Principal Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Principal Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Principal Engineer salary in Work from Home is £85,000 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 394 402 469
Rank change year-on-year +8 +67 -67
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Engineer 204 280 425
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.60% 0.68% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.70% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 123 253 228
10th Percentile £60,500 £62,500 £60,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £73,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £92,500 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +5.71% +16.67%
75th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £124,500 £160,000 £113,250
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
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 32,404 39,812 66,667
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.96% 95.99% 97.40%
Number of salaries quoted 24,887 28,282 41,688
10th Percentile £33,127 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,375 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Principal Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Principal Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Principal Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Principal Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Principal Engineer.

Principal Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Principal Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Principal Engineer over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Principal Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with remote work options featuring Principal Engineer in the job title.

1 88 (43.14%) Software Engineering
2 82 (40.20%) AWS
3 56 (27.45%) Social Skills
4 55 (26.96%) Java
5 49 (24.02%) Python
6 46 (22.55%) Problem-Solving
7 41 (20.10%) SaaS
8 39 (19.12%) Cybersecurity
9 38 (18.63%) Kubernetes
10 37 (18.14%) Data Science
11 36 (17.65%) Security Cleared
12 35 (17.16%) Kafka
12 35 (17.16%) Algorithms
13 33 (16.18%) Dell
13 33 (16.18%) Threat Intelligence
13 33 (16.18%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
13 33 (16.18%) GraphQL
14 32 (15.69%) Computer Security
14 32 (15.69%) Data Structures
15 31 (15.20%) Go
15 31 (15.20%) Agile
16 29 (14.22%) Apache Spark
17 28 (13.73%) GCP
17 28 (13.73%) Big Data
17 28 (13.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 27 (13.24%) Hadoop
19 26 (12.75%) Scala
19 26 (12.75%) Bash
19 26 (12.75%) Redis
19 26 (12.75%) Amazon SQS

