Principal Engineer Jobs in Buckinghamshire

Principal Engineer
South East > Buckinghamshire

The median Principal Engineer salary in Buckinghamshire is £75,000 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 108 102 138
Rank change year-on-year -6 +36 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Engineer 18 6 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 0.92% 0.45% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.99% 0.50% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72,500 £62,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £66,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +1.54% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £97,250 -
90th Percentile - £149,900 -
South East median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £67,725
% change year-on-year +7.14% +3.36% -3.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Buckinghamshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire. 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 Buckinghamshire with a recognized job title 1,818 1,194 1,920
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 89.51% 95.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,087 719 1,066
10th Percentile £26,400 £28,954 £28,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,188 £38,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Principal Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Engineer in Buckinghamshire

Principal Engineer
Salary Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Salary trend for Principal Engineer in Buckinghamshire

Principal Engineer
Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Engineer within the Buckinghamshire 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
Milton Keynes +9 15 - - 3
Marlow - 1 £75,000 -
Principal Engineer
South East

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire region featuring Principal Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (55.56%) Technical Leadership
2 9 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 9 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 7 (38.89%) Google
4 5 (27.78%) Mentoring
5 4 (22.22%) Data Engineering
5 4 (22.22%) BigQuery
5 4 (22.22%) GCP
5 4 (22.22%) Agile
5 4 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (22.22%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (22.22%) Looker
6 3 (16.67%) GDPR
6 3 (16.67%) Data Science
6 3 (16.67%) DataOps
6 3 (16.67%) Change Management
6 3 (16.67%) Dropbox
6 3 (16.67%) Google Drive
6 3 (16.67%) OneDrive
6 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (16.67%) DevOps
6 3 (16.67%) iPad
7 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
7 2 (11.11%) Systems Engineering
8 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
8 1 (5.56%) Collaborative Working
8 1 (5.56%) Data Ingestion
8 1 (5.56%) Data Lake

Principal Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) GCP
2 3 (16.67%) Dropbox
2 3 (16.67%) Google Drive
2 3 (16.67%) OneDrive
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) BigQuery
1 4 (22.22%) Looker
2 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
General
1 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (16.67%) iPad
3 1 (5.56%) FPGA
3 1 (5.56%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Technical Leadership
2 9 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 9 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
3 5 (27.78%) Mentoring
4 4 (22.22%) Agile
4 4 (22.22%) Data Engineering
4 4 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
4 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (16.67%) Change Management
5 3 (16.67%) Data Science
5 3 (16.67%) DataOps
5 3 (16.67%) DevOps
6 2 (11.11%) Systems Engineering
7 1 (5.56%) Batch Management
7 1 (5.56%) Collaborative Working
7 1 (5.56%) Data Ingestion
7 1 (5.56%) FPGA Design
7 1 (5.56%) Scrum
7 1 (5.56%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) C
1 1 (5.56%) C++
1 1 (5.56%) Embedded C
1 1 (5.56%) Embedded C++
1 1 (5.56%) Java
1 1 (5.56%) Python
1 1 (5.56%) Scala
1 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) GDPR
2 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Google
2 1 (5.56%) EMC