Principal Engineer Jobs in Bristol

Principal Engineer
South West > Bristol

The median Principal Engineer salary in Bristol is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 162 133
Rank change year-on-year +57 -29 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Engineer 59 15 60
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 1.90% 0.57% 1.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.96% 0.61% 1.86%
Number of salaries quoted 35 13 47
10th Percentile - £42,500 £56,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £80,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +18.52% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £102,500 £93,750
90th Percentile - - -
South West median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £76,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.58% +13.33%

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 3,009 2,447 3,224
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.00% 92.76% 97.96%
Number of salaries quoted 2,251 1,526 2,217
10th Percentile £33,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
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 £73,853 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
South West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%

Principal Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Engineer in Bristol

Principal Engineer
Salary Trend in Bristol

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

Salary trend for Principal Engineer in Bristol

Principal Engineer
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing Principal Engineer in Bristol over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Principal Engineer in Bristol

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 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 Bristol region featuring Principal Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (38.98%) Systems Engineering
2 16 (27.12%) Roadmaps
3 12 (20.34%) Technical Leadership
3 12 (20.34%) Technology Roadmap
3 12 (20.34%) Aerospace
4 11 (18.64%) Agile
4 11 (18.64%) Security Cleared
4 11 (18.64%) Social Skills
5 10 (16.95%) Software Engineering
6 9 (15.25%) Degree
7 8 (13.56%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (11.86%) Google
9 6 (10.17%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (10.17%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
10 5 (8.47%) Mentoring
10 5 (8.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 4 (6.78%) Telecoms
11 4 (6.78%) BigQuery
11 4 (6.78%) GCP
11 4 (6.78%) Computer Science
11 4 (6.78%) Platform Engineering
11 4 (6.78%) Data Pipeline
11 4 (6.78%) Strategic Roadmap
11 4 (6.78%) Project Delivery
11 4 (6.78%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (6.78%) Work Breakdown Structure
11 4 (6.78%) Data Engineering
11 4 (6.78%) Looker
12 3 (5.08%) GDPR
12 3 (5.08%) Analytical Skills

Principal Engineer 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 4 (6.78%) GCP
2 3 (5.08%) AWS
2 3 (5.08%) Dropbox
2 3 (5.08%) Google Drive
2 3 (5.08%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.69%) Bluetooth
1 1 (1.69%) OFDM
1 1 (1.69%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (1.69%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.78%) BigQuery
1 4 (6.78%) Looker
2 1 (1.69%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Rational DOORS
1 3 (5.08%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 12 (20.34%) Aerospace
2 11 (18.64%) Social Skills
3 4 (6.78%) Telecoms
4 3 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.08%) Finance
4 3 (5.08%) Games
5 1 (1.69%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.69%) Flutter
1 1 (1.69%) PyTorch
1 1 (1.69%) Qt
1 1 (1.69%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.56%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (5.08%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.69%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (1.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (38.98%) Systems Engineering
2 16 (27.12%) Roadmaps
3 12 (20.34%) Technical Leadership
3 12 (20.34%) Technology Roadmap
4 11 (18.64%) Agile
5 10 (16.95%) Software Engineering
6 6 (10.17%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
7 5 (8.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (8.47%) Mentoring
8 4 (6.78%) Computer Science
8 4 (6.78%) Data Engineering
8 4 (6.78%) Data Pipeline
8 4 (6.78%) Platform Engineering
8 4 (6.78%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (6.78%) Project Delivery
8 4 (6.78%) Strategic Roadmap
8 4 (6.78%) Work Breakdown Structure
9 3 (5.08%) Business Development
9 3 (5.08%) DevOps
9 3 (5.08%) Performance Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.08%) TypeScript
2 2 (3.39%) Python
3 1 (1.69%) C
3 1 (1.69%) Java
3 1 (1.69%) Scala
3 1 (1.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (18.64%) Security Cleared
2 9 (15.25%) Degree
3 6 (10.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.69%) Chartered Engineer
4 1 (1.69%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.08%) GDPR
2 1 (1.69%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 15288
Vendors
1 7 (11.86%) Google