Principal Data Engineer Jobs

Principal Data Engineer
UK

The median Principal Data Engineer salary in the UK is £92,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 684 874 1130
Rank change year-on-year +190 +256 -215
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Data Engineer 204 101 112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.10% 0.069%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.11% 0.072%
Number of salaries quoted 19 98 45
10th Percentile - £58,525 -
25th Percentile £62,500 £80,313 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £140,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -33.93% +69.70% -8.33%
75th Percentile £105,750 £160,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £113,000 - £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £49,500 £102,500
% change year-on-year +31.31% -51.71% +28.13%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 94,627 91,047 156,403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 91.54% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,562 57,571 85,106
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,750 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Principal Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Data Engineer in the UK

Principal Data Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Principal Data Engineer in the UK

Principal Data Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Principal Data Engineer over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Principal Data Engineer in the UK

Principal Data Engineer
Top 17 Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 20 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
England +169 172 £100,000 -28.57% 12
UK excluding London +143 170 £65,000 +31.31% 10
North of England +91 59 - - 2
North West +24 29 - - 2
South East - 27 - - 4
London +54 26 £100,000 -28.57% 8
South West +2 25 - - 1
Scotland -45 21 £65,000 +13.04%
Yorkshire - 21 - -
Midlands - 19 - -
Work from Home +11 13 £65,000 -53.57% 5
East of England - 12 - -
East Midlands - 10 - -
North East - 9 - -
West Midlands - 9 - -
Wales +4 6 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 £80,000 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 featuring Principal Data Engineer in the job title.

1 182 (89.22%) Data Engineering
2 181 (88.73%) GCP
3 178 (87.25%) Google
4 177 (86.76%) Problem-Solving
5 175 (85.78%) Data Pipeline
6 171 (83.82%) BigQuery
6 171 (83.82%) Platform Engineering
7 170 (83.33%) Mentoring
7 170 (83.33%) Agile
8 169 (82.84%) Self-Motivation
9 168 (82.35%) Looker
10 166 (81.37%) Data Science
11 162 (79.41%) DevOps
12 161 (78.92%) Change Management
12 161 (78.92%) Analytical Skills
12 161 (78.92%) GDPR
12 161 (78.92%) DataOps
13 33 (16.18%) Social Skills
14 26 (12.75%) ETL
15 25 (12.25%) Data Modelling
16 23 (11.27%) Data Governance
17 22 (10.78%) Analytics
18 19 (9.31%) Data Strategy
19 17 (8.33%) SQL
19 17 (8.33%) Python
20 16 (7.84%) AWS
21 15 (7.35%) Data Integration
22 14 (6.86%) Legal
22 14 (6.86%) Algorithms
23 12 (5.88%) Azure

Principal Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (1.96%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 181 (88.73%) GCP
2 16 (7.84%) AWS
3 12 (5.88%) Azure
4 4 (1.96%) Amazon SageMaker
4 4 (1.96%) Azure Machine Learning
5 3 (1.47%) SaaS
6 2 (0.98%) dbt
7 1 (0.49%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (0.49%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.49%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (0.49%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.49%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.49%) Serverless
7 1 (0.49%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.49%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (83.82%) BigQuery
2 168 (82.35%) Looker
3 10 (4.90%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (4.41%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.96%) Apache Hive
5 4 (1.96%) Big Data
5 4 (1.96%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.47%) Neo4j
7 2 (0.98%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.98%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.49%) HBase
8 1 (0.49%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (0.49%) MLflow
General
1 161 (78.92%) Analytical Skills
2 33 (16.18%) Social Skills
3 14 (6.86%) Legal
4 10 (4.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (2.45%) Law
6 4 (1.96%) Public Sector
7 2 (0.98%) Retail
8 1 (0.49%) Local Government
8 1 (0.49%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.96%) MXNet
1 4 (1.96%) PyTorch
1 4 (1.96%) scikit-learn
1 4 (1.96%) TensorFlow
2 1 (0.49%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 169 (82.84%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (6.86%) Algorithms
3 6 (2.94%) Management Information System
3 6 (2.94%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.47%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.47%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.49%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.49%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (89.22%) Data Engineering
2 177 (86.76%) Problem-Solving
3 175 (85.78%) Data Pipeline
4 171 (83.82%) Platform Engineering
5 170 (83.33%) Agile
5 170 (83.33%) Mentoring
6 166 (81.37%) Data Science
7 162 (79.41%) DevOps
8 161 (78.92%) Change Management
8 161 (78.92%) DataOps
9 26 (12.75%) ETL
10 25 (12.25%) Data Modelling
11 23 (11.27%) Data Governance
12 22 (10.78%) Analytics
13 19 (9.31%) Data Strategy
14 15 (7.35%) Data Integration
15 11 (5.39%) Collaborative Working
15 11 (5.39%) Computer Science
15 11 (5.39%) Data Architecture
15 11 (5.39%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 17 (8.33%) Python
1 17 (8.33%) SQL
2 11 (5.39%) Java
3 9 (4.41%) Scala
4 3 (1.47%) R
5 2 (0.98%) Go
5 2 (0.98%) Rust
Qualifications
1 6 (2.94%) Degree
2 5 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.96%) SC Cleared
3 4 (1.96%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (78.92%) GDPR
2 9 (4.41%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (0.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (2.45%) Terraform
2 1 (0.49%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 178 (87.25%) Google
2 6 (2.94%) Databricks
3 4 (1.96%) Dataiku
4 3 (1.47%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.49%) Facebook
5 1 (0.49%) SnapLogic
5 1 (0.49%) Twitter