Principal Data Engineer Jobs in England

Principal Data Engineer
UK > England

The median Principal Data Engineer salary in England is £96,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 673 830 1062
Rank change year-on-year +157 +232 -182
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Data Engineer 176 84 108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.100% 0.076%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.11% 0.080%
Number of salaries quoted 15 82 41
10th Percentile £70,000 £75,500 -
25th Percentile £75,875 £105,625 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £96,000 £140,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -31.43% +69.70% -8.33%
75th Percentile £107,625 £160,000 £111,250
90th Percentile £114,000 - £115,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £140,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -42.86% +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 86,435 76,952 135,807
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 91.31% 96.01%
Number of salaries quoted 63,785 50,234 75,047
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.32% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £81,250 £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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +92 63 £70,000 - 7
North West +17 33 £70,000 - 7
South East - 27 - - 1
London +57 26 £100,000 -28.57% 10
South West -4 25 - -
Yorkshire - 21 - -
Midlands - 19 - - 2
East of England - 12 - -
East Midlands - 10 - -
North East - 9 - -
West Midlands - 9 - - 2
Principal Data Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 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.

1 165 (93.75%) Data Engineering
2 164 (93.18%) GCP
3 161 (91.48%) Google
4 157 (89.20%) Problem-Solving
4 157 (89.20%) Data Pipeline
5 153 (86.93%) Agile
6 152 (86.36%) BigQuery
6 152 (86.36%) Mentoring
7 151 (85.80%) Platform Engineering
8 150 (85.23%) Self-Motivation
9 149 (84.66%) Looker
10 147 (83.52%) Data Science
11 144 (81.82%) DevOps
12 143 (81.25%) Change Management
12 143 (81.25%) DataOps
12 143 (81.25%) GDPR
12 143 (81.25%) Analytical Skills
13 20 (11.36%) Social Skills
14 17 (9.66%) SQL
14 17 (9.66%) Python
15 16 (9.09%) AWS
16 13 (7.39%) Azure
16 13 (7.39%) Data Governance
16 13 (7.39%) Data Modelling
16 13 (7.39%) ETL
16 13 (7.39%) Java
17 11 (6.25%) Collaborative Working
18 10 (5.68%) Data Ingestion
18 10 (5.68%) Data Lake
18 10 (5.68%) SDLC

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 (2.27%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 164 (93.18%) GCP
2 16 (9.09%) AWS
3 13 (7.39%) Azure
4 4 (2.27%) Amazon SageMaker
4 4 (2.27%) Azure Machine Learning
5 3 (1.70%) SaaS
6 2 (1.14%) dbt
7 1 (0.57%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (0.57%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.57%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (0.57%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.57%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.57%) Serverless
7 1 (0.57%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.57%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (86.36%) BigQuery
2 149 (84.66%) Looker
3 10 (5.68%) Data Lake
4 4 (2.27%) Apache Hive
4 4 (2.27%) Big Data
4 4 (2.27%) Hadoop
5 3 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.70%) Neo4j
5 3 (1.70%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.70%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.57%) HBase
6 1 (0.57%) Power BI
General
1 143 (81.25%) Analytical Skills
2 20 (11.36%) Social Skills
3 4 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (2.27%) Public Sector
4 3 (1.70%) Legal
5 2 (1.14%) Retail
6 1 (0.57%) Local Government
6 1 (0.57%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.27%) MXNet
1 4 (2.27%) PyTorch
1 4 (2.27%) scikit-learn
1 4 (2.27%) TensorFlow
2 1 (0.57%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 150 (85.23%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (1.70%) Algorithms
2 3 (1.70%) Cloud Native
2 3 (1.70%) Data Structures
3 1 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (0.57%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (93.75%) Data Engineering
2 157 (89.20%) Data Pipeline
2 157 (89.20%) Problem-Solving
3 153 (86.93%) Agile
4 152 (86.36%) Mentoring
5 151 (85.80%) Platform Engineering
6 147 (83.52%) Data Science
7 144 (81.82%) DevOps
8 143 (81.25%) Change Management
8 143 (81.25%) DataOps
9 13 (7.39%) Data Governance
9 13 (7.39%) Data Modelling
9 13 (7.39%) ETL
10 11 (6.25%) Collaborative Working
11 10 (5.68%) Analytics
11 10 (5.68%) Data Ingestion
11 10 (5.68%) Process Improvement
11 10 (5.68%) Scrum
11 10 (5.68%) SDLC
12 8 (4.55%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 17 (9.66%) Python
1 17 (9.66%) SQL
2 13 (7.39%) Java
3 10 (5.68%) Scala
4 3 (1.70%) Go
4 3 (1.70%) R
4 3 (1.70%) Rust
Qualifications
1 4 (2.27%) SC Cleared
1 4 (2.27%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.14%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (81.25%) GDPR
2 8 (4.55%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 4 (2.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 161 (91.48%) Google
2 5 (2.84%) Databricks
3 4 (2.27%) Dataiku
4 3 (1.70%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.57%) Facebook
5 1 (0.57%) SnapLogic
5 1 (0.57%) Twitter