Principal Engineer Jobs in South London

Principal Engineer
London > South London

The median Principal Engineer salary in South London is £95,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 79 85 90
Rank change year-on-year +6 +5 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Engineer 8 2 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 0.90% 0.26% 4.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.94% 0.29% 4.90%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile £71,000 - -
25th Percentile £79,063 £52,000 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £54,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +75.93% -32.50% -
75th Percentile £97,500 £56,000 £82,500
90th Percentile - - -
London median annual salary £95,000 £107,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year -11.63% +19.44% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in South London. 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 South London with a recognized job title 848 694 1,142
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.17% 91.80% 95.97%
Number of salaries quoted 415 384 657
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £27,800
25th Percentile £36,750 £40,000 £35,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -13.42%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,150 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £80,000
London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -

Principal Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Engineer in South London

Principal Engineer
Salary Trend in South London

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

Salary trend for Principal Engineer in South London

Principal Engineer
Salary Histogram in South London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Principal Engineer in South London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Principal Engineer in South London

Principal Engineer
Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Engineer within the South London region over the 6 months to 8 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
Merton +8 5 £95,000 +75.93% 14
Kingston Upon Thames -15 3 £66,250 +22.69% 14
Croydon - 3 - -
Principal Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 8 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 South London region featuring Principal Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (62.50%) Agile
1 5 (62.50%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
2 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Google
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) Change Management
2 3 (37.50%) BigQuery
2 3 (37.50%) GCP
2 3 (37.50%) Data Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Looker
2 3 (37.50%) GDPR
2 3 (37.50%) Data Science
2 3 (37.50%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (37.50%) DataOps
2 3 (37.50%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
3 2 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
3 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (25.00%) Verification and Validation
3 2 (25.00%) Systems Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Serverless
3 2 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (25.00%) Service Design
3 2 (25.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (25.00%) Confluence

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) GCP
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) BigQuery
1 3 (37.50%) Looker
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Node.js
1 2 (25.00%) Spring
1 2 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (25.00%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Agile
1 5 (62.50%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Change Management
2 3 (37.50%) Data Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (37.50%) Data Science
2 3 (37.50%) DataOps
2 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
2 3 (37.50%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
3 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
3 2 (25.00%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Scrum
3 2 (25.00%) Service Design
3 2 (25.00%) SOA
3 2 (25.00%) Systems Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Validation
3 2 (25.00%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (25.00%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (12.50%) XenDesktop
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Google
2 2 (25.00%) Progress
3 1 (12.50%) Citrix
3 1 (12.50%) VMware