Principal Data Engineer Jobs in Hampshire

Principal Data Engineer
South East > Hampshire

The median Principal Data Engineer salary in Hampshire is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 187 -
Rank change year-on-year +69 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Data Engineer 2 3 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 0.10% 0.076% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.080% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 - -
75th Percentile £83,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £82,500 - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Hampshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Hampshire. 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 Hampshire with a recognized job title 1,870 3,728 2,762
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.97% 94.43% 94.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,242 2,912 2,053
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £50,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £66,250 £64,847 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £80,400
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Principal Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Job postings that featured Principal Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Job vacancy trend for Principal Data Engineer in Hampshire

Principal Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Hampshire

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

Salary trend for Principal Data Engineer in Hampshire

Principal Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 18 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire

For the 6 months to 4 May 2025, 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 Hampshire region featuring Principal Data Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Big Data
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 2 (100.00%) Thought Leadership
1 2 (100.00%) Matillion
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Snowflake

Principal Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 2 (100.00%) Matillion
1 2 (100.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Big Data
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL