Principal Software Engineer Jobs in Southampton

Principal Software Engineer
Hampshire > Southampton

The median Principal Software Engineer salary in Southampton is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 - 109
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Software Engineer 3 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 0.35% - 0.081%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% - 0.084%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £66,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - £69,000
75th Percentile £75,625 - £72,000
90th Percentile £79,000 - -
Hampshire median annual salary £70,000 - £63,250
% change year-on-year - - -9.64%

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 830 733 1,186
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.08% 93.26% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 703 583 996
10th Percentile £28,300 £27,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £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 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £85,000
Hampshire median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +10.53%

Principal Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Software Engineer in Southampton

Principal Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Southampton

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

Salary trend for Principal Software Engineer in Southampton

Principal Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 19 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Southampton

For the 6 months to 3 May 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 Southampton region featuring Principal Software Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) C
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Embedded Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Signal Processing
2 2 (66.67%) C++
3 1 (33.33%) Perl
3 1 (33.33%) Wireless
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Intel
3 1 (33.33%) Assembly Language
3 1 (33.33%) Tcl
3 1 (33.33%) 5G
3 1 (33.33%) SIMD
3 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
3 1 (33.33%) Ruby
3 1 (33.33%) Bash

Principal Software 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) 5G
1 1 (33.33%) Wireless
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) SIMD
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Embedded Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Signal Processing
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C
2 2 (66.67%) C++
3 1 (33.33%) Assembly Language
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) Perl
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Ruby
3 1 (33.33%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Intel