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 £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 November 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 500 596 533
Rank change year-on-year +96 -63 +235
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Data Engineer 15 12 22
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.041% 0.025% 0.072%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.046% 0.027% 0.076%
Number of salaries quoted 13 6 22
10th Percentile £39,500 £60,000 £43,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £65,938 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £85,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.59% +17.24% -3.33%
75th Percentile £70,000 £99,688 £92,500
90th Percentile £102,000 £100,000 -
UK median annual salary £85,000 £97,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -12.82% +25.81% -4.91%

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 32,762 44,543 29,093
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.88% 94.37% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 20,475 23,810 21,893
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £51,197 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% -2.48% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -

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 18 November 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 18 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
Midlands +54 8 £60,000 -7.69%
North of England +53 5 £95,000 -5.00% 3
West Midlands - 5 £60,000 -
North West - 4 £95,000 - 3
East Midlands +26 3 £67,500 +3.85%
South East +41 1 - - 1
North East +4 1 £30,000 -70.00%
Scotland - 1 - -
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 18 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Python Data Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) Python
2 14 (93.33%) SQL
3 12 (80.00%) ETL
4 11 (73.33%) Data Engineering
5 9 (60.00%) AWS
6 7 (46.67%) Data Pipeline
6 7 (46.67%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (40.00%) Agile
7 6 (40.00%) AI
7 6 (40.00%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (40.00%) Azure
7 6 (40.00%) NoSQL
7 6 (40.00%) Snowflake
8 5 (33.33%) Data Modelling
9 4 (26.67%) Apache
9 4 (26.67%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (26.67%) Databricks
9 4 (26.67%) Kafka
9 4 (26.67%) Microservices
9 4 (26.67%) MongoDB
9 4 (26.67%) Roadmaps
9 4 (26.67%) SaaS
9 4 (26.67%) Scrum
9 4 (26.67%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (20.00%) Change Data Capture
10 3 (20.00%) Delta Lake
10 3 (20.00%) Docker
10 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
10 3 (20.00%) Parquet

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 6 (40.00%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (26.67%) Apache
3 1 (6.67%) Appian
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) AWS
2 6 (40.00%) Azure
2 6 (40.00%) Snowflake
3 4 (26.67%) SaaS
4 3 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (13.33%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (13.33%) Dagster
5 2 (13.33%) GCP
5 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
5 2 (13.33%) Prefect
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (6.67%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (40.00%) NoSQL
3 4 (26.67%) MongoDB
3 4 (26.67%) Snowflake Schema
4 3 (20.00%) Delta Lake
4 3 (20.00%) Parquet
4 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
5 2 (13.33%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (13.33%) Power BI
6 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (6.67%) Spark SQL
6 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (6.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Git
1 1 (6.67%) Selenium
General
1 6 (40.00%) Law
2 3 (20.00%) Automotive
2 3 (20.00%) Legal
2 3 (20.00%) Retail
2 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) Kafka
2 3 (20.00%) PySpark
3 1 (6.67%) NumPy
3 1 (6.67%) Pandas
3 1 (6.67%) PyTorch
3 1 (6.67%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Data Structures
1 4 (26.67%) Legacy Code
2 2 (13.33%) Client/Server
2 2 (13.33%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (13.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.67%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) ETL
2 11 (73.33%) Data Engineering
3 7 (46.67%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (40.00%) Agile
4 6 (40.00%) AI
5 5 (33.33%) Data Modelling
6 4 (26.67%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (26.67%) Microservices
6 4 (26.67%) Roadmaps
6 4 (26.67%) Scrum
7 3 (20.00%) Change Data Capture
7 3 (20.00%) Validation
8 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
8 2 (13.33%) Client Onboarding
8 2 (13.33%) Data Munging
8 2 (13.33%) LLM
8 2 (13.33%) Low Latency
8 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) Python
2 14 (93.33%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Databricks
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) Google