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 29 (14.22%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.94%) IIS
2 6 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.94%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.96%) Apache
4 3 (1.47%) Confluence
5 1 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.49%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 82 (40.20%) AWS
2 41 (20.10%) SaaS
3 28 (13.73%) GCP
4 26 (12.75%) Amazon SQS
5 25 (12.25%) Amazon S3
6 23 (11.27%) Google Docs
6 23 (11.27%) Lucidchart
6 23 (11.27%) Miro
6 23 (11.27%) Slack
7 20 (9.80%) Azure
8 7 (3.43%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (3.43%) Serverless
9 4 (1.96%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (1.96%) GitHub
10 3 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.98%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (0.98%) AWS Fargate
11 2 (0.98%) Azure AKS
11 2 (0.98%) Azure Functions
11 2 (0.98%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.96%) Wireless
2 3 (1.47%) BGP
2 3 (1.47%) IGMP
2 3 (1.47%) IPv6
2 3 (1.47%) Multicast
2 3 (1.47%) OSPF
2 3 (1.47%) RIP
2 3 (1.47%) SNMP
2 3 (1.47%) VLAN
2 3 (1.47%) VoIP
2 3 (1.47%) VRRP
3 2 (0.98%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.98%) NGN
3 2 (0.98%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.49%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.49%) OFDM
4 1 (0.49%) Software-Defined Radio
4 1 (0.49%) SSL
4 1 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.49%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (13.73%) Big Data
2 27 (13.24%) Hadoop
3 26 (12.75%) Redis
4 25 (12.25%) Elasticsearch
5 23 (11.27%) Scylla
6 7 (3.43%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.47%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (1.47%) Apache Hive
7 3 (1.47%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.47%) Neo4j
8 2 (0.98%) MySQL
8 2 (0.98%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.49%) Apache Accumulo
9 1 (0.49%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.49%) Flink
9 1 (0.49%) HBase
9 1 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.49%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (2.45%) Git
2 4 (1.96%) Cypress.io
3 3 (1.47%) Android Studio
3 3 (1.47%) JIRA
3 3 (1.47%) Postman
3 3 (1.47%) Rational DOORS
3 3 (1.47%) Rational Rhapsody
3 3 (1.47%) Selenium
3 3 (1.47%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.98%) Subversion
5 1 (0.49%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.49%) JUnit
General
1 56 (27.45%) Social Skills
2 28 (13.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 24 (11.76%) Aerospace
4 15 (7.35%) Manufacturing
5 12 (5.88%) Finance
6 10 (4.90%) Legal
7 6 (2.94%) Tech for Good
7 6 (2.94%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.96%) Automotive
9 3 (1.47%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (1.47%) Games
9 3 (1.47%) Marketing
9 3 (1.47%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.98%) Banking
10 2 (0.98%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.98%) Wearables
11 1 (0.49%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (0.49%) Electronics
11 1 (0.49%) Law
11 1 (0.49%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (17.16%) Kafka
2 33 (16.18%) GraphQL
3 16 (7.84%) .NET
3 16 (7.84%) React
3 16 (7.84%) Spring
3 16 (7.84%) Spring Boot
4 10 (4.90%) Node.js
5 3 (1.47%) .NET Core
5 3 (1.47%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (1.47%) CSS
5 3 (1.47%) Playwright
5 3 (1.47%) RESTful
5 3 (1.47%) WinForms
6 2 (0.98%) DPDK
6 2 (0.98%) eBPF
6 2 (0.98%) gRPC
6 2 (0.98%) Keras
6 2 (0.98%) LAMP
6 2 (0.98%) PyTorch
6 2 (0.98%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 35 (17.16%) Algorithms
2 32 (15.69%) Data Structures
3 21 (10.29%) Cloud Native
4 11 (5.39%) Virtual Team
5 9 (4.41%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.94%) IoT
6 6 (2.94%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.47%) Smart City
9 2 (0.98%) Digital Currency
9 2 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.98%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.49%) CUDA
10 1 (0.49%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.49%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.49%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.49%) Ray Tracing
10 1 (0.49%) SIMD
10 1 (0.49%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 23 (11.27%) Linux
2 15 (7.35%) Windows
3 9 (4.41%) Mac OS
4 3 (1.47%) Android
5 2 (0.98%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (43.14%) Software Engineering
2 46 (22.55%) Problem-Solving
3 39 (19.12%) Cybersecurity
4 37 (18.14%) Data Science
5 33 (16.18%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 33 (16.18%) Threat Intelligence
6 32 (15.69%) Computer Security
7 31 (15.20%) Agile
8 24 (11.76%) Data Strategy
8 24 (11.76%) User Experience
9 23 (11.27%) High Availability
9 23 (11.27%) Microservices
9 23 (11.27%) Roadmaps
9 23 (11.27%) UX Research
10 22 (10.78%) TDD
11 21 (10.29%) Analytics
11 21 (10.29%) Mentoring
12 20 (9.80%) Technical Leadership
13 18 (8.82%) Systems Engineering
14 16 (7.84%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 55 (26.96%) Java
2 49 (24.02%) Python
3 31 (15.20%) Go
4 26 (12.75%) Bash
4 26 (12.75%) Scala
5 18 (8.82%) TypeScript
6 15 (7.35%) Kotlin
7 14 (6.86%) C#
8 10 (4.90%) SQL
9 8 (3.92%) C
10 7 (3.43%) JavaScript
11 4 (1.96%) Assembly Language
12 3 (1.47%) R
13 2 (0.98%) C++
13 2 (0.98%) PHP
13 2 (0.98%) Ruby
14 1 (0.49%) AWK
14 1 (0.49%) Fortran
14 1 (0.49%) Perl
14 1 (0.49%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 36 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 20 (9.80%) Degree
3 12 (5.88%) DV Cleared
4 6 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.47%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.47%) MCT
5 3 (1.47%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.47%) Sun Certification
6 2 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.49%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.94%) QA
2 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 7 (3.43%) Docker
2 6 (2.94%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.94%) Forefront TMG
2 6 (2.94%) Hyper-V
2 6 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (2.94%) VMware Workstation
3 2 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (18.63%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.94%) SCOM
2 6 (2.94%) WSUS
3 5 (2.45%) Terraform
4 1 (0.49%) Puppet
4 1 (0.49%) Rancher
Vendors
1 33 (16.18%) Dell
2 25 (12.25%) Google
3 10 (4.90%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.94%) VMware
5 3 (1.47%) Progress
6 2 (0.98%) EMC
6 2 (0.98%) ForgeRock
6 2 (0.98%) Oracle
6 2 (0.98%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.49%) Intel
7 1 (0.49%) StreamSets