Principal Data Engineer Jobs in England

Principal Data Engineer
UK > England

The median Principal Data Engineer salary in England is £100,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 660 833 1054
Rank change year-on-year +173 +221 -194
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Data Engineer 173 88 108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.100% 0.080%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.11% 0.083%
Number of salaries quoted 11 85 48
10th Percentile £87,500 £77,000 -
25th Percentile £88,375 £105,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £140,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +69.70% -8.33%
75th Percentile £111,875 £160,000 £110,313
90th Percentile £115,000 - £115,000
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
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 81,760 80,739 129,993
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.54% 91.52% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 60,876 51,417 74,746
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,125 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

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
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Principal Data Engineer in England

Principal Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Principal Data Engineer in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Principal Data Engineer in England

Principal Data Engineer
Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 18 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
North of England +107 59 - - 1
North West +30 29 - - 1
South East - 27 - - 2
London +55 26 £100,000 -28.57% 5
South West -2 25 - - 1
Yorkshire - 21 - -
Midlands - 19 - -
East of England - 12 - -
East Midlands - 10 - -
North East - 9 - -
West Midlands - 9 - -
Principal Data Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 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 England region featuring Principal Data Engineer in the job title.

1 163 (94.22%) Data Engineering
2 162 (93.64%) GCP
3 160 (92.49%) Google
4 157 (90.75%) Problem-Solving
5 155 (89.60%) Data Pipeline
6 152 (87.86%) BigQuery
7 151 (87.28%) Platform Engineering
7 151 (87.28%) Agile
8 150 (86.71%) Self-Motivation
8 150 (86.71%) Mentoring
9 149 (86.13%) Looker
9 149 (86.13%) Data Science
10 144 (83.24%) DevOps
11 143 (82.66%) Analytical Skills
11 143 (82.66%) GDPR
11 143 (82.66%) DataOps
11 143 (82.66%) Change Management
12 21 (12.14%) Social Skills
13 16 (9.25%) AWS
14 15 (8.67%) SQL
14 15 (8.67%) Python
15 13 (7.51%) Data Modelling
15 13 (7.51%) ETL
15 13 (7.51%) Azure
16 12 (6.94%) Analytics
17 11 (6.36%) Data Governance
18 10 (5.78%) Java
18 10 (5.78%) Collaborative Working
19 8 (4.62%) Data Strategy
19 8 (4.62%) Batch Management

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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (2.31%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 162 (93.64%) GCP
2 16 (9.25%) AWS
3 13 (7.51%) Azure
4 5 (2.89%) Amazon SageMaker
4 5 (2.89%) Azure Machine Learning
5 3 (1.73%) SaaS
6 2 (1.16%) dbt
7 1 (0.58%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (0.58%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.58%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (0.58%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.58%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.58%) Serverless
7 1 (0.58%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.58%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (87.86%) BigQuery
2 149 (86.13%) Looker
3 8 (4.62%) Data Lake
4 4 (2.31%) Apache Hive
4 4 (2.31%) Big Data
4 4 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.31%) Hadoop
5 3 (1.73%) Neo4j
6 2 (1.16%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.16%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.58%) HBase
7 1 (0.58%) Power BI
General
1 143 (82.66%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (12.14%) Social Skills
3 5 (2.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (2.89%) Public Sector
4 3 (1.73%) Legal
5 2 (1.16%) Retail
6 1 (0.58%) Local Government
6 1 (0.58%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.89%) MXNet
1 5 (2.89%) PyTorch
1 5 (2.89%) scikit-learn
1 5 (2.89%) TensorFlow
2 1 (0.58%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 150 (86.71%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (1.73%) Algorithms
2 3 (1.73%) Cloud Native
2 3 (1.73%) Data Structures
3 1 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (0.58%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (94.22%) Data Engineering
2 157 (90.75%) Problem-Solving
3 155 (89.60%) Data Pipeline
4 151 (87.28%) Agile
4 151 (87.28%) Platform Engineering
5 150 (86.71%) Mentoring
6 149 (86.13%) Data Science
7 144 (83.24%) DevOps
8 143 (82.66%) Change Management
8 143 (82.66%) DataOps
9 13 (7.51%) Data Modelling
9 13 (7.51%) ETL
10 12 (6.94%) Analytics
11 11 (6.36%) Data Governance
12 10 (5.78%) Collaborative Working
13 8 (4.62%) Batch Management
13 8 (4.62%) Data Ingestion
13 8 (4.62%) Machine Learning
13 8 (4.62%) Process Improvement
13 8 (4.62%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 15 (8.67%) Python
1 15 (8.67%) SQL
2 10 (5.78%) Java
3 8 (4.62%) Scala
4 3 (1.73%) R
5 2 (1.16%) Go
5 2 (1.16%) Rust
Qualifications
1 5 (2.89%) SC Cleared
1 5 (2.89%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.58%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (82.66%) GDPR
2 8 (4.62%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 5 (2.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 160 (92.49%) Google
2 6 (3.47%) Databricks
3 5 (2.89%) Dataiku
4 3 (1.73%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.58%) Facebook
5 1 (0.58%) SnapLogic
5 1 (0.58%) Twitter