Principal Software Developer Jobs in London

Principal Software Developer
England > London

The median Principal Software Developer salary in London is £85,000 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 507 - 859
Rank change year-on-year - - -265
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Software Developer 2 0 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.008% - 0.015%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.009% - 0.016%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 10
10th Percentile - - £71,200
25th Percentile £82,500 - £74,650
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 - £92,500
75th Percentile £87,500 - £107,500
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £80,000 £73,750 £77,500
% change year-on-year +8.47% -4.84% -3.13%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 22,169 34,255 62,848
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.11% 95.07% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,697 25,036 34,819
10th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%

Principal Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Software Developer in London

Principal Software Developer
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Principal Software Developer in London.

Salary trend for Principal Software Developer in London

Principal Software Developer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Software Developer within the London 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
Central London - 1 £85,000 -
Principal Software Developer
England

Principal Software Developer Skill Set
Top 22 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Principal Software Developer 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 London region featuring Principal Software Developer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Full Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle

Principal Software Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Full Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle