Principal Engineer Jobs in Edinburgh

Principal Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Principal Engineer salary in Edinburgh is £100,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 139 145
Rank change year-on-year +74 +6 -30
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Engineer 47 13 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.09% 0.62% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.23% 0.65% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 11 12 9
10th Percentile - £60,375 £57,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £85,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -2.86% +6.06%
75th Percentile - - £90,000
90th Percentile - £87,250 £91,250
Scotland median annual salary £67,500 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -20.59% +6.25% +1.59%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 1,457 2,007 2,308
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.86% 95.21% 98.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,029 1,188 1,454
10th Percentile £32,950 £36,250 £33,146
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,433 £77,715 £68,750
90th Percentile £92,047 £89,852 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £56,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.08% +7.62% +10.53%

Principal Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Engineer in Edinburgh

Principal Engineer
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for Principal Engineer in Edinburgh

Principal Engineer
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Principal Engineer in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Principal Engineer in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 4 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 Edinburgh region featuring Principal Engineer in the job title.

1 40 (85.11%) Software Engineering
2 36 (76.60%) Data Science
3 33 (70.21%) Threat Intelligence
3 33 (70.21%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 33 (70.21%) Dell
3 33 (70.21%) SaaS
3 33 (70.21%) Cybersecurity
4 32 (68.09%) AWS
4 32 (68.09%) Computer Security
5 31 (65.96%) Java
6 28 (59.57%) GCP
7 27 (57.45%) Google
8 26 (55.32%) Algorithms
8 26 (55.32%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (55.32%) Social Skills
9 25 (53.19%) Kubernetes
9 25 (53.19%) Kafka
9 25 (53.19%) Python
10 24 (51.06%) Scala
10 24 (51.06%) Hadoop
10 24 (51.06%) Big Data
10 24 (51.06%) Bash
10 24 (51.06%) Apache Spark
10 24 (51.06%) Go
10 24 (51.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 23 (48.94%) UX Research
11 23 (48.94%) Miro
11 23 (48.94%) GraphQL
11 23 (48.94%) Slack
11 23 (48.94%) Google Docs

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 24 (51.06%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 33 (70.21%) SaaS
2 32 (68.09%) AWS
3 28 (59.57%) GCP
4 23 (48.94%) Amazon S3
4 23 (48.94%) Amazon SQS
4 23 (48.94%) Google Docs
4 23 (48.94%) Lucidchart
4 23 (48.94%) Miro
4 23 (48.94%) Slack
5 2 (4.26%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (51.06%) Big Data
1 24 (51.06%) Hadoop
2 23 (48.94%) Elasticsearch
2 23 (48.94%) Redis
2 23 (48.94%) Scylla
3 4 (8.51%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (6.38%) BigQuery
4 3 (6.38%) Looker
5 1 (2.13%) Apache Accumulo
5 1 (2.13%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.13%) Flink
5 1 (2.13%) HBase
5 1 (2.13%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Cypress.io
1 1 (2.13%) JUnit
General
1 26 (55.32%) Social Skills
2 24 (51.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.38%) Legal
4 1 (2.13%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (53.19%) Kafka
2 23 (48.94%) GraphQL
3 1 (2.13%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (2.13%) React
3 1 (2.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 26 (55.32%) Algorithms
2 23 (48.94%) Data Structures
3 10 (21.28%) Cloud Native
4 9 (19.15%) Virtual Team
5 3 (6.38%) Management Information System
5 3 (6.38%) Product Ownership
5 3 (6.38%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (21.28%) Linux
2 9 (19.15%) Mac OS
2 9 (19.15%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (85.11%) Software Engineering
2 36 (76.60%) Data Science
3 33 (70.21%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 33 (70.21%) Cybersecurity
3 33 (70.21%) Threat Intelligence
4 32 (68.09%) Computer Security
5 26 (55.32%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (48.94%) High Availability
6 23 (48.94%) User Experience
6 23 (48.94%) UX Research
7 13 (27.66%) Agile
7 13 (27.66%) Analytics
8 10 (21.28%) Test Automation
9 9 (19.15%) Component Testing
9 9 (19.15%) Kalman Filter
9 9 (19.15%) Multithreading
9 9 (19.15%) Reverse Engineering
9 9 (19.15%) Security Analytics
9 9 (19.15%) TDD
9 9 (19.15%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 31 (65.96%) Java
2 25 (53.19%) Python
3 24 (51.06%) Bash
3 24 (51.06%) Go
3 24 (51.06%) Scala
4 2 (4.26%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) GDPR
2 1 (2.13%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (53.19%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.13%) Rancher
Vendors
1 33 (70.21%) Dell
2 27 (57.45%) Google
3 1 (2.13%) StreamSets
11 Principal Engineer jobs in Scotland