Principal Engineer Jobs in Gloucestershire

Principal Engineer
South West > Gloucestershire

The median Principal Engineer salary in Gloucestershire is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 113 118
Rank change year-on-year -3 +5 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Engineer 21 8 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 1.20% 0.61% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.24% 0.72% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 12 7 2
10th Percentile £67,750 £63,500 £50,850
25th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £81,000 £64,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +25.58% -2.27%
75th Percentile - £92,500 £76,500
90th Percentile £97,275 - £80,550
South West median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £73,250
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.22% +8.52%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Gloucestershire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire. 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 Gloucestershire with a recognized job title 1,695 1,117 1,229
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.75% 85.53% 97.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,235 522 747
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £61,250 £71,813 £62,827
90th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £71,250
South West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%

Principal Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Engineer in Gloucestershire

Principal Engineer
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Salary trend for Principal Engineer in Gloucestershire

Principal Engineer
Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Principal Engineer in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Principal Engineer in Gloucestershire

Principal Engineer
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Engineer within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 25 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
Cheltenham -5 8 £91,500 +18.83% 1
Gloucester +9 6 £70,000 -22.22% 1
Principal Engineer
South West

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

For the 6 months to 25 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 Gloucestershire region featuring Principal Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (52.38%) Agile
2 10 (47.62%) Software Engineering
2 10 (47.62%) Firmware
2 10 (47.62%) Mentoring
3 8 (38.10%) BigQuery
3 8 (38.10%) GCP
3 8 (38.10%) Data Engineering
3 8 (38.10%) Looker
3 8 (38.10%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (38.10%) C
3 8 (38.10%) C++
3 8 (38.10%) Google
3 8 (38.10%) Data Pipeline
3 8 (38.10%) Platform Engineering
4 7 (33.33%) Embedded Firmware
4 7 (33.33%) FPGA
5 6 (28.57%) GDPR
5 6 (28.57%) Data Science
5 6 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (28.57%) DevOps
5 6 (28.57%) Change Management
5 6 (28.57%) DataOps
6 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
7 4 (19.05%) Python
7 4 (19.05%) Cybersecurity
8 3 (14.29%) Rational DOORS
8 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
8 3 (14.29%) Systems Engineering
8 3 (14.29%) Technical Leadership

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 8 (38.10%) GCP
2 2 (9.52%) AWS
3 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (4.76%) Azure
3 1 (4.76%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (38.10%) BigQuery
1 8 (38.10%) Looker
2 2 (9.52%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Rational DOORS
General
1 6 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) Hibernate
1 1 (4.76%) Spring
1 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (38.10%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (33.33%) FPGA
3 2 (9.52%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.76%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Agile
2 10 (47.62%) Mentoring
2 10 (47.62%) Software Engineering
3 8 (38.10%) Data Engineering
3 8 (38.10%) Data Pipeline
3 8 (38.10%) Platform Engineering
3 8 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (28.57%) Change Management
4 6 (28.57%) Data Science
4 6 (28.57%) DataOps
4 6 (28.57%) DevOps
5 4 (19.05%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (14.29%) SysML
6 3 (14.29%) Systems Engineering
6 3 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (14.29%) UML
6 3 (14.29%) V-Model
7 2 (9.52%) Data Modelling
7 2 (9.52%) ETL
7 2 (9.52%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 8 (38.10%) C
1 8 (38.10%) C++
2 4 (19.05%) Python
3 3 (14.29%) Java
4 2 (9.52%) Scala
4 2 (9.52%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 3 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 2 (9.52%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (28.57%) GDPR
2 2 (9.52%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (47.62%) Firmware
2 7 (33.33%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Ansible
1 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) Google