Principal Developer Jobs in Bristol

Principal Developer
South West > Bristol

The median Principal Developer salary in Bristol is £90,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 153 172 186
Rank change year-on-year +19 +14 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Developer 10 3 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 0.32% 0.11% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.12% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 7 3 6
10th Percentile £75,000 - £52,125
25th Percentile £82,500 £68,750 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £72,500 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.14% -30.95% -
75th Percentile - £89,375 £112,500
90th Percentile - £97,250 -
South West median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% +7.41%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Bristol

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Bristol. 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 Bristol with a recognized job title 3,008 2,503 3,222
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.75% 92.94% 97.93%
Number of salaries quoted 2,242 1,573 2,237
10th Percentile £33,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,750 £42,500 £40,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,810 £53,112
Median % change year-on-year -0.54% +8.85% +14.22%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
South West median annual salary £50,000 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% +11.11%

Principal Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Developer in Bristol

Principal Developer
Salary Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Principal Developer in Bristol.

Salary trend for Principal Developer in Bristol

Principal Developer
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing Principal Developer in Bristol over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Principal Developer in Bristol

Principal Developer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, Principal Developer 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 Bristol region featuring Principal Developer in the job title.

1 5 (50.00%) Web Development
2 2 (20.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (20.00%) jQuery
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) HTML5
2 2 (20.00%) Entity Framework
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (20.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
2 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) .NET Core
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
2 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (20.00%) Agile
2 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (20.00%) Scrum
2 2 (20.00%) C#
2 2 (20.00%) HTML
2 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (20.00%) .NET
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (20.00%) Linux

Principal Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) .NET
1 2 (20.00%) .NET Core
1 2 (20.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (20.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (20.00%) Entity Framework
1 2 (20.00%) HTML
1 2 (20.00%) HTML5
1 2 (20.00%) jQuery
1 2 (20.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Web Development
2 2 (20.00%) Agile
2 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
2 2 (20.00%) Scrum
2 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) C#
1 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle