Principal Engineer Jobs in Cheshire

Principal Engineer
North West > Cheshire

The median Principal Engineer salary in Cheshire is £65,000 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 85 93 98
Rank change year-on-year +8 +5 -18
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Engineer 16 1 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.05% 0.11% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.08% 0.12% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 10 1 0
10th Percentile £55,000 - -
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -
75th Percentile - £65,000 -
90th Percentile £65,750 - -
North West median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% -20.59% +28.30%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Cheshire. 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 Cheshire with a recognized job title 1,481 850 986
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.05% 89.29% 93.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,114 483 529
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,170 £24,925
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £33,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,824 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £73,375 £88,750 £72,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Principal Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Engineer in Cheshire

Principal Engineer
Salary Trend in Cheshire

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

Salary trend for Principal Engineer in Cheshire

Principal Engineer
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Engineer within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 23 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
Chester +13 9 £65,000 +8.33%
Warrington - 6 £60,000 - 2
Principal Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 23 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 Cheshire region featuring Principal Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (43.75%) C#
1 7 (43.75%) .NET
1 7 (43.75%) Software Engineering
1 7 (43.75%) Azure
2 6 (37.50%) Data Engineering
2 6 (37.50%) Looker
2 6 (37.50%) GDPR
2 6 (37.50%) Data Science
2 6 (37.50%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
2 6 (37.50%) DataOps
2 6 (37.50%) Platform Engineering
2 6 (37.50%) Google
2 6 (37.50%) DevOps
2 6 (37.50%) Mentoring
2 6 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (37.50%) BigQuery
2 6 (37.50%) GCP
2 6 (37.50%) Agile
2 6 (37.50%) Change Management
3 3 (18.75%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 3 (18.75%) Validation
3 3 (18.75%) Logistics
3 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
3 3 (18.75%) Verification and Validation
3 3 (18.75%) Systems Engineering
3 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (6.25%) Terraform

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 7 (43.75%) Azure
2 6 (37.50%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) BigQuery
1 6 (37.50%) Looker
General
1 6 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) .NET
2 1 (6.25%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Software Engineering
2 6 (37.50%) Agile
2 6 (37.50%) Change Management
2 6 (37.50%) Data Engineering
2 6 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
2 6 (37.50%) Data Science
2 6 (37.50%) DataOps
2 6 (37.50%) DevOps
2 6 (37.50%) Mentoring
2 6 (37.50%) Platform Engineering
2 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (18.75%) Logistics
3 3 (18.75%) Systems Engineering
3 3 (18.75%) Validation
3 3 (18.75%) Verification and Validation
4 1 (6.25%) CI/CD
4 1 (6.25%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (37.50%) GDPR
2 3 (18.75%) ISO/IEC 15288
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Google
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft