Principal Data Engineer Jobs in London

Principal Data Engineer
England > London

The median Principal Data Engineer salary in London is £102,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 480 550 793
Rank change year-on-year +70 +243 -179
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Data Engineer 25 83 85
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.11% 0.24% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.25% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 10 81 38
10th Percentile £87,250 £80,000 -
25th Percentile £90,938 £125,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £102,500 £140,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.79% +75.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £112,188 £160,000 £104,688
90th Percentile £115,250 - £115,000
England median annual salary £102,500 £140,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -26.79% +75.00% -11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 22,181 33,417 64,405
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.11% 95.02% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,675 24,567 34,955
10th Percentile £38,084 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Principal Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Data Engineer in London

Principal Data Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Principal Data Engineer in London

Principal Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Principal Data Engineer in London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Principal Data Engineer in London

Principal Data Engineer
Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 5 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South London - 3 - -
West London - 3 - -
Principal Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 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 London region featuring Principal Data Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (80.00%) Data Engineering
2 15 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (56.00%) GCP
4 13 (52.00%) Google
5 12 (48.00%) Data Pipeline
5 12 (48.00%) Data Science
6 10 (40.00%) BigQuery
6 10 (40.00%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (40.00%) Mentoring
6 10 (40.00%) DevOps
6 10 (40.00%) AWS
7 9 (36.00%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (36.00%) Change Management
7 9 (36.00%) Agile
7 9 (36.00%) DataOps
7 9 (36.00%) Platform Engineering
7 9 (36.00%) Looker
7 9 (36.00%) GDPR
8 8 (32.00%) Data Strategy
8 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
9 7 (28.00%) Analytics
9 7 (28.00%) Azure
10 6 (24.00%) SQL
10 6 (24.00%) Python
11 5 (20.00%) Data Modelling
11 5 (20.00%) ETL
12 4 (16.00%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (16.00%) Data Management
12 4 (16.00%) Data Analysis
12 4 (16.00%) Hadoop

Principal Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 4 (16.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 14 (56.00%) GCP
2 10 (40.00%) AWS
3 7 (28.00%) Azure
4 3 (12.00%) SaaS
5 2 (8.00%) dbt
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.00%) Serverless
6 1 (4.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (40.00%) BigQuery
2 9 (36.00%) Looker
3 4 (16.00%) Apache Hive
3 4 (16.00%) Big Data
3 4 (16.00%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (16.00%) Hadoop
4 3 (12.00%) Neo4j
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (4.00%) HBase
5 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
5 1 (4.00%) Power BI
5 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
General
1 9 (36.00%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Legal
4 2 (8.00%) Retail
5 1 (4.00%) Local Government
5 1 (4.00%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 10 (40.00%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (12.00%) Algorithms
2 3 (12.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (12.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (80.00%) Data Engineering
2 15 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (48.00%) Data Pipeline
3 12 (48.00%) Data Science
4 10 (40.00%) DevOps
4 10 (40.00%) Mentoring
5 9 (36.00%) Agile
5 9 (36.00%) Change Management
5 9 (36.00%) DataOps
5 9 (36.00%) Platform Engineering
6 8 (32.00%) Data Strategy
7 7 (28.00%) Analytics
8 5 (20.00%) Data Modelling
8 5 (20.00%) ETL
9 4 (16.00%) Data Analysis
9 4 (16.00%) Data Integration
9 4 (16.00%) Data Management
10 3 (12.00%) Rapid Prototyping
10 3 (12.00%) Use Case
10 3 (12.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (24.00%) Python
1 6 (24.00%) SQL
2 3 (12.00%) R
3 1 (4.00%) Go
3 1 (4.00%) Java
3 1 (4.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1 (4.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (36.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 13 (52.00%) Google
2 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.00%) Databricks
3 1 (4.00%) Facebook
3 1 (4.00%) SnapLogic
3 1 (4.00%) Twitter