Principal Software Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Principal Software Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Principal Software Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
18 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 524 577 716
Rank change year-on-year +53 +139 -168
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Software Engineer 78 56 185
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.22% 0.15% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.16% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 53 50 87
10th Percentile £63,800 £66,250 £68,850
25th Percentile £67,500 £74,500 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £95,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +8.57% +34.62%
75th Percentile £106,250 £130,938 £105,000
90th Percentile £116,250 £160,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £87,500 £87,500
% change year-on-year -8.57% - +9.38%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 34,224 35,954 73,616
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.28% 95.93% 97.29%
Number of salaries quoted 25,903 26,270 42,683
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,875 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +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 Software Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Principal Software Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Principal Software 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 Software Engineer.

Principal Software Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Principal Software Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Principal Software Engineer over the 6 months to 18 June 2024.

Principal Software Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 18 June 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 jobs with remote work options featuring Principal Software Engineer in the job title.

1 78 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 38 (48.72%) AWS
3 27 (34.62%) Java
3 27 (34.62%) Social Skills
4 25 (32.05%) Python
5 20 (25.64%) Kubernetes
6 19 (24.36%) C#
7 18 (23.08%) React
7 18 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (21.79%) Data Structures
9 15 (19.23%) GCP
9 15 (19.23%) .NET
10 14 (17.95%) Agile
10 14 (17.95%) Algorithms
10 14 (17.95%) Redis
10 14 (17.95%) Elasticsearch
10 14 (17.95%) Apache Spark
11 13 (16.67%) Data Science
11 13 (16.67%) Big Data
11 13 (16.67%) User Experience
11 13 (16.67%) Microservices
11 13 (16.67%) Bash
11 13 (16.67%) Google
12 12 (15.38%) Dell
12 12 (15.38%) SaaS
12 12 (15.38%) Scala
12 12 (15.38%) Hadoop
12 12 (15.38%) Amazon S3
12 12 (15.38%) Computer Security
12 12 (15.38%) Cybersecurity

Principal Software 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 14 (17.95%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.85%) Confluence
3 2 (2.56%) Apache
4 1 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 38 (48.72%) AWS
2 15 (19.23%) GCP
3 12 (15.38%) Amazon S3
3 12 (15.38%) Amazon SQS
3 12 (15.38%) Google Docs
3 12 (15.38%) Lucidchart
3 12 (15.38%) Miro
3 12 (15.38%) SaaS
3 12 (15.38%) Slack
4 9 (11.54%) Azure
5 5 (6.41%) Serverless
6 4 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.28%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.28%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.56%) Ethernet
1 2 (2.56%) NGN
1 2 (2.56%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.28%) 5G
2 1 (1.28%) Bluetooth
2 1 (1.28%) OFDM
2 1 (1.28%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.28%) Wireless
2 1 (1.28%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (17.95%) Elasticsearch
1 14 (17.95%) Redis
2 13 (16.67%) Big Data
3 12 (15.38%) Hadoop
3 12 (15.38%) Scylla
4 4 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.56%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.28%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.28%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.28%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (3.85%) JIRA
2 1 (1.28%) Git
General
1 27 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (5.13%) Tech for Good
3 4 (5.13%) Telecoms
4 3 (3.85%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.56%) Finance
6 1 (1.28%) Aviation
6 1 (1.28%) Legal
6 1 (1.28%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (23.08%) React
2 15 (19.23%) .NET
3 12 (15.38%) GraphQL
3 12 (15.38%) Kafka
4 11 (14.10%) Node.js
5 6 (7.69%) Spring
5 6 (7.69%) Spring Boot
6 3 (3.85%) RESTful
6 3 (3.85%) WinForms
7 2 (2.56%) .NET Core
7 2 (2.56%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (2.56%) CSS
7 2 (2.56%) DPDK
7 2 (2.56%) eBPF
7 2 (2.56%) HTML
7 2 (2.56%) Micronaut
7 2 (2.56%) PyTorch
8 1 (1.28%) FastAPI
8 1 (1.28%) Puppeteer
8 1 (1.28%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 17 (21.79%) Data Structures
2 14 (17.95%) Algorithms
3 4 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.85%) Educational Technology
4 3 (3.85%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.28%) SIMD
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.56%) Embedded Linux
1 2 (2.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 18 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (17.95%) Agile
4 13 (16.67%) Data Science
4 13 (16.67%) Microservices
4 13 (16.67%) User Experience
5 12 (15.38%) Computer Security
5 12 (15.38%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 12 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
5 12 (15.38%) High Availability
5 12 (15.38%) Threat Intelligence
5 12 (15.38%) UX Research
6 11 (14.10%) Roadmaps
7 9 (11.54%) Artificial Intelligence
7 9 (11.54%) Data Strategy
8 8 (10.26%) SDLC
9 7 (8.97%) Computer Science
10 6 (7.69%) CI/CD
10 6 (7.69%) DevOps
10 6 (7.69%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 27 (34.62%) Java
2 25 (32.05%) Python
3 19 (24.36%) C#
4 13 (16.67%) Bash
5 12 (15.38%) Go
5 12 (15.38%) Scala
6 11 (14.10%) Kotlin
7 10 (12.82%) TypeScript
8 6 (7.69%) C
8 6 (7.69%) JavaScript
9 4 (5.13%) C++
10 3 (3.85%) Assembly Language
11 2 (2.56%) SQL
12 1 (1.28%) Perl
12 1 (1.28%) PHP
12 1 (1.28%) Ruby
12 1 (1.28%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 10 (12.82%) Degree
1 10 (12.82%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.13%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.85%) DV Cleared
3 3 (3.85%) Sun Certification
4 1 (1.28%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 3 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (25.64%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.28%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (16.67%) Google
2 12 (15.38%) Dell
3 3 (3.85%) Progress
4 1 (1.28%) Intel
4 1 (1.28%) Microsoft
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