Principal Data Engineer Contracts in England

Principal Data Engineer
UK > England

As of 4 May 2024, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Principal Data Engineer daily rate in England.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 536 631 781
Rank change year-on-year +95 +150 -150
Contract jobs requiring a Principal Data Engineer 2 17 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.005% 0.034% 0.011%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.006% 0.036% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 14 8
10th Percentile - £619 £583
25th Percentile - £663 £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £725 £615
Median % change year-on-year - +17.89% +70.83%
75th Percentile - £788 £626
90th Percentile - - £731
UK median daily rate - £725 £615
% change year-on-year - +17.89% +70.83%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,178 47,326 67,913
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.63% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,701 33,606 48,311
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,407 1,890
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.37 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.96 £15.37
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.82 £77.00 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Principal Data Engineer in England

Principal Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Data Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 4 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +87 1 - - 5
South West - 1 - - 1
Principal Data Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Principal Data Engineer contract 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 contract job ads across the England region featuring Principal Data Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) YAML
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (100.00%) Parquet
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CodePipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CodeCommit
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CodeBuild
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Macie
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills

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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Macie
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CodeBuild
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CodeCommit
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CodePipeline
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (100.00%) Parquet
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality