Principal Engineer Jobs in Northamptonshire

Principal Engineer
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The median Principal Engineer salary in Northamptonshire is £85,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 60 58 -
Rank change year-on-year -2 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Engineer 8 5 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 1.15% 0.94% -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.19% 1.07% -
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £96,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.46% - -
East Midlands median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 -
% change year-on-year +3.03% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Northamptonshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire. 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 Northamptonshire with a recognized job title 672 467 474
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.41% 87.45% 92.76%
Number of salaries quoted 528 258 350
10th Percentile £24,750 £25,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £52,500 £65,813 £63,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £80,000
East Midlands median annual salary £42,750 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -14.50% +5.26% +9.20%

Principal Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Engineer in Northamptonshire

Principal Engineer
Salary Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Salary trend for Principal Engineer in Northamptonshire

Principal Engineer
Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Engineer within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Brackley +20 4 £85,000 -
Northampton - 4 - -
Principal Engineer
East Midlands

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 Northamptonshire region featuring Principal Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (50.00%) Agile
1 4 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 4 (50.00%) Google
1 4 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 4 (50.00%) BigQuery
1 4 (50.00%) GCP
1 4 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 4 (50.00%) Looker
1 4 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
1 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) DataOps
2 3 (37.50%) GDPR
2 3 (37.50%) Data Science
2 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Change Management
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Scrum
3 1 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
3 1 (12.50%) ETL
3 1 (12.50%) Scala
3 1 (12.50%) Data Governance
3 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
3 1 (12.50%) SDLC
3 1 (12.50%) Data Ingestion

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) BigQuery
1 4 (50.00%) Looker
2 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
General
1 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
1 4 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 4 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 4 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Change Management
2 3 (37.50%) Data Science
2 3 (37.50%) DataOps
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Batch Management
3 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (12.50%) Data Governance
3 1 (12.50%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
3 1 (12.50%) ETL
3 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Scrum
3 1 (12.50%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Java
1 1 (12.50%) Python
1 1 (12.50%) Scala
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Google