Principal Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Principal Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Principal Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 249 484 392
Rank change year-on-year +235 -92 +41
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Engineer 780 288 577
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.10% 0.48% 0.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.16% 0.54% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 264 209 202
10th Percentile £55,000 £47,250 £60,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £61,588
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - -3.45% +7.41%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £105,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £84,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.33% -0.59% +21.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 67,217 53,628 67,833
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.16% 95.77%
Number of salaries quoted 47,585 30,477 42,470
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Engineer in the UK excluding London

Principal Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Principal Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Principal Engineer in the UK excluding London

Principal Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Principal Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Principal Engineer in the UK excluding London

Principal Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
North of England +127 162 £65,000 -13.33% 58
South West +97 156 £70,000 -12.50% 43
South East +25 148 £75,000 +7.14% 69
Midlands +81 118 £75,000 -9.09% 21
Scotland +13 93 £70,000 -17.65% 10
East of England +90 84 £77,500 +6.90% 56
North West +62 84 £65,000 -8.77% 55
West Midlands +64 64 £70,000 -36.36% 13
Yorkshire +109 58 £65,000 -18.75% 3
East Midlands +24 54 £85,000 +3.03% 8
North East +6 20 - -
Wales +8 16 £60,000 +34.33% 4
Northern Ireland +29 3 £90,000 - 5
Principal Engineer
UK

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 9 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 UK excluding London region featuring Principal Engineer in the job title.

1 220 (28.21%) Agile
2 218 (27.95%) Google
3 200 (25.64%) Data Science
4 197 (25.26%) Problem-Solving
5 187 (23.97%) GCP
6 178 (22.82%) Mentoring
7 169 (21.67%) Software Engineering
8 165 (21.15%) Self-Motivation
8 165 (21.15%) DevOps
9 159 (20.38%) Data Engineering
9 159 (20.38%) Data Pipeline
10 158 (20.26%) Platform Engineering
10 158 (20.26%) BigQuery
11 156 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
11 156 (20.00%) Looker
12 150 (19.23%) Change Management
13 149 (19.10%) GDPR
13 149 (19.10%) DataOps
14 131 (16.79%) Technical Leadership
15 126 (16.15%) Roadmaps
16 112 (14.36%) Technology Roadmap
17 110 (14.10%) Degree
18 103 (13.21%) Systems Engineering
19 83 (10.64%) Social Skills
20 70 (8.97%) AWS
21 62 (7.95%) Security Cleared
21 62 (7.95%) Java
22 60 (7.69%) Python
23 56 (7.18%) Cybersecurity
24 53 (6.79%) Inclusion and Diversity

