Principal Engineer Jobs in Berkshire

Principal Engineer
South East > Berkshire

The median Principal Engineer salary in Berkshire is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 144 136 164
Rank change year-on-year -8 +28 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Engineer 26 49 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.84% 1.54% 0.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.88% 1.67% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 13 15 19
10th Percentile £61,000 £62,500 -
25th Percentile £61,250 £80,000 £61,588
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £110,000 £67,725
Median % change year-on-year -40.91% +62.42% -15.34%
75th Percentile £80,000 £117,500 £73,863
90th Percentile - £125,000 -
South East median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £67,725
% change year-on-year +7.14% +3.36% -1.85%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Berkshire. 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 Berkshire with a recognized job title 2,958 2,938 3,283
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.42% 92.39% 96.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,138 1,677 2,149
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £74,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £81,250
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Principal Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Engineer in Berkshire

Principal Engineer
Salary Trend in Berkshire

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

Salary trend for Principal Engineer in Berkshire

Principal Engineer
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Principal Engineer in Berkshire over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Principal Engineer in Berkshire

Principal Engineer
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Engineer within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Reading +10 8 £80,000 -38.46% 7
Windsor - 5 - -
Maidenhead +6 4 £62,500 -
Newbury +12 3 £64,000 -
Principal Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Principal 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 Berkshire region featuring Principal Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
2 11 (42.31%) Degree
3 10 (38.46%) Software Engineering
4 8 (30.77%) Rational DOORS
5 7 (26.92%) Mentoring
5 7 (26.92%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (23.08%) Strategic Roadmap
6 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
6 6 (23.08%) Roadmaps
7 5 (19.23%) Hackathon
7 5 (19.23%) Technology Strategy
7 5 (19.23%) Community of Practice
7 5 (19.23%) Systems Thinking
7 5 (19.23%) Deployment Automation
7 5 (19.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 5 (19.23%) Coaching
7 5 (19.23%) DevOps
7 5 (19.23%) Datadog
7 5 (19.23%) Continuous Delivery
7 5 (19.23%) IT Strategy
7 5 (19.23%) Azure
7 5 (19.23%) Security Cleared
7 5 (19.23%) Microsoft
8 4 (15.38%) Firmware
8 4 (15.38%) UML
8 4 (15.38%) Management Information System
8 4 (15.38%) Agile
8 4 (15.38%) Automotive
8 4 (15.38%) Manufacturing
8 4 (15.38%) SysML

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 5 (19.23%) Azure
1 5 (19.23%) Datadog
2 3 (11.54%) AWS
3 2 (7.69%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
1 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (30.77%) Rational DOORS
General
1 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Automotive
2 4 (15.38%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.85%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) Flutter
1 1 (3.85%) Node.js
1 1 (3.85%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Hackathon
2 4 (15.38%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
2 10 (38.46%) Software Engineering
3 7 (26.92%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (26.92%) Mentoring
4 6 (23.08%) Roadmaps
4 6 (23.08%) Strategic Roadmap
5 5 (19.23%) Coaching
5 5 (19.23%) Community of Practice
5 5 (19.23%) Continuous Delivery
5 5 (19.23%) Deployment Automation
5 5 (19.23%) DevOps
5 5 (19.23%) IT Strategy
5 5 (19.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 5 (19.23%) Systems Thinking
5 5 (19.23%) Technology Strategy
6 4 (15.38%) Agile
6 4 (15.38%) Customer Requirements
6 4 (15.38%) Line Management
6 4 (15.38%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
6 4 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.85%) Perl
1 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (42.31%) Degree
2 5 (19.23%) Security Cleared
3 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (7.69%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) Firmware
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) Microsoft