Principal Data Engineer Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Principal Data Engineer
South West > Gloucestershire

The median Principal Data Engineer salary in Gloucestershire is £99,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 October 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 - 91
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Data Engineer 2 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 0.080% - 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.085% - 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £88,300 - -
25th Percentile £90,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £99,000 - -
75th Percentile £106,750 - -
90th Percentile £108,100 - -
South West median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 -
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Gloucestershire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Gloucestershire. 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 Gloucestershire with a recognized job title 2,366 497 1,021
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.26% 94.67% 96.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,492 336 541
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,524 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £85,000 £74,063 £65,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,625 £77,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -9.09%

Principal Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Principal Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Principal Data Engineer
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 10 October 2026. 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
Cheltenham - 2 £99,000 - 2
Principal Data Engineer
South West

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

For the 6 months to 10 October 2026, Principal Data Engineer 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 permanent job ads across the Gloucestershire region featuring Principal Data Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Packer
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis

Principal Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Open Source
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
1 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 1 (50.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Packer