Python Data Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Python Data Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Python Data Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £66,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 580 727 675
Rank change year-on-year +147 -52 +189
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Data Engineer 12 20 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.028% 0.027% 0.045%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.031% 0.028% 0.050%
Number of salaries quoted 8 16 23
10th Percentile £48,375 £50,625 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £58,125 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £64,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.52% -14.67% +50.00%
75th Percentile £69,063 £74,688 £92,500
90th Percentile £71,500 £77,500 -
UK median annual salary £90,000 £100,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +31.25%

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 38,310 71,471 45,560
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.84% 94.93% 89.45%
Number of salaries quoted 20,896 49,387 28,770
10th Percentile £25,803 £27,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £35,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,700
Median % change year-on-year - -5.12% +3.33%
75th Percentile £65,000 £64,571 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Python Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Python Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Python Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Python Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python Data Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Python Data Engineer 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 13 July 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 13 July 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 +85 4 £67,500 +17.39% 2
North of England +28 4 £60,000 -6.25% 4
South East +79 3 - - 1
Yorkshire - 3 £62,500 - 1
East Midlands - 3 £67,500 - 1
Scotland +90 1 - -
West Midlands +55 1 £65,000 +13.04% 1
North East +36 1 £30,000 -53.13% 1
Python Data Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 July 2025, 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Python Data Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Python
2 11 (91.67%) Data Engineering
3 9 (75.00%) ETL
4 8 (66.67%) Law
5 7 (58.33%) AWS
6 6 (50.00%) Data Modelling
6 6 (50.00%) SQL
6 6 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
6 6 (50.00%) Snowflake
7 5 (41.67%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (41.67%) Apache
7 5 (41.67%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (41.67%) Kafka
8 4 (33.33%) NoSQL
8 4 (33.33%) Agile
8 4 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
8 4 (33.33%) Roadmaps
9 3 (25.00%) Legacy Code
9 3 (25.00%) Databricks
9 3 (25.00%) PySpark
9 3 (25.00%) SaaS
9 3 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (25.00%) Scrum
9 3 (25.00%) MongoDB
9 3 (25.00%) Data Governance
9 3 (25.00%) Data Quality
9 3 (25.00%) Data Structures
9 3 (25.00%) Microservices
10 2 (16.67%) Apache Spark
10 2 (16.67%) Pandas

Python Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (41.67%) Apache
1 5 (41.67%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (16.67%) Apache Spark
3 1 (8.33%) Appian
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) AWS
2 6 (50.00%) Snowflake
3 3 (25.00%) SaaS
4 2 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 2 (16.67%) Azure
4 2 (16.67%) Datadog
4 2 (16.67%) GCP
4 2 (16.67%) OpenShift
5 1 (8.33%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (33.33%) NoSQL
3 3 (25.00%) MongoDB
4 2 (16.67%) Apache Hudi
4 2 (16.67%) Apache Iceberg
4 2 (16.67%) Data Lake
4 2 (16.67%) Delta Lake
4 2 (16.67%) Hadoop
4 2 (16.67%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (8.33%) Big Data
5 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (8.33%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Bitbucket
2 1 (8.33%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) Selenium
General
1 8 (66.67%) Law
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) Kafka
2 3 (25.00%) PySpark
3 2 (16.67%) NumPy
3 2 (16.67%) Pandas
3 2 (16.67%) PyArrow
3 2 (16.67%) PyTorch
4 1 (8.33%) Node.js
4 1 (8.33%) scikit-learn
4 1 (8.33%) TensorFlow
4 1 (8.33%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Data Structures
1 3 (25.00%) Legacy Code
2 1 (8.33%) Algorithms
2 1 (8.33%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Data Engineering
2 9 (75.00%) ETL
3 6 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 6 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (33.33%) Agile
4 4 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (33.33%) Roadmaps
5 3 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (25.00%) Data Governance
5 3 (25.00%) Microservices
5 3 (25.00%) Scrum
6 2 (16.67%) Analytics
6 2 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (16.67%) Data Extraction
6 2 (16.67%) Data Science
6 2 (16.67%) Data Strategy
6 2 (16.67%) LLM
6 2 (16.67%) Machine Learning
6 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
6 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (16.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) HDFS
2 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Databricks
2 2 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (8.33%) Google
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft