Principal Software Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Principal Software Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Principal Software Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £77,250 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 591 694 616
Rank change year-on-year +103 -78 -4
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Software Engineer 166 67 237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.11% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.12% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 88 54 77
10th Percentile £65,000 £47,750 £57,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £55,625 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,250 £81,750 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% -3.82% +28.79%
75th Percentile £85,625 £86,250 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £94,250 -
UK median annual salary £85,000 £84,500 £87,500
% change year-on-year +0.59% -3.43% +9.38%

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 Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Principal Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Principal Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Principal Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Principal Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Principal Software 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 Software 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
Scotland -3 66 £100,000 +23.08% 1
South West +3 35 £75,000 -5.06% 6
North of England +57 24 £65,000 +23.81% 3
South East +13 21 £75,000 -10.45% 9
Yorkshire +94 12 £65,000 +23.81%
North West +15 12 £67,500 -10.00% 3
East of England +23 8 £77,500 - 8
Midlands -18 8 £85,000 +3.03% 2
East Midlands -23 5 £85,000 +3.03%
West Midlands +11 3 £92,500 +54.17% 2
Wales - 3 £100,000 -
Northern Ireland +27 1 £100,000 - 1
Principal Software Engineer
UK

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

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

1 166 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 60 (36.14%) AWS
3 53 (31.93%) Data Science
4 51 (30.72%) Python
5 48 (28.92%) Java
6 47 (28.31%) Agile
6 47 (28.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 45 (27.11%) Social Skills
8 35 (21.08%) Cybersecurity
9 34 (20.48%) SDLC
10 33 (19.88%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 33 (19.88%) Threat Intelligence
10 33 (19.88%) Dell
11 32 (19.28%) Computer Security
11 32 (19.28%) SaaS
11 32 (19.28%) Problem-Solving
12 31 (18.67%) Cloud Native
13 30 (18.07%) Kubernetes
13 30 (18.07%) Analytics
14 27 (16.27%) Finance
14 27 (16.27%) GCP
14 27 (16.27%) Coaching
15 26 (15.66%) Kafka
15 26 (15.66%) Computer Science
16 25 (15.06%) Scala
16 25 (15.06%) Hadoop
16 25 (15.06%) Big Data
16 25 (15.06%) Bash
16 25 (15.06%) User Experience
16 25 (15.06%) Apache Spark

