Principal Engineer Jobs in Cardiff

Principal Engineer
South Wales > Cardiff

The median Principal Engineer salary in Cardiff is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 55 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Engineer 10 12 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 1.51% 2.07% -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.61% 2.27% -
Number of salaries quoted 5 12 0
10th Percentile £51,496 - -
25th Percentile £57,500 £43,162 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £44,666 -
Median % change year-on-year +34.33% - -
75th Percentile £62,500 £57,188 -
90th Percentile - £67,500 -
South Wales median annual salary £60,000 £44,666 -
% change year-on-year +34.33% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cardiff

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Cardiff. 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 Cardiff with a recognized job title 620 528 832
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.66% 91.19% 96.41%
Number of salaries quoted 539 404 621
10th Percentile £27,157 £30,900 £34,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £39,813 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,619 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.22% -3.58% +16.67%
75th Percentile £65,383 £67,178 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,500 £77,500 £77,500
South Wales median annual salary £45,000 £45,496 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.09% -9.01% +11.11%

Principal Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Engineer in Cardiff

Principal Engineer
Salary Trend in Cardiff

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

Salary trend for Principal Engineer in Cardiff

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

For the 6 months to 3 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 Cardiff region featuring Principal Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (30.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (30.00%) DataOps
2 3 (30.00%) Google
2 3 (30.00%) Degree
2 3 (30.00%) Change Management
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (30.00%) BigQuery
2 3 (30.00%) GCP
2 3 (30.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (30.00%) Looker
2 3 (30.00%) GDPR
2 3 (30.00%) Data Science
2 3 (30.00%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Analytics
3 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (20.00%) Network Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (10.00%) AWS
4 1 (10.00%) Law
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle
4 1 (10.00%) Unix
4 1 (10.00%) Linux
4 1 (10.00%) Shell Script

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 (30.00%) GCP
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) BigQuery
1 3 (30.00%) Looker
2 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
General
1 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (10.00%) Law
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (30.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) Change Management
2 3 (30.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (30.00%) Data Science
2 3 (30.00%) DataOps
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (30.00%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Analytics
3 2 (20.00%) Network Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (10.00%) Cost Management
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Project Management
4 1 (10.00%) Target Operating Model
4 1 (10.00%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle