Principal Engineer Jobs in Southampton

Principal Engineer
Hampshire > Southampton

The median Principal Engineer salary in Southampton is £77,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 - 103
Rank change year-on-year - - -35
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Engineer 20 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 2.36% - 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.44% - 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 7 0 4
10th Percentile £63,000 - £70,200
25th Percentile £70,000 - £76,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 - £97,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +56.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 - £115,000
90th Percentile £80,500 - -
Hampshire median annual salary £73,750 £58,250 £85,000
% change year-on-year +26.61% -31.47% +30.77%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Southampton

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Southampton. 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 Southampton with a recognized job title 821 738 1,211
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.93% 93.18% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 698 585 1,020
10th Percentile £28,175 £27,500 £31,950
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £61,250 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £85,000
Hampshire median annual salary £50,000 £51,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +10.53%

Principal Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Engineer in Southampton

Principal Engineer
Salary Trend in Southampton

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

Salary trend for Principal Engineer in Southampton

Principal Engineer
Salary Histogram in Southampton

Salary distribution for jobs citing Principal Engineer in Southampton over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Principal Engineer in Southampton

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

For the 6 months to 19 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 Southampton 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 6 (30.00%) Google
3 4 (20.00%) Signal Processing
3 4 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 4 (20.00%) C
3 4 (20.00%) Electronics
4 3 (15.00%) Agile
4 3 (15.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (15.00%) C++
4 3 (15.00%) Change Management
4 3 (15.00%) Linux
4 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (15.00%) BigQuery
4 3 (15.00%) GCP
4 3 (15.00%) Dropbox
4 3 (15.00%) Google Drive
4 3 (15.00%) OneDrive
4 3 (15.00%) Data Engineering
4 3 (15.00%) iPad
4 3 (15.00%) Embedded Linux
4 3 (15.00%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (15.00%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (15.00%) DataOps
4 3 (15.00%) DevOps
4 3 (15.00%) Looker
4 3 (15.00%) GDPR
4 3 (15.00%) Data Science
4 3 (15.00%) Self-Motivation

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Southampton 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 3 (15.00%) Dropbox
1 3 (15.00%) GCP
1 3 (15.00%) Google Drive
1 3 (15.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) 5G
1 2 (10.00%) Wireless
2 1 (5.00%) 3GPP
2 1 (5.00%) 4G
2 1 (5.00%) 5G NR
2 1 (5.00%) GSM
2 1 (5.00%) LTE
2 1 (5.00%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (5.00%) UMTS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) BigQuery
1 3 (15.00%) Looker
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.00%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (20.00%) Electronics
2 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.00%) Marketing
3 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) iPad
1 3 (15.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.00%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (5.00%) FPGA
2 1 (5.00%) SIMD
2 1 (5.00%) Verilog
2 1 (5.00%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Embedded Linux
1 3 (15.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Roadmaps
1 9 (45.00%) Technical Leadership
1 9 (45.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 4 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 4 (20.00%) Signal Processing
3 3 (15.00%) Agile
3 3 (15.00%) Change Management
3 3 (15.00%) Data Engineering
3 3 (15.00%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (15.00%) Data Science
3 3 (15.00%) DataOps
3 3 (15.00%) DevOps
3 3 (15.00%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (15.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (5.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (5.00%) Digital Marketing
4 1 (5.00%) Mathematics
4 1 (5.00%) Project Planning
4 1 (5.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) C
2 3 (15.00%) C++
3 1 (5.00%) Assembly Language
3 1 (5.00%) Bash
3 1 (5.00%) MATLAB
3 1 (5.00%) Perl
3 1 (5.00%) Python
3 1 (5.00%) Ruby
3 1 (5.00%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Google
2 1 (5.00%) Intel
2 1 (5.00%) SAP
2 1 (5.00%) Xilinx