Principal Engineer Jobs in Scotland

Principal Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Principal Engineer salary in Scotland is £67,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 187 202 221
Rank change year-on-year +15 +19 -51
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Engineer 97 17 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.44% 0.36% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.49% 0.40% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 22 16 19
10th Percentile £55,000 £61,875 £57,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £73,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.59% +6.25% +1.59%
75th Percentile £100,000 - £86,875
90th Percentile - £96,250 £90,250
UK median annual salary £80,000 £83,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year -4.19% -1.76% +21.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 6,525 4,242 5,553
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.88% 90.10% 96.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2,619 2,305 2,995
10th Percentile £27,950 £31,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,775
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £56,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +7.62% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Principal Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Engineer in Scotland

Principal Engineer
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Principal Engineer in Scotland

Principal Engineer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Principal Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Principal Engineer in Scotland

Principal Engineer
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 4 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
Edinburgh +74 47 £100,000 +17.65% 4
Glasgow -63 41 £65,000 -23.53% 2
Aberdeen - 3 - -
Fife -8 2 - -
Lanarkshire - 2 - - 1
Stirling - 2 - -
Principal Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 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 Scotland region featuring Principal Engineer in the job title.

1 65 (67.01%) Software Engineering
2 62 (63.92%) Data Science
3 52 (53.61%) AWS
4 48 (49.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 44 (45.36%) Agile
6 41 (42.27%) Python
6 41 (42.27%) Analytics
7 39 (40.21%) Algorithms
7 39 (40.21%) Social Skills
8 37 (38.14%) Java
9 36 (37.11%) GCP
9 36 (37.11%) Cybersecurity
10 34 (35.05%) Google
10 34 (35.05%) Problem-Solving
11 33 (34.02%) Threat Intelligence
11 33 (34.02%) Dell
11 33 (34.02%) SaaS
11 33 (34.02%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
12 32 (32.99%) Computer Security
13 31 (31.96%) Computer Science
13 31 (31.96%) Cloud Native
14 29 (29.90%) Kubernetes
15 26 (26.80%) Scala
15 26 (26.80%) Kafka
15 26 (26.80%) Law
16 25 (25.77%) Big Data
16 25 (25.77%) Hadoop
16 25 (25.77%) Apache Spark
17 24 (24.74%) SDLC
17 24 (24.74%) Bash

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Application Platforms
1 25 (25.77%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (5.15%) Simulink
1 5 (5.15%) Stateflow
Cloud Services
1 52 (53.61%) AWS
2 36 (37.11%) GCP
3 33 (34.02%) SaaS
4 23 (23.71%) Amazon S3
4 23 (23.71%) Amazon SQS
4 23 (23.71%) Google Docs
4 23 (23.71%) Lucidchart
4 23 (23.71%) Miro
4 23 (23.71%) Slack
5 3 (3.09%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (25.77%) Big Data
1 25 (25.77%) Hadoop
2 23 (23.71%) Elasticsearch
2 23 (23.71%) Redis
2 23 (23.71%) Scylla
3 10 (10.31%) BigQuery
3 10 (10.31%) Looker
4 7 (7.22%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.03%) Apache Accumulo
5 1 (1.03%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.03%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.03%) Flink
5 1 (1.03%) HBase
5 1 (1.03%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Cypress.io
1 1 (1.03%) JUnit
General
1 48 (49.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 39 (40.21%) Social Skills
3 26 (26.80%) Law
4 22 (22.68%) Games
5 21 (21.65%) Finance
5 21 (21.65%) Financial Institution
5 21 (21.65%) Marketing
6 20 (20.62%) Banking
6 20 (20.62%) Investment Banking
6 20 (20.62%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (11.34%) Legal
8 9 (9.28%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (3.09%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (26.80%) Kafka
2 23 (23.71%) GraphQL
3 5 (5.15%) React
4 4 (4.12%) Node.js
5 3 (3.09%) RESTful
6 1 (1.03%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (1.03%) Micronaut
6 1 (1.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 39 (40.21%) Algorithms
2 31 (31.96%) Cloud Native
3 23 (23.71%) Data Structures
4 10 (10.31%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (9.28%) Product Ownership
5 9 (9.28%) Virtual Team
6 6 (6.19%) Management Information System
7 5 (5.15%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (1.03%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.03%) Educational Technology
8 1 (1.03%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.31%) Linux
2 9 (9.28%) Mac OS
2 9 (9.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (67.01%) Software Engineering
2 62 (63.92%) Data Science
3 44 (45.36%) Agile
4 41 (42.27%) Analytics
5 36 (37.11%) Cybersecurity
6 34 (35.05%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (34.02%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 33 (34.02%) Threat Intelligence
8 32 (32.99%) Computer Security
9 31 (31.96%) Computer Science
10 24 (24.74%) SDLC
11 23 (23.71%) High Availability
11 23 (23.71%) User Experience
11 23 (23.71%) UX Research
12 22 (22.68%) Machine Learning
13 21 (21.65%) Artificial Intelligence
13 21 (21.65%) Operational Stability
14 20 (20.62%) Asset Management
14 20 (20.62%) Business Analysis
14 20 (20.62%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 41 (42.27%) Python
2 37 (38.14%) Java
3 26 (26.80%) Scala
4 24 (24.74%) Bash
4 24 (24.74%) Go
5 5 (5.15%) MATLAB
6 2 (2.06%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.03%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (5.15%) Degree
2 4 (4.12%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.28%) GDPR
2 3 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 1 (1.03%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.03%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.03%) QA
3 1 (1.03%) TickIT
System Software
1 2 (2.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (29.90%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.03%) Rancher
Vendors
1 34 (35.05%) Google
2 33 (34.02%) Dell
3 1 (1.03%) Databricks
3 1 (1.03%) StreamSets