Principal Data Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Principal Data Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Principal Data Engineer salary in Work from Home is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 564 569 797
Rank change year-on-year +5 +228 -248
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Data Engineer 13 94 41
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.038% 0.23% 0.060%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.040% 0.24% 0.061%
Number of salaries quoted 10 92 14
10th Percentile - £62,625 £85,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £98,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £140,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year -53.57% +27.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £103,625 £160,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £111,875 - £126,250
UK median annual salary £92,500 £140,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -33.93% +69.70% -8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 32,440 39,720 66,965
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.96% 95.99% 97.37%
Number of salaries quoted 24,895 28,262 41,717
10th Percentile £33,005 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Principal Data Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Principal Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Principal Data Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Principal Data Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Principal Data Engineer.

Principal Data Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Principal Data Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Principal Data Engineer over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Principal Data Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Principal Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 12 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 jobs with remote work options featuring Principal Data Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (76.92%) Data Strategy
1 10 (76.92%) Analytics
2 9 (69.23%) Data Governance
2 9 (69.23%) Data Integration
2 9 (69.23%) Data Management
2 9 (69.23%) Data Modelling
2 9 (69.23%) ETL
2 9 (69.23%) Legal
2 9 (69.23%) Decision-Making
2 9 (69.23%) Algorithms
2 9 (69.23%) Social Skills
3 6 (46.15%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 6 (46.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (46.15%) Product Ownership
3 6 (46.15%) Strategic Thinking
3 6 (46.15%) Management Information System
3 6 (46.15%) Python
3 6 (46.15%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (46.15%) Computer Science
3 6 (46.15%) Data Architecture
3 6 (46.15%) AWS
4 5 (38.46%) Azure
4 5 (38.46%) SQL
4 5 (38.46%) Data Engineering
5 3 (23.08%) Cloud Native
5 3 (23.08%) Remediation Plan
5 3 (23.08%) Acceptance Criteria
5 3 (23.08%) Customer-Centricity
5 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (23.08%) Data Interpretation

Principal Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (23.08%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) AWS
2 5 (38.46%) Azure
3 2 (15.38%) GCP
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (7.69%) SaaS
4 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (23.08%) Apache Hive
2 3 (23.08%) Big Data
2 3 (23.08%) Hadoop
2 3 (23.08%) Neo4j
3 2 (15.38%) NoSQL
3 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
General
1 9 (69.23%) Legal
1 9 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 6 (46.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
Miscellaneous
1 9 (69.23%) Algorithms
2 6 (46.15%) Management Information System
2 6 (46.15%) Product Ownership
3 3 (23.08%) Cloud Native
3 3 (23.08%) Data Structures
4 1 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Analytics
1 10 (76.92%) Data Strategy
2 9 (69.23%) Data Governance
2 9 (69.23%) Data Integration
2 9 (69.23%) Data Management
2 9 (69.23%) Data Modelling
2 9 (69.23%) Decision-Making
2 9 (69.23%) ETL
3 6 (46.15%) Computer Science
3 6 (46.15%) Data Architecture
3 6 (46.15%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 6 (46.15%) Strategic Thinking
4 5 (38.46%) Data Engineering
5 3 (23.08%) Acceptance Criteria
5 3 (23.08%) Customer-Centricity
5 3 (23.08%) Data Interpretation
5 3 (23.08%) Data Visualisation
5 3 (23.08%) Digital Twin
5 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (23.08%) Remediation Plan
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Python
2 5 (38.46%) SQL
3 3 (23.08%) R
4 2 (15.38%) Go
4 2 (15.38%) Java
4 2 (15.38%) Rust