Principal Engineer Jobs in Chester

Principal Engineer
Cheshire > Chester

The median Principal Engineer salary in Chester 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 23 36 -
Rank change year-on-year +13 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Engineer 9 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chester 4.21% 0.48% -
As % of the Job Titles category 4.43% 0.62% -
Number of salaries quoted 6 1 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -
Cheshire median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Chester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Chester. 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 Chester with a recognized job title 203 162 118
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.86% 77.14% 84.89%
Number of salaries quoted 174 90 67
10th Percentile £26,250 £22,000 £31,475
25th Percentile £35,000 £26,680 £35,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £40,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -15.79% +11.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,874 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £68,000
Cheshire median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - - +5.56%

Principal Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Engineer in Chester

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Top 21 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Chester

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 Chester region featuring Principal Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (66.67%) Azure
1 6 (66.67%) C#
1 6 (66.67%) .NET
1 6 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 3 (33.33%) Google
2 3 (33.33%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) Change Management
2 3 (33.33%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (33.33%) BigQuery
2 3 (33.33%) GCP
2 3 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 3 (33.33%) Looker
2 3 (33.33%) GDPR
2 3 (33.33%) Data Science
2 3 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (33.33%) DataOps
2 3 (33.33%) Platform Engineering

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Chester 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 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) BigQuery
1 3 (33.33%) Looker
General
1 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 3 (33.33%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) Change Management
2 3 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 3 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (33.33%) Data Science
2 3 (33.33%) DataOps
2 3 (33.33%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 3 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Google
7 Principal Engineer jobs in Cheshire