Principal Engineer Jobs in Cambridgeshire

Principal Engineer
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The median Principal Engineer salary in Cambridgeshire is £77,500 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 89 121 118
Rank change year-on-year +32 -3 -13
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Engineer 13 2 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 0.84% 0.13% 1.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.89% 0.15% 1.89%
Number of salaries quoted 5 1 4
10th Percentile £67,500 - £69,750
25th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £73,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile - - £89,000
East of England median annual salary £77,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.90% +11.54% +36.84%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cambridgeshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire. 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 Cambridgeshire with a recognized job title 1,457 1,305 2,273
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.70% 87.00% 93.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,124 608 970
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +8.00% -1.48%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,100 £85,375 £80,000
East of England median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -

Principal Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Engineer in Cambridgeshire

Principal Engineer
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Salary trend for Principal Engineer in Cambridgeshire

Principal Engineer
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Engineer within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 2 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
Cambridge +24 12 £77,500 +3.33% 28
Principal Engineer
East of England

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

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 Cambridgeshire region featuring Principal Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (53.85%) C
1 7 (53.85%) Software Engineering
2 5 (38.46%) Electronics
2 5 (38.46%) Linux
2 5 (38.46%) Python
2 5 (38.46%) SDLC
2 5 (38.46%) Prototyping
2 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (30.77%) IEC 62304
3 4 (30.77%) Renewable Energy
3 4 (30.77%) ISO 13485
3 4 (30.77%) Embedded Systems
3 4 (30.77%) IoT
3 4 (30.77%) Mentoring
3 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (30.77%) Bluetooth
3 4 (30.77%) Embedded C
3 4 (30.77%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (30.77%) Wireless
4 3 (23.08%) Change Management
4 3 (23.08%) Assembly Language
4 3 (23.08%) Google
4 3 (23.08%) Agile
4 3 (23.08%) DevOps
4 3 (23.08%) Looker
4 3 (23.08%) Data Engineering
4 3 (23.08%) BigQuery
4 3 (23.08%) GCP
4 3 (23.08%) GDPR
4 3 (23.08%) Data Science

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 3 (23.08%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) Bluetooth
1 4 (30.77%) Wi-Fi
1 4 (30.77%) Wireless
2 2 (15.38%) Ethernet
2 2 (15.38%) NGN
2 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) BigQuery
1 3 (23.08%) Looker
2 1 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Redis
General
1 5 (38.46%) Electronics
2 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Avionics
4 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) DPDK
1 2 (15.38%) eBPF
2 1 (7.69%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Embedded Systems
1 4 (30.77%) IoT
1 4 (30.77%) Renewable Energy
2 3 (23.08%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (15.38%) Algorithms
3 2 (15.38%) Data Structures
4 1 (7.69%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Software Engineering
2 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (38.46%) Prototyping
2 5 (38.46%) SDLC
3 4 (30.77%) Mentoring
4 3 (23.08%) Agile
4 3 (23.08%) Change Management
4 3 (23.08%) Data Engineering
4 3 (23.08%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (23.08%) Data Science
4 3 (23.08%) DataOps
4 3 (23.08%) DevOps
4 3 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) Computer Architecture
5 2 (15.38%) Concurrent Programming
5 2 (15.38%) Open Source
6 1 (7.69%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (7.69%) Machine Learning
6 1 (7.69%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) C
2 5 (38.46%) Python
3 4 (30.77%) Embedded C
4 3 (23.08%) Assembly Language
5 1 (7.69%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) IEC 62304
1 4 (30.77%) ISO 13485
2 3 (23.08%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) EMC