Principal Software Engineer Jobs in the City of London

Principal Software Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Principal Software Engineer salary in the City of London is £92,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 178 232 277
Rank change year-on-year +54 +45 -33
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Software Engineer 6 7 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.18% 0.14% 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.15% 0.015%
Number of salaries quoted 6 7 0
10th Percentile £86,250 £92,950 -
25th Percentile £88,438 £103,750 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £107,500 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.95% - -
75th Percentile £102,188 £111,250 -
90th Percentile £115,000 - -
Central London median annual salary £92,500 £107,500 -
% change year-on-year -13.95% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the City of London. 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 3,197 4,767 6,694
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.72% 96.48% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 2,565 4,029 5,661
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £53,250 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%

Principal Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Software Engineer in the City of London

Principal Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Principal Software Engineer in the City of London.

Salary trend for Principal Software Engineer in the City of London

Principal Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Principal Software Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Principal Software Engineer in the City of London

Principal Software Engineer
Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Software Engineer within the City of London region over the 6 months to 18 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
London Bridge - 1 £85,000 -
Principal Software Engineer
Central London

Principal Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 18 April 2024, Principal Software 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 City of London region featuring Principal Software Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 5 (83.33%) Scrum
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) Microservices
3 4 (66.67%) Spring Boot
3 4 (66.67%) Finance
3 4 (66.67%) Java
3 4 (66.67%) Node.js
3 4 (66.67%) Kanban
3 4 (66.67%) Spring
4 3 (50.00%) Marketing
4 3 (50.00%) OWASP
4 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (50.00%) DevOps
4 3 (50.00%) Confluence
4 3 (50.00%) JIRA
4 3 (50.00%) Test Scripting
4 3 (50.00%) Performance Management
4 3 (50.00%) UML
4 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
4 3 (50.00%) SOA
4 3 (50.00%) Migration
4 3 (50.00%) Banking
4 3 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (50.00%) Iteration Planning
4 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (50.00%) Impact Analysis
4 3 (50.00%) Serverless
4 3 (50.00%) Decision-Making

Principal Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (50.00%) Serverless
3 1 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Banking
2 3 (50.00%) Marketing
3 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Node.js
1 4 (66.67%) Spring
1 4 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (16.67%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) Quarkus
2 1 (16.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) Microservices
2 5 (83.33%) Scrum
3 4 (66.67%) Kanban
4 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
4 3 (50.00%) Decision-Making
4 3 (50.00%) DevOps
4 3 (50.00%) Impact Analysis
4 3 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
4 3 (50.00%) Iteration Planning
4 3 (50.00%) Migration
4 3 (50.00%) OWASP
4 3 (50.00%) Performance Management
4 3 (50.00%) SOA
4 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (50.00%) Test Scripting
4 3 (50.00%) UML
5 2 (33.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) Kotlin