Python Data Engineer Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Python Data Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Python Data Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £63,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 October 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 526 608 553
Rank change year-on-year +82 -55 +227
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Data Engineer 14 7 19
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.041% 0.014% 0.059%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.046% 0.015% 0.062%
Number of salaries quoted 12 5 19
10th Percentile £38,125 £55,250 £60,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £76,250 £74,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £92,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.08% +2.78% +20.00%
75th Percentile £69,063 £100,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £70,000 - -
UK median annual salary £77,500 £100,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -22.50% +11.11% +10.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 30,603 47,448 30,841
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.75% 95.39% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 17,462 26,033 23,096
10th Percentile £26,750 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £53,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.73% -8.33% -

Python Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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 in the UK excluding London.

Python Data Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Python Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Python Data Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Python Data Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Python Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python Data Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Python Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Python Data Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 October 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
Midlands +48 9 £65,000 +52.94%
West Midlands +44 5 £60,000 +41.18%
East Midlands - 4 £67,500 -
North of England +18 3 £62,500 -37.50% 3
South East +34 1 - - 3
North East +9 1 £30,000 -70.00%
Scotland +3 1 - - 2
North West - 1 £70,000 - 3
Yorkshire - 1 £62,500 -
Python Data Engineer
UK

Python Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 16 October 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Python Data Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Python
2 13 (92.86%) Data Engineering
3 12 (85.71%) ETL
4 10 (71.43%) SQL
5 9 (64.29%) AWS
6 8 (57.14%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (57.14%) Law
6 8 (57.14%) Snowflake
6 8 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
7 7 (50.00%) Agile
8 6 (42.86%) Data Modelling
8 6 (42.86%) Azure
8 6 (42.86%) AI
8 6 (42.86%) Databricks
9 5 (35.71%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (35.71%) Microservices
9 5 (35.71%) Data Structures
9 5 (35.71%) MongoDB
9 5 (35.71%) Kafka
9 5 (35.71%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (35.71%) Scrum
9 5 (35.71%) SaaS
9 5 (35.71%) Apache
9 5 (35.71%) Legacy Code
9 5 (35.71%) Roadmaps
10 4 (28.57%) Snowflake Schema
10 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
10 4 (28.57%) NoSQL
10 4 (28.57%) PySpark
11 3 (21.43%) Azure Data Factory

Python Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (35.71%) Apache
1 5 (35.71%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (7.14%) Appian
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) AWS
2 8 (57.14%) Snowflake
3 6 (42.86%) Azure
4 5 (35.71%) SaaS
5 3 (21.43%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (21.43%) GCP
6 2 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (14.29%) Datadog
7 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
7 1 (7.14%) dbt
7 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (57.14%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (35.71%) MongoDB
3 4 (28.57%) NoSQL
3 4 (28.57%) Snowflake Schema
4 3 (21.43%) Delta Lake
4 3 (21.43%) Parquet
4 3 (21.43%) SQL Server
5 1 (7.14%) Big Data
5 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
5 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (7.14%) Power BI
5 1 (7.14%) Spark SQL
5 1 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) Selenium
General
1 8 (57.14%) Law
2 3 (21.43%) Automotive
2 3 (21.43%) Retail
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) Kafka
2 4 (28.57%) PySpark
3 2 (14.29%) NumPy
3 2 (14.29%) Pandas
4 1 (7.14%) PyTorch
4 1 (7.14%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Data Structures
1 5 (35.71%) Legacy Code
2 1 (7.14%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) Data Engineering
2 12 (85.71%) ETL
3 8 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
4 7 (50.00%) Agile
5 6 (42.86%) AI
5 6 (42.86%) Data Modelling
6 5 (35.71%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (35.71%) Microservices
6 5 (35.71%) Roadmaps
6 5 (35.71%) Scrum
7 3 (21.43%) Change Data Capture
8 2 (14.29%) Analytics
8 2 (14.29%) Data Governance
8 2 (14.29%) LLM
8 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (14.29%) Validation
9 1 (7.14%) Model Validation
9 1 (7.14%) Regulatory Compliance
9 1 (7.14%) Statistical Analysis
9 1 (7.14%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) Python
2 10 (71.43%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Databricks
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) Google