Principal Data Engineer Jobs in England

Principal Data Engineer
UK > England

The median Principal Data Engineer salary in England is £93,750 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 684 809 1077
Rank change year-on-year +125 +268 -179
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Data Engineer 180 85 109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.10% 0.075%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.11% 0.079%
Number of salaries quoted 20 83 43
10th Percentile £69,625 £76,000 -
25th Percentile £77,813 £101,875 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £93,750 £140,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -33.04% +75.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £104,000 £160,000 £111,875
90th Percentile £112,750 - £115,000
UK median annual salary £81,000 £140,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -42.14% +75.00% -11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 90,431 74,847 138,483
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.19% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 65,915 49,353 75,297
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Principal Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Principal Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Principal Data Engineer in England

Principal Data Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Principal Data Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Principal Data Engineer in England

Principal Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Principal Data Engineer in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Principal Data Engineer in England

Principal Data Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Data Engineer within the England region 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
North of England +73 66 £72,500 +3.57% 6
North West +9 36 £72,500 +3.57% 6
London +45 28 £100,000 -28.57% 5
South East - 27 - -
South West -17 25 - -
Yorkshire - 21 - -
Midlands - 19 - -
East of England - 12 - -
East Midlands - 10 - -
North East - 9 - -
West Midlands - 9 - -
Principal Data Engineer
UK

Principal Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Principal 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 England region featuring Principal Data Engineer in the job title.

1 168 (93.33%) Data Engineering
2 167 (92.78%) GCP
3 162 (90.00%) Google
4 160 (88.89%) Data Pipeline
5 157 (87.22%) Problem-Solving
6 156 (86.67%) Agile
7 154 (85.56%) Mentoring
8 153 (85.00%) BigQuery
9 152 (84.44%) Platform Engineering
10 151 (83.89%) Self-Motivation
11 150 (83.33%) Looker
12 146 (81.11%) Data Science
13 144 (80.00%) DevOps
14 143 (79.44%) Analytical Skills
14 143 (79.44%) GDPR
14 143 (79.44%) DataOps
14 143 (79.44%) Change Management
15 22 (12.22%) Social Skills
16 21 (11.67%) SQL
16 21 (11.67%) Python
17 17 (9.44%) AWS
18 15 (8.33%) Data Governance
18 15 (8.33%) Java
18 15 (8.33%) ETL
19 14 (7.78%) Data Modelling
19 14 (7.78%) Azure
20 13 (7.22%) Collaborative Working
21 12 (6.67%) SDLC
21 12 (6.67%) Data Ingestion
21 12 (6.67%) Data Lake

Principal Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 4 (2.22%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 167 (92.78%) GCP
2 17 (9.44%) AWS
3 14 (7.78%) Azure
4 3 (1.67%) Amazon SageMaker
4 3 (1.67%) Azure Machine Learning
4 3 (1.67%) SaaS
5 2 (1.11%) dbt
6 1 (0.56%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (0.56%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.56%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (0.56%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.56%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.56%) Serverless
6 1 (0.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.56%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (85.00%) BigQuery
2 150 (83.33%) Looker
3 12 (6.67%) Data Lake
4 5 (2.78%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.78%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.22%) Apache Hive
5 4 (2.22%) Big Data
5 4 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.22%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.67%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.56%) HBase
7 1 (0.56%) Power BI
General
1 143 (79.44%) Analytical Skills
2 22 (12.22%) Social Skills
3 4 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (1.67%) Legal
4 3 (1.67%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.11%) Retail
6 1 (0.56%) Local Government
6 1 (0.56%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.67%) MXNet
1 3 (1.67%) PyTorch
1 3 (1.67%) scikit-learn
1 3 (1.67%) TensorFlow
2 2 (1.11%) JSON
2 2 (1.11%) XML
3 1 (0.56%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 151 (83.89%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (1.67%) Algorithms
2 3 (1.67%) Cloud Native
2 3 (1.67%) Data Structures
3 1 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (0.56%) Onboarding
3 1 (0.56%) PropTech
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (93.33%) Data Engineering
2 160 (88.89%) Data Pipeline
3 157 (87.22%) Problem-Solving
4 156 (86.67%) Agile
5 154 (85.56%) Mentoring
6 152 (84.44%) Platform Engineering
7 146 (81.11%) Data Science
8 144 (80.00%) DevOps
9 143 (79.44%) Change Management
9 143 (79.44%) DataOps
10 15 (8.33%) Data Governance
10 15 (8.33%) ETL
11 14 (7.78%) Data Modelling
12 13 (7.22%) Collaborative Working
13 12 (6.67%) Data Ingestion
13 12 (6.67%) Scrum
13 12 (6.67%) SDLC
14 11 (6.11%) Process Improvement
15 9 (5.00%) Analytics
16 8 (4.44%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 21 (11.67%) Python
1 21 (11.67%) SQL
2 15 (8.33%) Java
3 12 (6.67%) Scala
4 3 (1.67%) Go
4 3 (1.67%) R
4 3 (1.67%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3 (1.67%) DBS Check
1 3 (1.67%) SC Cleared
1 3 (1.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (79.44%) GDPR
2 8 (4.44%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (1.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 162 (90.00%) Google
2 4 (2.22%) Databricks
3 3 (1.67%) Dataiku
3 3 (1.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.56%) Facebook
4 1 (0.56%) SnapLogic
4 1 (0.56%) Twitter