Principal Data Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Principal Data Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Principal Data Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 June 2024.

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

 6 months to
11 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 586 550 845
Rank change year-on-year -36 +295 -256
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Data Engineer 16 85 46
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.045% 0.23% 0.061%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.047% 0.24% 0.063%
Number of salaries quoted 13 83 11
10th Percentile - £49,500 £85,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £88,125 £98,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £140,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year -41.07% +27.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £104,000 £160,000 £120,625
90th Percentile £109,800 - £126,250
UK median annual salary £81,000 £140,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -42.14% +75.00% -11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 34,116 36,108 73,498
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.27% 95.94% 97.29%
Number of salaries quoted 25,883 26,404 42,665
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Principal Data Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Principal Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Principal Data Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Principal Data Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Principal Data Engineer.

Principal Data Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Principal Data Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Principal Data Engineer over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Principal Data Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Principal Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 11 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 jobs with remote work options featuring Principal Data Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (68.75%) Social Skills
2 10 (62.50%) Data Strategy
2 10 (62.50%) Data Governance
2 10 (62.50%) Analytics
2 10 (62.50%) Data Modelling
2 10 (62.50%) ETL
3 9 (56.25%) Legal
3 9 (56.25%) Python
3 9 (56.25%) Data Management
3 9 (56.25%) Data Integration
3 9 (56.25%) Algorithms
3 9 (56.25%) Decision-Making
4 8 (50.00%) AWS
4 8 (50.00%) SQL
5 7 (43.75%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (43.75%) Azure
5 7 (43.75%) Data Engineering
6 6 (37.50%) Strategic Thinking
6 6 (37.50%) Data Architecture
6 6 (37.50%) Computer Science
6 6 (37.50%) Management Information System
6 6 (37.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 6 (37.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (37.50%) Product Ownership
7 5 (31.25%) Data Pipeline
7 5 (31.25%) Collaborative Working
7 5 (31.25%) GCP
8 4 (25.00%) Relational Database
8 4 (25.00%) Java
8 4 (25.00%) TDD

Principal Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (18.75%) Apache Spark
2 1 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) AWS
2 7 (43.75%) Azure
3 5 (31.25%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (6.25%) SaaS
4 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (43.75%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 4 (25.00%) Relational Database
3 3 (18.75%) Apache Hive
3 3 (18.75%) Big Data
3 3 (18.75%) Hadoop
3 3 (18.75%) Neo4j
4 1 (6.25%) BigQuery
4 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
4 1 (6.25%) Looker
General
1 11 (68.75%) Social Skills
2 9 (56.25%) Legal
3 6 (37.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) JSON
1 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (56.25%) Algorithms
2 6 (37.50%) Management Information System
2 6 (37.50%) Product Ownership
3 3 (18.75%) Cloud Native
3 3 (18.75%) Data Structures
4 1 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
4 1 (6.25%) PropTech
4 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Analytics
1 10 (62.50%) Data Governance
1 10 (62.50%) Data Modelling
1 10 (62.50%) Data Strategy
1 10 (62.50%) ETL
2 9 (56.25%) Data Integration
2 9 (56.25%) Data Management
2 9 (56.25%) Decision-Making
3 7 (43.75%) Data Engineering
4 6 (37.50%) Computer Science
4 6 (37.50%) Data Architecture
4 6 (37.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 6 (37.50%) Strategic Thinking
5 5 (31.25%) Collaborative Working
5 5 (31.25%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (25.00%) BDD
6 4 (25.00%) TDD
7 3 (18.75%) Asset Management
7 3 (18.75%) Data Visualisation
7 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) Python
2 8 (50.00%) SQL
3 4 (25.00%) Java
4 3 (18.75%) Go
4 3 (18.75%) R
4 3 (18.75%) Rust
5 1 (6.25%) Scala
Vendors
1 1 (6.25%) Google
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