Principal Engineer Jobs in Oxford

Principal Engineer
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The median Principal Engineer salary in Oxford is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 54 52
Rank change year-on-year +9 -2 +14
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Engineer 20 1 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxford 3.04% 0.21% 2.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.19% 0.24% 2.69%
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 5
10th Percentile - - £63,000
25th Percentile - £71,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +7.41% +3.85%
75th Percentile £80,625 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,750 - -
Oxfordshire median annual salary £75,000 £62,086 £67,500
% change year-on-year +20.80% -8.02% +3.85%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Oxford

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Oxford. 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 Oxford with a recognized job title 627 414 484
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.29% 85.89% 95.84%
Number of salaries quoted 474 298 295
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,675 £28,600
25th Percentile £38,813 £37,063 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £54,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -6.09% +15.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
Oxfordshire median annual salary £46,293 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.41% -4.76% +10.53%

Principal Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Engineer in Oxford

Principal Engineer
Salary Trend in Oxford

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

Salary trend for Principal Engineer in Oxford

Principal Engineer
Salary Histogram in Oxford

Salary distribution for jobs citing Principal Engineer in Oxford over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Principal Engineer in Oxford

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

For the 6 months to 23 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 Oxford region featuring Principal Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (45.00%) Technical Leadership
1 9 (45.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 9 (45.00%) Roadmaps
2 7 (35.00%) Google
3 4 (20.00%) Agile
3 4 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 4 (20.00%) BigQuery
3 4 (20.00%) GCP
3 4 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
3 4 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (20.00%) Data Engineering
3 4 (20.00%) Looker
3 4 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (15.00%) GDPR
4 3 (15.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (15.00%) Dropbox
4 3 (15.00%) Google Drive
4 3 (15.00%) OneDrive
4 3 (15.00%) DataOps
4 3 (15.00%) Data Science
4 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (15.00%) DevOps
4 3 (15.00%) iPad
4 3 (15.00%) Windows
4 3 (15.00%) Change Management
5 2 (10.00%) Java
6 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.00%) SQL

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxford 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 (20.00%) GCP
2 3 (15.00%) Dropbox
2 3 (15.00%) Google Drive
2 3 (15.00%) OneDrive
3 1 (5.00%) AWS
3 1 (5.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) BigQuery
1 4 (20.00%) Looker
2 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) Node.js
1 1 (5.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (15.00%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Roadmaps
1 9 (45.00%) Technical Leadership
1 9 (45.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 4 (20.00%) Agile
2 4 (20.00%) Data Engineering
2 4 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 4 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
2 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (15.00%) Change Management
3 3 (15.00%) Data Science
3 3 (15.00%) DataOps
3 3 (15.00%) DevOps
3 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (15.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (5.00%) Batch Management
4 1 (5.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (5.00%) ETL
4 1 (5.00%) Scrum
4 1 (5.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) Java
2 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.00%) Python
2 1 (5.00%) Scala
2 1 (5.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) GDPR
2 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Google