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 25 (3.21%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.38%) IIS
2 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.38%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.26%) JBoss
4 1 (0.13%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 187 (23.97%) GCP
2 70 (8.97%) AWS
3 36 (4.62%) Dropbox
3 36 (4.62%) Google Drive
3 36 (4.62%) OneDrive
4 35 (4.49%) SaaS
5 34 (4.36%) Azure
6 26 (3.33%) Amazon S3
7 25 (3.21%) Amazon SQS
8 23 (2.95%) Google Docs
8 23 (2.95%) Lucidchart
8 23 (2.95%) Miro
8 23 (2.95%) Slack
9 5 (0.64%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (0.64%) Datadog
9 5 (0.64%) Serverless
10 4 (0.51%) GitHub
11 3 (0.38%) AWS Fargate
11 3 (0.38%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (0.38%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.28%) Wireless
2 6 (0.77%) TETRA
3 5 (0.64%) 4G
3 5 (0.64%) Bluetooth
3 5 (0.64%) Firewall
3 5 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.26%) 5G
4 2 (0.26%) Ethernet
4 2 (0.26%) NGN
4 2 (0.26%) Software-Defined Radio
4 2 (0.26%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.26%) VPN
5 1 (0.13%) 3GPP
5 1 (0.13%) 5G NR
5 1 (0.13%) GSM
5 1 (0.13%) LTE
5 1 (0.13%) OFDM
5 1 (0.13%) SSL
5 1 (0.13%) UMTS
5 1 (0.13%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (20.26%) BigQuery
2 156 (20.00%) Looker
3 26 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
4 25 (3.21%) Big Data
4 25 (3.21%) Hadoop
5 24 (3.08%) Redis
6 23 (2.95%) Scylla
7 9 (1.15%) Data Lake
8 7 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.38%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.26%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.26%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Accumulo
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.13%) Flink
11 1 (0.13%) HBase
Development Applications
1 16 (2.05%) Rational DOORS
2 5 (0.64%) Cypress.io
2 5 (0.64%) Git
3 4 (0.51%) Selenium
4 3 (0.38%) Android Studio
4 3 (0.38%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.38%) Postman
4 3 (0.38%) Rational Rhapsody
4 3 (0.38%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.26%) Subversion
6 1 (0.13%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.13%) JUnit
6 1 (0.13%) TeamCity
General
1 156 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 83 (10.64%) Social Skills
3 53 (6.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 39 (5.00%) Manufacturing
5 38 (4.87%) Aerospace
6 32 (4.10%) Finance
7 29 (3.72%) Law
8 28 (3.59%) Electronics
9 26 (3.33%) Games
10 22 (2.82%) Marketing
11 21 (2.69%) Financial Institution
11 21 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
12 20 (2.56%) Banking
12 20 (2.56%) Investment Banking
13 13 (1.67%) Automotive
13 13 (1.67%) Telecoms
14 11 (1.41%) Legal
15 7 (0.90%) Military
16 6 (0.77%) Public Sector
17 5 (0.64%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (3.33%) Kafka
2 23 (2.95%) GraphQL
3 14 (1.79%) .NET
4 8 (1.03%) React
5 7 (0.90%) Node.js
6 5 (0.64%) .NET Core
7 4 (0.51%) Spring
7 4 (0.51%) Spring Boot
8 3 (0.38%) Playwright
8 3 (0.38%) RESTful
9 2 (0.26%) DPDK
9 2 (0.26%) eBPF
9 2 (0.26%) Flutter
9 2 (0.26%) Hibernate
10 1 (0.13%) .NET Framework
10 1 (0.13%) AngularJS
10 1 (0.13%) Qt
10 1 (0.13%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (0.13%) Web Services
10 1 (0.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 165 (21.15%) Self-Motivation
2 36 (4.62%) Algorithms
2 36 (4.62%) iPad
3 31 (3.97%) Cloud Native
4 25 (3.21%) Data Structures
5 14 (1.79%) Management Information System
6 13 (1.67%) FPGA
7 9 (1.15%) Product Ownership
7 9 (1.15%) Virtual Team
8 7 (0.90%) IoT
9 6 (0.77%) Embedded Systems
9 6 (0.77%) Mobile App
10 5 (0.64%) Data Centre
10 5 (0.64%) Hackathon
11 4 (0.51%) Renewable Energy
12 3 (0.38%) VHDL
13 2 (0.26%) Acoustics
13 2 (0.26%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 1 (0.13%) Educational Technology
14 1 (0.13%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (3.33%) Linux
2 17 (2.18%) Windows
3 9 (1.15%) Mac OS
4 7 (0.90%) Android
5 5 (0.64%) Embedded Linux
6 4 (0.51%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.38%) Unix
8 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (28.21%) Agile
2 200 (25.64%) Data Science
3 197 (25.26%) Problem-Solving
4 178 (22.82%) Mentoring
5 169 (21.67%) Software Engineering
6 165 (21.15%) DevOps
7 159 (20.38%) Data Engineering
7 159 (20.38%) Data Pipeline
8 158 (20.26%) Platform Engineering
9 150 (19.23%) Change Management
10 149 (19.10%) DataOps
11 131 (16.79%) Technical Leadership
12 126 (16.15%) Roadmaps
13 112 (14.36%) Technology Roadmap
14 103 (13.21%) Systems Engineering
15 56 (7.18%) Cybersecurity
16 45 (5.77%) SDLC
17 43 (5.51%) Analytics
17 43 (5.51%) Project Delivery
18 39 (5.00%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 62 (7.95%) Java
2 60 (7.69%) Python
3 36 (4.62%) Scala
4 26 (3.33%) Bash
5 24 (3.08%) Go
6 22 (2.82%) C
7 18 (2.31%) SQL
8 15 (1.92%) C++
9 11 (1.41%) C#
10 7 (0.90%) TypeScript
11 5 (0.64%) Embedded C
11 5 (0.64%) JavaScript
11 5 (0.64%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.51%) Assembly Language
12 4 (0.51%) Swift
13 2 (0.26%) Perl
13 2 (0.26%) PHP
13 2 (0.26%) Ruby
14 1 (0.13%) AWK
14 1 (0.13%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 110 (14.10%) Degree
2 62 (7.95%) Security Cleared
3 47 (6.03%) Master's Degree
4 39 (5.00%) Chartered Engineer
5 23 (2.95%) DV Cleared
6 16 (2.05%) HNC
7 12 (1.54%) SC Cleared
8 7 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.26%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.26%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (19.10%) GDPR
2 9 (1.15%) Data Quality
3 7 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 6 (0.77%) QA
5 4 (0.51%) IEC 62304
5 4 (0.51%) ISO 13485
6 2 (0.26%) Def Stans
6 2 (0.26%) IEC 61508
6 2 (0.26%) SLA
7 1 (0.13%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.13%) TickIT
System Software
1 23 (2.95%) Firmware
2 8 (1.03%) Embedded Firmware
3 5 (0.64%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.64%) Docker
4 3 (0.38%) Forefront TMG
4 3 (0.38%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.38%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 33 (4.23%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.38%) SCOM
2 3 (0.38%) Terraform
2 3 (0.38%) WSUS
3 2 (0.26%) Ansible
4 1 (0.13%) Puppet
4 1 (0.13%) Rancher
Vendors
1 218 (27.95%) Google
2 41 (5.26%) EMC
3 33 (4.23%) Dell
4 14 (1.79%) Microsoft
5 7 (0.90%) QinetiQ
6 4 (0.51%) Oracle
7 3 (0.38%) VMware
8 2 (0.26%) CheckPoint
8 2 (0.26%) Forcepoint
8 2 (0.26%) ForgeRock
8 2 (0.26%) Sitecore
8 2 (0.26%) Temenos
9 1 (0.13%) Databricks
9 1 (0.13%) Intel
9 1 (0.13%) SAP
9 1 (0.13%) StreamSets
9 1 (0.13%) Xilinx