Python Data Engineer Jobs

Python Data Engineer
UK

The median Python Data Engineer salary in the UK is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 794 740 1086
Rank change year-on-year -54 +346 -299
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Data Engineer 110 181 177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.20% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.21% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 98 175 151
10th Percentile £56,000 £62,500 -
25th Percentile £62,500 £79,375 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £110,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +37.50% +18.52%
75th Percentile £110,000 £150,000 £91,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £188,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +33.33% -19.23%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 104,121 84,323 165,675
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.77% 91.19% 95.89%
Number of salaries quoted 73,469 54,972 85,174
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,603 £45,000 £42,750
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 £53,519 £50,296
% change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%

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 12 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 12 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 -44 104 £80,000 -27.27% 11
Work from Home +8 79 £82,500 -36.54% 4
London +15 75 £100,000 -23.08% 9
UK excluding London -47 30 £67,500 -3.57% 2
North of England +14 13 £59,500 -33.89%
North West - 7 £55,000 -
South West - 6 £67,500 - 1
East of England -7 4 £75,000 -3.23%
North East - 4 £64,000 -
West Midlands -14 3 £57,500 +9.52%
Midlands -43 3 £57,500 +9.52%
Yorkshire +58 2 £85,000 -5.56%
South East -29 2 £60,000 -14.29% 1
Scotland - 2 - -

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

For the 6 months to 12 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.

1 110 (100.00%) Python
2 77 (70.00%) SQL
3 64 (58.18%) Azure
3 64 (58.18%) AWS
4 42 (38.18%) Data Engineering
4 42 (38.18%) Analytics
5 41 (37.27%) Finance
6 36 (32.73%) ETL
7 35 (31.82%) Agile
7 35 (31.82%) Data Lake
7 35 (31.82%) Databricks
8 34 (30.91%) Data Pipeline
9 31 (28.18%) PySpark
10 27 (24.55%) Business Intelligence
10 27 (24.55%) Data Warehouse
11 26 (23.64%) Power BI
11 26 (23.64%) Apache Airflow
11 26 (23.64%) Data Science
11 26 (23.64%) Power Platform
12 23 (20.91%) dbt
13 21 (19.09%) Machine Learning
13 21 (19.09%) NoSQL
14 20 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
14 20 (18.18%) Software Engineering
14 20 (18.18%) Social Skills
14 20 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
15 19 (17.27%) Amazon Athena
15 19 (17.27%) Kubernetes
15 19 (17.27%) GCP
16 18 (16.36%) Inclusion and Diversity

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 26 (23.64%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (14.55%) Apache Spark
3 14 (12.73%) Apache
4 3 (2.73%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 64 (58.18%) AWS
1 64 (58.18%) Azure
2 26 (23.64%) Power Platform
3 23 (20.91%) dbt
4 20 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
5 19 (17.27%) GCP
6 16 (14.55%) Dagster
7 14 (12.73%) Amazon S3
7 14 (12.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 11 (10.00%) Amazon EMR
9 10 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (8.18%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
11 8 (7.27%) GitHub
12 6 (5.45%) Snowflake
13 4 (3.64%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (3.64%) Amazon EventBridge
13 4 (3.64%) Amazon Kinesis
13 4 (3.64%) AWS Step Functions
13 4 (3.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 4 (3.64%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.18%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (31.82%) Data Lake
2 27 (24.55%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (23.64%) Power BI
4 21 (19.09%) NoSQL
5 20 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
6 19 (17.27%) Amazon Athena
7 16 (14.55%) Tableau
8 13 (11.82%) SQL Server
9 12 (10.91%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (10.91%) Big Data
9 12 (10.91%) Dremio
9 12 (10.91%) Hadoop
10 10 (9.09%) MongoDB
11 9 (8.18%) Azure SQL Database
11 9 (8.18%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 6 (5.45%) BigQuery
12 6 (5.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (4.55%) Relational Database
14 4 (3.64%) Looker
14 4 (3.64%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 5 (4.55%) MLflow
2 3 (2.73%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.73%) JIRA
3 2 (1.82%) GitLab
General
1 41 (37.27%) Finance
2 20 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 18 (16.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (12.73%) Banking
5 13 (11.82%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (11.82%) Front Office
6 11 (10.00%) Games
7 10 (9.09%) Law
8 4 (3.64%) Agriculture
9 2 (1.82%) Marketing
9 2 (1.82%) Retail
10 1 (0.91%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (28.18%) PySpark
2 15 (13.64%) Pandas
3 14 (12.73%) NumPy
4 12 (10.91%) SciPy
5 10 (9.09%) Kafka
6 6 (5.45%) Lambda Expressions
7 3 (2.73%) Apache Beam
7 3 (2.73%) AWS CDK
8 2 (1.82%) FastAPI
8 2 (1.82%) Flask
9 1 (0.91%) .NET
9 1 (0.91%) CSS
9 1 (0.91%) HTML
9 1 (0.91%) JSON
9 1 (0.91%) Middleware
9 1 (0.91%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.09%) Client/Server
2 9 (8.18%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (8.18%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (3.64%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.64%) Online Games
4 3 (2.73%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.73%) Mainframe
5 2 (1.82%) Bitcoin
5 2 (1.82%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (1.82%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.91%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.91%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.91%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.91%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 11 (10.00%) Linux
2 10 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (38.18%) Analytics
1 42 (38.18%) Data Engineering
2 36 (32.73%) ETL
3 35 (31.82%) Agile
4 34 (30.91%) Data Pipeline
5 27 (24.55%) Business Intelligence
6 26 (23.64%) Data Science
7 21 (19.09%) Machine Learning
8 20 (18.18%) Software Engineering
9 17 (15.45%) Data Modelling
9 17 (15.45%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (14.55%) Asset Management
10 16 (14.55%) Investment Management
10 16 (14.55%) Platform Engineering
10 16 (14.55%) Visualisation
11 14 (12.73%) Data Visualisation
11 14 (12.73%) Fintech
12 13 (11.82%) Data Integration
12 13 (11.82%) DevOps
13 12 (10.91%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 110 (100.00%) Python
2 77 (70.00%) SQL
3 18 (16.36%) Java
4 9 (8.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 9 (8.18%) U-SQL
5 6 (5.45%) C#
6 2 (1.82%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.82%) MATLAB
6 2 (1.82%) Rust
7 1 (0.91%) C
7 1 (0.91%) R
7 1 (0.91%) Scala
7 1 (0.91%) VB
Qualifications
1 9 (8.18%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (1.82%) Degree
3 1 (0.91%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.91%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (13.64%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.64%) QA
2 4 (3.64%) Solvency II
System Software
1 6 (5.45%) Docker
2 1 (0.91%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 19 (17.27%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 35 (31.82%) Databricks
2 15 (13.64%) Microsoft
3 10 (9.09%) Oracle
4 5 (4.55%) Google
5 4 (3.64%) Informatica
6 3 (2.73%) Teradata
6 3 (2.73%) YouTube
7 1 (0.91%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.91%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.91%) MuleSoft