Principal Software 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 (15.06%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.20%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 3 (1.81%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 60 (36.14%) AWS
2 32 (19.28%) SaaS
3 27 (16.27%) GCP
4 23 (13.86%) Amazon S3
4 23 (13.86%) Amazon SQS
4 23 (13.86%) Google Docs
4 23 (13.86%) Lucidchart
4 23 (13.86%) Miro
4 23 (13.86%) Slack
5 21 (12.65%) Azure
6 5 (3.01%) Datadog
7 2 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.20%) Serverless
8 1 (0.60%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.01%) Bluetooth
1 5 (3.01%) Wi-Fi
1 5 (3.01%) Wireless
2 2 (1.20%) Ethernet
2 2 (1.20%) NGN
2 2 (1.20%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.60%) 5G
3 1 (0.60%) OFDM
3 1 (0.60%) Software-Defined Radio
3 1 (0.60%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (15.06%) Big Data
1 25 (15.06%) Elasticsearch
1 25 (15.06%) Hadoop
2 24 (14.46%) Redis
3 23 (13.86%) Scylla
4 3 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.20%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.20%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.60%) Apache Accumulo
6 1 (0.60%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.60%) Flink
6 1 (0.60%) HBase
6 1 (0.60%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Cucumber
1 1 (0.60%) Cypress.io
1 1 (0.60%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.60%) JUnit
1 1 (0.60%) Selenium
General
1 47 (28.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 45 (27.11%) Social Skills
3 27 (16.27%) Finance
4 22 (13.25%) Games
5 21 (12.65%) Financial Institution
5 21 (12.65%) Law
5 21 (12.65%) Marketing
6 20 (12.05%) Banking
6 20 (12.05%) Investment Banking
6 20 (12.05%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (4.22%) Electronics
8 5 (3.01%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (3.01%) Retail
9 4 (2.41%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.81%) Tech for Good
11 2 (1.20%) Military
11 2 (1.20%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (15.66%) Kafka
2 23 (13.86%) GraphQL
3 12 (7.23%) .NET
4 8 (4.82%) React
5 7 (4.22%) Node.js
6 5 (3.01%) .NET Core
7 3 (1.81%) RESTful
8 2 (1.20%) DPDK
8 2 (1.20%) eBPF
8 2 (1.20%) Flutter
8 2 (1.20%) Hibernate
8 2 (1.20%) Spring
8 2 (1.20%) Spring Boot
9 1 (0.60%) .NET Framework
9 1 (0.60%) Apache NiFi
9 1 (0.60%) Micronaut
9 1 (0.60%) PyTorch
9 1 (0.60%) Qt
9 1 (0.60%) Vue
9 1 (0.60%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 31 (18.67%) Cloud Native
2 25 (15.06%) Algorithms
2 25 (15.06%) Data Structures
3 9 (5.42%) Virtual Team
4 8 (4.82%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (4.22%) FPGA
6 5 (3.01%) Embedded Systems
6 5 (3.01%) Hackathon
7 4 (2.41%) IoT
7 4 (2.41%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.41%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.81%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.20%) Acoustics
9 2 (1.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 1 (0.60%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (0.60%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.60%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.60%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.60%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.60%) SIMD
Operating Systems
1 18 (10.84%) Linux
2 9 (5.42%) Mac OS
2 9 (5.42%) Windows
3 4 (2.41%) Android
3 4 (2.41%) Apple iOS
3 4 (2.41%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 53 (31.93%) Data Science
3 47 (28.31%) Agile
4 35 (21.08%) Cybersecurity
5 34 (20.48%) SDLC
6 33 (19.88%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 33 (19.88%) Threat Intelligence
7 32 (19.28%) Computer Security
7 32 (19.28%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (18.07%) Analytics
9 27 (16.27%) Coaching
10 26 (15.66%) Computer Science
11 25 (15.06%) User Experience
12 24 (14.46%) High Availability
12 24 (14.46%) Machine Learning
13 23 (13.86%) Artificial Intelligence
13 23 (13.86%) UX Research
14 22 (13.25%) Mathematics
15 21 (12.65%) Operational Stability
16 20 (12.05%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 51 (30.72%) Python
2 48 (28.92%) Java
3 25 (15.06%) Bash
3 25 (15.06%) Scala
4 24 (14.46%) Go
5 18 (10.84%) C
6 12 (7.23%) C++
7 11 (6.63%) C#
8 6 (3.61%) TypeScript
9 5 (3.01%) Kotlin
9 5 (3.01%) SQL
10 4 (2.41%) Embedded C
10 4 (2.41%) Swift
11 3 (1.81%) Assembly Language
12 2 (1.20%) JavaScript
12 2 (1.20%) Perl
13 1 (0.60%) PHP
13 1 (0.60%) Ruby
13 1 (0.60%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 20 (12.05%) Security Cleared
2 14 (8.43%) DV Cleared
3 10 (6.02%) Degree
4 2 (1.20%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.41%) IEC 62304
1 4 (2.41%) ISO 13485
2 2 (1.20%) Def Stans
2 2 (1.20%) IEC 61508
2 2 (1.20%) QA
System Software
1 8 (4.82%) Embedded Firmware
1 8 (4.82%) Firmware
2 3 (1.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (18.07%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.81%) Terraform
3 2 (1.20%) Ansible
4 1 (0.60%) Rancher
Vendors
1 33 (19.88%) Dell
2 24 (14.46%) Google
3 6 (3.61%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.20%) Oracle
4 2 (1.20%) Temenos
5 1 (0.60%) Databricks
5 1 (0.60%) Intel
5 1 (0.60%) StreamSets