Principal Engineer Jobs in Manchester

Principal Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Principal Engineer salary in Manchester is £71,440 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 184 219 247
Rank change year-on-year +35 +28 -43
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Engineer 30 28 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.60% 0.55% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.59% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 10 22 10
10th Percentile £60,000 £51,250 £62,500
25th Percentile £60,985 £63,750 £72,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,440 £75,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.75% -11.76% +13.33%
75th Percentile £86,625 £100,625 £93,125
90th Percentile £90,000 £102,500 £95,000
North West median annual salary £65,000 £68,750 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.45% -19.12% +28.30%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 4,769 4,713 5,535
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.00% 91.91% 97.09%
Number of salaries quoted 3,723 2,738 3,770
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,750
25th Percentile £40,988 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £54,882 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.90% +4.54% +10.53%

Principal Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Engineer in Manchester

Principal Engineer
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Principal Engineer in Manchester

Principal Engineer
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Principal Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Principal Engineer in Manchester

Principal Engineer
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Engineer within the Manchester 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
Oldham - 3 - -
Stockport - 2 £67,880 - 2
Principal Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 18 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 Manchester region featuring Principal Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (43.33%) Agile
1 13 (43.33%) DevOps
2 11 (36.67%) Google
3 9 (30.00%) Mentoring
3 9 (30.00%) Technical Leadership
3 9 (30.00%) Technology Roadmap
3 9 (30.00%) Roadmaps
4 8 (26.67%) Platform Engineering
4 8 (26.67%) Data Pipeline
4 8 (26.67%) DataOps
4 8 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (26.67%) BigQuery
4 8 (26.67%) GCP
4 8 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (26.67%) Data Engineering
4 8 (26.67%) GDPR
4 8 (26.67%) Change Management
5 6 (20.00%) Looker
5 6 (20.00%) Data Science
5 6 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (16.67%) Azure
6 5 (16.67%) Software Engineering
7 4 (13.33%) Selenium
7 4 (13.33%) Cypress.io
7 4 (13.33%) JavaScript
8 3 (10.00%) Visual Studio
8 3 (10.00%) Android
8 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
8 3 (10.00%) Software Testing
8 3 (10.00%) QA

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (26.67%) GCP
2 5 (16.67%) Azure
3 3 (10.00%) AWS
3 3 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (10.00%) Dropbox
3 3 (10.00%) Google Drive
3 3 (10.00%) OneDrive
4 1 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.33%) OpenShift
4 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (26.67%) BigQuery
2 6 (20.00%) Looker
3 1 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Cypress.io
1 4 (13.33%) Selenium
2 3 (10.00%) Android Studio
2 3 (10.00%) Postman
2 3 (10.00%) Visual Studio
3 1 (3.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (6.67%) Telecoms
3 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) Playwright
2 1 (3.33%) Hibernate
2 1 (3.33%) Node.js
2 1 (3.33%) React
2 1 (3.33%) Spring
2 1 (3.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (10.00%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (43.33%) Agile
1 13 (43.33%) DevOps
2 9 (30.00%) Mentoring
2 9 (30.00%) Roadmaps
2 9 (30.00%) Technical Leadership
2 9 (30.00%) Technology Roadmap
3 8 (26.67%) Change Management
3 8 (26.67%) Data Engineering
3 8 (26.67%) Data Pipeline
3 8 (26.67%) DataOps
3 8 (26.67%) Platform Engineering
3 8 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (20.00%) Data Science
5 5 (16.67%) Software Engineering
6 3 (10.00%) Coaching
6 3 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (10.00%) Full Stack Development
6 3 (10.00%) Line Management
6 3 (10.00%) People Management
6 3 (10.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (6.67%) C++
2 2 (6.67%) Java
2 2 (6.67%) Python
3 1 (3.33%) PHP
3 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.67%) Degree
2 2 (6.67%) Master's Degree
2 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (26.67%) GDPR
2 3 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) Ansible
1 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (36.67%) Google