Principal Engineer Jobs in England

Principal Engineer
UK > England

The median Principal Engineer salary in England is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 15 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
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 278 470 386
Rank change year-on-year +192 -84 +119
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Engineer 878 530 1,301
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.02% 0.60% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.08% 0.65% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 384 383 406
10th Percentile £60,000 £61,211 £60,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - +21.43%
75th Percentile £95,313 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £155,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% - +21.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 81,168 81,168 129,425
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.54% 91.48% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 60,490 51,509 74,747
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Principal Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Engineer in England

Principal Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Principal Engineer in England

Principal Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Principal Engineer in England over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Principal Engineer in England

Principal Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 15 May 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 +55 186 £95,000 -11.63% 66
North of England +118 163 £65,000 -13.33% 61
South West +89 156 £70,000 -12.50% 46
South East +35 150 £75,000 +7.14% 72
Midlands +92 119 £75,000 -9.09% 17
East of England +77 85 £77,500 +6.90% 59
North West +56 85 £65,000 -11.86% 56
West Midlands +72 64 £70,000 -36.36% 8
Yorkshire +110 58 £65,000 -18.75% 5
East Midlands +25 55 £85,000 +3.03% 9
North East +9 20 - -
Principal Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 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 England region featuring Principal Engineer in the job title.

1 210 (23.92%) Problem-Solving
2 203 (23.12%) Google
3 197 (22.44%) Mentoring
4 195 (22.21%) Agile
5 174 (19.82%) Data Engineering
6 173 (19.70%) DevOps
7 172 (19.59%) Roadmaps
8 171 (19.48%) GCP
9 168 (19.13%) Analytical Skills
10 161 (18.34%) Software Engineering
11 159 (18.11%) Self-Motivation
12 157 (17.88%) Data Pipeline
13 155 (17.65%) Platform Engineering
14 154 (17.54%) Technology Roadmap
14 154 (17.54%) Data Science
15 153 (17.43%) Technical Leadership
15 153 (17.43%) BigQuery
16 149 (16.97%) Looker
17 144 (16.40%) Change Management
18 143 (16.29%) GDPR
18 143 (16.29%) DataOps
19 133 (15.15%) Degree
20 110 (12.53%) Systems Engineering
21 97 (11.05%) AWS
22 82 (9.34%) Security Cleared
23 70 (7.97%) Social Skills
24 63 (7.18%) Java
25 61 (6.95%) Customer Service
26 57 (6.49%) Azure
27 52 (5.92%) Master's Degree

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 10 (1.14%) Confluence
2 6 (0.68%) Apache Spark
2 6 (0.68%) IIS
2 6 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (0.68%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.46%) Apache
4 1 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.11%) CMS
4 1 (0.11%) JBoss
4 1 (0.11%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.23%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 171 (19.48%) GCP
2 97 (11.05%) AWS
3 57 (6.49%) Azure
4 42 (4.78%) Dropbox
4 42 (4.78%) Google Drive
4 42 (4.78%) OneDrive
5 19 (2.16%) Serverless
6 18 (2.05%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (1.25%) SaaS
8 8 (0.91%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (0.68%) Datadog
10 5 (0.57%) Amazon S3
10 5 (0.57%) Amazon SageMaker
10 5 (0.57%) Azure Machine Learning
11 4 (0.46%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (0.46%) AWS Fargate
11 4 (0.46%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (0.46%) Azure Functions
11 4 (0.46%) CloudFront
11 4 (0.46%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.82%) Internet
1 16 (1.82%) LAN
1 16 (1.82%) WAN
2 14 (1.59%) Wireless
3 7 (0.80%) Firewall
4 6 (0.68%) TETRA
5 5 (0.57%) 4G
5 5 (0.57%) Bluetooth
5 5 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (0.46%) MPLS
6 4 (0.46%) Network Security
7 3 (0.34%) BGP
7 3 (0.34%) Ethernet
7 3 (0.34%) IGMP
7 3 (0.34%) IPv6
7 3 (0.34%) Multicast
7 3 (0.34%) OSPF
7 3 (0.34%) VLAN
7 3 (0.34%) VoIP
7 3 (0.34%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (17.43%) BigQuery
2 149 (16.97%) Looker
3 8 (0.91%) Data Lake
4 6 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (0.57%) Big Data
6 4 (0.46%) Apache Hive
6 4 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.46%) Hadoop
6 4 (0.46%) MongoDB
6 4 (0.46%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.46%) Redis
7 3 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.34%) Neo4j
8 2 (0.23%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.23%) MySQL
8 2 (0.23%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.11%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.11%) HBase
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (1.82%) Rational DOORS
2 10 (1.14%) JIRA
3 5 (0.57%) Git
4 4 (0.46%) Cypress.io
4 4 (0.46%) Selenium
4 4 (0.46%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.34%) Android Studio
5 3 (0.34%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.34%) Postman
5 3 (0.34%) Rational Rhapsody
6 2 (0.23%) Subversion
7 1 (0.11%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.11%) TeamCity
General
1 168 (19.13%) Analytical Skills
2 70 (7.97%) Social Skills
3 41 (4.67%) Aerospace
4 39 (4.44%) Manufacturing
5 34 (3.87%) Finance
6 30 (3.42%) Electronics
7 25 (2.85%) Telecoms
8 13 (1.48%) Automotive
8 13 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (1.48%) Marketing
9 12 (1.37%) Public Sector
10 9 (1.03%) Banking
10 9 (1.03%) Military
11 8 (0.91%) Health Technology
11 8 (0.91%) Legal
12 7 (0.80%) Aviation
12 7 (0.80%) Retail
13 6 (0.68%) Law
14 5 (0.57%) Aeronautics
14 5 (0.57%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (3.30%) Spring Boot
2 28 (3.19%) Spring
3 21 (2.39%) .NET
4 17 (1.94%) Kafka
5 16 (1.82%) React
6 15 (1.71%) Node.js
7 11 (1.25%) GraphQL
8 9 (1.03%) PyTorch
9 7 (0.80%) .NET Core
9 7 (0.80%) scikit-learn
9 7 (0.80%) TensorFlow
10 5 (0.57%) MXNet
11 4 (0.46%) CSS
12 3 (0.34%) Playwright
13 2 (0.23%) Apache NiFi
13 2 (0.23%) DPDK
13 2 (0.23%) eBPF
13 2 (0.23%) Flutter
13 2 (0.23%) LangChain
13 2 (0.23%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 159 (18.11%) Self-Motivation
2 42 (4.78%) iPad
3 13 (1.48%) FPGA
4 12 (1.37%) Cloud Native
5 10 (1.14%) IoT
6 9 (1.03%) Data Structures
7 8 (0.91%) Management Information System
8 7 (0.80%) Algorithms
8 7 (0.80%) Embedded Systems
9 6 (0.68%) Data Centre
9 6 (0.68%) Mobile App
10 5 (0.57%) Hackathon
11 4 (0.46%) Renewable Energy
12 3 (0.34%) Distributed Systems
12 3 (0.34%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.34%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (0.34%) Smart City
12 3 (0.34%) VHDL
13 2 (0.23%) Digital Currency
13 2 (0.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (2.51%) Linux
2 13 (1.48%) Windows
3 7 (0.80%) Android
4 5 (0.57%) Embedded Linux
5 4 (0.46%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.46%) Unix
6 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.11%) VxWorks
6 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (23.92%) Problem-Solving
2 197 (22.44%) Mentoring
3 195 (22.21%) Agile
4 174 (19.82%) Data Engineering
5 173 (19.70%) DevOps
6 172 (19.59%) Roadmaps
7 161 (18.34%) Software Engineering
8 157 (17.88%) Data Pipeline
9 155 (17.65%) Platform Engineering
10 154 (17.54%) Data Science
10 154 (17.54%) Technology Roadmap
11 153 (17.43%) Technical Leadership
12 144 (16.40%) Change Management
13 143 (16.29%) DataOps
14 110 (12.53%) Systems Engineering
15 61 (6.95%) Customer Service
16 46 (5.24%) Project Delivery
17 45 (5.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 35 (3.99%) Data Modelling
18 35 (3.99%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 63 (7.18%) Java
2 51 (5.81%) Python
3 29 (3.30%) SQL
4 26 (2.96%) C
5 24 (2.73%) Kotlin
6 23 (2.62%) C#
7 22 (2.51%) TypeScript
8 18 (2.05%) C++
9 11 (1.25%) Scala
10 10 (1.14%) JavaScript
11 9 (1.03%) Go
12 6 (0.68%) Embedded C
13 4 (0.46%) Assembly Language
13 4 (0.46%) Ruby
13 4 (0.46%) Swift
14 3 (0.34%) R
15 2 (0.23%) Bash
15 2 (0.23%) Perl
15 2 (0.23%) PHP
15 2 (0.23%) Rust
Qualifications
1 133 (15.15%) Degree
2 82 (9.34%) Security Cleared
3 52 (5.92%) Master's Degree
4 39 (4.44%) Chartered Engineer
5 28 (3.19%) DV Cleared
6 24 (2.73%) SC Cleared
7 16 (1.82%) HNC
8 10 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.34%) MCT
10 3 (0.34%) Sun Certification
11 2 (0.23%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.23%) CCIE
11 2 (0.23%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.23%) HND
11 2 (0.23%) JNCIA
11 2 (0.23%) JNCIS
12 1 (0.11%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (16.29%) GDPR
2 9 (1.03%) QA
3 8 (0.91%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.46%) IEC 62304
4 4 (0.46%) ISO 13485
4 4 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 2 (0.23%) Def Stans
5 2 (0.23%) IEC 61508
5 2 (0.23%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (2.73%) Firmware
2 10 (1.14%) Docker
3 8 (0.91%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.91%) Embedded Firmware
3 8 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.68%) Forefront TMG
4 6 (0.68%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.68%) VMware Workstation
5 4 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.11%) VirtualBox
6 1 (0.11%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 20 (2.28%) Kubernetes
2 15 (1.71%) Terraform
3 6 (0.68%) SCOM
3 6 (0.68%) WSUS
4 2 (0.23%) Ansible
5 1 (0.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 203 (23.12%) Google
2 41 (4.67%) EMC
3 24 (2.73%) Microsoft
4 16 (1.82%) Fortinet
4 16 (1.82%) Juniper
4 16 (1.82%) Sandvine
5 8 (0.91%) QinetiQ
5 8 (0.91%) VMware
6 6 (0.68%) Databricks
7 5 (0.57%) Dataiku
8 3 (0.34%) Progress
9 2 (0.23%) CheckPoint
9 2 (0.23%) Confluent
9 2 (0.23%) Forcepoint
9 2 (0.23%) ForgeRock
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle
9 2 (0.23%) SAP
9 2 (0.23%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.11%) Facebook
10 1 (0.11%) SnapLogic