,403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 91.54% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,562 57,571 85,106
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,750 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -3 94 £75,000 -37.50% 18
Work from Home +53 70 £70,000 -46.15% 8
London +11 62 £80,000 -38.46% 18
UK excluding London +4 33 £67,500 +10.20% 5
North of England +43 15 £59,500 -33.89%
South West -16 7 £67,500 - 1
North West - 7 £55,000 -
Yorkshire +78 4 £85,000 -5.56%
East of England - 4 £75,000 -
North East - 4 £64,000 -
West Midlands +9 3 £57,500 +9.52%
Midlands -13 3 £57,500 +9.52%
South East +12 2 £60,000 - 4
Scotland - 2 - -

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 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.

1 101 (100.00%) Python
2 77 (76.24%) SQL
3 56 (55.45%) AWS
4 49 (48.51%) Azure
5 39 (38.61%) ETL
6 35 (34.65%) Data Pipeline
7 33 (32.67%) Databricks
8 32 (31.68%) Analytics
9 31 (30.69%) Data Engineering
10 30 (29.70%) Data Warehouse
11 29 (28.71%) Finance
12 28 (27.72%) Data Science
13 26 (25.74%) Business Intelligence
13 26 (25.74%) Machine Learning
14 25 (24.75%) Agile
15 24 (23.76%) NoSQL
16 23 (22.77%) Power Platform
16 23 (22.77%) Power BI
17 21 (20.79%) Data Lake
18 20 (19.80%) Kubernetes
18 20 (19.80%) Social Skills
18 20 (19.80%) PostgreSQL
19 19 (18.81%) Azure Data Factory
20 18 (17.82%) Apache Spark
20 18 (17.82%) Data Modelling
21 17 (16.83%) DevOps
21 17 (16.83%) Platform Engineering
21 17 (16.83%) Problem-Solving
22 16 (15.84%) Microsoft
22 16 (15.84%) Visualisation

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 18 (17.82%) Apache Spark
2 15 (14.85%) Apache
2 15 (14.85%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.97%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 56 (55.45%) AWS
2 49 (48.51%) Azure
3 23 (22.77%) Power Platform
4 19 (18.81%) Azure Data Factory
5 15 (14.85%) Amazon S3
6 13 (12.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 12 (11.88%) Amazon EMR
7 12 (11.88%) dbt
8 11 (10.89%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (8.91%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
9 9 (8.91%) GCP
10 8 (7.92%) GitHub
11 6 (5.94%) Snowflake
12 4 (3.96%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (3.96%) Amazon EventBridge
12 4 (3.96%) AWS Step Functions
12 4 (3.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 4 (3.96%) Dagster
12 4 (3.96%) Prefect
12 4 (3.96%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.91%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (29.70%) Data Warehouse
2 24 (23.76%) NoSQL
3 23 (22.77%) Power BI
4 21 (20.79%) Data Lake
5 20 (19.80%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (14.85%) Tableau
7 14 (13.86%) Big Data
8 13 (12.87%) Hadoop
8 13 (12.87%) SQL Server
9 12 (11.88%) Amazon Redshift
10 10 (9.90%) MongoDB
11 9 (8.91%) Azure SQL Database
11 9 (8.91%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 7 (6.93%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (6.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (5.94%) BigQuery
13 6 (5.94%) Data Mining
14 5 (4.95%) Metadata
14 5 (4.95%) MySQL
14 5 (4.95%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (4.95%) MLflow
2 3 (2.97%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.97%) JIRA
3 2 (1.98%) GitLab
General
1 29 (28.71%) Finance
2 20 (19.80%) Social Skills
3 14 (13.86%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (12.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (11.88%) Games
6 11 (10.89%) Law
7 4 (3.96%) Agriculture
8 2 (1.98%) Marketing
8 2 (1.98%) Retail
9 1 (0.99%) Banking
9 1 (0.99%) Front Office
9 1 (0.99%) Legal
9 1 (0.99%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (13.86%) PySpark
2 11 (10.89%) Kafka
3 6 (5.94%) Lambda Expressions
4 4 (3.96%) Flask
4 4 (3.96%) Pandas
5 3 (2.97%) Apache Beam
5 3 (2.97%) AWS CDK
5 3 (2.97%) REST
6 2 (1.98%) FastAPI
6 2 (1.98%) NumPy
7 1 (0.99%) .NET
7 1 (0.99%) JSON
7 1 (0.99%) Middleware
7 1 (0.99%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.90%) Client/Server
2 9 (8.91%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (8.91%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (4.95%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.96%) Online Games
5 3 (2.97%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.97%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (2.97%) Mainframe
5 3 (2.97%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.98%) Bitcoin
7 1 (0.99%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.99%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.99%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.99%) IoT
7 1 (0.99%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 11 (10.89%) Linux
2 10 (9.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (38.61%) ETL
2 35 (34.65%) Data Pipeline
3 32 (31.68%) Analytics
4 31 (30.69%) Data Engineering
5 28 (27.72%) Data Science
6 26 (25.74%) Business Intelligence
6 26 (25.74%) Machine Learning
7 25 (24.75%) Agile
8 18 (17.82%) Data Modelling
9 17 (16.83%) DevOps
9 17 (16.83%) Platform Engineering
9 17 (16.83%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (15.84%) Visualisation
11 14 (13.86%) Data Management
11 14 (13.86%) Data Visualisation
12 13 (12.87%) Data Governance
12 13 (12.87%) Data Integration
13 11 (10.89%) CI/CD
13 11 (10.89%) Data Analysis
13 11 (10.89%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 101 (100.00%) Python
2 77 (76.24%) SQL
3 9 (8.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 9 (8.91%) U-SQL
4 6 (5.94%) C#
4 6 (5.94%) Java
5 2 (1.98%) MATLAB
5 2 (1.98%) Rust
6 1 (0.99%) C
6 1 (0.99%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.99%) R
6 1 (0.99%) Scala
6 1 (0.99%) VB
Qualifications
1 9 (8.91%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (2.97%) Degree
3 1 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (14.85%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.95%) QA
3 4 (3.96%) Solvency II
System Software
1 6 (5.94%) Docker
2 1 (0.99%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 20 (19.80%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.93%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (32.67%) Databricks
2 16 (15.84%) Microsoft
3 10 (9.90%) Oracle
4 7 (6.93%) Google
5 5 (4.95%) Informatica
6 4 (3.96%) YouTube
7 3 (2.97%) Teradata
8 1 (0.99%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.99%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.99%) MuleSoft