Principal Software Engineer Jobs in the South East

Principal Software Engineer
England > South East

The median Principal Software Engineer salary in the South East is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 365 397 388
Rank change year-on-year +32 -9 -26
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Software Engineer 20 9 94
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.12% 0.060% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.066% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 10 6 8
10th Percentile £70,000 £73,375 £59,875
25th Percentile £70,938 £78,750 £63,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £83,750 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% +24.07% -3.57%
75th Percentile £80,938 £87,500 £71,438
90th Percentile £83,750 £100,000 £82,650
England median annual salary £82,500 £84,500 £87,500
% change year-on-year -2.37% -3.43% -7.89%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 15,600 13,575 19,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.87% 90.54% 96.42%
Number of salaries quoted 11,294 8,525 12,666
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% +0.95% +9.09%

Principal Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Software Engineer in the South East

Principal Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Principal Software Engineer in the South East.

Salary trend for Principal Software Engineer in the South East

Principal Software Engineer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Software Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 28 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
Thames Valley +30 13 £75,000 -13.29% 4
Berkshire +42 10 - - 3
Hampshire - 4 £70,000 - 1
Oxfordshire - 3 £75,000 - 1
West Sussex - 2 £82,500 -
Sussex - 1 £80,000 -
Principal Software Engineer
England

Principal Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 28 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 South East region featuring Principal Software Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 7 (35.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 7 (35.00%) IT Strategy
2 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (35.00%) Technology Strategy
3 6 (30.00%) Roadmaps
3 6 (30.00%) Strategic Roadmap
4 5 (25.00%) Community of Practice
4 5 (25.00%) Hackathon
4 5 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
4 5 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 5 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (25.00%) DevOps
4 5 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 5 (25.00%) Coaching
4 5 (25.00%) Datadog
4 5 (25.00%) Azure
4 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
5 3 (15.00%) Linux
5 3 (15.00%) C
5 3 (15.00%) Signal Processing
5 3 (15.00%) Temenos T24
5 3 (15.00%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (10.00%) Degree
6 2 (10.00%) Multithreading
6 2 (10.00%) Data Modelling
6 2 (10.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (10.00%) C++
6 2 (10.00%) Java
6 2 (10.00%) Perl

Principal Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (10.00%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) Azure
1 5 (25.00%) Datadog
2 1 (5.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) 5G
1 1 (5.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) Flutter
1 1 (5.00%) Node.js
1 1 (5.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Hackathon
2 2 (10.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (5.00%) SIMD
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Embedded Linux
1 3 (15.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 7 (35.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 7 (35.00%) IT Strategy
2 7 (35.00%) Technology Strategy
3 6 (30.00%) Roadmaps
3 6 (30.00%) Strategic Roadmap
4 5 (25.00%) Coaching
4 5 (25.00%) Community of Practice
4 5 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
4 5 (25.00%) DevOps
4 5 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 5 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (15.00%) Signal Processing
6 2 (10.00%) Agile
6 2 (10.00%) Data Modelling
6 2 (10.00%) Multithreading
6 2 (10.00%) User Stories
6 2 (10.00%) Workflow
7 1 (5.00%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) C
2 2 (10.00%) C++
2 2 (10.00%) Java
2 2 (10.00%) Perl
3 1 (5.00%) Assembly Language
3 1 (5.00%) Bash
3 1 (5.00%) Python
3 1 (5.00%) Ruby
3 1 (5.00%) Tcl
3 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (5.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle
2 2 (10.00%) Temenos
3 1 (5.00%) Intel