Principal Data Engineer Contracts in London

Principal Data Engineer
England > London

As of 1 May 2025, 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 London.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 349 390 478
Rank change year-on-year +41 +88 +114
Contract jobs requiring a Principal Data Engineer 4 1 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.032% 0.006% 0.055%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% 0.006% 0.058%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 13
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £725
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.89%
75th Percentile - - £788
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £700 - £725
% change year-on-year - - +17.89%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Principal Data Engineer in London

Principal Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Central London +6 3 - -
Principal Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 London region featuring Principal Data Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) Data Strategy
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Observability
2 3 (75.00%) OLAP
2 3 (75.00%) SAP
2 3 (75.00%) Web Services
2 3 (75.00%) OLTP
2 3 (75.00%) SAP BW
2 3 (75.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (75.00%) SAP Data Services
2 3 (75.00%) SAP HANA
2 3 (75.00%) Big Data
2 3 (75.00%) Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Low Latency
3 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (50.00%) SAP BPC
4 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (25.00%) Kedro
4 1 (25.00%) Generative AI
4 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (25.00%) AWS
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture

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:

Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Big Data
1 3 (75.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (75.00%) OLAP
1 3 (75.00%) OLTP
1 3 (75.00%) SAP BW
1 3 (75.00%) SAP Data Services
1 3 (75.00%) SAP HANA
2 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Web Services
2 1 (25.00%) Kedro
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Data Strategy
2 3 (75.00%) Low Latency
2 3 (75.00%) Observability
2 3 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Generative AI
4 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) SAP