Principal Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Principal Data Engineer
South East > Berkshire

As of 2 August 2026, 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 Berkshire.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Principal Data Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.051% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.056% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South East median daily rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Berkshire. 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 Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,796 1,117 1,616
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.68% 92.24% 92.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,077 696 873
10th Percentile £331 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £412 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -7.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £638
90th Percentile £733 £681 £696
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 44 87
10th Percentile £24.78 £14.75 £19.13
25th Percentile £41.25 £18.48 £50.26
Median hourly rate £83.00 £48.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +72.92% -22.08% +9.08%
75th Percentile £88.00 £70.00 £77.25
90th Percentile £104.15 £87.43 £93.00
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £57.35
% change year-on-year +108.75% -56.15% +14.70%

Principal Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Principal Data Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Principal Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Principal Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 2 August 2026, Principal Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Berkshire region featuring Principal Data Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) DataOps
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Master Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata Management

Principal Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
General
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) DataOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Master Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft