Principal Software Engineer Jobs in Manchester

Principal Software Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Principal Software Engineer salary in Manchester is £77,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 213 234 254
Rank change year-on-year +21 +20 -47
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Software Engineer 4 10 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.080% 0.19% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.084% 0.21% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 3 10 5
10th Percentile £68,000 - £73,350
25th Percentile £68,750 £51,250 £78,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,000 £75,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% -11.76% +36.00%
75th Percentile £85,750 £81,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £86,800 £95,000 £92,000
North West median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% -11.76% +36.00%

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 4,762 4,745 5,524
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.03% 91.98% 97.08%
Number of salaries quoted 3,719 2,743 3,758
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,750
25th Percentile £40,988 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,700 £57,325 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +4.23% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £84,056 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £54,882 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.90% +4.54% +10.53%

Principal Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Software Engineer in Manchester

Principal Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Principal Software Engineer in Manchester

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

For the 6 months to 16 April 2024, Principal Software 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Software Delivery
3 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (50.00%) C++
3 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) User Experience
3 2 (50.00%) Node.js
4 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (25.00%) Go
4 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (25.00%) Ansible
4 1 (25.00%) Docker
4 1 (25.00%) Microservices
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (25.00%) GCP
4 1 (25.00%) Rust
4 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (25.00%) React
4 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
4 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io

Principal Software 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 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cyberattack
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Software Delivery
3 2 (50.00%) User Experience
4 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Full Stack Development
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Microservices
4 1 (25.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) C++
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) Go
3 1 (25.00%) PHP
3 1 (25.00%) Rust
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform